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Lovable Reunion - Kyle Schwarber’s WILD journey to 2016 Cubs World Series roster, amazing Game 7 story | Ross & Rizzo · Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: David Ross, Anthony Rizzo, Kyle Schwarber. Welcome back to another
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  Speaker 1: episode of Level of Reunion, David Ross and I with
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  Speaker 1: a very special guest, Kyle Schwarber, World Series Hero twenty
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  Speaker 1: sixteen short Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for the great introduction.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I can go on and on, but
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  Speaker 1: what you did in twenty sixteen was incredible.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get to that. But to see you developing your.
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  Speaker 1: Career over the last ten years is insane.
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  Speaker 3: Can you believe it's been ten years?
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  Speaker 2: No, No, not at all.
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  Speaker 4: I mean you can look at my hair and get
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  Speaker 4: ready said I did, I'm gray, and yeah, no, it's
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  Speaker 4: it's been I mean thinking about how even just the
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  Speaker 4: reunion when we all gott and it everyone's there and
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  Speaker 4: we're all having conversations, it felt like it was yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I thought that was a cool thing, right, But.
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  Speaker 4: I think that just the way it's been going in
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  Speaker 4: my career, and I'd just been lucky, blessed, whatever it
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  Speaker 4: is that I have that opportunity to keep playing and
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  Speaker 4: trying to play at a high level.
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  Speaker 2: But no, I don't believe it's been ten years. This
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  Speaker 2: wild it's been crazy.
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  Speaker 5: Man, You're a lot richer now than he used to
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  Speaker 5: be somebody else.
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  Speaker 1: I remember you getting drafted out of Indiana and they're
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  Speaker 1: like taking this he'said there, Like I remember THEO talking
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  Speaker 1: about it's the best power in the draft.
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  Speaker 2: Was it thirteen two thousand and yeah, twenty fourteen draft?
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  Speaker 6: Fourteen draft or you're a legend in my hometown with
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  Speaker 6: Talentassey Florida went in there.
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  Speaker 5: I think he had like four home runs in the regional.
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  Speaker 2: Hit I hit a far one there, had national chatty champs.
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  Speaker 2: It was a great. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: This past year the off season, wow, great off season.
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell you what you know, contract baby Hoosiers reunions.
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  Speaker 1: A damn you're awesome. I mean I was. I was
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  Speaker 1: thinking about this well. I was just going over some
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  Speaker 1: stuff before the interview, and I was like, dude, this
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  Speaker 1: could be literally your whole year like this. You could
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  Speaker 1: roll this right into championship and then another world.
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  Speaker 4: Serve you guys got juiced there feeling nothing better, nothing
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  Speaker 4: better to do that like, and we got that team.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we just for us and Philly where we
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  Speaker 2: even we just locked up Lizardo. That was a huge.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we got some some young guys coming up
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  Speaker 4: to which I think could be really exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Crawford painters going to become dude.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's painter in twenty twenty when he's in
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  Speaker 1: high school.
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  Speaker 3: Still like you're just doing.
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  Speaker 1: The guy punched my ticket like six different times, and
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  Speaker 1: who the fuck it off? He wasn't that good, And
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  Speaker 1: I was like.
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  Speaker 2: Are we allowed to customer the same whatever we want? Okay, good,
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  Speaker 2: we want good?
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  Speaker 5: I said, with all respect, yeah, respect.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah he's nasty, bro, but I'm broke. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to fifteen when our first spring trained together. You were
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  Speaker 1: a catcher, right, didn't break the big leagues first big
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  Speaker 1: league camp yep, and YouTube probably got closer quicker than that.
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  Speaker 3: We had.
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  Speaker 6: We got to hang out a lot and catching and
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  Speaker 6: obviously you know the bat is speaks for itself and
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  Speaker 6: the power, but he was grinding.
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  Speaker 5: And catching early on grinding. We had me you, Maggie
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  Speaker 5: Wellie Welly.
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  Speaker 2: Uh Man, who else? I think the Taylor t Garden.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, a bunch of guys just bring training.
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  Speaker 2: Raffy Lopez too.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, we had a good we had a good
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  Speaker 5: catching court.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It was like, I don't even know if you guys
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  Speaker 4: have this story, but I don't even think, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we need it's to this day. So first big League camp,
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  Speaker 4: I'm staying at the team hotel that's you know, that's
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  Speaker 4: right behind the complex, and you know, catchers are there.
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  Speaker 2: First thing in the morning. We work out. You know
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  Speaker 2: you'd be working out in the morning too when the
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  Speaker 2: catchers were there. We work out.
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  Speaker 4: Then we go early work and it's still he was
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  Speaker 4: like drilling you guys, and the and the season, you know,
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  Speaker 4: or the sun hasn't come up, so you know, and
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  Speaker 4: it's like week two and I you know, he has
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  Speaker 4: served mister sirry whatever you guys need hers right, Like
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  Speaker 4: that's what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like this.
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  Speaker 4: So I go to sleep, alarms are set everything. I
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  Speaker 4: wake up and the sun's out. No, I go, what
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  Speaker 4: the fuck just happened? And I'm panicking and I go
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  Speaker 4: to touch my phone and it's dead.
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  Speaker 2: The plug came out of the wall.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: I and oh yeah, I don't want you to know.
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  Speaker 2: I did not want him to know. So we were
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  Speaker 2: lockermates too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I charge get my film just charged turns on.
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  Speaker 4: I got tuxt with Boresy from couz uh you know
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  Speaker 4: who was our minor League catcher guy going where are you?
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  Speaker 2: Where are you?
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  Speaker 4: Blah blah, and I so I call him right away
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  Speaker 4: they pick up. I'm like thinking, it's because it's almost
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  Speaker 4: time for bullpens and they go, hey, we covered for you.
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  Speaker 4: We told you know, Rossy biggie, and these guys are
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  Speaker 4: asking where you were. They said, you got to source
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  Speaker 4: sore shoulder, you wouldn't.
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  Speaker 2: Sell the doc.
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  Speaker 4: You wouldn't sell the doc, and uh, you just got
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  Speaker 4: to take it a little easy for today.
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  Speaker 1: But think about how different psychologically your career could have
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  Speaker 1: been if you would have found out like that's.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's like my worst nightmare is being late,
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  Speaker 2: being late.
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  Speaker 1: Do you ever have dreams of like you're late for
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  Speaker 1: your first at bat?
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  Speaker 2: I had dreams of being after we won the World Series.
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  Speaker 4: I had dreams that I was like running up the
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  Speaker 4: concourse and going to our locker room. For some reason,
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  Speaker 4: I don't have my cleats on it, Like I can't
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  Speaker 4: find my cleats, can't find my cleats, Get my cleats.
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  Speaker 4: Finally on they got lesser and Lackey eat and chicken
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  Speaker 4: right there looking at me like what the hell are
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  Speaker 4: you doing? And then I run all the way back
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  Speaker 4: down and then I like, the first thing I see
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  Speaker 4: is the Cleveland scoreboard and Wilson Contraras's face is on
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  Speaker 4: the scoreboard and he's hitting behind me, and I turned
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  Speaker 4: left and nose right there. Just give me the handshake,
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  Speaker 4: A hey you're done, you wake up, nough.
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  Speaker 2: I was.
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  Speaker 5: I was happy if they didn't give me mine bad.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to bunch out speaking of Cleveland. When
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  Speaker 5: that was, that was your debut getting called up.
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  Speaker 2: So that was the first start.
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  Speaker 4: So actually debut was in Wrigley because Meggie got thrown out.
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  Speaker 2: In the eighth.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, first start.
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  Speaker 4: We got thrown out the eighth. So I get caught up.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm in double A and carom Go called it
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  Speaker 4: from double A because Hobby broke his thumb. Somebody went
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  Speaker 4: Hobby broke his thumb, and they were doing that. They
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  Speaker 4: were like saying that, hey, they're going to call someone
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  Speaker 4: up for Inner league play whatever it is.
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  Speaker 2: And I get a random call from an agent.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, right when Hobby broke his thumb, they're going,
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  Speaker 4: He's like, hey, don't there, Hobby got hurt.
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  Speaker 2: They might think about calling you up, so this don't
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  Speaker 2: be shocked.
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  Speaker 4: But I was like huh okay, like didn't whatever a
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  Speaker 4: couple of days past and think about it, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: in Double A and I think we're playing Jacksonville, and uh,
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  Speaker 4: Buddy Bailey, Buddy, Buddy Bailey.
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  Speaker 2: He called Hey Griz. He called me Gris because he
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  Speaker 2: couldn't say Schwarber. So hey Gris, come come my offish.
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  Speaker 4: So go in and it's like him J Mack, uh
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  Speaker 4: you know, some other front office and like Desie Wilson,
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  Speaker 4: who's our hitting coach. And they tell me I got
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  Speaker 4: the call the big leagues and they I'm you know,
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  Speaker 4: get goosebu. I'm still thinking about it. But uh, they
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  Speaker 4: were like, hey, this is the plan. We got five
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  Speaker 4: days inner league. You're gonna come up. You're going to
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  Speaker 4: start the five games in ear league, but you're going
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  Speaker 4: to go to Chicago, watch the game, and uh, then
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  Speaker 4: you'll start.
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  Speaker 2: We go to Cleveland the next day.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, I show up the Wrigley and you know,
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  Speaker 4: all juiced uff ready to sit. You know, catchers report
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  Speaker 4: sitting like just reading them, you know, looking at looking
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  Speaker 4: at Rossi and you know, trying to figure out what
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  Speaker 4: the catchers are doing. I think Maggie's catching that game
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  Speaker 4: and he's explaining some things to me, and then like
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  Speaker 4: it's I always tell the story too, So it's like
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  Speaker 4: the sixth inning and I'm just like, well, like someone goes, hey,
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  Speaker 4: let's go take some swings. Six this is what happens, right,
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  Speaker 4: like guys might get loose for a pinch hit whatever
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  Speaker 4: it is. So you know, obviously the old the old
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  Speaker 4: regular where the bullpens were on the side of the
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  Speaker 4: fields and the cages were out where the bullpens are now.
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  Speaker 4: So there's a there's the flip net that you dropped
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  Speaker 4: down them in the locker room, so flipping that you
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  Speaker 4: put the piece of supply with down over the TV,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, I start putting balls onto you start
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  Speaker 4: and here comes many Ramirez flipping me.
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  Speaker 2: Some some side flips. Man. I think was like the
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  Speaker 2: he played the triple A and like just doing what
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  Speaker 2: he wanted to do. Get ready to down, like yeah, coach,
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  Speaker 2: and he'd come up to the big leagues help some
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  Speaker 2: dudes out, and I'm like, this is awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the big leagues.
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  Speaker 2: Flipping baseballs like and uh, you know, to sit down there.
