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Speaker 1: Welcome back, Pump Galla twenty twenty five. It has been

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Speaker 1: a great day, Jack. We got a dugout edition. Yes,

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Speaker 1: back to baseball. Super excited. Seven time All Star, n

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Speaker 1: L MVP, six times Silver Slugger, two time home run Champ,

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Speaker 1: RBI Champ.

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Speaker 2: Sammy Man, welcome to the show Man.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: We get get great.

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Speaker 4: Jeff, I might ask that was me?

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Speaker 3: That was you?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I love it sounds so pretty.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think it's athletes. We never really because

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Speaker 1: we're in the moment so much, do we never really

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Speaker 1: when you kind of sit back and think about, like, damn,

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Speaker 1: I was a bad motherfucker. You think that now that

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Speaker 1: you're done?

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Speaker 5: Yes, now now I do, because I mean, like you say,

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Speaker 5: when we're in the field, were just focusing. Yeah, do

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Speaker 5: some damage, get it done.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Recently reunited with the Cubs, breaking over a twenty year drought.

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Speaker 1: Do you mind sharing what the riff was and how

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Speaker 1: is it, you know, being back on good terms with them?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 5: Time for me, I believe in the Lord once again.

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Speaker 5: Time It was perfect for me. Those twenty years that

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Speaker 5: I was out from Chicago. I was traveled around the world,

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Speaker 5: and you know, when you up there. Sometimes you do

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Speaker 5: things that you're not expecting to be the way you

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Speaker 5: want it to be. People sometimes got confused, and also

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Speaker 5: the ego that we cared ourselves sometimes go over the

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Speaker 5: hump and probably make you be intouchable. Then that was

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Speaker 5: my problem. But in that period of the time, I

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Speaker 5: connected with the Lord, and through that the Lord made

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Speaker 5: sure or he already did, to put my feet in

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Speaker 5: the ground. Thing that I see in the past like negative,

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Speaker 5: I was fighting for what was returning whatever it is

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Speaker 5: not anymore. I just let it go because I have

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Speaker 5: peas in my heart. So twenty one to go with

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Speaker 5: twenty twenty one year out of Chicago pretty much was

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Speaker 5: a long time, especially you know all the team that

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Speaker 5: I did in the country. I mean, they see I'm

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Speaker 5: sorry and combat what's incredible, unbelievable, right, couldn't imagine time

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Speaker 5: heal the wound exactly, beautiful thing.

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Speaker 3: Born in San Pedro say that for me?

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Speaker 5: Therechy democraty, yes, don't San Pedro democaty.

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Speaker 3: Dominican Republican.

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Speaker 6: I got infamation infamously known as the cradle shortstops. How

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Speaker 6: was it coming up from coming up and growing up there?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 5: I mean and Mike come through, Mike, Tom, you got

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Speaker 5: two things sugar king and baseball players care. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 5: one another exactly. So, uh, the thing for us is,

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Speaker 5: you know, I got to be basill players to be

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Speaker 5: my family for the life.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: We were just talking about that with Dall Strawberry. How

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Speaker 6: baseball there is way more serious because it's it's exactly

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Speaker 6: what you said is either stay here, I'll play baseball

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Speaker 3: Is it still like that today? And was that your

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Speaker 3: mentality growing up?

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Speaker 5: It's still like that today. I remember, you know, and

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Speaker 5: you know, my dad died when I was seven years old.

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Speaker 5: And also I see my mom you a struggle and

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Speaker 5: the only thing that I have, you know, baseball. I

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Speaker 5: never I never liked basebort to tell you the truth,

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Speaker 5: I was faxing for two years. Yeah, and then my

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Speaker 5: league and put me in left field and I shreamed Gray.

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Speaker 5: I stream couple of times and I missed when I

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Speaker 5: have my first contact. His friends said we had a chance,

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Speaker 5: we had a chance.

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Speaker 1: I was fourteen, started fourteen too.

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Speaker 6: Interesting, Give us some other names of baseball players that

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Speaker 5: Your area all the time walking on do har Pedro, Garetro,

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Speaker 5: George Bell, Raughing, Ramiro me uh, Canon, I mean Ricoccardi.

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean.

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Speaker 5: Our further griefing, I mean, if you're continue I'm not

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Speaker 6: Too many talk about your training. You took training series.

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Speaker 6: They trained with bottle caps that we see on social media. Now,

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Speaker 5: And it was well, bottom coups is one thing, but

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Speaker 5: and also we just demancl it and then you pick

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Speaker 6: Yeah the oh yeah, the com say they picked them

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Speaker 4: That's crazy, that's crazy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: And that's how I mean. We tried everything because the

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Speaker 5: you know what.

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Speaker 3: I mean, didn't have balls, and yeah.

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Speaker 5: Anything, I mean my glow was milk to him, so

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Speaker 5: I don't have original glow playing the street with my friends.

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Speaker 5: But you know, other than that, you know, it's nothing

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Speaker 1: Like, now, when did you feel like, at what age

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Speaker 5: Well, when I was fourteen. When I'm fourteen, I started

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Speaker 5: playing because my brother you know, helped me out because

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Speaker 5: he was the one to play in the in the house.

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Speaker 5: And two years later I got signed. I feel that

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Speaker 3: What was that like?

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Speaker 1: Obviously coming you just said, you know, didn't have much

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Speaker 1: watch your mom struggle, lost your dad at an early age,

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Speaker 1: you pick up a sport and two years later you

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Speaker 5: What's good? But you know, the thing is that when

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Speaker 5: over there. But the problem is that I signed with it,

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Speaker 5: and also he got a problem with that. You know,

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Speaker 5: we feel like that if you and and feel like

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Speaker 5: if you reject all of us, you know, here we

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Speaker 5: the preeiency and then the same year I signed with

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, who are some of your idols that you

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Speaker 1: looked up to growing up, since I mean you started late.

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Speaker 1: Was there anyone once you started playing that you looked up.

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Speaker 5: To, well, you know, because we have our idol was

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Speaker 5: he was the theme and do hard twenty game. He was,

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Speaker 5: show all that that whatever they made, they came back

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Speaker 5: and all of them do the same things. So pretty

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Speaker 5: much it's like a routine for us.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a lot of players too, Like y'all have

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Speaker 6: never didn't. They talk about like somebody things like that,

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Speaker 6: like you always have some stars that never made it.

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Speaker 5: Well, I mean we have a lot of people left out.

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Speaker 5: I mean, no question about it, because I mean not

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Speaker 5: Eve rather going to make it, especially to there. You know,

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Speaker 5: they give you signing one for five million in some

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Speaker 3: So they're good don't care.

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Speaker 5: No, that's right, right.

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Speaker 1: So from the Dominican Republic to Texas, was that your

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Speaker 3: What was that like?

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Speaker 5: Well, it's this funny thing. I came out in nineteen

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Speaker 5: eighty six. That was my first year I came here.

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Speaker 5: I signed eighty six. I came in and I remember

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Speaker 5: came here to Plant City in Florida, and I went

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Speaker 5: there to spin training. We got everything spin table. Everything

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Speaker 5: was okay. But also, you know, never speak England, never

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Speaker 5: stuff like that. So like seeing me down it was

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Speaker 5: the heard about me exactly. So I want to do

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Speaker 5: I don't know how to speak England and the lady

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Speaker 5: say can I help? I say, chicken.

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Speaker 3: That's funny because when I went, when I told you,

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Speaker 3: when I went to Dominican Republic, I couldn't speak speaking Spanish.

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Speaker 6: I'm pointing, stuffy, chicken.

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Speaker 1: Did you have any rookie duties when you got up

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Speaker 1: and finally made it to the top.

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Speaker 5: Well throughout minor league a couple of times, I mean

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Speaker 5: the Great Minor League. But you know, my first thing was,

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Speaker 5: I got called by Texas Rangers. And then after that,

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Speaker 5: you know, my first home home run was again Roger Clemen.

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Speaker 4: Jesus.

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Speaker 5: I touched home. And then you know, you know me,

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Speaker 5: I went to the dog guy. I said, Toby, if

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Speaker 3: I got the big fish.

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Speaker 1: You debuted with the Rangers, but then traded to the

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Speaker 1: did you understand that this was a business and how

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Speaker 1: was that movement for you?

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Speaker 5: Well, for me at the beginning, I don't understand pretty

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Speaker 5: much about how it works, how it worked. But also

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Speaker 5: one thing that I said to myself, I can play.

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Speaker 5: I have ability to do damage. And I played too

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Speaker 5: my guarded angel, which is Larry Hines. He's always he

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Speaker 5: trained me from the Texas Render to Chicago, Chicago, Chicago

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Speaker 5: Cup so putting, he's seeing me something that the rest

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Speaker 6: The nineties was wild time in baseball history. Tell us

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Speaker 6: time in baseball.

