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Lovable Reunion - Kris Bryant on his MAGICAL 2016 MLB MVP year & Cubs World Series + Ross & Rizzo's HILARIOUS hazing · Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: Anthony Rizzo, David Ross, Chris Bryant. Welcome back to another
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  Speaker 1: episode of Lovable Reunion. I'm Anthony Rizzo, my partner David Ross,
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  Speaker 1: joined by twenty sixteen MVP Chris Bryant. Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 1: Can you believe it's been ten years?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been on quite a journey since then. Yeah
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  Speaker 2: I can. Yeah, but no, it's it's been cool to
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  Speaker 2: see everybody get together and seems like everybody hasn't changed
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  Speaker 2: too much, so it feels like literally yesterday. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: it does the.
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  Speaker 3: Stories come out and you're gonna hear all the characters
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  Speaker 3: kind of talk and how we get all the stories
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  Speaker 3: out for this, But we're taking it back from the beginning, right,
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  Speaker 3: like drafted number two overall?
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  Speaker 2: Who was talent?
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  Speaker 1: Who was number one that year?
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  Speaker 2: Mark A Pell was Stanford? Wow?
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  Speaker 4: Pitcher to Houston? Right Pitcher? Houston? Yeah, yeah, yep.
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  Speaker 2: It was kind of weird, Like I I guess during
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  Speaker 2: that time, I knew I knew I wasn't going to
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  Speaker 2: be the first pick. It was like it was the
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  Speaker 2: definitely two or three and I was like cubs in
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  Speaker 2: into the Rockies, which is so weird that I'm i Rockies.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, that was that thirteen years ago. Now, wow, So.
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  Speaker 1: I remember when you got drafted him, Chris and I
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  Speaker 1: didn't get off to the best start in our relationship.
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  Speaker 2: According to your lens, right, Yeah, for sure, I was.
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  Speaker 1: When you get drafted, you come in usually as a
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  Speaker 1: high draft pick. KB comes in and he takes batting
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  Speaker 1: practice with us, and you know, you you bring him in,
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  Speaker 1: you ask him what they signed for and what you
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  Speaker 1: signed for slot slot.
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  Speaker 2: Money, but his slot.
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  Speaker 1: We made him say the exact number, and it was
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  Speaker 1: it was a high amount, right to the decimal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, And I was giving him a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of crap.
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  Speaker 1: And later on in our relationship he told me, like,
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  Speaker 1: you're so mean to me when you first came.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you do. You. I think you were the
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  Speaker 2: hot shot. I mean, didn't you just sign your extension
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  Speaker 2: to your You were feeling yourself a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody was rich.
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  Speaker 2: That's nice, but it wasn't just like you weren't just
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  Speaker 2: like right next to me. It was like you were
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  Speaker 2: across the whole clubhouse. You made sure everybody heard I
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  Speaker 2: was talking. And then now playing with you for seven
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  Speaker 2: years is like and you still would do that. But
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  Speaker 2: in a good way.
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  Speaker 1: I've known that from the best, though, for you got
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  Speaker 1: the best. One of the best compliments I've ever gotten
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  Speaker 1: is Garrett cole goes, I don't understand why everyone loves
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  Speaker 1: you so much. You can literally yell at someone tell
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  Speaker 1: him to basically fuck themselves, and they walk away smiling,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, I learned that from the best. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Us, Well, we didn't get off to I remember the
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  Speaker 3: first start I'm in.
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  Speaker 4: I'm in spring training in fifteen.
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  Speaker 3: I had just gotten there and I'm calling him c
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  Speaker 3: B for Chris Bryant for like.
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  Speaker 4: Oh first week, and finally he calls me.
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  Speaker 3: Over and he's like, hey, Rossy, my name Chris is
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  Speaker 3: spelled with a K.
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  Speaker 1: I was like week to tell me you you you
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  Speaker 1: remember that you were probably the first guy I played with,
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  Speaker 1: like with the full beard.
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  Speaker 2: That was great. I just came out of I was
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  Speaker 2: literally thinking about this deal day. I was like, so,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just used to playing with twenty one year old
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  Speaker 2: like in college, and then you get drafted, then you
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  Speaker 2: get thrown right into big league spring training, and then
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  Speaker 2: there's a bunch of old guys like.
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  Speaker 4: Like me, Oh it was old, yeah, but it's thirty eight.
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  Speaker 2: Dude. I was like, I didn't know how to talk
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  Speaker 2: to you. Like I obviously could relate to you more
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  Speaker 2: because you were younger, but then like you and then
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  Speaker 2: Lester was there and I'm like, I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: to say to this guy. Camp. Yeah in the middle league. No,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't. Fourteen was my first big league?
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  Speaker 3: Was yeah, yeah, because Scotty got that in the contract.
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  Speaker 3: Scotty Bee got in the contract. Gotta get they gotta get.
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  Speaker 2: The first round, the second pick. You should be you
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  Speaker 2: should be big.
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  Speaker 3: Then remember the training room. This is what my favorite
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  Speaker 3: stories it was. I hear about this Chris Bryant. Guys
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  Speaker 3: got all these minor league homers and stuff, and I
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  Speaker 3: think we were really training together, getting all our physicals
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  Speaker 3: and stuff. And you were laying on the table and
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  Speaker 3: I walked in and I'm just like, how many how
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  Speaker 3: many homeworks you hit last year?
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  Speaker 2: No? No, it was in spring and spring That's why
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  Speaker 2: it was. It was two and fifteen. I was doing great.
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  Speaker 2: How many you have my league year before, like forty
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  Speaker 2: three or something. No, I was hitting all the homers
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  Speaker 2: in spring and like I was like, really good, this
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  Speaker 2: is good. Trying to try and keep my head down
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  Speaker 2: and not like and I'm just I think I was
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  Speaker 2: like taping my wrist for a game. And I had
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  Speaker 2: like eight or eight home runs that time at the time,
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  Speaker 2: in the in spring, and you're like, hey, CB, how
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  Speaker 2: many home runs you got? And I was like, uh eight,
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  Speaker 2: and you and you loud laughed across the whole training room.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, ah, no, you don't. You got zero. You
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  Speaker 2: haven't hit any of the show yet. And then you
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  Speaker 2: walked out. You walked out into I was like the
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  Speaker 2: weight room, and I'm like, yeah, I don't remember.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we ever did this. But when you
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  Speaker 1: finally when you passed him on home runs, I noted.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to call you and be like a motherfucker.
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  Speaker 2: Review.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I rode that for a while.
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  Speaker 3: It's on for a backup catcher to rip the uh
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  Speaker 3: the superstars on.
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  Speaker 4: The team, So I had to find my little angles.
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  Speaker 2: It was I got to find little It's one of
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  Speaker 2: my favorite like baseball stories. Though, just like you doing that,
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  Speaker 2: like not like you didn't do it in like a
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  Speaker 2: malicious way. Yeah, I was like you like put me
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  Speaker 2: into You're like, yeah, I don't I haven't done anything
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  Speaker 2: yet in this game. You know, and it was like, yeah, job,
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  Speaker 2: but then you lightened up on me because you're fucking
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  Speaker 2: mvv you know.
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  Speaker 3: The one thing I learned, well, the one thing I
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  Speaker 3: learned as a veteran, And you guys can relate to
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  Speaker 3: this being in the game for as long as you have,
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  Speaker 3: Like I came in getting ripped in a sometimes a
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  Speaker 3: negative way by certain guys. You end up hating those
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  Speaker 3: guys and then it made me go into a shell
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  Speaker 3: rather than like you will get the best out of your.
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  Speaker 4: Teammates when you lift them.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you got to give them a hard time
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  Speaker 3: and and do some you know, rookie hazing.
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  Speaker 4: But if you you make.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody comfortable, like hey, we're all in this together, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it makes it where you guys can perform and relax
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  Speaker 3: and be the best friself.
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  Speaker 1: You never really, I mean, the only stuff you got
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  Speaker 1: was like playful panther, but it was.
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  Speaker 2: Never like no also too, I mean, I think, I
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  Speaker 2: guess I I don't know how you guys viewed me,
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  Speaker 2: but I feel like I had a different personality and
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  Speaker 2: some of the other guys like I was more reserved,
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  Speaker 2: like I was. I'm not never been the loud loud
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  Speaker 2: type of guy, and like I was always really hard
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  Speaker 2: on myself, and I think I think that kind of
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  Speaker 2: shone through. Like you guys been around me and when
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  Speaker 2: I'm struggling, you're.
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  Speaker 4: Like, yeah, that kind of like yourself.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't like it wasn't like he was just I
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  Speaker 2: was just going out and there to be like, oh whatever,
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  Speaker 2: I went over for it, like I wanted to do
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  Speaker 2: good every game.
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  Speaker 4: And it's like you talked about the five or five
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  Speaker 4: from getting in his.
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  Speaker 1: For five, three home runs, two doubles first time in
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  Speaker 1: like history of the game or something, and we were
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  Speaker 1: talking afterwards and he's like, hey, He's like I expect
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  Speaker 1: to do that every night, and I'm like, oh, I
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  Speaker 1: kind of mentality, but knowing you, and it wasn't in
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  Speaker 1: like an arrogant or cocky way. It was just like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, every night to the park, you could hit
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  Speaker 1: five home runs in a game if you play right.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, like the mentality you always took and that's
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  Speaker 1: why you were standards.
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  Speaker 2: But also to like, I think there's a fine line
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  Speaker 2: there right. Like also too, I think that's a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of my downball too, is like being that hard
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  Speaker 2: on myself, Like it doesn't let you enjoy the moment
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  Speaker 2: as much as you should.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Like so after that game, like I just had a
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  Speaker 2: historic game and I'm like, well that was our job.
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  Speaker 2: That was yeah, you guys tell me. But then I'm
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  Speaker 2: like I'm already looking forward to the next game, and
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  Speaker 2: like how But I mean there is a balance.
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  Speaker 3: There's a balance, And I think this goes over to life, right,
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  Speaker 3: the balance of like working really hard, high expectations and
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  Speaker 3: as much as we want perfection and knowing it's unattainable,
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  Speaker 3: but striving for that and being also forgive yourself is like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, find the positive in an zerover five game
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  Speaker 3: when you play great defense and you know it's playing
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  Speaker 3: behind Johnny Lester and John Lackey.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we could get to those stories, but man.
