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Lovable Reunion - Dexter Fowler’s AWESOME stories on Cubs World Series run, Bill Murray, SNL cameo | Lovable Reunion · Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: Anthony Rizzo, David Ross, Dexter Fowler. Welcome back to another
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  Speaker 1: episode of Lovable Reunion. Today is what I've been looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to as my favorite episode. We have Dexter Fowler here.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking ten year anniversary of our World Series championship.
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  Speaker 2: Crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Dexter was one of the most, if not important, piece
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  Speaker 1: of the whole formula that we had to win the
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  Speaker 1: World Series And Dexter, can you believe it's been ten years?
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  Speaker 2: I cannot believe it's ten years. We celebrate our ten
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  Speaker 2: year A little bit of the tenure, like the precursor
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  Speaker 2: of it, little appetizer, a little amphathizer, and it got wild.
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  Speaker 2: I can't even imagine, like during the year when we
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  Speaker 2: really do it, how.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be bro And what I like, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say earlier here is these three were the
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  Speaker 1: three main circus ring leaders of the Clubhouse at all times.
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  Speaker 1: And when I look back at this team and our
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  Speaker 1: time together, the you two are the two that I
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  Speaker 1: think about because we would just come in every day
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  Speaker 1: with some bullshit that we were going.
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  Speaker 2: To do nobody.
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  Speaker 1: No one was safe at anything, whether.
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  Speaker 2: That's the owner's Joe, everybody's it's we drag.
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  Speaker 1: On each other, and like, the the thing I look
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  Speaker 1: back at most is if I was tired one day,
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  Speaker 1: I knew Dexter would bring it. If if Dexter was
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  Speaker 1: tired one day, ROSSI would bring it. Like if if
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  Speaker 1: for some reason US three were off, we'd have Strophi
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  Speaker 1: or uh, Travis would bring in it. Like but US
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  Speaker 1: three were the main stal warts. And that's like, I
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  Speaker 1: can't wait to get.
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  Speaker 2: Into these stories now. Are some of my favorite teammates honestly,
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  Speaker 2: like because just for that, like that fact that I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you are great players, but good in the locker room.
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  Speaker 2: Like some teams, you just go in and you just
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  Speaker 2: see like the magic and you see you two have
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  Speaker 2: the right people in line to be there, and I call,
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  Speaker 2: I'll see the judge, the jury, everything. It's like ROSSI,
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  Speaker 2: what is it? And he's like this is what he says,
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  Speaker 2: and that's what goes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you're the boss.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Literally I get for being a career two twenty
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  Speaker 3: hitter on that team.
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  Speaker 2: But I.
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  Speaker 3: Look back, I did get a lot of credit, and
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  Speaker 3: I think, like from leadership perspective, and like I'm glad
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  Speaker 3: that I have my piece. But the cool thing to
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  Speaker 3: me is I never told the media what I did
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  Speaker 3: or who I was. Like, that was all you guys
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  Speaker 3: giving me that love. And I say that in such
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  Speaker 3: a positive way because of the special humans that we had
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  Speaker 3: on that team took my hard love sometimes and like
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  Speaker 3: actually listen to the message rather than sometimes I think
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  Speaker 3: I can be a little more aggressive, and you guys
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  Speaker 3: listen to the message and still gave me love back.
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  Speaker 3: I tell a story all the time when I speak.
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  Speaker 3: Is that about knowing everybody watching everybody in rooting guys on,
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  Speaker 3: Like it's stuck in my mind about like I said,
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  Speaker 3: at the top step, and you would make a diving
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  Speaker 3: play and center field for the first out, and then
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  Speaker 3: the pitcher would give up four more runs, four runs
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  Speaker 3: in that inning, and everybody's pissed off coming back, And
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  Speaker 3: like I think part of the part of being a
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  Speaker 3: good teammate is like remembering that freaking tech catch the
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  Speaker 3: decks made when he comes off. So then if Dex
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  Speaker 3: dogs it down the first baseline, he knows I'm watching
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  Speaker 3: it all and I'm giving love where love's deserved, and
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  Speaker 3: you're giving criticism where it's like, hey, this is how
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  Speaker 3: we want it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, always take that after ya you would always
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  Speaker 1: do that. They're good at that.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 1: As I got older in my career, I'd always make
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  Speaker 1: sure to go over to someone good batter and different.
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  Speaker 1: Hey man, nice like hey keep grinding or nice play
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  Speaker 1: bro like giving them their love.
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  Speaker 3: That means, I mean it's important that when and that's
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  Speaker 3: how you are able to criticize I think or sometimes
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  Speaker 3: give tough love is because like, wait a minute, this
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  Speaker 3: dude's always giving me love.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just least listen to that. When you come
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  Speaker 1: at them with with the tough love, it's like okay,
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  Speaker 1: well at least.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the thing about it is like you have
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  Speaker 2: different pieces, like you were to piece on the field,
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  Speaker 2: like hey, look like we looked at rid Is like
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  Speaker 2: picking ship, Like yeah, we looked at this plat Glover,
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  Speaker 2: Like we looked at this dude like and we saw
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  Speaker 2: his work ethic.
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  Speaker 4: We saw him out there grinding with his back hurt.
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  Speaker 2: But you see stuff like that and you know, like
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  Speaker 2: I can go talk to him and he's gonna it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be received well. Like for me, like being in
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  Speaker 2: a locker room with a bunch of different and this
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  Speaker 2: is every locker room, but a bunch of.
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  Speaker 4: Different characters, young, old, the world.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I said. I was like the middleman, Like
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  Speaker 2: so everybody you would come to me, or or Lester
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  Speaker 2: or Lackey would come to me and can you talk?
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  Speaker 2: You should talk to what some ma. But I would
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  Speaker 2: also bounce stuff off of him, just he was like
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  Speaker 2: my sounding board, Like, hey, bro, like this dude's coming
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  Speaker 2: to me. I don't have all the answers, and I
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  Speaker 2: would be remiss if I didn't reach out to him
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  Speaker 2: because he's been on teams.
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  Speaker 4: He knows how it's done.
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  Speaker 2: Like look like you said, I had seven years in
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  Speaker 2: the big leads at the time, and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: there's the younger guys, the older guys. But there was
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  Speaker 2: a big gap, right yeah, in that in that locker room,
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  Speaker 2: and I was kind of just trying to fill the gap.
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  Speaker 1: You got, you got? I mean, this is what I'm
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  Speaker 1: super underrated. We haven't talked about this. We talked about
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  Speaker 1: the pieces we brought him fifteen, and everyone instantly thinks,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Matt and John Lesser, David Ross, you got traded
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  Speaker 1: in fifteen.
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  Speaker 3: To us that came trading baby.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but we have a bona fide leadoff hitter coming
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  Speaker 1: in that the game like you're like almost like the
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  Speaker 1: last guy to be a leadoff hitter, Like that's actually
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  Speaker 1: what a leadoff hitter stereotypically looked.
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  Speaker 3: Like.
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  Speaker 2: No, I appreciate it that it was funny because you know,
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  Speaker 2: Males kind of facilitated that whole thing. So Males, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So John Mealy is our hitting coach.
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  Speaker 2: So Males was my coach and my hitting coach in Houston.
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  Speaker 2: When I was in Houston, and I remember going against
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  Speaker 2: I was rehabbing.
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  Speaker 4: I messed my intercostal. So I was rehabbing.
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  Speaker 2: I was playing for Oklahoma City and we were playing
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  Speaker 2: against the Iowa Cubs.
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  Speaker 3: KB.
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  Speaker 4: I played against KB sol Air Hobby. It just got
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  Speaker 4: called up. Manny was down there and we're playing.
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  Speaker 2: We played like we have three or four games, and
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  Speaker 2: we played a double hitter against him, and they aren't
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  Speaker 2: launching balls like.
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  Speaker 4: KB is going apple like we know KB does. So
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  Speaker 4: Lair hit me a ball.
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  Speaker 2: I'm playing center field and I'm like I'm like this
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  Speaker 2: is you know, minor league baseball, like do tip balls
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  Speaker 2: and it's not like the big leagues like when Dow
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  Speaker 2: tip balls and they do what of these?
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  Speaker 3: So he is like, one, I hit you in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 3: That took a left turn.
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  Speaker 2: We need to talk about that. So he hits the
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  Speaker 2: ball and I'm running for the ball and I'm like
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  Speaker 2: I got this and I'm like whoa And the ball
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  Speaker 2: hits off the wall.
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  Speaker 4: Field off the wall, throw it in and I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: this is a grown man.
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  Speaker 2: Like these dudes are going to be really good to
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  Speaker 2: Males gets the job over there, and I text Males
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, Males, like, I know. When I
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  Speaker 2: came back, I told him, I said, I said, Males,
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  Speaker 2: the Cubs they're gonna be nasty in about a year
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  Speaker 2: or two. Bro, these dudes coming up are nasty, like ready,
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  Speaker 2: like big ly ready. And he goes, that's you know,
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  Speaker 2: my city. Like he gets he gets the job over there,
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  Speaker 2: and I texted him. I was like, Bro, I need
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  Speaker 2: to be I need to be there. I need to
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  Speaker 2: be with you, and he's like, you really want to
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  Speaker 2: I was like, bro, like yes, I'm gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: free agent. Bro, I want to play with y'all, like like.
