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Torii Hunter’s WILD baseball life · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: But when he hit me with ninety nine or ninety
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  Speaker 1: eight in the in the ribs where I almost pooped myself.
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  Speaker 1: It hit me so hard all I felt it was
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  Speaker 1: a battle movement.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Tory, Tory hont aircrafts AJ PRESENTSK Tory. This seems
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  Speaker 2: like a really great time to put you on the spot.
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  Speaker 3: Are you ready? Oh no, not at all with AJ
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  Speaker 3: on this show, Not at all.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't get to ask the first question.
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  Speaker 5: No, just.
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  Speaker 3: Cra you change your phone number? You got a burner now?
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  Speaker 2: Or what I texted you about a week ago for
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  Speaker 2: a story crickets me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. Oh see what what happened was? No? Nothing, No,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody were coming on, so I can ask you.
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  Speaker 1: I was definitely in the meeting, and I think I
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  Speaker 1: saw it, and I just totally forgot once I left
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  Speaker 1: that meeting.
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  Speaker 3: So sorry, uh huh, long meeting, Tory.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still still still not still in that meeting, Tory,
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  Speaker 2: I got nothing.
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  Speaker 1: When I get off the phone, I'm gonna respond so
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  Speaker 1: I can say I responded and you and you know
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  Speaker 1: what you were?
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  Speaker 3: You were one of my favorites album in Baltimore. Whenever
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  Speaker 3: I came out there.
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  Speaker 1: You were sweet, you were great, and uh for me
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  Speaker 1: to do that, I want to apologize in front of
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  Speaker 1: all these folks from.
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  Speaker 3: The A J A Crat. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: Oh man, you've changed. You've changed by the way. I
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  Speaker 4: just you're trying to show off. You're trying to show
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  Speaker 4: off with your little silver slugger and your gold glove.
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  Speaker 4: I mean I got one of them too. I ain't
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  Speaker 4: got it by me.
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  Speaker 6: I don't understand glove. You ain't got gold. Stop, you
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  Speaker 6: ain't got glove.
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  Speaker 3: I do somewhere.
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  Speaker 5: I got a paint.
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  Speaker 4: I got one painted.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how how that got here, man, but
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  Speaker 1: I do have something. That's that's a I got.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, look look what I got too. I got
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  Speaker 4: this one. Look at this guy. It ain't got no
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  Speaker 4: gold on it.
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  Speaker 3: Looks like any other black guy I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 4: Signed with two eyes two eyes. That is when you
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  Speaker 4: can learn how to spell with two eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that's two eyes. Yeah, that was after I learned
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  Speaker 1: how to spell.
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  Speaker 4: That's right, that's right. I remember when you signed that
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  Speaker 4: let's not get each other.
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  Speaker 3: Harmi Killer brew man, you know Harmy Killer brew was
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  Speaker 3: that guy.
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  Speaker 1: He set us down and say everybody you should sign
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  Speaker 1: and hit every letter.
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  Speaker 3: Every fan deserves to have a time.
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  Speaker 1: Well thought out autograph, and that's you presented to us.
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  Speaker 4: I've told that story many times on this show to
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  Speaker 4: you that Harm Kilber sat you down and was like,
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna sign it right, Well, we're not getting up,
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  Speaker 4: and he'd make you sit there for hours and just
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  Speaker 4: work on signing signing. It was. It was great. It
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  Speaker 4: still works out because people now they come up to
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  Speaker 4: you and say, man, you have a nice autograph, right yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what he told me the story I
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  Speaker 1: was I was like twenty one years old, and he said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: imagine kids playing in the field and they hit the
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  Speaker 1: ball in the you know, a guy hits a home
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  Speaker 1: runner's outside in the fields and it goes in the
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  Speaker 1: bushes and they're looking for the ball. They can't find it,
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  Speaker 1: but they find one ball and it just has T
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  Speaker 1: slash H slash. They don't know who it is, so
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  Speaker 1: they say, hey, we found out the ball to play with,
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  Speaker 1: but rewind that guy. Kids hit the home run and
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  Speaker 1: they're looking for the ball and then they found the
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  Speaker 1: ball and it says t R I I h U
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  Speaker 1: n t e R. He said, they go look it
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  Speaker 1: up and they find out you was a decent player,
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  Speaker 1: and then they put it on the pedestal and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, wow, all right, now he got me. He
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  Speaker 1: told me that story about hitting every letter, so people
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  Speaker 1: can know who you are, and one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: years from now they can look it up and say,
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  Speaker 1: I knew I see this guy was a great player.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm gonna put it on the pedestal.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it should be an autograph, that should be a
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  Speaker 6: Hall of Famer. But that's not what we're talking about here,
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  Speaker 6: because we don't get many new Britain rock cats on
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  Speaker 6: this show that played with AJ, and rarely do I
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  Speaker 6: get any.
