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Lovable Reunion - Addison Russell on his GRAND SLAM in Cubs' World Series, Heyward’s EPIC G7 speech | Ross & Rizzo · Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of The Lovable Reunion Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: This episode, we are have the pleasure of sitting here
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  Speaker 1: with our shortstop Addison Russell, young twenty two year old
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  Speaker 1: at the time in sixteen, got called up in twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty fifteen, had a monster postseason for us. Cannot
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  Speaker 1: wait to relive these memories. Addie, how you been.
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  Speaker 2: I've been good man. I appreciate you guys having me.
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  Speaker 2: Just seeing you guys's face bring back so many memories.
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  Speaker 2: Just excited to be here.
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  Speaker 3: Bro, your world traveled, Korea, Mexico, where else as an
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  Speaker 3: aged has not aged. I feel like we walk out like,
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  Speaker 3: wait a minute, all of us have got except for ADDIE's.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get right into it, Bro. Twenty fourteen, we stink cubs.
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  Speaker 1: We're here and we make this trip for a young
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  Speaker 1: shortstop and it too and we trade Jeff Samarga, who
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  Speaker 1: is one of our biggest leaders on the team, and
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  Speaker 1: Jason Hammill for you and I know we got a
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  Speaker 1: couple of urs Billy McKinney in that trade. But when
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  Speaker 1: we made that trade from on our side of it,
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  Speaker 1: we knew that was the end of us being bad
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  Speaker 1: and we were going to be good soon, and you
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  Speaker 1: kind of were the end of all of our woes.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you know that or not, but
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  Speaker 1: did you know what you were getting into after you
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  Speaker 1: got trade? I mean, You're coming from Oakland to you know,
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  Speaker 1: one of the best organizations in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean absolutely not. I didn't know what was
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  Speaker 2: happening on the other end. All I know is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I was with the A's and I was climbing ranks
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  Speaker 2: pretty quick.
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  Speaker 4: I had earlier that year.
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  Speaker 2: The second game of the season, I pulled my hamstring
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  Speaker 2: and I was out for a little bit. I came
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  Speaker 2: back for like a week after about a two month
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  Speaker 2: you know, stanton rehab. I came back for about a
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  Speaker 2: week and July fourth, you know, that was the date
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  Speaker 2: that I got traded. But it's funny because that day
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  Speaker 2: it was my day to sit because I'm on this
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  Speaker 2: rehab program but still playing, and I remember like looking
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  Speaker 2: around the dugout and like no one was talking to me,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like like, like why am I you know,
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  Speaker 2: no one's talking to me. So I went into my
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  Speaker 2: locker and I'm never on my phone during the game.
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  Speaker 2: Like that was That's just religion for me. And I
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  Speaker 2: get a text from Alberta Mora. He goes, hey, how
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  Speaker 2: do you welcome to the team.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, shit, what's going on? What's going on?
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  Speaker 2: And I started replying back, and Joey Gallo was calling
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  Speaker 2: me and like hello, Joey's up.
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  Speaker 4: He's like, you just get traded? Like, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: So I ended up clicking in on those guys. And
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  Speaker 2: then I walked back out to the dugout and I'm
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  Speaker 2: sitting at the end of the dugout and one of
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  Speaker 2: the pitching coaches never said a word to me since
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  Speaker 2: I've been there since, down right next to me and
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  Speaker 2: the and she goes, but I tell you what I
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  Speaker 2: remember the first time I got traded.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my start, I's tew you.
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  Speaker 1: So that's how you found out, That's.
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  Speaker 4: How I found out.
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  Speaker 1: Oh shit, wow.
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  Speaker 2: July fourth, twenty fourteen, I was twenty.
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  Speaker 1: How what what were you? What was going through your head?
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  Speaker 2: I was just kind of like dizzy, you know, I'm thinking,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I've worked so hard, you know, to solidify
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  Speaker 2: spot here at you know, Double A, and and now
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  Speaker 2: I'm going off to another organization. So hop my phone,
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at you know, who's all on the squad.
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  Speaker 2: I see, you know, see Starling, see a couple of
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  Speaker 2: other guys see you, and I'm like, dude, you know
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  Speaker 2: these are stars. These are stars, Like I think I
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  Speaker 2: think Cashtrow was maybe a two time All Star by then,
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  Speaker 2: whenever you know, and and they're like, you know you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna play middle infield. I'm like, all right, I've I've
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  Speaker 2: never played second base, never played second base.
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  Speaker 5: So I was just who called you?
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  Speaker 1: Call you?
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  Speaker 2: I can't really remember who called me, but I remember
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  Speaker 2: going into a meeting with my manager with the rock Hounds,
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  Speaker 2: New Koula was his name, and he said that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the Cubs are making a strong push for young guys.
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  Speaker 2: They said that you're going to be a centerpiece for
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  Speaker 2: these young guys, and you know, don't look at this
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  Speaker 2: as a negative way, but look at it as another
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  Speaker 2: opportunity and big market group. So so after that, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, I let the dust set a little bit
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  Speaker 2: and I was ready to go.
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  Speaker 5: Bro.
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  Speaker 1: We were so excited. I remember even going into twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: We signed Joe, We're getting all the piece and place
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  Speaker 1: Lester signed. You sign right, and then I don't think
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  Speaker 1: you broke with the team that year, did you I
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  Speaker 1: did it right? You came up early April.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think KB and I we worked really hard
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  Speaker 2: that that spring.
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  Speaker 1: And you know I thought that.
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  Speaker 4: I thought that, I know, you know, there's yeah, there's
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  Speaker 4: a good shot. You know, there's a good shot.
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  Speaker 2: And and you know, both of us kind of sent
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  Speaker 2: down the last week or half week or whatever, and
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  Speaker 2: I had to work way back up.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of Starlin, you get called up, you're playing second base, right,
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  Speaker 1: What was your relationship with him? Because Starlin was my boy.