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  Speaker 4: This team is gonna be crazy. And so he ended
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  Speaker 4: up talking to the people and we they but he
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  Speaker 4: started that conversation did you get traded for you?
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  Speaker 3: Remember? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Luisa? Right, Yeah, uh was Dan.
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  Speaker 1: STRALI yeah, Australia.
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  Speaker 3: Bro.
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  Speaker 1: I remember, well, like you're getting traded. We played you
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  Speaker 1: in the Rockies, right, but the Rockies are smaller markets, like,
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  Speaker 1: but you guys always raked you DJ to like just Nolan,
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  Speaker 1: like Cargo, everybody was a beast holiday dire.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like Nelton was there.
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  Speaker 3: I said, you can't. I was gonna say that earlier,
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  Speaker 3: like you came up.
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  Speaker 2: I was Holiday, Yeah, that was those are my Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Brad was the first basement too, and I was.
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  Speaker 2: And then Cargo came up like that traded over there.
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  Speaker 1: What I knew about you was like your pregame, your
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  Speaker 1: pre a bad routine and you like your little stretch
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  Speaker 1: stretch that's right because.
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  Speaker 3: I remember everybody else's bullshit. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And but to come over and instantly year one, like
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  Speaker 1: how it's not easy getting traded. You just got traded
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  Speaker 1: to Houston the year before. How are you able to
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  Speaker 1: come over and ingrain yourself so fast? And a team
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  Speaker 1: that like in fifteen were like yeah, we thought we
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  Speaker 1: could be good, but like we had to build that
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  Speaker 1: confidence honestly.
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  Speaker 4: Like for me, which made me feel the most.
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  Speaker 2: Comfortable was Joe Madden. Yeah, because I played on teams
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  Speaker 2: like Joe was my favorite manager because Joe let me
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  Speaker 2: be me. Yes, like everybody else would be like, hey, Dex,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna need you to do this.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, bro, can I just go? Would you
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  Speaker 4: just let me go play?
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  Speaker 2: I did like I understand the game. I know how
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  Speaker 2: to play the game. Let me go play. And the
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  Speaker 2: best managers for me were like, hands off debts, just
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  Speaker 2: go do you every day?
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So when I first got to I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you remember this, when I first got to Chicago, I
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  Speaker 2: like the first month, like first bad bat of the game,
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  Speaker 2: I was punching out, Like remember I got punched out
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  Speaker 2: and I got the first half. I got punched out
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  Speaker 2: nineteen times on balls. Yeah, remember when we went in,
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  Speaker 2: we had the meeting with it. But this is the
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  Speaker 2: whole other thing. So we're sitting there and.
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  Speaker 3: You had a meeting with the no.
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  Speaker 2: But first Joe called me up in the office because
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm leaning off this. Dude's gonna move me down.
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  Speaker 4: I know I already know, like just from PTSD of
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  Speaker 4: the years DENI just.
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  Speaker 1: Started psych battle that no one realizes that right when
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  Speaker 1: you grind and you don't have your right years.
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  Speaker 2: So now I'm looking over him every day. I'm like
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  Speaker 2: the line exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Joe probably pulled you in and said you're a guy.
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  Speaker 1: Joe pulled me in.
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  Speaker 2: The office, and I never forget this. He put me
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  Speaker 2: in the office, he said, debts because he used to
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  Speaker 2: ask me. He goes, hey, what are you gonna do
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  Speaker 2: first at back? And you know me, I'm like strike
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  Speaker 2: out like he started laughing.
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  Speaker 4: He goes, no, no, you can't think like I.
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  Speaker 2: Was like, I'm just what I'm saying like, and I
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  Speaker 2: would sit there and he told me. He goes, dex,
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  Speaker 2: all I need you to do is be decks. He goes, look,
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  Speaker 2: every day you come in here, you're gonna be leading off.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care how good you do. And I said look,
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  Speaker 2: and the hair stand up on mind and I said,
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  Speaker 2: this is the first time somebody's ever told me that. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm coming in every day, I don't have to look
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  Speaker 2: at the lineup. I normally no. And but you know,
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  Speaker 2: if we're not playing, they tell us the day before, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna give you a dath like all right, cool,
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  Speaker 2: like whatever, Sure, I understand that. But every day that
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  Speaker 2: I was playing, I was leading off and I took
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  Speaker 2: that mindset.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, but you want to do well for
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  Speaker 4: guys like that, right right right, because.
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  Speaker 2: He believes in you. So I'm gonna play.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna run through this fucking wall for this dude.
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  Speaker 3: It's confidence and you're also relaxed. Exactly, I'm not looking
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  Speaker 3: over my shoulder. And if I have a zero for
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  Speaker 3: five game, I'm in there tomorrow. And he proves that
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  Speaker 3: track record, it's like, oh, okay, I get to go
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  Speaker 3: have my say I'm a free a. I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 3: have my year, have my year. And especially when earlier
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  Speaker 3: about the you.
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  Speaker 1: Got what everyone was at different points in their career.
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  Speaker 1: Joe another thing, the five levels of a big leaguer,
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  Speaker 1: right like happy to be there when make money, went whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and Daxton sixteen, we're getting a little head but was
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  Speaker 1: on his paper Chase, we knew he was gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a free agent. And it's like as a responsibility as
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  Speaker 1: a team, like let's get this through paid, right, Like
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  Speaker 1: that's what it's all about at the is winning and
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  Speaker 1: like setting up your life forever.
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  Speaker 3: Sure sure, And I say this as not really knowing,
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  Speaker 3: but because I left, but after sixteen, the questions I
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  Speaker 3: got a lot in seventeen, eighteen and nineteen were what
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  Speaker 3: what is it missing? What is it missing? I think,
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  Speaker 3: why why weren't they as successful? You know? And it's
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  Speaker 3: like every piece matters, you know what I mean, Like
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  Speaker 3: you being gone in that staple in the top of
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  Speaker 3: the lineup is a big freaking deal, you know. And
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  Speaker 3: now that the people that took your place aren't good players,
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  Speaker 3: it's just like there's a bigger dynamic that kind of
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  Speaker 3: comes in with that. And you were such a the
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  Speaker 3: personality outside of your performance and who you were and
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  Speaker 3: coming back, man, I think my favorite one of my
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  Speaker 3: favorite moments as a player is and so confused is
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  Speaker 3: watching you walk out to the field in sixteen in
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  Speaker 3: spring training and he's back. Bro. Hey, I'm telling you
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  Speaker 3: You know, bro, you know, I mean, I'm like, heyde Scoop,
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: you gotta have inside scoop.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: And then you come back.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: Well, the backstory on this, I want to yeah, I
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: want to hear like, yeah, A lot of people don't
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: know the better, like how all that went down. So
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: I say goodbye to the Cups. I remember we were
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: building our house here in Vegas, and like three days
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: before two days before that or three days before that,
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: we're sitting here and Baltimore, US and Baltimore were going
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: back and forth. My agent in Baltimore and Baltimore was
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: trying to make me pay for the draft pick. You know,
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: I had the qualified offer, so they were trying to
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: make me pay for their draft pick once they get me,
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: like they lose a draft pick. They were like, we
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: feel like the draft pick is worth this much. So
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: basically I was going to pay for the draft pick.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: And I said, okay, if that's the thing. So they
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: offered me a three year deal. Was kind of disrespectful
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: at the time, and I was like, bro, I made
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: more than that aav before this, and I go, you know,
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: we're having these talks and back and forth, and then
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: I said all right, how about you give me X
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: amount of dollars we can keep the same and give
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: me an opt out after the first year.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: And they said, we before like an opt out even.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Right, And they were like, we don't do And I said,
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: and I'm not paying for a traff pick. So we're
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: back at square one, so we're never gonna get anywhere.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Then I told THEO. Theo's like, hey, look man, like
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: I want to offer you this amount. I forgot what
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: them mo out was, but we were like two million off, right,
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: And I said, bro, I can't look at my family
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: in the eyes and tell him like I'm going to
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: take this to come back here. And he goes, I
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: totally get it. I said, so I appreciate everything. Tell
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Joe I love him, like, tell tell the Rickkins family,
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: Like, And I said, thank you for everything you've done.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Man, traded me over here. Man, it's been the best career,
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: best season in my career. Hung up the phone. I
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: get a call.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: Back from THEO the next day.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: THEO goes, decks, we're a million apart, like, let's figure
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: this out. Was I said, if we can figure it out,
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: then I'm back like and he goes, all right, give
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: me a minute, call me back.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: Like three hours later.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: It was like, hey, so we're gonna like, let's let's
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: meet at thirteen and let's we'll try to slice it
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: anyway we can and like to better you and then
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: you'll have an opt out whatever. However they did it.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: However they sliced it. They were like, but and I
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: was in the design studio and right what he said,
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna figure it out.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: Baltimore came and was like, dexy signing with the Orioles.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Like, I get a.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Text from Andrew McCutcheon, No, not Andrew McCutcheon, and Cutch
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: is like, bro, congrats on the deal, that's awesome whatever,
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, I call my agent, Casey, and I'm like, Casey,
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: what the fuck are they talking about. I'm literally designing
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: in the design studit of my house, looking at furnishes
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: and all that. And he's like, don't answer anybody's calls.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Let me figure this out, let me call it. I
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: don't know what. I don't know what's going on. So
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: he's making calls and stuff, and my phone is going
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: like I can't wait. The baldewin minutes who I played with,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: the with the with the with the Rockies, Manny Machado,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Adam Jones. They're texting me like, bro, like hey, you're
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: gonna be sick, like you're gonna love Showalter whatever. Everybody
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: text me, And I'm like, for me, I'm like, you know,
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: how honest I am. I'm like, I want you want
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: to tell him, but B it's not true. It's not true.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: It's not true. That's true. But my agency said, don't
