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Chris Davis joins the show to discuss the O's Hall of Fame honor · Birdland Territory

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  Speaker 1: Aos fans welcome in a special edition of Birdland Territory
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  Speaker 1: Steve tim Brad and Chris Davis today as it's a
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  Speaker 1: big week in Birdland this weekend. Chris, along with Storm
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  Speaker 1: Davis and the late Scout Jim Russo, going to be
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  Speaker 1: inducted into the Orioles Hall of Fame. The big luncheon
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  Speaker 1: will be Friday the oriel Advocates and the ceremony on
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  Speaker 1: field ahead of the Orioles Phillies game Saturday night. Oriols
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  Speaker 1: dot com they get tickets for either the luncheon or
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  Speaker 1: the game or both, and we can't wait to see
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  Speaker 1: our friend Chris Davis in town this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Chris, you know what.
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  Speaker 3: A career you had in Birdland, man.
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  Speaker 1: You were crush Davis for all those years, and the
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  Speaker 1: oil fans couldn't wait to see it hit one out.
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  Speaker 1: We know there were struggles at the end, went through
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  Speaker 1: so much ups and downs. You know when you think
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  Speaker 1: about this on or now and being back this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: what thoughts come to mind a little bit of relief.
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  Speaker 2: To be honest with you, I was super excited when
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  Speaker 2: when Bill called me, I was actually on the on
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  Speaker 2: the field on a softball field, watching or coaching my
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  Speaker 2: my two youngest, and we all know Bill Stetka is
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  Speaker 2: the Oils alumni guy, but we know him as the
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  Speaker 2: kind of the Hall of Fame guy too. So when
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  Speaker 2: he called me, I was like, is it my turn?
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  Speaker 2: Is it Buck? Who's it gonna be? So, man, I
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  Speaker 2: was super excited. You know, obviously there were struggles at
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  Speaker 2: the end, but when I really think back to the
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  Speaker 2: first you know, five or six years there, and the
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  Speaker 2: group of guys that we had, and just I think
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  Speaker 2: I said it to Oda yesterday, being a part of
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  Speaker 2: such a storied franchise and being able to bring winning
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  Speaker 2: baseball back to that franchise meant a great deal. And
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  Speaker 2: to do it with with good dudes, with good human beings. Man,
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  Speaker 2: it just it meant a lot to me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Chris, Man, I think back to, you know, coming
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  Speaker 4: over to Baltimore. I don't think I ever even told
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  Speaker 4: you this, but you were the one that helped really
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  Speaker 4: made me feel comfortable, just you know, spending times in
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  Speaker 4: the hot tubs and the cole tubs and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: When when you came over to Baltimore, was there anybody
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  Speaker 4: that kind of stood out to you that kind of
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  Speaker 4: helped you feel comfortable coming to a new organization.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I knew Wheedy. I played with Weeders in high
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  Speaker 2: school all American games, so like we we kind of
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  Speaker 2: knew each other. And by that time, I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: had spent parts of three years in the Big League,
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  Speaker 2: so I knew I knew of Mark Akus. We all
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  Speaker 2: know Nikki. He doesn't talk a ton and he definitely
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  Speaker 2: doesn't talk between the lines. But I was familiar with
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  Speaker 2: some of the guys. I knew JJ a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: But but one of the things I think that helped
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  Speaker 2: me so much, Brad was having so many guys from
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  Speaker 2: the Rangers organization the next year. So, I mean, getting
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  Speaker 2: traded in the middle of the season's kind of it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of a weird deal because you get thrown right
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  Speaker 2: into the middle of the mix and uh, and you
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  Speaker 2: kind of have to find your way. And for me,
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  Speaker 2: I was trying to, you know, establish myself as an
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  Speaker 2: everyday player, so that was kind of at the forefront
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  Speaker 2: of my mind. But I I think really the biggest
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  Speaker 2: thing that helped me was having Ode Tommy and I
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  Speaker 2: got traded with tom too, so we kind of both
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  Speaker 2: went through that journey together. But it was just such
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  Speaker 2: a good group of guys. You know, this Brad like
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  Speaker 2: it was. It was a lot of There were a
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  Speaker 2: lot of guys on that team that had been kind
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  Speaker 2: of cast excuse me, cast off. They had been released
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  Speaker 2: or signed, claimed off waivers, or traded, and I think
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  Speaker 2: that really helped us kind of form an identity as
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  Speaker 2: a team and helped us win. To be honest with.