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Speaker 5: Oh my goodness, I mean I made it. I mean

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Speaker 5: the locker room was about about that side you know now,

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Speaker 5: you know, not that big, but you know now the

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Speaker 5: days like this is what.

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Speaker 3: Man beer and cigarettes to the locker room all that.

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Speaker 5: Well, I see, I don't know about that. But also

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Speaker 5: everything else I mean today, like for example, when we're

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Speaker 5: all the reporter was in the cloud.

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Speaker 3: Not anymore.

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Speaker 5: They have a separate area. You know, if you don't

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Speaker 5: Oh, it's a blessed I mean not not even we

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. I love that. Two thousand and

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Speaker 1: Some other legendary outfielders, uh during your era that we

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Speaker 5: He was one of the guys that hard. I mean,

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Speaker 5: that's and that's the tool that you know, let's say

444
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Speaker 5: this Kyle or the you know, they're major League looking

445
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Speaker 5: for especially I mean he said Joe old Tany. I

446
00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:41,879
Speaker 5: mean this guy is he's come for another world, you

447
00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:43,320
Speaker 5: know what I mean. And also if you have talent,

448
00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:46,840
Speaker 5: doesn't matter if you're Japanese or they find you.

449
00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:50,640
Speaker 6: But if you a baseball fan, you know that they

450
00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:53,200
Speaker 6: are always in the runnings for the goal in baseball

451
00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:54,080
Speaker 6: every year.

452
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Speaker 3: Bro, the team is good every year.

453
00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:56,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's good.

454
00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:58,440
Speaker 6: So that's why they have so many players coming over

455
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Speaker 6: now because they can actually play the game.

456
00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:06,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, lockdown, Yeah, yeah, he saw mister baseball. Was that

457
00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:14,400
Speaker 1: Tom Selleck former teammates of yours, tell us a little

458
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Speaker 1: bit about him.

459
00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:18,320
Speaker 5: Carlos Brano, Oh, Man Brano. He was, I mean he

460
00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:22,840
Speaker 5: was Incrediblebrano. I mean he can teach, but he can hear.

461
00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:25,000
Speaker 5: And I like every time he was in the mill

462
00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:27,960
Speaker 5: because I mean he always asked me, you want me

463
00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,600
Speaker 5: to knock somebody down? Yeah, because he was hard. Yeah,

464
00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:36,960
Speaker 5: he's incredible. Nolan Ryan, No, Ryan, that was another guy

465
00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,280
Speaker 5: that was He was the old school and I remember

466
00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:43,600
Speaker 5: hit home brown against him and I think it was

467
00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:47,800
Speaker 5: speech train at the next piech. It was brush you back. Yeah,

468
00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:53,880
Speaker 5: I was afraid. I was afraid.

469
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Speaker 1: Uh.

470
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Speaker 5: Greg Maddox the guy that changed that guy, I mean

471
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Speaker 5: it was he was. He was some great email also,

472
00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:03,000
Speaker 5: you know he was you know, he was one of

473
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,320
Speaker 5: those guys that also made me chase some pitches. But

474
00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:07,600
Speaker 5: when I learned my strikes on and they stayed back

475
00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:09,400
Speaker 5: with a bowl. I remember he threw me a change

476
00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:11,960
Speaker 5: over there in Atlanta and I hit a home run, right, like.

477
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Speaker 4: What's going on?

478
00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:16,480
Speaker 1: I heard he was a prankster too, off the off

479
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:18,000
Speaker 1: the field in the clubhouse. I heard he used to

480
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,439
Speaker 1: pull a bunch of Oh man, he's pulling on you.

481
00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:27,399
Speaker 5: Ship here. I was the favorite because you know, I was,

482
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Speaker 5: you know, I was the man that they making with

483
00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:35,760
Speaker 5: some games. Yeah, bull up here. Frank Thomas incredible. I

484
00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:37,760
Speaker 5: mean this guy, I mean we played together. I played

485
00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:39,719
Speaker 5: together a few years with them over there. He just

486
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,000
Speaker 5: not to the first day that he came out. He

487
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,920
Speaker 5: just did not throw the power and this up six seven,

488
00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,639
Speaker 5: I mean something pretty good here.

489
00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:51,040
Speaker 1: Carrie would and Mark Pryor tough one.

490
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Speaker 5: Too, Yeah, tough one too. That both was great, but

491
00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 5: I think carry Wood was a little bit more on it.

492
00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:01,439
Speaker 5: He was more gamer. Think with Mark gret I mean

493
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:03,879
Speaker 5: prior we probably was awesome too, but you know you

494
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,120
Speaker 5: can see the difference. So carry, would you know, I'll

495
00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:06,520
Speaker 5: take carry?

496
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:08,160
Speaker 1: Would Sean Dunstan?

497
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:15,080
Speaker 5: Oh, my boy, my boy selling he's he's unbelievable, pretty good.

498
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,560
Speaker 1: What is some of the biggest unwritten rules in baseball?

499
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:20,280
Speaker 4: Uh?

500
00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:22,480
Speaker 1: In your opinion, something that people may not know? What's

501
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,200
Speaker 1: an unwritten rule in baseball that people may not know?

502
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,280
Speaker 5: Well, I have to say, well, you got me that one.

503
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:31,719
Speaker 5: I mean I don't know. It's something that we do with.

504
00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:33,159
Speaker 5: Look how to keep a secret.

505
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,400
Speaker 1: I guess underwrap don't.

506
00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:38,680
Speaker 3: Strike out?

507
00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 6: No, don't hit a ground ball and said double playing

508
00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:47,760
Speaker 6: with two hours, one one out we got.

509
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:49,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right, I don't do that. You don't do

510
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:50,400
Speaker 5: that exactly.

511
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,120
Speaker 1: That plays the MLB of the show. And he's over

512
00:23:53,119 --> 00:24:00,960
Speaker 1: here talking like, I know you do.

513
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 5: I mean you don't want to do that. I mean,

514
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,440
Speaker 5: I mean, man on Thurday, I mean, that's your money

515
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,159
Speaker 5: right there. You don't no, no, no, you got to

516
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:07,920
Speaker 5: bring that guy in.

517
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:11,159
Speaker 1: When you sit back and look all of you accomplished,

518
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,399
Speaker 1: Like what do you what do you think made it

519
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 1: out of the American Republic great baseball player. When you

520
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 1: kind of sit back and reflect, like, what are you

521
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 1: most proud of?

522
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:21,879
Speaker 5: I'm more proud of that. Every time I walk in

523
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,159
Speaker 5: the street, people came through me and say you was

524
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,560
Speaker 5: a good player. You are You're a great man because

525
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:28,920
Speaker 5: of me. I don't want to be a great player

526
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,520
Speaker 5: and then people hate me. Yeah, I don't want to

527
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:35,679
Speaker 5: do that. And normally I'm a likable guy. You know,

528
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:38,080
Speaker 5: I make people laugh and this see my gift that

529
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:39,720
Speaker 5: God give it to me and I will continue to

530
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 5: spread it through the world.

531
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Speaker 6: The best gift athlete, and I mean the best complement

532
00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:45,439
Speaker 6: the athlete can get is like, you're a great player,

533
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:46,400
Speaker 6: but you a better.

534
00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:47,240
Speaker 5: Human being exactly.

535
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:48,360
Speaker 3: That's one of the best compliments.

536
00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 1: What was your favorite season in your career?

537
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:55,800
Speaker 5: Well, ye, yeah, which that was? You know, that was

538
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 5: the year. That was the year they got me into

539
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 5: the through the White House. I mean yeah with a

540
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 5: bit of me, mister Bill Clinton. That was the year

541
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,120
Speaker 5: they got me to the Hero or the Canyo over

542
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 5: the New York That was the year that Sammy really

543
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 5: really you know, yeah.

544
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 1: I remember I was in high school. We'll cut cut school,

545
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:18,080
Speaker 1: go take bond with and want you go to work.

546
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:24,879
Speaker 5: Yeah in New York right now, and New York people

547
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,680
Speaker 5: was watching the taxi, the people taxing New York. They

548
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 5: put the number in the car and have to follow.

549
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,680
Speaker 5: Yeah that's awesome. Yeah.

550
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,640
Speaker 1: Uh is making the Hall of Fame something that's important

551
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 1: to you?

552
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:40,600
Speaker 5: Uh, it's important for every player. I think, you know,

553
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 5: looking forward, maybe one day you know things changed. I

554
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 5: can been changing recently, and you know myself Barry Bone

555
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,920
Speaker 5: mar maguire claiming can make it there.

556
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 3: I deserve it for sure.

557
00:25:54,119 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 1: Smartest picture you've ever faced, smartest, slash, toughest, smart, great minded. Okay,

558
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 1: I said that, David Justin he said that, or Gary

559
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 1: Sheffield who else? Or someone else said it too? With

560
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:08,920
Speaker 1: a justice here?

561
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,639
Speaker 6: Best uh, worst ballpark you ever played in in in

562
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 6: the Major leagues.