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  Speaker 4: Then I think Cleveland was kicking the ship out of
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  Speaker 4: us and Niggie got thrown out and the eighth inning
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  Speaker 4: and they go, hey, you're getting at bat I'm like, oh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I get up there.
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  Speaker 4: You know, great first of bat marks and chimpsky left
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  Speaker 4: handed specialists.
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  Speaker 2: Sacred slider.
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  Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I'm like, I just remember there was you know,
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  Speaker 4: people started leaving, but then the people that were still there,
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  Speaker 4: they get up on their feet. I'm like this, I'm
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  Speaker 4: getting all right, calm down, deep breath. I'm gonna take
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  Speaker 4: the first pitch. See one right down the right, down
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  Speaker 4: it right down the middle, right, all right, get ready.
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was a heater. That's a slider in
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  Speaker 4: the other battles strike too. And then I'm all right,
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  Speaker 4: come on, getting bring a little bit closer. He goes
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  Speaker 4: back door. Sacred strike three. You just shut down. I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: I stink. I'm a bust I stink. But you know, luckily,
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  Speaker 4: then we go to Cleveland next day, get the start
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  Speaker 4: at d H.
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  Speaker 2: And uh that was number one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I got number one, Sean Markham never forget it.
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  Speaker 4: That was the best part about it, too, was the boys,
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  Speaker 4: the good stories for the people.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. First ship was a triple in the big leagues. Yours. Yeah, same.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, bro, Well that was the first punch out too,
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  Speaker 6: so we can relate.
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  Speaker 1: To that was a punch out. Second about triple.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so punchy triple and it definitely I hope that
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  Speaker 4: they can't change. I don't think they can challenge anymore
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  Speaker 4: that long ago, but definitely probably should have been a air.
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  Speaker 4: It went right through the right through the legs of
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  Speaker 4: Santana at first base and triple you know, excited. Fun fact,
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  Speaker 4: all my hits that year so double A, triple A
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  Speaker 4: and the big leagues all my first hits.
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  Speaker 2: At that level were triples.
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  Speaker 1: Damn wow.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't know how I remember that because I
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  Speaker 4: don't hit probably because I don't hit a lot of triples.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, fat guy and a little coat.
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  Speaker 1: How about when you get when they're in the office
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  Speaker 1: and don't boy and you call your parents?
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  Speaker 3: How cool is that?
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  Speaker 1: Because just quick backstory, I'll plug it. Kyle's parents come
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  Speaker 1: from all police.
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  Speaker 4: Officers, right, yeah, So my dad police officer, mom was
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  Speaker 4: a sister and sister was in the military police officer
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  Speaker 4: where my dad worked at Now.
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  Speaker 1: Growing Up has an amazing foundation Schober's Neighborhood Heroes that
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  Speaker 1: goes back to first responders.
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  Speaker 3: But what was it like calling them and giving them
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  Speaker 3: that news.
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  Speaker 4: It was It's like that's the dream that you think of, right,
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  Speaker 4: Like you know, one you dream of getting the news
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  Speaker 4: and then now you can get that to call your
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  Speaker 4: parents and be like, hey, guys, get your flights the
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  Speaker 4: the Chicago.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to the big leagues.
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  Speaker 5: And yeah, like nobody can never take that away, I know.
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  Speaker 2: Man, Like, like it doesn't matter, you know, it's and
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  Speaker 2: everyone's got everyone's got their own story, right, But it's
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  Speaker 2: just a special that person.
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  Speaker 4: But so mom and dad come up, my sisters come up.
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  Speaker 4: One of my sisters just had their daughter and like newborn,
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  Speaker 4: like two weeks really, and came to Chicago. They drove
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  Speaker 4: the Cleveland, then they drove the Minnesota, followed us for
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  Speaker 4: the whole road trip. But yeah, it was I mean
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  Speaker 4: just having that call, right because obviously, Yeah, like my
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  Speaker 4: parents put on a lot of work. Like my dad
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  Speaker 4: first responder. He was a police officer forty plus years.
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  Speaker 4: He retired when I graduated high school. My mom, so
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  Speaker 4: she was a dispatcher and then she went to she
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  Speaker 4: was our inn working at hospitals. She went back to
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  Speaker 4: college when we were in school, Like in middle school,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you know, grinding out, still working a job,
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  Speaker 4: going back to school, trying to get her to gets
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  Speaker 4: her degree so that she can take the next step
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  Speaker 4: in her where she wants to go. She gets that done, Uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, pretty much for me and my sister Lindsay.
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  Speaker 4: Uh you know, my my older two sisters were on
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  Speaker 4: their way on their feet. But uh, you know my
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  Speaker 4: sister Lindsay, who was in the National Guard and now
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  Speaker 4: a police officer, she was big and the horses growing up,
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  Speaker 4: and uh my mom, you know, mom, Dad gave us
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  Speaker 4: every opportunity that we could the follow the dream. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, going to all these horse shows growing up,
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  Speaker 4: going to all the travel baseball games, not like you know,
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  Speaker 4: the crazy ones now, but like just going to Indiana,
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  Speaker 4: going to you know, the big trip, going to Florida
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  Speaker 4: or going to Cooperstown.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, like you know, imagining how much of that could
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  Speaker 2: be a stresser, but like they just gave us every
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  Speaker 2: opportunity that we could go out there and follow it.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, I got that, got the dream, got the chance,
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  Speaker 4: got drafted.
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  Speaker 2: And to give them that call, it was.
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  Speaker 5: They had a week.
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  Speaker 6: We would tell the story the other day on the
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  Speaker 6: bus when when you were catching and came into that
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  Speaker 6: game late, you got to share that story when we
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  Speaker 6: had such a relationship and obviously the hold gown on
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  Speaker 6: the team.
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  Speaker 5: He's always like, you know, he's what do you got?
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  Speaker 5: What do you got? What do you got? Catch on?
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  Speaker 5: So you story?
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  Speaker 4: So we're playing San Francisco, going on, Yeah, we're playing
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  Speaker 4: San Francisco.
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  Speaker 2: This is a great and it's a story.
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  Speaker 4: I always tell because it you know, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: that there's plenty of background on Rossie, but like the
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: things that he meant to us as the players, the
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  Speaker 4: younger guys and even you know, the the veteran at
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  Speaker 4: the time too, Like you were able to talk to
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  Speaker 4: Rossie and he would give it to you straight, which
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: that's what you needed, you know, from a player, because
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: something you know, coming from a player means a lot
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  Speaker 4: from then from more than the coach sometimes, right.
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  Speaker 1: Takes a while for a coach to build up that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactlyship and peer so.
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  Speaker 4: Much exactly, and you know, your your track record was
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  Speaker 4: phenomenal and uh so.
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  Speaker 2: You know me young Ketchrick Kyle, We're playing San Francisco.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, Buster Posey has the day off and here comes
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  Speaker 4: Brandon Crawford to the plate and Tommy hunters in the
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  Speaker 4: game and.
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  Speaker 2: It's a three run ball game.
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  Speaker 4: I think in the sixth or seventh at regular And
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  Speaker 4: I remember this day, the report was spin it went
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  Speaker 4: in doubt. Spin, it went in doubt spin it. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I called a couple of curveballs. He ball spiked one,
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  Speaker 4: Peter strike curveball ball, you know, like score. I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 4: like we and I can't call it breaking ball. He
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  Speaker 4: doesn't have the breaking balls. And Tommy throws ninety nine
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  Speaker 4: you know, strike two, three two, So I'm like, on
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  Speaker 4: a foul ball, and I'm like, well, I I'm not
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  Speaker 4: going to take another chance with walking this guy because
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  Speaker 4: Buster Posey's got the day off.
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  Speaker 2: I don't, you know, there's something there's I forget who
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  Speaker 2: was hitting behind him.
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  Speaker 4: He could definitely pinch hit here. I'm like, we just
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: got to take our chances. Called a heater?
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  Speaker 2: What pop backside? Homer? You know, I go. My first
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  Speaker 2: response was oh no, no, no, no, no no.
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  Speaker 4: Then Homer and I go, you know, like drop the
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  Speaker 4: head and we get out of the inning, and.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: You know, I got Boz. You know, he's what do
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: we say, what a Dallas spinning on my I know, you.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: Know, and so then ROSSI I get I start to
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: taking my stuff off, and Rossie just sees me defeated.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: He's like, and you know, in his Rossie way of
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: letting you know, you know, hey, yes, there's.
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: Eight guys out there looking at you, eight eight of
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: them because they're all looking at you. No one else
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: is looking at you, You're looking at everyone else, and
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: they can see how you're acting.
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Go He's like, don't ever let anyone know your defeated.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Don't ever let him know. He goes, even if you're wrong,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: I'm like, good point.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: It was like, gotcha. It was like, well, all you
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: guys did that. That's that special group that we had.
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: I feel like, in my salty way and given that
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: you guys the character bar group that year, everybody took
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: my negativity or my honesty.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: And he walked away feeling better after He's just like,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: would just lay into you and then somehow you feel
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: good about it and you literally just got taken.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: A well the thing is the truth, yeah, but.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: It's the truth in a loving way.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: It's not the it's not like the the I'm gonna
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: you know you say you just screwed up. And I'm
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: just gonna let you know you screwed up, just to
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: let you know you screwed up.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: That, right, I think about I tell everyone this day.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Like that's one of the biggest There's a lot of
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: different lessons I've learned from being with you guys in
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: my you know, young years coming up. I always say like,
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: I'm so lucky with the group that I got to
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: come up with, because that's how I want to treat people.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: But you know, having people being honest and being able
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: to tell you that you know, hey, you might have
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: you might have fucked up, but you know you got
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: to be better for it, right, And you can't let
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: people know. Like that's always one thing I always say
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: to people. I am like, that's like that story you
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: tell me, I use it in a hitting way now, right,
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Like I'm never gonna let the you know, even if
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: I stink, no one's gonna know that I stink, because
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: you can never can't let that guy, can't let that
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: guy know. I can't let my manager. Now, I can't
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: let anyone know because either that's there's blood in the water,
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: he's coming after you, or it's giving someone an excuse
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: to give you a day off, right, Like, like I
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: don't want that, Like I want to grind. I want
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: to keep playing and I want and I know and
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: the greatest words of Reee Hoskins there's always a chance
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: when you get to the box. There's always a chance.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: Just make it to the box. There's always a chance.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: So like it's always stuck with me. It's a great story,
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: like and.
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: It's it's that you were you wanted energy, you wanted feedback,
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: you wanted like you wanted I'm trying to get better.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: What do you got? That was your thing on time?
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: What do you got? What do you got?
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: And that's good talking about. I think we were discussing earlier,
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: like what was that like when you had to give
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: up catching because you weren't passionate about catching?
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: And and that's.
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: A that's a big deal, right and you'd been a
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: catching your whole.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Life, Uh, looking in retrospect, it was a great idea.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: But yeah, like.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: The biggest thing coming on Indiana was am I going
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: to be a catcher? Or am I just going to
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: be a hitter that displays a position?
