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Lovable Reunion - David Ross & Anthony Rizzo kick off 2016 Chicago Cubs World Series podcast · Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: Anthony Rizzo, David Ross Welcome to The Lovable Reunion Podcast,
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  Speaker 1: our first official episode. We are here at the iconic
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  Speaker 1: Murphy's Bleachers with my partner David Ross. I NA where
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  Speaker 1: we talk about the unforgettable twenty sixteen World Series Championship
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  Speaker 1: Chicago Cubs. We sit down with all of our former teammates, coaches, executives,
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  Speaker 1: Tom Ricketts, theo Epstein, Joe matt and John Lester, you
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  Speaker 1: name it. We're talking to him, we're interviewing him, and
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  Speaker 1: we're telling you, guys stories, what we saw, where we lived,
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  Speaker 1: things that you've all heard about, but now you're hearing
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  Speaker 1: the real.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff behind the scenes. Today it's about us. We're not
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  Speaker 2: making this about us. It's twenty sixteen. We're gonna walking
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  Speaker 2: through all the stories and all the episodes had a
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  Speaker 2: lot of nakedness going on, but.
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  Speaker 1: Dancing naked, lots of party and lots of king, lots
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  Speaker 1: of teamwork, team camaraderie, all of it. So we've talked
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  Speaker 1: to a lot of our guys already. It's the day
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  Speaker 1: after opening Day. We're here at Murphy's Baseball seasons back
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  Speaker 1: upon us. We can't be more excited for it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so pumped. Let's get the little things out of
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  Speaker 2: the way first. What have you been doing since retirement?
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  Speaker 1: Dude?
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  Speaker 2: What's going on in your life? For what an epic
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  Speaker 2: day you had when they brought you back here in Chicago,
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  Speaker 2: Anthony Rizzo day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sitting in the bleachers Wrigley Field summertime. It was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: The ball hit to me, the retirement party, all of it.
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  Speaker 1: And it feels good to be back in Chicago. It
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  Speaker 1: feels good to be in the Cub's ambassador, feels good
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  Speaker 1: to be back in the game, doing games on Netflix,
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  Speaker 1: games on NBC, You're doing games on ESPN. So to
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  Speaker 1: be back in the game is awesome. But this is
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  Speaker 1: our passion project, this is our baby, and it's been
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  Speaker 1: so much fun sitting down with our guys. I want
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  Speaker 1: to get into you and me meeting Rossie and I
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  Speaker 1: met back when I was going through cancer. Actually, ROSSI
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  Speaker 1: was playing in the Alcus with the Red Sox in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and eight and we had the same agency,
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  Speaker 1: and Rossie left me a ticket. He came and said
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  Speaker 1: hi to me before the game near the bullpen. Probably
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  Speaker 1: had no idea who I was.
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  Speaker 2: My agents are like, hey, can you leave this kid's
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  Speaker 2: tickets just say hey, maybe snap a photo, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: all right, went to some you know, charity kid. I'll
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  Speaker 2: go say, he turns out were brothers are life turns out?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I was.
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  Speaker 2: That was kind of crazy, the fact that went full
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  Speaker 2: circle and we're sitting here now and we took a picture.
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  Speaker 2: I think I signed something on the sidelines right there
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  Speaker 2: in Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny. I remember driving to Tampa that that for
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  Speaker 1: that game. We drove over that night and my mom's car,
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  Speaker 1: she had a Cadillac, and I left the car running,
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  Speaker 1: so we got back the whole game. The car was running.
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  Speaker 1: I forgot to turn it off because I was so excited.
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  Speaker 1: On empty we barely ruled. I think we had to
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  Speaker 1: push it into the gas.
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  Speaker 2: Well that that That's a good story, but not a
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  Speaker 2: sign of things to come, because things got a lot
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  Speaker 2: better for me.
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  Speaker 1: Can you believe it's been ten years.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe it's been ten years. I can't believe
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  Speaker 2: we met so long ago. You know, I my life
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  Speaker 2: has been crazy since with you know, managing since then,
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  Speaker 2: being out of baseball and two of the Stars. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so I ever just got downe with the WBC and
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  Speaker 2: that was when DeRosa introduced me. He was like, and
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  Speaker 2: dance with the stars, and I gave him this and
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  Speaker 2: the room went crazy. Little so that's my new Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I just did a little shimmy and the crowd went crazy.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, man, things have been nuts for me as well.
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  Speaker 2: Ten years has gone by. I feel like it's happened
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  Speaker 2: so fast. Our kids. We got to see everybody at
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  Speaker 2: the reunion for Cubs convention. Everybody's kids have gotten older
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  Speaker 2: and grown up, and everybody's kind of, you know, doing
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  Speaker 2: different things in life. It's nuts how fast the ten
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  Speaker 2: years has gone.
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  Speaker 1: It's really a husband. It's when we first met. When
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  Speaker 1: Rossi and I really first actually met, we sat down
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  Speaker 1: at ESPN at the end of the twenty fourteen season.
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  Speaker 1: It was going into the playoff and we sat down
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  Speaker 1: in an ESPN car wash and we just talked for
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  Speaker 1: like two hours. Maybe we had the same agent. Our
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  Speaker 1: agent was there, and I literally told my agent after that,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, the Chicago Cubs need David Ross because
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  Speaker 1: we were on the verge of becoming pretty good. I
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  Speaker 1: thought we had a lot of bad teams, but everything
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  Speaker 1: you talked about was everything that our team needed. So
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  Speaker 1: for it to come full circle and you to sign
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  Speaker 1: with the Cubs a few months later, it was insane.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think like that was that was a moment.
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  Speaker 2: We definitely hit it off and talking baseball and felt
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  Speaker 2: like we were had been friends for fifteen years after
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  Speaker 2: that day. I mean, we just hit it off so well,
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  Speaker 2: and I think, you know, I was glad to be
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  Speaker 2: a part of that. But I think what we needed
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  Speaker 2: was Johnny lest we need Johnny, I follow the good
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  Speaker 2: players around. If he had noticed looking back in my career,
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  Speaker 2: just try to get on a couple of good teams
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  Speaker 2: and hide. But no, that that day at ESPN and
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  Speaker 2: then you came to Tallahassee for a football game, we
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  Speaker 2: got to hang out out, and then me signing here
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  Speaker 2: and us being able to go on this journey together,
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  Speaker 2: and looking back, I can't wait for everybody to hear
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  Speaker 2: our stories and the stories of our teammates are gonna
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  Speaker 2: bring a lot of laughs, a lot of tears. We've
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  Speaker 2: got some in the can already that they're pretty emotional,
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  Speaker 2: and some guys really pour the hearts out. It's pretty
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  Speaker 2: pretty pretty epic. Ross.
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  Speaker 1: He was the king of two year deals, and he
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  Speaker 1: would tell me and year one in twenty fifteen, he's like,
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  Speaker 1: I'll just wait till the second year, Like I only
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  Speaker 1: do two year deals for a reason. And it lived true.
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  Speaker 1: Like by the year or two, I was like, I
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  Speaker 1: want to fucking kill him.
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  Speaker 2: I had the clubhouse cancer second. Yeah, yeah, everybody not
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  Speaker 2: like that. But in the next year he's like, I'm
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  Speaker 2: over his ship for sure.
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  Speaker 1: When you came into Spring in twenty fifteen, you and
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  Speaker 1: Lester came in and it was like all eyes were
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube. You guys were intense. You were You're a
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  Speaker 1: lot older than everyone else, so everyone was looking at
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  Speaker 1: you guys like on eggshells a little bit, and you
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  Speaker 1: were You have such a good way of uplifting everyone,
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  Speaker 1: bringing them up and when there's times of you know
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  Speaker 1: that they need to be talked to. You You are
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  Speaker 1: the best in the business of absolutely motherfucking someone and
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  Speaker 1: making them feel good about it and making them walk
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  Speaker 1: away with a smile. And I don't know how you
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  Speaker 1: did that.
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  Speaker 2: But well, it's a shit sandwich, right you just you
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  Speaker 2: start with a real positive thing, you say the shitty
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  Speaker 2: stuff in the middle, and you're in with some positives. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's what I learned early on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you walk away like he just screamed
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  Speaker 1: at me. But I feel so good about it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think looking back on the group we had,
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  Speaker 2: and I appreciate that compliment. I think it's a compliment,
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  Speaker 2: but we had the character of our group. I could
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  Speaker 2: I could be honest and say whatever you had to
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  Speaker 2: to our guys, and they took it. Whether it's Schwarber
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  Speaker 2: and talking about catching and his body language, he tells
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  Speaker 2: that story about coming off and coming up to me
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  Speaker 2: and tell me what I got when we getting our
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  Speaker 2: butts kicked, and you know, the little things about how
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  Speaker 2: guys on our in our group were receptive to the
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  Speaker 2: information or a little bit of criticism. But we also
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  Speaker 2: pour you know, we poured into it to our teammates,
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  Speaker 2: like we had such good guys, we all hung out,
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  Speaker 2: but a young group like you were kind of the
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  Speaker 2: veteran guy when I came here, you were the veteran guy.
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  Speaker 2: Or you and Starling had been here for a long time,
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  Speaker 2: but still very young in your career, at very young
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  Speaker 2: in age, and then starting to bring in some championship
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  Speaker 2: pieces that John had won. I had one had been
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  Speaker 2: a part of that, and everybody just kind of like
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  Speaker 2: really looked to us and really gravitated to you know,
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  Speaker 2: we had a tight knit group and gravitated to each
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  Speaker 2: other and we just took off.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like him and Lester came in and they
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  Speaker 1: literally taught us all. It elevated me personally to another
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  Speaker 1: level of professionalism. It was all about winning. What it
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  Speaker 1: took to win, the energy it takes to win, which
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  Speaker 1: you don't know how to do until you do it. Like, no,
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  Speaker 1: losing's easy in the big things. You just lose. You
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  Speaker 1: lose games. You win a couple of games, you lose, Ah,
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  Speaker 1: we lost again. When you win after you win a
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  Speaker 1: lot and you lose, it sucks to lose, no doubt.
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  Speaker 1: The energy it takes every day to bring.