563
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 5: Worst ballpark the old San Francisco, Yes, right in the water,

564
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 5: yes yeah.

565
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 4: Uh.

566
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 1: Craziest clubhouse story that you could share with us. You've

567
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,120
Speaker 1: seen a lot of ships, Sam, give me something.

568
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 5: It's coming on hand, give me something.

569
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:34,680
Speaker 1: Come on now, you've seen a lot.

570
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:40,240
Speaker 5: Of ship Well, I remember in Texas, me and full

571
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 5: of Franco. I get to mention hulo Frank they got

572
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,880
Speaker 5: this bad and I tried wrestling with them and they

573
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 5: got me like that, and they came up with all

574
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 5: the shade older store and toy to me. I remember

575
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 5: how my Gary call that.

576
00:26:54,400 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 1: Jerry Carrol Carol love question, where's your Jerry curl?

577
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 5: Wet or dry?

578
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 1: That ship dripped or.

579
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 5: Just high a lunger, buddy, Yeah, it was long. I

580
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 5: was creeping.

581
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: He used to shake that ship, that's right.

582
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:14,880
Speaker 3: I didn't notice.

583
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:22,480
Speaker 2: He used to jump out the bars ship, used to

584
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:26,199
Speaker 2: flip the ship in the home up the box, flipping

585
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 2: on him if he was in the game, and the

586
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 2: bitch is cleared.

587
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 3: Name three players that you would want to fight with

588
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:33,640
Speaker 3: you who's.

589
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:34,920
Speaker 1: On your side but was in my side?

590
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:40,399
Speaker 5: I have some brano color brano was there to uh player?

591
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:40,679
Speaker 3: I have?

592
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 5: Let me see you, EDDI yeld it? What's a crazy

593
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 5: guy yelling? Yeah, yelling at uh in Chicago?

594
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 4: And uh?

595
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,480
Speaker 3: Well? What else? What else? I have a well?

596
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 5: Maybe Frank Thoma, Oh Frank Tom, Yeah, Frank, I'm looking

597
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:01,640
Speaker 5: to build my walk hurt.

598
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna behind you, behind you, that's right. Who

599
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 1: is the greatest player of all time in baseball history?

600
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 5: In your opinion from my era? Or from this period

601
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,679
Speaker 5: period period, Well, I had some few. I have to

602
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 5: say that bay Rue and I have to say ah

603
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 5: and and yeah, and also Roberto Clemente vertical.

604
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 3: Of course, what are you up to post retirement?

605
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 6: Any business ventures, anything that you want to tell people

606
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:37,719
Speaker 6: so we can get that you get their support.

607
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 5: Yes, are you? I you have some few business some

608
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 5: few a you know, real estate business doing it right

609
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 5: now and in the States. Are back at home. No,

610
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 5: that one is in Panama. But also we're looking out

611
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 5: something here to stay. Oh yeah, and also a couple

612
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 5: of financial you know movement.

613
00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 6: I would love to come and hang out with you

614
00:28:58,920 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 6: in d R one day.

615
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 3: Let me know they love me. There have some kids

616
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 3: there to look.

617
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 5: For your kids.

618
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 3: I might have a couple of years.

619
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 1: You're gonna help you look for you Sammy and Stack

620
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 1: down the street.

621
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 5: Kids support coming, Yeah, it's coming.

622
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 3: Well, well, I was there a long time ago.

623
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: They bout twenty three, twenty Yeah, the statues limitation. Now

624
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 1: may your son for the.

625
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 3: First time.

626
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 1: My fault, my fault in the current major m LB

627
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: best player in the league.

628
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 5: You feel like, right.

629
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: Now, wow, I have some few Maybe I'll maybe him

630
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: the two or three.

631
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, you know, I have to say, I'm sort

632
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 5: uh it's one running like yeah, these people there are

633
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 5: they are going to make the lead, so I know

634
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 5: the level. I mean, with the respect of the rest

635
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 5: of the players, but this the for do there are

636
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 5: corner spec Yeah, and then and I mentioned one solo

637
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 5: because nobody will give you seven hundred and sixty five

638
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 5: million because you're a nice guy, right ball exactly, you

639
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 5: deserve it.

640
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 1: So god, seven hundred and fifty million, all right.

641
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 4: Contracts and play themselves.

642
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 5: Well, I want them to give a billion two billion,

643
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 5: You know what I mean, because I remember when I

644
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 5: was coming up. Now, I was that I was that

645
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 5: much money. But the the vending opened the door for us.

646
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 5: So now you know, the baseport is different, new era.

647
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 5: People making money, especially when when I play, let's say,

648
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 5: play making seven hundred thousand dollars. Now the five and

649
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 5: seven million, ten million sit on the bench, so everything

650
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 5: changes money for everybody.

651
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 3: Now, yep, if you can.

652
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 6: See one Major League Baseball guest on our show, who

653
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 6: would it be?

654
00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 3: But you have to help us get your answer on show?

655
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: So who are some of your friends? You think she

656
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 1: would be on our show?

657
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 3: Yeah?

658
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 5: Well I think send me up Pedro Martinez. Yes, yeah,

659
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 5: pretty good. I also Arbor Poolhole.

660
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 3: We played in the game. Super cool dude.

661
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know maybe also he was out here, lady.

662
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 3: Yeah.

663
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 5: I mean a lot of them. Yeah, you know they

664
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 5: can come through your show.

665
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 3: And you know, are you in Big Poppy cool?

666
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Poppy, Yeah, I know.

667
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 3: Thank you Big you see Big Pop Sammy.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate your time, man, you you you feel my

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Speaker 1: childhood with amazing times and just an honor to be

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Speaker 1: able to sit down with you man, and thank you

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Speaker 1: for coming on our show to thank you.

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Speaker 5: Appreciate that you thank you.

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Speaker 1: That's a wrap, Sammy. So so you can catch us

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Speaker 1: on All the Smoke Productions YouTube and the DraftKings Network.

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Speaker 1: See y'all next week. Peace so he Welcome to another

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Speaker 1: edition of All the Smoke Dug Out Edition. We're here

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta for the MLB All Star Game twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: My man sitting to my left put in a lot

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Speaker 1: of work two thousand and five Work of the Year,

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Speaker 1: two thousand and six, MVP, three time All Star home

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Speaker 1: Run Derby Champ World Series Champ with the Phillies in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and eight. Actually recently in the media space

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Speaker 1: now too.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, Ryan Howard, Sir, appreciate you.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to jump a little bit because it's something

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Speaker 1: that happened to you. Is heavy in the NBA sport

689
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Speaker 1: right now. You tore your achilles, yes, Sir, on the

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Speaker 1: last play of the season in two thousand and eleven

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Speaker 1: Alds and obviously pretty much ended your guys' run to

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Speaker 1: say the least. But talk to me about that injury

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Speaker 1: and what the recovery process was like physically. But I

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Speaker 1: also want to hear the mental side, because the mental side,

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Speaker 1: I know, is more draining than the physical.

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Speaker 4: Man first and foremost, it was Yeah, as you mentioned

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Speaker 4: the last play in the postseason against my hometown team.

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Speaker 4: I grew up watching man.

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Speaker 7: The Cardinals, man, and it was just one of those

700
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Speaker 7: situations where when I hit the ball and I went down,

701
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Speaker 7: I just thought I got hit in the back of

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Speaker 7: the leg right and I was like, oh man, what

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Speaker 7: you doing the balls and right field?

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Speaker 4: You gotta get up and go got up boom foot

705
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Speaker 4: and went flat, went down, felt the tingle go up

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Speaker 4: my leg and I was like, okay, something some made right.

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Speaker 4: But it was one of those things to where you

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Speaker 4: know it. Just when it happened the comeback.

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Speaker 7: I was like, all right, I'm still young somewhat and

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Speaker 7: I'll be able to come back do all that. It

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Speaker 7: took a lot longer than I had ever expected going

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Speaker 7: into twelve thirteen. It was one of those things for

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Speaker 7: me where you know, as a player, you want to

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Speaker 7: get back faster because you know you're thinking about, hey,

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Speaker 7: me at sixty.

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Speaker 4: Percent is better than a lot of dudes got.

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Speaker 7: So I'm like, let me just get good enough to

718
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Speaker 7: be able to get out on the field as opposed

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Speaker 7: to really getting like one hundred and ten percent. And

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Speaker 7: that's what I tell cats now, you know, kind of

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Speaker 7: watching what happened in the pot in the playoffs in

722
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Speaker 7: the NBA, the first thing I tell guys when they

723
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Speaker 7: have any kind of injury, bro, make sure you're one

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Speaker 7: hundred and ten percent, not one hundred percent, one hundred

725
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Speaker 7: and ten percent, because that extra ten percent is that mental.

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Speaker 4: Physically you'll feel good.

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Speaker 7: But mentrusting was like, yeah, trusting it and just being

728
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Speaker 7: able to say, oh, the minute you feel something just

729
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Speaker 7: like a little ache or tweet, you're like, oh shit,

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Speaker 7: there we go again.