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: say anything. So I said to THEO now and he goes, yeah,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: THEO knows. I already talking to THEO like we're good.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: We're good on this side. He goes, but you can't
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: repeat it.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: That's perfect.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: End up going and THEO calls me back. He goes, thanks, Im,
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: gonna need to get you down here tonight for physical.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: He goes, we can't tell him. We're not telling anybody.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: He's the only people didn't know is me, Jed and
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Tom and Jim. He's like yeah, and PJ. Yeah, it
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: was the only people didn't know, and the obviously the
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: docs and VJ. So we end up going down there,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: kept it quiet, drove, I drove my car down there,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: took the physical at like eleven PM. Yeah, dr Adams, Yeah,
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: he was talking.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: He came.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: He came there fresh right at dinner, had to leave
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: dinner early. I was like, I'm so sorry, and he
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: was like, bro, it's good. Got the physical done and
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: he goes. THEO goes, we're not gonna we gotta we
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: got a surprise. We're not gonna say anything. I said.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: I said, I'm not I haven't said anything. He goes,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: So I stayed at the Phoenician, came over the next day.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: He goes, I'll call you in the morning and I'll
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: tell you what's going on. So he gave me the
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: l A lamb.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: We're sitting in my.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Car and me and THEO were sitting there talking just
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: like like just shoot, like this is gonna be crazy.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Like he goes, yeah, Joe's.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Gonna get everybody together like a meeting and whatever, and
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: we're gonna walk out. He goes, give us five minutes,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: walk in there, walking out, And I said, that's that
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: was the best day. And I said this at the
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: at the rear, that was the best day of my career, honestly,
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Like because you sit there and you look at like
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: teams and I mean, mind you in the off season.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: He signed Jay. Hey, you signed Lacky, you signed you
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: signed Zobie, You signed all these guys that we were missing.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: At fifteen, we went to the Nationally Championship Series, and
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: if we had those dudes, then we go back to back.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: You know, it had been crazy like but we were
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: just missing those one of those pieces. And I saw
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: we got Jay Hay and me and Jay Hay go
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: way back. Like I've known Jay Hay long, yeah, Lanta days.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Jay Hay's four years younger than me, and like we
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: used to work out the same place, hit at the
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: same place, hit the game in the off season, and
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: then we find y'all awesome human being. It's awesome human being.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: So I told him when he signed over there, I said, Bro,
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: those are my boys. Bro, you're gonna have a blast. Bro,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: there's nothing better than first of all the fans then
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: you had You're in the locker room with these guys. Bro,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: You're gonna have unbelievable time. And so when I signed back,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: like that was the one time that I was like, man,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: you like you, you feel wanted, and it's like these
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: dudes genuinely want you to be part of something special
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: and It's like, you know, you sitting at the lunch
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: table by yourself and somebody's like, hey, come sit over
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: here with us. They become your best friends.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Like you don't get that. No, no, they're not normal.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: In baseball, we are literally bread to not feel good
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: enough as like whatever you do in this game, you're
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: not good enough. Like you can be the MVP and
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: you struck out too much, you can be the player
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: of the week and there's someone's nitpicking you. Right, So
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: that moment of like feeling that love and wanted is like.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I walked in, I'm giving everybody hugs and stuff,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: and Rossi tells me, he goes.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Everyone starts going crazy. We're in this whole puttle and
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: spring uniform. He's walking in. I think you're on a
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: white shirt and like black joggers or something. Yeah, but
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I had the twelves on actually, and he comes in
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: and if you want to say, what you said?
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: So I So I get in there and I give
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: everybody hugs.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: And everyone's like what the fuck, Like what's going on?
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Joe goes, welcome back, we got Dexter Fowler
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: and Rossi goes, wait, wait, he goes, are you just
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: coming to say bye to us. He goes, are you
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: going to Baltimore? You saying with Baltimore, I'm confused, Like
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: are you saying? Bio said, no, I'm here, bro, Like
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: this is us.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: I was so confused. I remember like looking at him
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: coming out, like what what's happening right now? Like what
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: are we doing? Even that happens in baseball? Like you
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: know that never happened. Never.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: No, everybody, there's always inside, there's always an inside.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: And the lead We're a week into spring training, mind you. Yeah,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: we're already talking about the World Series, but there is
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: like this little cloud that's like what Stecks are doing,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Like we don't have a leadoff guy, Like what do
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: we got? And when you came back, it was just
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: like it was almost like all felt right in the
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: world right like we already like were in spring and
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: in camp, like we just got swept in the NLCS,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: like we got so close in that playoffs and we'll
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: get to that fifteen wild card game here right after this.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: But it's like then you came back and it was
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: like we built this such a brotherhood and that fifteen
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: run to get you back was like these here we
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: go the final piece of the puzzle that we needed
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: to figure to to put it on the board.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Especially before Chappy, Like Jappy was like, oh oh.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Javy was like for me. For me, yeah, for me,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: like you know what, Rechel and I appreciate y'all saying that,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: and it means a lot coming from you guys. But
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: like for me, I was just like all right, like
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: we got it, like let's do this, like I already knew.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: For me, I already knew, like y'all were like like
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: the Cubs were gonna win, especially how close we wereried
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: we got like I said, we got those pieces. But
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: like me, I'm just like, hey, I'm in there with
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: the boys, like and what I never thought of it
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: like that, like because I'm like I'm at the end
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: of the day, like I didn't think of myself as
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: being the guy like the piece, like the piece that
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: was missing.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Like for me, I was just like I'm added to
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: the puzzle.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's because you are who you are and
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: like how you fit in with everybody and get along
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: and also bring it every day on the field. It's
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: like an on and off the field type thing. The
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: thing that stood stood out to me looking back though.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Remember you were getting so much shit about docking for
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: your defense because you played shallow. We talked about that
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: so many we and I love like a shallow outfield.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: And then you back up that next year you're no. One.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Everybody's chest game. I was like, the same game. I
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: just moved back for whatever.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Great, yeah better, I'll never forget that about that year
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: is like docking decks for this and that. I'm like, yeah,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: move back.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: You know, I came up in coursefield. That's what everybody
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: doesn't understand. Like I came up at coursefield, so I
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: played naturally. I played shallow just because everybody's hit. It's
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: either Homer is going to stay up enough for me
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: to run up under. So that's I was accustomed to
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: playing shallow. But the pictures loved it because the pictures,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: and you could say this as a catcher, like if
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: you make a day pitch and they bloop it in
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: like they're more pissed off than they make a bad
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: pitch and it gets hit in the gap and they're
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: like terrible.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: When I managed, I was like I want to especially
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: with two strikes, like push in like it's on the
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: picture to execute pitches. I want them to make a
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: good pitch and get rewarded, not you.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Know, I didn't give a ship about analytics, none of
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: that ship.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Well it was a deal in six right, right, it
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: was just getting introduced a little more, and it was
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: like now everyone in like every organization has their system
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: of like you play here, right.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: I gave it about my teammates exactly, and I wanted
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Mike Guy on the mount and be like one decks
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: out there, yes, right, And that's what.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: And that's all that mattered, because that's who really mattered
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: at the end of that's is if if you got
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: burnt over your head for some reason and the picture
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: was okay with it, well then so now it goes.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: But in fifteen, like what we built in fifteen was
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: so special for me because I mean I was there
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: for longer and we stunk, and you weren't on a
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: very many good teams in Colorado either, right, I mean
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: we were, on paper, on paper paper best April team
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: of all time every year, The Colorado Rockies from twenty
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: thirteen to twenty one was the best April team of
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: all But like bro, I remember after the turning point
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: in fifteen, which I'll ask you what you think it is,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna end up saying it. When we swept the
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Giants in August in fifteen and we went out, yeah,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: we remember, we all went out and we're seeing karaoke.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and at the wood Country.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Glout at Stanley's. Yeah, Hanley's Stanley's in Lincoln Park in Chicago,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: and we're singing karaoke and we're just like it brought
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: us together closer, right, And then like we we would
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: go out, we would hang out off the field. And
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: then as we're getting to the playoffs, like we're starting
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: to kick the fucking shit out of the Cardinals in
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: the second half, like they hate us. They win the division,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: but we're the wildcard. We have to play the Pirates
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: who also hate us because they were good, and but
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: we're the.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Three best teams in the major leagues were us through.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Ninety seven, ninety seven, ninety eight and one hundred and
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: we finished in third. Right, so we get to this
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: wildcard game and it's our biggest game of our our careers. Right,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: like blacked out at at P ANDC Loud. The Pittsrick
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: fans are were absolutely ruthless on Twitter before Yeah start
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: and like Bro like that home run was like one
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: of the monumental home runs in Cup's history, to like