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  Speaker 5: You, Chris, you mentioned how special it was to bring
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  Speaker 5: winning back to Baltimore. You got traded in twenty eleven
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  Speaker 5: and twenty twelve, the team just had fourteen consecutive losing
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  Speaker 5: seasons to get back to the playoffs and win that
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  Speaker 5: first ever wildcard game against the Rangers the Alds. It
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  Speaker 5: was a madhouse against the Yankees. Just how special of
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  Speaker 5: a season was twenty twelve for you and the organization?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was huge. It was huge for me personally
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  Speaker 2: because it was the first time that I had really
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  Speaker 2: kind of come into my own. I think I led
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  Speaker 2: the team at home runs that year. I hit thirty
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  Speaker 2: home runs in the big leagues for the first time,
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  Speaker 2: which was a big deal to me. But I think
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  Speaker 2: the coolest thing to your point about the all the
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  Speaker 2: play in game or whatever, they call it the wild
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  Speaker 2: Card Game. We had like seven or eight dudes from
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  Speaker 2: that Rangers team that went to the World Series the
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  Speaker 2: year before, or that was in that organization, and we
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  Speaker 2: beat them on their own field, and I thought that
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  Speaker 2: was so cool. I played bright field because Nikki got
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  Speaker 2: hit by CC and and messas Rissa. But I remember
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  Speaker 2: standing in the in the stadium in the ballpark in Arlington,
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  Speaker 2: which is where you know, I grew up watching Rangers games,
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  Speaker 2: and and just be feeling so proud to be a
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  Speaker 2: part of of such a like a story and a
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  Speaker 2: franchise that had such a rich history, that has so
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  Speaker 2: many Hall of famers, that had so many icons in
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  Speaker 2: the game of baseball. I remember standing in right field
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  Speaker 2: and being like, yes, like this is awesome, and it
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  Speaker 2: was just a good group of dudes. Man. I can't,
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  Speaker 2: I can't, you know, overemphasize that like, I can't. I
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  Speaker 2: can't emphasize that enough. There. Those guys were just like
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  Speaker 2: we were brothers, Brad, You're part of it, man. Like
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  Speaker 2: we did stupid stuff like crab races for fantasy football
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  Speaker 2: picks and team dinners, and I mean we all had
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  Speaker 2: kids together and our wives were all closed it was
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  Speaker 2: a It was just such a special group man.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Davis coming back to Baltimore this weekend for the
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  Speaker 1: Oriol Hall of Fame, the Oriol Advocates lunch and Friday
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  Speaker 1: on Field Ceremony Saturday Storm Davis no relation coming back
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  Speaker 1: part of the nineteen eighty three World Series champs. He
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  Speaker 1: had a big role when the Oriols last wanted. And
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  Speaker 1: Jim Russo, the late scout and executive for the Oriols,
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  Speaker 1: came from Saint Louis when the team came in fifty four,
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  Speaker 1: stayed for over thirty years. This guy signed Jim Palmer,
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  Speaker 1: Dave Johnson, the second Basement boot Pal and many others
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  Speaker 1: and was part of scouting the Dodgers for the sweep
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  Speaker 1: in sixty six. A lot of people credit Jim Russo
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  Speaker 1: for the advanced reports that helped the Orioles sweep the Dodgers. So, Chris,
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned that twenty twelve season twenty thirteen is a
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe when Crush Davis was really born set
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  Speaker 1: single season records for the Orioles to this day that
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  Speaker 1: stand up. Fifty three homers, one hundred and thirty eight rebies,
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  Speaker 1: ninety six extra base hits. I remember the start of
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  Speaker 1: the year. I've never seen a player of sixteen RBIs
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  Speaker 1: in four games to start the year as you did.
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  Speaker 1: Can you remember did it seemed like a beach ball
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  Speaker 1: the base at that time?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? It did, And I remember getting seeing The game
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  Speaker 2: that I remember the most is the opening day game
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  Speaker 2: in Baltimore. And opening days always special. The stadium's always packed,
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  Speaker 2: and I mean, obviously I have a soft spot for
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  Speaker 2: Camoy Yards and the fan base, but I remember seeing
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  Speaker 2: a stat I was sitting in the clubhouse before the
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  Speaker 2: game started that day and I had more RBIs than
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  Speaker 2: like a couple of teams combined, and I'm like, this
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  Speaker 2: is a good start to the season. And I think
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  Speaker 2: probably the thing that I remember the most, and I
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  Speaker 2: still get chills when I think about it, is hitting
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  Speaker 2: the Grand Slam to put us ahead off of Tyler Robertson.
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  Speaker 2: And the reason why I remember it the most is
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  Speaker 2: I remember going around the bases and just hearing the
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  Speaker 2: crowd cheer and like really feeling the energy of the
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  Speaker 2: stadium for the first time. I got a little taste
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  Speaker 2: of that the year before in the playoffs when we
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  Speaker 2: played the Yankees, Tim and so I knew what it
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  Speaker 2: could be. But I remember going back at looking at
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  Speaker 2: the video and Nate Mcloth standing on third base going
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  Speaker 2: back to the bag and had his hands on his
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  Speaker 2: head and he was saying, oh my god. I thought
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  Speaker 2: it was hilarious. But we had a conversation after the game.