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  Speaker 2: But it's like something we remember we had always thought,
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  Speaker 2: Like I was hitting second and you're hitting third. We're
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  Speaker 2: in like the ninth inning, Like we see ourselves like
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  Speaker 2: five and six, and we're like we want that fifth
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  Speaker 2: at bat, Like we're psyching ourselves out, like because like
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  Speaker 2: you're zero for four or three. K's no baseball player
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  Speaker 2: wants that fifth a bat, Like, but w're me and
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  Speaker 2: you are constantly going back for like we need, we
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  Speaker 2: want to fit bat, we want.
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  Speaker 1: Because you get that hit, it seems pulls over to
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  Speaker 1: the next day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's a mental thing about being at the
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  Speaker 3: top of the lineup that the eight hold hit or
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  Speaker 3: that gets pinch hit for when you're down, you.
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  Speaker 1: Start playing that game in the third like, oh, ship,
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  Speaker 1: I hit him up already, Like n I might get
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  Speaker 1: six today. Yeah, right, And but that's the respect for
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  Speaker 1: the leadoff hitters is like in the top of the lineup, guys,
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  Speaker 1: like there's five at bats every day where you're hitting
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  Speaker 1: seventh or eighth, you can kind of hide and maybe
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  Speaker 1: sneak in three. If you go one for three, it's a.
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  Speaker 2: Great day, right, one for three with the walks, because
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  Speaker 2: shooting at a.
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  Speaker 1: W So fifteen years when you when when you came
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  Speaker 1: up spring training, you go off, you they they hold
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  Speaker 1: you back for whatever reason. That's as while the whole
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  Speaker 1: service time thing manipulated your service time one hundred collusion,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it.
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  Speaker 2: But when you came up, we needed you.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of times you see these guys get
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  Speaker 1: called up to bad teams and it's like they kind
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  Speaker 1: of get exiled the prospects, like they're like on their
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  Speaker 1: own island where when you got called up, we needed
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  Speaker 1: you and like we were excited because you were making
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  Speaker 1: our team better. Yea, And for you, I always wondered
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  Speaker 1: what I kind of know, but how was that for you?
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  Speaker 1: Because first overall pick or second overall pick, Golden Spikes
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  Speaker 1: Award winner, Minor League Player.
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  Speaker 5: Of the Year, billboards outside of Wriggly bill boards outside
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  Speaker 5: of Wrigley, And I are texting him after a game
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  Speaker 5: like there's a big science saying worth the wait the
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  Speaker 5: big Adidas sign and he's in Triple A.
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  Speaker 2: He's in Des Moines and he's like, oh hey.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, thanks, that was crazy easy like that do you
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  Speaker 1: put pressure on myself?
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  Speaker 2: But coming into the clubhouse, yeah, well so, like I
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  Speaker 2: guess it kind of goes back to like my mentality
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  Speaker 2: is like like I expected that pressure, like any team
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  Speaker 2: that I was on from club ball through college, Like
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  Speaker 2: I was in a position where they needed me, like
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  Speaker 2: it was just normal baseball to me. Like I I
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  Speaker 2: was like, I think we all were the best players
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  Speaker 2: on our high school and college teams and like they
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  Speaker 2: need you there, so we were.
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  Speaker 3: It's not about you, guys, Okay, okay, it's not a
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  Speaker 3: roast frosty day. We already got the gray Beard. Oh man, listen, listen,
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  Speaker 3: smoking mirrors. Boys get the show and have rich friends.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we're But like just for me, like I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, it was just kind of normal for me,
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  Speaker 2: and just how like I played the game like I
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  Speaker 2: I expected to be the best every game. So it
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  Speaker 2: was like I get called up and I'm hitting fourth,
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  Speaker 2: uh James shields like, and then I proceeded to go
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  Speaker 2: forward three strikeouts because I've never faced a.
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  Speaker 1: And it took you a while to hit your first homer, right,
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot, like like a month. Yeah, I remember
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  Speaker 1: you remember, Yeah, I remember people starting to like mount
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  Speaker 1: some pressure on you, like yeah this, yeah, we're.
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  Speaker 2: You gonna hit a homer. Yeah, you still got zero guys.
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  Speaker 2: Don't tell anybody what an asshole was. They don't know yet.
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  Speaker 1: Am I going to take you? You think to settle because
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  Speaker 1: you made the All Star Game that year?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're I mean the home run derby, right,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, I mean right on the scene and
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  Speaker 3: production and going.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean honestly, there was just I think
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  Speaker 2: I really settled in spring training because I had a
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  Speaker 2: great spring and I got to know a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the guys on the team. I got to know you guys,
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  Speaker 2: and it was kind of like, Okay, I'm going down
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  Speaker 2: for a couple of weeks, tune up and I'll see
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  Speaker 2: you guys soon. So like, you guys did a great,
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  Speaker 2: great job in the spring, and I was there. The
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  Speaker 2: whole was like up until two days before camp broke,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know, I just felt like people around
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  Speaker 2: me did a good job of like getting to know
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  Speaker 2: me made it easier. Yeah, and it happened.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we hung and went to dinners and like we
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  Speaker 3: did this, yeah all the things you were.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we were bringing Chris to the big because we knew.
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  Speaker 1: But it happened unfortunate but fortunate. Like Mike, oh, at
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  Speaker 1: the perfect day broke his arm right or his hand
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  Speaker 1: something like that. I'm like the exact day Chris was
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  Speaker 1: able to get called up, he broke his arm. So
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  Speaker 1: it was like unfortunate for Michael, who I love, and
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  Speaker 1: it was a gross So you coming up was like
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  Speaker 1: it was almost even easier that, like he wasn't just
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  Speaker 1: there and like sending him down because he was doing
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  Speaker 1: pretty well too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, the whole that whole like grievance thing
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  Speaker 2: too with the team. Like it's so funny that how
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  Speaker 2: like as players, you see things in the media and
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  Speaker 2: you're like, wow, that is way blown out of a portion,
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  Speaker 2: like like people say, oh, like I hate the team
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  Speaker 2: and this, and then it's like I got nothing real
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  Speaker 2: respect for THEO and Jed and everybody involved. Like if
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  Speaker 2: I was in their situation, I would have done the
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  Speaker 2: same thing I have. My my service time was a maidulated. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: mine was just more like blatant, right yeah, yeah, well yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like I had to go through that process of of
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  Speaker 2: going through the grievance and sitting through like it was
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  Speaker 2: like I was in court. I'm like to wear a
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  Speaker 2: suit and go out to New York and sit Which
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  Speaker 2: is it helped the players a lot, right, Obviously you're
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  Speaker 2: supporting the guys that come after you, But in the
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  Speaker 2: in the moment, you're like, dude, I just like I
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  Speaker 2: don't want them to hate me, like I love I
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  Speaker 2: love how they treated me and everything that my whole
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  Speaker 2: time there, So I was just like, dude, it's crazy
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  Speaker 2: how high profile you were.
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  Speaker 1: Then yeah, and then you're going to win the Rookie
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  Speaker 1: of the Year, then you go on to win the
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  Speaker 1: MVP Right World Series, and then you continue to just
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  Speaker 1: keep having Seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: Was arguably better than sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, it's like crazy, like how high profile that was,
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  Speaker 1: and then it panned out because of that. You're right,
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  Speaker 1: but it usually doesn't pan out that way.
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  Speaker 3: When the mix of how we brought on all the
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  Speaker 3: young guys, I thought we had such a good you know,
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  Speaker 3: you were you and Schwarves kind of the last p
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  Speaker 3: and I guess Wilson in sixteen, but like some of
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  Speaker 3: the young guys that were coming up that had either
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  Speaker 3: broke in the year before, like Hobby, or that were
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  Speaker 3: coming that were prepared with the veterans that brought in
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  Speaker 3: like me Lester Lacky the next year, Hey we're the
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  Speaker 3: next year is over, so next year some of those stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It was just such a good mix of.
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  Speaker 3: Young talent and personalities. They all just fit and everybody
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  Speaker 3: felt comfortable and took off. What did you know we
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  Speaker 3: were good in fifteen? What did you think we were
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  Speaker 3: really good in FID Can you think back on that
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  Speaker 3: a moment You're like, man.
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  Speaker 2: I don't, I don't. That's a good question, because like
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  Speaker 2: I guess like going into that year, no one expected
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  Speaker 2: us to win what you been ninety seven games? Ninety
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  Speaker 2: five games went to the CS. Yeah, and it was like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't really know a point where I thought we
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  Speaker 2: were good. I was, and that was my first year.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: I didn't know how like the playoffs were you just
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: watching it on TV? You know what like a playoff
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: share was. I'm like going through all these new experiences.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: But it was cool because I had you guys as
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: the older guys to lean on, and then a bunch
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: of the younger guys coming up too. So it wasn't
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: like I had a ton of pressure on myself. I
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: mean I did put a lot of it on myself,
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: but there was other young guys that took it on.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean, you.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: Know, you know what I remember pyecinctally. We talked about
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: this a lot in the game. It's all about perspective.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: And when you got called up, you took pressure off
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: me because now that pressure was on you, and I was,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: you know, the guy, so but I wanted you to
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: do well because the better you did, the better I did,
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: and the better I did, the better we did.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: Right, So it's like, but.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: Then when if I was scuffling and I would see
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: like someone else scuffling like around the league or something.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Remember we always talk about this, and it's just like
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: all right, well, I mean that guy scuffles too, you.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: Know, or yeah, or you or the other way too,
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: where you.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: See like this guy's ten first, last twelve and you're like,
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: oh for oh, for your last fever, I gotta start.
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: I gotta catch Goldschmidt yeh yeah, yeah yeah right.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: So it's like like on our team, especially being so young,
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: we had this group of superstars that came up and
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: it was like easier for us to all go through
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: our like ebbs and flows, but you guys.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: Would pick out Remember y'all's conversations, which is y'all's relationship
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: is so unique from a guy that came from other
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: teams and bounced around, but like two superstars pretty.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: Young in their careers, and how y'all.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Worked off each other's like I just need to get
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: through August with two more home runs, right, just you know,
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, you would pick your little battles of things
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: you were looking at to have this overall big picture
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: when it ends, and you impacting some of these young
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: guys like Hey, just grind through April and may the
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: wind's blowing in. When it gets the All Star break,
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: when it starts blowing.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: Out, we're gonna go off.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: We're gonna hit this like those little battles that you
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: guys mentored each.