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I remember you gain out Indiana, like left handed power,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: not sure if you can catch. I'm like, oh, fuck,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: like this's gonna play first base. I'm like I feel
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: like I had a solidified job.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: And I'm like, all right, but yeah, but you had
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: you had a cannon for an I thought you always
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: had a good arm.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: It was just like I never knew how to catch, right,
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Like I was the reason I got thrown back at
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: catchers because I have adhd Like I was the kid
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: out of the outfield picking grass, you know, playing in
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: the dirt.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: My mom and I are like, we got to put
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: him somewhere where he pays attention.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: But I was, I was always the right fielder.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: But so yeah, like you know, I wanted to be
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: a catcher. I just didn't know how to be a catcher.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: And I was telling everyone when I was getting drafted,
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: I'm like, I just need I want instruction, right like,
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: And it's not even a shot at like college, it's
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: just like you know, the big leagues, it's like there's
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: great instruction and everyone doesn't do it the same way,
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: right Like, I think, you know, there's another story that
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: I can get to, but that relates the hitting. But
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: I just didn't know how to and like I knew
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: I was rough. I wasn't I wast dumb, right, Like
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: I was passionate about catching because that's what I did,
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: That's the position I played as a kid, and that's
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: what I wanted to do in the big leagues.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: And you're a worker and like wanted to be great
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: at whatever you did.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: You know my grandma right, Like she always would be like,
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: you know, rest her soul, you know, like Johnny Bench.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: She's like, we always talked about Johnny Bench. You know,
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: she grew up watching the Reds. She's like, I want
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: you to be the next Johnny Bench.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: And you know, like it stuck with me, and I'm like,
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: that's what I want to do. And so yeah, like
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: rough around here. I just for sure to say the least.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: But who called you to tell you they wanted you
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: to get ready for the outfield?
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: No one.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: That was communication.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: But it wasn't spring training.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: It wasn't.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: So I get drafted fourteen, they go, hey, you caught
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: a lot of innings whatever it is. You know, they
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: were kind of putting in the works when I got drafted,
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: like hey, you're gonna play left field twice a week,
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: catch twice a week. And DH the other three or
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: whatever it is. And I'm like, okay, fine, So go
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: to Boise, played five games, played outfield, caught to DH
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: two gone. The king County had Mark MJ. Mark Johnson,
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: he was our catcher manager.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Big league catcher, excuse me, but.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: Got around him and he's like, hey, we got to
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: catch this guy more. And so besides doing that whole rotation,
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: like I was catching now and I caught for like
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: pretty much two and a half three weeks there, played
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: like a couple of games in left field, then went
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: to Daytona, got called up, finished the year there in fourteen.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: They're like, k you're catching.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Once week, Like fine, so get the fifteen now they're like, hey,
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: you're strictly catcher, Like it's either you're catching and if
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: there's DH games and you know it's not your day
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: to catch, you're in DH. Perfect so called to the
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: big leagues whatever, maybe gets hurt recalled I'm catching and
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: in the big leagues at fifteen, So it's great, Yeah
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: we got So the rotation was John Jake, Kyle Hamill,
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: and it would be like a mix of like.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Clayton Richard Woody.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: Like what you would spot start too so Rossi's catching
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Lester obviously, and Jake's starting going the run there in
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: that second half, and they're pretty much there, like he's
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: got too good a ship for you to catch. So
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: like you're gonna catch Kyle. You're gonna catch Kyle, and
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: you're gonna catch Jay, say Hamil, and you're gonna catch Clayton.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, okay, perfect right, So I'm raking, you know,
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: having those two days off, and so then Meiggi's.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: About to come back and.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Davy goes, hey, you can played out outfield, right. I'm like, yeah,
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: I played outfield a little bit. He goes, all right,
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Just he goes, come out with me, you know, tomorrow
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: and we'll do some fly balls and we'll do some
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: footwork stuff. So I got there the next day. You know,
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: footwork takes some fly balls. And I'm pretty sure I
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: was catching this game and someone was beating beating the
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: Brakes office and they put me out in left field
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: from catching, and I think you were pitching on my
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: first fly ball out.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: I think you. I think you might have had the pitch.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: So there was a very I'm pretty sure it was
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Rossie if I remember and get first fly.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: That was the game you pitch and then hit the
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: home run.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm pretty positive yeah it was probably the
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: Phillies because you were beating the Brakes office, I remember.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: But uh we got no hit that he by h cold.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Handle handles, no hitter, but uh so, yeah, then I
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: think I caught one more and then it was Lester's
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: turn and they activated Miggie and they kept me on
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: the roster.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: I guess supposedly.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: Davy always was like he was like, yeah, they were
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: thinking about pretty much just take send you back to
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: Triple A. But he's like, you know you're hitting, you
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: play you see if you can play left field.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: You raked you for year when bombs something like that.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, fifteen or sixteen. But uh so you know out
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: in left field. Next game is John Lester's game to
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: get the Rocky. No, no, no, not there yet, not
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: there yet. We're not there John quite yet.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: But uh so he's in there.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: I'm chilling out there, having had a fly ball the
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: whole game, chilling. He's in the I think he's in
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: the eighth and it's like two.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Outs, guy on second base, one nothing ball game, we're winning.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: And I think it was Charlie Blackman, or someone's up
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: and he just hits me the sky high fly ball
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: and I'm shiitting my pants.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Out there come you know, two handketch like bang.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I'm like use.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: In my head, I'm going yes, but outside, you know,
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: keep the stoneface. But I'm like, okay, I can do this.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: But yeah, like that's where it started. But obviously it
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: was a journey, you know it was. It was not
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: ever going to be pretty. I thought i'd be the
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: first one to tell you that, Like I'll tell you
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: I'll go try hard. I'm going to keep trying to
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: learn the best I can and keep trying to make
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: the adjustments that I need to make. But you know,
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: if I see a ball that I think I could
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: get to or what, you know, I might die for.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: It might not look pretty.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: I might drop more. Oh you've seen good.
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: I wasn't saying knock in more than you let in,
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: that's right.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: That was the best saying, just driving more than you
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: let in.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: So every time I screw on up out there, someone
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: would go, hey, drive one, you know, drive to it now.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Try than two now, So I'm locked in. I'm locked
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: in up at their plate.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: But yeah, it was it was interesting, you know, and
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: it's not the I mean, I think that's probably the
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: two hardest places to play outfield is in Wrigley and
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: in San Francisco.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: I think those are two hardest places.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: To catch fly balls period, just with how the wind
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: is always messing with the ball.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Heck, I know that we we've been hinting at it.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: But like you know, I remember a ball and John
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: was pitching like Christian Yelich hammers a ball I mean
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: had to be like one ten off the bat.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: But the winds is howling and it's in April. I
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: go sprinting back and all REALITY had to do. All
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: I had to do was a stand where I was.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: I go sprinting back, you know. Then I find the
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: ball again. I slammed the brakes on.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: That's why you like zoot it like three different times.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: There's been a couple of times that I've done that.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: You know, I've got it.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: I got a double air under my belt in the playoffs.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: I got a double air that was with Kantana pitching.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: Uh Daniel Murphy line ball clanked it and then going
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: to pick it up, Yeah, going going to pick it up.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: I kicked it field goal was good. Yes, yes, I remember,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: and triple and.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: They took Q out, kicked it field goal good. They
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: took Q out and next guy singles. It was like
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: it was a runnering game. I'm like, just feel the
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: worst and then you know, I like this was something
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: that always stop out me too, and like it's later
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: on that game I get pinchip for it.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Albert came in a pinch.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: It for me, your boy.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was my boy boy.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: And it's Sammy Sally's pitching, and it's a big spot
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: in the game, like running on the second base, and
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: I mean I'm just like pouring.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: My heart and soul into him to like will him
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: to get a hit, you know, right, just the will
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: this guy to get a hit, and.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: You know gets the hit, you know, going nuts, you know,
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: Like then we go on to win the game in
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: the playoffs, and like just think like being able to
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: sit back and look at that through the lens now,
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: it's like it was a really good lesson for me
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: because it and it stemmed from you guys, but winning
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: at the end of the day was way more important
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: than all the personal aspects of that, right, Like, did
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: it absolutely sucked that I made a double air. Hell yeah,
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: it cost q caused q law a win in a
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: playoff game. Uh does it suck to get pinchip for?
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: Absolutely stinks get pinchip for Yeah? Right right, I gotta
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: we gotta coach with the Phillies. Is its greatest line
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: is you know my name of the big leagues was
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: now batting for.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Abad. That was his name.
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: But you were You're not giving yourself a lot of
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: credit from uh your You're right, you had your trials
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: and we need to talk about that.
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: But I remember one of.
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: The more accurate outfield throwers I've ever played with, and
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: you made a really big you throw Adrian Gonzales in
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: a playoff game, ball to left and a big close game.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that was.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: He had the glimpses. Yeah, I thought you were.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: I always said shorte is not bad out there.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: It's just there's a couple of plays.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: That when they happened with you, you got labeled, right,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: And when you get labeled in the big leagues anywhere,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: it's literally pop. So every single like play. You can
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: go one hundred games in a row and there's one
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: and then it's oh, and then they play a couple
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: more that like in the past. So it's like I
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: always just felt like you had labeled as like make
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: a boat head play, and I was like, that's fucking bullshit,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: because you made so many good plays.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: There's there was.
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: You know, obviously, like analytics in the game is huge
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: now and it's and we were kind of on the
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: big first waves of it with course, uh you know
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: where we were going.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: You know, obviously Joe was uh.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: You know, I loved Joe and but you know, he
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: he kind of brought in a little bit more analytical
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: side the things here in Chicago and.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Trying to like get you know, being a young guy and.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: Getting labeled okay, right, Like I know I'm not a
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: left fielder, but I'm trying as hard as I can
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: to go out there and get the job done, right,
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: And like the pride of it, the pride of the
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: player is.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: I don't want to be taken out.
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: I want to go through the high five line, right,
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: I want to go through that high five line.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, Like that that's the that's like the goal.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: You know, you you want to play all nine.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: You want to feel like that you did something to
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: help the team that day. And it doesn't always have
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: to be at the plate. It can be on any
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: different aspect, you know. It can be base running, could
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: be defense, it could be in the.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Clubhouse, whatever it is, right, like game calling, right, that
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: was game calling right, right.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Cheering if you get pinched of cheering, right.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: Just feeling feeling like that you're contributing in a way.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: And yeah, like does it piss you off to get pulled?