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  Speaker 4: All I get is big league stories.
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  Speaker 6: I was hanging out with Jordans, Oh you know, Tennuts
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  Speaker 6: and Tinnuts and me Low and bad Radkey. It's always
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  Speaker 6: big league stories. I need one non big league story
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  Speaker 6: about AJ, because AJ was never hurt. He's always around
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  Speaker 6: the popular kids. He's that like he's that he's the
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  Speaker 6: quarterback in high school that like, never talk to anybody
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  Speaker 6: that wasn't on the football team. So I need one
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  Speaker 6: minor league story about AJ that ain't nobody heard of.
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  Speaker 3: But ay, they're rated r I really can't put AJ
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  Speaker 3: on the spot like that.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, be careful, be careful, be careful now because I
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  Speaker 5: got some stories now on you too, so be careful
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  Speaker 5: what you say and mine are actually pg rady.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna get into one here in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, I can't say the things I
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  Speaker 1: would want to say on air. I'm gonna wait till
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  Speaker 1: my book come out. But man, but you know one
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  Speaker 1: thing about aj Man. He was nineteen ninety four drafts.
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  Speaker 1: I was ninety three. He came from a different background
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  Speaker 1: than me, So AJ was to me he was a
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  Speaker 1: rich kid, and AJ just hey, he but he played
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  Speaker 1: like he was a hood kid. He played hard, reckless,
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  Speaker 1: trying to destroy somebody. I mean, I'm like, wow, this guy.
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  Speaker 1: You kind of earned my respect through the mono leagues,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And uh, and so when you got to
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  Speaker 1: the major leagues, I don't think people understood who you were,
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  Speaker 1: but I did. And I knew you were a gamer
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  Speaker 1: and you cared about the team. And but let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you this story. I'll never forget it.
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  Speaker 3: Now. This is the big leagues, Agains.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but we're playing the Oakland A's and the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs and the Oakland, A's can't stand AJ. And this
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  Speaker 1: is two thousand and two and they had the three
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  Speaker 1: headed Monster. It was Molder Hudson and Zeno and Tim
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  Speaker 1: Hudson hit AJ in the game and AJ turned and
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  Speaker 1: let it hit his button, picked it up and flipped
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  Speaker 1: it to Tim Hudson. All you saw was smoke come
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  Speaker 1: from Tim Hudson head and man.
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  Speaker 3: They were after him for the rest of his career.
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  Speaker 4: come into plastic if you want to physically get them,
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  Speaker 4: so they don't show up like this card. That's all
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  Speaker 4: show up nice, like the exact same card. Look how
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  Speaker 4: perfect this one is. That's how Arena Club send him
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  Speaker 4: Hey, why I shouldn't I should have learned from you, though,
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  Speaker 4: because you fired it back at Danny BIA's and so
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  Speaker 4: I was on deck for that debacle and you hit
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  Speaker 4: him in the leg as hard as I ever seen
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  Speaker 4: anybody hit. But I don't care about that part of
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  Speaker 4: the story. Everyone's seen that part of the story. Now,
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  Speaker 4: what I want to know is the aftermath of the story,
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  Speaker 4: because people say, and he swears by this, he told
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  Speaker 4: this story of the newspaper, and you know what I'm
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  Speaker 4: talking about. Danny Byer in Cleveland said he tried to
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  Speaker 4: come into our clubhouse and fight you. Now, what would
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  Speaker 4: have happened if Danny Bias would have come in our
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  Speaker 4: clubhouse and tried to fight you and be honest, there
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  Speaker 4: would be Danny bias.