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: Other, the Brizo Corporation stuff. Right.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: Let me, let me, let me get into one little
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: Let me my readers. Chris can't believe I've got readers, But.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: The Brizo didn't even look at you.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: Chris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo might have taken the Brizo
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: thing a bit too far.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: Both wound up with a batting average.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: Of two ninety two twenty sixteen twenty sixteen, on base
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: percentage of three eighty five each, thirty nine home runs
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: for KB with one hundred and two RBIs. Rizil had
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: thirty two pumps with one hundred and nine rbiys, swapping
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: the last.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: Digits as BFF.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Like I didn't know that.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Tell me I want to know as a young guy.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: Is what I'm getting to is like, tell me how
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: he impacted you?
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, like like I think the best, like
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: some of the best compliments you can get as a
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: teammate is not like not like what you say to
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: me or like or like oh your hands are here,
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: you're swinging at this pitch. It's just kind of like
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: like how you make someone feel when they're around you,
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Like when you're struggling and you need to come to someone, right,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: And like our lockers were next to each other, and
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: it was like I could I cann't tell you anything
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: that you told me typically that made me feel a
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: certain way. It was more just like how you made
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: me feel after we spoke about like oh I'm doing
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: great or I'm doing terrible. I'd always walk away from
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: those conversations like dang, like.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, those were well because I feel like we were
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: so relatable. Yeah, like there was so much pressure and
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: you put so much pressure myself and I did too,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: And like I wore it more on my sleeve where
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: you were a little quieter about it. I wore on
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: my sleeve. I felt like in a good way, not
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: like slam and Stone, No, no, not overly right, but it's
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: just so relatable where like you expect like greatness, right,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: and like that's what we expect every single day, and
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: when you're going through it, like you got to enjoy it.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: But when you're not going through it. I've learned.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: I learned early.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Like you have to enjoy that too, because those those sunday,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: those cloudy days make you appreciate the sunny days. And
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: like I lived my career by that.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: But when we would when.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: We would talk, it was like if he was struggling,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I was showing. We'd be right next to each other
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: or good or bad. It's just like therapeutic, like I'm
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: able to talk to someone that I could relate to, Like, yeah,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: that at this level of like heightening pressure.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Mild the order bats, big market, every winning, everyday players.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: You guys are carrying a performance like I've always said,
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: like you're not going to be very good if your
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: horses aren't horses that year, right if you if you
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: know horses that year, Like you guys have been horses
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: your entire careers.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: Like when you'll post, like and I'm able.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: To sit back, but we're talking about my house dynamics
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: and interacting with each other, like that's all funny games
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: getting know your teammates and being a good teammate and.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: All that stuff.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: But also like you guys carry a different like no,
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: I have to perform a day. I played once every
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: five days and call it Western Chicago. So like it's
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: a lot easier for a guy like me to be
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: that fun energy guy on a day I'm not playing.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: You guys got to bring it every single day, day,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: game after night, game, all that stuff. And like you
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: guys's relationship I thought was, like you said, very relatable,
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: and you guys talked each other a lot of gud conversation.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: It was everything.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Like that's but for me, I think looking
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: back now, like years later, is I signed my deal early.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: I had the confidence, like I had the guarantee, I
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: had the security. So like I remember, like at in
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: at Bat's big situations. For me, I'm like like I
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: would literally say to myself, and this probably sounds super
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: cocky and arrogant, I'm Anthony fucking Rizzo, and if I
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: don't get this done, I'll get it done next time.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: And that helped me like relax and totally come down
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: in the box. So when KB gets called up, like
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: all I need to do is I want just him
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: to be the best, because I already have my fortune
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: for the next six seven years, right I signed my
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: deal and like there's no more pressure on me to
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: make money. It's just about winning, and like playing with you.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I was able to do that playing with Judge and
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: like learn so much from playing with you and your status.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: He had to go play with Judge and like I
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: know his status. Or if you hit behind two MVPs, right,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: I never thought it's not about me.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Every show.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Did you ever hit behind Goldmate in New York?
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: No, they got fired fired. But it's like these superstars
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: are like there is such a level that no one
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: could relate to. And for me, I felt like I
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: was close enough to be at that level, which I
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: wasn't to relate to come and help, just like with
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: all the extracurricular bullshit that you have.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: To go through. Oh yeah, yeah that was one thing
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Like for me, the extracurricular stuff. Did I say that extracurricular?
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, just like like the billboard outside the like
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: I had no clue that was going on.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: You just to play baseball.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: That's not my personality to like be that way. It's
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: like I had so much like extra pressure, like and
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: then I was like doing like I did a Red
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Bull video like walking a goat onto a bus. Oh yeah,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: remember that before even got called up. And I'm like
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: and at the time, maybe I didn't know the history
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: of like the Chicago Cubs, and like now you're a
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: foreshadow of what you're about to do. Yeah, but like,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: could you imagine if like I slipped and the ball
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: went over and like you never won and then like
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: I did some and I had all that other pressure,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Like like dude, I was just unneat, Like I look
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: back on it, I'm like, no way I would ever
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: agree to do.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: You know what though, Like Okay, I love that because
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: you're like, Okay, we got all these things before I've
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: even done anything. But the fact that you won the
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Rookie of the Year and you run the fucking MVP
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: when we won the.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: World Series, like, yeah, you followed through it. There you go,
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: there you go, And that's harder to do, right, harder
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: to do and you did it.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: So that's like you could you can be proud of
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: that now and speak highly of that.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: But but like the one thing for me that I
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: wish I might have done differently during those times is
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: talk to you guys about that stuff more rather than
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: just like the day to day of like oh, I
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: didn't get hit here, I didn't come through, I didn't
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: get the runner in third lesson two. In this situation,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: it was like more like everything that all this here
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: in compettion.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's the difference.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Like looking back, you're talking about how the pressure you
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: put yourself. You were a head down one perform, had
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: high expectations. I want to play baseball. I love playing baseball,
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: and then all this other stuff is coming with it,
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: which is great, but not if like I'm.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Just trying I have to make a career for myself.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah right, yeah, yeah, I have.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: To try to get there and stay there exactly, and
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: then I don't.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Care who you are.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: It was. It was a lot, but like now I
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: look back, it's cool stories to tell my kids and stuff.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: And we fast forward to fifteen, well fifteen the home
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: run derby Derby and your dad there too. Yeah, and
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: your dad was always your coach, right, So that for me,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: even looking back now, it's like I wish I can
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: go back and have my dad there.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, that's that's really cool.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: That was right in this That was something that like
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: because me and him, like I grew up, we were
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: talking about that, like he was always like, hey, when
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: you make it, you're gonna do the Hormer Derby, I'm
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: gonna pitch to you one day. That's and like we
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: talked about it in the backyard at my home, right
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: around the corner in the one hundred and ten degree heat,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: like he's thrown to me, and we always talked about
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: doing that. And it's like I never really had a
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: desire to do the home, Like I don't know, I
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: just didn't really want to do it, but I was.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: I was.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I told my dad, I was like, I'll do this
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: and I want you to pitch to me, and I'm
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: never gonna do it again. And it was just a
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: cool It was a cool experience because like we were
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: in the clubhouse together. He's has his own locker.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: He's yeah time, Like Chris's dad was like the play
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: if I ever went to When I was really bad
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: in ruts, I would go to my dad my mom
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: and whenever they would tell me it would usually throw
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: me in a rage, but it would always work. So
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: like I did when I went to him, it was
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: like strategic because I knew it would work because they
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: always had like the good advice. By I didn't like it,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: but I remember talking to your dad and he'd be like, oh,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: someone's got to hit forty this year? Why is it?