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Speaker 1: So how long do you feel like physically it took

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Speaker 1: you to get back? And how long did it take

733
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Speaker 1: you mentally to get back?

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Speaker 4: I mean for me, I felt like it took a

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Speaker 4: couple of years because.

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Speaker 1: That that next year I toe injury.

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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, well, well that.

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Speaker 7: Next year I had to get my left knee scope souse,

739
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Speaker 7: my left achilles and then my left knee. So really

740
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Speaker 7: being a left handed hitter, this is my push off side,

741
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Speaker 7: this is my drive side. So it was tough kind

742
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Speaker 7: of getting those back and sync.

743
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Speaker 4: So it took a little bit.

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Speaker 7: And like even still to this day, like this leg

745
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 7: is still a little bit baker, a little different, so

746
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Speaker 7: I could.

747
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Speaker 4: Still feel it, but you know, it's just continue to

748
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,359
Speaker 4: try to put that work in, man, get that thing right.

749
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Speaker 1: You've been in the media space for a little bit

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Speaker 1: six one one podcast with your brother Jimmy Rawlins. What

751
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Speaker 1: made you jump into the the pod space?

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Speaker 7: You know what, Jimmy and I just have this rapport

753
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Speaker 7: and you know, we were like, man, let's let's go

754
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 7: on down here and go give the people what they

755
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,959
Speaker 7: want and uh and getting out here doing the sixty

756
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Speaker 7: one one podcast. At first, it's it's a funny play

757
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Speaker 7: because when we came up with the name. We didn't

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Speaker 7: realize what what the extra was to it. So my

759
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Speaker 7: number was six, Jimmy's number was eleven, and then obviously

760
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Speaker 7: playing in Philadelphia, well six eleven is like the exit

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Speaker 7: for broad Street, Main Street, and you realize it it

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Speaker 7: was meant to be, all right, Yeah, it's meant to be.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So how has that been? I mean, there's not

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Speaker 1: a lot of ton there's not a ton like I

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Speaker 1: feel like the basketball space has been saturated with them.

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Speaker 1: There's still not a lot of former players in your

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Speaker 1: profession doing what you guys are doing. So you guys

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Speaker 1: are you know, somewhat pioneering this space. But how how

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Speaker 1: how has it been?

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Speaker 3: How have you enjoyed?

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Speaker 4: It's been great.

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Speaker 7: It's been fun, thoroughly enjoying it, you know, trying to

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Speaker 7: come through give like a baseball perspective on different things.

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Speaker 7: But you know, just just as what you guys are

775
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Speaker 7: doing over here, just touching on the outsides of different things,

776
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Speaker 7: because I think when people look at baseball in general,

777
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 7: they're thinking one thing, and so we're trying to kind of.

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Speaker 4: Change the stig narrative, yeah, and change the stigma.

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Speaker 1: On retired life. And I've been at it for eight

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Speaker 1: years now, you've been at it to pretty much the

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Speaker 1: same or pretty close. What is retired life for you

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Speaker 1: like these days?

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Speaker 3: Man?

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Speaker 4: Retired life is good, bro good.

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Speaker 7: I mean, first and foremost, always being able to just

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Speaker 7: kind of hang out with the family. My son who

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Speaker 7: was a little bit older, but three girls, you know, ten,

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Speaker 7: eight and five, so chasing them around.

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Speaker 1: What's it like being a girl dad? Because I got

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Speaker 1: old boys?

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Speaker 4: Man, it's you know what, it's different.

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Speaker 1: It's cool because you got an older son.

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Speaker 4: I got three girls, yea, so it's different. So dance,

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Speaker 4: so we got we got a lot of dance taking place.

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Speaker 4: So that's it.

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Speaker 1: They never they ever get daddy dressing up or going

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Speaker 1: to tea parties with them, anything like that.

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Speaker 4: I've done that, done that, gotten the nails painted, the

799
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Speaker 4: make up, did all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: Daddy duty.

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Speaker 3: Oh it is it is.

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Speaker 4: I'm out numbered.

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Speaker 1: I'm a number a lot of female energy in the house.

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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Speaker 4: I got to pick my battles.

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Speaker 1: There you go, born and raised in Saint Louis here

807
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Speaker 1: from southwest Missouri state becomes how to become one of

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Speaker 1: the greatest power hitters of all time? Out there?

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Speaker 4: Man?

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Speaker 3: You know what?

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Speaker 4: Uh my story there was was interesting, you know, like

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Speaker 4: you said, born and raised Saint Louis, Missouri. Out of

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Speaker 4: high school.

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Speaker 7: I was actually rooted by like larger schools and was

815
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Speaker 7: looking at going to Arizona State to go play.

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Speaker 1: But I didn't pass my act And so what was

817
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 1: your senior you house go to cut you off?

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Speaker 4: Ninety eight, graduated ninety eight.

819
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Speaker 7: So back then that was where you could still not

820
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Speaker 7: have a scholarship by your senior year and still have

821
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Speaker 7: an opportunity.

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Speaker 4: To get a scholarship. We're here. You got to commit

823
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Speaker 4: by seventh grade.

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Speaker 1: They're paying you to stop your recruiting process exactly.

825
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Speaker 7: So it was it was one of those things where

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Speaker 7: the way I wound up at SMS, which is now

827
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Speaker 7: Missouri State University, it was funny. So I was kind of,

828
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Speaker 7: you know, in limbo because I wasn't able to get

829
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Speaker 7: a scholarship to go to a SU and was looking

830
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Speaker 7: at a few different schools late and I got to

831
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Speaker 7: go down to SMS at the time and meet coach

832
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Speaker 7: Keith Gutting, And what I loved about I loved the campus.

833
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Speaker 7: I loved g because he was straight up and he

834
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 7: just told me he looked me dead in my eye.

835
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Speaker 7: He said, look, we'd love to have you. You'd be

836
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Speaker 7: what we would say, it's like a recruited walk on.

837
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 7: And he's like, but I can't guarantee you any playtime

838
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 7: because you'd be going up against two junior college transfers

839
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 7: and me at the time, I looked him dead in

840
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Speaker 7: the eyes, like, where do I sign?

841
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Speaker 4: So because I wanted. I wanted.

842
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Speaker 7: I wanted the thrill of that competition, because wherever it

843
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 7: was that I wound up, I wanted to go to

844
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Speaker 7: be able to play as a true freshman to see

845
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Speaker 7: how good I was.

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Speaker 1: How did that work out?

847
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Speaker 4: Them two dudes were sitting on a bench.

848
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Speaker 1: Okay, so it worked. How long did it take feet

849
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Speaker 1: to crack the lineup?

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Speaker 7: I mean I made it from from fall camp. So yeah,

851
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 7: so from fall camp going into the spring, they're like,

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Speaker 7: all right, you got it.

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Speaker 3: We led the.

854
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Speaker 7: Country and home runs. I was fourth on the team

855
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 7: and home runs that season with nineteen as a freshman.

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Speaker 1: Who were some of your heroes growing up in the

857
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Speaker 1: in the sport ooh.

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Speaker 7: Man, so growing up obviously being a Cardinals fan, we

859
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:07,280
Speaker 7: had Willie McGee, Aussie Smith, Coleman, t Pendleton, all those guys,

860
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Speaker 7: my idols, Tony Gwynn, Barry Bonds, King, Griffrey Jr.

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Speaker 4: Man, I'd say, Jim Tomay, big stump, big stump in

862
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Speaker 4: the left.

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Speaker 7: And then I gotta throw righty in there. My man,

864
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Speaker 7: big hurt. I'm being big hurt. Frank Thomas, you got

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Speaker 7: the big my boys.

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Speaker 4: My boys used to call me hurt in school.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So that's that's dope. Minor league grinds. I know,

868
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Speaker 1: the baseball grind is unlike any other What was your

869
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Speaker 1: minor league journey?

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Speaker 7: Like, minor leagues was fun, bro. We used to say

871
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Speaker 7: it all the time. Man, It's like when you get drafted,

872
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 7: you going to bushes, going to jungle. Everybody the master

873
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 7: your first round or fiftieth round or whatever. Everybody going

874
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:57,280
Speaker 7: to bushes. And so I just remember my my journey

875
00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 7: was a little bit different because my first full season

876
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 7: in the minor leagues was two thousand and two.

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Speaker 4: I was drafted in OH one.

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Speaker 7: The Phillies had just signed Jim Tomy in two thousand

879
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 7: and two to like a six year deal. So I

880
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,280
Speaker 7: was sitting there like, damn man, they just signed Jim Tomy.

881
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 7: Like standing me was like, yo, that was dope. Then

882
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 7: the player in the organization was like, damn, they just

883
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:20,839
Speaker 7: signed Jim told me. So that's when I made up

884
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 7: my mind where I was like, man, I just got

885
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 7: to do what I gotta do and try to take

886
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 7: it out of their hands and try to play my

887
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 7: way up to the big leagues, whether it was in

888
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 7: the Phillies organization or whether it was.