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  Speaker 2: He was like, do you realize how ridiculous this start is?
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, yeah, I'm really trying not to
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  Speaker 2: think about it. I'm really trying not to talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just trying to keep going. So it was definitely
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  Speaker 2: the hottest I've ever been to start a season, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm just glad that I had guys shared with Manny
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  Speaker 2: hit like ninety six or ninety eight doubles that year,
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  Speaker 2: fifty something, I don't remember. He had an insane amount
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  Speaker 2: of doubles. So he was always on base Jones and
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  Speaker 2: I used to joke like, man, he would get on
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  Speaker 2: second and Jones he would roll over and get him
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  Speaker 2: over and I just drive him in. So it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: just me. I mean, obviously was extremely hot, but man,
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  Speaker 2: I had a lot of guys. There was a lot
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  Speaker 2: of traffic on bases and on the bases, and it
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  Speaker 2: was it was just really cool to be a part
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  Speaker 2: of that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously, I mean on the on field stuff speaks
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  Speaker 4: for itself, unbelievable seasons, but I didn't I want to
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  Speaker 4: give you a chance to kind of talk about the
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  Speaker 4: extremely generous gift you and Jill gave to the hospital there,
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  Speaker 4: and is there a backstory to it, and like your
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  Speaker 4: relationship with the hospitals and everything. I just want to
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  Speaker 4: give you a chance to kind of to talk about
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  Speaker 4: that a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: No, I appreciate that. Sorry, I appreciate that. There is
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  Speaker 2: so b rob Brian Roberts took me to the children's
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  Speaker 2: hospital for the first time. I can't even remember what
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  Speaker 2: year it was, maybe twenty twelve, but I just remember
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  Speaker 2: him asking, you want to go to the children's Children's Hospital.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of something that you know, is means a
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  Speaker 2: lot to me and Diana and I think it'd be
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  Speaker 2: cool for you to experience. And so I said, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: for sure, and uh, and so I went to the hospital.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean, if if you've ever been in a
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  Speaker 2: in a an environment where kids are going through the
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  Speaker 2: things that they're going through and you get to be
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  Speaker 2: around them, it's it's hard not to be impacted by that.
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  Speaker 2: And it's it's really hard not to want to get
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  Speaker 2: involved in to try to help those people, especially when
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  Speaker 2: you start to talk to some of the parents and
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  Speaker 2: you start to understand understand some of the struggles that
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  Speaker 2: they're going through and just the time commitment that it
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  Speaker 2: takes for them to be there. So with Jill having
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  Speaker 2: a nursing background, it was an easy guess for us,
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  Speaker 2: and I think really the more we more time we
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  Speaker 2: spent there, the more we really wanted to get involved.
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  Speaker 2: We just didn't know what that looked like. And so
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  Speaker 2: I basically asked Steven Zen, Who's who's one of the
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  Speaker 2: doctors that will actually see this week when we go
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  Speaker 2: up there. I just asked him. I was like, what,
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  Speaker 2: y'all's the biggest need here? And he talked about the
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  Speaker 2: cath lab and how much he needed. That's kind of
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  Speaker 2: where it went, you know, and I didn't I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know at the time that it was going to be
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  Speaker 2: as big of a deal as it was because it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't about that. But it's something that still means a
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  Speaker 2: lot to us. I mean, we still talk to him
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  Speaker 2: on a pretty regular basis and are still going to
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  Speaker 2: be involved, you know, for the rest of our lives.
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to see one of the other guys on
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  Speaker 2: the team now start to get involved because it is
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  Speaker 2: such a unique relationship. And so maybe that's a conversation
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  Speaker 2: I'll have with somebody when I go up there. It's awesome.
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  Speaker 5: That's awesome stuff, Chris, And you know, a lot of
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  Speaker 5: the guys, especially of that era, really gave back to
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  Speaker 5: the city. And Chris, you've mentioned multiple times now just
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  Speaker 5: how good of a group of guys it was. And
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  Speaker 5: you think of twenty twelve through sixteen, especially winning the
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  Speaker 5: most games in the American League, but it just seemed
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  Speaker 5: like you guys were having so much fun, right like
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  Speaker 5: with all the postgame pies and just all the shenanigans
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  Speaker 5: going on, Like it just seemed like such a special
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  Speaker 5: blend of extremely talented players but also just really good
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  Speaker 5: dudes that I think this city really embraced because of that.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt, no doubt. That's probably one of the things
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  Speaker 2: that I hear the most about that group of guys
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  Speaker 2: from fans is that they we we were relatable, They
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  Speaker 2: enjoyed coming to the field because we really they seem
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  Speaker 2: they seem we really seemed like we cared about each other.