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Why I want to be you guys, Like he was
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: always so positive for someone who was also a little kookie, like, yeah,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: you told me like you get thrown out of games
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: in little league.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: And like he he was he was never once did
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: he yell at me when I played baseball. Not one
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: time ever. That's amazing, ever, and that like that's how
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: I'm going to he plays football now sports, right, but
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: like he never like said, we need to go out
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: and practice, we need to do this. It was always
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: like I wanted to do that, and like it's it's
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: like that's how I want to teach my kids too.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: I don't want to yell at them about the game
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: of baseball, like because then they're never going to come back.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: And that's right, right, it's gotta be fun. So it's
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: like he was always that guy for me. And it's
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: like you're talking about like when you're struggling, he would
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: talk to you, talk to your dad. I have so
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: many My dad knew when it was really bad to
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: just write me an email. Yeah I remember that, and
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: I read I would read something your.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: Dad wrote you email.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Probably at least perspective too, Like he would like, go
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: around guy one of those, this guy Mookie Betts went
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: four for his last fifty and now look where his
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: numbers are at, or like kind of just putting you
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: back in like a realm perspector. Everyone is doing like
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: goes through this.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: They're good. It's a hard game, and like I saved those,
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: I like I made sure and never delete those. I
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: start them all like they're all in, like like a
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: holder that says, like, Dad, that's awesome. You know. It's
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: like like I'll have that to basically copy and paste
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: through my key, and I know what I would know
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: what to say now, but like he just knew, like
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: because if I'm talking on the phone, like I'm not
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: going to like I said, I'm never going to remember
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: everything you say to me, but I'm gonna remember how
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: you made me feel and when it was bad, I
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: needed it in writing so that I can go back
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: to it and read it again when I'm bad. That's amazing,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: you know, So I have so many He would be like,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: pooh hoss two for the last twenty seven. That's a
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: future Hall of Famer. And he's like, you you got
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: nine homers over this span he's got three, Like you're
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: you're better than a Hall of famer like that, that's
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Albert Pool, Like he's great, that's great. And I remember
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: before the five for five game, the three homer two
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: double game, like I was like, since since yeah, I
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: was like hitting like two.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: I'll set three game with a homer.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: But how about you again? Like two fifty seven, I
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: had like like thirteen homers and I'm like, Dad, it's
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: not good enough. You know, this isn't good enough. He's
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: like I remember talking him for the game, like I
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: need a big game. He's like, you're due. I was
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: like all right, and then I was, dude, I had
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: the best game of my life. And then he's just
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: like text me. He's like I told you yeah, to go,
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Like he's just it's just like I don't know. He
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: didn't make it all the way like we have, but
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: like the wisdom that he gained from his time playing,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: like he's he's helped a lot of people, especially me
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: in baseball, because that's amazing.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Just coaching too, and in general, like it's really we've
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: had probably over easily over one hundred and two hundred
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: coaches in our career and there's like a handful that
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: you can really take out.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Of all those coaches that helped you in that are.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Like wow, this one is like all of them have
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: helped some part along the way, but there's only a
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: handful where you're just like he made a huge well
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: and who knows.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: You more better than your parents? They watched every pitch.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: They watched that, you know what I mean, Like your
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: dad's been in the cage and watch you evolve and
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: go on your journey and like to go back to
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: those perspectives and him keeping it real is that's just
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: a power. That's a a great resource to have a
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: lot of people have. That's a blessing our parents too.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Mike Brian John Viza were two peas in a pod
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: like the Wrigley Field. I don't know if Wriggley Field
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: ushers or security hate to see them coming or love
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: to see him come, because they would just bounce all
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: over the walls. They they they had no credentials. They
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: just walked in like they own the place.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Every time. They might have more fun our time together
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: than we did.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, as they should, like.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Harmonica on the corner, like they were talking about like
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: getting like uh, renting out a bar like someone highing
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: them to perform again at the bar, Like Dad, you're
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: not doing You're not performing on the corner at ritty fields.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm Dad. They're putting their like their guitar
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: thing out for begging for money and all that.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Like Dad, you can't do that, Like.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: You're just but it's just it was a fun time
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: for them.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: You look back on fifteen Rookie of the Year and
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: you're like, all right, it's a good start.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, we get swept in the Lcyes Rookie
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: of the Year. Where are you at well, So I
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: guess the two of those, for sure are separate. Like
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: being in the playoffs, like my first time, I'm just
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: like I had no clue what to expect. The crowds
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: are a little bit different. There's just a different feel,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Like it feels like the
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: grass is cut a little better, the dirt's a little
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: more and you know, it's right and brighter. The energy
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: is better, no doubt, the paint is fresh, the lines
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: are straighter.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, got new hoodies. Yeah, yeah, Like it was like swag.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: It was like, yeah, like this is fun baseball like
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: that was. I just was going along for the ride there,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: like I and none of us expected just to go
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: that far. So that was a good experience for me.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: But and then during the season winning Rookie of the Year,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: it was like, I remember when I got called up.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: I was like, there's only one award you can win
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: in this game, and you can only do it in
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: one year, and that's the Rookie of the Year. And
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: I was like, that's a good goal, you know.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: And so that was a goal you.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Set, absolutely, bro.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: I always told every every single rookie that ever gets
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: called up, like, you only have one first pitch to
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: hit a home run in the big leagues. On I'm like,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: it's up to you.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: If you can try to, we'll see, Yeah, we'll see.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: I probably that you probably didn't. Yeah. And back to
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: James Shields, like, oh for four three strikeouts and I
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: think I struck.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: On remember too, And everyone was like what this is
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: who we called up?
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: James Shields had an ass. It's like a screwball run.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Later in your No was the All Star Game? No,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: that was Chris Sale in the All Star Game.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: That's I know what I wanted to ask, And this
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: is this is like for young kids watching and about approach.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: I remember your first spring training and hitting on the
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: fields with you, and you're hitting homers over the batter's
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: eye like nobody's business.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my god, this kid's ball just doesn't
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: come down.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: And I asked you about what you're trying to do,
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: and VP said, I just want to hit high fly
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: balls to center field, high fight ball.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: And in my mind I'm like, yeah.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: No doubt because you hit them further and they never
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: come down, like great approach. But I had never heard that,
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: Like how did you get to that that kind of routine?
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: And BP, well, it goes back to just working with
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: my dad and just angles and and the game has
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: changed a lot since then. Right, Sure, a lot of
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: people are throwing the heaters at the top and I
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: had to adjust to that, which we could talk till later.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: But like it was like everybody, the pitcher's releasing it
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: from here and it's coming down at an angle, so
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: you want your bat to come up with it and
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: hit it on the other plane, get on plane. So
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: it wasn't necessarily like hitting fly balls, just getting on
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: plane with it and it produced the ft.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Okay, you he put in my mind, he hit it
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Bob's backside. You're that first spring trainer in fifteen far
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: than I could.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Pull the ball, and that's where my power was. Like
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: all through college and the miners was the right field.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: But then you get to Wrigley and the winds. There's
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: no homers for righties to write now I feel there
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: in yeah, and I had to adjust, and everybody's throwing
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: me at sinkers insides or trying to get in on
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: my hands because I'm a long lever. So I was like,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: I need to figure out how to pull the ball
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: without the top spin.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: You know, I need to get it a lot of
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: topspin when you pull the ball early.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: I remember that right, And I'd be so frustrated when
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: I was hitting top spin line drives and this and that,
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: and then my dad. I would always go to my
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: dad and I'm like, d why why am I top
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: spinning every ball? He's like, did you get a hit
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: on it? I'm like yeah, He's like, why are you complaining?
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: You know, Like that's how I That's how I think.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: I'm just I'm trying to be per breaking down everything,
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: like I just like a pitch inside that I think
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: I should have done more within the tops in line,
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: hard Sigle, Like, I just beat myself up over it, you.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Know, but I had that perfection can be positive and
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: negative you're talking about.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, when I remember, and I don't want to
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: forget this, the quote, but your dad was like comparing
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: everyone and stuff and like perspective. I remember you told
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: me this quote and I still use this day. Comparison
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: is the thief of all joy. Yep, yep, because when
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: you compare, try to compare yourself to be like someone
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: else or do something else, you're literally losing the joy
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: of why you're here, of being a kid, and like
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: that's everything in life, right, Like, no, it's speaking of joy.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: Twenty sixteen spring training, we started the Grandpa Rossi account.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: At dinner, We're like stake forty four, Yeah, stake forty four, and.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: I'm giving you guys well because you guys were young
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: and hip and I'm like three news.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Your last year, right yeah, and you were so monumental
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: to me where I was at my career and instantly
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: for him, so coming in it was like we wanted
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: to celebrate you, right ye. And we're coming in to
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: sixteen like the Brizo Souvenir Co. We're doing commercials like
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: I felt like we were like player one and two
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: in the big leagues at the time, right like it
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: was we were like rock stars. Honestly, Yeah, so we're
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: doing these commercials. We're celebrating you. It's just like the
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: overall vibes. But the Grandpa Rossi account, I guess they're
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: elevated your career.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: It's made me some money. So that's why I've definitely
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: done that well.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: And then I got we had that conversation at dinner
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: where we're kind of making fun of You're like, we
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: got to remember KB going you know what, I almost
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: start you an Instagram account, and then sure enough, the
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: next morning he shows it to me. He's like, hey,
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: you've got thirty thousand followers. It's like in however many
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: it's not even be twenty four hours. And then we
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: started making big gym started making all those things, and
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: now I got half a million.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Crazy though, those are the things that helped you knelt through.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: The people call they know me when I walked through
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: around really say hey Grandpa, hey Grandpa.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: Ye like it's like hilarious, people.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: I've got you, I've got like and in the moment,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm calling this guy grandpa and he's like
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: thirty six, like to you, yeah, yeah, no.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: That's just but it's like it's an endearing thing because
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: it reminds me of going back to that and I
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: was the I was like the dad of the team.
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: You know, I played once a week. I was like
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: doing the lesser thing and just trying to be along
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: for the ride with the boys.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: You know, like you were the ultimate mentor Yeah, for sure,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: that's not you were, I know, were the ultimate perspective.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: Like well, winning in Boston helped me have like this
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: perspective of like, man, it's just about bringing your lunch
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: paal to work every single day with the boys and
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: going to work right, like there's no there's no glamour
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: in like the glamor comes after the perform moments of
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: winning and all that stuff.
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: Like you just got to get in there and like
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: believe in yourself.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: And because when I remember when I would be frustrated
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: with the team and stuff, I would talk to you
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: and you'd be like, no, we're fine. We just like
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: look like they just missed a couple of spots and
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: the pictures aren't like or the hitters, like we got
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: to get back to grinding that bats and see it.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: And every time you said that, I was like, all right,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: you made me feel so much better about like the
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: whole team grinding.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because we learned the small victories I think, and
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: like success, it's like just stay to the pitch to
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: pitch and those little like you know, yeah we started slumping.
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: Everybody's up there swinging the first.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: Pitch, like, yeah, when I gonna get out of it
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: because you're you know, like you got.
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: To have your bats and let this thing evolve.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: And you know, we all have these philosophies on winning
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: and stuff, but like the stuff I've learned was like
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: it's really the small fundamental details every single day and
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: trying to get everybody to buy into just back that concentration,
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: having some fun, not beating yourself up. You know what
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: the other guy gave us, Like only give up two
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: hits today and we got beat by a great pitch
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: before it's like move on, you know what I mean,
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: Like we didn't beat ourselves. I was a big one,
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: like if we don't beat ourselves, like the other team
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: beats us, they just come back the next day, like
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: we start beating yourselves.
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: Those are bad teams, you know, losing games that you
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: should win.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: And to what I loved about us is like I
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: wanted to be better than you and you want to
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: be better than me. But it wasn't like rooting for
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: anyone's downfall. No, it was like this healthy like competition.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: And I remember distinctively going to the All Star game, right,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: and we're in a rut going into the All Star
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: sixteen sixteen, and I went, like, I'm not kidding, I
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: went like ten for my last twelve going to the break.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: I went from like two eighty to two ninety nine
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: at the break, right, and we're all in the outfield
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: and we're all talking, like all the Cubs guys, and
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Harold Reynolds comes up to me says, hey, Riz, how
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: you doing, man, Like good to see it, and he
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: goes right to KBN. Like at our time, our numbers
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: were like nearly identical, Like I don't know who's was better, honestly, man,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: you're doing this year. It's so good to see you.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: And I'll never forget. I'm just sitting there, okay, okay, okay, yeah, give.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: A little handy to the young guy, I'm like, god, damn, bro,
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: I'm on like, goddag bro.