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  Speaker 1: Starlin taught me so much about my in my early
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  Speaker 1: career that I translated to my whole career. So how
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  Speaker 1: was that relationship with him? He's, like you said, a
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  Speaker 1: couple time All Star to multiple two hundred hit seasons,
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  Speaker 1: and now you're playing side by side with him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it was you know, I can't lie.
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  Speaker 2: It was kind of intimidating at first, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: once I kind of talked to him and you know,
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  Speaker 2: got to know him a little bit, we knew why
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  Speaker 2: we were there. You know, we wanted to win.
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  Speaker 4: We wanted to win.
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  Speaker 2: And as the season went on, I got to see
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  Speaker 2: Starlin go through his ups and downs, and I remember
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  Speaker 2: one specific conversation. He was like, Addie, you have to
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  Speaker 2: bet on yourself. You have to bet on yourself. You
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  Speaker 2: can't you can't expect, you know, the coaches to tell
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  Speaker 2: you anything like you you have to go out and
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  Speaker 2: you have to make make your life the way that
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  Speaker 2: you want it to be.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: So August comes around and you got to take his spot,
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  Speaker 3: right remember that August seventh, August seventh joke your day office.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So so I didn't know how all that stuff
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  Speaker 2: was going to go down. You know, I'm at that point,
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  Speaker 2: I'm kind of wet behind the ears, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: just you know.
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  Speaker 5: Where you're working hard to learn second base too, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah sure, and then you're still level one Joe's five levels,
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  Speaker 3: you're still level one, happy to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, you know, and just running off like
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  Speaker 2: the testosterone that I had, and you know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and waking up hard every single morning. You know, that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of that's kind of how I start my day.
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  Speaker 2: But but yeah, they said, they said, you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to transition you to shortstop, and like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this is unbelievable, you know, and my first thought is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, how starting going to take it you know,
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  Speaker 2: because because you never know really how that is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: how you know how they I guess, you know, look
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  Speaker 2: at things in that way. But he was a complete
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  Speaker 2: pro about it. He was complete pro about it. I say,
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  Speaker 2: from that day we probably even got a little closer,
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  Speaker 2: you know, because he knows that it's not easy. And
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  Speaker 2: I soon figured that out that you know, these guys
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  Speaker 2: don't give you an inch, you know, and it was
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  Speaker 2: nice having him there, you know, on both sides of
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  Speaker 2: the bag to you know, kind of keep me strong talk.
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  Speaker 5: Through some things.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 3: That middle infield, that infield, especially fifteen to sixteen, was
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  Speaker 3: was one historic defensively in sixteen, but that.
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  Speaker 5: Was a tight knit group as everybody was young.
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  Speaker 3: Bro, Yeah, you know, you were young, but a veteran
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  Speaker 3: in a weird way, you know, directing those guys and
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  Speaker 3: Starlin kind of the same way and taking to nice position.
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  Speaker 3: But then we took off into August sweep the Giants.
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  Speaker 3: You're playing shortstop Starlin, Starlin. I want to just hit
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  Speaker 3: on Starlin real quick. Starlin was one of the best
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  Speaker 3: teammates I ever had. He was so much a part
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  Speaker 3: of that twenty sixteen team. I know, he wasn't there
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  Speaker 3: but I said it at the parade and I still
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  Speaker 3: believe it. So many guys before us were part of
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  Speaker 3: that championship because they were part of the history, part
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  Speaker 3: of the culture put us in that position to win.
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  Speaker 1: And Starlin was that way. And I love him to
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  Speaker 1: death and the fact that he was such a pro
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  Speaker 1: because look, man, he was the face of the franchise.
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  Speaker 1: He was a multiple time All Star, the shortstop. And
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  Speaker 1: now Addie comes up and you're saying, oh, you need
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  Speaker 1: to move a second. He was like, yeah, okay, I'll
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  Speaker 1: move the second. He and he thrived. And that's the
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  Speaker 1: type of player he is. And you're saying about him
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  Speaker 1: teaching you that, And I know Soriano taught him that
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  Speaker 1: and how to play and how to work and how
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  Speaker 1: to always play. So it's just the level of the.
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  Speaker 3: Chain that it follows, right, like the next guy passes
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  Speaker 3: to the next guy. And I'm sure along your career
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  Speaker 3: you've taught someone that same thing of hey, you got
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  Speaker 3: to go out and earn earn your stripes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh for sure, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you know, being around guys that have done
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  Speaker 2: way more than I have in baseball, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: being able to pick their brains and hearing how they
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  Speaker 2: talk about their business, hear how they go about their business.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I kind of like reflect on how how
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  Speaker 2: how I live, you know, my life and you know,
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  Speaker 2: things I strive to do, and you know, talking to
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  Speaker 2: those guys, they make the world a difference, and I
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  Speaker 2: want to do the same for you know, a younger
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  Speaker 2: generation or you know someone someone in my age, maybe
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  Speaker 2: even someone older. You know, just just having conversation with
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  Speaker 2: these guys, you know, because you know, everyone has people
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  Speaker 2: that have impacted their life. And once you start communicating
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  Speaker 2: about that, I think I think that's where the real
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  Speaker 2: magic happens.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what do you think you learned from that that
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  Speaker 3: sixteen ten, fifteen sixteen team, your time here in Chicago,
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  Speaker 3: Like it's there anything that stands out looking back now
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  Speaker 3: and the things you've imparted on other guys.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think a lot has to do with, like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, being part of that team is it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: matter how you're feeling that day, especially here in Chicago
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  Speaker 2: when it's freezing, you know, you you just go out
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  Speaker 2: and both you just go out and you give it all,
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  Speaker 2: give it all you have because you know, for myself
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  Speaker 2: coming up, I really didn't feel good unless unless if
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  Speaker 2: I felt good, you know, like my body has to
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  Speaker 2: feel good, my mind has to feel good to be
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  Speaker 2: able to perform, you know. But as you know, I
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  Speaker 2: transferred over and things were just uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 4: The trade being in you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, Alabama, which is nice, which is nice because my
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  Speaker 2: family got to see you play you know, professional baseball
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  Speaker 2: for the first time. But just being able to be
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  Speaker 2: adaptive on the fly, you know, I think I think
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  Speaker 2: that has a lot to do with it.