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  Speaker 2: So I look back and coming from Boston and winning
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  Speaker 2: with Lester and Lackey on that team, I feel like
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  Speaker 2: I owe them, you know, my rings because those guys
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  Speaker 2: were professionals and had won before. But until you go
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  Speaker 2: through the full journey and you finished the goal and
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  Speaker 2: our champions at the end of it, then you look
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  Speaker 2: back it's like, oh, that's what it feels like. That's
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  Speaker 2: what it's like to bring our lunch paal every day,
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  Speaker 2: come to work with a mission and just start stacking
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  Speaker 2: days upon days good days. And then you get in
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  Speaker 2: the postseason and you got to have a couple of
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  Speaker 2: things go your way, but you got good talent. You
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  Speaker 2: continue to focus on the little things. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: something you learn when you're on the championship team.
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  Speaker 1: For me in fifteen, and we talked about this a
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  Speaker 1: lot throughout the podcast with a lot of different guys
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  Speaker 1: and coaches. That San Francisco Giants series in twenty fifteen
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  Speaker 1: in August here was like franchise changing in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: because we were really good. We were getting really good.
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  Speaker 1: We had momentum and we were third place in the
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  Speaker 1: wild Card at the time, and the Giants come out
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  Speaker 1: for a four game set and we sweep them. We
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  Speaker 1: boat race them the entire series. And after that series,
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  Speaker 1: I think that was like the night we all went out.
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  Speaker 1: We were singing at Stanley's karaoke meet Dexter, Big Kat
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  Speaker 1: was there, THEO was out, like the whole team was out.
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  Speaker 1: But that was like a defining moment for me because
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  Speaker 1: we had lost so much and then we finally won
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  Speaker 1: that like damn, we are good, Like we just beat
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  Speaker 1: the San Francisco Giants World champions they've won two rings
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  Speaker 1: already or three rings already, so and I know you
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  Speaker 1: feel the same way, Love.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was the I think talking to
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  Speaker 2: each guy. It was in the second half and in
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  Speaker 2: August in that series really stood out because of the
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  Speaker 2: giants resume with Buster and Bumgardner. I mean, they had
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  Speaker 2: they had the boys and I think they had two
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  Speaker 2: championships at the time, and you know, we knew that
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  Speaker 2: was a good test and being able to sweep them
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  Speaker 2: and handedly, I think we all started to feel that
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  Speaker 2: was when we started getting on our run. I think
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  Speaker 2: the young guys were comfortable. Then. We had brought so
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  Speaker 2: many guys up that year and just started those guys
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  Speaker 2: started to kind of really get comfortable and and off
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  Speaker 2: we went.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean yet two guys in the home Run Derby,
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  Speaker 1: Me and KP. It's not about us, but it is today.
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  Speaker 2: It is it is about you?
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  Speaker 1: Is us today?
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  Speaker 2: How was that?
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  Speaker 1: Home run?
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  Speaker 2: Dirt?
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  Speaker 1: Home Run Derby was sick. It was so much fun
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  Speaker 1: in Cincinnati too, all my family there, I mean the
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  Speaker 1: night before we were out like to hanging out Sean Casey,
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  Speaker 1: who was such a legend, And that's a story I
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  Speaker 1: want to get We got a good case story is
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  Speaker 1: we were in Pittsburgh in September and we're we win
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  Speaker 1: ninety seven games that year. The Pirates win ninety eight
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  Speaker 1: games the Cardinals I believe one one hundred, right. We
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  Speaker 1: finished third in the division, second in the wildcard, and
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to catch the Cardinals or I'm sorry, we're
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: trying to catch the Pirates be one in the wildcard standing.
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  Speaker 1: So we're in Pittsburgh. We have a day game. It's
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  Speaker 1: a Saturday going into Sunday. So Saturday night we're all
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  Speaker 1: hanging in Johnny Lester's room. Sean Casey comes over. All
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  Speaker 1: the boys are in the room. John has the penthouse.
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  Speaker 1: He orders all the food, all these beers, and we're
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  Speaker 1: just It ends up being till like four or five
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. We have a twelve thirty game the
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  Speaker 1: next day. So it was an it was a night.
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  Speaker 1: It was a I remember taking a cab to the
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  Speaker 1: park like panicked because I'm rolling in out like eleven
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  Speaker 1: and on the on the radio, I hear the Pirates
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  Speaker 1: people like dogging Angew McCutcheon for sitting out in the game,
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  Speaker 1: because he's like, wow, could he sit out? We're in
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  Speaker 1: the wild car Race, this and that, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: hell yeah, I'm playing like I'm freaking a little bit
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  Speaker 1: hung over.
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  Speaker 2: It's okay, a lot of it. Some of your best
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: games were a little hung I mean, for honest, my
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  Speaker 2: first about you, my first to bat, I ground into
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  Speaker 2: a double play, basses loaded. Can I set the scene?
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna gloss over this? So we first hitting. Charlie
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  Speaker 2: Morton's on the mound, and Charlie Morton turns out to
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  Speaker 2: be a really good picture love Charlie played with him
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  Speaker 2: in Atlanta. But Charlie Morton wasn't that Charlie Morton you're
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: seeing now, Charlie.
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  Speaker 1: Morton the back end of his career.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, back end of his career. He was really good.
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  Speaker 2: So he was things out. Yeah yeah, And we got
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  Speaker 2: bases loaded, nobody out, and our four hitter, who's one
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  Speaker 2: of the best players in the game, comes up and
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  Speaker 2: swings in the first pitch and grounds into a double play.
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  Speaker 2: What we're grinding this guy, It's what we do. We
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  Speaker 2: grind pitchers and might be a little I was there
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  Speaker 2: so I know he's not feeling great.
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  Speaker 1: And I drove in a run although I didn't get
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  Speaker 1: the RBI because when you're gonna do a double play. So
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: I go back and, like I always do, I go
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  Speaker 1: back to Rossie and I kind of break down my
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: bat him and Hinsky. I'll always break my bats down.
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  Speaker 1: And he's fucking fuming. He's like, you want my opinion?
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  Speaker 1: I was like yeah, He's like, you aren't fucking ready
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  Speaker 1: to play. He goes, if you can't stay out all
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  Speaker 1: night and you're not ready to play, don't stay out
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  Speaker 1: all night. And I looked at him, I go, fuck you,
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  Speaker 1: ROSSI I'm always ready to play. And I walked off
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  Speaker 1: so pissed. First time I ever yelled at him. So
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  Speaker 1: it's September fifteen, right where teammates now for six months
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  Speaker 1: for the two year thing comes and play. But first
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  Speaker 1: time I ever snapped back because I respected him, Because
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  Speaker 1: you respect your own.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, it's okay to bark back. I just you asked
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  Speaker 2: my opinion. I was going to, hey, won't ready to play?
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  Speaker 2: He let me ready to play?
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  Speaker 1: Right, And my next to bat, I come back up.
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  Speaker 1: I had a two run homer and I come in
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  Speaker 1: the dugout right.
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  Speaker 2: He hits the homer and it's gone and before the
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  Speaker 2: ball is over the fence. He's staring at me, just
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  Speaker 2: like staring a hole through me.
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  Speaker 1: And I come back in the dugout and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm always fucking ready to play, Rossie, fuck you screaming
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  Speaker 1: at me, and he's like, if that's what it takes
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  Speaker 1: to get you going, I'm gonna yell you all tight.
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  Speaker 2: If you need me to pish you off to lock
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  Speaker 2: at the fuck in, then I'll do that. As as
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  Speaker 2: the pseudo bench player, I'll do that if you need
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  Speaker 2: me to get under your crawl. And he was mad
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  Speaker 2: at me for a good bit, but then he was
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  Speaker 2: happy because he had a couple of RBI's.
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  Speaker 1: And had a homer and double in that game too.
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  Speaker 2: It was good we win the game.
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  Speaker 1: We won the game, won the game. Another another one
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  Speaker 1: too is later literally next the next week, I actually
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  Speaker 1: went to Joe's Off's. I played I think one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and sixty games that year, and were we had a
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  Speaker 1: makeup game versus the Royals, and I walked in the
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  Speaker 1: go Joe, I need a day. I'm dead because I
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: didn't know how to win, and there's so much energy
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  Speaker 1: that goes into winning and your teammates and I was
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  Speaker 1: gassed and he gave me a day off, and I
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  Speaker 1: think I was I was late for the anthem, or
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  Speaker 1: I didn't come out for the anthem, or I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: out not for the anthem, I wasn't out for first pitch,
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  Speaker 1: and he wore me out. And it's something I took
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  Speaker 1: with me forever. He was like, we you have this
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  Speaker 1: bench players grind every day for you, watching every at bat,
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  Speaker 1: so invested in you, and you're not going to be
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  Speaker 1: out there at first pitch to watch them and show
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  Speaker 1: them the respect that you're not playing today. And I
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: took that with me and literally for the rest of
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  Speaker 1: my career. Any day I had off, I was out
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  Speaker 1: there for first pitch watching those guys.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know why these guys liked me, because
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  Speaker 2: all I did was get on them about being being pro.