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: That.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: But like that's another beauty of like the whole Brizzo thing.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: It was like it was never hostile. It was just
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: like you made me.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Better like every day.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: So you probably hated when I first got called up
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: and we were at Gibson's remember this, Oh my god,
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: we were we were with Lundie, right. It was either
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: just me and you or when you went to dinner
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: on like the first off day or lunch. It was
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: lunch and someone comes up to me. It's like hey, Chris,
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: like congrats, like you know, welcome to Chicago, Like can
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: I get a picture with you? And I'm like sure, yeah,
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: and he hands the phone the Brizz.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Like, well, that's my gus walking around Las Vegas yesterday.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: It's like fifteen selfies for this guy. And some guy
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: gets to the elevators like, oh my god, Anthony Rizzo,
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, and they're like in there for fifteen minutes.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: We get up to our floor and I walk out.
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: He's like, oh hey, Rossie.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Like but that's like what also.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Made our team so good was like that, like we
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: all wanted to like perform, Yeah, because like any any
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: given day, someone's going off and you were going with
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: the best of them, and sure.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Like, yeah, it was obviously the best year of my career,
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: but it wasn't.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't just me and I don't know,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: seven teams.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: I think you can say by War it wasn't or whatever.
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: Well let's talk about that.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: Like that reminds me like you played great third base,
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: but we moved Hobby in there and you moved like
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: with Shwar were going down, like we had all that
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: stuff happen.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: You were like team the ultimate. You're the greatest utility
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: player of all time.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: Ah, that's Ben.
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I got me. Ben set the standard.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: You were the best, yeah version.
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Like the fact that you can go play left. You
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: played center that year, didn't you. Yeah, you played right.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Game fourth or fifth game in the row, and we
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: were elite at every.
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: Sneaking, sneaky inside job.
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: When I got the manager your job, I wanted to
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: move you to center and just play center all the time,
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: and THEO wouldn't let me.
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: Really sneaky, yeah, yeah, Like I was, dude, I just
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: like you take like five steps and cover the hole.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, it's like a it's not just like
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: a slow twitch version of like decks, you know what
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: I mean. Like he got that long gliding like you're saying, thing,
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: you cover ships on the ground, you're so big yeah
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: for me.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: Like I don't, I don't know. Joe came up to
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: me in my like my fifth game, I think we're
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh. He's like, hey, can you play center field?
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I wasn't gonna say no, you know, of.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: Course you do something like sure.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: So it was like I went out there and played
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: center field. I might have got a couple of fly
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: balls and then uh, and then it just kind of
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: took off and Joe was like, all I'm going to
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: put to your here here And I was like, all right,
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: all right.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: You love that though I did, Yeah, it kept me.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: It kept me like you know, you guys don't like it, no,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: but you I remember, you get me.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: More engaged, you know, like I never like if you're
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: just batting second and playing third every day, you're kind
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: of it's one hundred sixty games season. You're kind of
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: getting a low. You're like, and I'm just going through
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: the motions. But like Joe would have me start in
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: the game and the left and then I had to
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: come in and play third, and then you know it's
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: moving me all. I mean I played first a couple
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: of times and you had the day off, which wasn't
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: many times, but yeah, I just I don't know, I
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: embraced it and it was fun while that last.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: One sixty one in sixteen sixty one sixty one Yeah, okay,
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: yeah about you just make sure we.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Can in the day you had off wasn't or you
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: had a day off when Lester was pitching. I had
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: a few days off. I think I got in a
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: couple of games pitch. Yeah, yeah, I remember that Lesson
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: He's good.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: Picked Lesser's Lester and Lackey is like funny, like as
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: much as I love those guys and got two rings
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: because of them and you guys, but like the.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Day ran behind Mary Dave, they they're intimidating, like they.
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: Like you better bring it there day. I think that's
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: where I got my anger from on my day where
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: I played. It's like I'm gonna we're not losing them
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: my day.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: John John, I don't know if it was John or Joe,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: but it was basically demanding Hobby play third because John
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: always got ground balls that cut her in right. Yeah,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: So yeah, if when KB played third with Lester, you
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: it was like you knew John was already on edge because.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: I know we didn't no, but no, there's something I was.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: I wasn't scared, but I was like, I didn't want
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: to let them down, right, Yeah, that's the thing.
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: You don't let it get.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: You know, John's throwing cutters in a lot of the time,
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: and a lot of you don't know if he leaves
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: one out over, they're gonna smoke one at you or
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: they jam you like you never it's gonna be a
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: slow roller, it's gonna be a hot shot. It's like.
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: Probably the product of it.
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: It's like I wanted Hobby at second base field and
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: every ball I threw down because he was a freaking
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: wizard down there, and like he'd get in there. You
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: know those one guys give the alligator arm. I've played
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: with on other teams. You're like, you know, come on, guy,
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: ressed your life for everybody one put out.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: It's just how you used your competitive nature coming out,
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: you know what.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: You know what I love too when we did bump defenses,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: like with the picture bunting. It got to a point
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: literally where Chris and I would just look at each
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: other and just be like, no, we knew exactly, like
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: if the ball was super hard at him, or like
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: he knew what I was doing and it wasn't like
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: I had to tell him.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: He just knew. Yeah, And it was like it was
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: a cheek. It was a cheat code.
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that play it was a cheat code.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: We we they like it was like how good he
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: was at first base coming in Like, yeah, it kind
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: of negated a lot of that I want to I
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: want to go.
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: We brought this up, but like Rizzo's three to oher statue.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: When you're in the infield, remember that.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: He's the only one who would give us a little
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: bit of a fit about it.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because the one time they hit the ball or swing,
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: we never got burned on it. I don't care now.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: One time over we were.
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: Talking about that with Addie, who was like he was
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: just like, yeah, man, we was just like our little
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: game at Risks, like looking at everybody just just.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: So on hands on the knees on three ozero counts
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: when we're playing defense, I would whistle over to everyone
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: right and I would just widen my stance and anchor down,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: and no matter what happened on that pitch, I was
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: not moving. I wasn't getting ready for the pitch because
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: you knew the battle was taking and the whole infield
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: started doing it. It was a unity thing, and you
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: did it.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: I would say the time, yeah, but I wasn't good
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: enough of it in field.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: The time he didn't do it, we'd all be looking
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: over the glovers, Yeah you're doing And when he did
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: do we getting like the little golf clap.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: We'd all give a little golf cluber.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: I hate it, but yeah, those are things within the
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: game that No, that's his personality coming out.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: I'm a perfectionist I wanted to be, which sucks, but
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: that's what That's.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Another thing too, though, like you gotta try to have
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: that enjoy the moment you take.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: We got burned, and even if I didn't do it,
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: in my head, I'm like, this is fun, like.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: The playoffs, Like I still did that in the playoffs,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: you know, when a guy's swinging it right, Like probably
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: I never got burned on it, so I guess I
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: could talk about it. If I did get burned on
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: it would be a different story probably wouldn't telling it,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: but it's different.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: When you're playing first. You just have to feel the
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: ball and touch the bag. I have to feel it
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: and throw it you.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: It's a good point.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: We got to get to, uh get to clenching, clinching
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: in sixteen, go into the postseason. You've had a great year.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: Both you guys had great years. What was that when
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: we can't when when we finally clenched? Did you ever
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: picture us winning the World Series?
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: Well? I think the thing that year that was so
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: unique about that was that I think we kind of
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: expected to in a way like we would always training.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: We would always talk about like remember the conversations we
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: have we be like, do when we win it this year?
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: Like they're gonna have to helicopter us off the field.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Remember that they didn't have to, but damn they almost.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: When we went to the World Series, the party at
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: Regally and I'll see us, it's like we won the
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: World Series. When we advanced, did we talk about that
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: all the time or like remember like I just for
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: me personally, like Travis would always beyond me, like dude,
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: you gotta drink if we win the World Tours.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember it and we liked years.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: We're talking a team throughout the whole year, like we're
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: going on winning streaks, and he's just like to take
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: care what he said he would drink. You did say it.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: I did say that. And we would take shots after sweeps.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: We sometimes take some shots before the games or whatnot.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: KB would always have you there, like with this little
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: water shot.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: Yep, I love I was.
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: You get a favorite game from sixteen? Well, favorite moment?
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: What's it like you look back or the games you
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: tell your buddies about, I mean the person the five
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: or five games out, but like in the playoffs, like.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: There's it. It kind of it's kind of weird, right
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: because like you forget a lot over ten years, right,
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: Like it's that's why we're doing this. It's just that
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: you guys, and a lot of stuff is coming back
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: to me. But like, I don't know, I think my
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: favorite one in the playoffs for me probably been the
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: game five, like the Homer time the game just because
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: I told you guys last night too, what I was going.
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: Through before that might like sure, well, that's why I
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: was going to bring that up. Like your mom, You're
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: able to your mom in the hospital all night yeah.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: She I don't know what it was. Yeah, she had
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: some type of like upper respiratory thing. And I'm sure
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: a lot of people's families were because they were with
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: us the grind of yeah. So it's like, dude, they're
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: screaming in the stands like it's cold. Like yeah. So
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: my mom was sick and she's just like I need
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: to I need to I need to go get something.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: So we went to like the er Urgent Carrot Northwestern
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: at like five in the morning, and I was there
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: till like seven in the morning with my mom and
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: we had that was before Game five four.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Game five, we're down three to one, yeah, but we're
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: about to lose the world.
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: And like in my mind, I'm like, like you want
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: to say you believe that you were a comptent. We're
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: down three one, like it's going to be really hard,
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Yeah, And I was like
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: I'm going to be there for my mom, like she's
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: not feeling good. So I stayed there till seven, I
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: think six in the morning. Maybe it was like right
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: around Halloween. I think it was a Saturday. Everybody's in
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: the er urgent care with their like costumes on there
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: so many parties, and I'm like, I could have fit
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: right in if I just came in my uniform too,
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: but I just had my hood on my hat down
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: and I'm just sitting there and I'm like and I
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: was huge, Like it goes back to my personality being
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: like perfect, and I was like my nine hours. Yeah,
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: KB was not hooting with the owls Now, I'm like,
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: I want to go to Like I probably got seven
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: hours six hours leep that night, but I slept till
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: like two thirty three, went to the field and I
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: had the biggest home run in my life. Probably.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: I feel like there's a couple of mom that's one
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: of the biggest home runs of like one of the
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: most underrated home runs of the whole World Series. Because
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: we were losing in the fourth inning, Trevor Bowers shoving,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: shoving right and we're down three.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: One went falling in, howling in.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: Everyone is starting to get tight, like we owned, there's
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: only a certain amount of house left and we're down
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: right on elimination. Yeah, you hit that homer, And it
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: was like everyone was like the whole stadium we lost
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: the first two games there, the whole stadium erupted right
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: and like that inning, right the very next pitch, I
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: hit a ball off the wall in right center freaking
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: win dated, but I thought I clipped them too, like
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: back to back. But we ended up scoring three runs
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: and you started that and it's like we won that
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: game and I got the last RB. I get the
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: RB they walked, Hobby, and I guess three runs in
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: the fourth inning that we won that game three to
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: two and you're out till.