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  Speaker 3: I remember, I remember my first impression I talked to
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  Speaker 3: We've got a similar friend. One of your high school
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  Speaker 3: coaches and I played together in high school. And he goes,
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  Speaker 3: make sure Addie does a standing back flip, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just making you do that and s ring trading. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: just freaking right there. Just y'll be landed. I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: this guy's our shortstop. All right, We're gonna grow.
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  Speaker 1: Over your explosion, man, Like all those plays in the hole.
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  Speaker 1: All I remember there was one Plane sixteen where like
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  Speaker 1: out of nowhere, you caught the ball down the left
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  Speaker 1: field line and like you got up and started showing emotion.
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  Speaker 3: It was like that epic slide was You're like signature
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  Speaker 3: that slide backhand.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just like crazy, how explosive you were. You are.
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  Speaker 1: So we go into fifteen, we lose. Right, it's your
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  Speaker 1: first year. You have an off season.
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  Speaker 5: But hold on, hold on.
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  Speaker 3: I got one thing that popped in my head. I
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  Speaker 3: want to talk about. We've talked about this. The wild
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  Speaker 3: card game at Pittsburgh. Remember that.
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  Speaker 5: Remember the ball you booted and they made bases loaded.
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  Speaker 2: That ball was one eight off the bat or one seven.
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  Speaker 5: Smoked smoke.
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  Speaker 3: But then we then that that it was the one
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  Speaker 3: out the next pitch, absolutely, because I think about Starling
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  Speaker 3: and how all that went down. You guys turned that
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  Speaker 3: freaking double play to end it and you went nothing.
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  Speaker 1: It was the loudest I've ever heard.
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  Speaker 5: That was so loud.
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  Speaker 1: I've never heard anything louder than that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I like, okay, ball gets on you, right.
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  Speaker 3: We still got a little bit of leave, but it's
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  Speaker 3: like everybody's on their feet, like let's bring about like.
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  Speaker 5: Chills right now.
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  Speaker 3: That's one of my I think we've talked about this.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's one of my or the Cubs probably
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  Speaker 3: one of the big games in the organization's history, us
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  Speaker 3: winning that game in Pittsburgh of just because of how
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  Speaker 3: we took off in the second half and finished that
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  Speaker 3: Pittsburgh was really hot and then went off obviously going
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  Speaker 3: all the way to the championship series. But tell me
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  Speaker 3: about that, that that wildcard game in your memory of
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  Speaker 3: playing d in.
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  Speaker 2: That so so that was like a kind of like
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  Speaker 2: a full circle moment for me because my debut was
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  Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh and to be back that that postseason, postseason
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  Speaker 2: in the wildcard game was like a full circle moment
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  Speaker 2: to me. But I just remember, I've never seen a
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  Speaker 2: stadium packed out like that. You know, PNC Park has
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  Speaker 2: you know the spiral, the spirals, things that are down
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  Speaker 2: left the line. Yeah, and that was packed and people
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  Speaker 2: hanging banners off that yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember all blocked out, yeah, talking so much.
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  Speaker 3: Yea, it was Pittsburgh Pirates fans were brutal in fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: And then I think it was Marte that hit that
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  Speaker 2: ball that I booted the first time at one o seven.
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  Speaker 2: Never heard of stadium go insane like that, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: holy holy shit, these guys are on top of me
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  Speaker 2: right now, just yelling in my hair. So I was,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just gathering my thoughts. And then the next play.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think it was was at the cutcheon.
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  Speaker 3: It may have to check, Yeah, we'll have to check
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  Speaker 3: the table on that, but I remember that that was
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  Speaker 3: like that was I remember.
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  Speaker 5: I remember it's silent. As soon as you call that ball,
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  Speaker 5: it was silent.
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  Speaker 2: I remember feeding it this starling and stolen just grabs it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, that was in my brain about like your opportunity
• 13:35
  Speaker 3: came right back to you and being young, things could
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: have sped up and we just had that group of
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  Speaker 3: like we just kept the guys, just kept showing up
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  Speaker 3: and like what you're talking about just giving your all.
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  Speaker 5: Things. Mistakes would have happened, But I thought that was
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  Speaker 5: such a big play in that moment.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, bro, that moment changed help shape us into the
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  Speaker 1: The house, we have our hearts broken. In fifteen to
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: your first offseason to kind of dissect what the hell
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: just happened. You're an established big leader shortstop of Chicago Hubs.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: We signed Jason Hayward that offseason. We're rolling into spring
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: training for me, I was expecting to win the World
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Series for a player a year too. I want to
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: kind of see what was going through your head. Are
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: you just trying to establish yourself more? Do you understand
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: that we are going to win the World Series that
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: year or bust. Where's your mindset going in the spring?
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: Well, at that point, I'm just pretty much you know,
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: what do we got going on? Because I'm just you know,
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: I'm happy to be there, but at the same time,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: I know I should be here, you know. And I
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: think going into that spring training was I had a
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: goal of breaking camp with these guys. I had a
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: pretty good chance of breaking camp. But I didn't know
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: the motto. I didn't know, you know what we're going
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: to be trying to stand behind and like put forth right.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: How much did Joe mean to you? Playing for Joe,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: lending him you know, all what he brought to the table,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: What did.