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: put us up in the wildcard game. We won that.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: If we don't win that game, I don't think we
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: have that.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Well, it was funny, it was you know what's funny
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: is Arieta comes. You know, I brought my hyper Bear.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the ivy guy, guy Doc Adams liked here.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: I said, hey, we're getting out of.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: I think I think was it before the wildcard game
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: or maybe we clinched. We were all in uh, I
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: think Lester's big penthouse and you got we had ivs
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: for everyone.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so before that, so Arietta comes to my room
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: to use the hyper Bear and I remember his wife
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: was there and my wife was there, and we're sitting
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: there and I said, Snake, you ready, he goes this,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Just give me one, I said. I said, that's how
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: I said, that's how you feel. Look, I said, that's
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: how you feel. I said, we're gonna give you more
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: than one. But like he goes, I just need one.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: You need me one? Run all right? I said, all right.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: I said, all right, well I'm gonna hold you to that.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: And I remember I told him I said, because you
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: know I used to like what people don't know is
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: like I go home and I I.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Couldn't go to sleep without a game plan. So I
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: would look at the picture.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: For the night the next day and I was looking
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: at Garrett Cole that I said, all right, like this
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: dude's gonna be throwing a hundred right. He's gonna be
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: amped up, but he throws at two seemer and that
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: two seemer is gonna go. It's gonna because he's gonna
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: be so amped up, it's gonna be running up in
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: a way. I said, So I gotta I gotta push
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: him like middle end to let it run back over
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: the place to be to be a strike.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: First picture of the game one hundred right, and.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: I remember like I end up getting to hit my
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: first step back and right no center, like one harp
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: of the cutch throws it in and I'm like, this
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: dude's fucked. In my head, I'm like, this dude's fun because.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: He's but you know, but you know how house money, bro.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: And it was so loud in there, like when I
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: went up to it was so I remember I could
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: feel like I felt like the stadium was shaken, like
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: they had that blackout and we got a hit and
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: I know how Garrett Hole gets Remember used to give
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: a hit, throwing his hands up so mad like, so
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: I was like, I got to hit.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: And I was like this dude's flustered. And I remember
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: I stole second swore.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Bird get one nothing and I was like quick, oh quick,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: And then I.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: Would have walked by, like there's your one. There it is.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: You know how Snake is. Snake was like you see
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: his pupils like this.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: I said, this dude is a lot. Remember there's no hitters.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: You hug him at the end of He's like this, yeah,
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: I'm like this dude is yeah, he said. But that
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: then and there I was. I was.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: I was like, we're gonna win this game.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Well in that moment too, that bond of winning and
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: clinching and then beating the ship of the Cardinals, like yeah,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: we just beat our We lost the first game I
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: remember we're in.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: But that was like the Big Brothers first one.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: We lost the game in Saint Louis first game. Often
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: we all go to we all go to I think
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: it was Ruth Chris right, we all go like a
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: big team dinner. We're just fuck it we lost where
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I have the beautiful team dinner probably lack your lesser
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: paid for it, and we're like we're good, We're good.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: And it was like we won next one, we won
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: the next three.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Bro, Yeah we won the next one.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: But then when I remember leaving, same, yeah, I will
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: see you next year to the club he's in Saint Louis,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Like that's that was our attitude. But building that bond
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: and then going into sixteen, it's like we're rolling. You
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: come back right, Like we get off to this insane start,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: crazy and crazy start. I met my wife Emily in
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: spring training that year. She went to Arizona State. She
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: was an intern, and De Dex would always give me ship, right,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: and this goes back to just like bickering and bickering.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: And and the bear.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: So our second series of the year is in Arizona
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: and I go back and I go out with Emily.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Right, I think we had Oh I still got these pictures.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: It was on a weekend. Yeah, we had. We'll get
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: a picture on here. And she's going to Arizona States
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: to senior in Arizona State and we go out and
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: we go out one night and we just run it
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: and I.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: We're basically this is when you're after Anaheim in Arizona. Yeah,
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: this is like the fourth screwed.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is when I a yeah, yeah,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: I think this is when Lackie gave up like those
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: four or five early and we came back and won. Yeah.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Well that night I stayed out till like five or
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: six in the morning, like running it and I come in.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: I had to like jump this fence and Tempe there's
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: a train track right, and like the fence was like
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: a little like an opening of the bars and I
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: couldn't fit through it. So I had to jump it.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: But I had the blisters on my hand because the
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: second game of the season, we were working out in
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Anaheim and we're doing key bar. So I had two
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: big ass blisters on each hand.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: So I was trying to That's another thing we all
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: used to work out together.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Right, thinking this morning, this morning, So I'm I'm climbing
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: this fence and I my hands are like killing me.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: So I slipped. I sliced my leg open. Right, I'm
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: talking like a gash, right, like definitely need stitches. Right,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: We're we're like a mess of trying to She's trying
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: to tape it that night with like mermaid band aids. Right,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: show up to the field the next day like completely.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: White tea, white white tea.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Camo sweats. Yeah, it was brutal. And he's taking no
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: this is bro, and he's taking pictures to me, making
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: fun of me.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: And the first thing he does, he walks in and
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: he puts his head down like this. I said, Bro,
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: what are you wearing? What is this? What is this
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: you're doing?
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: So I go into the training room, like get this thing.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: I don't show the trainers because I'm like I can't.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: I'm like eventually I showed him like a few games later,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: I'm oh, yeah, I hit it on my bed. Right. So,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: but that day, right when I get into the field,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: I like immediately go to that like little auxiliary room
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: in Arizona and I go on like this big green couch.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: I think it's still there, and I just pass out
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: till like probably an hour before the game. Right like
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: it's a day game. I know my routine.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: We're headed home.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: This dude starts his inside joke with us, and I
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: hope I could tell this, Like so it lands. He
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: puts a bottle of brute on me like Brute after shape.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: For some reason, I don't.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Know why, He's like taking pictures of me sleeping on
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: the couch just like literally.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Dead right, literally gone and gone from that day on
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: like me, him and Jay Hay for whatever reason. Yes,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: it was like smearing off ice to get ice, Like
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: we got him with the brute one random day, finding
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: your bad We.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Just pack it every in our glove, like I brought
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: it out put it in his glove first base.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: I played with in my back pocket one inning. But
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: like this is the third game, in the fourth fifth
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: game of the season, like these are the bonds that
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: are starting so early that like for you and me,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: I just felt like it was so good because we
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: got each other and we were able to talk like
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: more than baseball.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: Well then they got to love about you. Your memory
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: of like how it all went down is so great.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: In fact, you remember what he was wearing walking in Bro.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: He he has pictures of me in Miami, Like in Miami,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: I would dress up. I wear like the Tommy Bahama
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: shirt he had the.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: Hat on it. I was like, bro, what the yeah,
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: what is this?
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: You have to you have to switch it up and
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: break up the Manani, and that's what I would try
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: to do. Joe would.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: But you thought you looked hot, I did look hot.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Take a picture.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: I can't say that I painted my toenails. My daughter
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: painting my toenails for that trip when Joe let us
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: go to Miami.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: And then like during that year, we build and then
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: we all make the All Star Game. That's your first
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: All Star game. And it was like, bro, like there's
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: seven of us there, Like we fly on two different
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: private jets. The Cubs got us two different private jets.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: We flew together around like G five's or something.
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: I mean, like starters. It was our.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Whole, the whole team field.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: KP and like Bryce Harper was a Bryce Harper and
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: somebody else left.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: You and who's the second?
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Said second? And Addie Leicester area and we roll in
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: there like we had this arrogant what arrogant I would
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: just say this swagger to us of like we were
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: the best, but like we were the best for us,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: like we weren't trying to be assholes everyone else. And
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: I remember rolling into to that San Diego clubhouse in
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: the All Star Game and like Lackie and Leicster have
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: like the cooler of like drinks and it was a
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: dry clubhouse that the wouldn't let us have drinks in there.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Lester and lackier Lester in area to have
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: the fucking cooler of drinks. They're like getting beers for everyone,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: like and we're.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Just in there, like, but everybody gravitated towards the Cubbies.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: They were like, bro, y'all have we know like y'all have.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Obviously we had the most guys here, most guys in
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: the locker room, but everybody was literally under us. And
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: whether that whether you had five All Star games, when
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: you had eight All Star games, everybody was fucking with us.