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Hell? Yeah, piss you off. But I'm not going to anyone.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: You never let it show. Like That's what I always
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: remember about you, Like good, bad, or and different.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: You were always there.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, where you're going to be the next day. You're
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: gonna be doing your same routine. And like what you're
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: saying too about getting pulled and then pouring your heart
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: and soul into Albert, which is amazing because you are
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: kissed off, like Ego's taking a huge hit.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: It's a big situation.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: But there's nothing better and I always say this than
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: when you're in the box and you see all your boys,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: yeah on the bench right, Like dude, I would go
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: up and Wrigley and bump bump, bump, and I would
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: literally like I still see you both, yeah, yeah, like
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: next to each other. And it was like yeah, I
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: would just look at in the dugout between pitches. Sometimes
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: I'd be like, all right, everyone's.
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: There, and yeah I got this, like that's walkout song
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: for people that don't know.
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: But yeah, that's that's. Uh, that's kind of team we.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: Had, I think.
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: And and before we get off this topic, you've got
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: to tell the John Lester retirement montage last year last year,
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: twenty twenty, Chicago.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: So I was John's guy, John's John's guy, if that's
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: I was John's guy for about three four years, and
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: all of a sudden I became Katana's guy for a
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: little bit.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: If you ever saw a highlight in twenty fifteen to
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: twenty minus sixteen to twenty twenty of Shore, we're fucking
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: up in the outfail John was pitching so.
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: And he's not wrong. I remember, uh yeah. John would
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: always say like, you know, I would give up. He
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: would give up Homers to the dudes like he's got
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: his guy like and Suarez right, so like I'll always
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: remember this with his day.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Where I fucked up a play.
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: Joey Bado hits me with the jump swing, you know,
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: front door Cutter hit him, hit him with the jump swing.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: Kind of and I'm like said, I mean, this is
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: twenty nineteen, right, I've seen plenty of five balls now,
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: Like I got pretty decent reads, and I'm like, ah,
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: that's a can of shit. And then I'm just kind
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: of hitting that little jog and then all of a sudden,
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: it just like hits another gear.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: The panic starts and you're like, oh, get back tips,
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: drop it, get it in.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: He when he was following him up, he goes boat house,
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: hits it off the boat house, and he's already.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Guy.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: I'm just like, I'm in the doghouse right now, like
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: I like and you know, being in the back of
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: playing with you guys, like you know, we all sit
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: back there and didn't John didn't even look at me
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: a single you know, didn't say a single word to me.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I know, I'm in the doghouse.
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: But so now it's Johnny's last disappointed Yeah that's what
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: it always felt like. He disappointed dad, right, But uh
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: so it's twenty twenty. Uh you know, obviously there's a
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: lot of uncertainty in the air with what's going to
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: happen in the future, and John's John's going to be
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: a free agent, and Risk comes up to me one
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: day he goes, Man, we gotta do something. We gotta
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: do something special for for John. I'm like, yeah, you know,
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: like what do you think And he's like, I think
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: like a video would be cool. And then it was
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: like this like snap of like aha came over riz.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: He goes like, I got it, Like what do you
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: He goes, we need to make a video you fucking.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Up plays in the outfield.
• 37:18
  Speaker 8: This is this, And when John's pitching, I'm like, yes,
• 37:23
  Speaker 8: like let's make like I'll narrate it like, you know,
• 37:26
  Speaker 8: try to be like, you know, corny, serious.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: You know, and all that.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: It was all the plays and then you get John's reaction,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: so the commentator from like the commentators announcers, and then
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: it would be go right to John.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: It's awesome. Kyle's narrating the whole thing's.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: Awesome, you know, Like we start off with like I
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: start off saying by Jonathan Tyler Lester, and.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: I remember that's the song playing on the back of
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: the entire time.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: So we get this video done and.
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: John having a side session and I guess he had
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: a really bad side He's coming and all pissed off,
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: and the whole team's out there kind of like racking,
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: like we're gonna circle stretch and whatever. Grizlo has got
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: a chair, pulls out the chair just John, come on,
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: sit down. And John's like, no, no, no, I'm not
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: sitting down. So we got to sit down. We play
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: the video, but it's just me just absolutely clanking balls
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: out there left and right, and John's throwing his glove down,
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: you know, or he's going, fuck, it's.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Great, you know.
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: And there's there's even like one of my most infamous errors,
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: which I don't even think a lot of people remember.
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: Uh it wasn't even when he was pitching it. We
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: made the clip because I'm like this, put my worst
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: airs on there. It's like there's one it's pouring down rain.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: We're playing Milwaukee. It's I mean, it's it's pooping on us.
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: And I think Pierce Johnson might be making his major
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: league debut and.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Somebody I think it was what.
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: Was that guy's name? The VR hits me in the
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: sky hits the sky high fly ball went talent in
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: and it's pouring and I come running in. Hobby is
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: playing short, so I'm running in and Hobby is like
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: all the way over there, and that ball's gonna land
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: right there.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I gotta call it.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: I'm like, I got it, you know, come sprinting in clank,
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: it rolls onto the infield. So what do I you know,
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: guy on first base, I go go for the option,
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: shovel past second.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: Throwing in the suit.
• 39:40
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: So, I'm a freaking this muddy mess, you know, pissed off,
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: soaking in my sorrows. And then the best thing that
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: they could have ever done is to really make you know,
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: punch it in.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: They pulled the tart right after.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: All Right, we saw enough, the game's over.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Pull the tarp. Come on, So I go, I'm like.
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: You gotta be kidding here right now, Like I got
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: to go into the clubhouse looking like this and just
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: making a play like that.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: So I you know, I'm bad hanging, you know, walking
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: down the stairs, get sit in my chair. I'm trying
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: not to look at anyone. I'm embarrassed, right, I'm like, God,
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: I stink. I stink, like everyone thinks I stink. And
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: then I finally like turn back around and I get
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: a peek of Riz and he's just thank god, someone
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: laugh at me. I'm like, thank god, thank goodness.
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: Someone laughs because it's like, like that's how I like,
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: I know that we were talking about John. It's just
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: like I'm just rolling right now, just like all these
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: things that when I was there that made me the
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: player I am now, Like you know, I used to
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: be that guy that would you know, really beat the
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: shut out myself, and you know, yeah, I still do,
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: but like the way that I get over it now,
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: I was like I just make fun of it.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like you can't take it too serious now.
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: Sure it's easier now than it used to be because
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: like your experience, you know, you're you got experience.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: You know, you're not an arbitration trying to You're not
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: a free agent.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Level five players. Now the Joe Maddens five levels your
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: level five. Yeah, you got paid.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: You want a World Series?
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: He's trying to win another trying to win.
• 41:22
  Speaker 6: But the best thing to do is get it out
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: in the open and put it on yourself and make
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: fun of it and like laugh.
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: That's why.
• 41:27
  Speaker 6: It's just like he's such a good like he's never
• 41:31
  Speaker 6: you know, other than his own stuff. Sometimes it's like
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: he's always making fun of Like, yo, that was embarrassing.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: We all saw it.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Hey, I was, I was, you were there.
• 41:43
  Speaker 6: I remember when I snapped with about compete one time
• 41:46
  Speaker 6: after I was managing I think it was twenty twenty.
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: I called a team meeting and I'm I'm I'm going
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: off on the team about.
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: I would over riz and like he is a smiling
• 41:57
  Speaker 6: ear to ear he's right after this, I get through
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: just road raging.
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: Comes to my office.
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: He goes bro it was so hard not to bring
• 42:04
  Speaker 6: out my phone into fucking videos that, And.
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: I was like, I would have killed you.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: I would have killed it that.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: You're a pit because it's easy to keep it light
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: when you know that people care. Yeah, you know what
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, Like the effort when you're doing everything you
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: can and you're just the results aren't there. Like it's
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: the worst feeling in the world. From my experience when
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: I was young, was when you weren't playing well.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: This is part of just being a young player.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: You felt like you're on an island. And having that
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: experience when I was young, knowing that you probably felt
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: like you're an island or someone No, you're not on
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: a fucking island, Like we're here for one sixty two
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: plus and it doesn't matter.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: Good bad are indifferent, Like.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: You're Kyle Schubert, I'm gonna treat you like a human
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: being whether you're hitting fifty plus homers now or grinding
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: you know in an oh twenty, it doesn't matter like the.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: Efforts there right.
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like like being able to see that young
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: was just like it's like that kind of like that aha,
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: It's like yeah, and like why why am I taking
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: this so serious?
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: Like why am I thinking about this the next day?
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: Why am I thinking about this a week later?
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: Right? Like like why am I doing this?
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: And then like you have something like that happen, you're
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: like all right, like yeah, you put your shoulders, like okay.
• 43:30
  Speaker 6: Yourself usually having fun when you're out there playing like
• 43:32
  Speaker 6: a kid.
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: It is it is, man, It's like the more that
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: you can realize that you can have fun playing the game, right,
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: like the game.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: It's a game.
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: It's a game we play and yes, obviously we get
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: paid a bunch of money to do a job and
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: do what we need to do, but like we play
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: so many fun games that you're like, there's an easy
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: way get on that roller coaster and then all of
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: a sudden, that downhill. It it doesn't end Yeah, right,
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: I've been there, doesn't end right, Like it's it's it's
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: not fun to play the game like that. And now
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: that like you know, you can enjoy it and you
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: can laugh at yourself and you know, being older now
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: being one of the older dudes in the room is
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: fucking crazy sick. But yeah, dude, I'm like seventy three.
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: I'm used to like fucking forty year olds in the room.
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: Like, but you've got such a good around baseball, like
• 44:32
  Speaker 6: I travel around to TV a little bit, gets such
• 44:34
  Speaker 6: a good reputation in the clubhouse. You've been in the
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: leadership that the things you've learned, you're passing on to others,
• 44:39
  Speaker 6: which is so important and just like you're saying now
• 44:42
  Speaker 6: would make a little bit of money and taken you
• 44:44
  Speaker 6: told me the other day, like it's so fun to
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: take young guys to dinner and be able to pick
• 44:48
  Speaker 6: up the tab and and and be that guy now
• 44:52
  Speaker 6: going after Lackey and Lester, the guys that that took
• 44:55
  Speaker 6: care of us and showed you how it was done.
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: Now you passing that along.
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: It's such a a good quality, it's awesome, Like that's
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: the game, Like that's I always say it, like I
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: think I've already said before, like just like I'm not
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: the player I am now without YouTube, without the older
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: like all of those dudes who stepped in our clubhouse
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: that sad, you know, Lester Lackey, Heyward. You know, I
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: can keep naming people, John Jay, you know, like just
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: go Dexter Fowler. You know, I can go down the
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: list of how many great freaking human beings we had
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: in our locker roster for sure that were just amazing,
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: even like younger dudes, Albert you know, even you know
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: KB Hobby, right, like.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Just like just having the room that we had and
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: you know special, Yeah, it was special. Man.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: Let's go and take us to the twenty fifteen wild Card, bro.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, we we go in ninety seven, ninety eight
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: and one hundred wins, we finished third. We're rolling into
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh with like honestly with a lot of swack. Yeah, right,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: we finished third, but we were we felt like.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: Well we finished hot, that we finished hot that September two.