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: He mean to you?
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: Think he meant?
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: You know, think about ninety five percent of it, you know,
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: he he made it to where the clubhouse.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: You know, was not relaxed.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: But you know, I felt like he had a good
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: understanding of everybody. I talked to Joe, you know, personally,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: and he made me feel very welcome. He made me
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: feel comfortable. So and having his background of baseball background,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm on board with him.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: So whatever he's pushing, I'm right behind. Him.
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, who did you lean on with that?
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: That that especially fifteen we talked about starling and then
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: it's going into sixteen, like who was your main boys
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: that you hung with?
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: It was me and CJ. Is Me and CJ for
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: the most part. But as far as that, you know,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: I kind of was like a lone ranger.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: I tried to get to know everybody, you know, you know,
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: I just felt like it's kind of my own, you know,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: if that makes any sense.
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: Damn, sorry, no, no, no, Like you like you, you
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: just have you You're an observer and you're quiet and
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: always assessing the situation.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: So it's like funny now like as we were talking earlier,
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: just like you know, you're so much older in experience.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: You would sit we would sit in the dugouts. Sometimes
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: you ask me some questions and I'm like I would
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: be like, damn you saw that, or like you recognize
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: that or you pick that up and it's crazy. Jason
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Domingez is like that from the Yankees now, Like he
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: would just he sits and observes and he reminds me
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: just like you where like he'll ask you a question
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: later on and be like oh shit, like they're watching.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: So for me as a leader, like that taught me
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: even more. Like these young guys are watching it all
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: the time, So make sure your ship is you're you're
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: doing it properly with whatever you're doing, whether you're off
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: the field on the field, make sure you're you're doing
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: it right because everyone's watching.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Oh for sure. Like I think even you know, my my,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: you know the twenty fifteen season, and I think me
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: and you and KB we made a few dove smash videos.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: You know, yeah yeah, the doves smash.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: So so having all that, you know, I felt I
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: felt pretty much at home.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: You know, yeah, what what I We haven't told this
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: story yet, but as the first infielder, we've had Rizzo
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: the three to zero.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: You can't get ready?
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Do you remember that on a three oh count? So
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: I'll take you back to it. You remember this when
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I when I.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: Say it, I just get so mad.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: When it was a three oh count and you know
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: the guy wasn't swinging. I would whistle around the interview.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: Yes, I do that to this day. I still do it.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: And in the Mexican leu, I'm.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Like, hey, hey, yep, and you would we would statue
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: as an infield, so three oh count ninety nine percent
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: chance of the guy's not swinging, I'd whistle and I
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: get everyone and I would just widen up, not move.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: The pitch would be thrown and we don't move, and
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: I be looking literally at uh. It started with Starlin,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: but I was looking at start and be looking at
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Addie KB, Zoe Briscott on board, and if someone didn't
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: do it, we would all get mad. If Hobby would
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: always do it with us too, but.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: Just not getting ready.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: It got to the there was a couple of times
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: where the guy swung, but we never we never got
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: burnt on it. But it was something that the coaches hated,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: but the boys were all part of it, and it
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: made us close.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: No flinching, no flinching, you guys, It just freaking stuck.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: And if the old, if the whole info did it,
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: then we'd get.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Like a little golf Yeah, yeah, we'd give the little
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: golf clop.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: And if one guy didn't do it because they thought
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: maybe he was swinging, we'd all get pissed at that guy.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: I wanted to get that story.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: In there because I know I'm like, you're asking us
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: the young buck over there, it's like, Nope, don't get ready, Bro.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I would do it all. I mean, to this day,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I would do it.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: That's still doing it.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I love I love that about baby.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: You got to make it fun within the grind of
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: one sixty two and playing every.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: Day, and you have your own little your own little
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: you know.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: You got culture exactly things that get you through it.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Whenever it was threell, I couldn't wait for it to
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: be three. I'd be whistling right away and I'd be
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: doing it. And then sometimes Kate wouldn't want to do it,
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: but I'd need to do it.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: We give the golf class sixteen twenty one homers. I
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: think the best stat in sixteen ninety five RBIs I believe, Bro.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I mean you're hitting what six or seventh? That's how
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: deep our lineup was.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Six.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there we go.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: I'd get that in for my little bit.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: But that year you had such a monster year All Star.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: We had the starting infield on the All Star Game
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: the Chicago Cubs, where you're starting in fielder in San Diego?
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: What was that experience like in San Diego being around
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I mean your second year, but you're around all the
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: first time All Star. It was it was insane. There's
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: really so much, so much going on. I couldn't grasp
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: on to like one thing do. I'm just like who's
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: over here, who's next to me?
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: You know, just trying to talk to everyone really, But
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: it's just something that I'll never forget, like writing a
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: PJ for the first time over there, you know, the
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: family eating eating shrims on the.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Way over there, like you guys are we We had
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: two private planes to the All Star Game in twenty sixteen.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Wow, that was very We get to the playoffs, we're
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: rowing obviously when one hundred and two or three games,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: you and I I remember stunk the first like four
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: or five games in the playoffs, right, Yeah, it wasn't
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: until Game three of the CS where you took off
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: and I think Game four for me.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: Or y'all carried us. But I'll never forget.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: It was yeah, game three, right, Game three or four
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: of the CS you went off and had three or
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: four hits homer, then game four another homer.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: What what switched for you? What was that like in
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: sixteen before the World Series.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of it had to do with
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: like speaking about that that game game three. I think
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Joe came up to me at the Turtle while we're
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: taking VP, and he's like, hey.