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  Speaker 3: He would have got these hands. I can tell you
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  Speaker 3: that for sure, right down from that. But he came over.
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  Speaker 1: To the clubhouse and he apologized, thank you, and he apologized.
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  Speaker 3: And you know what what I was supposed to do.
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  Speaker 1: When I saw him come in, my hands went up
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  Speaker 1: like let's go, and he's like, no, I want to apologize.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't on purpose, it wasn't intentional.
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  Speaker 1: Out I don't really do that. And and man, let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you something. Danny's bias, you know, for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of his career. We said down, we had a
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  Speaker 1: conversation and he's one of the nicest guys in the world.
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  Speaker 1: But when he hit me with ninety nine or ninety
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  Speaker 1: eight in the in the ribs where I almost pooped myself.
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  Speaker 3: He hit me so hard all I felt was a
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  Speaker 3: bowt movement. That's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 6: Either you stunned me, you stunned me all my next
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  Speaker 6: I just want to ask, do you think now in
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  Speaker 6: the game? Do you watch the game now, do you
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  Speaker 6: feel like guys play with that extra anger like you
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  Speaker 6: said you were thrown hands like now, dudes are like,
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  Speaker 6: you know what I'm gonna just slide through and make
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  Speaker 6: sure I get to my contract year. I'm not saying everybody,
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  Speaker 6: but I'm saying, do you feel like there's enough fire.
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  Speaker 3: In the game for dudes?
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  Speaker 6: Because what you said so far as how mad you
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  Speaker 6: were in that situation and how how hood AJ played,
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  Speaker 6: which is the first time it's ever been said on
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  Speaker 6: FT that.
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  Speaker 3: AJ's anything Hood.
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  Speaker 4: But anyway, like, do you think that's in the game.
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  Speaker 3: You know what, I think you have some I think
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  Speaker 3: you have less than most.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a different society, it's a different game.
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  Speaker 3: It's a different world. You know. We're a little softer,
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  Speaker 3: all of us, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And since I had grandchildren, granddaughters, I got softer, so
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  Speaker 1: I could see the change. But in the game, they
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  Speaker 1: got so many rules and so many different things, and
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  Speaker 1: these guys are not trained to hit a guy after
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  Speaker 1: you get hit, and our pictures went out and say,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I got you back, I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 1: out here and stick this guy. So we kind of
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  Speaker 1: policed ourselves. I think we kind of got away from that,
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  Speaker 1: but I think.
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  Speaker 3: It's still there.
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  Speaker 1: Some guys I really like that that actually go out
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  Speaker 1: and they make things happen.
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  Speaker 3: But I think we kind of got away from all that.
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  Speaker 1: Aggressiveness, and I would call it and the game has
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  Speaker 1: gotten a little softer, not soft, but a little softer.
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  Speaker 3: And I love to see some people.
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  Speaker 1: Out there with some aggression, some aggressiveness, taking that extra
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  Speaker 1: ninety feet, always prepared and ready to throw to the bases.
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  Speaker 1: I see people just get the ball and they don't
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  Speaker 1: know what to do, and they just throw the ball.
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  Speaker 3: Defenses totally different, no one.
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  Speaker 1: It's rare, and iin't gonna no one, but it's rare
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  Speaker 1: that I see people go first to third, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with with intent, and uh so it's it's a different game.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: We we battled at the plate when we struck out,
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  Speaker 1: but we battled at the plate and and we argue calls,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and it was just it's just different, and
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  Speaker 1: you don't see that much anymore. And our managers were
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  Speaker 1: very aggressive. Our managers got thrown out and they knew
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  Speaker 1: when they were gonna get thrown out.