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and so we go in.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: We got Garrett Cole on the mound, who is dominant
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: and not faced, and you go big fly there.
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well I just remember sitting in the hotel that
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: night because I know that they were up in the
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: air between Lariano and Garrett Cole, because I know Larriano
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: pitched really good against this and Laro's gross, and so
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: they kind of gave the heads up. The guy's like, hey,
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: you know, if Cole's pitching, you're in. If Larrano's pitching,
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: you're out. It's going to be I think it was
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: seas and man, so news come out Garrett starting.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: So I'm like, i can't sleep. I'm like I'm jacked up.
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: I'm excited to get Jake talking ship on Twitter, you know, like,
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: let's roll on and uh so yeah, like the first bat,
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: uh deck's the lead off single steals the first pitch,
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: I take it and I'm like all I can think about.
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: I'm like in that bat, I'm like, okay, get him over,
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: get him over, get him over. That's all i can
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: think about was getting him over. And he throws me
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: two sliders. I swing over the top of him, and
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: then he threw me heater away and I poked it
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: for a single, nothing one nothing. So now we get
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: the second of bat and I'm like, I'm sitting on
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: a slider I'm like, I just swung over two of them.
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: You know, I poke poked a single to left on
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: my heater. I'm sitting on a slider and you know,
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: get two. Oh he didn't throw me a slider. Yeah,
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: you went like heater ball, change up ball.
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: Then he goes heater right down the middle too. Oh,
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: just swallow it, Like my god, please don't do that again.
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: Please don't do that again.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: I'm looking. You know.
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: He goes to to one slider and threw a bad one,
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: which helped, but yeah, got him in that got him
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: in the river. Like that was like I always I
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: always tell people. They always go like, what's your favorite
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: home run. I'm like, it's hard to really point, but
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: like I think that's probably.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: Like my top, like that one your first playoff game. Yeah,
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: like you're one for one with a single to put
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: us ahead.
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: Then you hit a homer and like I think for
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: people forget how loud Pittsburgh was.
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: That was the loudest place.
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: I tell people all the time, like I don't think
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: you guys realize how loud this place gets because I remember, yeah,
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: they were a great team, and then like remember the
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: the someone hit the ball Addie he kicked it, and
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: then the next dude comes up, same ball. But they
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: were and I'm playing right field. I'm my pants like
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: I can't hear anything. My head's shaking. I'm just standing
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: still and I'm like, what's going on? Like what's going on?
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: Like I can't, like why is it shaken? And you know,
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: then we get the double play ball. We end it right,
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: and obviously we had a good scuffle too.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, everything like that. But I'm sure Rossie's told
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: that story.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: But uh, I remember in twenty twenty one, Fast forward,
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: real quick, Red Sox Yankees wild card Garrett calling the
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: mound like swarps.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: Taking a gear.
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: I'm not, I'm not.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: I'm literally there the night before my fux sub took
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: him deep before. I'm like, oh no, and you do
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: it again, no way.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: Same same pitch, different pitch, but same outs.
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: I remember.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: I remember going into the dugout that inning and I
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: looked at Judgy Femiway Park, Yankees, Red Sox right, and
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: I look at you like, go, bro, this is fucking awesome.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: It's amazing.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: He looks at me like, Bro, we're fucking losing out.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: We're not We're gonna win this game and we ended
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: up tying it and you guys ended up winning. But
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: I was just like to be part of that and like,
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know it was entirely but we had the
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: lead the all time.
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: But anyways, my bad are bad. Sorry but no, but
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: I will say that was how cool was that atmosphere too?
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah? But that was so we we win that game.
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: We partied like rock stars. That celebration was like two hours.
• 50:19
  Speaker 5: Remember the floor was like to beer and Pittsburgh like walking.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: In cases here, Sean Casey here with us. I told him,
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: I go, I go.
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: I'm still baffled how you ended up in our clubhouse
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: partying with us in twenty fifteen. I looked over and
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: you see Sean Casey and Eddie Veder standing read next
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: to each other bottle case with us in fifte.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: Like case, what's up? Man? Like he's I love this guy?
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: But yeah, just like that was like having that first
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: like the moment right for personally, uh, it kind of
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: gives you, like that sense of calm a.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: Little bit just for the fact of like no nervous
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: as ship.
• 51:04
  Speaker 6: But like when you lock it in, bro, like you're
• 51:06
  Speaker 6: you're you're focused gamer. Yeah, you're a gamer. Everybody not
• 51:09
  Speaker 6: everybody can do that, and you've proven over your career.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: Twenty three postseason Homers. I don't know if you know
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: that I do twenty three say that again, twenty three
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: postseason Homers.
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: That's insane, homie, that you will Garrett hole that year.
• 51:25
  Speaker 5: I can.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: I think I can do this. Order walka secrets?
• 51:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah wait, was walking one and went on top of them.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: And I'm a little bit.
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: I'm a little better on that one. But it's not
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: about and we'll get to Harvey the grom.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: Pst season.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: Harvey was nasty, He's the Dark Knight.
• 51:46
  Speaker 5: Was very good.
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: Anyone ever heard.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: Jacob the grum was that kidding me?
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: But Bro your rookie year?
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: And then the infamous went off secrets, which is the
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: short bomb that's still at Wrigley Field. To tell that
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: story real quick, you want to go into it first time,
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: Coubbies clinching against the Cardinals, against the Cardinals.
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: Our division, Rad was in fucking.
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: And hold on and Riz had a hell of a DS.
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: You had a really good DS. Yeah you had how
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: many pumps? I think you two clipped secrets.
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: The night before.
• 52:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, So it's not about your risk every time it say,
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: isn't about me?
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: I love it. This is amazing.
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: Up until that.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: Point, honestly, I gotta go back. I had never gotten
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: really a curtain call at Wrigley, and it always chat me.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: It took me to like twenty nineteen, twenty twenty to
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: ever get my first.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: Sir, maybe twenty twenty one didn't tell me that part.
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: Well, it was only fIF twenty fifteen, so it was
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: only a few years in. But I had a go.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: I had to go ahead Homer right where everyone's celebrating,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: then he comes up and hits a fucking shot. Anyone
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: talks about.
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: The whole day is about Kyle's coming rounding out.
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: Like play, hold on, hold on, I.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: Bro, you have a ball the most one of the
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: most iconic stadiums in a shrine. How that's insane.
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I told him when they I was like, they
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: told me they wanted to do that, and I was
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: like absolutely, But I go like, I didn't know if
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: you're ever going to take down. I want the ball
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: right like I don't want you guys keep it. I
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: want it, and I mean for it to still be
• 53:32
  Speaker 4: up there. It's like for how much, like for how
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: much history? Is in that ballpark in general, and to
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: feel like that you're able to, you know, for how
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: small it is, right, like.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: You're able to kind of leave a footprint there. Like
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: it's awesome.
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: And yeah, like I remember when we went up on
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: the we me and Rossi and I forget it might
• 53:54
  Speaker 4: have been Dino went up there and saw the scoreboard
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: and like we went up on top of the scoreboard
• 53:59
  Speaker 4: where they put ball and ship like like I'm like,
• 54:02
  Speaker 4: this is cool, It's awesome, right, But yeah, they have
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: that and that postseason I mean special run there where
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: you know, we felt invincible, you know, then all of
• 54:13
  Speaker 4: a sudden.
• 54:17
  Speaker 5: The lobby and the other day.
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: Clapping everything one knee, one hand.
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: But and even the like I always talk about like
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: that pitching, the pitching staff from the Mets were I mean,
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: that's wholehearted.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: We wholeheartedly.
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: Why I never root for who we who, like I
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: want to play in the postseason is because they were
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: playing the Dodgers and then it's the Mets and we
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure that you get you guys swept.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: Them that year.
• 54:47
  Speaker 4: They were all seven games regular season, won all seven
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: and you know, I just remember thinking like, yeah, the
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: Mets one. We got them, you know, like we got
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: the guys who want they love their heaters. We're good
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: heater hitting team, and all of a.
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: Sudden, they just flop the script like dropping in breaking
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: balls this that. I'm like, these guys never do that,
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: and they're just executing everything.
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: And then like hindsight right now where I'm at, like
• 55:13
  Speaker 4: you know, having some tough postseason losses and shit like that,
• 55:17
  Speaker 4: Like it always comes down to like the pitching aspect,
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: like like wow, man, Like if you run into some
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: really good pitching that are just executing, it's hard to
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: It's it's nearly impossible to get anything going. And like
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: that's what the Mets did in fifteen against us, Like
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: you can't get anything. We can't get anything going really,
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: and they just piled it on and Daniel Murphy just
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: being crazy.
• 55:40
  Speaker 6: Well we got we got a taste of I thought
• 55:43
  Speaker 6: that the best thing that could happen is we gotta
• 55:44
  Speaker 6: taste of running deep in the postseason after you know,
• 55:47
  Speaker 6: starting off a little bit slow and really hitting our
• 55:49
  Speaker 6: stride in August, right, and we go into a deep
• 55:53
  Speaker 6: run in the postseason. Now everybody's hungry going into the offseason,
• 55:56
  Speaker 6: and we come into twenty sixteen.
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: It was like an expectations.
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: We were that twenty sixteen camp was the funnest big
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: League camp.
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: I'll ever be a part of it.
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: It was their bus.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: He's doing shows, everything's going crazy, my.
• 56:09
  Speaker 5: Little scooter.
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: Comes back, Dexter comes back, all the storylines. It's like
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: we had already won the World Series going into that.
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: We signed to sign.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: As amazing as the vibes were in camp. Right, we
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: get off to this insane start, like we bull the
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: doors off the Angels. We started Anaheim two games, boat
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: race them? What is it the game?
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: Third game?
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: Third game, third game of the season. Lackey's on the
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: mound and Jean Siguara.
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: Is at the bat. Did you play with him?
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: I did? I let him.
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: And there's a ball.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: I mean you talked about Australia like you're if there's
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: a ball, you think you get your going for.
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: It, and you did.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: But you hit a free safety Roaman that took out
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: your knees and Dexter. But when you went down, I
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: was literally just watching it. You a cl total construction, bro.
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: You reached for the ball. I tried to try to
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: stop that ball and throw it in after blowing your
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: knee out, which is just like said so much about you.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: But when that happens three games into what we believe
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: is going to be a championship season, how just heartbreaking?
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah that sucked.
• 57:29
  Speaker 4: I mean and you know everyone always asks like you,
• 57:32
  Speaker 4: like do you like watching the video? I don't care,
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: right like it happened. It happened to me, but like
• 57:38
  Speaker 4: it sucked, dude. I just remember always just thinking like
• 57:42
  Speaker 4: so when it first happened, you know, like yeah, like
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: plays over with them on the ground, I'm like, my ankle,
• 57:48
  Speaker 4: I thought I snapped my ankle like this like from
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: here to here was burning and so funny story. I
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: don't know if you guys even remember this, but so
• 58:00
  Speaker 4: they took me out of the game, you know, get
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: carted off, off, cart off the field, go get the
• 58:05
  Speaker 4: X ray on my ankle because I'm telling them like
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: my ankle's on fire, and they go, hey, good news,
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: ankle's not broken.