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: I did that to Mike Napoli. One of the hardest
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: things I've ever done, I caught and come to find
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  Speaker 2: out later in Boston, I got a day game after
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  Speaker 2: we had clinched and nap I didn't know at the time,
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  Speaker 2: but had like a shot in his foot and all
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: these things going on. But you know, like you want
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: the boys around there to root you on and like
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: the third inning came around and nobody was on the
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: dugout and in the dugout, so I go up, like
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: I faked getting a red bull or something. I see
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: uh Lackeye and Nap, who played every day up there
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: chilling watching football, and I I was like.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: His beer chickings.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, no, hey, too soon, too soon? No.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: But and I said to Nap, I was like, bro,
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: I'm out there grinding every day, Like it just is
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: bullshit that you're not out there supporting me when I play.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: I remember almost crying telling him that because it was
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: like so personal to me. And that's the best, you know,
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: and Nap tells that story all the time just because
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: of like you know, I think you lose side of
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: when your everyday player. These other guys that are out there.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: So I just think like that's just one other piece
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: that keeps everybody together. And you know, I am a
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: role player, was a role player for most of my career.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: So it's like one of those things you want to
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: you're out there with them on you want the boys
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: with you.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: So that's another thing of leadership that people don't understand
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: if you're not out there guys that are playing like, oh, like, oh,
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: he's good to watch us. And it's like if you're
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: out there watching and investing, like your guys want to
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: play more for you, right. So you taught me that
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: and it's something that I took with me for the
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: rest of my career. In fifteen, we go to the NLCS,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: We got our hearts broken. It was awful. I literally
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: thought we were winning the World Series. And I remember
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: after fifteen, I think we did a toast of Dan
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Harron because it was the end of his career and
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Lester another veteran moment here, John Lester poort champagne for
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: everyone at the end and toasts Dan Harrons for having
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: an amazing career. It was probably the end, and it's like, dude,
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: that doesn't happen, right, And like the parties we had
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: in fifteen after we clinched we beat the Cardinals, there's
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: a story with Schwarber that we talked about about the
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: home runs we hit the shore bomb. But those parties
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: that Lester had were just another example of bringing the
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: team together. For the iconic twenty sixteen team, It.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: All led up to that, and we went into that
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: off season knowing like everybody's hungry. I always thought like
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: when you get to the World Series and win, there's
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: a sense of relief and like a relax, like when
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: you don't get there and your heart broken, like we
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: did against the Mets and they think, freaking Daniel Murphy.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Fucking I love him. Actually we ended up being teammates
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: and he's he were my number and I'm like, I
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: don't know if yeah, but on the Mets in fifteen heat.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: But it gives you that sense of like you're hungry
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: going into next season. And then the great job by
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: THEO bring him back Dexter, What a moment that was.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: We talk about that and how cool that was and
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Dex walking us through his whole offseason and.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Then signed Lacky.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: We signed Lackeys and yeah, yeah, so we I mean
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: that was a critical off season where they brought us
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: in everything we needed. Uh, And the whole Grandpa Rossie
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: retirement started, and we talked about kV starting with the
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Grandpa Rossi Instagram and all the all the many episodes.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: You can tell we're really at Murphy's.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Hear that iconic we are.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: We are right here in the heart of Chicago Rigleyville,
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: and h We've got fire trucks going everywhere.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Many nights here in sixteen in spring training, we rolled
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: in and we had this very arrogant, hum but humble
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: mentality of like, we already won the World Series. That's
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: just press play, right, Like Lester had a shirts made,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: and I know there was stories in Boston where you
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: guys had shirts made, but we literally spoke about us
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: already winning the World Series this year and we lived it,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: we breathed it, and we were going into probably your
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: last year, right, yeah.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: And the best and well that was I got caught
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: on a talk radio show saying I thought that was
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: it and then it just kind of caught fire, which
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: I didn't think it will backup Catcher who cares? But
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: I got a lot of love for that. And you
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: guys took care of your.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Me and KB me and KB well for us, it
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: was like, dude, you were so you're so instrumental in
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: my career and helping me become a better leader and
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: a better teammate, a better person. And it was like,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I want to celebrate you. And I know by the
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: end of the year two I probably wanted to kill you.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: But it was just we make the Grand Parassi account
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: we're bringing them out all these gifts. But it was
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: just another way for our team to have fun. And
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Joe did such a good job at us about the
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: players did too. Man, Yeah, we were like the Motley Cruz.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Well, Joe let us. He let us have those those
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: moments and the off the field stuff, and he championed
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: that and talking about embraced the target. I remember just like, yeah,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: the target is on our back because we're picked to
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: win it, and how that was a good thing, you know.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: And and I never felt really any pressure that whole
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: season because just the way he handled the media and
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: how close we were, and I felt like we kept our
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: clubhouse so tight knit and we're in our own little
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: world inside that clubhouse that none of that, none of
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: those cursed things ever really creaked in.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I didn't think it'll never never. And so in sixteen,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: our last two games of the season were in Vegas.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry off spring training. Yeah, we go to Vegas
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: for two exhibition games and the whole team goes because
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: after that we're going to Anaheim start the year. So
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Rossie and I we played in Vegas every year for
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: the most part. In spring training. I went on every
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: one of those trips. So Rossie and I were sitting
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: at the Cosmo tollog I wonder why, and we shared
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: the penthouse. The two veteran penhouse are like, hey, let's
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: share a room, right, Like, we had a whole night planned.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I think we went to Hakissan right at the MGM
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: and we went out all night. We had a game
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: the next day, but it was we were gonna get
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: like two of bats. Joe.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: We walk in and Riz this guy like, welcome to Chicago.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: We followed it out. We had like the whole team there,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: and it's just one of those things I remember. I
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: remember in twenty fifteen Spreenching, I saw the Royals, the
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: whole team party and they ended up winning the world.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: He was like, dude, right, and then we kind of
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: bonded like that. So the next day we go in
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: and again it's not about me. I hit a home run,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: my first to beat. Rossi is on the training table
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: with towels over his head, dead, and I remember Matt Caesar.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I think we told this story with sees. Matt Caesar
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: walks in, He's like, hey, are you good, bro, and
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: he's like, fuck away from me. I was dying.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: And then Cashman Field in Vegas, like that hard table
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: what I just put? I remember Davey Martinez coming up
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: like tapping me, waking me up. He's like, hey, you
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: think you can catch three innings? I was like, I've
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: got three. I've got three. So I got like one
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: at back and got out of there. Was not feeling good,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: I think, went back to g nap and then went
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: back down. The next night.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well we had a that was an epic. That
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: was well, some guys didn't want to go, and Joe
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: and Davey I'm not saying who up under my recommendation.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: We had a Bloody Mary bar and a Mimosa bar
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: pregame for all of us because they knew we were
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: going out, and Joe was just we'll have mimosas and
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Bloody's like, if guys need it for the hangover, it'll
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: be good going into the game. So it was just
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: those were the That was the vibe of our clubhouse.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: It was so much fun. It was so relaxed, but
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: we knew when it was time to work. It was
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: and we rolled into Anaheim.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Remember the team Remember the team dinner A THEO and
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: or Tom the coach picked up the dinner that night.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Make sure everybody got out of the shore. Yeah, make
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: sure everybody left Vegas.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so they wanted us. We wanted to stay in
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Vegas another night. They were like, no, let's get to California.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: We ended up going to Mastros there and at Newport
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: and mister Ricketts and THEO picked up the bill and
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: guys were ordering, like any any team dinner less than Lackey.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: We're always fighting over the bill. So it was obnoxious
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: the food and wine and the seafood towers that they
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: would order. But it was amazing. And then we get
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: into Anaheim and in sixteen, I think it was the
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: end of fifteen. I always worked out in the morning
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: in the on the road with our strength coach Tim Buss.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: It was like our time to just go talk the game,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: go to a regular gym and just be a normal person.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: So before the second game, we went to the Equinox
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: out in Newport. Newport and you came and it was upstairs.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we had a blister.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there was an outside area upstairs that we
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: were just training at and it was a beautiful day.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: So him and I both took our shirts off at
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Bussy too. We're the only ones there and we're training.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: There's these monkey bars and let's try these. And I
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: do the monkey bars one time and I get two
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: blisters on each hand. Second game of the season, and
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: I am grinding trying to hit right, and I'm like, fuck.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: But the point of this is you coming on the
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: road and coming to those workouts. It was a way
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: to celebrate and like we went to the Rocky Steps
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: that year in Philly, Forbes and Stanwix in Pittsburgh at
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: the Golden Gym was iconic. We would go there every
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: time we were in Pittsburgh.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: San Diego Gas Lamp. We walked around and grab lunch.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: We always grab the only thing Riz had to eat
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: at when we go to Pittsburgh. He had to eat
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: at Modes. It's like, bro, it's ten thirty in the
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: morning and he's got it.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: He's there. What are mos? Every time in Pittsburgh. It
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: was great.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: But I think that was that to me, you inviting
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: me on that and you getting up and doing that me,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: you and Bussy, that bond, I thought took our relationship
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: to another level because it was so much fun for me.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: It created a kind of a new routine for me
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: of getting up on the road, going and working out
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: when we first got there, going to have lunch, coming back,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: taking a little nap, and then heading to the field.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: And that's one of my favorite things. I look back
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: on those times. We bought the gold gym shirts with
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: the with the we all had these bright highlighter colors
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: tank tops. It was it was I mean.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: We went I don't I don't think you were with this.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: But there was a time where we went to the
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: muscle beach. Yeah, and I wasn't there for yeah, we
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: were outside working out. It was where Arnold worked out.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: How cool was it for you when you hit your
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: hundredth home runs? Backup Catcher when he had his hundredth
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: home run, It was here Wrigley and like everyone exploded.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: We are counting down for it.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Counting down.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: It was just we rallied so hard behind you.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: I have funny story the guy hit that if I
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: ended up pitching for me, and he walked into my
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: to my office in spring training. He was like, you
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: don't remember remember me? Dude.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I'm like, what remember what?