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: How you feeling.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: You know, you's just we were grinding.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: You're putting together good at bats, but you know the
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: results aren't there. And like, Joe, I'm right there. I'm
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: right there, Like have faith, I'll show you I'm right there.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: And then and then against I think it was Blenton.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: I want to say Blent, and Blent had my number
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: all year. He had my number all year, and and
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: I did that and round a second, I looked at
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Joe and this pumped and and you know, you know,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: it's an awesome, awesome feeling.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: I love watching your show emotion too, because you're just
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: so reserved. It's the fast when you got fire. We
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: were watching highlights coming in today of some of your games,
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: and it's just like your special highlights. Bro, when you
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: get fired up, You're like, it's like st.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: But like again, these are the little things that Joe
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: did as our manager that no one knows about. Right,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: that little conversation with you was it was probably everything
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: for you because your manager's talking to you, just checking
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: in on you. Where sometimes when you when you stink.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: In baseball, you feel like you are on an island
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: by yourself. And that's probably in life, right, Like sometimes
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: you feel like you're on island. So when someone just
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: comes in, especially your manager, and just gives you that
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: little pat on the ass, like hey, we got this,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: you take off, you carried us the rest of the
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: way through that series and then onto the World Series.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: When we turned the double play against Pueague, that was
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: you right, the little chopper to you, to Hobby, to
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: me right.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: You see remiss he remained it right chest high.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Well, that ball gets hit you or in the ninth inning,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: what do you got, Just don't fuck it up.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Oh my gods, that's how I thought, you know, you know,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: And and the you know, the playing surface on all
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: these fields were just amazing, you know. And the way
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: that the ball hit I think I think I was
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: kind of used to like having like a little lip
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: right before the dirt starts in the infilled and I
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: was expecting it to be like up here, and it.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Just came like just right here.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Just Taylor made throw it and as it bro that
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: part of that regally was rocking. When we clinched to
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: go to the World Series facing Kershaw Game six, we
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: went to Clinch.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: To go to the World Series. It was like, dude,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: we had thought, at least the fans had thought we
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: had won the World Series right then and there.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: When I thought we that was a big one.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: I thought from like I was done with my career
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: after this seat that season, and we had went to
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: the CS year before and didn't you know, we got swept,
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: and so I thought that was the next That was like, Okay.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: We're going the World Series. It hadn't happened around here.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: That was to me. Now, it's just like go play right.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: There was no pressure in going to to the World Series,
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: but I felt a little bit of pressure.
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: Do you feeling you have a feel?
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: I thought Joe did a good job of keeping the
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: pressure out of the clubhouse. I never felt like we
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: had a lot of like eyes on us from a
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: you didn't feel one hundred and eight years of not
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: wait and all the oats and yeah black cats, yeah
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: and uh Bartman and all that shit.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah that creep into you at all.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Just I try my best to just block everything out,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: like literally literally I would. I would go from the
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: hotel or the apartment wherever we're at off in the car,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: drive be at the field and then that's it, like
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: like I got to come to work. Like I'm not
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: looking into social media or trying to buy into any
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: of this because you know, I, you know, I believe
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: that I was a big part of what's going to
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: be history, you know.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: So I looked at it like that, well and that group.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: I thought I had never gotten to the field so
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: early with a group I think in my whole career
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: than maybe when I was a rookie, because I loved
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: going to work. So we would show up really early
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: and hang out and just do our do our routine
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: you talked about. I remember sitting on the bench one
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: day one of your days off, and you're talking about
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: your routine you got early on with how you ran
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: through ground balls. You still have that same same routine
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: from your from your minor league days with the a'es.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: It's definitely in there. It's definitely in there. But yeah, yeah,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: now that I'm a little older, I assessed my body
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: and how it feels now and I'm retired, and I
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: do anything that's according to you know what, what I
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: know that I need to do to be ready for
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: the game.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Who who taught your who taught you your routine as
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: a big leaguer, because I mean routines always are evolving
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: as a big leaguer. But where did you solidify it
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: or when do you feel like you solidified it?
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I was just shy of five
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: years in the show, so you know, I think I
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: think I was still trying to like learn a lot
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: of a lot of new things. But it pretty much,
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: you know, just watching other players and seeing how they
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: go about their routine. You know, I'm not taking what
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: makes this guy, you know good, It's just it's just
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: I see how they go about their business. You know,
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: if they stop by the gym here for ten minutes
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: or whatever, then you know, and then they had to
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: go out and throw. I remember I talked to Chavez
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: was his name, and he was like, you know, I
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: go into the game where I feel like I don't
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: have to stretch that much. You know, I want to
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: feel like I'm like fifty to sixty five percent limber,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: and then and then once I throw pitch ten, now
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: I'm ready to go.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Jesse Chavis did it for a long time. Yeah, he
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: loved loved Shabby in Atlanta loved Coronas, two Coronas. After
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: every game, Jesse Chavas shout.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Out, So we're going to the World Series, are you
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: just like on Cloud nine or like, I know we
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: all were.
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: What what You've got all the family in Yeah?
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Bro, you're from fucking Pensacola, right, I remember you saying
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I'm from Pensacola and playing the World Series. No Florida
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: boys right here and all Florida.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: These are like the Florida men in the north part
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: of Florida. The South Florida is a whole different breed.
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: So true. It stops right after like Orlando.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's when the normal people are south and
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: then you get the Florida guys.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: James, this is gut. Yeah, so you got your whole
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: the whole family in World Series. Like what's like? What's that? Like?
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: I remember I got to go a couple of years
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: earlier with Boston. I was a freaking nervous wreck. I
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: didn't even eat lunch before game one and I was starting,
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: So it was like, what was that?
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: What was that first game for you?
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Like it's a bit of it's a bit of that. Yeah,
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: for sure, I don't know, man, it was kind of cold.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: It was kind of cold Game one, Like, I just
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: wanted to do anything that would take my mind off
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: of how nervous I was.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: So I think me and Matt Caesar we threw football.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: We threw football, you know, we both have football backgrounds,
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: and I believe that that loosened me up. And also
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: like dancing in the dugout too, you know, moonwalking, air
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: walking in the dugout kind of like loosened me up too.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Best dancer on the team by far, by far, by far,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: we move by far. Yeah, we go down three to.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: One, even though I did finish second with Dancing with
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: the Stars. That's what I gets out. Hey, give some
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: of that.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is interview is about you.