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: Like they go high grade spray and.
• 58:15
  Speaker 4: Then the Cubs put out like Kyle Schwarver less game
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: left the game with the with the ankle spring Then
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: they go, you.
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: Got card off with the ankle spray.
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: We were came laughing Like then I so like back
• 58:32
  Speaker 4: in like the exam room, you know, tell them like
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: they're like, hey, you said your knees a little sore.
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, they hit you with those tests
• 58:37
  Speaker 4: or whatever it is, and they're, yeah, you gotta get
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: m RI. I'm like that's probably not good. They're like,
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: not great. So uh in the hotel room, like thinking
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: to running through my head, I'm like, man, like, ankle's
• 58:52
  Speaker 4: not broken.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: Maybe you know, banged up, k me not super bad.
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: Get the m RI.
• 58:59
  Speaker 4: And then they tell you the news like, hey, you
• 59:01
  Speaker 4: know you just blow out your A sale and your
• 59:02
  Speaker 4: l s and like the first thing that came to
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: my mind, and I'm not I'm not shitting you when
• 59:08
  Speaker 4: I say this was I go, I'm going to miss
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: out on the most unbelievable run.
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: That's the first thing I said. I go, I'm going
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: to miss.
• 59:17
  Speaker 5: Out on this.
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: People we really like we manifested it.
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: I wasn't.
• 59:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like that's all we were talking about in camp, Like,
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: you know, one hundred and eight years, Like, it doesn't
• 59:28
  Speaker 4: roll off any better if you say one hundred and
• 59:30
  Speaker 4: seven or one hundred and nine.
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: That sucks.
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: Good point, that's a great point one.
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: Hundred and eight rolls off unbelievable.
• 59:36
  Speaker 5: You know, uh like, did you want to depressed?
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: That's all I thought, Oh yeah, dude, Like that's all
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: I thought about, was like, you know, man, I'm going
• 59:46
  Speaker 4: to miss out because I knew, like obviously from our
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: previous year, and then we just added all these special
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: dudes and you know, like I'm going to be on
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: the shelf for this and uh yeah, I remember just
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 4: like I remember you coming up and give me a
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: big hug.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: Like I was like, it's gonna be all right.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 5: And I told people I was supposed to retire.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 6: I told people that might saying to everybody, it's like
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 6: the only time that I thought I might come back
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 6: and play it.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 5: Was because we didn't get to play with Kyleege Schwarts.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 5: If we don't win the World Series.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 6: I'm coming back because Kyle Schwarb were one of our
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 6: best players. Didn't even get to participate the entire year.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 6: Like how many games we win that year?
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: You guys went over one hundred hundred, over one.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: Hundred, that's part of it. I was there hanging out,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: but you want we won that game, so you were
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: three and oh three and oh theree.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: You know, but you had a pretty good record that year.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, you undefeated, Yeah yeah, undefeated every game.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 6: So fast forward now it's starting to get a little
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 6: bit of hope. We're hearing in the locker room. We're
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 6: at the end of the scene. We're going to the playoffs,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 6: and they're starting to talk. We're going deep into our
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 6: playoff front. They're starting to talk. Schwarbs is feeling good,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 6: he's down. We're sending to Arizona where he's gonna he's
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 6: hitting in the cage, he's taking live.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 5: You had the they were you were there, fuzz Machine.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: They were talking about that from like day one.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 6: I remember like, oh, World Series, and it was like yeah, right,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 6: like yeah, you're not thinking, you're like.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but like I remember that.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: I remember you being part of our team that year, don't.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: You didn't travel with us, but every time we were home,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: you were in the weight room grinding, like grinding. So
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: when all those rumors really started coming to life and
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: it was like dude, sure we could fucking do this,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: we were like there was no like nah, like there's
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: no point, like he's gonna be It was like no,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: let's fun.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 6: Thea would come around and be like Rossie, sure, we
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 6: look good. He looks in Arizona. He's looking hard.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 5: Was what was like, how was that?
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: What were you How many swings did you actually take?
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: I remember it was like it wasn't that many. Really. Well,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: they tried to like limit me.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 4: I was telling him, like, guys like if I blow
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 4: out my oblique, if I blow out what ever because
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 4: your knee. Yeah, well they weren't limiting me because my knee.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 4: They were like Doc, Doc was like, oh you're good.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 4: He's like like pretty much they were telling me. The
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: doc told me, hey, shoot for winter ball, right, then
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 4: go do a doctor's check up. Hey shoot for uh,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: you know spring training or what was furst spring training?
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: Then was winter ball.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 4: So I'm thinking I'm gonna go play a winter ball
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: in Puerto Rico and you guys are playing the Dodgers.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: Uh it's that travel day. So we one and two
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: were in Chicago. There's a travel day in l A.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: I remember because I was like when we were in
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: l A.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I was like I was like I was
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 4: like I was a certified cheerleader, like I was you know,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 4: I was the the guy who would be drinking beers
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 4: for everyone.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 5: Uh you Arizona.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: So you guys went to l A. I saw the
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 4: doctor and doc. This hits me with like quick like
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 4: you know, testiny. He goes, I know what you guys
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 4: got going on right now. He's like, I wouldn't see
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 4: any reason why, you know, if there was like pinchhit
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 4: or you know, even possible DH like that.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: I don't see why.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 4: He goes, you know, everything you're going to do would
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 4: be predictable. He goes to unpredictable things or what could
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 4: cause you to hurt it again? Yeah, perfectly unpredictable, like
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 4: you know, being an outfield and having to like cut
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 4: for a ball or whatever it is, because when you
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 4: run the bases, you know what you're doing in your head.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 4: He goes, it's predictable running and he goes, unless you
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 4: just have to slam on the brakes. He's like trying
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 4: to avoid that. I'm like, I'm like, hell yeah, like
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: let me get jump off the table. I'm like Matt
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 4: Johnson's with me, and I'm like I got a call
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 4: THEO now. He's like, oh, hold up right whatever.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: So they do the whole thing.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 4: We fly to l A, taking hacks, get into LA
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 4: late that night, and I took my first first hacks
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 4: and got Bussy hung around, you know, till it was
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 4: nine thirty at night. I got the videos still on
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 4: my phone. Uh, it's like nine thirty at night. Bus
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 4: He's still there hanging out waiting for me to get there.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 4: He knows that I'm gonna take some hacks him mert.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 4: So it's supposed to be just tea, but we're already
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 4: like full thlrow arming. But so then the next day
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 4: they get me in that fall league. So go to
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 4: the fall league. Like they tried to limit me because
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 4: they didn't want me to blow out anything. I'm like, dude,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 4: like blow out, Like I'm fine, Like if I.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: Blow out a blowout the whole off season, yeah, I
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: got the whole off season. So uh. But like what
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: we were doing a lot was dude, like we've set
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: that set up the pack, the big hack.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: And this was before the pitch machine. This was before
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: pitching machines were even really big in.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 3: The game, right.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 4: It was like we were setting that thing up and
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 4: I was like, turn that thing off fuzzy, and I like,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 4: all right, if I can't swing, then I'll do stop
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 4: the bat drill on it then tell me it stopped.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: Bat Dude.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 4: I'm like so many behind the scenes things of like
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 4: the dudes there who put so much Dude, we spent hours,
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 4: I mean hours.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: Just I would track balls.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: I don't even think we know how much we knew.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: We know how much you did, but we don't really know.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 4: Hours man of being on that field firing balls like
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 4: five baskets and then take a breather and go do
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 4: three more baskets. I've just tracking balls and then I
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 4: have someone behind me in the cage and I tell
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 4: them if it's a striker or ball, like we'd be
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 4: setting them nasty breakers, you know, things like that, Just
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 4: trying to get like strike zone right, like like that
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 4: strike that's ball, and like going into the games like, yeah,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 4: I was behind in The funny thing is is that Cleveland.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: Was on the fall league team. So like their coaches
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: are throwing me BP in the volley games. It's amazing,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: it's awesome. They're throwing me BP and stuff like that, And.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 4: So I do I think I might have hit maybe
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 4: like one or two balls good. I'm like, man, there's
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 4: no chance that they're gonna put me on the roster.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 4: I'm like there's no Like that's what I was thinking.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 4: I was like, like, there's probably not a good chance,
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 4: Like there was hope in my head. I'm like, and
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 4: so it's the workout day for the World Series and
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 4: you guys are there. I'm playing in a Fall League
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 4: game that day and get done. I think it was
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 4: like three at bats and go to my phone, got
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 4: a touch some THEO. I still have one on my
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 4: phone and it's congratulations, we're putting you on a roster.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 4: You're batting. You're batting fifth tomorrow against Cory goosebump skin
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 4: but you know you're bat in fifth, fifth against Corey Klueber.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, they go, we got a jet waiting
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 4: for you.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: I'm like, who's all the goosebumps again? Bro?
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 4: Like just just getting to remember it with you guys,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 4: but like, uh so, I'm like, you know, get to
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 4: make that call again.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: You know, got that call again to the family fan.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: Hey guys, there's another injection for us too.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 4: Life, Yeah, Like that was like the one thing I
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 4: just always remember and it's just like I didn't know
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 4: how it was going to be right, Like, yeah, I was,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 4: I was with you guys, and thank goodness, I was
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 4: with you guys that whole year because I always tell people,
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 4: if I was just an Arizona rotten away, there's no
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 4: chance in hell.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: Well, a lot of guys, a lot of guys when
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: they get hurt, season ending injury, you don't see them
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: like they'll come in on their own hours at the
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: field and they'll leave where when we were home, he
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: was coming in when we came in, and he stayed
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: for the game and he was part of the boys.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: And a lot of time too.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 4: They'll send guys to the spring training complex and they
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 4: got rich exactly where we got rehab coordinators exactly, and
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 4: thank goodness, you know, we just they just renovated Wrigley.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 4: We had the amazing clubhouse. The training room was stay
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 4: of the art, and you know, weight room was amazing.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 4: And they were like, hey, we want you to stay
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 4: here and rehab here. I'm like, like, you want travel
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 4: because obviously on the road's a little smaller, but you know,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 4: at home, when we're home, we want you here.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: I was like, absolutely, like I want to do that.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: So that was like the one thing that kept me
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: going through that whole thing.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 4: Like you know, when you said, like you know, the
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 4: whole like negative thought things like yeah, like it was
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 4: there tough days, Absolutely, there was tough days.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 4: I for how many times I thought that I was
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 4: never going to have a normal knee again. Uh you
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 4: know it assisting ever gonna bend again?