889
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 1: Someone else else. How many years did you play in

890
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: the minors.

891
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:36,360
Speaker 4: I was in the minors for three years, three and

892
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 4: some change.

893
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 1: And then you come up and what happens with So

894
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 1: I came.

895
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 7: Up, had my call up in four September four, started

896
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 7: back in Triple A and five, and then so in

897
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,399
Speaker 7: Triple A Tommy gets hurt.

898
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 4: I go up for like two weeks and then he

899
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 4: comes back off the.

900
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 7: Injury reserve DL, and then I go back down to

901
00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 7: Triple A and then he gets hurt for the rest

902
00:41:59,760 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 7: of the.

903
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 4: Season in five and I just kind of just did

904
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:04,439
Speaker 4: my thing.

905
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 7: And I remember I remember being asked by the media

906
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:09,360
Speaker 7: when they said Tomy was gonna be out for the

907
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 7: rest of the season.

908
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 4: One of the people was like, hey, so, what's it

909
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 4: like to, you know, have to fill Jim Tomay's shoes.

910
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 7: I said, I'm not Jim Tomay, And I said, you know,

911
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 7: if I go out and I go do me and

912
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 7: I know what I'm capable of, I think we'll be

913
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 7: all right.

914
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 1: Philly fans are a little different.

915
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 3: They are.

916
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:30,839
Speaker 1: How did what was what was kind of like you're

917
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 1: welcome to the team. When did you know that they

918
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: were really rocking with you? Man?

919
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:36,879
Speaker 7: Like when I got called up in September of four,

920
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:40,280
Speaker 7: my first big lead at bat. I had a really

921
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,399
Speaker 7: good year in Double A and Triple A that year

922
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 7: going up, and they would always kind of play like

923
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 7: the down on the Farm type stuff where they would

924
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 7: show you know, what guys are doing on and so

925
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 7: everybody was hearing about this kid, and now everybody was

926
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:55,319
Speaker 7: ready to see So I remember we were actually playing

927
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 7: the Braves in Philly and I was standing on deck

928
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:00,359
Speaker 7: circle and I was like nervous as hell, Man, it's

929
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 7: less And then they announced my name and the crowd

930
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 7: like went crazy, and I was.

931
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 1: Like, what's that feeling like? Like walk us back? Because

932
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:08,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I know, you get chilled. Just what was

933
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 1: that experience like that first time they called your name

934
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:12,280
Speaker 1: in the whole stadium?

935
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 3: Man?

936
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:14,280
Speaker 4: It was it was surreal.

937
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 7: It was surreal because I was like, Okay, I'm here,

938
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 7: I'm here, I'm here, Like, let's let's go, let's do.

939
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 1: It's a dope fifth round pick. Obviously one of the

940
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:28,400
Speaker 1: rare guys that spent his entire career with one organization.

941
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 1: Is it true at one point you were mistaken for

942
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 1: Jimmy Rolins bodyguard?

943
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 4: This is affirmative. I can affirm that.

944
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:37,279
Speaker 1: Let me hear that story. I need to hear.

945
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 7: So I'm a rookie and there was this bar that

946
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 7: was attached to the ballpark to the to the stadium there,

947
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,320
Speaker 7: and it was McFadden's and so like we used to

948
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 7: go over there and go kick it like every once

949
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 7: in a while after the games or whatever. So I

950
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 7: go over with Jimmy and Jimmy's like sitting at the

951
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 7: bar and I was just kind of standing next to him,

952
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 7: and this girl comes up.

953
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:58,360
Speaker 4: And she's like, oh my god, Jimmy Rols like and.

954
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 7: It stopped and like looked up and looked at me

955
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:03,800
Speaker 7: and she's like, oh, I'm sorry, are you his security?

956
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 7: And I was just standing there like we both looked

957
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:08,759
Speaker 7: at each other just started laughing because I had.

958
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 4: Just kind of burst on the scene.

959
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 1: So that's funny. Any run ins with any other Philly

960
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 1: sports legends McNab man, all of them, really, all of them. Man,

961
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: what's it like me for the first time?

962
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 4: Man, dope, little dope dope. But you know he pack

963
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:26,799
Speaker 4: a punch. Yeah, come on, man, pack a punch.

964
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 6: Man.

965
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:28,479
Speaker 3: He was. He was so cool.

966
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 7: He was first time I met him, right, So I'm

967
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:34,879
Speaker 7: I'm me still kind of making my way up coming

968
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 7: into the leagues and stuff like that.

969
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:40,320
Speaker 4: Ai s Ai and he's like, man, I was like,

970
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 4: a I Man, what's up?

971
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:41,360
Speaker 3: Man?

972
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 4: He's like, yeah, you that you're that big? You're hitting

973
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:47,320
Speaker 4: all them home run I was like, I was like,

974
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 4: I was like, what dope.

975
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:52,879
Speaker 3: Yeah.

976
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:54,239
Speaker 4: So it's like it was cool man.

977
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 3: That was a really cool yeah.

978
00:44:56,120 --> 00:45:00,359
Speaker 1: I mean again, Philly sports are there, finicky, but they

979
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 1: love their players and if you're a good player, they

980
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 1: love you to death. What was just the fandom light

981
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 1: in Philly getting again being the guy that got a

982
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 1: chance to spend his whole career one spot.

983
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 4: It's dope, man. I put it to people like this

984
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:12,720
Speaker 4: who've never played in Philly.

985
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 7: I mean, obviously as a as an opposing player, they

986
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 7: know they know how tough it can be, but being

987
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 7: a home player, it could be tough.

988
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 4: At time too.

989
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 1: So I say, Santa Claus, they did, they did, but.

990
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:28,799
Speaker 7: Always tell them, I say, you know, Philly is known

991
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 7: as the city of brotherly love. Like you love your brother,

992
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:36,319
Speaker 7: you fight with your brother, but like you know, at

993
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 7: the end of the day, get along. But at the

994
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 7: end of the day, it's like they love you. So

995
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 7: I mean, they're just they're just very very passionate fans

996
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 7: and it's keeping you honest because it's a blue collar

997
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 7: town and all they want is a blue collar effort.

998
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 7: So when you go out there and you bust your

999
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:52,760
Speaker 7: butt every day and hustle, control the things you can control,

1000
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 7: like they can respect that.

1001
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 1: They can respect that fastest player to ever hit one

1002
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 1: hundred home runs three hundred and twenty five game also

1003
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,400
Speaker 1: the fastest to reach two hundred home runs six fifty eight.

1004
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 1: You get forty five home runs four years in a

1005
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 1: row from six to nine. Talk about that run right there.

1006
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 4: Man, it was it was unreal. It was like putting

1007
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:14,320
Speaker 4: up video game numbers.

1008
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 7: And you know, it was one of those things to

1009
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 7: me whereas like I just knew what I was capable of,

1010
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:22,879
Speaker 7: and I just wanted to go out every single night.

1011
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 4: And try to do what I could to help my

1012
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 4: team win.

1013
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 7: Man, just put them on my back and uh whenever,

1014
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 7: just pick up, Chase, pick up, Jimmy, pick up Shane,

1015
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 7: pick up all those cats.

1016
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 4: Just go out there and then like looking at it now, right,

1017
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 4: hell did you do you?

1018
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 1: That's what I wanted. That was my next question is

1019
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 1: obviously in the moment, we're just in the moment where

1020
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 1: each you know, each day, each of bat, each game,

1021
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 1: we're living in that moment. But when you get a

1022
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 1: chance to kind of sit back, like, yo, forty five

1023
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:52,279
Speaker 1: plus going straight, I.

1024
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 4: Can't tell you.

1025
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:57,440
Speaker 7: So like two thousand and six was my MVP year

1026
00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 7: and looking back at it now and it's like fifty

1027
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 7: eight home runs, like one hundred and.

1028
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 4: Forty nine rbises insane, bro, And I'm just thinking to myself, like,

1029
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 4: how the hell did you? How did you do that?

1030
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 4: And I remember having a conversation with Jimmy one time

1031
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 4: where it was like I hadn't hit a homer.

1032
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 7: In like a week or two weeks, and I was like, damn, man,

1033
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 7: I'm struggling, Bro, I ain't hit a home run and like.

1034
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 4: A week and Jimmy just looked at me like that,

1035
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 4: like what you talk A week? I think I went

1036
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 4: out hit like two home runs a night.

1037
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 1: So where was your Where was your where'd you like?

1038
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 1: And where was your powers?

1039
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:30,440
Speaker 3: On? Where was your you? What?

1040
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 7: I was a guy who I liked the ball middle

1041
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 7: middle away, and I stood off the plate like away

1042
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 7: from the plate ext I had.

1043
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 4: Her long back. I had a longer bat.