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, did get that?
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: We go down, we get swept in fifteen? Right, we
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: go down three to one and sixteen. What what were
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: you thinking? Did you think we can come back? Why
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: did you think we can come back? Like? What was
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: our starting shortstops mentality?
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: There?
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Well, like I you know, I really didn't come from
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: you know, much of anything, you know, and like I've
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: been saying, you know, just to be there was was great.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: But you know, growing up, I felt like my back
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: was always against the wall because my family has sacrificed
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: so much for me, you know, to put me in
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: a certain situation so you know, I can live.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: Out my dream.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: So being down three to one, it was somewhat a
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: familiar feeling to me. I didn't know how great of
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: a scale it was, but for me, it felt like
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: a similar feeling. And and it was just the only
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: way that you get out of it is if you
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: start biting.
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: I knew that. I knew that.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: You know, if we're gonna win, each person's gonna have
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: to take their bite. Each person have to take their bite.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to take three bytes. Riz might have
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: to take five bytes, you know. And and that's what's
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: impressing about this whole thing, because because how like built
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: up we were as individually as players like you, like
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: you two guys, Like, what's the pressure like for you
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: because you are the face of the Cubs and and
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: you're pretty much, you know, Johnny's guy, and you're making
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: the clubhouse a better a better environment, you know, Like,
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: how was it for you guys?
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was heavy for sure, right, we were expecting
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: to win we know we can. For me, I knew
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Game five was going to be the hardest game. I
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: thought we would roll in Game six like we did,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: and then Game seven will be a crap shoot. That
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: was my mentality. So after we lost, I was just
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: I remember talking to Tim Buss Bussy. I was like,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: we're not We're not fucking doing this again. Like the
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: next day we're putting Rocky on. We had like Rocky one, two, three,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: four or five, all of them on all the screens.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: We're not fucking going down like this playing Rocky music before.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Just kind of like you said, like you throw the football.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I was just trying to find something else to get
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: off of baseball. So when I did play and go,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: I was able to be locked in right and eliminate
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: all the noise, and once Game five started, that was
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: probably our hardest game, right, other than the eighth, ninth, tenth,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: and Cleveland, but you hit a twour on homer in
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: that game. We win three two right. Game five, I mean.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: That was my favorite game.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: I remember I think after Game four, I don't know
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: who it was, with my back to my lockers and
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: they came in and through their glove right like through
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: and I remember saying Joe reminded me of this that
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: I was like, hey, don't they may give their left
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: not to be and.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: You said, we've won three games in row so many
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: times this year. Yeah, He's like, why aren't we going
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: to fuck it?
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: And I hadn't got to play since Game one, so
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: I couldn't wait to start at Wrigley, you know, here
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: in Chicago. So that was like my like, wait a minute,
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: this is my dream game, Like this maybe my last
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: game I'm starting.
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: I get to catch less.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: So I was like already, like I can't wait to
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: come out with his music, Lester's music playing and do.
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: All that in front of our home fans. So it's
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: the same thing.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: Like I was nervous for sure, but I couldn't wait
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: for that moment because I was like, Okay, I'm gonna
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: get to play in a World Series game in Chicago
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: and start only game one at Wrigley in however many years.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: But where you're saying about everyone taking a bite, that's
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: what made our team so special is that without literally
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: everyone from our coaching staff from the lowest level Otis
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: and his crew to the highest level of Joe's staff
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: and all the players. Without one of those personnel, we
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: don't win. Because that's how much every single person meant
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: to someone on our team. And that's why the team
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: is so special and we'll be celebrated forever.
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: We talk about that puzzle. Everybody mattered.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Literally, like you pick out one guy from that roster and.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: I'm tagging up yeah, like petronk, Like that is something
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: that he learned in the minor leagues, right, Like how baseball?
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: You know, you look at the World Series.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: It just happened, and the guy third for Toronto doesn't
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: get this big secondary and then they you know.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: That close, man, I'm that close, you know what I mean?
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Game literally literally that's the difference between winning and losing.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: And everyone's like, oh, why don't you you know? Hardly
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: is the win? Right, So we go into game six. Now,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: you hit the two run homer in Game five, we win.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: We go to Cleveland. Game six, you put on a
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: display bomb Grand Slam, Grand Slam.
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: I was a freaking bomb.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: World Series Grand Slam. That year you led I don't
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: want to get this thirteen thirteen RB eyes.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: You led the team with thirteen RB eyes in the postseason.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: But that year, during the regular season, you led the
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: league in bases loaded hits. You had nine hits with
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: twenty four rbiys of the basis loaded.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: You know that.
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, all major League baseball.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I'm man in a big spot. In Game six, I
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: think we were up maybe three nothing or four nothing
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: at the time you hit a granny. I think you
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: put up a seven nothing. You know how big that was?
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: What was going like that moment, World Series Grand Slam
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: were basically on our way to go into Game seven,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: like floating around the bases, well yeah.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I couldn't fill my legs. I just
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: remember just just screaming, man, kind of rounding first base
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: and you know, kind of like side eyeing the dugout.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: To see if they're a HiPE.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Of course they're hive like, and then rounding first base,
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: I see I see Lindor, I see Kipness, I see Lindor,
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: and I'm just yelling, like right in front of him, dude,
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: and like emotions like it was just so sweet, man,
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: it was so sweet. And I remember I remember like
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: stepping on third base, I heard like a chime. It
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: said ding, it said ding, And I was like, dude,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: that was sweet. That was really sweet. After I get
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: done slapping hands with everybody, I go back to that moment.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: I'm like and like I'm praying and I'm looking up
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: at the Lord and I hear like a Dan again.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: I'm like, dude, that's not the last thing I'm going
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: to hear tonight or this series. That's not the last thing.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: And I would hear that dan throughout the rest of
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: you know, from six to seven. Wow, it's pretty cool. Wow,
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: really cool. We get what a moment. We win game six, right,
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: we go to game seven. The games is not un
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: till eight o'clock. So that night took forever or that
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: day to get down to k forever for me.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: I remember, were you part of the Mario Kart crew?