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  Speaker 3: And now you don't see that much anymore either.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Tory, I got two questions for you. You're talking
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  Speaker 4: about being hood all right, so you can you can
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  Speaker 4: tell me this is not true, and you can tell
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  Speaker 4: me I'm lying, But this is a true story. Spring training.
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  Speaker 4: One year you had a white Explorer and then you
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  Speaker 4: came in and it was purple. The next year was
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  Speaker 4: it the other way? And you said, we said, Torri,
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  Speaker 4: what the hell happened? You said, someone shot in my
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  Speaker 4: car thinking I was someone else, so I had to
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  Speaker 4: change the color.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's actually really, that's so true.
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  Speaker 3: I had a white Explorer.
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  Speaker 1: And and going into I think ninety four ninety five,
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  Speaker 1: and then in ninety six, ninety five, ninety six, my
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  Speaker 1: brother had my my truck and Taruf you know aj
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  Speaker 1: you know my brother Tarus tough guy, muscle guy and uh,
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  Speaker 1: tough guy in the hood too. And so they got
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  Speaker 1: into it with some guys and the guys came back
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  Speaker 1: and shut up my white truck. And I was married
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  Speaker 1: with kids. I let him borrow while I was out
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  Speaker 1: of town. And I was married with kids, and I say,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I can't have is happenings. So I
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  Speaker 1: painted the truck and it came back like purple, midnight
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  Speaker 1: purple and uh, and and I never went back. I
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  Speaker 1: changed my destination from pinem blof Arkansas to somewhere else.
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  Speaker 3: So I had to get.
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  Speaker 4: Out people, people that don't know your story, Like if
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  Speaker 4: they really don't know, you really need to check up
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  Speaker 4: on Tory's story from when he was a kid. It's
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  Speaker 4: it's it's incredible where you are now and it it
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  Speaker 4: really is because you know, for me, we came from different,
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  Speaker 4: like you said, different backgrounds. So we got we have
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  Speaker 4: this picture we're gonna show, okay, and it's from us
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  Speaker 4: in New Britain. It's a long time ago. And I
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  Speaker 4: want to ask this story because Brittain, you know, we
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  Speaker 4: used to work for the Orioles. Do you remember what
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  Speaker 4: happened when we was in Bowie that time and the
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  Speaker 4: dude hit you and you went to fate. You went
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  Speaker 4: to fight him in the other clubhouse and we had
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  Speaker 4: to stop the game because you were chasing the dude
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  Speaker 4: to his car in Bowie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, his name was Matt. It was Matt something and
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  Speaker 1: he was the right handed pitcher. Yeah, dun mcaviash hits
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  Speaker 1: a home run and he pimps it. He only has
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  Speaker 1: like one homer, but he pimps the home run. He
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  Speaker 1: hits the homer and watches it for an hour and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh man, so he missed me the first
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  Speaker 1: time when I got up to the plate, he threw
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  Speaker 1: inside and missed me, so and then he threw a
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  Speaker 1: pitch away and so I didn't think he was gonna
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  Speaker 1: hit me. Then he threw it right at my neck
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  Speaker 1: and he hit me in the neck, and I looked.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know if he did it on purpose, so
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  Speaker 1: I looked out at him. He was like, come on,
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  Speaker 1: that's so I went out there and you know, put
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  Speaker 1: these hands on them and baptized them.
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  Speaker 3: And uh. And then I got kicked out of the game.
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  Speaker 1: And then I'm in the I'm watching the game after
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  Speaker 1: I took a shower in my street clothes.
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  Speaker 3: I was just.
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  Speaker 1: Watching the game from leftfield fence and the guy Matt
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  Speaker 1: was on the other side of Buwie and he started
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  Speaker 1: screaming and yelling and I'm like, what's up?
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  Speaker 3: And he had his ice on his shoulder and he
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  Speaker 3: was like, meet me behind the fence.
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  Speaker 1: So I was like, bet and I ran behind the
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  Speaker 1: fence and he ran behind it and ran back and
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  Speaker 1: said he's trying to get me. He's and he set
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  Speaker 1: me up pretty good. So I'd never see him again.