1044
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 7: My bat was thirty five inches thirty four ounces, and

1045
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 7: so by me standing off the plate because of how

1046
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 7: long the arms were with my bat being the extension.

1047
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 4: It made this whole thing look real good at the pictures.

1048
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 7: So anything they threw away was like all right, I

1049
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:00,880
Speaker 7: got play coverage there. But anything they through middle middle

1050
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,400
Speaker 7: in and they missed on the inner half. For me,

1051
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 7: I wanted everything to feel like it was away so

1052
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 7: I could work the middle of the field and if I.

1053
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:09,320
Speaker 4: Pulled it, I pulled it.

1054
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 7: But like I was, basically in a sense kind of

1055
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 7: setting them up because I wanted everything away so I

1056
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 7: can get my arms extended and kind of stay up

1057
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 7: the middle too.

1058
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember this, because I just

1059
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:24,320
Speaker 1: remembered it just right now. Jamior Nelson's front is from Philly,

1060
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:26,239
Speaker 1: and we came out. He used to have this little

1061
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:28,759
Speaker 1: summer camp in Philly. We came to one of your

1062
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:31,239
Speaker 1: guys before your game, and we took batting practice on

1063
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:33,400
Speaker 1: the field, and you gave me your batting gloves. And

1064
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 1: I had the motherfuckers for like three years because I

1065
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:38,320
Speaker 1: played traveling softball in the off season. I love softball,

1066
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 1: but I remember you gave me your your batting gloves,

1067
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:43,160
Speaker 1: and I was me and one other person were the

1068
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 1: only ones that hit the home run during batting practice.

1069
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 1: But I remember particularly you gave me your bat and

1070
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:50,399
Speaker 1: goes like, damn, that's right, all right there, that's dope,

1071
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 1: a little fan mom, But forgive me, let me get

1072
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 1: back to let me get back to business. PD era

1073
00:48:56,640 --> 00:49:00,840
Speaker 1: big numbers. Did you ever get a used or lumped

1074
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 1: in with people that were well, how was it? How

1075
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 1: was what was that like? Because again this is kind

1076
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:09,759
Speaker 1: of pre social media, you know what I mean, so

1077
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:13,000
Speaker 1: kind of stigmas and this and lies could get stuck

1078
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 1: on people that aren't.

1079
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:15,840
Speaker 7: Necessarily Yeah, I mean it was tough, man, because it

1080
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,840
Speaker 7: was you know, obviously growing up in Saint Louis.

1081
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 4: I was there my senior year school.

1082
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're all.

1083
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 7: Watching the whole Mark Maguire, Sammy Sosa, back and forth.

1084
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 7: So it was tough because it was like anybody who

1085
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 7: put up big numbers kind of outside the ordinary, where

1086
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:34,799
Speaker 7: especially for me, you know, this is my first full

1087
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 7: season in the big leagues in two thousand and six,

1088
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:39,400
Speaker 7: so they're like this kid bursts on the scene his

1089
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:41,880
Speaker 7: first year and he hits fifty eight home runs.

1090
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:42,920
Speaker 4: Like, oh, he's got to be on something.

1091
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 7: And I remember, like media was asking me that, and

1092
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:48,840
Speaker 7: I just remember my response was I played at like

1093
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 7: two fifty two fifty five and I said to the media, dude,

1094
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 7: I was like, bro, I'll lift my shirt up right now.

1095
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 7: You ain't gonna see no abs.

1096
00:49:57,440 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 3: You know.

1097
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:00,440
Speaker 1: So it's like that country boy strength.

1098
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:02,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just like I got a keg right here. Bro,

1099
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 4: that's it.

1100
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 1: So but you still look like you sa Are you

1101
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:06,440
Speaker 1: someone that like slims down.

1102
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 3: If you don't, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

1103
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 1: Do you feel players that use I mean, how do

1104
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:18,720
Speaker 1: current excuse me, how do former players look at guys,

1105
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 1: because you know, we you guys kind of like we

1106
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:21,840
Speaker 1: knew what was going on our league. You knew what

1107
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:23,840
Speaker 1: was going on in your league. How do players that

1108
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 1: didn't use it look at guys that did.

1109
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 7: I mean, there's always gonna be that that little bit

1110
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 7: of disdain because guys just try to do it and

1111
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 7: did it the right way. Where guys either did it

1112
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 7: and and they got paid. A lot of time dudes

1113
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 7: were doing it. It was a contract year, so it's like,

1114
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:42,279
Speaker 7: let me go ahead and do this so I can

1115
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:44,719
Speaker 7: go ahead and get paid. And then where the guy

1116
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 7: who didn't do it tried to do it the right way,

1117
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 7: he got screwed. So there's always gonna be that bit

1118
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 7: of disdain. But I mean, I knew for me, it's

1119
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:54,960
Speaker 7: like I didn't do it, and I'm like, all right,

1120
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:56,920
Speaker 7: if you're gonna do it, that's your prerogative.

1121
00:50:57,320 --> 00:50:59,080
Speaker 4: But my goal was always beat your ass.

1122
00:50:58,880 --> 00:50:59,600
Speaker 1: Anyway, period.

1123
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 4: So it's like, even if you're on PDS, I'm gonna

1124
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 4: do it the right way. And still trying to.

1125
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:07,880
Speaker 1: Take me through some of your your your teammates Chase Utley,

1126
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,240
Speaker 1: who was a Bruin, talk to me about Chase.

1127
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:13,319
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, Chase, Chase is sneaky man.

1128
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:16,280
Speaker 7: Like people don't get it, like they see the hard nose,

1129
00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 7: like on the field, like when we played, like Chase

1130
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:22,279
Speaker 7: didn't talk to people, and he didn't really talk to

1131
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 7: guys on other teams and stuff. That was just kind

1132
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:26,319
Speaker 7: of the mantra of how it was when we were

1133
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:29,480
Speaker 7: playing and like always played the game hard, played the

1134
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 7: game the right way. But like off the field, that

1135
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:36,279
Speaker 7: dude is like sneaky bro, sneaky man Chase. He can

1136
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:38,360
Speaker 7: be a little prankster and like put you in some situation.

1137
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:39,719
Speaker 7: He tried to put me in some situations.

1138
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:41,279
Speaker 1: He tried to put you in the trick bag, try

1139
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:46,839
Speaker 1: to put me in some situations. Jimmy Rolins Young James Man.

1140
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:50,960
Speaker 4: That that was the young James was was more than

1141
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 4: the vocal piece he was.

1142
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 7: He was that verbal leader. We had guys that were

1143
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 7: all leaders in different facets. Jimmy was that vocal guy.

1144
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,279
Speaker 7: I mean where he was, I mean he was. He

1145
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 7: was the swag. He was the swag of our team

1146
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:08,040
Speaker 7: and everything. And my man came out two thousand and seven.

1147
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:10,960
Speaker 7: We hadn't won shit. He came out in two thousand

1148
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:12,759
Speaker 7: and seven, the Mets had won, the Braves had won,

1149
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:15,400
Speaker 7: you know, the division. We hadn't won a division. And

1150
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:17,400
Speaker 7: he came out in two thousand and seven and say, hey, no,

1151
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:19,960
Speaker 7: we feel like we're the team to beat. So we gathered,

1152
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:23,760
Speaker 7: we rallied behind him, and you know then we started

1153
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:24,560
Speaker 7: that little run.

1154
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 4: We went on.

1155
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:27,920
Speaker 1: Roy Holiday.

1156
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:34,200
Speaker 4: Oh man, that dude, work horse, Roy Man, like he was.

1157
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 7: He's one of those guys that on the days he

1158
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:40,239
Speaker 7: was pitching, like I walked in the clubhouse, I was

1159
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 7: just like, hey, what's up, doctor, and then kept moving

1160
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:44,800
Speaker 7: like he'd be so locked in.

1161
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:47,160
Speaker 4: But then on the days he wasn't pitching, he was

1162
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 4: like a big kid cool. Yeah, he was a big kid.

1163
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:55,239
Speaker 7: I remember one day, our traveling secretary on payday would

1164
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 7: give everybody their checks, and so he would always try

1165
00:52:58,080 --> 00:52:59,759
Speaker 7: to find some kind of funny way to give me

1166
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:03,439
Speaker 7: my check. And so he had Roy was always into

1167
00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 7: like toy airplanes and stuff, and so he had Roy

1168
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 7: fly on his model airplanes and and fly my check

1169
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 7: and deliver it over to my.

1170
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:17,880
Speaker 1: Locker and bring check. Was it the fly in Hawaiian

1171
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: Is that what they called it?

1172
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:22,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, my man sugar shamee Hawaiian man Shane Victory.

1173
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:25,239
Speaker 7: Never seen him eat a normal plate of food but

1174
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:31,879
Speaker 7: heat candy sweets. That's why he's bouncing off the walls

1175
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:32,960
Speaker 7: all the time. That's why they play.

1176
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:35,879
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, just flying all over the place.

