Speaker 1: How high did the bat go? When he how high?
Speaker 2: He said, like if it was if there was a
Speaker 2: building next to it, it would have hit the tenth floor.
Speaker 3: Here we go, Junior Camenaro joining us right now for
Speaker 3: the first time on foul Territory and he's sitting next
Speaker 3: to Rafa and theevis his representation and uh superstar interpreter
Speaker 3: for us during this little time period. So uh, Rafa,
Speaker 3: good to see you again, and Junior, thank you for
Speaker 3: joining us on the show. How has your crazy winter been.
Speaker 4: L NBA no ohio, He.
Speaker 5: Said, it's been a it's been a great winter.
Speaker 2: He had an unforgettable experience in Winter Bowl and especially
Speaker 2: that Game seven with Escohido.
Speaker 5: It's something that is going to stick with him for life.
Speaker 1: All Right. I gotta ask why is he not playing?
Speaker 6: I flipped on the Dominican Winter League or the Caribbean
Speaker 6: World Series in Mexicali. No Junior Camonero playing for the
Speaker 6: Dominican team. Is it because he was too tired and
Speaker 6: it took him so long to go around the bases
Speaker 6: and he took all his energy out and the rays
Speaker 6: were like.
Speaker 7: No Moss, no moss.
Speaker 6: Home run celebrations that take ten minutes because Eric and
Speaker 6: I were dying laughing. I wanted some of the tacos
Speaker 6: he passed out around second base. I wanted some of
Speaker 6: the confetti he pop. I wanted a high five through
Speaker 6: the TV Best home Run celebration.
Speaker 8: I've ever seen no yo your.
Speaker 9: He no, no, no, Maxicali.
Speaker 2: He said that it was only fifty six seconds around
Speaker 2: the basis. The race only gave him uh permission to
Speaker 2: to play the round robin. And then Kevin Cash flew
Speaker 2: down to the r and saw him in good shape,
Speaker 2: and he told him that if he made it to
Speaker 2: the finals that he would let him play the finals.
Speaker 7: But that was it.
Speaker 5: After that, they wanted him to rest and put.
Speaker 2: His mindset and focus on getting ready for spring training.
Speaker 7: And you broke the scoreboard. Did they make him pay
Speaker 7: for that? No?
Speaker 10: No, okaya gonna okay, okay, that's fair.
Speaker 7: That's fair, Lucco.
Speaker 6: You say, David Ortiz, Yes, yeah, you should have paid Albert.
Speaker 1: Albert should have paid. You should have made pooh holes pay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's richer than David, I think.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, who yoo yoso, Luco.
Speaker 7: When you are a neo, When you were a.
Speaker 10: Kid, I was I was an I was I was
Speaker 10: an Eagle. It's one of the teams that plays down there.
Speaker 10: It's the Santiago Agui lost the Eagles, and he played
Speaker 10: junior players for the Escohido, which is one of the
Speaker 10: teams in Santa Domingo.
Speaker 4: Yes, SiO frantic Cod in the AO this year on
Speaker 4: the deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he said he's been Corhido fan since he was
Speaker 2: since he was born. All his family are the Quhita
Speaker 2: Fance and he grew up Corhido die hard and he
Speaker 2: said this, this is a this was a blessing for
Speaker 2: him from God.
Speaker 7: Whose who stay? Redacto? Did they draft you?
Speaker 10: The Escohito drafted because in the Dimini Again, sometimes our
Speaker 10: fans don't necessarily know this. One team drafts you when
Speaker 10: you're like sixteen, and then you don't play for him
Speaker 10: for a little bit. Were you were you drafted by them?
Speaker 7: Is it? Yeah?
Speaker 5: They drafted him in twenty twenty twenty twenty three?
Speaker 1: All right, Well I want to know about Albert Forget this,
Speaker 1: who could drafted you? Crap? I want to know who.
Speaker 7: I want to know about Albert Pooles. Did he draft you?
Speaker 1: Did he sign you?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 6: I mean, was Albert Poohles giving you a high five
Speaker 6: after you hit the home run. What's Albert Pooles like
Speaker 6: as a manager? Because now I've heard he wants to
Speaker 6: be a big league manager. So did Junior Camanio push
Speaker 6: Albert Pooles to be an MLB manager?
Speaker 1: One day?
Speaker 5: Possibly got kids Albert manager.
Speaker 4: By mere.
Speaker 7: So.
Speaker 2: He said that Arbert was so resourceful to him that
Speaker 2: he even had to apologize one day and he said,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm bothering you so much, but I just
Speaker 2: want to learn and take all.
Speaker 5: I came from a legend and a future Hall of
Speaker 5: Famer like you.
Speaker 2: But he said he was He was great. He was
Speaker 2: always available to him and he was a great influence
Speaker 2: on on this experience with him.