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  Speaker 1: But if I see him today, I still just have
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  Speaker 1: to get him. There you go, to man, No Man,
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  Speaker 1: New Britain Broadcast Hardheaded Britain.
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  Speaker 3: We had a hell of a team.
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  Speaker 4: We did have a Grover team. But oh man, that
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  Speaker 4: was a fun Ye had some fun times hidden it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was a no one knows but in nineteen ninety
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  Speaker 1: seven me and a guy named Armarn Brown.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was a year before you got there
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  Speaker 3: at ninety eight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, arm One Brown and I we slept in the car.
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  Speaker 1: We knew we were going on the road that first
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  Speaker 1: series of opening series at home. We were going on
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  Speaker 1: the road after five days, six days, and we couldn't
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  Speaker 1: find a place to stay, and we didn't have the
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  Speaker 1: money to stay, so we slept in the parking lot
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  Speaker 1: of the stadium in New Britain, Rockcast Stadium, stepping that
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  Speaker 1: parking lot when everybody went home, we pretend like we
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  Speaker 1: were leaving. We'll go right to the car and sleep
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  Speaker 1: in the car. And we couldn't rap the wait to
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  Speaker 1: go on the road. But Rich was the clubhouse guy
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  Speaker 1: and he actually allowed us to come in and wash
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  Speaker 1: our clothes, brush our teeth, take a shower, and then
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  Speaker 1: we would leave early in the morning, go to the
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  Speaker 1: mall and hang out there until it was time to
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  Speaker 1: report at twelve to one and then we went on
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  Speaker 1: the road and they paid for our hotel. We got
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  Speaker 1: our first check and then we were able to stay
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  Speaker 1: in the Hawthorner. We had enough money to spend in
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  Speaker 1: heart Thorm Hotel in Britain. So and that's our story. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I was afraid to tell anybody. I was embarrassed. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, man, I can go back to the hood
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  Speaker 1: and live better than this.
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  Speaker 3: And it was. It was a rough time in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: Torey, I got to ask because you're a guy who's
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: very well liked, well respected.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Obviously I have the career.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: I know you're in the Angels organization as a special assistant.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Ron Washington said you'd be a great manager. You're a
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: great quote. You're as great as a player.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Quote.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: This is why I called you because you're a great quote.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: And you didn't answer, as we established earlier in the segment.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: So do you do you have any interest in managing
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Sundaytorian and returning to the field in that capacity?
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: You know what, I try to stay next to Ron
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Washington as much as I can when I'm there.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: I'm there at least five to ten days a month.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: I got a lot of businesses going on here, A
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: lot of things going on here keeps me pretty busy.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: But if I can get my thrill to my feel
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: of baseball, and I try to stay around run Washington
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: as much as I can and get a report with
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: the players, get the know them, and you know, the
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: last couple of years man, I've I've definitely built a
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: report with some of the players and also learned a
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: lot from one Washington and all the other coaches in
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: there as well. But yeah, man, when I'm there, man,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: my stress level is down. I'm where I supposed to be.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: I enjoy it. My wife said, I come back happier,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: she said, And it's just it's a great place to
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: be for me. And uh, yes, I can see myself
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: manager one day if if if I'm allowed to, No.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: You want to be a GM, you want to be
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: a GM, that's cool, then you can hire me as
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: your manager. We can fight. Gotta be fun, fun, that'd
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: be fun times. We can argue. We could argue over
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: what players good and what player sucks, and then we
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: can smile and go get tender smokeouts. When we're done.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: You can pay for it.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: It just, you know, it's just it's your opinion, it's
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: what you feel. But then the intent is still about winning.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: So that's something I will always keep in mind because
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: your intent, and I know who you are, is about winning,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: and my tent, you know who I am, it's about winning.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: So regardless we have different opinions, I definitely we could
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: come to we could come to a compromise in that
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: situation as.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Leaders agreed, agreed, all right before you go, and then
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: we're gonna talk about your barbecue joint that you will
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: not get me for free. So I'm mad. But you
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: remember in two thousand and four, so when when I
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: was with the Twins, the White Sox and the Twins,
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: they hated each other. We would talk, they would talk
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: a lot of trash, and we would kick their ass. Right,