1177
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:36,239
Speaker 3: Man. Love.

1178
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 7: He was actually my roommate, and we were roommates in

1179
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 7: Triple A and Scranton in like four oh five.

1180
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:45,239
Speaker 4: And man, one of one of the greatest guys.

1181
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:48,240
Speaker 7: I mean, like just just just one of those dudes

1182
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 7: where he just knew how to go about playing the

1183
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:51,839
Speaker 7: game doing all that good stuff.

1184
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 3: Man.

1185
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:54,600
Speaker 7: But like all these guys man, just great human beings.

1186
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:59,799
Speaker 7: Pedro Pedro, Pedro Martinez, Oh my god, dude, PDP bro

1187
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:05,360
Speaker 7: loved him, loved him. He uh, he was one of

1188
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:07,319
Speaker 7: those guys when he comes in, Man, his whole aura

1189
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:10,400
Speaker 7: just changes the entire room. Like just one of the

1190
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 7: most genuine people will ever meet. Great teammate, come out there,

1191
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:17,160
Speaker 7: go throw, go play. And uh it's funny because my

1192
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:20,840
Speaker 7: brothers and I used to have a we used to

1193
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:22,640
Speaker 7: have like this little inside joke and I was told

1194
00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 7: I told Pedro, like, man, Pedro gonna be good.

1195
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:25,759
Speaker 3: Bro.

1196
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:27,799
Speaker 4: He got that you got that curl working to day.

1197
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 4: Actually you got that extra the day, got that activate.

1198
00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:34,200
Speaker 1: Was he someone that you guys could joke with and

1199
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 1: have fun or was he was Did he talks ship

1200
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:38,040
Speaker 1: a little.

1201
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 7: Bit like days days that he was pitching because everybody,

1202
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 7: every starting picture has their own routine and so like days,

1203
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:47,319
Speaker 7: you know, usually as a position player, you don't mess

1204
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 7: with the picture that's starting that day. We did have

1205
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:52,719
Speaker 7: guys that you could talk to like you would have

1206
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:55,400
Speaker 7: never known they were starting that day, But like Pedro

1207
00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:58,320
Speaker 7: every other day, he's like out there, he's a prankster.

1208
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:00,360
Speaker 3: Love that.

1209
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:03,840
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean you guys went to five straight playoffs,

1210
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:05,800
Speaker 1: won a World Series, and eight went back in on

1211
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 1: nine unfortunately lost. What are some of your fondest memories

1212
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 1: about that run?

1213
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 7: With that that that core of guys, I think the

1214
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:14,759
Speaker 7: biggest thing was was that we all had one thing

1215
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 7: in common and that we all wanted to win. We

1216
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:21,080
Speaker 7: all expected to win, because it was like when we

1217
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:24,440
Speaker 7: showed up to the field, everybody wants, everybody wants to win,

1218
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:27,839
Speaker 7: everybody hopes to win. We expected to win. So there's

1219
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 7: a big difference there and being able to have those runs.

1220
00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:35,000
Speaker 7: We just knew we were better than everybody else. Like

1221
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 7: even in on nine when we lost to the Yankees,

1222
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 7: we still felt like we were better than they were.

1223
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:41,680
Speaker 7: We had gone to New York earlier that season and

1224
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:44,200
Speaker 7: took two out of three in New York against the Yankees.

1225
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:46,960
Speaker 7: So I mean I felt kind of like we just

1226
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:49,840
Speaker 7: we just ran out of games. You know, they just

1227
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:50,719
Speaker 7: they just got us.

1228
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:53,640
Speaker 1: What do you think the scattering report on you was.

1229
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:55,600
Speaker 3: Run?

1230
00:55:55,760 --> 00:55:58,040
Speaker 4: But I think I know what it was. I mean

1231
00:55:58,160 --> 00:55:58,840
Speaker 4: Scott report.

1232
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:01,640
Speaker 7: They were just Everything they would try to do is

1233
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:05,640
Speaker 7: just give me go on soft away and try to

1234
00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:07,719
Speaker 7: get me to roll over and hit it into the

1235
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:11,920
Speaker 7: shift at the time which now no longer, So it

1236
00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:14,800
Speaker 7: was just everything kind of soft away, you know, a

1237
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:17,200
Speaker 7: little bit hard in, but like mostly just try to

1238
00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:19,920
Speaker 7: get everything away so they can get me to try

1239
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:22,320
Speaker 7: to roll over. If they were if they did come in,

1240
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:24,759
Speaker 7: like I say, it was gonna be a ball, if

1241
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:27,799
Speaker 7: they threw like something off speed, hard in, off the plate,

1242
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:28,800
Speaker 7: jammy and whatnot.

1243
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:29,399
Speaker 3: They just tried.

1244
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:32,160
Speaker 4: They wanted me to try to pull everything and just

1245
00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:33,120
Speaker 4: get me out that way.

1246
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:34,759
Speaker 1: And then on the flip side, when you're stepping in

1247
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:36,480
Speaker 1: the battle's box, what is your thought process?

1248
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:40,399
Speaker 7: My thought process is I wanted to stay up the middle,

1249
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:46,400
Speaker 7: so I learned in college. My college coach taught me

1250
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:48,120
Speaker 7: how to hit the ball to the oppos the field.

1251
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:49,879
Speaker 7: So out of high school I was a dead dead

1252
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:51,279
Speaker 7: pool hitter, and so.

1253
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:53,800
Speaker 4: He opened up the entire field to me.

1254
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:58,080
Speaker 7: So he changed my mindset where my foul poles were

1255
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 7: basically right center and left center to stay up the

1256
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:04,080
Speaker 7: middle of the field, and so that just kind of

1257
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:08,480
Speaker 7: slowed everything down for me. So you could take the fastball,

1258
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 7: and you can take that and go from one hundred

1259
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:14,400
Speaker 7: and have it be like ninety four ninety five, and

1260
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 7: then the change ups and all the others pitches like

1261
00:57:17,440 --> 00:57:19,320
Speaker 7: you could see really really well and then be able

1262
00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:20,880
Speaker 7: to stay back and they stay back.

1263
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:21,200
Speaker 4: Up in the middle.

1264
00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:23,280
Speaker 1: That's interesting because we asked Garay the same thing, and

1265
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:26,120
Speaker 1: when he locked in, he said it seemed like everything

1266
00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 1: took maybe five miles an hour off that pitch.

1267
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:30,000
Speaker 4: So that's how it's a trip.

1268
00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:32,360
Speaker 7: When you tell people to like way to figure out

1269
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:35,520
Speaker 7: how to crazy ball down and people are like coming

1270
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 7: an hour.

1271
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:40,280
Speaker 4: It's just you just got to be looking in the

1272
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:40,880
Speaker 4: right spot.

1273
00:57:41,840 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 8: The smartest picture you ever faced, ooh, smartest picture I

1274
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:51,280
Speaker 8: ever faced. I mean, I probably say the toughest picture

1275
00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:56,760
Speaker 8: I'd ever faced was Sureser Max Shirs.

1276
00:57:57,360 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 7: I mean, he was one of those guys that he

1277
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:03,280
Speaker 7: didn't care, he was gonna throw anything in any the

1278
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:05,360
Speaker 7: times at the Nationals with the time, and it didn't

1279
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:06,160
Speaker 7: matter what he threw.

1280
00:58:06,680 --> 00:58:08,240
Speaker 4: He would throw anything in any count.

1281
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 7: And even if you slapped one of his pitches before,

1282
00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:12,880
Speaker 7: he'll come back with the same pitch like he didn't

1283
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 7: back down. So that was that was one of those

1284
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 7: things where smart pitcher, they knew what they wanted to do.

1285
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:22,680
Speaker 7: He was just able to go out and go execute.

1286
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:24,520
Speaker 1: And there's the difference we wanted to do it and

1287
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:27,400
Speaker 1: doing it best stuff. Who had the best stuff?

1288
00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:33,360
Speaker 4: Oh, best stuff, I would say again Sureser and Strasburg

1289
00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:39,000
Speaker 4: in there. Strasburg was was filthy when he was healthy, nasty,

1290
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:41,200
Speaker 4: he was a monster.

1291
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:42,920
Speaker 1: How did you get out of slump? So what was

1292
00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:44,400
Speaker 1: your routine to try to get out of a slump?

1293
00:58:44,480 --> 00:58:47,000
Speaker 4: For slumps, it just depends on what I was going through.