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: And he's like, you hit your hit your under the
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: home run of me. I was like, oh, back to
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: back change ups I do it was. It was a
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: funny little sto. Yeah. I remember, like looking in the dugout.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: There's a couple of things I think about the Game
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: seven home run that we'll get to, but the look
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: on my teammate's face with the one hundred home run
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: and the Game seven home run, when you look in
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: the dugout A round it second and you guys were
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: going absolutely crazy for me, Like, those are those moments
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: you can't get back, and to see the joy of
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: the people you're grinding with every single day that love
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: you and are rooting for you, that that was a
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: special one for me. Here. You know, I got so
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: many standovations, little curtain calls that year, that.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Washout when Yati at the end here we're playing the
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Cardinals as.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: The last series of the Sunday Night Baseball.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Sunday Night Baseball, and Rossi's first at bat, Yachti gives
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: him his runway and gets a standing ovation. You do
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: a curtain call. But I thought that was so cool
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: that Yadi realized that moment, understood how much you meant
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: to our team and gave you that moment.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Every He's such a professional, and there's so I must
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: have thanked him a million times every time I see him.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: But that was one of my favorite moments of my career.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Back on that that year and that game, you know,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: I got I hit, I got another ovation. He gave
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: me two of them my second a bat, then I
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: hit the home run. We end up winning I think
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: two to one, and I gave us the lead. And
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: then Lester goes in and tells Joe the story he
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: talks about to take me out of the game. I
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: wanted to kill Joe when he was coming out. Thought
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: he was taking Lester out. And I go out and
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: then you put your arm around me. I'm about to
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: start crying now, and I'm like trying to give everybody hugs.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: And I didn't know, I didn't even know what to do.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Like that was one of my favorite games at that year,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: twenty sixteen. It was such a special moment. Everybody gave
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: me so much love. The fans gave me seven curtain calls,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: and you know, it was just it was it was,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, the people here, we're going to do some
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: stuff about the fans and like we're so thankful for
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Cubs fans or I am, at least, and I know
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: you are but how you guys rallied around us, support us,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: loved our personalities, and I got so much love walking
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: around this town, going to restaurants and playing Grandpa. You
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: still still get that's the only thing they know my
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: real name. I think it's just Grandpa.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I know that that team too, That team we in
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, we had seven All Stars that year. I
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: remember us rolling into San Diego and at the All
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Star game it was, you know, the pitchers weren't pitching.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: I don't think Lesser or Areat they were pitching, so that.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: It was nine of you guys, right, it was nine
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Seven, seven knows okay. But the clubhouse was dry in
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: lesser An area, like the fuck, so they like go
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: out and like buy all this stuff for the clubhouse,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: and like we rolled in there like again, we didn't.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: We never showed up teams. I didn't. I didn't feel
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: like we were ever arrogant. I felt like it was
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: really easy to root for us because it's been one
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: hundred and eight years. There is a real curse here, right,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Like there's so much that went into it. We went
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: so far in fifteen, so I really felt like in sixteen,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: even at the All Star Game, but going into the playoffs,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: like we were America's team.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: We were dancing and I remember like they played whoop
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: there it is every time on the on the home run,
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: and like the whole dugout, that small tiny dugout was
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: high five and the dance, we all all the coaches
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: had their high five. Speaking of we had a little
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: handshake pre game.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Do you remember that we did.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: We were that.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: We had a little uh we called it the cock bump. Yeah,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: we had we had where I never wore a cup
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: in my career, but Rossi did, so it hurt me
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: a little bit more than him, but we would exchange.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we had.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: We had that.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: We had to tell that with the that's a J
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: one We should say that for J and details that story.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: We did that after homers. But our handshake was just
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: it was very professional.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. He was always love like he was fun loving
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: getting into his routine and then the game. Right before
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: the game, he kind of like put on this' is
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: go time kind.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Of like I always said I was a switch guy,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: So like he wasn't he when he was playing every
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: fifth day or a couple of times a week.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably you'd come in.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: And he'd be like, in game mode, right, I'm playing
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: every day. I planned playing one sixty two. I think
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: of sixteen, I played one sixty or one sixty one.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: So I always said I'm a switch guy, Like I'm
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: I keep my mind off as long as I could
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: until I have to turn the switch on and then
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: I'm go. And he couldn't understand that. So like when
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I'm joking around thirty five minutes before the game, He's.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Like, get the fuck in, and I go russy, I'm
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: always locked in.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: I'm always locked in.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: But I would go to me be like, good luck today,
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: ann looking right now? Yeah, he just stayed for as
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: luck has nothing to do with it. Well, it has
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: nothing to do well.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: In fifteen, at the end of the year, you came
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: up to me after I think I grounded out and
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Joe took us out of the game as the last
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: game of the year and we already going to the
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: wild card. He took me out and I was pissed,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: and you walked up to me, and I think I
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: was already annoyed at you from a Pittsburgh story a
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: week before. You wore me out for not being out
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: there for first pitch. So I'm like, this fucking guy's
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: it's it's September. A lot of your teammates are. You're
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: over him at that point. And you come up to
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: me after I ground it out and you go hey,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, what the fuck you're gonna say to me?
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: And you just go you shake my ego, congratulations on
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: a great year. And I was I went from like
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: I wanted to kill you, like, oh, thank you. Gave
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: you a big hug. Remember that. So next year, that's
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: why we started the handshake.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: I remember that. I remember that you were definitely ready
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: to kill me, but you were. It was it was done.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: We we had a playoff spot locked in and yeah,
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: it's like I think we forget about telling guys like, man,
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: the journey's over. Now we start a new one. You
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: know that reason. Let's get let's get to let's get
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: to some some the playoffs, the playoffs, SA, we got
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: to get.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Go to that game one. San Francisco were the best team.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: The Giants are coming off of their every other year
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: even year World Series runs. So they won in ten, twelve, fourteen.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Now at sixteen, and I'm in my head, I'm like, damn,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: like I'm playing the Giants right like, we got to
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: go out West. I personally, my numbers at AT and
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: T at the time are the worst of my career.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: I've zero home runs. I think I hit under two
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: hundred there. It's just I don't know why I never
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: hit well in that ballpark. But Game one, Hobby hits
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: that massive home run into the wind. Thought it was
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: going to go on to Waveland and it goes in
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: the basket basket and we went won nothing off Quato.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Who was Del? I think in the contention that year,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Del and we go I think it was game three
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: or four when we do this crazy backpick with me,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: you Hobvey.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: I wanted to bring that up. And I know we're
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: in the playoffs, but like you were, there's only so
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: many guys that got to play with that were like
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: locked in as much as I was to picking guys off,
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: and you were so into I remember the game we
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: ended in Washington when ron Dome was getting getting getting
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: a little squirrely. Remember and it was no it was
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: my first base Robinson or something.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we did one here too, Yeah, yeah, we.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Had a couple of good ones and yeah for that
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: the one I remember Game three, Remember Arietta. We talked
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: about this a little bit, tacks Bumgardner Deep. We're up
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: like three nothing, and it was so loud and our
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: dugout was going crazy. And then I pulled the whole
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: veteran card and was like, in my mind, I'm like,
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: everybody thinks we just won the World Series. Everybody's going crazy,
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: like long way to go. I think we're in the
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: third inning and uh second or third inning, and sure
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: enough they came back and beat us. But I was
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: the old man, like, keep it together, people, we got
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: a long way to go. But that was a nut.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: That was a crazy crazy, that.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Serious, was that serious intense five games too, the first game,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: the first series two. We're nervous. We know our expectations
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: are up here, we're the best team in the league.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: We have World Series or busts really all over us.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: So but that backpick was just another, I think symbol
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: of our team of how loose Joe let us play
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: we're calling. So the backpick, I'll take you through it.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: It's a bunt play where there's a guy in first,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: the pitcher's up, or we know the guy's bunting.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: You're the best the way business.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: I come all the way up basically like ten feet
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: from the hitter. If he hits the ball at me,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: I'm dead. I understand that. I just play the odds
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: of like there's no way he's going to hit it
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: at me, right, Thank god, I never got a hit
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: at me. But then Hobby comes around behind the first
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: runner after the pitch and ross he picks it off
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: and it's a ballsy player at the time. Yeah, but
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: we do it, and it's just momentum for us. But again,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: like Joe, let us play that.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: When you trust. Hobby was so good and he was
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: such his baseball IQ's some of the best I've ever
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: been around, Like he knew what he was doing, and
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: you trusted I could just let it go because his
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: hands were so good and he was going to block
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: it up, saying with you when you were back there
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: and just a regular backpick, you know, like if you
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: have trust in your teammates that they're going to sacrifice
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: and do all they can to either keep it in
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: front of it's a bad throw or be on time
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: to get there. Like that's the stuff we had within
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: this team. We had a lot of good trusts. Talking
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: about Game four, against the Giants.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean literally is just talking a hundred pence
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: about this. When we were out in San Francisco and
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: we were down three runs going into the ninth we
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: had Johnny Quato. They did Johnny Quato go in Game five. Yeah,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: and he's nasty and he had had good success. He
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: had good success off us when he was in Cincinnati.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: He had our number. And we came back in that
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: ninth inning and I fell like a did. Not only
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: did we party in San Francisco and on the play home,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: but we ran out of there like thieves steal in
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: that game.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Everybody was getting I mean, balls were up the middle,
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Contrere's hobby like things. Everything was going our way in
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: that inning and they were just Bruce Boach kept just
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: rolling guys out of the bullpen and didn't matter.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: It was just like a sign of like when you
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: really look back at that World Series run, winning that game,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: coming back down three in the ninth we were down
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: two to one versus the Dodgers. Right then we come
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: back and win in Game six. So we win three
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: games or four games two, Like we faced our adversity
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs, right, no doubt we had we were
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: down two to one. We get back to Wrigley, we
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: tie it. Then we have Kershaw.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Game six, when you remember the whole Retael with Caesar
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: using his bat and that whole thing, like like we've
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: got so many stories, but then our stories that these
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: other guys and and memories that they have of just
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: watching from different perspective, like it's been so fun fun
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: to do this and that that. That Dodger series, I mean,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: they were good.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Forget, they're really good. I think, always good, you know
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: what I mean. And there was a game where Kenley
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Jensen was pitching and I was using Matt Caesar's bat,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: or I was using my bat and he jammed me.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: My bat shattered, but he didn't cover first base and
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I got a hit. We lost the game, but for me,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: I was kind of grinding up until that point and
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: I walked in the clubhoufs. We lost, but in the
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: playoffs you have to be real quick, you know, you
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: gotta be like like a goldfish ted Lasso, right, like
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: memory of a goldfish. So after the game, I was
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: just like, that's that's it for me, Like that little
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: meaningless hit. I'm about to go off next game. I
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: think I got three or four hits, hit a home
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: run and then carried that into the post you roll
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: into the World Series Game six, one of my more
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: memorable home runs, hitting a home run off Clinton Kershaw.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Not about me, it is about you. That was the bomb.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Then we clinch at Wrigley, like the game was at
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: the front front. Yeah, from one hand, and it it's
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: like game clinching game at Wrigley to send us to
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: the World Series, and the party outside of Wrigley, like
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: the fans, the emotion it was like it was so insane.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. It actually annoyed me because I
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: was like, we still have a job to do, and
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: like Cubs fans were almost like just so happy we
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: got to the World Series, like that was good enough,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: and on the inside we're like no, no, no, like
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: we need to finish the job.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: I remember thinking like, I mean, we had an epic
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: party at Lester's after that, which was crazy. But I
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: remember thinking like I thought, I was so worried about
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: my last year and like wanted to go out, you know,
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: as best we could, and remember like taking a step
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: further than we went the year before and fifteen for
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: these people bringing a world series back here, like I
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: sense I had a sense of like, oh hit, now
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: we go like it doesn't you know a little bit,
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: like we've we've were back to where further than we
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: were last year. Like now it's all gravy, go win
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: this thing, you know, not me I was.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: I was head down in the tunnel like we need
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: to win this. Like yeah, this was cool. The celebration,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: it really but it's going to be better when we
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: went And obviously it was a lot better when we
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: want and all that, but I remember Game one here
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: is like we didn't really give them a lot to
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: cheer about. But the energy in the stadium of Game
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: one or I'm sorry, Game threeley was just off. It
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: was like everyone was nervous. I don't know if it
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: was the corporate money that was here, but everyone was
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: just like quiet. The energy I remember, like every guy said,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: it is like what's going on here? Like usually we
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: had fans on our feet, like if it was a
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: two oh pitch and we were hitting, everyone get wild,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: and that Game three was just I don't know, it
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: was nerve wracking.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: We've got to get to an episode with fans for
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: this because I want to know thoughts and I think
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: we're going to try to get some some celebrities and
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: some guys that we know and get some fans perspective,
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: because there was that they want that fans roller coaster
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: of emotions. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we had our own, We
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: had our own stories. I want to know the fan
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: stories of like what they were thinking, what they were feeling,
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: what they were talking to about with their families.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And then we roll into the World Series, right,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: we split in Cleveland. It's iconic World Series. The Indians
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: are having won in what fifty something years, We're going
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: we're one hundred and eight years. Both fan bases were
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: so happy. It really was like I played the Guardians
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: with the Yankees and those fans were absolutely ruthless to us.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: They hated us. But when we were in the World
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Series and sixteen with the Cubs, it was just like
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: everyone you saw, everyone's just so happy, right like, no
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: matter what, the outcome was going to be good because
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: one fan base is going to break their their own drought.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: What was cool winning Game five? Well, that's my favorite game.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: We go well, we go down three to one, right,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: and we had been down three oh last year of
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: the Mets, and it was like we almost deflated in fifteen,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: and when we lost in sixteen and we went down
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: three one, I remember you saying, like, most of the
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: times we've won three games in a row. How many
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: times have we won three games in a row this year?