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, game, I think you have this, Like.
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: Your World Series home runs were some of the biggest
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: home runs that don't get talked about, like some of
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: the like like there's some big ones and obviously like
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: when you recap and you're watching, Yeah, I don't know.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: I feel like you don't play the game for that
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: type of recognition.
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, I just mean as a team, like yeah,
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: but like it's like mag he's hit to give us
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: the extra run.
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: Nobody talks about that.
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: It's like, you know, they talk about all these other
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: things just because the narrative and how it goes.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, I guess the homers, Like for me
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: personally in the World Series, like I was more proud
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: of the base running, Like, bro, you're the best by far.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: Hands down the best basement I've ever played with and
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: arguably the best part of your His base running was elite.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: But we talked when I manage, you were talking about
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: I want to score that, Like I never heard one
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: hundred runs.
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: I want to score a hundred runs.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because he taught you that, right hensk or who
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: said that, Like I want to score a hundred runs.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: I don't really know. I think for me it was
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: just always a goal of mine. But I felt like
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: I had more control of that than the RBIs. RBIs
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: is obviously the more sexy stat like, of course one
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: hundred it's amazing, But like I just like when I
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: got on base for you, like on first base, I
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: was like, I just want to give the best effort
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: for you to get that.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: Man, you probably scored twenty thirty percent of my RB
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: eyes when we play it.
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: And the thing about your games I love that comes
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: out in the World Series is like you're funding your
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: passion on the when you're running like that and you're
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: running hard and then you slide and you're safe. There's
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: a couple where it's like play at the play you're saying,
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: you come over and you're pumping it and.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: You're like, fuck, gabies pumped, you know, like that that's yeah.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: I mean I was off with the pitch on that obviously.
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: I think it was three to two count. I was
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: running on the pitch, but scoring me first on a
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: single and seven.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I was as bullshit though it should have
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: been a double because I was going no matter what,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: ye a single, I gotta hit.
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: Off Andrew Miller too.
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: But then the sack fly that Addy hit right to
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: Roger Davis and centerfield, Like no way, I should have
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: been running. No, Like that was a deep fly to shortstop.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: And Jones's at third He's like he's like he wasn't
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: saying anything, and I'm like, okay, what am I doing?
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: Like all right, am I going? I'm going, and he's
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: like last thing, He's like, oh, I was like all right,
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: I'm off, Like and like that was just me when
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: I was on the base path, like I just wanted
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: to run as fast as I can. Yeah, at all moments,
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: I like, even to this day, like I can safely
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: say that anytime I've hit a ground ball in my
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: BA lead career, like I've never taken it off. I
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: just tried to run a stars because one, I'm pissed
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: that I just hit a ground ball, and two like.
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: That would be something too, like him and j are
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: my two favorite base runners. I saw Jay had a
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: young age too in Atlanta.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: I said so much like this is just me being jealous,
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: but being a righty and like rolling over a ball
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: in the hole, he could beat it out.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: I roll over a ball in the hole.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: I'm out. And I would say for years like this
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: is a right handed hitters, game.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: Bro, like you would until they band this, until they.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: Ban the shift because a lefty rolls a ball. I
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: had a missile one hopper, the the right field, the
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: nickel back and right field right because they're playing prevent
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: defense and the writings do that and they get hits.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: And he was so fast. We get those hits. I
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: was like, damn man, like I was just a little faster.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, would never pass. I'm not a fast guy.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: I just you had I took a big strip.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: You had speed, You're like game speed you were, Yeah,
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: I would. Yeah.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: Just let's talk batting practice. We got some good a
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: good story batting practice for the World Series.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we well we didn't take VP in the World Series.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: Me and KB I did one day is one day,
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: one day, and the one day he goes out there.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: The reason why he didn't take VP is because it
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: was a soap opera out there. Cameras are everywhere, people
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: are trying to talk to you. It's just like we're
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: at game one basically like almost ninety like we don't
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: need VP, We're ready. Yeah, like you just don't want
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: to talk and we just don't want Yeah, we just
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: don't want the noise, right, I remember us talking.
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: So he goes out, what were game six? It might
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: have been six? Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely was. Oh no,
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: I think it was game seven. It might have been
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: game seven because like you're like, oh, I gotta go
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: take BP's Game seven in the World Series.
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: I did not.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: We had that whole bussy round.
• 53:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah that was like fun. So yeah, I think a
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: lot of people were out there for game seven.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about Buzzy being the MVP of the team.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: Storry you the best. Yeah, but yeah, he goes out
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: t BP taking b font our VP picture like one
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: of the best, Right, you have a lot of six
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: seven years he got the thing. He I mean he
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: was he was grooving. I mean he'd groove a couple
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: and then he'd throw like two like down away like
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: cutters and cutters. I'm like attle alligator arm and we
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: were not he's a little nervous. I'm like, yeah, I'm
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: a little nervous too, It's normal. And then zings want
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: right up and in it's my shoulder, and then that's it,
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: and then I've died. And then I'm like, all right,
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna walk out.
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: That's when you're in the big leagues. You're livid.
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: Like we were telling a story about Bussy trying to
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: do rehab stuff in the middle of my batting practice.
• 54:47
  Speaker 4: I'm like, get out of here. I'm trying to lock
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: you up.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: When we were taking VP, we're such DeVos, like if
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: that ball is in center center, I'm literally eyeing him saying,
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: what the fuck are you doing?
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: Like yeah, like you're gonna be a devon certain stuff
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: when you're gett ready.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: So he hits me and then short story story, he
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: can he can throw me VP ever again, Yeah, he goes.
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: You know what I look back at and like love
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: to think about is one hundred and eight year curse.
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: All this pressure right, Like you have so much history
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: of Chicago. We're game seven of the World ties really
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: every game in Cleveland, and like the main guys are
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: just sitting there playing Mario Kart before the game, like
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: that was our pre game.
• 55:30
  Speaker 4: Like you were two decks and then like rotate in.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and like I just look back, like you and
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: me are just literally just allright, Oh, it's forty five
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: minutes before the game. I'm gonna go get rested a
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: couple of stretches.
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: I was the old guy that was like stressed out,
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: Like these kids aren't focused.
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: This is my last better be ready for locking in.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: This is seven, this is my life.
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: He's doing the rocky naked naked dances.
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: I've seen way too many of your crevices. Yeah, we'll
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: never do that again, but sometimes that's what that's what
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: made it seem good, is that we could be in
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: the most important game of our lives and you bring
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: us together. Let's play Mario Kart.
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: Let's that's your leader. His leadership gift is so much uh.
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: And it's like if you go to dinner with him,
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: if you go to a charity function, if you go
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: out with him, we're playing like your gift you make
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: everybody have a good time. I've always said, like everybody
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: has fun, you're having a good time too, But Dexter's
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: got some of that, right, Like you're gonna make sure
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: everybody else is good even though you may internally be stressed.
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: You're you relax with yeah, and others relax.
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like you guys letting me be that, Like I
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: would hit naked from time to time, so you're saying
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: with the crevices, and like for me it would be
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: like I feel I would always say I'm so free,
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: I'm so free, right, but then literally.
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: Get bad practice in practice would be flipping in the case.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: See the difference, Yeah, see the difference, the difference, and
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: like it would be a funny thing where like the
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: guys would come and just start dying laughing, And for
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: me it would relax me.
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: So I'd get into the game.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: I'd be like, oh, I'm so free, right, and then
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: before game seven, I'm I'm dancing there to the rocket
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: song and so.
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: But it's it's like, look, we've were prepared, we're ready
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: to go.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: We have our routines, like this is what we believed worked,
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: and us playing Mario if we didn't play Mario Car
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: before game seven, we're not winning Game seven, like it
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: kind of locked us in like competitively because those were
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: intense games.
• 57:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we gotta get smashed by Nintendo.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: Those those games.
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: Those games.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: I think I was playing third base in the World
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: Series like so many Like I remember Napoli hit me
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: a line drive that I didn't even see off the bat,
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: no clue, Like it was almost a short hop I
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: caught in the air. I remember catching that ball, and
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I did not see that ball. I had
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: no who I caught that ball, Like the game Game
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: bro like game one or two, it was just like
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: your body like over, like took over, like imber Game one.
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: How cold. It was crazy. Like there's so many things
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: now that we're talking that are coming back to me.
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: Now that game six you hit it the another again.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: Game five you start the rally, Game six, you start
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: the rally. We end up boat racing in game six.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: But like these are we don't win those games. Obviously
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: we can't get to games and what you broke we're
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: about to talk about. But like again, that's why I
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: go back.
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: You would give us breathing room and like breaking the seal.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: When you did that, it was like, oh here, we
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: go yeah, because like that's our best that's our best player,
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: and like when our best player does the best thing,
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: then everyone else.
• 58:45
  Speaker 4: Can like, yeah, all right, we got the lead.
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: Here we go yeah, and that was so nice doing it.
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: Game six homer in the first, then decks Game seven
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: in the first like that one.
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: Oher early lead is like huge, and our record too.
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: When we got the lead. I remember, like I don't
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: know what the stat is right off the but like,
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: like you, we get the lead. Is rare that people
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: came back on us, but they did. What did you
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: think about in that raj moment?
• 59:08
  Speaker 4: The home run? How loud was that place?
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously I can look back on it more
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: fondly now that we won the game, but like in
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: the moment, the biggest letdown of like obviously my entire career,
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: and it like he hit the he hit it so
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: hard out Chappy was throwing Hunter and two like he
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: just had to hit it. Over heard that it was
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: right over my head and I'm like, I didn't think
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: it was going over the fence, but I knew and
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: he he choked up, Like remember that, I like I
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: felt like I should have jumped for the ball, like
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: that's and it was smoked. And I just remember looking
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: at you too across the diamond. We didn't make eye contact,
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: but I was just like, I just was like super defeated.