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: so they would talk trash and we'd kick their ass.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: So then in two thousand and four, you ran over
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: Jamie Burke for no reasons. You were dirty as hell,
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: ran him over. Now you know that if you would
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: have tried that junk the next year when I was there,
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: it would have been you in the hospital and not
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: Jamie Burke. So you just know that. The just think
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: if you would have just waited a year, how your
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: whole life would You would have no goat gloves, no
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: silver bats, you would add nothing, and I'd be buying
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: you tender smokehouse.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Hey, j man, you know what if that was you,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: I would have put a little extra umph on it
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: just to put you to sleep.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: And then I when I came to the hospital and
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: brought you some chocolates.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: You know what Jamie Burke man, and I heard he
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: was a nice guy.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: But you know all the trash talk, the White Sox
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: dead man in the media to us, they hit us,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: they threw behind us, they did everything possible to try
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: to shake us up that those years prior to and
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: and in that situation, I saw where Jamie Burke was
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: standing there and I saw the ball coming. He was
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: standing there like as if the ball wasn't coming to
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: trip me up. So I just took him out before
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: the ball got there, and I was, you know, I
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: was safe. And you know, I think we day year
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: we want a division, So we were behind I think
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: in the standing s date around that that time, and
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: it kind of shifted for us after that. So, man,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I just played the game the way I was supposed
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: to play it. I played hard, and I played within
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: the rules, never outside the rules.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: And that was part of the rule.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Then, Tori so Aj keeps trying to get free barbecue.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: But can you tell people who aren't familiar about Tender
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Smokehouse and kind of how this whole thing readed. It
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: got great reviews on Yelp, started in twenty seventeen. And
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Selene right now, there's a couple of different vacations, selenafer Selina.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Now there's a couple of different locations right to a
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: bunch of different places. You got Frisco, Little Elm, Aubrey, Whitesboro.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: How did this all come about? And Evan Grant a
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: friend of the show, a Rangers beat writer for quite
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: a while, so.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: It is legit as well.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: It's not just the Tory Hunter name.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I want to put my name on there
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: just in case, you know, I do something bad in
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: the world. You don't put some nehing or anything. But
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: and you know what I start. We started in twenty seventeen.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: My dad always say he's a grill master, and and
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: he taught all his boys, seven boys, you know, how
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: to barbecue, and you know, and some guy came to
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: me and say, hey, I want to start a barbecue joint.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: You know what, you join me in.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: And it was my son's father in law. So we
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: joined in. And and you know, if I was making
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: the barbecue would be out of business. But I'm definitely
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: not making I delegate. I put the right people in place.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: We got great managers, We got a great team all
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: around me. But man, I got to tell you, would
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I rather hit a slaughter or or have one hundred
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: and sixty one employees or team members.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: I think I'd rather hit the slaughter. Running a business
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: is so hard.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, AJ, when you
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: give a check to those those young men and women,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: and you give a check to them and they go
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: home and have food, shelter and clothing, there's nothing more
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: powerful than creating jobs and people can go home and
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: have food, shelter and clothing. Man, I'm fulfilled.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: I love it. And uh yeah.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: People say you don't need the money, but you know what,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: it's bigger than me. It's not about me making money.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: You do things, you have solution to problems, you get
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: the money. But right now I'm just trying to be
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: a solution to a problem.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: That's yeah, that's great. That's a great way to put it. Tory,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: thanks so much for joining us, for trying to embarrass AJ.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: Always appreciate it.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Please come back on, Please come back on, Please text
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: me back.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah will Britta, I'll take you back. Cracks. Good to
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: see you, crawd. AJ.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: You're still paying I give you a ten percent discount,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: but you're gonna pay.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Damn. I'm gonna call a Troy Betroyal hooked me up.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: He get tempercent too,