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  Speaker 2: Because we did. I remember the pie celebration was awesome
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  Speaker 2: to me. Steve Pierce run that, by the way, I
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  Speaker 2: just want to I'm gonna I'm gonna throw him under
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  Speaker 2: the now Jonesy busted his lip and then they were like,
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  Speaker 2: you can't have pies anymore because we're like, he's a
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  Speaker 2: grown man. It's just a bust let us have. But
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  Speaker 2: but it was just a good group of guys, Like
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  Speaker 2: I mean, seriously, we we hung out together off the field.
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  Speaker 2: After I pitched in Boston, I always wanted to go
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  Speaker 2: to a bullpen dinner and Brocky you know bullpen dinners
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  Speaker 2: about but I was never body because I wasn't a
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  Speaker 2: part of the bullpen. And I remember after I pitched
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  Speaker 2: in Boston, I told Jim Johnson on the flat back home,
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  Speaker 2: I said, Hey, I'm going to bullpen dinner now, dude.
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  Speaker 2: And so I went to the He's like, you're good,
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  Speaker 2: You're good, you go to bull So we went out
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  Speaker 2: to we went. I went out to a bullpen dinner
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  Speaker 2: uh in Anaheim, and we had a great time. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, we should always do we should do this,
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  Speaker 2: Like it's funny because position players don't hang out as
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  Speaker 2: much as pitchers do. And so for a while, O Day,
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  Speaker 2: O Day and I were obviously really close. We I
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  Speaker 2: was like the only position player that would hang out
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  Speaker 2: with the pitchers. But we just had a good group
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  Speaker 2: of guys that enjoyed being around each other. We wore
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  Speaker 2: each other out, we gave each other a hard time,
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  Speaker 2: but we really cared about each other, and I think
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  Speaker 2: that really gives you a good on field product because
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  Speaker 2: you have that chemistry when when things get tough. Man,
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  Speaker 2: we had some rough stretches, but I think knowing that
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  Speaker 2: we had each other's back and knowing that we cared
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  Speaker 2: about each other helped us to get out of those
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  Speaker 2: rough stretches.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Chris, you bring up the relief appearance that you
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  Speaker 5: had in Boston, which is insane two innings Like now
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  Speaker 5: that's out the window with this new extra innings for
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  Speaker 5: Man and the only time you see position players it's
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  Speaker 5: the team's getting killed one way or another. Just what
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  Speaker 5: was it like getting that, you know, Buck coming up
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  Speaker 5: to you just experience like did you go in with
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  Speaker 5: a lot of confidence that you could you know, come
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  Speaker 5: through there like absolutely not.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pitched in six years and I wasn't that good.
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  Speaker 2: When I pitched in college man, so I always said,
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  Speaker 2: you know, coming up for some teams that looked at me,
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  Speaker 2: I think out of high school and out of college
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  Speaker 2: as a picture. But I was a thrower. But I'm
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  Speaker 2: thankful that I had Skip Johnson as a college coach
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  Speaker 2: because he's one of the best pitching coaches in the country.
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  Speaker 2: And I was literally like, okay, keep your front side closed,
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  Speaker 2: like don't fly, like didn't try, and I'm doing it.
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  Speaker 2: I think the fact that I'm so naive at times
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  Speaker 2: really played into my favor because I was I remember
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  Speaker 2: woman up in the bullpen and Bill Castro was our
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  Speaker 2: bullpen coach, and he's like, all right, what do you got?
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  Speaker 2: And my ball, naturally, I think just for my arm
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  Speaker 2: slot has a has a little sink. That's probably why
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  Speaker 2: I didn't stay at third base very long. And Bill
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  Speaker 2: Castro was like okay, and then I threw a slider
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  Speaker 2: and he's like, no, that's not gonna work. What else
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  Speaker 2: you got? And I was like, I threw a split
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  Speaker 2: because I can't throw a change up and he's like,
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  Speaker 2: and I threw it. He's like, okay, go get a kid,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like that's it, Like.
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  Speaker 4: It was.