Speaker 3: That is a baller trophy to that we're looking at
Speaker 3: right now. How was that last series? Obviously it was
Speaker 3: an amazing series to watch from a competition standpoint, But
Speaker 3: how was the rivalry?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 3: So, there was of course a lot of chirping, And
Speaker 3: I'm always curious about the dynamic between going crazy and
Speaker 3: showing off, you know, your best enthusiasm and best antics,
Speaker 3: you know, versus trash talk. So was there both and
Speaker 3: if so, did it ever escalate to you know, too
Speaker 3: crazy of a time. Obviously you you had your fun
Speaker 3: during Game four too with the dugout.
Speaker 7: Because and.
Speaker 9: It Lon then can again finale. They know, they know Salue.
Speaker 4: Simple.
Speaker 5: He said.
Speaker 2: It was a unique experience, something he had never experienced before.
Speaker 2: A lot of trash talking, especially from the fans. You know,
Speaker 2: he plays their base and he's playing on the side
Speaker 2: and they have other fans on on that side of
Speaker 2: the stadium, and and he got you know, he got
Speaker 2: to him. And but he he listened a lot too,
Speaker 2: and was a was a big influence on him as well,
Speaker 2: trying to get him to not take it so and
Speaker 2: tried not to listen to it. Advised him to get
Speaker 2: up social media during that week and not pay attention
Speaker 2: to any of that and just like try to quite
Speaker 2: the noise.
Speaker 5: He said, he'll learned a lot from it.
Speaker 6: Is he watching I want to know is he watching
Speaker 6: the Caribbean series on the TV? Because I've watched it
Speaker 6: the last couple of days and I love the atmosphere.
Speaker 6: So is he is he watching it? And is he
Speaker 6: upset that he's not?
Speaker 1: I mean, I want to see him play, so I'm
Speaker 1: kind of like upset deep down.
Speaker 7: I turned it on and I don't see him, is it?
Speaker 5: No? No? But key boy.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He said that he hasn't been able to watch because
Speaker 2: he's on vacation with his fiance. He hasn't been able
Speaker 2: to watch the games. But they actually called him yesterday.
Speaker 2: Apparently it's a four hour drive from La and they
Speaker 2: they saw that he was in La and they wanted
Speaker 2: him to make the dry down there to watch the
Speaker 2: game and the dog because apparently all the other teams,
Speaker 2: like all the other countries, media has been asking where
Speaker 2: he is, especially the Japanese media. Uh, they've been pushing
Speaker 2: a lot of the Dominican team asking why why he's
Speaker 2: not why he's not there.
Speaker 10: In that in that finals, because you were on the
Speaker 10: because you're on the lea least side. Did you ever
Speaker 10: feel unsafe? Because so many times people are like, oh,
Speaker 10: I never feel safe when I'm in Venezuela or Dominican.
Speaker 10: When I was down there, I never felt unsafe. But
Speaker 10: did you feel safe because you were close? There was
Speaker 10: a lot there's a lot of these safe fans pretty
Speaker 10: close to you.
Speaker 5: The water said I and momental things no no no,
Speaker 5: and then you okay again, let no d n a.
Speaker 4: But she mentioned maybear fly Tomento.
Speaker 7: Know.
Speaker 5: So he said he didn't feel like.
Speaker 2: Anything life strending because you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: security to get into the stadium. But he did feel
Speaker 2: nervous sometimes that they could throw a bottle of him,
Speaker 2: uh or or any other object. There was a time
Speaker 2: where he caught a fly ball and foul territory right
Speaker 2: by the net and they try to grab him. They
Speaker 2: try to, you know, get physical, and and that that
Speaker 2: did make him nervous.
Speaker 5: When he got to the net.
Speaker 2: They they knew all his family, all the names in
Speaker 2: his family, and they make sure that he heard all
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 3: They're pro hecklers.
Speaker 7: That that is true.
Speaker 4: I will say.
Speaker 7: New York. You know it's now in New York.
Speaker 3: They got rid of those bozos. They can't they can't
Speaker 3: go to games. The two guys that grabbed the mookie bets.
Speaker 3: So we got rid of those two. You saw that,
Speaker 3: all right? So I want to ask a couple of
Speaker 3: baseball or MLB related questions here for Junior number one.
Speaker 3: I mean, this season obviously high expectations, but you're going
Speaker 3: to be playing at the Yankee spring training home. Are
Speaker 3: you excited, disappointed or don't really care about the situation
Speaker 3: because it is a minor league park. But I actually
Speaker 3: think you're gonna get just as many fans, just in
Speaker 3: a different way. You're gonna probably get almost sell out
Speaker 3: crowds of eleven thousand. I think the attendance last year
Speaker 3: in a much bigger park was only in the twelve thirteen.
Speaker 11: Thousando per.
Speaker 4: Locate in Shampi, you know, the.
Speaker 5: Tampa.