1294
00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:50,760
Speaker 7: So I really just kind of take my time and say,

1295
00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:54,360
Speaker 7: you know what, these next two or three abs, I'm

1296
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:58,040
Speaker 7: gonna jam myself and try to let the ball get

1297
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:01,840
Speaker 7: as deep as it possibly can and just track it

1298
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:03,680
Speaker 7: all the way into the back. Track it all the

1299
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:08,960
Speaker 7: way because it's easier to work from here this way

1300
00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:13,120
Speaker 7: towards the mount as opposed to working their back. So

1301
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:15,440
Speaker 7: That's why I was like, if I jammed myself and

1302
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:18,760
Speaker 7: not worry about what happened, what the result is, then

1303
00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:20,760
Speaker 7: all of a sudden, I'm gonna start getting my timing

1304
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:23,000
Speaker 7: to be like, Okay, let me get a little little sooner,

1305
00:59:23,080 --> 00:59:26,320
Speaker 7: a little sooner. Boom, I'm back here now, I'm now

1306
00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:27,320
Speaker 7: to do my thing.

1307
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:31,320
Speaker 1: Superstitions, superstitions.

1308
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:34,200
Speaker 7: I didn't really have a SUPERSTI actually, you know what,

1309
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:36,440
Speaker 7: I just realized this the other day. If I was

1310
00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:42,919
Speaker 7: chewing gum and the other team was hitting, I would

1311
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:45,640
Speaker 7: chew my gum on the left side, or actually, if

1312
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:48,160
Speaker 7: it was an out or whatnot, whatever the inning was

1313
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:51,600
Speaker 7: that started where my gum was and we got an out,

1314
00:59:52,080 --> 00:59:55,440
Speaker 7: I had to keep chewing it on that side until.

1315
00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:55,840
Speaker 4: The inning was over.

1316
00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:58,480
Speaker 1: There any wild superstitions some of your teammates may have

1317
00:59:58,680 --> 01:00:00,400
Speaker 1: that you can share, old.

1318
01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 4: Superstition, Nah, we didn't have any. We didn't. We didn't

1319
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:08,120
Speaker 4: have any, Joe Booze.

1320
01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:10,560
Speaker 7: I mean, I think everybody just kind of had their own,

1321
01:00:12,080 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 7: but uh yeah, nothing nothing too crazy.

1322
01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:17,320
Speaker 1: Why do you think there's such a drastic drop in

1323
01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:20,920
Speaker 1: black American Major League players?

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Speaker 4: You know, I think one it's I mean, you just

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Speaker 4: I think you gotta market more. You gotta market to

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Speaker 4: it more.

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Speaker 7: Because I remember growing up man, like I said, the Cardinals,

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Speaker 7: Willie McGee ven's Coleman, Terry Pendleton, all those guys. But

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Speaker 7: you saw on TV and they were being marketed. I think, one,

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Speaker 7: you have to market to the black community and black

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Speaker 7: kids and show them there's another opportunity there too. The

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Speaker 7: other thing about it is to me is like baseball

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Speaker 7: is a very expensive sports.

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Speaker 4: It's tough. It's tough. I mean showcases as you know,

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Speaker 4: like coaching coaching kids. Well, right, it's all.

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Speaker 7: These different showcases in these tournaments. That stuff costs money

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Speaker 7: along with the gear, along with the travel. Like I mean,

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Speaker 7: it's it's tough to be able to try to get out.

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Speaker 3: There and do it.

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Speaker 1: But a lot of families are priced out.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, all the families are priced out.

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Speaker 7: My man Jed Lowry said it you know best, and

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Speaker 7: he was like, you know what you don't want is

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Speaker 7: you don't want baseball to become a country club sport

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Speaker 7: to where you're not getting the best talent.

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Speaker 4: You're only getting the best of the best who can

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Speaker 4: afford it.

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Speaker 1: You made some cameos always sunny in Philadelphia and entourage, Sir,

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Speaker 1: How those come about? By the way, one of the

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Speaker 1: greatest shows.

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Speaker 4: Man, that was so much fun, so much fun. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: just through my agency.

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Speaker 7: Man, they hit me up and I was like, man,

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Speaker 7: this would be something outside of mind, my norm, and

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Speaker 7: so I would.

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Speaker 4: Love to do it.

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Speaker 1: You got to hang with any chase? Was that you

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Speaker 1: got to hang with any chase?

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Speaker 3: No, man.

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Speaker 7: So when I shot that scene, that was actually in

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Speaker 7: my backyard at my house that I had in Philly.

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Speaker 7: So at that time when Turtle, it was the episode

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Speaker 7: when Turtle was trying to get investors for a that

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Speaker 7: was alcohol.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, so he came to you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so he came to me.

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Speaker 1: All right, man, quick hitters. First thing to come to mind.

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Speaker 3: Let us let us know.

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Speaker 1: You just mentioned that worst ballpark he played in.

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Speaker 4: Worst ballpark I played in probably RFK, the Old Mash. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: it was best, best ballpark I played in.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 4: I always loved I always loved playing in Atlanta. Okay,

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Speaker 4: I always loved playing Atlanta. Turner Field.

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Speaker 1: Picture that was really good. But you loved to face him?

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Speaker 4: Oh a picture? Oh Johann Santana.

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Speaker 1: Oh he had his number.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, John, I.

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Speaker 7: Just remember when they signed him, and they were talking

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Speaker 7: about it and they were like, oh, the Mets because

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Speaker 7: they were already.

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Speaker 4: Good, like they just signed Johann Santana. I was like,

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Speaker 4: all right, yeah, we're.

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Speaker 1: Gonna see the craziest clubhouse story or or or or

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Speaker 1: just team story you can share.

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Speaker 7: Probably craziest clubhouse story was the time that my teammate

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Speaker 7: Kyle Kendrick they played like a massive prank on him

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Speaker 7: that he got traded to Japan for.

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Speaker 4: To for Kobyashi, the hot dog eating guy. So, I

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Speaker 4: mean they had everybody in it. They had my man's

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Speaker 4: agent in.

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Speaker 6: On it, like.

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Speaker 1: Everybody, So tell me about it. Hold on, tell me

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Speaker 1: about that little bit they called him up.

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Speaker 7: So he had just gotten called up not too long ago.

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Speaker 7: And Brett Myers was the one, uh that that put

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Speaker 7: everybody up to it. And uh they called him in

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Speaker 7: the office, had the GM, the manager and everybody, and

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Speaker 7: they were like, Kyle Man, Hey, we appreciate everything you've

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Speaker 7: done for us, but uh, you just we just decided that,

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Speaker 7: you know, for the organization, what was gonna be best

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Speaker 7: for us is that we're going to trade you, trade

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Speaker 7: you to Japan for Kobyashi. And uh, he's sitting in

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Speaker 7: there Aaron like if and if you knew Kyle like

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Speaker 7: he's he was very gullible as a young kid there

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Speaker 7: and it.

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Speaker 4: Was just like this whole world just ripped up from

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Speaker 4: underneath him. They brought him back. He walks back into

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Speaker 4: the clubhouse. Media is in on it. They come over

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Speaker 4: to his locker and start interviewing them. I mean, they

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Speaker 4: were going all in. He goes.

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Speaker 7: He calls his agent, his agents like, he's like, can

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Speaker 7: they even do this? He's like, yeah, unfortunately they can.

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Speaker 7: So I guess you know, we gotta get you on

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Speaker 7: a plane out to Japan and the whole I side.

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Speaker 3: Oh god, Bro, like this is crazy.

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Speaker 1: So who finally let him know it was Brett.

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Speaker 4: Brett came up. Yeah. He was like, Bro, you got

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Speaker 4: traded for a hot dog guy. Bro, Like, think about it.

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Speaker 1: That's crazy. You're going to get the bench clearing brawl

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Speaker 1: you plus three former teammates and.

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Speaker 4: Three who gets Therebina. He just had that looking like

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Speaker 4: he's nuts. My man, Marlon Bird and I'll probably take Shane.

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Speaker 7: Even though he may lack in size, he can get

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Speaker 7: on somebody's back off for just a second.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna put some kind of grappling hole on.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he'll lock somebody up just long enough.

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Speaker 1: Who's the goat?

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Speaker 4: The goat, it's got to be buried.

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Speaker 1: It's got to be very best player in the league

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Speaker 1: right now.

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Speaker 7: I mean, it's so Tommy. It's based on what he

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Speaker 7: could do both hitting wise, speed wise. I mean, he's

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Speaker 7: the only player in the history of the game fifty

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Speaker 7: and he didn't even pitch right.

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Speaker 1: Crazy. So one player you'd like to see on this show.

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Speaker 4: One player I would like to see on this show.

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Speaker 4: Chest chests would be good chat, good show, he'll be good.

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Speaker 4: What's that ooh the goat skipper Man. I'd probably have

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Speaker 4: to say Boshie Boshie Man, Bruce, he's in Texas.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Ryan Man. We appreciate your time, graduation on the law,

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Speaker 1: successful career. Thank good luck on continuing the girl, Dad

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Speaker 1: and your oldest son and uh man, that's the lug.

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Speaker 3: What everybody got.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate you appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: That's right, Maryan Howard. You can catch up on all

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Speaker 1: the slow productions YouTube and the draft Ks Network. See

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Speaker 1: y'all next week.

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Speaker 3: M hm

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Speaker 5: Mm hmm.