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ARod vs. Alex Documentary recap: Did Yankees fans DISRESPECT Alex Rodriguez? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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Well, ladies and gentlemen, I wanted to get into this specific
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conversation because I thought it was very well put together.
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The HBO documentary Alex Versus A Rod had three episodes
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detailing some of his highs and lows of his MLB career,
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particularly with the Yankees. Episode 1 focusing on him being
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drafted as an 18 year old in 1993 by the Seattle Mariners and
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record-breaking contract that he signed with the Texas Rangers
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after one of the hottest starts to a pro career as a baseball
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player. Episode 2 focuses on him being
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traded to the Yankees after Aaron Boone suffered a season
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ending injury playing basketball.
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As you can remember, A and the dynamic with him and Derek Jeter
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and his move to third base because that was very
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interesting. It also brought up him being
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linked to PED investigation with the investigation in 2009
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stemming from his time in the minor leagues as well as his
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2009 playoff success after struggling in the playoffs with
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the Yankees his previous four times.
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Episode 3 focused on the second PD investigation he was
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connected to in 2013, leaving him suspended the entire 2014
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season. In a recent interview with The
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Athletic, A Rod says he is at peace over likely never making
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it to the Baseball Hall of Fame. A Rod finished his career with
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3115 hits, 696 home runs, 2086 RB is and was a 14 time All
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Star, 10 time Silver Slugger and three time MVP.
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This was a very well put together documentary.
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Now I'm sure there were things left out, I'm sure of it.
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And I know Jabba was very close to Alex.
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He was a part of the 2009 World Series and I'm sure he has his
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own take to it and I, I can't wait to hear it.
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Alex is a very interesting person.
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I don't know him personally. I met him one time.
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I had a 15 minute conversation about football with him.
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Not even baseball. We were talking about college
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football and NFL quarterbacks. And if you don't know, Alex
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Rodriguez was a pretty good high school football player.
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He was a quarterback could have played college football for
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Miami, decided to play baseball. Now if you know about his
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father, I didn't know much about his father's story I before this
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documentary. Now I know there was a lot of
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back end situations on why his father left, but this story
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really gave you the inside scoop on the reasons why he left.
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Now do I believe, and I know a lot of people, Derek Jeter and a
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lot of different analysts that were on the show that were close
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with Alex over the years believed Michael Kay believed
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that him losing his father at a young age and, and, and him his
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wife tried to connect him and his father at one point of his
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career with his father. I think when he was playing for
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the, the, the Seattle Mariners. It's, it's interesting and I, I
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see why his wife or his ex-wife was trying to do that,
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Catherine, but I, I understand why people would bring up his
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past and try to connect his father's situation to the woes
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that he had later in his career. I don't blame that on, on his
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father's situation. I don't know him personally, but
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you cannot point your fingers at any of that.
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But his mistakes and, and what he decided to do to, to become
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the player that he became. Now, I believe Alex Rodriguez
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would have been one of the greatest players of all time
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even without steroids. I, I really do.
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I don't know when he started. He says he started in Texas.
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Who knows if he started in Seattle.
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We don't know when he actually started doing steroids.
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What I do know is Alex Rodriguez.
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His ability on the baseball field, on the diamond was
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amazing. This guy to me was better than
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Derek Jeter was as a defensive player at shortstop.
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He decided to go to the Yankees to play third base because his
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dream was to play with the New York Yankees.
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I do believe that he grew up in New York.
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His father was a Yankee fan. He was right there in the right
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by the Bronx and his dream was to play for for Pinstripe.
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So when the Red Sox in that fell apart, him going to the Yankees
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when Brian Cashman was at the award show and said, would you
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think, would you would you play third base?
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And at at that point, he was unsure of it until after the
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awards during when they were drinking, he came up and and he
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went to Brian Cashman. He says, are you serious?
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And and Brian said, yeah, maybe. So it's an interesting dynamic
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that Brian Cashman kind of, he hated on a plate and he kind of
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was drawn to it. The stories behind the stories
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and Alex talking about the doctor that helped him get
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through all these trials and tribulations.
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And I, that's great. And I, I'm not, again, I'm not
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trying to clean up what Alex did.