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  Speaker 2: It was fun. Looking back on it, I realized how
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  Speaker 2: crazy it was. I don't think I think having such
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  Speaker 2: a bad day at the plate. I was just kind
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  Speaker 2: of pissed off, you know, And I'm like, well, if
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  Speaker 2: you know, if it's I'm either going to be the
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  Speaker 2: complete goat or I'm something great is gonna happen. And
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  Speaker 2: thankfully Jonesy cut that ball off in the outfield and
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  Speaker 2: made an unbelievable play to throw it to JJ, and
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  Speaker 2: JJ threw through tweed and that we got Marlon Bird
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  Speaker 2: out at home or else. I'm like, we would have
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  Speaker 2: never had the designated It's crazy, man. I will say this,
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  Speaker 2: It gave me a greater appreciation for being in the
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  Speaker 2: center of the diamond with nobody else around you. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: this is a very very lonely play. At least when
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  Speaker 2: you're in the batter's box you got a couple of
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  Speaker 2: people there, but man, you are in the center of
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  Speaker 2: the diamond and you're holding ball, so it's like everybody's
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  Speaker 2: watching you. But it was fun. Man. I give Buck
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  Speaker 2: a lot of credit for making that call because that
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  Speaker 2: really changed our season. I mean, we had we won
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  Speaker 2: that series, we won the next series, and we kind
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  Speaker 2: of started rolling, and so that was a that was
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  Speaker 2: a big game for us to win, but man, it
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  Speaker 2: was crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Spent some more time with Chris Davis, who's headed to
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  Speaker 1: the oriol Hall of Fame this weekend along with Storm
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  Speaker 1: Davis and Jim Russo.
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  Speaker 3: And you can get.
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  Speaker 1: Tickets for Fridays luncheon or Saturday's game in ceremony go
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: to Oriols dot com. The oil Advocates put on a
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: great luncheon every year for the Hall of Famers, and
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: the ceremony will be special Saturday. A lot of your
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: teammates are coming back, Chris, you noted a few. I
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: think Brad's going to be in town and some of
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: those guys.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: And so let's go.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Back to when you are traded to the Orioles from
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: the Rangers in Trade Deadline twenty eleven. You and Tommy Hunter,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: your good buddy for Koji Yuohara. Some people remember that
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: trade worked out very well for in Birdland. You've told
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: the story before that the two of you had different
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: reactions to that trade.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: Is that correct?
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: That is we were in two different places, and Tommy
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: had started the World Series game the year before, and
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: I thought was very much in the mix for the Rangers,
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: who ended up going back to the World Series again.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: We're in twenty ten. I was on the taxi squad,
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: which basically means I was suiting up to sit there
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: and watch the game, but I wasn't available unless somebody
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: got hurt or something like that happened. So I was
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: grateful to be there and to get to experience that environment,
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: but it was really hard to sit there and watch
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: the team that you had been with for the last
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: couple of years that you had had some success with
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: go out and compete in the World Series and not
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: get a chance to be a part of that. So
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: I was ready to get out of there. I think
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: just being a part of that organization, and I'm extremely
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: grateful to the Texas Rangers for drafting me and giving
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: me the opportunity to play in the big leagues. But
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: I think the fact that the farm system was so
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: loaded and that there were so many guys there was
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: kind of a log jam at first base, and so
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: I was ready to get out of there. I was
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: willing to do anything, play the outfield, play third base.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: They signed Beltrade the off season of twenty ten, Going
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: into twenty eleven, season, so there wasn't really a place
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: for me. So I was fired up when I got traded.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: We were in Toronto. I'll never forget. I was sitting
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: in my hotel room and Scott Boris called me and
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: was like, you got traded, and I was like, where
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: am I going? And before we knew it was BALTI
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: before I knew it was Baltimore, it was either San
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Diego or Baltimore. And San Diego had shown interest in
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: spring training for potentially I think it was Heath Bell
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: was their closer. The Rangers were trying to get a
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: vacuum bul piece, and so I really thought it was
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: going to be San Diego. And he said You're going
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: to Baltimore and I was like Baltimore. And he's like, yeah,
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: they traded you. They traded for you and Tommy for
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Coach u Are And I was like, man, Coachy is
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: an all star, Like he's there, and I'm like, okay,
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: who's in Baltimore? Buck Kirby, I'm like, okay, I know
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Weedy And I'm like, sweet, I'm gonna get a chance
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: to play, Like I'm gonna get a chance to play
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: every day. And so I was super fired up. I
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: think Tommy was was discouraged because I think he was
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: kind of blindsided by it. But but yeah, I mean
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: it worked out really well for both of us because
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Tommy was coming. God, I think he had gotten injured
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: and they had put him in the bullpen, but he
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: didn't really have a specific role, and he was huge
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: for us out of the bullpen in Baltimore, as you
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: guys know. But yeah, I was fired up. Man. I
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: just wanted to play baseball and and I didn't know
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: a ton about the Oils organization other than Cal and
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Brady and you know, the nostalgia of Candy Yards. But
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: but I was. I was just so fired up when
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: I got up there, and I'm thankful that we won.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Uh if y'all remember to kind of close out the
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: twenty eleven season and then and then start up to
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: continue to win for the next few years. So I
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: was just I was just super excited.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Chris, was there anything like when you came over
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: to Baltimore? Was it just was it just the fact
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: of getting a shot to play every day, or was