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: I was.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: I was literally like a locker straight looking straight on everyone.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: We're playing Mario Kart pre games.
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: Tony is the theme of that team.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: We in game seven a handful of us I know
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: it is Deck's KB and then the fourth player was
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: usually Roving. We played Mario Kart because in Cleveland they
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: had a shout out to Willie. He had an arcade
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: game system there. We all had Mario Kart playing and
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: it was that's what we did before games. We didn't
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: go out. I didn't go out one time for VP
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: in the World Series because the soap opera of the
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: media and everything. I just mined my own, played Mario
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Kart until about fifty minutes before the game, took a shower,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: went down to the cage, got ready to go. That's
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: how I locked in. How did you lock in for
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: that game? Other than seeing me dance naked, It's not
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: about me.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: I would just say. I would just say, you know,
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: I pretty much was just kind of in my locker.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: You know, I would throw football. I would throw football
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: for a little bit. I think I did take VP.
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: I tried to take a hot shower. The showers weren't working,
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: that's right, the showers were cold.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they iced us, They tried iceing us. I remember
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: wearing Wally out about that.
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: I didn't remember that.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've never seen some shit like that. And then
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: I started playing in Mexico.
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: It happens all the time.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it was pretty much was you know, football,
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: you know, just watching the guys, listening to music and
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: just being in my locker whetherever I was facing out
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: or facing in, just locking in and visualizing, you know,
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: visualizing cit scenarios and all that stuff.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: So we we were rolling right, we're winning. Let's just
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: get right to ra hits that home run. What was
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: going through your head there? Take us through that, and
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: then take us to the rain delay and how you
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: felt with all that.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So so I remember I was like, there's no
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: fucking way, There's no fucking way. There's two people on, like,
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: there's the fucking way, Chapman, dude, Like I think it
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: was like a low outside fastball and just you know whatever,
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: and home ern. I'm like, dude, you gotta be fucking
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: kidding me right now there there is literally no way.
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: And and and.
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: Then that's the second separate stadium.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, first to Pittsburgh. Yeah, you bron the bronze there.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember that. And and I'm just like, dude,
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: how does this even happen? Like you you can't write this.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: And then and then would go into the delay, and
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: I kind of remember just everyone like.
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: Kind of like going throwing the own way.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: I already was in the gym because it wasn't far
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: from where like we had to walk out right there.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: And I remember being in the squad rack on like
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: a medicine ball and uh. And I remember Jay Hey
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: like pull pulling, pulling people into the gym, and he
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: said what I had to say to say. And you know,
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: during that moment, like everyone everyone's kind of filling down.
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: I don't I mean, I don't care who you are.
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: Everyone's filling down.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Like everyone were ghosts. We were ghosts. And that ninth inning,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: before that rain delay, I remember looking around, everyone was
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: white as a ghost. Like the fact that Chapman, Ali
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: said is probably in every episode. The fact that Chapman
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: got through that ninth inning and didn't give it up
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: is the unsung moment.
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: Well, Meggi came in and started spinning a ton and
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: he dealt.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: I remember that. I read like catching. I came out
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: of the game and Meggie came in and like just
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: changed the way Chappie was pitched and the whole thing.
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: He like, I thought that was a big piece.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: Come back out after that too, like strapped it on.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: You know, that's you know, that's hard, he's gas, he's thrown.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: He had an eight out saving game five. He was
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: in there in game six, probably a little too long.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: And he comes in game seven and leaves it on
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: the line. But during the during the speech. What do
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: you remember most during it? We're all we're all coming
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: together in that moment.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: It's just Jay Hay's words. Man.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: You know, like like you hear when you hear Jay speak,
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: like you listen because because you're not going to meet
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: anybody who's as real as Jay.
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: You know, he's he's.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Been around the block, you know, he he knows some people,
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: he knows his stuff, and and when he talks like
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: there's a calmness about him, but there's also you know,
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: he's holding you accountable, but he's also holding himself accountable,
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: and he expects the best out of you, just like
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: you Rozzie and Johnny Leinster, they'll get in your ass,
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, j that was that was such an epic,
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: epic kind of call because like you said that, that's
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: what I remember is Jay Hay doesn't speak a lot, right,
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: and when he does, you listen. And when he called
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: him me and I'm like, oh, I can't wait to
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: hear what this man has to say, because you know
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: he doesn't do that a whole lot. You know, he'll
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: usually do it in private. But I remember him talking
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: about how many games we won and how we played
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: for each other and like no other stuff.
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: And we walked out of that gym and that weight.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Room and I felt like it was it's coming to
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: me now the speech that Kevin O'shay gave in The
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Little Giants about one time.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: I walked out of that that weight room feeling like
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: like the Little Giants like, yeah, we can do this
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: one time.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: And obviously we go to win. What what did winning
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: do for you in your life? What did it teach you?
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: How did you celebrate? Who did you think of when
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: we won? Like take us through all of it.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Just ever since I was a kid man, I had
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: a dream of winning the World Series.