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: Well, I remember, I remember, I don't know who it was.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: My back was turned after game four, putting my stuff
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: on my locker, and somebody threw their glove and their
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: lock like pissed off, and I was like, I couldn't
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: wait my next start after game one where I feel
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: like I went scouting report heavy rather than John Lester's strengths,
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: I couldn't wait to get to game five, maybe my
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: last game of my career ever playing because John's not
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: starting another game and it's here at Wrigley Field. I'm
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: going to retire afterwards, and I just want to feel
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: I want to take this field in a World Series
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: with Johnny Lester and the boys. And so whoever threw
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: their glove, I remember saying, no, no, no, like like anybody
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: give their left nut to be here tomorrow playing game
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: five in the World Series at Riggy Field. There's you know,
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: twenty eight other teams home sitting there on the couch
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: is gonna be watching us tomorrow. And I remember thinking
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: of that and then you say to VJ.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: No to bussy, Bussy, and VJ I was like, no,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: it's not how many times you get knocked down? How
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: many times you get back up? And I was like,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: We're putting Rocky one and every single Rocky on them,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: every single TV TV when we come in tomorrow, no
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Baseball on the on the TVs. It's all Rocky like inspiration, right,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: And like then we started doing the boxing and you
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: walked in that day and.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: They put on dent and you come in doing all
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: this and and just kept screaming.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Like, it's not how many times you get knocked down,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: it's how many times you get back up?
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: Adrian, Adrian and on top of the on top of
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: the couches and the U and the little bar we
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: had in the locker room. Like that was that was
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: an iconic moment because I think, like, just how loose
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: you know, your leadership looking back was so much about
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: taking the field every day and you're one of the
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: horses that had to produce, But your leadership was You're loose,
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: You're fun you always. I tell people this whole time
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: you always make sure everybody else is having a good time.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: When we go out, you're making sure the group's having
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: fun and you're just enjoying and everybody else's enjoyment. Like
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: that's how you you're You're wired that way. And so
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: as a teammate, it's fun when you come in and
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: and you're kind of veteran guy that had been there
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: in Chicago and we know how hard you grind, but
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: you're loose. You're fine, Like, let's forget about everything else.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: Let's go Rocky. You know, everybody knows Rocky. So that
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: was a big That was a big, big moment for me.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: So we got to fast forward to game seven?
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Can we we win Game five?
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: We win Game five?
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Amazing for me actually looking back ten years that I
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: was literally just sitting at my house and I have
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: the Game five jersey framed and it's like World Series
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Game five, the World Series patch, and I didn't understand.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: I just clicked the significance that's the only World Series
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: game we won at Wrigley and what, well, look up
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: the numbers he started that game, you know what I mean?
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: But that game was such a grind and chatting and
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: grinding through that throwing I think two and a third innings.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: I remember Eddie Better gave me a shout out during
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: the during the seventh thing stretch on that one. Yeah,
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: yeah talking, but it may retire, but it would always
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: be in our hearts and never forgotten.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: It was unbelievable, Like a what a cool moment that was, Like,
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: there were so many That's my favorite game because I
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: remember I was so jacked up before that game and
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Lester had Jason Alden song playing. I had my I mean,
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: I had told him one of those moments you're talking
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: about earlier, Like I'm walking in and we talked about this,
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: but I told him like we usually go over signs
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: and I was like, hey, I love you man. He's like, bro,
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: go do that right now. You know, he's like game
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: face all the time. He's like, bro, don't do that
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: right now. And so I was gut behind there and
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: I was streaming the top of my lungs to get
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: all my energy and singing a song, yeah, singing out
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Dean song. But that was that was that was my favorite.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: What a cool I mean, there's so many emotions going
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: into that one and we win.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, our mindset at least the mindset I was thrown
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: out there in that the universe was whatever we got
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: to do to wing game five. We knew we were
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: going to win Game six, like that was our mind.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: Like well, boat Race Game six, which we ended up
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: doing winning game six, and then game sevens games, Well,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: you helped just.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: Boath race at that big home run and they're late
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: was huge, the whole World Series home run.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry about it, yes, but we get to game
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: seven and we're pregame for the World Series. I did
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: not take batting practice once because when you get to
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: the World Series, you have you have so many different routines,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: especially playing here in Chicago, you have to have a
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: few different routines with the day game, with different night games.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: We usually have late travel. So KB and I didn't
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: take KB actually took VP only in game seven, and
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: he took it for like a round and he tells
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: the story about it and it's hilarious. But I didn't
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: go out there once because the media is just crazy.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: It's so much people talking to you. It's not your
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: normal routine. So before game seven, I'm just chilling, like
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: playing playing Mario Kart. He got pissed off at us.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: The game was until eight o'clock. I remember the night
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: before sleeping. I'm up at like four in the morning
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: just staring at the ceiling like, holy shit, I got
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: to sleep like I'm not going to four pm. Yeah.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: I woke up that morning. My son Cole is sicker
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: and the heck and coming out of both ends, and
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: I'm like, what is going on? And he I guess
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: he was like five at the time. So I'm going
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: off to my last game my career, waking up early
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: like well, this is a good distraction in the morning,
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: trying to take care of him a little bit, and
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: then walk to the field. I walk in, It's like
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: all the boys are locked in on Mario Kart. I'm like,
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: what are we doing? Nobody, no Mary.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: In Cleveland we played they had they had a like
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: an arcade game at Arcade Machine four player Mario Kart,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: and we just I mean, that's got our competitive juices going.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, looking back, I worried about shit that I
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: shouldn't have worried about, for sure, and trying to keep
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: everybody locked in like you guys were already you know,
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: like you said, it was already written, and you guys
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: were were so good at that point, and like but
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: I remember and then Caesar and everybody's like, bro, you
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: all right your last game. Everyone's like, don't worry about me,
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: lock in, I don't care about me right now, let's
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: win this game.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's just win. Before the game we're playing Rocky.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: This is probably fifty minutes, fifty five minutes before the game.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: And we did this before game six, right five six.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: And now this game seven. So this is my third
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: act of what I'm about to tell here. So before
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: the game we started playing Rocky, I stripped down to nothing.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: I'm completely naked and I'm I'm up on the table
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: dancing like it's not I'm just giving the same Rocky
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: speech that everyone's tired of. Now, it's not how many
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: times you get knocked down, it's not how many times
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: you get up, Like we got this fuck, then we're
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: gonna win this. Like literally just putting myself out there,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: making everyone try to be loose. I'm obviously as loose
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: as I can be. I'm completely naked and I'm dancing,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: and hector On Doone comes and like sprays me with
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: like the shoe cleaner stuff and like ruined, like my
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: whole like hoorah thing that I had done for Game five.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: In Game six and I was like, set me off.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: I was so pissed, and I went poudy into the
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: into the showers, and then Ross he comes in and goes, hey,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: it's not how many times getting knocked down you get
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: your ass back out there and you show the boys,
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: it's how many times you get up. So I ran
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: out of the shower, so you're right, get back up,
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: start dancing again, restarted the song, restart, restarted the song,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: get back into the shower, and then I remember going
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: out to the field and the backstory to the dance
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: and naked was There'd be time to time throughout my
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: entire big league career that if I was in a
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: really bad rut or a slump, one of my coaches,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Jamie Quirk, suggested, when I was really young, hey, why
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: don't you just hit naked? So one day, I think
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: the first time I ever did it was in Cincinnati.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: They just walk in there. I'm like, fuck it, And
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: then I just developed like maybe once or twice a year,
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: if I was in a rut, I would just close
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: the door. No one ever know it's coming, and I
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: just walked completely naked. The coaches would die laughing. They'd
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: be throwing me BP and I just hit for like
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: ten minutes, and I'd just be like, ah, I'm just
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: so sure enough every game. I would a good game,
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: every single game.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: There may or may not be photos of this, and it's, uh,
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: it's a nice it's a nice little it pops up
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: on my feet every once in a while and puts
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: a smile on my face.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Feat your photo.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I might need to throw it in the contact photo,
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: but it's uh, it's uh, it's definitely was one of
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: those things again where he kept everybody loose and we
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: needed that, like that that three game speech, the Rocky,
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: all of us just shaking our head and like here
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: goes Riz again. Game seven and then you know, ron
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: Don tried to tried to put a little put a
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: little salt in your pancakes. Whatever. Yeah, and you came
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: back out and and and we did it.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: But I remember after that, there's a long walk in
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Cleveland to the to the batting cage, and I would
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: go to the batting cage in Hinsky, John Eric Hinsky
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: and John Mayer hitting coaches are in the batting cage
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: and it's like I'm the I'm usually the last one
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: to get down there. I do my whole routine and
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: there's maybe four words set. It was just like tunnel
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: vision walking down David Ortiz and the Fox crewers in
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: the hallway, like I just give them like the locked
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: in look, like give them hello, David Ortiz a legend
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: and I'm just maybe said four words to those guys.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: And they were just playing music or no, I didn't
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: like to hit with music, and through to me, took
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: my two rounds and they just go, let's fucking go.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: Walk onto the field for warm up, and they had
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: been playing Phil Collins Into the Night and like literally
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: there's fifty thousand people there and Phil Collins Into the
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: Night comes and I'm just doing my pregame stretches and
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: like the adrenaline, I'm getting goosebump talking about every time
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: I hear that song now it takes me back to
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: like this moment of stillness before game seven of just
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: like I took in the whole stadium and I heard
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: nothing except that song and it was like the coolest
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: moment for me before games.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: Stuff. That's it. I got a chance to do that
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: on deck in Boston, and I tell people all the
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: time like that changed my thinking about prep sometimes, like
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: being able to step outside of kind of your skin
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: a little bit, or your your thoughts and your routine
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: and just taking that in, Like what a special moment
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: you got for yourself, Like you you never forget that moment.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: Steven Drew hit a home run in game six that
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: put us up big. As soon as he hit, I
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: know he was gone. I was on deck and I
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: look to the crowd behind me in Boston, You're so
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: close there, and then I just I remember the hands
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: just going up in Unison and like it's slow motion.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, everything is slow motion.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: And it's like I can't believe I took that in
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: and how that played out and the same the same
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: story for you. But what a crazy game, dude.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: We go up early, right, yeah, we go early? In
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: game six we were winning big, well it felt big.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: I think we had a five or six run lead,
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: and all the boys and the dog are like yeah
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: fuck yeah. And Rossi's pacing. The games are fucking over
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: games on over like beat red rightm Like Rossie, this
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: games I could finish this game like and obviously no
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: game is you're never count but just the way the
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: game was.