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: Right? Like am I going to be able to hit normal?
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: You know? I like it was.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 4: It wasn't a fun and it was funnier, but like
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 4: that time was it was tough. You know, Thank goodness,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 4: I had like the support system of you know, my family,
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 4: my wife who was my girlfriend at the time.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: And uh, you guys right, like that kept me going.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: Like my goal when you guys would come into the field,
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: was my days going to be done? Like I'm done.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: I'm not getting in their way at all.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 4: Like that's what I wanted to make sure that I
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 4: was not going to be in your guys way because
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 4: I knew that there was such a special thing that
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 4: we had going on, and I just want to be
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 4: here for the ride.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 6: Well that was my memory of you because all the
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 6: glass in the weight room, we're getting there in our
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 6: street clothes and you're finishing up your last exercises with
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 6: Bussy and there guys in there all that all that
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 6: rehab stuff I had stuff. I remember you in there
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 6: doing all those balancing things on your knee and your agility.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: More like I just want to be done.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: Bussy would bussy timboss our strength, our strengths out here
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: would literally a couple of times a week be like
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: every time we're home, you're fucking your boy. Sharp is
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: working his ass off. He's gonna he's gonna do this,
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: and it's like, you know, every April, May June, you're like, yeah, okay,
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: and then you see him and he's like, oh, ship,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: he's starting to move.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and it was it was like such a
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: big part too for me.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: Of course.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, keep me saying, bro, there's a lot of dark.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, when you're hurt again this.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: Is another thing just hopefully young kids watching this, But
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: when someone's hurt, it's so easy to just be all right,
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: you can't do anything for me. But being hurt later
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: on in my career, which I never was realizing, how
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: many of your teammates just kind of like go about
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: their day and like you feel so bad you can't play.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 5: You can't play. That's the thing. Being around the team.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 6: It's also hard, really hard because you're still invested, but
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 6: you can't contribute, can't anything, you can't do anything.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're like you just feel on an island.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: So when anyone's hurt my whole career, I always try
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: to give him that love because it's like, dude, I wish.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 3: You were playing with it.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like that was the big thing that I always
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 4: felt like gave me during that time. It was like
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 4: I remember, I always remember Pedro stroke goes poppy World
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 4: Series like always with.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: A smirk, and I'm like on crutches, like yeah, there's
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: no fucking I.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: Remember you getting called out Wrigley on the crutches and
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: the big.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah that's yeah, yeah, we don't need to go there.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 5: But let me read her. Let me read these twenty
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 5: sixteen World Series stats.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 6: Twenty of bats, a four to twelve average, seven hits,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 6: a double, two RB eyes, and one stolen base.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: With a broken leg bag in there, go down and
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: snug that bag. Higher comes up to me, he goes, hey,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: you want to steal bag? Yeah, and it's hid your voice.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I want still based game seven. I'll
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: do anything, And he's.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 4: Like, all right, we got a time on Klueber, right,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 4: here he goes he's gonna and they're not even pulled
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 4: me on, like Mikes standing right, Napoli standing right behind me,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 4: and he goes all right when he puts said down
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 4: count to one thousand and two and then go, I'm
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 4: like god, So he goes, wait one pitch and then
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 4: do it so way to pitch so you get the lead.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 4: His one thousand and one, one thousand and two, go
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 4: was one thousand. I start taking off, dude, he hasn't
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 4: even like. I'm like, oh man, please don't step off.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: I'm like, please don't step off and make me look
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: like here right now, and like I'm halfway to second
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: base and he lifts his leg up to throw the pitch.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, thank goodness.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know all when they when you steal
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 3: and they you go and you're show.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: I had a trailer attached onto me, especially during that
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: sek that.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 4: I got thrown out the second base in Game seven
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 4: too well, you know, but uh it was like I
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 4: was just like, to your goodness, please don't throw me out.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: But yeah, like it was so.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 6: You're playing every game d H in Cleveland, think goodness
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 6: for the American League game seven. You're in there the
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 6: craziness of that game rain delay. What do you remember
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 6: about that speech?
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I just remember this, all the emotions in
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 4: the room. It was like it was it was interesting.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, like Chappie's crying, you know, Riz is kind
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 4: of like shocked and pissed at the same time. Right
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 4: like you're you're like scanning the room trying to think
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 4: about like, how can you know I remember that? Like,
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 4: you know, I'm just thinking, like the rain stopping, I'm
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 4: thinking like I gotta get a fucking hit. That's all
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 4: I'm thinking about. How the fuck can I get on
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 4: base right now? Like I'm not thinking about like anything else.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 4: That's where my mind went to. And then and then
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 4: obviously we have the amazing you know moment we had
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 4: in the weight room where it does like cleared everyone's heads.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 4: It was like, this is the reality of the situation.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 4: Here we go right like and I can go on
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 4: for a long time about Jay and how like how
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 4: impressive that was and how that stuck with me in
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 4: my career.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: Uh, but like, yeah, that's where.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 4: My mind went to, was I gotta get a fucking
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 4: hit right now. I gotta get the fuck on base
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 4: and it's part of my language for all the kids
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 4: that could be watching. But like that's what I'm thinking.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 4: And I remember coming out and you know, Rossi's you know,
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 4: remember I remember he's talking. He's thinking, He's like, what
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 4: do you got there?
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 5: I go, you get your.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: I got it? I got it. He goes, you better
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: fucking got it.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 5: You know, bro, you the look you gave me in
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 5: my eyes, you were like so locked in. You're like,
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 5: this guy throws me a cutter in want?
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's Brian Shawl, right, who's the cutter guy?
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, I need a cutter in right here,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 4: because like I'm thinking, like I'm going deep, Like I'm
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 4: like I just had that like feeling.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: I'm like, dude, I'm going deep. And it in all reality,
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: it wasn't even the pitch that I probably should have
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: swung out. It was down and in. I barreled it
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: and got it pass him and like the bolt.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 5: Was two inches from Kittmus his glove and shallow right field.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 5: He didn't have time to.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: Get to it, you know, hit that fist pump going
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: down the line, because.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 4: Like, yeah, like I did it, Like I got the
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 4: job done. And I knew and I and they didn't
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 4: even tell me, like pinch runners coming in, like I
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 4: already knew. I'm like, I'm out to hiders, trying to hiders,
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 4: trying to get my stuff, like a great job. I go,
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 4: I go time see and I'm out. You know, here
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 4: comes Albert with like the most underrated tag play.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: I always say, like, if that was me running in
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: that time, if that was the league, Yeah, yeah, there's
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: I'm past it.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 4: I'm on second base or past it and then yeah, right,
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 4: like I'm thinking it could be in the gap, or
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 4: it could be a double, could.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: Be a homer.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: There was literally we're filming this right now during the
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: World Baseball Classic. There's a ball yesterday, Bryce hit the
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: center field Bobby wits on first. It's either a homer
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: or now and he was, you know, at second and
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: then had to go tag. And literally every time I
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: see that ball, I think automatically think how he rookie
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: didn't play much in the World Series, had to whereabouts
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: in Game seven? Full circle moment you get pinch hit
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: from well, I guess it was the next year, but
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: like that's your boy, right, Like there's no more excited
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: for it than Albert. He was such a great team bro.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 4: Like it's it's gosh, but anyways, you know, bumps again.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 4: But like yeah, like I always said, that's the most
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 4: underte play. They walk you, like we no offense, Like
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 4: we don't know what could happen if they don't walk you. Right,
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 4: obviously we all know what happens after they walk you.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 4: We got to shake wait, Patty whack down the third
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 4: base line. But but uh, you know, like and then
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 4: the rest and then even Meggie with the big another
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 4: big hit in the rest history, right like but yeah,
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 4: like just to be able to be a part of that,
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 4: I mean I never thought.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: In my life that one.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 4: Well I did think because you dreamed about as a kid,
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 4: like you just got to live out your dream.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: And I did it in my.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 4: First It was even I mean I had a half
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 4: year and I was supposed to be my first full
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 4: year and I got that done right there, and I'm like,
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 4: this is the best thing ever, Like just thinking about
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 4: the whole you know, how we did it, you know
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 4: obviously the personal things for me, the parade, think about
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 4: our group, you know, you retiring and how important you
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 4: were to all of us, you know, like Riz being
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 4: the the anchor of it all on the offensive side,
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 4: like yeah, I'm like this is how how does it
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 4: get any better?
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: How does it get any better? And obviously you know
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: for me personally, yeah, I want to play full season
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: one one. That's like my goal now.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 4: I want to play full season one, right, Yeah, I
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 4: want to play full season one one. And I mean
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 4: I play for every year because that's all I know
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 4: how to do. Thank goodness for you guys and some
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 4: good teams I've been on. I've only missed the playoffs
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 4: one time. And you know, like my worst nightmare is
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 4: going I said, being late, but also going home on
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 4: like September thirty first and your season's done, right, Like,
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 4: that's that's my worst nightmare.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: But this is how I got brought up. That's what
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: we did.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 4: That's what we did in Chicago. We set that tone.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 4: You guys set that tone. Lesser Lackey all set that tone.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 4: And you know that's Jay Hay whoever was in that club.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 4: I'll set that tune of this is the expectation. This
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 4: is what we're doing, and that's.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: All I know. That's all I know how to do.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 4: That's only that's the only way I know how to
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 4: play the game, because you know, I don't play it
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 4: for I don't play it for the the fame, fortune,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 4: whatever you want it to be. Like, I'm playing the
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 4: win World Series because that's the best damn party we've
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 4: ever been, Right, that's the best stand party we ever been.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 6: That once you get to that lot, I got that
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 6: in Boston, and once you get that, was like, I
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 6: don't want anything else.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 3: It's addicting. The winning is winning cures everything.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: It cures at all everything in baseball you need cured.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 4: I mean, you guys know how many people keep coming
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 4: up to you from two thousand years like twenty sixteen, and.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: We're going to get that. We're going to get that
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: for the rest of our lives.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 4: But you know it, I think it hits even more
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 4: for that fact of like how important it was for
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 4: the people that we were playing for.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: And that's why it's so cool talking about this ten
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: years later. Yeah, like getting to share these stories, what
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: really went into you coming back?