Speaker 2: This is not worry about it, but he does feel
Speaker 2: that with this the location of this field, unlike Sampede
Speaker 2: that is such a long drive for Tempa residents, that
Speaker 2: they're actually going to get better crowds in in the
Speaker 2: stadium and it's probably gonna get a lot of sellout
Speaker 2: crowds and it might make the environment more exciting.
Speaker 5: He said that he's.
Speaker 2: Talked to Cash and Cash has shown him pictures and
Speaker 2: videos of the weight room and the clubhouse and and
Speaker 2: all the uh stuff that they're working on to make
Speaker 2: it MLB standards.
Speaker 5: So he's they're all excited about it.
Speaker 10: Ken mentor on the race? Who's who's a mentor on
Speaker 10: the race for you? Is there somebody you go to
Speaker 10: mentor come mentor like a like a leader.
Speaker 7: Like ok.
Speaker 4: Mmhmm, okay, yo, Yeah, we love Yandy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, mostly just listens to the veterans like Yandy and
Speaker 2: anyone with more service time.
Speaker 5: This is a very young team. There's not a lot
Speaker 5: of veterans presence.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's often the case with the Rays. All right,
Speaker 3: I got one more. I think these guys will do
Speaker 3: their last questions after that. So, you know, taking you
Speaker 3: a few years back, you get traded from Cleveland to
Speaker 3: the Race. From what I recall at the time, they're
Speaker 3: like forty man roster crunch. It's for Tobias Meyers, who
Speaker 3: ends up actually being a nice picture on Milwaukee. But
Speaker 3: at the time, were you like, wait, they're trading me
Speaker 3: because you were so young, did you kind of grasp
Speaker 3: what was going on?
Speaker 5: And you know, how did it affect you?
Speaker 4: And you know, a million town. Yeah, you gotta say.
Speaker 5: Okay in Cleveland.
Speaker 4: And metallic negotio in games for you in the.
Speaker 2: Momento, Yeah, I say it was h It was shocking
Speaker 2: and uncomfortable at the beginning because he was so young
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one that going into a new organization
Speaker 2: he was going to have to start from scratch building
Speaker 2: relationships and friendships and and trust and and all that.
Speaker 5: So it was he was shocking for him, especially at
Speaker 5: such a young age.
Speaker 1: Understood it makes sense it turned out.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, I gotta know if the Rays make
Speaker 6: the playoffs and it goes to a Game seven and
Speaker 6: he hits a home run in the ninth.
Speaker 1: Inning, will we see.
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 7: Okay, dude, that's my face.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is like my favorite favorite celebration I've
Speaker 1: ever seen. Look at that.
Speaker 7: It would be amazing perfect.
Speaker 1: You like it?
Speaker 7: I love it.
Speaker 5: These guys love it.
Speaker 4: Will he do it?
Speaker 1: No? No, no, what is it? I don't my my
Speaker 1: my a Spaniels. That is good? So is it? K
Speaker 1: alto about how high did the bat go when he
Speaker 1: how high?
Speaker 11: More?
Speaker 4: More?
Speaker 5: Is that like if it was if there was a
Speaker 5: building next to it, it would have hit the tenth floor?
Speaker 7: That's good? All right?
Speaker 5: Crats you got last legs?
Speaker 7: All right? Last one? Than with the balancesto? You like basketball?
Speaker 7: Are your commissa? I like it? Okay? Okay, start yan
Speaker 7: yan to it.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you don't play, but hey, what about the trade
Speaker 10: with did you see the trade with Luca?
Speaker 7: Don't check? And Anthony Anthony Davis.
Speaker 5: Yes, it's actually he's going to the Lakers game tomorrow. Okay,
Speaker 5: so what.
Speaker 7: Do you what do you think about that? Is that crazy?
Speaker 7: Now you get to see Luca, when you get to
Speaker 7: see the when you go to the Lakers.
Speaker 4: Game, where you see.
Speaker 5: I never seen Luca.
Speaker 8: So tomorrow watch Luca and Leven Jane, Ronnie Yange Keys
Speaker 8: everything I saw last year, Lebren Yange this year to
Speaker 8: whether that Luca and Lebyn Jane, he's crazy for me.
Speaker 7: Have you met him? Have you met have you met
Speaker 7: any of them? Like, did you get to meet him
Speaker 7: on your court side?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: No, no, Maybe they have the bat flip tomorrow and
Speaker 5: come up to him maybe, I hope. So that's cool.
Speaker 5: It's good timing to hit a game.
Speaker 11: Great.
Speaker 3: We glad we got you on here too.
Speaker 5: Coming off.
Speaker 3: I mean, you were the talk of the winter because
Speaker 3: we don't get much baseball, so we get those highlights.
Speaker 3: So thank you for joining us here for the first time.
Speaker 3: We'll see you in spring training. A couple of us
Speaker 3: live in Orlandos to work close by, but appreciate it,
Speaker 3: enjoy the break that you've got, and then we'll see
Speaker 3: you in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 5: Okay, thank you guys.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you, thank you,