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: Going, Game seven was no reader or was it Raj?
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: So we're up right, and at whatever ending it was,
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: I came up to ROSSI and this is the glass
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: Case of Emotion story where it's I go to you, bro,
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: I'm so nervous right now, Like I'm a glass case
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: of emotion, right.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: And I gave terrible advice yea, stellists the next But.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: The reason I did that is because I knew how
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: stressed he was, and like, in that game, it's so intense,
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: and I go up almost I'm partly joking about it,
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: but also like, dude, like this is fucking nuts, right,
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: and they it gets aired and it's just became this
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: this point clip, it's gonna get worse and it's totally
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: gonna get worse. And then Raj hits the homer.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: And I knew, like you just know, like sporting events
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: and the best of the best, and you know college
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: basketball is going on right now in the World Series
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: last year with the Dodgers and the Blue Jays, like
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: the back and forth, and you.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: Just know, well, you you came in, you came in
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: in Game seven, him and Lester come out of the
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: hit the fans saying, and you'll get in the Travis Wood.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: When Travis Wood tells the story of them in the bullpen,
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: it's literally like you're gonna hear this story, like this
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: is what was going on in the biggest game of
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: World Series history. So they come in. Lester spikes the ball,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: concusses ROSSI like, ROSSI has no idea was two guys
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: score on it?
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: When I almost killed you matter the swinging bunt from Kittnus,
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: I just came in. He swinging bunt, and I turn
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: and spin throw launch it. You try to save me
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: and Kidness hits you. That's why they go second third.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: I always said on those plays, I will always usually bail.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: During the regular season, I always said to everyone, like
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: when it really mattered, I would let it out.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: It matters.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: And in Game seven, you literally Kidness is like a
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: freaking He's like a running by, he's like a full back,
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: and he crushed They crushed you.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: They crushed you, And I'm like, oh God, just got
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: in this game. John is no strike, breaking ball still indoor.
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: So he shakes the breaking ball. I'm like, Okay, he's
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: gonna bounce it. Well, he took it literally is like
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: a forty foot and I go to blog. It hits
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: me in the mask. I go to stand up. Everybody's
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: like you, lily, you got knocked out. It's like I
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: rolled my ankle. The next day, I remember waking up
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: that why's my ankle hurt? And I watched the video
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: and that was why. But two runs come in and
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: I'm like, wait a minute, I'm I'm the defensive guy.
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm not supposed to let runs in this.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: I just let the and the place went absolutely nuts.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: Think of the momentum kind of switched to their their
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: their side. And I remember getting in after we got
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: out of the inning and John's like, what do you got.
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: I'm like, Bro, your ship's nasty. I should have blocked
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: that ball, like you're throwing the ball great. And then
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: I got to I got to get I had to
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: get on deck. I was I was second that inning,
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: and and I had to get loose and start trying
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: to focus on facing.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: You come up facing Andrew Miller, Game seven, your last
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: of bat ever in the Big League. Game seven home run,
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: oldest player in Major League Baseball history. Thank you, thank
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: you lord. It was bro I mean, like, what ending
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: well we had. I remember thinking, you're in the league
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: because you're catching. Yeah yeah, and your leadership career twenty
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: hitter you let two runs in catching, and then on
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: the offensive side you hit a home run. It was
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: completely the scribble of slipped it totally.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: Well, what I used to tell you when you were struggling?
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: Do you remember?
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: I remember I was struggling one time and I look
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: at Rossi and I'm complaining about my swing. He looks
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: at me, he goes, bro, don't ask me. I fuck,
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: you had two twenty my whole career.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: Imagine going to work every day with my swings. Well
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: he is to tell him, like, you got a good one. No.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: I remember, like, you know, doing some homework and watching
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: I didn't watch a lot of video, but I remember
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: the World Series, like, if I'm on facing by, he's
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: probably gonna be a lefty. I had good numbers off
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: Andrew Miller when Andrew Miller was in Florida and he
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: was going ninety one, not when he I called him
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: in Boston. We were on a championship team together ninety
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: six with freaking that nasty slider. So just remember watching
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: some video and him shaking to heater. Uh, and he
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: did that within my bat and before that last pitch,
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: I knew he had had me one two and I
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: was just trying to put good swing on it. And
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: sure enough, Raj, Raj goes back like this and I'm like,
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: if this dude catches this, I'm gonna kill myself. And
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: it went out, and thank god, I was just like,
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: you know, not even know You're.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: So in the dungout too. We're so hyped, and the
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: momentum comes back to us.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: Well the picture I've got too of all you guys.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: Just like, it's just we've met. Everyone cared so much
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: about our teammates in sixteen, and that's really another reason
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: that this team was so special. We're on defense. Raj
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: comes up. Chapman's in the game. Chapman has been our
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: literally our workhorse all playoffs. Joe went to him early
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: and often, and Joe left him in Game six. And
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: we talk about Joe's decision in Game six to leave
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: him in, and we break that down with Joe and
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: you'll hear that on one of the earlier episodes. But
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: Raja comes up, you're calling all fastballs and he was. However,
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: he hits this home run and it's like off the bat,
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: I'm like no, no, like get down the high wall
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: in Cleveland and it goes right the camera. Well, it's
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: like the most iconic, Like that's such an iconic home run.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: Like I still think of that home run. I get
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: the bigb GBI's and we won when I still see
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: RaSE to this day and I hate them but I
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: love them, but it's like, we won, and I'm like, no,
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: he is.
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: What he was working for the MLBPA and he'd walk
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: into my office when I was managing. I'm like, bro,
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: you gotta get out. Like my stomach starting to hurt,
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: like it just I still go back to that moment,
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: and I you know, we turned the page pretty fast
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: as big leaguers. I remember being behind the plate just
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: not being able to get myself to stop thinking about
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: what just happened.
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: You know, like I one hundred and eight years, we're
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: the best team. We won one hundred plus games. We're
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: in Game seven of the World Series. We're down three one,
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: we come back, we're up in the game. Everything that
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: goes into it, and Raj Davey sits that home run.
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: I'm sitting there literally another moment where everything went deaf,
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: like I heard nothing. I couldn't hear myself breathing, and
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: I'm just swiping dirt, like looking down, like trying to
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: like not show.
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: Like, oh my, what's going world just came to and
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: in my.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: Head, I'm just like, dude, like this curse is fucking real.
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: Like there's a bunch of guys that talk about that.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: Holy shit, like there's no way that just happened, right,
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: And he ties the game, and then it's like Chapman
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: goes out in the ninth and I can't wait to
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: sit down and Chatman and talk to him. The fact
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: that ear all this, Chiman went back and in the
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: ninth inning and got us through the ninth inning in
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: a tie ball game is like the unsung hero all
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: of this, because there's so many times, if you're a
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: baseball fan, you watch the closer give it up in
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: the eighth, like the game's over. In the ninth, yeah,
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: and then it got a miracle.
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: I remember Miggi throwing a ton of sliders all of
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: a sudden, coming in and throwing just all sliders those
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: guys and getting him through. Miggie is another unsung hero,
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: getting that that last RBI for us that we ended
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: up eventually meeting. Yeah, I mean big hit, like uh, chappie, Well,
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: we got to get to you know, before we skip ahead,
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: like the range.