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: it a certain coach or was it just like what
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: was the what helped you become the player you you
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: obviously were in Texas.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: It just didn't happen there.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: But like, what caused that to kind of just kind of,
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: you know, happened when you got to Baltimore.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was a number of things. I
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: think getting away from home, Like I grew up in
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: East Texas, I grew up a Rangers fan. There, there
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: was a lot of pressure that I put on myself.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: But I also had a ton of family and friends
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: that were always there and I'm thankful for them. But
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: it just, as you know, it adds another dynamic, and
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: it adds another element to kind of an already stressful situation.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: And you you just you have to get baseball your
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: your whole life when you're in it to be able
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: to compete at that level. So I think really getting
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: out of a place where everybody knew me as a
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: certain player and getting a chance to restart with a
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: new fan base and a new new team was just
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: refreshing for me. The other thing was Buck showaltern Buckets
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: is gonna I'm gonna give Buck a lot of credit.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: I sat down with Buck and was very honest and
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: I said, look, this is where I'm at. I'm out
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: of options. So you can't send me down, you know,
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: but I want the chance to play every day. And
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: he told me, and he straight up said, you're going
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: to get the chance, but it's not an open ended ticket.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: He's like, you're going to have to prove that you
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: can play here and he goes, and I think you can.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: And having Kirby there too was big deal because Kirby
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: knew me. We had history. He was the field coordinator,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: the Rogan field coordinator for the Rangers when I was there,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: So having some familiar faces and knowing that I was
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: going to give an opportunity to play was really big.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: And thankfully I was able to capitalize on the opportunity.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: And I think also being able to play different positions
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: and being willing to do that helped me out a
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: bunch because I kind of moved around a lot in
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: twenty twelve. But it was, yeah, I mean, just to
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: change the scenery. Man, it's huge, It really is.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: Chris, What was it like just being a part of
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: lineups that just absolutely mashed? I mean, you guys led
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: the majors and home runs for multiple years. It was
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: what Nelson, you Trumbo leading the majors and home runs?
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: Like there really were was no soft spot in that lineup.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: No, there wasn't. It was awesome. I've got a good
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: buddy who pitched for the Indians for a long time,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Cody Allen, and he made his debut against us in
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Cleveland and he was like, dude, it's like y'all were
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: rolling out guys that were six three six five six six.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: He was like, your second basement was six y four
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: and I'm like talking about scope and I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: We had some big bodies and he's like, y'all looked
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: like a bunch of professional wrestlers. Yeah, we did. It
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: was fun, man like. We we had such a unique
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: lineup because we had guys like Jones who could steal
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: the base, Nate who could steal a base. Nick he
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: could run every now and then if you wanted to.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: We had guys that would get on base. Nick was
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: so big for our lineup at the top of the lineup,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: and he was big for me because he was another
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: left handed bat. So I would kind of that's kind
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: of how I I gauged, you know, how I was
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: going to attack a picture based off of how they
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: would attack Nick, And so it was huge for me
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: to have a left hand or at the top of
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: the lineup, but then you had guys like Manny Jonesy,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Weedy hit behind me. Like there was protection all throughout
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: the lineup. And to your point, there were no breaks.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Anybody in that lineup at any time could take you deep.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: And so I think it put a lot of pressure
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: on opposing pitching staffs because there was there was no
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: you didn't get a batter off. And so it was funny.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: We we always joked. Buck would always say, you know,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: we don't have to live and die by the three
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: run home run, and I'm like, it kind of works
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: for us, So I'm not gonna I'm not gonna stop.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: But it was just such a good team and and
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: defensively we were really good. I still have up here
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: behind me the we hold the single season fillty percentage
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: record for a team. But it was just I mean,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: you guys, Many's still doing it JJ. There were go
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: blots all over the field. It was just a unique
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: group of guys, man, And I think one of the
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: things that really made it special is there were no superstars.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Like you could argue that Jonesy was a superstar because
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: he was under contract and he was, you know, the
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: perennial All Star, but he didn't act like a superstar
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: like we were just we were baseball players. And I
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: think that that made it a lot easier for everybody
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: to go out and do their job because nobody cared
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: who got the credit as long as we won baseball games.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: It was a special time in Birdland.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: And your guys group, Brad and Chris and the guys
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: you've sut you noted today will never be forgotten in
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: this town because you took them from losers to winners
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: to October baseball.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: You guys, drinks are on us for the.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Rest of years.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: For what for what you guys did now.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Chris, you noted in twenty three when you came back
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: for Adam jones Jersey retirement, you aren't sure how the
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: reception was gonna go, and it went great because the
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: fans more remembered the good times than the ending. How
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: do you sort all that out now when your mind
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: what happened at the end, and is it just an
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: anecdote you just flush it away or is it part
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: of a bigger resume.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely. I definitely don't flush it away because