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: Everybody remembers Lebron on the thing, like what was going
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: to your head?
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: I was just like, do you remember any of those?
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: I was just like, dude, we came like we were
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: on the verge of coming back three to one, and
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: like that's how this is going to play out? Isn't
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: that crazy? Like isn't it so crazy?
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: We could talk ten years later and you we asked
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: anyone about Raj and it's like we lost the game,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: like that's the game, like we literally it was, and
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: we ended up winning the World Series and we still
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: talk about Raj. I still see him to this day,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, I don't want to talk to right,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: actually loved you made it like the best series ever.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, it's like it's like he carries bad energy
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: when I see him, you know what I mean?
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 4: Like I like you, Raj.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: You always gotta smell on your face, But I've got
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: bad memories in my in my gut from you.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: When we went into the rain delay, Right, what where
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: were you, like, what do you remember about that.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: I remember going in, Well, so Cleveland is you got
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: to walk up the stair. Its kind of a little
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: not a little bit of a trek togainst the clubhouse, right,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: So you're walking up. There's two stairs that go up
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: and I'm walking in and everything's tarped off. The beer
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: buckets are out, like.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 4: Thank god, and see that would have snapped.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: That Leuster made him take it all down.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw it, and I'm like I couldn't. I
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: saw it for five seconds and I turned right around
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: and then we all gathered in the weight room. But
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: I was I was like, dude, like I kind of understand, like, yeah,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: you kind of have to set up for the party
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: or whatever and have enough time for it, but I'm.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 4: Like, that could have waited a bad look.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to be on the field. Whoever won
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: was gonna be on the field for forty five minutes
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: and then they're going to make their weight in. But
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: I just remember that moment like being like they just
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: felt like everything was just taken from us. And uh,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: then we went to the the weight room and then
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: I saw Chappie in the corner crying and I was like, dude,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: I feel so bad. Everybody like that guy like put
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: it all on the line, the whole playoffs being traded over,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: and like pitching two and a thirty.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: Eight out saved in game five. Yeah, like then pitched
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: in game six.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 4: That's what we were talking about.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: Almost brought that up earlier, like he came in so
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: early in game five, so early, and yeah, I just
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: felt so bad for him in that moment, and we.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: All did, right, Like this is a rawless chat and
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: this dude is a like he's from Cuba. Nothing fases him.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: He's yoked.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, the scariest human being.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 4: Dinner half a year.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: Half the year's been traded over new people. We've both
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: been traded. Like it's like it's kind of you never
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: really get to know the group you need to be
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: there in spring the dinner, the fact.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: That he was so like vulnerable there and then we
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: talk and like what do you remember from all that?
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: So that I don't remember too much. I just like
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: a lot of people like saying their piece obviously j hey,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: but like for me in the moment, I was just
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: more like focused on Chappie, Like I just like balling
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: his eyes off. I feel so bad for the guy.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: Like I said, I don't remember anything anybody said.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 4: I have a hard time too. I remember him saying
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 4: like I remember saying.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: Like we how we got here, This is how we
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: got here, about us, yeah and all that, but I
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: don't the same thing. I'm the one that went and
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: got Chappy off the bench. He was in his hands,
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: crying off the bench because he was the only one missing.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 3: So went and got him and and then we walked in.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 4: I was like, bro, we wouldn't be here without you
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 4: and all that.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, a lot of that. But then like
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: like I picture him in that state, and then I
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: picture him like when Zoeberst in Montero get the big
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: knocks and he's on the top rail like showing that
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: type of emotion, and it was like a complete one
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: eighty Like I didn't see him in the moment showing
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: that emotion, but in the the replays and you see him,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: and then you see you. I don't even know what
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: you were saying, but you're like.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 4: Like I told you that, I told you.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: I wonder how much though, like for Chappie right, like
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: he's he's Cuban. There's a definite language barrier, Right, it's
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: not easy being a foreign player, like playing and not
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: knowing the language. Sure you're new, and like I wonder
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: a free agent at the end of the yeah, and
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: I wonder how much for him that man, like that
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: his whole team had his back there, right, Like how
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: much we actually cared.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 4: We're going to ask him. We're going, yeah, going back
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 4: to your point.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 3: Some of my favorite pictures, like there's photos of my
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: home run and hider, but I see the bench and
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: it's you and you and uh call like all these
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: guys like my favorite things, like when you see your
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: teammates joy for you, Like there is not a better
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: feeling in the world when you're like, look at my
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: my dudes having my back, right, Like yep, so pumped
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: for every little bit, almost let in, almost gave up
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 3: the game, almost get him killed on throwing the ball
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: in and getting his scoring on the wild pitch and
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 3: shit's going crazy, and I'm like get that home run
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: back and everybody's like top step this pumping, and you're
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: just your face is like so aggressively like happy.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: It's like I never was. But like there's something like
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: in the playoffs where it's you turn to a kid,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: you turn it like it's like what you do individually
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: does not matter at all. You know, there's a certain
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: point of the other season where you're like you're trying
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: to put up your numbers and like you're trying to
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: win games, but in the playoffs, none of it matters,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: and it's just and then move to the next Yeah,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: that's my favorite part. But how'd you feel? It was?
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: What the tenth right when you came up, you hit
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: that ball to the right center. It's a home run earlier, right, Yeah,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: and you hit it off the bat. We're so like
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: messed up for because of wind and coming up playing
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: a regularly. We know, all win the elements everywhere. Could
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: you know right away, like, yeah, I was, I hit
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: it good?
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 4: It was I knew right away.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: It wasn't going out. It was more like like how
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: you spin the ball when you hit when you get
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: one of those that you kind of like hit like yeah,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: like when you kind of hit high center, but they
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: kind of like fade to left center, like you don't
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: truly backspin to center. And that was like one of those.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: I just knew the spin. It had that more of
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: the side spin, so it was going to just die
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: at the track. But I mean and Albert tagging up
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: on that ball, Like, I feel like that's not That's
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: not how you teach that play exactly. You go halfway
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: and for him to have the instincts to be a
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: rookie bro.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: He just came in the game. He was to be
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: in the game because he said, if Shorebert hits a double,
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: you're going in. And then Shorebert let off with a
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: single and Joe audible real quick, So Albert had audible
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: real quick, man.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and at doing their jobs.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: Like we were talking about how many pieces connect.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: We don't win with that without everything, without taking a
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: risk like that, Yeah, like that having the honestly having
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: the Kahonas to tag up there in Game seven of
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: the World Series. And that's like I talk about Joe
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: and how much Joe meant to our group, especially our
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: young group of like he let us go play, he
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: let us speak kids, and by being kids, that's how
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: I feel like we shine most.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Joe, I feel like I think we did talk
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: about the team. I feel like Joe gets credit, but
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: he doesn't get enough credit for what he meant. No, agree,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: just like how easy it was playing for him talking
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: to him, and just I have like I talk about
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: my dad a lot, how I have emails from him.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: I have a lot of screenshots from Joe, just text messaging,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: like back and forth with him that I keep too,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: like just like and I never told him that, but
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: like just like it's just like how I want to
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: live my life too after baseball, Like just with anything
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: in life, like teaching my kids, like how to get
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: through school or whatever, Like what type of attitude you
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: want to have and how you want to approach it,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: and like are you going to be like down on
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: yourself all the time? Are you going to like just
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: you know, push through it, you know, knock the wall down,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: And like for me, Joe was that guy. But he
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: said it in such a great way that like it
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: wasn't like he was never demeaning, Like he never yelled
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: at us like he I don't. I have nothing but
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: amazing memories of how Joe coached us.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: If we don't win without Joe, he kept us in
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: this bubble and everybody criticizes a lot of things, and
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: he actually was very very accountable and walks us through
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: all his stuff was was great.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 4: But the fact of like how he kept us with all.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: Those distractions in one hundred and eight years, and like
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: I never felt to you of that in our world.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 3: We were on our own little world. Prissoners run the asile,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: the whole thing. And he was so chill and fun.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 3: I learned a lot about having a life outside of baseball,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 3: right and making that fun and being able to not
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: just enjoy.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 4: On the backside of my career. And he man, he was.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 3: He's one of the best managers. Of him and Bobby Cox,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 3: I put probably probably at the top.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: It was just so unconventional on how he went about
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: it that, like I feel like coaches nowadays just can't
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: do it. He was one of the kind, one of
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: one of them.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: He's literally one of them.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 4: Swinging Bond.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're up one at this point, they scored a run.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 4: Rajas on base.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: Where was he first? He was at first first. Yeah,
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: if that ball goes over Mike Montgomery cars, you're running
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: down the line, you're sliding.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: That's a big territory.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 4: Nobody's nobody's picking.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: Mike Montgomery's on the ringo car to close out Game seven.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: No, when he's coming in, they take CJ out where
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: Like I remember saying on the mount.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: Like we looked I feel like we looked over like
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: what like, I mean, who else would have came in? Right?
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 4: So yeah, we had ridden like.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: You know all those guys, like we had ritten those
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 3: guys too, but like we were talking Joe's like it
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: kind of flipped a little bit. These young guys was
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: pitching well, yeah, Montgomery and that curb money, Like.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: Was Martinez supposed to hit there?
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: Or was he hitting something hitting?