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: Of seventeen minutes of literally the tears in heaven, tears
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: of joy, I think, Dexter said of all the Cubs fans, right,
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: and Joe West was the umpire, the chief of that crew,
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: and he called the delay. Until this day, whenever I
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: saw Joe Wes, I was like, Joe, you call the
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: greatest delay in baseball history. Thank you. He would just laughing.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: I love Joe West that. But we we come down
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: and we're just like, dude, our dugout in the ninth
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: inning was like ghosts, like you look over to like
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: THEO two. He was right down and everyone's a ghost
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: and it's just like we get through the ninth and
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: then when the rain delay happens. And then during that
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: reign that I remember, I re upped on my pregame
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: concoction that talk about in the Dexter series, but Dexter
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: and I are pregame concoction was a shot of wood
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: for reserve and a five hour energy presented by Bill Murray.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: So Bill Murray. I think Game six of the NLCS
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: came in. He's in a fishing vest right and we're
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: just talking. It's Bill Murray and Vince Vaughn in our clubhouse. Yeah,
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: just like this is like.
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: Rule number three hundred and seventy five met whatever.
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: Like, so Bill Murray, me and Dexter talking to him.
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: He's like, hey, take this. It's a Woodford reserve and
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: a fire energy saying I called a speedball, and I'm like,
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: all right, let's do it. Dex Like we've we've done
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: shots before the game before, It's like, let's do it.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: And then we just did it every game of the
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: World Series. So we get to the rain delay, me
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: and Dexter re up on our pregame stuff because we're
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: about to go into extras. We're in the weight room,
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: just like, there's no fucking way we're losing this, you know.
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: I was talking to Dexter. Bussy guy started gravitating in
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: and then Jay Hey pulls everyone in and it was
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: like that moment for us is it's a legendary moment
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: because Jay Hay and a few of other of us
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: brought us all together and was like, we're not fucking
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: losing like when whichever who we are.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: When Jay Hay speaks to the fact that he came
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: up to me, was like, hey, team meeting in the
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: in the weight room, and I just remember, like wow,
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: like he's got something to say.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: He was not a guy that was like vocal, but
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: when he spoke, uh, it kind of carried some volume.
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: I remember walking in and everybody's in there and I
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: had to go get Chappie off the walk back out,
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: like everybody's like, where's roll this. I walked back out
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: to the dugout. He's got his hands in his face,
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: just crying ball and crying on the bench so like,
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: and he walks in. Everybody talks about remembering that and
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: like he wouldn't like yeah, we wouldn't be about you, bro,
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: like you know, and and then we we closed and
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: guys start start talking and I remember coming out of
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: that and we talked about this. Shore talks about his
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: kind of journey in his rehab back and then coming
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: out of that meeting, he was leading off against Shaw
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: And remember right before that, he walks up to me
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: and looks me in the eyes. Guy's batting gloves on, he's
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: tightening him up. I'm out of the game and he
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: looks at me. He goes, this guy throws me a
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: cutter in I'm gonna knock the fuck out of it.
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: But he hit the ball, didn't get Yeah, he was
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: like if he would have been in the air, had
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: been a bomb, but he hit it about this far.
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: It fell from Jason Kidness and who was playing short
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: right field. Uh, and it got by and that's how
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: hard it was hit. But uh, yeah, I remember that
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: that speech was so that that kind of moment reset us.
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: Everybody talking about out how we're the best team in
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: baseball all year are win totals, and just how we
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: played for me and.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: Two our bullpen was set up and theirs wasn't. They
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: blew all their guys, So we knew we were in
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: a from a pitching standpoint, we were in a better
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: position too. So I remember talking about that and then
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: going out on the field, it was like everyone got
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: their color back. It was like we were able to
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: take those seventeen minutes and like regroup because that Raj
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: Homer was like just the most gunt wrenching thing. And
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: what's so cool on this podcast is every guy tells
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: their version of the of the rain delay. And it's
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: so cool hearing their stories and through their lenses. And
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: I remember going back to Cleveland every year. Every time
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: we went back to Cleveland, I literally looked in the
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: weight room and I wherever what every team goes on
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: he goes That's exactly where I was sitting. I was
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: sitting right there, right by the door with Jackie. I
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: was sitting right on the treadmill.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: What do you so Schwarver leeds a pintron al Mora
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: KB deep fly ball, thought it was gone? Wasn't rate
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: tag up by al Mora car Newgaggin History of the game.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: I think so? And you get walked? What was going
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: through your mind? You're going to the plate? Did you
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: feel like you were gonna be were gonna walk yet?
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: There's there was a lot going through my mind because
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: that's the cat and mouse game of the game. There's
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: a base open, and this is all of my advice
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: that I've got in my career is coming to the
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: biggest moment. And then it ended up potentially walking me.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: But walking to the plate, in my head, I'm like,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: all right, there, he's gonna pitch around me. He might
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: try to steal a pitch pitch one, so I'm gonna
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: be really aggressive pitch one, but he might totally pitch
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: around me. So all these things are going through my
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: head of like, don't try to do too much. And
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: then I get up there, I'm like dialed in. And
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: then I see Tito put the four out, and I'm like,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: fuck right, because like you were in that moment, you want.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: To you want to swing in the back, and you
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: were swinging the back as good as anybody in that moment.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they walked me and I'm all right, like
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: now it's on those oversts.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: So and then he hits that and the iconic picture
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: where Riz has got his eyes and your hands.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: It's just the adrenaline of that, the meaning of that,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: Like I was here when we sucked, right, Like we
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: lost one hundred games my first year, we lost ninety
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: eight my second year, like otis rest in peace. Our
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: clubhouse attendant the first year I got here was pushing
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: balls in a shopping cart for batting practice. Like that's
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: how far the organization was behind. So in that moment
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: when Zobers hit that that ball and we scored, I
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: was like, holy shit, Like we just won the World Series.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: Like we just won the World Series, right, and then
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: Miggy with the Insurance run just adds on. But like
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: in that moment when sobers hit that I knew, like
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: I just had that belief we were gonna win again, right,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: and everything was coming full circle. It was like, we're
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: literally now three outs away from being World Series champions,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: breaking one hundred and eight year cursed. We know how
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: much Cups fans this means to what the city of chicague.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: We've seen the city of Chicago partying for the last
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: two years because the fifteen run and now sixteen. So
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: that iconic moment of me in my head all that
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: was running through.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: The crazy I at such a good visual, like when
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: I watch it back and like your genuine surprise and like,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: holy shit, we're about to win the World Series. This
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: is all over your face and we do I didn't.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: I didn't have on my being Goo card. Mike Montgomery
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: closing it out, no, and he told us a great story.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: Story Mike talks about is his pitches is like it's
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: such a full circle podcast because so many guys talk
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: about their their personal journeys to that Game seven and
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: him coming in and Michael Martinez is hitting in the
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: grounder to KB and that was That was Michael Martinez's
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: first at bat of the series. I thought it was
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: a lot faster, and I thought I didn't read the
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: ball good because I had to bust over to first
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: and before that inning, I like loaded my glove up
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: with pin tar like I'm like, I am not fucking
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: missing this ball. Like if a ball comes to me,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: it's it's time card. And KB gets it and I'm like,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: oh shit, if he throws this over my head, there's
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: a guy in second, like I need to catch this ball,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: and he sails it. At first, I'm like caught thousands
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: of balls.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: KB.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh no. And I ended up catching it
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: and it was like the perfect It.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: Wasn't as high as you felt, It wasn't as high
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: it was about to go.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, his ball just went and I caught it and
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: like right away my first reaction, and I get emotional
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: telling the stories. When I was a kid, me and
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: my dad would always play catch in the house and
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: we can do like lightning around. He'd hit me golf
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: balls that at the end if I won, I we'd
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: always raise our hands and do like Champion of the
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: world and like we would just scream of the world
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: and like KB threw it high and my other hand
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: goes up and I'm literally just like a champion of
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: the world. And then you and I had talked about
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: getting all the baseballs and just like immediately I've watched
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: Pro twenty World Series that I remember of the last
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: out in all the reactions, and like I always say
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: what I would do, and like in that moment, it was.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: Like that's history. That's history. That was that was like
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: so I could barely get over the railing. I was
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: trying to get out there so fast. I remember my
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: spike getting caught in and then we go whether.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: It was like this ending grandpa moment.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: Serious question I'm gonna ask Jay two that I really
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: have never heard the answer to. I'm doing an interview,
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: we're all celebrating. I get pulled over with Ken Rosenthal
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: doing an interview and you guys come and pick me
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: up and put me on your should Like I don't
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: want to get emotion. That's crazy, Like who's that? Who's that? Always?
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: Always I've been too many bows to the head, But like, seriously,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: like to have that moment in looking back and for
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: me it's like, holy shit, like these guys like I
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: I nobody deserves that. Like it was like Rudy, Rudy,
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: what what? Like what how did that all transpire? I've
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: never heard this story you Just.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: Through my personal career, I've had so many people in
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: my life that helped me get to where I am
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: literally today ten years later. But up to that point,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: I had so many good veterans and like, you were
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: just so life changing for me. And another guy comes
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: out the top of his Eric Hinski with hitting and we
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: talk about this how he helped me become the hitter
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: I was. But you shaped perspective for me. You shaped
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: how to handle all phases of the game, the bullpen, pitching,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: like situations, talking like a manager and just what you meant,
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: and like going out the emotions of you going out
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: hitting your hundred with Homer hitting a game seven home run,
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: like the glass case of emotion coming to you because
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: you're like my big brother. Like I remember there's a
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: time his son Cole was running out to his dad
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: in left field before a game at Wrigley and he's
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: like dad, and I go, no, he's my dad, And
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: I go Dad, And like me and Cole are sprinting
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: to you and like all that and I know how
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: much ja hey man. When Jay signed here in sixteen,
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: Jay hay in his I don't think in his contract,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: but told vj our traveling secretary, Hey, every single road
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: trip we go on, Rossie gets a sweet so his
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: mentors and Jay was in Atlanta.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: In Atlanta when he was coming.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: Up, that's how much you meant to us. And it
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: was like we knew that was your last game and
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: like to carry you off the field. It was just
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: like a celebration of the boys and for you, and
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: like how cool was that?