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: It was like, hey, we want to be around the cups.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Remember the energy that our dugout had, like talking about
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: just like that presence in the league. Like I just
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: remember people hating us because of all like we're like
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: three two counts were like screaming paza toot all that crazy,
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: like we were like a softball team some times. So
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: much ship, but it was like for us and you guys,
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: the personalities though, but you talk about people gravitate to
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: you guys because and like he had and especially Lester
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: like had been to these All Star Games, and so
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: it's like, yeah, those are the dudes and everybody wants
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: to hang out with because you guys had your own
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: own little there's your own little team there. Bro.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: I remember was it sixteen or was it fifteen when
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Joe famously said you go, we go, and like that
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: was our motto. Like literally, that was after.
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: That was after I went in an office, Bro, you went.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: You was after you went.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: After I went in the office and I talked to him.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: He was like, yeah, I don't know if you know this,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: and he was like, but when you get on base,
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: he told me this. He goes, when you get on
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: base twice, we win eighty, like eighty it was something
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: something ridiculous, and he goes, when you don't, we lose this.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: I was like, no pressure, yeah, but I was just
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: like Wallford, this guy anyway.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: That confidence of what he told you, and also like, okay,
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: here's my plan. I just got to get on basis
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: much I possibly keep and you leave the team twice.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: I don't care how it was. If I got hit,
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: if I fucking didn't, I don't Hey, look, I'm just
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: trying to get on base, like and the rest happened
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: because it was supposed to happen, but like whether I
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: hit a triple or I hit a homer or whatever,
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: but it would happen. And I was like, as one,
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: isn't it crazy?
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: We win and we win when you change your mindset
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: to when I was a backup, back up Bmack and
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: I didn't want him in Atlanta and I didn't want to.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: I didn't want him to have to try to get
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: him in the game. When I had to pinch hit.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: All I did was say, Okay, if I'm winning, he
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: doesn't have to come in and pinch hit. So when
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: you move that to all I want to do is win,
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: then it like changes your whole kind of like.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: Montres game baseball, like you if you look try to
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: do these other stats, focus on the game, and the
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: game will take care It will take care of this
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: exactly what you need, what needs to happen.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: I think I think it's crazy how many mottos we
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: had within our team, like we are good, you go,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: we go, try not to suck, embrace the target, like
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: all these things that like looking back, do simple better, Joe, Joe,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: simple better. Respect where it's like everyone always asks like
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: how do you guys not feel the pressure, one hundred
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: and eight years, the goat, the curse, all this, and
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: it's like because we had all this stuff inside where
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: we were sucking theme theme, road trips, circus, magicians, animals,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: like all these things where it was like playing was
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: like almost the easiest part. Yeah, there's so much like
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: it's magic. Yeah it's yeah, it's magic.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like a trip. I remember it like it's magic.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: It's like the numbers on the field were what they were, right,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: And it's the bonds that were created during that for me.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: And there was a time We're in Cincinnati and I
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: was like off the rails struggling. I was like grinding,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: I stung. I was never any out of the hit.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: I was going through it. You go through it every
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: a bunch of times a year. And it's hot, and
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: we're in a August and we're playing a bunch of
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: games in a row, and I'm sitting in a dugout.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: I'm like zero for three, right, and I'm sitting there
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: just literally just like staring at like nothing. I'm literally
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: staring at nothing. I'm just like I'm never gonna get
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: another hit again. And he walks out to me out
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: of nowhere. Bro with a fucking double cup of gatorade
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: hands me a cup and he goes, here, man, drink this.
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: I what is it?
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: And he knew exactly what I like to drink. It
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: was a crown and sprite mixed up perfectly with like
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: their nice little crushed ice. And I took a sip.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: I go I needed that, and like we just sat
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: there and like I had a few SIPs. I probably
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: drank most of it, honestly. Sure enough, my next evat,
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: I hit a fucking missile and like from there, like
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: I went like because like I was so in my
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: own head and my guy comes up to me randomly
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: out of nowhere. It's like, God, you need this, and
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: I take it. I'm just like I didn't like just
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: trust me, and it's like obvious that you can't do
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: that every day. But it's like he knew me at
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: the time and like our friendship, so for him to
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: be able to, like in August, I'm I want to
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: kill everyone. Yeah, I'm not getting hits Like it sucks.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: You're you're at the finish line in August, like trying to.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: You're almost seeing September.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I always look back to that I'm like, bro,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: like just out of nowhere, like that's that's my guy.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I love that story because like I feel like
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: you're so in tuned with other people. The unselfishnit about
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: you is what I also makes you a great teammate.
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: But my favorite story, and I'm going to get into
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: this week when you when you make the playoffs, you're
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: going to make the playoffs, you have a little meeting
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: where you split up the money that you're gonna make
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: far you go. So the further you go the postseason,
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: the more money you get.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: So we're I have a team meeting, and it's only
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: the guys who have been there all year. We have
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: a team meeting, and you divvy up like, okay, everybody
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: that's here full time gets a full share. Coaches get
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: a full share. But then you have like security and
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: the chef, and the clubhouse guys and the wives. Liaison
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: might be an imp important part and the generous person
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: that we all are. I think we set a record
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: for giving out the most amount of shares that year.
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: And we would just set more of a record.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: If we would. But uh, there was one discussion in
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: the meeting that where Anthony is giving full shares, which
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: turned out to be four hundred.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: And okay, so we knew we were gonna win the
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: World Series.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: We're having these shares meeting like we're winning the World Series, right.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: That's the only think we were making the first round
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: and getting five grand.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: This was the only shares meeting to in my career
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: where I can legitimately say that shares meeting was about
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: the final ship, the final share. So this was a meeting.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: This was like an hour plus meeting. And Dexter and I,
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: who are usually always on the same page, of course,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: we're on the same page in this one, and they
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: wanted to get so we're giving.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: Everybody's just throwing out because because you you kind of
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: get you kind of get you hear like full halshhare yeah,
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: full halshha, and you don't really get the dollar amount
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: how much that really is. So everybody just throws out
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: there like hey, this guy full share, Hey, this guy full.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: Most of them.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, you realize half is like two hundred,
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Like that's a lot of money for anybody, right.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: So we get to the wives liaison who took care
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: of the families, right, the kids and stuff, and I
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: have kids, right, that's you had kids, but you didn't
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: really use her, right, you didn't know who she was, you.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: Know, because everybody has nannies.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Great person. I'm trying to give the well, I don't
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: want to say that. I'm trying to give like people
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: in the neighborhood shares like and they're like, dude, do
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: that ship, like, donate that.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Yourself, right, we're gonna give this guy.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: I was like, sorry, a fool. So we get to
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: the vote on on the Wives Liaison and it's like
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: a quarter share and me and Dex are like, huh,
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: I go, bro, why don't you guys just tip it
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: yourself like a quarter share? I go with kids and
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: we're like breaking it down, is like, that's eighty thousand dollars, bro,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Like that's eighty the.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: Amount of times the decks are. Fowler at a high
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: pitched voice goes eighty eighty, like she's here.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: At first they said half, like we'll give her a hat.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: I said, half is crazy, right, half is ridiculous.
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: Right, that's out question, and I will stand on everything.
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: Now we're changing people's lives. But it was definitely I
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: don't think any I had three kids and I didn't
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: even know the Lowise liaison personally, so it's like one
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: of those. It was just it was funny that but
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: everywhere you are, we love you, we love you, and
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: we're so thankful. Our wives are thankful. But every time
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: I hear the number eighty, all I hear is your
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: boys going eighty.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: So we ended up we stopped on eighty, and throughout
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: the whole rest of the meeting, everybody's.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Like, that's crazy, that's crazy.
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: Min We still do it, and we gave her whatever
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: that quarter share.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: Wait, no, I never saw.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Mind you too though you doing that? Mind you too.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: It's easy for people to probably look at oh they're
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: they're selfish. We gave out the most playoff shares in
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: his Yeah, yeah, like what we were given to everyone.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: I didn't want to tell that story because of like,
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: like it was just funny because we gave it. I mean,
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: we had so much security because ran in first class.
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: Everybody every day was first off. THEO took that the
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: one thing I experienced, like playing around the league and
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: going to Boston have they be in first class and
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: going to Chicago, like it was run the right way.
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: But just that that story, to me, I had to
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: bring up because like, that's money one of my one
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: of my my favorite moments. Just when I hear eighty,
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: it's like it never stakes. I'll go back to that meeting.
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: When you look back on that season and even postseason,
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: like you got a favorite game, or when you tell
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: everybody about mm hmm or moment moment. I mean I'm
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: sure that.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: I mean there's multiple moments, but they're off the field, honestly,
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: Like I really don't remember the games. I mean, if
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: we look at it, I remember the games. Like if
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: we go back and you're like, oh, remember in Pittsburgh this,
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: that and the third, I'll be like, yeah, I remember
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: in Milwaukee where this, that and the third. I'm like,
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: oh yeah.
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: I think that's crazy about what I tell people at time,
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: like I don't remember. I don't remember what this guy
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: did or that I remember how a guy affected.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: I remember the times together, Yeah, the times well spent together,
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: like when we were in Saint Louis when we went
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: to the country bar. Remember I remember the times when
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: Riz and I went out and he told me there
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: was gonna be it was raining all day, and.