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 3: You ten years later now just signed a five.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: Year deal with I just appreciate you guys.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: Your you're after that career, bro, like you just last
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: year one hundred and sixty two games led the league
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: led the league one sixty.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: Two pretty you know, that's all of them pretty easy.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: Fifty six pumps led that National League one hundred and
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: thirty two. RBIs led the National League. I think you
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: let the league unless you judge you had you.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: I got the I had RB.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 5: I league last year.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, nine forty nine to fifty oh ps.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: That was It's it's how you, it's how you developed
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: in your career.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 3: And it's like every step of the way. Because I
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 3: had watched you for a far.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: From four years, five years, it was like, yeah, that's Shorts,
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: Like he's.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 3: Doing what he does right.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: And in nineteen you had that monster second half. You'd like,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: what twenty pumps in the second half. So ended up
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: with thirty eight thirty eight to thirty nine home runs
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: And to this day Ian Hat told me this stat.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you know this.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: There's only one left handed hitter to ever hit forty
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: home runs at wrigley Field, Billy Williams. That stat is insane.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: Wrigglyfield has been around for over one hundred years. Right,
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: So looking back now with you getting DFA by Chicago,
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: which is insane, you know, off the twenty twenty year,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: we need to.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 5: Go down and all the and all the adversity. I mean,
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 5: there's adversity.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 6: And we were talking about a lot of positives in
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 6: your career, but like you've went through some shit too,
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 6: with the injuries, the DFA, the change of scenery, going
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 6: and kind of go on this journey and taking what
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 6: you've learned from your championship team. And you're young, like
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 6: you said, given your teammates a lot of credit, but
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 6: turning yourself into that guy and having the career that
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 6: you're continue to have. But it's pretty If you average
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 6: thirty two home runs over the next five years, you'll
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 6: have five hundred home runs.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 5: You're currently three forty.
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  Speaker 1: You know that.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 3: You have fifty years. Think about that.
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  Speaker 2: I remember again, I love to put I'll put some
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 2: people in a stir.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: But I remember saying all the time, I'll never know
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: my full potential playing at Wrigley Field because how brutal
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: and psychological that wind is.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: You know, it's goods crazy.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 4: I always tell people, I'm like, how many times I've
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 4: stood there at the plate looking out there when that
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 4: one's tally and I go, where's my head?
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 3: Especially with the shift go where?
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: With the shift, like the great walls out there.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not hitting the ground ball of the third basement, Yeah,
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 4: down the third base.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: Well, when the shift got hard, that's hard to do.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: Right when the shift got taken away, I was like,
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: you're gonna be the number one person to benefit, which.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: You have your benefit, it's Scott the first year, I
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: still hit one ninety somehow with like I'm so excited.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: I'm so excited the shift's gone.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you hit fifty that year at intro.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I still Yeah, I had a good year like
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 4: on the other stuff except the batting average side.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's been like the whole.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 4: I think it's I always tell people like, I would
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 4: never change the way that my career as went, Like obviously, yeah,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 4: I always tell people I'm not a minor league grinder,
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 4: you know, first rounder, you know, big grinder sign signed
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 4: for a lot of money whatever it is. But had
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 4: had my challenges and uh, you know, being fielling like
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 4: on top of the mountain in sixteen, the being in
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 4: Triple A in twenty seventeen.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: Right like after I feel like, I like, I just played.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 4: Two baseball games and now I can hit the best
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 4: pitching in the World in the World series and I'm
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 4: in Triple A, and you know, like I always remember
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 4: you to me, Like I got to sit down on
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 4: Triple A and Riz is going, he goes, get back
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 4: to work, and he goes, We'll see you right back,
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 4: like suck with me right now twenty twenty. Uh.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: I'll be the first one. I always tell this, I go,
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: I'll be the first one tell anyone in that I
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 2: freaking stunk in sixty games. Yeah, but I stunk. I stunk.
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 2: I stunk.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 4: I stunk, And you know you telling me you call
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 4: me and going, hey, change the series. Sometimes not a
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 4: bad thing. Yeah, hard hard pill to swallow.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 9: Yeah, heart Pill Swallow not released or like I didn't
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 9: release it, but like that doesn't work because like your boys,
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 9: Yeah that's your boys.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: Hard Pill Swallow. But at the end of the day,
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: it was the best thing that happened in my career. Yeah,
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: like you know, I you don't know what you don't know.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 4: I don't know what you don't know, right, Like I
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 4: knew Chicago, I knew the organization, I knew the people,
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 4: I knew the the.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 2: Ins and outs of it, and I knew that you know, you're.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 4: I always everyone always asks about like sixteen and do
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 4: you have any regrets about not winning anything more? I'm like,
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 4: you're just discrediting the World Series in the first place, Like,
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 4: don't discredit it. But second off, like we brought meaningful
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 4: baseball there for how many years?
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 2: Like we like that group, that group brought meaningful baseball
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: to Chicago for how many years? So no, there's no regrets.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: It's hard to win it. It's hard. It's hard, and
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 2: you know, going on the personal side, and it's like, Okay,
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: I'm out of here.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 4: I'm leaving this organization that all we've done is great things.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 2: I'm going into the great unknown.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 4: And uh, you know, luckily ended up in Washington with
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 4: where Davy who was our bench coach, got with a
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 4: really good hitting coach and there in k Long who's
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 4: still my hitting coach, and uh, you know, like a
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 4: lot of different things have happened, and like it just
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 4: it changed my career and I needed it, right, I
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 4: needed that. And you know, I always it's not like
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 4: I'm saying screw you Chicago. You know, like Chicago's at
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 4: the base of it all where that's where I learned
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 4: how to be the big leaguer, how to you know,
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 4: take it on the chin, how to try, how to
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 4: bounce back, you know, how to be a champion, how
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 4: to be a great teammate, how to be you know,
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 4: someone that can be here to listen, or someone that
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 4: can you know, give hard love when they need hard love,
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 4: you know, or he come up to the room and
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 4: let's get some late at McDonald's, right, like whatever it is,
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 4: Like that's where I learned it all. And yes, I
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 4: went through my challenges and then I've come on on
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 4: the other side. I've been better for it, Like I
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 4: needed to go through that process. And you know where
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 4: that all starts is, Like I said, it's with you guys.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 4: And I can't think all of our teammates that we've
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 4: had enough, all of our coaching staff, all of our
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 4: uh you know, you know Joe and you know ROSSI
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 4: manager where like.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 2: I'm the player I am today a lot.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 4: Of because what I experienced at a young age, and
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 4: I can relate, you know, now I can be that
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 4: guy that can relate to a lot of different people.
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 2: I can relate to a lot of different people.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 4: And I think that's such a big, big thing to have,
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 4: is being able to relate to dudes and uh, you know,
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 4: feeling like like you said that they're.
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: Not on an island because I've experienced it.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 6: When that's why we're doing this, is to tell all
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 6: these stories and like, personally, I want to thank you
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 6: for who you are and it's been fun to watch
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 6: and how you've taken off. And we still got the
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 6: cock bomp after Games WC, so we get to enjoy
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 6: it in the locker, were like.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 5: The guy one of these one of these guys.
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: Doing but somebody you just said about, well you didn't
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: get traded, you got DFA, but then you got traded.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 3: You when you got traded or d Faid.
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 5: Or whatever it was Faid.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you had a similar story coming to Jesus moment
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: right with THEO.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 6: THEO told me we'll tell that story in Theo's episode.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 6: But it's saying I told me I was a bad teammate,
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 6: or that my reputation in Cincinnati, I was a bad
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 6: teammate and selfish.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: I was like shocked when you told me that, you know,
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: like it's just you.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 6: Know, but the truth sometimes just like okay, I took
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 6: that and and it's on us, right, it's our careers
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 6: and you know, I've got DFAI and I'm sitting at
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 6: home waiting on those ten days to go buy and
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 6: the during the season, it's like, you know, similar, like
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 6: but the adversity made me better and I was I
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 6: never want to said about me ever again, and so
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 6: like that was one of the better moments looking back,
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 6: no doubt, no doubt when I wouldn't be the person
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 6: just like we said, you wouldn't have the career you
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 6: had the same and all all the.
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 5: Stuff that that has happened to us, the adversity is
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 5: what makes us better.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: When I got traded to New York, it was like whoa, right,
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: and then I'm going to you know, in Chicago, like
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: fair or not. From basically day one, it was like
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: I was, I was the guy, right, it was me
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: and starin Cashow. Sorry was there's a couple other guys.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 2: So I grew up.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: Fast with veterans and all this, but you know, guys
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: were coming into quote unquote my team and we stunk.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: So it was like getting traded was I really started realizing,
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: Holy shit, dude, like these guys, like guys watching every move,
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: like like the aha moment of like how much I
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: grew getting traded and then you saying that too with
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: like what you learned, same thing, what you learned in
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: Chicago and then taking it has now gotten you to
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: literally like, bro, I mean, you're on your way. I'll
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: say for you, you're on the way to being a
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame baseball player, which is insane. You post,
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: you hit home runs, driving runs, you are postseason legend.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: You're gonna win another World Series at some point, like
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: and first w B.
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 2: Gold medal. I need, I need, I need some redemptions
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 2: what they give out or.
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: What you do, and your reputation is game like your
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: blue collar You're in a perfect city. You know, those
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: fans are so rugged, right, and you just embrace it.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: And you're a bait Kyle Schweber baseball player. That's what
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: you are, like Rinder, put your heart and soul into
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: everything and everyone around you. And it's so much fun
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: watching you have all your success.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 4: I appreciate it. And like I always say, like you know,
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 4: like you said about Philly, right, like why in the
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 4: way I am right? Like you know Philly can be rugged, right,
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 4: Like you can tell me I stink, But I'm gonna
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 4: be the first one to tell you I stink. You're
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 4: not telling me anything. I don't know, right, But I'm
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 4: able to do that and I'm able to learn because
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 4: of what we all went through and what you guys
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 4: gave me the experiences I had, you know, like you
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 4: laughing at me, you know.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 2: You give me constructed constructive criticism. Uh, you know, like
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 2: it's it is what it is, man. It's just like,
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 2: you know, I'm just lucky.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 4: I get to play baseball, you know, I thank goodness
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 4: I don't have to play left field that much anymore.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 4: Get to go hit more, go hit baseballs. But uh yeah,
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 4: when you say, like you started all one sixty, I'm like,
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 4: it's pretty easy as a DH just can't blow anything
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 4: out while you're running her swinging. But but yeah, you know,
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 4: I I'm forever grateful, uh to everyone that you know,
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 4: there's obviously a special you know, there's so many special
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 4: people that we.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 2: Had, and you two are two really big people in
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 2: my career.
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 5: Uh that.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, man?
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, don't yeah start. Yeah, You're welcome. You're welcome.
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 2: Please, thank you. Yeah, And I appreciate the hell out
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 2: of you guys. You guys are the best love.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: Where we've gone in this talking to a bunch of guys.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: Now is like we just talked about how much every
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: single guy meant to that twenty sixteen roster. Literally, we're
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: not winning without everyone in that organization. I mean we
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: can even go to like theo Epstein having the balls
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: to say yes, you're started, right, like that's a major
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: decision by the top of the top, right theo Tom
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: and like without every single one in our organization.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 3: Without you rehabbing the way you did working, we're not
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 3: we're not telling. We're not sitting here ten years later
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 3: telling the story. So yeah, I love you.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 5: Yes, And that is Kyle Schwarber people, that is a wrap.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: Made my ride. I was like, I got my name,
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: I got my