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: I remember were like playing out scenarios in my head
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: and playing ball on the wall and you know, I'm
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: playing for Boston and you know I have no more
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: on first and you know this guy on second. I
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: got on third and you know we're down two runs,
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: three runs, and I got to hit a grand slam,
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: you know, to you know, but I think I think
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: what what came out most of it was was the
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: little kid in me, you know, was so proud. I
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: was so proud of myself of how hard I worked. Uh,
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: the adversity that I overcame the sacrifice that it took
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: to get there. I'm I'm a family guy, and and
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: to be away from my family was was heartbreaking, you know.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: But to have the family there, you know, at the
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: World Series, it's like, dude, this is the greatest feeling ever.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's I mean it changes all of our lives.
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: And you are You've you've gone on to play in Korea,
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: to play in Mexico. What did you take being a
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: champion being overseas? I can imagine a lot of the
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Koreans they love baseball asking about what sixteen was like
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: playing in mex So, I can imagine what was that like?
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Talking about that now ten years later, still like it's
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: like it's yesterday. So how talking to people about it?
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: And also like your career are you talking earlier? Had
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: five and a half years in the show, and then
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: you go through some adversity personally having to carry that
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: on to I still want to play baseball.
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: I'm a really good baseball player. Like you, You've.
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: Run the gamut from first rounder to World Series champion
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: to a lot of adversity to continue to play baseball
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: and your family, Like, like you've learned a lot of lessons,
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: like I think our viewers need to know, like how
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: how you overcome the greatness, the darkness, the darkness. And
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: then back to Bro, You've got four kids and like
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: you had aged a bit and you're you're still playing baseball.
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: Like that's that's spectacular and.
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: A lot of a lot of people, I think give
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: up when things the road gets hard or they hit
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: some adversity like you did. Bro, you look happier you
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: walked in that room. Bro, I had seen you smile
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: that big. It lit me up.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think it was a lot about
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: how I was raised. You know, growing up I had
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: I had loving parents that that took care of me.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: That didn't have much, but they've but they've always sacrificed
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: for my better future. I think that's what That's what
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: kind of like I tapped into to get me over
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: those you know, hurdles. But when guys asked me about
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: the twenty sixteen team, man like like I may have
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: the worst day and they asked me about that, and
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: then I'm just smiling, ear to ear winning change.
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: We want to do this, That's why we want to
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: do this.
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: Now everybody's heard everybody's story and you know, this is
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: so much fun for us, and like getting back here
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: and celebrating with the boys is like we we've been
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: playing this for a little while, and it's like this
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: is this is our kind of to get back and
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: just tell all the stories and relive this stuff because
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: we it's family.
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: We're all family forever forever.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Well winning does do you have any stories either on
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: field off field that you remember that it's just like
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: you laugh about favorite game.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: Moment, like yeah, yeah, so after game game five, we're
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: still home.
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: I think we fly out November first.
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: I want to say, yeah, after we wait Tricker Treating?
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, right, it was. It was Halloween. It was Halloween, Jill,
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: let's go Tricker Treating. We flew out that night.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he said, go trick or treat. So I remember
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: I had a costume. I had a Raphael. I was
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: Raphael and I was on the Ninja Turtle Ninja Turtles.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: I actually was on this street and one of my
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: favorite places to go to was Sluggers. Yeah, and uh
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: and me and my buds we rolled over to Sluggers
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: and I asked the owner, Rich, can I take some
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: hacks in the cage no hacks in the cage, and
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: I was in the cage for two hours.
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: I was in the cage for two hours.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: Were intoxicated in my Ninja turtlesya plays?
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah that's sick, Branny. No ship did did? People were
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: fans there? Did they know as you?
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so I'm you know, I don't really wait
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: in the line, but but there was a little line there,
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: and I had my mask on, but I guess people
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: knew me from my frame, you know. I guess short
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: and stocky and yeah, good looking. Yeah, the green skin
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: and everything and uh and uh kind of kind of
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: went up and then the cages were upstairs and they're
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: like that is that him?
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: Like, yeah, I'm taking taking bad practice two hours.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: After game after this, but this is the testament. And
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: I'm happy you share that because that's how loose our
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: team was, and that the fact that our second year
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: shortstop felt comfortable enough to.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: Go and do that, Because when you go and do that,
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: there's stuff in your head.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: We're like, well, if this gets out one of my teammates,
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: but no, because he didn't worry about that, because if
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: that did get out, we'd be like, oh fuck, yeah,
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: why didn't you invite us, right, and I'm kind of
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: pissed it in about us, But uh, you were trick
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: or treating.
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: I was sure you have the kids. I was over
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: with Dead Demp's house trick or treating.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: But those are the things where like, that's how loose
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: our team was. We're down three to one, we.
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: Win the biggest game of the series at the point
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: at that time, we go trick or treat and you
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: go to sluggers and you're hitting the cage. That's and
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: then amazing and then a Grand Slam next game.
• 47:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's will I think.
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: I think it's one of the most important things that
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: I learned in my career about I came up in
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: a time where veterans just hammered the young guys, right, hammered, hammered,
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: And so the fact we had such a young group
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: that felt comfortable to be themselves in their own skin,
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: I thought that was a big part of our group.
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: And something that that taught me.
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: Is like, no, no, we need KB Schwarbert, Addy Hobby,
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: we need all these guys out more, all these guys
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: to feel comfortable to be here, to be themselves, because
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: we're gonna get the best out of them.
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: And yeah, I love telling these stories.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: Ten years later, we are World Series Reunion, expecting winners.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: Clubs are gonna be good again this year. Addie, I'm
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: happy for you man. You seem like you're in a
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: great place. Thank you for sitting down with us. We
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: love you. We're champions forever. No one can take that away.
• 48:11
  Speaker 5: Thanks for my ring Broye.
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: I appreciate you, guys.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: And you know, one thing that I've always got from
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: that group is no matter what we're.
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: Good, we are. That's right, no matter what. Good stuff,
• 48:25
  Speaker 5: good stuff, good stuff.
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: A