• 46:48
  Speaker 5: Like the Chesney concert, the Chesney concert, Like I remember
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: stuff like that, like it was yesterday, like and I
• 46:54
  Speaker 5: relived that in my head all the time, and you
• 46:57
  Speaker 5: kind of get spoiled, like I got spoiled.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: Like you go to another team. You didn't go to
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: another team after that, but like you go to another
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: team and you're trying to recreate that, right. You try
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: to talk to Snake about it stakes like, Bro, I'm
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: trying to get the Phillies like to have fun, Bro,
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: to do there, to do what like what we had
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: Because you're trying to match that up for the rest
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: of your career and you're chasing that. You're not even
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: changing because you realized it. That makes you, That takes
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: you over the top, makes you better, It makes you
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: better like it makes you it takes you over the top.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: Because that's what Mises like. Good teams can be good teams.
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: You can be good on paper, but the teams that
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: have that. And you talk to every championship team, everybody you.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: Talk to off the field, it's off.
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: The field, it's in the locker room. We were this,
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: we were that, and we.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: Were singing karaoke with our president of f and it
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: starts at the top, I mean karaoke with you know
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: what I mean it starts get into the field later
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: and like yeah, yeah, all you went out, Joe, I
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: drank wine last night. Oh nice?
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: Hey, hey remember what's it called American Legion Week? When
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: he was like, hey, Colbos locked on five.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: This is a testament to This is a testament to
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: Tom Ricketts. Honestly, like the Tom and THEO and Joe
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: and everybody that was in the front office that because
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you sit there, you remember before the
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: world I mean before the playoffs where we sat and
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: he had the head Bulls meeting. We're sitting there and
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: it was the veteran guys and we're sitting in the meeting.
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: THEO was there, Tom was there, Joe was there, and
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: I was like, look, the boys need to be the boys.
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: Talked to my wife. I remember you don't remember I
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: talked to my wife and I.
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: Was like, hey, look I forgot about this.
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: So the family trips are our worst trips, not just.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: Because because everybody special, yes, and but we're we're creatures
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: of having right. So we're on the road. We're on
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: the road and were like, I don't care if my
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: wife tells me, hey, go in the back and be
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: with the boys. I'm still gonna be up there like, hey,
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: we're good, You're good. There's a guilt, And I said,
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: it's the fact that when we're on the plane and
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: we're hanging out as boys, we want to be boys, right,
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: we want to go get off the plane and go
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: to dinner together, all of us. Like everybody's there is like,
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: oh my wife, were kids, we got the kids here.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: It's easy to say no.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: So remember I was like, hey, look, we need a
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: separate plane for the families. We always have it off
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: there when we first get there. We can go to
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: practice and you can fly in somebody else. I say,
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: can we make that happen without hesitation? Tom Briggs done?
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: He flew.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: He flew the whole cubs, uh like staff and everyone
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: to the games in Cleveland, for all the games.
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: But that's what I'm saying, So, how do you not
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: want to run through a wall for this guy? Right?
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: How do you not? Because when we got off that plane,
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: because it's it's family, like, we're all a family together.
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: Nobody else does that. You try to chase stuff like
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: that and it's it's never.
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: Because he didn't care. He realized the special moment. But
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: the thing that that does for you as a player
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: is like I've got nothing to worry about but focusing
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: on performing the best I can and stay in my
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: regular routine with the boys. Everybody else has got my
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: family right.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: We know that, we know they're taking care of I
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: don't have to worry about that. You guys, Okay, you guys.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: I think, honestly, that's a very good point. People like watching,
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: either if there's players right now or kids coming up.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: It's like, the camaraderie is what makes you who. You
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: become like everyone when you get to a certain level
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: is as good as everyone else. How are you going
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: to get that much better? And it's by investing in
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: your teammates. It's by pouring in to the person next
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: to you and making them feel love. You came over, bro,
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: you felt like the guy. Right just we made you
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: feel like the guy. And by making you feel like
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: the guy, you became the guy. You were over there.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: You came over, you demanded this respect and you were
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: this instant present. It was like we talked about this
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: with everyone. It's like without every single piece and character,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: there's no way doing.
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: I gotta jump to fucking laid off home run game seven,
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: like like, are we starting this, bitch? We're going deep? Okay?
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: Is there a better feeling?
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: And you turn around and.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: Bro oh bro bro.
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I just got excited about that moment. I
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: jumping ahead.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: This goes right, this gets it right into Okay, Okay.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: So what when when did it start in the NLCS
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: or the World Series?
• 51:38
  Speaker 4: I think it was the NLCS Bill Murray?
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, So Bill Murray is in our clubhouse NLCS. I
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: think it was before game five five or six five,
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: and we're we're I think game six, because we were
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: game five, and the celebrity starts showing up as he's always,
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: we welcomed in everyone. But Joe was good about Eddie Vedder,
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: Bill Murray, you name it, Scottie Pippen.
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: I just, I just I saw Scotty in Tallahassee shout out. Oops.
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: Really yeah, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta throwback posted
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: with he was at the game. We got a picture
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: and then I've got one from twenty sixteen, uh, when
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: he was in the locker room he has found about me.
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: Bill Murray's in there and we're talking to Bill. This
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: is forty five minutes before the game before first pitch,
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: Game five or six of the NLCS, Yes, he was here.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: He pulls out these four little bottles. Just take this
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: to me and Dex.
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: What is it?
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: Five energies.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: He's like to five hour energy. But here he takes
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: out a little airplane bottle of wood for reserve. He
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: goes woodford reserve and five energy. He goes called a speedboall,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: brings you up and brings you down, like, I fuck it,
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: like right where you need to be one one little
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: thing's not gonna hurt, right, we take it. We fucking
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: go off right and for the rest every game before
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: the World Series, me and him as.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: I was waiting on was bitching, Yeah, we're going at it.
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: World Series and we.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: Had forgotten about it because we didn't do it again
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: until game seven.
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: Well no, I did every game, no.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: But game seven, remember it was, so we go. He
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: goes Dan speedball, let's go with Bill Murray. Yeah, I'm
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: like all right, So we take the five injury shot.
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: The crown.
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: We had a crown because I always drink crown. So
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: we had the crown and I go out.
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: There and I remember, because you know, I'm leaving off,
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: so like everybody's there and it's loud, and it's like
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: this case and so I feel my heart my heart,
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, what in the fu is launching launching?
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: I was like, you're drenaline that, but my mind is slow.
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: And like I said, I did, I did my game plan.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: I had my game plan, and fil was nasty Game.
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: One, he was nasty that front hip two steamer.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: Well, you know what was crazy is my last at
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: bat against Klueber at home.
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you remember this.
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: They played this for me at the ten year and
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: there were you know, the moments thing they had and
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: they were like, this was your last st at bat
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: before your game seven Homer, And he threw me a
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: curveball and I got him at home, but the wind
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: was blowing it and he caught mine at you know,
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: you know, my hop like I did my hop. I
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: was like, all I got it and he caught mine
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: at the track and I was like, and I don't
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: think I think that would have been my first hit
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: against club.
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: So then fast forward to the game. So they had
• 54:33
  Speaker 4: the umpire's heat track.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: Remember that shit, Yeah yeah, yeah, So they had that
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: and it said he gives a little bit off the plate,
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: and you know, my eyes were crazy. So he gave
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: a little bit off the plate to lefties away, but
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: inside it had to be on the on the white
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: and couldn't be on black. He was the ball in it.
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: It's like perfect. First pitch of the game, hips hop ball. No, no,
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. First pitch of the game was away about
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: this fall and I was like, I looked at him
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: and I was like, it was a little album. He's
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: like he said something. He was like, that's all it is.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: I was like, I appreciate it. Next pitch, hip shot,
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: black ball, I said, this guy's fucked. I said, he's
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: next pitch up and away. Next pitch, I said, he's
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: coming right back at it. The hip shot, I said,
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: but they got to be over to play. It's gonna
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: be through. You can't give me three one right over
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: the plate.
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: Said yes, Gotti, bro the way you turned around and
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: looked at your team like there's so much.
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: So that I wasn't playing either. So the way I
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: did that, the way I did that, I hit that
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: ball so high like and I was like, and I
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: saw Roger going back like this, I was like, you know,
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: you hit a homie You're.
• 55:43
  Speaker 4: Like, I got it, and he was going back like this,
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: and I was like, no way, no way.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: So I'm watching it the.
• 55:48
  Speaker 6: Whole time and hidmatic, yes here, Hires here, and I'm
• 55:53
  Speaker 6: looking and as soon as it went over the wall,
• 55:56
  Speaker 6: I was past Hyder and I usually like and so
• 55:59
  Speaker 6: I hit first base and I look at all the boys.
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: Like yeah, and I'm like and I'm looking at Hiring
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: and I'm turning.
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: I'm like, that's sick. One of my favorite one of
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: my favorite pictures is that I've got to after my
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: home run is the dugout, like when the boys are
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: pumped for you and going like.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: That isn't It's a feeling you get was signed his.
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: Mind up too. I'm like, if this dude catches this ball,
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: I'm running right out.
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: So I was like, we're losing this game exactly.
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm quitting right now. Is going right? Because
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: I just letting those fucking two runs that got them
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: back in the game.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: This is game seven of a little series, right, We're
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: down three one, we come back, we win five wins six,
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: we're in the we're in the clubhouse. Were talking about
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: this with KB, but this will be its own separate episode.