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: it really helps me appreciate the earlier years, and I
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: think it also kind of helps me stay grounded because
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: the struggle was it was so prolonged, and I think
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: people ask me all the time what happened. I continue
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: to try to play when I shouldn't have, And I
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: always thought, you know, your best tool is availability, and
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: so there were I was in a lot of pain.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Certain things had kind of started popping up, and I'm like, man,
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: I can't do that like I used to, and I
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: didn't know why, and brock, you know this, Like I
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: was always a worker, like I always thought, I'll just
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: work my way out of it. I'll just work out harder,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: I'll just hit more, I'll just I'll just keep going.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: And that's not a good, good recipe for success for anybody.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: There are times when you need to take a break
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: and you need to address certain things, especially if physically
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: your body's breaking down. And there's no shame in that,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: but for me, it was really hard. I felt like
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: I owed it to the fans to at least be
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: out there, even though I wasn't capable of doing what
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I really wanted to and I wasn't sure why. But
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: for me like that, that makes the journey that much
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: sweeter because it really helps me appreciate those years that
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: we were winning. It was tough to go in there
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: every day when we were losing and we weren't trying
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: to win, you know, I think it was I didn't
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: know really how to go about it. A lot of
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: times I really leaned into my roles as kind of
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: the veteran guy in the clubhouse and tried to teach
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: the guys, the younger guys, this is the way that
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: we do things, this is why we do things this.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: But it was hard to go from from such a
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: you know, several years of success, so much success, to
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: to just failure day in and day out, and and
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: for me to experience that and kind of go through
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: that with the fans. The fans made a huge deal
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: to me. And I know every player feels, you know,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: a certain way about fan bases, but but I mean,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: I was in Multimore for a decade, so I know
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: a lot of fans. I know a lot of fans personally,
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Like I've got a couple of them that that texts
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: me that I'm that I'm you know, friends with. So
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: it was hard for me to go through that because
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: I felt like I was really letting everybody down. But
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: when I came back for Jonesy's thing, I didn't I
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: didn't know what to expect. So I mean they didn't.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: They did what Berdland does. Man. They stood up for
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: their guys and and they welcomed me back. And one
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: of the things that I want to be sure to mention,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: I was standing on the on deck circle before we
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: walked down on the field to honor Adam, and one
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: of the season ticket holders who I know I've seen
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: in spring training leaned down and said, hey, Crush, And
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: I turned around and he said, hey, man, don't ever
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: forget how much we loved you and how much we
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: rooted for you those years. He's like that You'll always
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: be Crush Davis to us and saying for him to
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: say that to me in that moment, I was like,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: it's hard not to get emotional, you know, because you
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: think about all the times when you got booed or whatever.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: But it really it meant a lot to me, and
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: it meant it really showed me how much they cared.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: So it was it was a special moment for sure.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's awesome. I just kind of I'm sure you've
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: had time to reflect on everything, and with the weekend
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: coming up, what would you say you're most proud of
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: your time in Baltimore. Is there one particular thing? Is
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: there a multitude of things? It Is there anything you
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: can kind of put into words. I know it's probably
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: tough when you're trying to, yeah, what's something to say.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: But I've thought about that, and I really appreciate you
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: asking that. It's hard. It's hard because there are so
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: many things. Honestly, the thing that I keep coming back
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: to is the people man like you guys, my teammates, Like,
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: I'm so thankful that I had such a good group
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: of people to share it with. And I think about
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: the people at the stadium that took care of our
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: wives while we were out there playing. I mean, you
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: were a part of it, dude, you were a big
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: part of it. We all had like we were kind
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: of all on the same spot in our life. We
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: were all young, we were all married, we were started
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: having kids together, like we were trying to establish ourselves
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: as big leaguers and just figure it out. And I
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: think that's really what to me stands out the most.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: I loved being a part of the city of Baltimore.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: I had no clue what I was getting into when
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: I was traded. I had, like I had been to
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Baltimore maybe a handful of times as an opposing player
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: and didn't venture out, like went to the stadium and
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: went back to the hotel. So getting to do things
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: like the charity home run derby that we did for
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: the Children's Hospital, doing Casey Cares, doing Christian Youth athletics,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: getting outside of the city and I mean, excuse me,
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: outside of the stadium and getting into the city. That's
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: really what I remember the most, and I think that's
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: kind of what stuck with me. The baseball is the baseball,
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: you know, I mean, hitting home runs is great, but
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: being able to kind of rub shoulders with people that
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: you might not rub shoulders with if you didn't do
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: what you did, and be a part of something outside
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: of the game and be feel like you're really a
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: part of the city to me is kind of what
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: lasted the most to this day. That's still my favorite house.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: I wish we hadn't sold that house, but but yeah,
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: I think that's probably the thing that I remember the
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: most is just the people and the relationships that you make.