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: Bro?
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: That picture?
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: That picture well, and it's like you see the look
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: on you guys's face, like you're smiling so big skis
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: behind you, Like I can't believe it that's happening. I'm
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: up there. I don't know. I like what to do
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: with my hands. I remember like putting up a number
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: one and then I'm like blowing kisses. For some reason,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: I'm like what am I doing up here? Like it
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: was so yeah, like.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: What is this?
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: But what a special moment for me? I like I
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: put up the end in my career versus anybody that
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: played the game, not because of the stats, but because
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: of how you guys treated me. So that was the
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: I was really really special. And then we go we
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: go celebrate. We got a parade.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: The celebration was I mean the plane ride back to
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: there's pictures and I just put it up on our
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: level reunion. The pictures we put up of us on
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: the plane with the World Series trophy and like our
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: families are all together. Our families too, Like I remember
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: in the World Series, especially in Cleveland, after every game,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: we had a hospitality room with all food and everyone
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: would just go and decompress after the game. And our
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: families were so invested and they flew back with us.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: We have to take pictures of my parents with the trophy,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: my wife with the trophy. It was just like such
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: an amazing thing. And we get off. We get back
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: to like five oh six.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: My daughter Landry tells a story all the time Cole
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: was six, we gave him his own row and just
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: laid him down, and my wife at the time was
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: sitting down with him, and I was kind of bouncing
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: back and forth, checking in going with the boys. Well,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: my seven year old daughter was in the back partying
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: with the Leicester family. And the Lackey family. She kept
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: coming up with one hundred dollars bills and I'm like,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: where are you getting these hundreds? She's like, Dad, the
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: guys are giving them to me. I'm like, go tell them,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: they're not allowed to give you more money. And and
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: Lester's in the back going show kids, show Kids, was
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: given them a hundred dollars bills everywhere. So the player,
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: she tells that story all the time they were playing, right,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: was epic.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: It was just and I remember.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: Gimpster and remember Dempster and Theo.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: Reil racing down the hallways on the in.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: The cars, down the down the aisles and the little
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: uh the Beverans cards.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're like taking off, Yeah, it's going down.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: They're flying down there and not not safe.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: I remember too. A big thing for me. I think
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: being with the Cubs for so long up to that
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: point and then playing after was like there's so much
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: there's so many guys who played before us that set
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: the tone for us there, and I after we won,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: like I made sure to say that, like this is
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: for Ernie Banks, the Ron Santos, the Samberg's right, even
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: the Starlin Castros, the Shorianos, the veterans, I played with
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: Ryan Dempster, Carrie Would The list goes on on, but
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: those guys were such a big part and so loved
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: here in Chicago. Like I always wanted to make them
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: feel like they want it with us, because they they
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: laid the groundwork first. And I remember driving back is
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: like five in the morning on the buses and Dempster
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: was with us. Ryan Dempster was was with us on
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: the bus. I'm like almost like, dude, take the trophy,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: and like I gave him the trophy forly and he
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: like he he literally reminded me the other days like, dude,
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: that was so awesome that he did that, Like, because
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: that's how much those guys mean. It's like respecting the
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: guys before you, right, no doubt. And then we get home.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: I have the trophy getting off the bus and I'm like,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna take this home, right, So I took it home.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: I have a picture of it, like with the perfect
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: shot of like it's in my bed with Lake Michigan
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: in the background. And I got a text at like
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: eight thirty in the morning. It's I literally get home
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: at like six thirty, barely slept. My phone's blown up
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: by VJ are traveling secretaries like, hey, Lester's pissed you
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: have the trophy. I'm like, I don't really give.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: The fuck left they're talking about that. Why does Tony
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: got the trophy?
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: So I bring it back to Wriglely, Like I get
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: there like nine nine thirty, leave Wrigley, go to Bottle
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: Blonde here in Chicago, me and my wife my girlfriend
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: at the time, and we just go siting Bottle Blond
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: in Chicago from ten am to about five am, like
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: we literally go. We sit there for like probably ten
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: hours in battlah blah all. My friend opened it up
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: on like, hey, are you up. He's like, yeah, you
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: want to come in. I came in. He still has
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: the bottle of Crown that I drank that day. He
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: had me sign it like years later. He's like, dude,
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: this is the bottle your first bottle of Crown you
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: drank after winning the World Series. And then we go
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: out there, all my friends come. Then I come back
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: to Wrigley at some point with all my friends. I
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: have pictures on the field like with the trophy just
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: you could do whatever you want.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, And then we got a ride home at
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: way from the plate a ride from I don't know
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: if you're at town. We we're meeting everybody at country
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: club and we're in the back of the police cup.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's just like you see all the reactions ofs
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: and it was like, holy shit, we knew. I knew
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: how big it was gonna be. I really did. Everyone's like,
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: do you don't understand. I'm like, no, I do understand.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: And then it happened and it was like my expectations
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: were here of it and they were high, and it
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: blew them out, blew them out of the water. Like
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: the people at the graves going and saying like laying
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: the w flags on their parents or grandparents or whoever's graves,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: and like people listening to the final out pat use
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: iconic moment at the gravesite.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: Like it's just that's my favorite thing to ask when
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: I travel is people come up and say, you know,
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: thanks for twenty sixteen, or they want a picture or something.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: It's like I want to hear their Game seven story
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: and the passion they have the fans, like you're so
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: thankful for just the generational fandom that has been passed
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: down from so many people. And I mean Michelle Obama
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: told us at the White House about Washington with her
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: dad started crying. I mean, like it just like those
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: stories that fans give us are so much more valuable
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: than you know, the Ring or any of that. Like,
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: I love hearing their story.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: I think the best part too, is look ten years later,
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: I'm not kidding, the passion that the fans have when
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: they tell those stories are literally still the same. It's
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: like these people. I literally it was at opening day
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: yesterday twenty twenty six, and people are crying about what
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: it meant to win the World Series, and it was
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: it's just so awesome. Yeah, what Cubs fans meant to us,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: and how they showed out for that parade, because that parade,
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: that part six million.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: I remember looking of being on stage and like you
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: said so many nice things, and you know you're not
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  Speaker 2: concussed at the time, but you started getting a little
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  Speaker 2: teary eyed too. And I couldn't even get any words
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  Speaker 2: out because how I wanted to thank all the guys
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  Speaker 2: and tell them all what they meant to me, like
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  Speaker 2: and how each guy affected me, and I couldn't.
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  Speaker 1: Get a little Like you, you.
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  Speaker 2: Could barely get anything out. But like you looked out
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  Speaker 2: and I just saw like the heads of people and
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  Speaker 2: then the tree tops like it just like people were
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  Speaker 2: in the trees way off, way off in the distance.
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  Speaker 2: It was. It was.
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  Speaker 1: It's iconic. Yeah, it was just it was literally and
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  Speaker 1: the parties to follow the parade and like, bro, literally
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  Speaker 1: that yesterday again, I'm that opening day and it's just
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  Speaker 1: me because I've had a crazy schedule and everyone's coming
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  Speaker 1: up and it's like, hey, how are your parents, how's Emily?
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  Speaker 1: Like we haven't been here in ten years, right, and
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  Speaker 1: everyone's like, how's your wife doing? We loved her like
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  Speaker 1: we missed her so much. Were your parents? Your father? Man?
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  Speaker 1: Like your father we drank one night and just like
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  Speaker 1: all the ushers and people that working at Wrigley are
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  Speaker 1: like genuinely asking about my family, and it's just like,
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  Speaker 1: that's how much of a family playing here in Chicago is.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just why you call this home, why I
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  Speaker 1: love this place much. Yeah, it's a special place. The
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  Speaker 1: friendly confinence is real, and the people around here. I
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  Speaker 1: remember all the police officers when I come back and
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  Speaker 1: go to a football game or whatever, they thank us
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  Speaker 1: for the overtime they got.
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  Speaker 2: In two thousand six time, they got a big check
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  Speaker 2: for forgetting right and then like crown, all the people
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  Speaker 2: play more years here.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, I get traded, go to New York and really
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  Speaker 1: enjoy my time in New York, go to another World
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  Speaker 1: Series and lose, and like it's gut wrenching, right, that's
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  Speaker 1: like exactly you you won their last game you ever
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: played and I lost it, okay, And funny story, I
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: was at the final of the WBC and Rossi's getting
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  Speaker 1: a silver medal after they lost, and I have a
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  Speaker 1: video and I got to boom in and I go, hah,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: how's it feel to finish second? Now? Because he used
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  Speaker 1: to always screaming, I don't know what finishing second feels like.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that wasn't a good feel and that was a
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: good field, but this was this was I mean, this
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  Speaker 2: podcast is going to be unbelievable with telling all these stories.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: We're so thankful for.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that we get to sit down with all
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: of our guys, like you're it's such a treat and
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: it's it gets emotional. There's so many stories there's it
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: all comes full circle and the fact that all the
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: guys were so nervous coming like what's this going to
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: be about and then when we're done, they're like, dude,
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: I could have talked for four more hours. It's just
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: it's so special. We had our reunion already a little bit,
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: the one night and having all the guys back was incredible.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: And in July when we have another reunion the whole weekend,
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: it's just going to be such a celebration. I hope
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: everyone can get the behind the scenes that they want
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: follow us on all of our socials. Everything but the.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: Lie get subscribed, and that what they say on you.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: What the kids say. I think I don't even know.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: But the Lovable Reunion Podcast, it's going to be celebrated
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: all year, and we can't wait to tell you guys
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: for the ride with.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: Me and Anthony, it's it's not about us again. It'll
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: be about everybody else. This one was about us, but
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: the rest of them will be all the stories from
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: everybody else. I can't wait, bro.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: And next episode next week will be our skipper Joe Madden.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: Amazing episode we sat down with him. He's one of
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  Speaker 1: our first episodes, and we go so deep with Joe
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: and what he meant to us. You'll find out through
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: all of these episodes on what he meant to every
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: player throughout their careers. But without Joe, there's no way.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have we don't have the success.
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  Speaker 2: So tune in, tune in, Thank you, thanks fans.
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  Speaker 1: Is a rap
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  Speaker 2: Ah nah, all right,