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: We're playing Mario Kart. Yeah, uh forty five minutes until
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: the game. This dude's fucking pissed off.
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: I'm a mess.
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: We have Mario, I said, Rossie, we'll take it from here.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: We're taking here playing Mario Kart like he did in
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: these Mario card games. And then after Mario Kart, we
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: turned on the Rocky theme stuff, and then I stripped
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: down and started dancing, right, And that's what locking it
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: was for this team, Like we knew, like we were ready,
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: like you're prepared, and and no one was like look
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: at these guys like you can you can get like
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: that on teams, like you can get like, oh what
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: is he doing? What is he on this team? If
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: anyone had an issue, they're just come and talk.
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: Like Rossie, how about how about speaking of Homers your
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: home your last home?
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: I remember I came to him and I go bro
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: pitches like and this pitch is like crazy guy, like
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: he hits twice. Hey what I was a slider. I said,
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: he hits once because I had I'd taken him deep
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: the other time because I was like another in my head,
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: I'm like another slider. This I don't want to trust
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: it because I'm like, he's gonna blow your away with
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: this fast moll slider. I hit a homer on him.
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: He was untouchable. Well, then I told him, I said, bro, watch.
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: It, watch it.
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: When I had done, were you on the tip?
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: You know? Well, I had good numbers against Andrew Miller
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: when he was in Florida. He stuck and then I
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: caught it. He was different in Boston. Reliever. It is nasty,
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: and so I remember doing my homework and him shaking.
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: You had the tip and him shaking me. And Brian
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: mccannon had talked about that too. This is like, this
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: is like post game. But so I did my homer.
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: Every time he shook, he shook to heater because as
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: a catcher, you're like, I'm calling his slider like every
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: pitch right nasty. And I remember trying to look for
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: the tip the first pitch. I was like, I'm just
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: going to see one, and it came out and I
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: think I swung it a back foot slide or something.
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: So I was like abandoned that and was like, just
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: fucking see the ball, Just fucking see the ball. So
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: I got two strikes on me and then he threw me.
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: I was in my two strike approach. He threw me
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: a two strike heater up and away. I was like,
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: oh I saw that, Like I saw that, and he
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: had just come set and then him a pat so
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: and then the one two pitch he shook. I was like,
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: sell out the heat, sell out, and he threw it
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: right in the loop the loop joke, and he got it.
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: But it was funny. It's like my mind was running
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: two things at one time, trying to like one, calm
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: myself down because I just got in the game, and
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: also trying to like, okay, remember and then he shook,
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: and I remembered watching video going he shakes a lot
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: to fucking heater man.
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: But but the thing, you know, what a good team
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: does is like whether it was you, whether it was
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: somebody if you weren't playing, you were watching, watching, and
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: it's talking talking game like hey, how to look. Hey,
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: I come in, bro, Like everybody took members from like
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: it took like a fifteen pitch at bat like to
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: start the game ended up. I forgot what happened, but
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: anyway I come in. I'm like, hey, bro, he's going
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: to do great about it. You're so good, Hey, make
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: sure you get this over here. He can't throw this
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: over here.
• 59:50
  Speaker 3: So just that's got to be ups, got to be up,
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: you know what.
• 59:54
  Speaker 4: But everybody did that and I love that.
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: But trying not to be that's what I respect about.
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: When I watch Freddy Freeman play, sits this same seat
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: and watches it drove me. I was trying not to
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: be the old school guy that hated the iPad. But
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: like when I was managing and you look back at
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: the bench, you guys are just like this. It's like, man,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: he'll tell you what he's can't do if you watch.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: Oh bro, I try not to be the old grumpy guy.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: I'm almost positive in my career was you who said
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: this to me? You were like, you're hitting third. If
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: you come in and start telling everyone that this dude's
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: got a nasty side, what the fuck's the guy think
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: hitting seventh? Gonna think? Yeah, like you're the best hitter
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: on the team, right. Someone said that to me once.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: I think it was you.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 3: Imagine playing with my swing exactly.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: So for so long in my career, for so long
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: in my career, even if he even if that pitch
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: looked nasty to me, I would just tell guys like, no,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: it wasn't that good. He just hit a spot right,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: because I never wanted to make the guy, but like
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: even those conversations is like.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: Well the worst hitting coach is like you feel like
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: you leave them the meeting and it's like I.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: Can't hit, I can't hit.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: This guy is the best pitch on the planet, rather
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: than here's what he does, well, this is how we're
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: going to attack him, and he's gonna leave one.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 7: Here he misses over middle a lot, look middle or
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 7: hitting coach like that, because in twenty sixteen, the analytics
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 7: started coming down a little bit more and.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: I personally hated this, like the numbers part, like he
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: throws this pitch thirty percent of the time. So Malee
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: would try to run these numbers out and I would
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: wear him out. I'm like, males just enough with the numbers.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: Tell us how he's gonna attack us, and like he
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: would try to always creep the numbers. I'm like, stop
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: with the numbers. Like no one on his team wants
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: if they want the numbers, because we didn't have a
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: lot of hitters meetings, go tell him on their side,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: but quit throwing out these numbers that are psychologically messing
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: with us.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: Just give me a V that's it and outpitch, that's it.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: That's why I was dat simplicity.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: I need to see how hard he's started, ninety three,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: ninety six. He throws this. He throws this seventy percent
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: of the time, Like, don't give me seventy percent. Just
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: what's his outpitch? And I got two strikes?
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: What are my where's he going? Where's which was the
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: beauty is? Like they knew our routines centerfield?
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: You have the best view outside of like picture catcher, right,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: Like what was it like watching Game seven Raj go
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: deep and then us getting that last out.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: So Chapby's on the mound, Chabby was unhittable.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: He got thrown every Like if we know Chappy, Chady's good,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: Chappy's there in the seventh inning, Chappy knows his job, finish,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: knows his fucking Hey. Look, I'm I'm here to close
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: this shit out, period, point blank. And this is what
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: I did. And we had him in early, right, And
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: I remember I'm sitting there watching Raj's fouling off ship
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, just throwing the fucking you throw one
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: hundred and five miles an hour. He didn't have that.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: Then he had a hundred.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: I kept calling heaters. I'm like, somebody's gonna pop it up,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: like surely, like it's one hundred, right, And nobody threw
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: one hundred then.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: And then he I was like what so before so
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: before this so I'm a Jordan guy obviously, and they
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: told me. I was like, hey, can I wear the
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: elevens in the World Series? Like I want to wear it?
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 4: Like everybody wants to wear elevens.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: So I'm like, can I wear the elevens and World Series?
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: And they were like, hey, look, if you win the
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: World Series, you can wear any elevens you want.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 4: And I said really, And so we were up.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: We were up center field.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: Man off, I'm like, I'm about to get He's fucking elevens.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: This is crazy. I'm about to get I said, this
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: is gonna be shoe game. I was like, this is
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: gonna be crazy. And he hit the homeer. I went
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: like this, if you if there's a vantage for in
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: to me. He hit it and I went like this,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: and I was like, I was like this.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: I was like this.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: I was like this, you know. I went up and
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: he hit it. I was like this, and I put
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: my head down and I was like, holy ship, and
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: I was like this motherfucker just took away my Jordans.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: He took away everything from us. He got us all this.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: I was depressed for a minute. I still catching going
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: like I can shake things pretty quick and that ship.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: But then but then we had like.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 4: All those tears came down, all.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: Came down. It was crazy.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: What do you remember about that? What do you remember
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: about the rainde Lay speech?
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: Well, I remember what I was doing before the Raindo
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: Lay speech, and we were doing another speedball there is
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: we were. We were upstairs like some degenerates in the corner.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: We really were degenerates too. I know, like the stories
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: that we say sound like it, but but we.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: Were literally in the corner like this. We were like
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: this riz like we're having a meeting, and we were
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: like it went down to the meeting, but we were
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: in there. We're like, hey, work the first time, Let's
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: do it again. And we go down to the meeting
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: and you know, you got guys in there like that
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: are distraught, crying, like I mean wet and tears like rightfully,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: so like we sat there and we looked each other
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: in the eye and like we were talking about telling
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: the truth. We let it all out right there. Yeah,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: and that was what we That was literally everybody needed
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: to get it off their chests, like say what you
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: fucking need to say, Let's get it done. It's zero zero,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: let's go back. We're the best team in the world.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: And that's you know, everybody said their their their spiel.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: You spoke, you spoke, I spoke. Jay Hay started off.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: Jay had the best mindset in that, like because I
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: no one ever thought to like bring everybody together. We
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: all knew how we were feeling, but nobody would get
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: us all together at that time. And when he did that,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: I was like, okay, Like that's when I honestly, that's
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: when I knew it was a reset and that was
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: the reset that we needed.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And when we win, obviously, the celebration
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: is what it is. The parade, we're on the same float,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: like the party, like it was just NonStop and then
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: blackout we go. We go to SNL and like, bro,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: you're talking about like you win the pinnacle of the
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: series and you get to go be on Saturday Night Ride.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: Well originally, originally, okay, my child, like my adult vision
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: of winning the World Series. Like you celebrate, you party,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: and then you go to Vegas, right, like, come and celebrate.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: So I had a plane all lined up to go
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: to Vegas, all my friends from back home that I
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: grew up with, and like, we're rolling with buddies, all
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: my buddies. Well no, because the parade happened and everyone's
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: going home. So I was like no, I'm I'm burning us,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: you know. And Saturday Night Live NBC calls and it
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: was like, hey, we want you on SNL. I'm like,
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: holy shit, how can you turn out Saturday Night Live?