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: You know, Chris, I did want to go back to
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: the end, and I just think, you know, you at
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: the top of the game. You're one of the most
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: feared hitters of all time, and you get the contract,
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: and I think fans and sometimes people falling the mistake
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: of viewing players almost as robots, like, oh, you know,
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: he's getting a big contract.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: It was a matter.
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: But you're an ultimate competitor to make the majors. You're
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: an ultimate competitor to reach the heights that you did
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: in your career. What was it like from a mental
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: standpoint going through at the end.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: It was tough. I remember hearing that and I got
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: off social media years ago because I just didn't want
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: to hear the noise. I had enough to focus on
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: without having to deal with all that. And I remember
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: hearing that, well, who cares, He's still rich, And I'm like,
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: that's you guys. Think that's what drives us like you
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: if you're if you are a rookie in the big leagues,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: you're making over half a million dollars. Like the money
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: is is I call it monopoly money. It's billionaires paying millionaires.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: It's it's that's not what it's about. And so to
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: your point, Tim, when you're so competitive and you're not
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: able to compete, and you were able to compete at
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: a very high level for several years, it is so frustrating.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, I I've told this story to a handful
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: of people, but I remember one of the nights we
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: were in d C and I took my hat off
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: and I was stressed out. It was it was towards
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: the end of the twenty nineteen season. I was stressed out.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Jill and the girls were back home, so I was.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: I was in Baltimore by myself, and I took my
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: hat off in the dugout and I looked down and
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: my hair was in my hat, like my hair was
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: going on. Like that's how stressed out. And aside from
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: thinking that I was going bald in the middle of
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: a big league game, I'm like, what do I do?
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: You know? And I just felt lost, man, and I
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: didn't know what to do. And I should have reached out.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: I really should have reached out to some people around me.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: But I don't know if I was embarrassed, if I
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: was too proud. I just thought I could figure it
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: out on my own, and I wasn't ever able to
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: what's really frustrating is going into the twenty twenty season,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: I felt like I had had found had kind of
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: found it again, me and Manny and Scope and was
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: always joke like in the batting case, like if you
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: find it, leave it in there for the next guy.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: And so I I remember texting or telling Scope I
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: found it. I found it, you know, and he's like, oh,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: leave it for me, leave it for me. But I
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: was going into spring training and I was I was
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: crushed again, you know, I was. I was hammering the ball.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: I felt so good at the play. Physically, I had
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: gotten I kind of put a little bit of weight
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: back on, I've gotten stronger again. And then I'm getting
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: ready to go to Fort Myers in the world chests
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: down and so I'm like no. And then we started
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: back up again in August and it just wasn't the same.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: By that time, my knee had been bothering me. It
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: was just so frustrating because I really wanted that one
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: last chance to prove that I was worth the money
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: that they spent on me. And so that's it's hard.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, man, there's no
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: blueprint for this, you know. That's why. I think it's
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: so incredible guys like kersh'all that that can go out
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: on their own terms. It's so hard, man, It is
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: just so hard.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Man. What great stuff, Chris. You know, And I've told
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Brad this.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: One of the great things as a media guy of
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: that era is I knew there are good guys in that.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: It was uniforms winning games for Birdland, and if it
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: was a tough time, I knew when I walked in there,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: you guys would be at your locker to answer whatever
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: we had. You never ducked it good, bad, or indifferent.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: And we saw that in this show today. Man, you
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: were very honest with your your thoughts. We can't wait
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: to see Birdland honor you again, along with Storm Davis
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: and along with the late Jim Russo and lets her
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: mind the fans again. Tickets are available orioles dot com
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: slash tickets both for Friday's lunch and Saturday's game and
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: ceremony on field. Tommy Hunter going to be introducing you.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: He's still as funny as he was.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I cannot well. I talked to him yesterday
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: and I was like, hey, are you ready? And I'm
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: gonna tell you how he responded, because, uh, it's just
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: meet him. But uh, but I went, I mean, I said,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: I told him yesterday. I said, whether you like it
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: or not, Bud, we're in this thing together. And I
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: told him that from day one, like we got traded together.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: And Tommy and I talked more than probably any of
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: my other teammates more consistently. But I cannot wait to
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: hear what he has to say at the launch.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: He was never dull, that's for darn sure.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Got trade worked out great for you too, and many
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: and all Birdland, buddy, because twenty twelve through twenty sixteen,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: three playoffs, most wins in the league, Buck and the boys,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: it was special. Chris, thanks for sharing that look safe
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: travels to Birdland, and we will see you this weekend
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: at the Hall of Fame ceremony.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: That's good, Thanks guys for having me on.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: That'll do it, Birdland.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: That's the show, huh with Chris Davis talking about the
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame ceremony coming up this weekend. We'll see
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: you all at the yard for that, and we'll see
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: you all in the next edition of Birdland Territory.