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 3: They brought him in for defense against for he pitch
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: hit for Chris Chris the they had taken him out
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: the inning at that before.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: Right for a guy or yeah, and then he came
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: up when his spot came.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 4: And he went in for defense.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, dude, just through because we've never really talked
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: about this us either, like because we just celebrated and
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: then yeah, and then nobody cares. Fucking pine tar globed
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: in my glove like before that night or tenth inning.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: I literally took the rag and just I'm like, I'm
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: not dropping a ball because but it gets cold, like
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: the glove gets a little crispy, and like if I
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: don't catch it right and it pops out.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 4: Nothing came up terrified.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: You know, I came out of your glove though I
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: was very comfortable throwing the balls. But it just goes
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: back to like like hitting in the World Series, you're like,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: you're you're heightened, your your heart rates elevated a little bit,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: You're you're feeling it. But like playing defense in big
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: games is way tougher in my opinion, Like you obviously
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: don't want to be the guy. Sure that scruis it
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: up for the team.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: And like there's a couple of guys' names and we're
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: not going to say any that, like you know, forever
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: in baseball history for the wrong reason, right, you know
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: what I mean? And like there's a massive Cubs person
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: that for ever, like unrightfully so has been like tormented. Yeah,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: and like other guys. So it's like, yeah, you're on defense,
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: You're like.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, when you guys have more time to think, like
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 3: the catching, the defense was my comfort zone. So like
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: after the first pitch, I was just like normal, except
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 3: for hitting. Hitting was like switch for you switch, God.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: Damn ross, You've got two balls in on a pass ball.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 4: Okay, well that's Leicester's folded lester.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: I think that was the one moment in my whole
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: career playing with you, or you tried to block a
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: Leicster curveball and like you were seeing tweety birds. This
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: dude is old fell.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 3: I woke up the next day it was wondering why
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: my ankle hurt, and I went back and watching I play.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 4: I rolled my ankle when I went to get up
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 4: and were slow man, like, good time to go. He's
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 4: going killing tonight. He's actually gonna die. But you get
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 4: that ground ball.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I I think leading up to that two outside,
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: it's every person's dream to be the one to make
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: the last out, feel the last out, catch it, get
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: the last strikeout, But you don't want it to come
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: to you, right, I mean, I don't know what. I
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: was terrified.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: I was like that's a hit, and I put my
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: head down to go to first and I look up
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: and I see him like, oh fuck, he's yeah.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: I took like two like big stripes like off the bat.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, this is either Monty's gonna get it,
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: didn't like. I was like, I'm gonna have to throw
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: this on the run, which wet grass Like yeah, I
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: got to it so quick. I was so maybe what
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: took two bounces and it was like a.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, two bounces.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: It was a nice easy like and then I'm throwing
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: the ball on my foot slipping and you're smiling. It
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: wasn't a smile. It was like a just like it was.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: It was. It was just a concentration face.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: I guess yes, out of the hand, I thought that
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: was saled, you did.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: I was. That's how nervous I was. I was. I
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: might have like I didn't embellish it, but like I
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: kind of like leaned into like because if I just
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: like planted hard and then let it slip, that thing
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: was for sure going over your head. But like I
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: kind of like fell nice.
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  Speaker 4: Nice but yeah.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: I mean the rein to lay was it like fifteen
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: minutes long, seventeen minutes long. Good number, good number. And
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: then we just kind of just went out.
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  Speaker 4: And play right away.
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  Speaker 2: But there wasn't like a like you know what the
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: rain delay, they're fixing the field, they're striping it again,
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: Like we didn't do any of them.
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  Speaker 4: No, it was quick.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: But when you threw it to me, we're talking about
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: your dad and like we bringing full circle. Like when
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: I was a kid with my dad, I would always
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: like practice like winning and like being the champion of
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: the world, and like we would always like raise both
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: hands like the world so like you perfectly threw it
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: like high, and I was like that's why, Like you
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: raise your hands and that's why I was.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: High.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like I'm champion in the world and like put
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: the ball in the pocket. I ran right to you
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: and we just like jump on each other.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: And yeah, dude, that was yeah, Like I don't know
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: for me personally, Like you know, I feel like we
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: won a lot over a short period of time that
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: you try to think how you're going to celebrate, right, Yeah,
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: like we're going right to each other, like Addie and
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: Hovey are going together. You're like if you're on the field,
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: you're going to do your picture. And it's like I
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: feel like we we had conversations about that stuffing.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 3: We talked about that both the two best teams I've
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 3: been a World Series teams I've won with the teams
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 3: I've been on, they talk about winning the World Series,
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 3: and I think that's so important for a mindset of players,
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 3: Like the ultimate goal was like don't don't sell yourself
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 3: short of like we want to make the playoffs or
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 3: we want to you know, like all that bullshit, Like
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 3: there's definitely steps to it, but like when you talk
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 3: about winning the World Series, that's when it's when you
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 3: get there and you're expected to be there.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 4: And like we've already talked about how we're going to
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 4: celebrate this win, you know, like here we go.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, as much as we talked about it too, it's
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: like what the Cubs fans like, how they celebrated it
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: was like the most like crazy sentimental thing, right, like
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: seeing all the flags on the graves and people at
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: the graveyards and like flying the w everywhere, and it
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: was like we we knew it was going to be
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: that like that, but like it was ten times more, yeah,
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: than what we even talked about. And we talked about
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: this all the time, like our imaginations are crazy, and
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: not too many things in the game outlives your imagination
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: and winning yeah, And it.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: Was like it was so cool to see, like because
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: obviously the Cubs had not won in so long, but
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: like so much tradition just kind of came out like
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: at once, like seeing so many flags and people just
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: talking about how like oh my my mom would love
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: to see this day and like, oh my Grandpa saw
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: it and he passed away shortly after. It's like people
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: waiting around to see this.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 3: That's my favorite thing that I still carry is like
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 3: the rings. Great, that's obviously like winning is, but hearing
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 3: people's like stories of generational like how they became fans
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 3: and where they were at game seven and all that stuff,
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 3: it's amazing, yep, amazing.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: Well, like our families are on the field afterwards, they're
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: all in it. They're on the end now of like
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: what I say, a two year vender of just like
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: celebrating and the parties, the parties at Leicester's, the parties
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: at country Club and Wrigleyville all this stuff, and like
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: there's everyone's so astatic. You get to like do all
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: this love. But like at the end, it's just like,
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: well we we fucking did this.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 4: We did. Like we're like we're.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: Only there's only twenty five of us, yeah, right, And
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: it's like, well, coaches and everyone evolved.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 3: But well then we're on that pedestal like like we
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 3: went to SNL, me and you Dex we'll talk about that,
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 3: but me and you went to and we were on
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 3: L and who was like giant at the time, Rightley
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 3: flew Disney flew us out to like all the way
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 3: to the Sick Jet.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've playing on the all the Way to the SNL.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: I did Jimmy Kimmel too, You did Kimmel. What what
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: was like the biggest thing from winning that? Like that
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: from winning the World Series? What's the biggest thing that's
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 2: changed your life now ten years later from winning? Yeah?
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: Like, what have you learned most about that? I as
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: a player, as a person, as a dad?
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: What if I learned most from Oh my gosh. Well,
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: it's just like like if you speak it and you
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: put it out there and you have a group of
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: people that all buy in and speak the same language
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: as you, it's like it almost made it easier to
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: accomplish it, you know. And it's like not saying the
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: teams after like the twenty seventeen all the way through
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: twenty one when we were there, like we didn't have that,
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: you know that like in the moment, like we weren't
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: able to like see it. But now looking back on it,
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: you can totally see like it was just a special time,
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: Like we had a whole group that bought in and
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: just all we did was talk about winning the World
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: series and what it would mean for a city and
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: the fan base, and we're like and it was like
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: nothing was gonna stop us. So it's like, yeah, you
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: like a lot of it For me now is like
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: I try to instill in my kids. Is like, like
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: my son just did ski lessons together and I'm sitting
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: there on the side of the mountain watching him and
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: he's struggling just to get back on this little magic
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: carpet thing because he's just sliding back on the snow
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: and I'm just sitting there. I'm like, I'm not going
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: to say anything to him, like I sure I can
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: go out there and push them. And I'm like, no,
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: you're gonna figure it out, like you're gonna have the
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: drive to get up the mountain and do it again.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: And for us, I was like, that's kind of what
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: we did. Like we went through all of our peaks
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: and valleys, and I was like, we talked to each other,
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: We leaned on each other, and some led by example,
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: some were more vocal, and like we all were able
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: to pull ourselves out from our crappy times and we
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: were at the mountaintop at the end of this thing.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, it's of the game, the.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: Peak of the sport, for the twenty sixteen Chicago Cubs,
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: being the MVP of the greatest Cubs team in the
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: history of the organization, and what you meant to the organization,
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: what we all meant. But the fact that we get
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: to sit down and talk about ten years later. Wow,
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: it has been the one of the biggest joys of
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: my career so far.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Highlight.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: And I'm justus that you guys get to you dude
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: without well without you two like you and me and
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: the whole Brizo stuff and playing together and like our
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: relationship Jess and Emily are so close, and you coming
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: in and mentoring me. It's like I'm like, I'm full
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: of joy because of it looking back, of like I
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: got to do this with great people, being like lifelong friends.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: That's what it's all about, trying look back.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: We're sitting here at the summit here in Las Vegas,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: and like I'm telling Chris, I'm a really good guest
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: for a member of guest you're.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: Playing with decks. Yeah, well, but I think I think
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: the cool like just for our relationship personally, and I
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: might not have the best relationship with some of the
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: other guys on the team nowadays, which is it's hard
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: to grow apart. Yeah, but like I know that, and
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: like we might talk, might not talk for months, but
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: like I know that. Like when you call me or something,
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: it's like and you get a new number all the time,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: like this is Anthony's new number. It's like, oh, Anthony's
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: calling h Like what does he want now? But no,
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 2: it's like when you call me, it's like it's not
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: like it's like we've been talking like yesterday.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: It's like you know certain players you play with and
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: then you see him like two years down the road
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 2: and you're like, I don't know what to say to you,
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: Like I don't know how to talk to you right now.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: But it's like, I think we all built such a
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: good bond.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 3: When you do what we did, we're your brothers for life, right, Like,
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 3: and how close our team was and the amount of
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 3: guys that we had that were good people, right and
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 3: also good baseball players, Like it was a very unique
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 3: group obviously to go through what we went through and
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 3: come out champions, but to that, to that respects, like
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 3: I I love everybody on that team, you know what
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 4: It's like you see him and it just.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: Joy bringing all the memories carried.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 4: You off the field.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: It's not about me, Risk, but I'm saying though, like,
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: that's how much you meant to us, like you were
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: forty years old.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 4: Change my mind.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: So you're a backup catching you are? You are our
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: guy and close close out.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you to twenty sixteen MVP World Series Champion and.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 4: Still active Chris Bryant.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 3: That was a lot of fun, man. We're really thankful
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 3: for you, obviously. I'm thankful for my ring, your friendship
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 3: and the round of golf.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 4: Were about to play.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: Love you, Dad, I love you Dad, you guys as much.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 3: And to