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: And then come to find out you guys, So we
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: redirect the plane from Chicago to Vegas to Chicago, New
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: York and I'm like, well, I have all my friends,
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: like bring them.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: And we go do that. Remember we did the the
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: rehearsal and we come back and the green the green room,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: it looked like the World Series again. We got thirty people.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: We couldn't even sit out.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: I was like, hey, I went back like a few
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: years later just to see a show, and the lady
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: that had a talent there saw me. She's like, till
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: this day, you had the most people ever. I was
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: like damn.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: I was like, hey, cool and the cool of our
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: wife sit down like me and Rossie's wife was cool.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: We were like, bro, that was the magnitude of that
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: was one of the most watched, no doubt, no doubt right,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: and we just like to give you about it.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: We wouldn't be good teammates. We're on there.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: I got the picture of that.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: We're all in there, twerking Bill. We're singing Bill Murray
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: like remember.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: He came every day. We did the whole We did
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: the whole thing, and we're nervous and we're like, okay, cool, cool,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: we got the script, We got the script down, and
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: he comes there. He's like, no scratch that we're doing it.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: I'm so everything we just rehearsed is now done.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: You want to talk about a rock star is when
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: Bill Murray roked into sound Everybody's like O G cast member,
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: and he basically said, no, no, this is how we're
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: doing it, and everyone there is panic, but it's Bill Murray.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: So we everyone did it, but we don't know any better.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was fun. We end up grinding up on
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: my grandma and that one day.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: How about we were walking out. We were walking out
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: y'all remember that we were walking out and we were
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: and he was like, they got y'all walking out in
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: this and it was jay Z.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: Remember I remember that party was was the musical host. Yeah, Bro,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: I mean that's what winning does. That's what winning and
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: that's why we get to talk about this of these
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: stories because without all these bonds, with all this the
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: off the field stuff, there's no way we're performing on
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: the field without you coming over and handing me or
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: drink when I'm grinding where it's like, that's not what
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: we're doing all the time, but it's such a long
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: grind that you need to break it up.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: And that's what your teammates knowing you and how close
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 3: we were because of all this stuff we went through
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: on that journey, I tell you. But it's like the
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: journey starts in February, Bro, like spring training, and you
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 3: know we got to play till till November third.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: You know now that we're sitting here talking about it,
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: like do you guys like I like you said, what
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: do you remember again? I remember the times we had
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: because at every.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 4: Every road city we had a suite. We had a
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 4: big suite.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: Gave me one no, but I'm.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: Just saying, like VJ, remember we had like the hospitality
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: were all all the team after the games. We're all
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: going there, whether we were sitting there having some drakes together,
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: talking shop, talking the game. Dudes were playing video game,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: but we were all hanging out at every team dinner,
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: every team dinner, everybody went yeah.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: I always think lesser lucky for that because it's like
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: you knew they were paying and these dudes were old school,
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: so it was like the want everything was like the
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: seafood towers, and it's like that's what built the championship
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: brand of the greatest.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: You gotta know who's next team. You gotta know who's
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: like your brother. Like I could talk to this dude
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: like maybe I can get on, but nobody else can.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: That's right, right, nobody else outside this locker room can
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: get on this guy.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 3: Like when you know each other off the field, it helps.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 3: Like when I go hang out with the pictures and
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 3: we have a night. I also know when they're grinding
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 3: the six trying to finish, I can say what the
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 3: fuck I want to that guy in that moment that
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: I'm feeling.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: As long as you say with all the respects, yeah,
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: I can say with all the respects or whatever I.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: Want, speaking of this, remember, do you remember the time
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: you came in the locker room and wore us all out? No, no,
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: you do, because so that we clinched. Yeah, so this
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: dude comes in, No, because I remember my handstring was tool.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 3: Oh that's right, that's right.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: So we're in and it was a doubleheader and we
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: come out and I had a torn hamstring. So I
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: go out to the first game and the second game
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: that national anthem starts tied out and I'm getting treatment.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: But there's guys in the locker room that aren't literally
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: just at the lockero on their phones. Yeah, a bunch
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: of rookies. Yeah, and ROSSI comes in and Rossie, what
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: in the fuck are y'all doing? And starts killing everybody.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 8: Get your fucking ass How many times do you have?
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 8: How many times? How much time do you get your
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 8: ass up there? And I'm in the locker room about
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 8: to go get some treatment. He goes dance, get your
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 8: fucking ass up there too, and I'm.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 9: Like, I was like, all right, all right, so I
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 9: get I go get my treatment, and shit, I'm like
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 9: I was like, hey, Rossie, I fludded it out and
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 9: I was like, hey, bro, I get what you were doing, Bro,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 9: but don't talk to me like that.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: I would be I'll be honest. You I know, bro,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: I did He he goes, I did it because I
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: did it when I had to include you because you
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: were like, like that's how I like good? I said, Bro,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: I understand, I said, I understand.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 3: Bro. You know we had I did that to Sonny
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 3: Castro in fifteen and like I had to apologize later
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 3: because I was just like the same thing.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, bro, he did it when he missed when he
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: was man when he was managing. He called us in
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: I think it was in twenty one grinding. He goes
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: off right like he's screaming at the whole team, and
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: I'm sitting there and I'm just like, this is fucking hysterical, right,
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: Like I know him.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 3: He's gonna start laughing and I am fucking screaming.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: He's sing literally fucking compete and I'm doing everything in numbers,
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: all of them free agents. I'm doing everything. I mean,
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: like ROSSI chill the funk out. It's like June, like relax, right,
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: it's a long season. And I go into his office
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: like before he even gets there after, and I just
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: go to home. I go, Bro, I love you. I
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: that took me everything in.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 3: Not to video video. He was my camera. I like,
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 3: browdy killed you, killed you. I was screaming at the
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 3: top of my life. But I love that.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: I love when Rossi gets like that because.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 4: He cares so too much much.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: You know, there's never too much, bro, because we all
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: need that. But at the end of the day, like
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: nobody takes a fence to it. Everybody's like, bro, like you,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: We respect you because we realized, like the skin you
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: have in a game like it's and I'm not don't
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: get me wrong, like I'm not trying to like you
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: were an everyday player, but you were there for us
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: every day. So we figured you out as an every
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: day guy.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: Boston. You literally taught me and I brought this since
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: the day you taught me in fifteen. I had a
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: day off in fifteen. Think it was really late in
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: the season too, and I wasn't out there for the
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: anthem or something, and you got on me in a
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: nice way, but you were like, hey, dude, say bro,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: he was These guys are out here every fucking day
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: for you. Every day, They're on the top step cheering
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: for your ass. He's the one fucking day you have off.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: You can't be out here showing them that your appreciation.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: And like, Bro, I took that with me forever, and
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: like any everyday player I've played with, I've told.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 3: Him that, Man, I learned that how much that means?
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 3: Like I learned that at early age. Man, I actually,
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 3: like Nap tells me, I ripped napway in Boston and
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: Nap played first, but like I started and we had clanched,
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 3: and what I didn't know, he had got a quartzon
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 3: shot in his foot, which I didn't know. So it
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 3: was like another one of those like somebody's can treatment,
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 3: I'm the asshole. But him and Lackey were up there.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 3: I walked in the game because I, I don't know,
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 3: I feel connection to my teammates.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're out there every day.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 3: I'm there a fucking day, Bro, I'm rooting you guys
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 3: on And then the fact they were up there watching
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 3: doing Fantasy football or whatever the time watching, I fucking
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 3: I went up there getting ribbled. I was shaking. I
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 3: was so mad. I'm like and I almost started crying
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 3: because I'm so mad. I told him now, I was like, hey, bro,
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 3: I'm out there every day rooting you on, and the
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 3: fucking day you have off week clinch and I'm playing,
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 3: you're not fucking out there. I was like, that's fucking bullshit.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 3: And I just walked off and he walked down there.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 3: I was hard crying. It's like, fuck, you know, I'm
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 3: getting emotional. But it was those things. I don't know.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 3: It's just like it matters, bro, it matters, and like you,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 3: I think it's appreciate that.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well it's thoroughly appreciated.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I love you guys, and I'm thanking for
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 3: my rings for both of you guys, and I'm glad
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 3: we're brothers for life and I consider you guys that.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 3: I'm so thankful we get to tell these stories that
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 3: everybody gets out. I'm special time, bro, I love you.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: I'm happy to get to wear those eleven SHI.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 3: That's right, that's right, thanks for your time. Good stuff.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 3: That's a rat.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: That is a bunch of rap on Vegas.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 3: HM