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And I've, I've said this, but you know, I've said this many,
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many times about steroids. Steroids are not and and we've
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seen players Cam Caminiti. He was, he did steroids and he
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went to the World Series. He had one great year and there
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are players that did steroids in the minors and never made it to
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the majors. I don't think steroids would
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have changed anything except maybe his power numbers in
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certain aspects. This guy was a sensational
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player. Lou Pinella came out during this
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whole documentary and I love Lou.
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Lou is one of my favorite the coaches, managers, the guy is
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amazing and and I thought he was the best manager in baseball
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when he was in Seattle. I really did.
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Lou said something very interesting about Alex Rodriguez
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and he said, listen, I told Alex not to say anything, not to
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really draw himself out when when the first steroid and and
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what was that the the Mitchell report.
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He told Lou told him not to go out there and open up and and do
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that, that that media conglomerate bullshit.
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And it really it was embarrassing because Alex didn't
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know what to say. He he was lost.
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He was trying to figure out how to word himself at that.
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And and honestly, you have APR guy.
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Why, if you're his PR guy, why are you letting why are you
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feeding him to the media? It was terrible.
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It was really, really bad. And even when he he thanked his
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friends and he thanked the Yankees organization, it still
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looked bad for him. And then him trying to sue the
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Yankees was bad. When he went on Michael Mike
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Francesa's show and tried to lie, that was bad.
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And he he came out. I have to give him a little bit
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of credit. He did come out.
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I don't know how honest he was with the documentary.
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Jabba knows more than I do, but there was some honesty to the,
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the conversations that he had and, and the way HBO put it, I,
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I just think there was some things that he was trying to
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hide and he wasn't coming out. How about the threats that he
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was laying on with the second steroid of the PD situation that
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he had over there in Miami. He threatened a lot of people,
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threatened to kill people. He didn't mention any of that.
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And, and there were a lot of stories that came out that were
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pretty much truth to it. And he kind of rolled around
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that whole part of that story. I, I just think that there was a
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lot of things that a rod did, but when he came back in 2014
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and he, he came back full force, I think that says a lot about
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who he is as a player. He pour his heart on his sleeve.
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You can see that in him. You could see that a lot of the
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players that play with him loved him because he was more of a
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person that I, I think would sit down and have a conversation
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with you. I think I don't know Derek
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personally except a couple of times that I met him.
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Derek, I was very surprised showed up at that documentary
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and was on that whole documentary because when we've
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heard stories about him and Derek Jeter and, and the
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backlash of what Alex did to him, you know, said about him,
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which affected their relationship.
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The fact that they, they, they fix their relationship and Derek
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decided to go on a documentary. That to me is amazing.
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Out of all the things that I saw in that documentary, because I
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never would have thought that Derek Jeter would have been on
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an Alex Rodriguez documentary, sticking up for Alex Rodriguez
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and trying to pinpoint the reasons why Alex became the
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person that he was, was because of his father.
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There is to me, Alex is a man. He makes his own decisions.
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He made the decision to do steroids and he took that and he
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ran with it and he came out and he said, listen, I made that.
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I, I made that wrong decision. And that's why I'm not in the
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Hall of Fame. And I'm not going to take away
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from my great years or even the years that people think that I
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cheated. I like that Alex was honest
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about that. But there were things that I
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didn't like about Alex Rodriguez that questions me as a person,
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as a father. I, I think that you can see that
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he regrets not really spending a lot of time with his kids and
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now he's trying to spend more time with his kids.
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I, I think there was a lot of things that we saw about him as
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a person, as a father and how he wanted to change what his father
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didn't do to him, do for him, he wants to do for his daughters
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later in their lives and be there for them.
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I, I think that was interesting. And even his ex coming out and,
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and talking about the the fact that he should have been more of
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a husband to his ex-wife and baseball was everything to him.
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It was his life. It was everything.
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I thought it was just very interesting how he brought his
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story out and aired out all that stuff that was going on inside
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and out of his career and layered it all the way through
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to his final years as a New York Yankee in a pinstripe.
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And he wanted to be a Yankee, the Yankees.
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It wasn't, it wasn't Scott. It wasn't him during the World
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Series when Colorado was playing the Red Sox where that was
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announced. It was Scott Boris that reached
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out and and pushed Alex to agree to opt out of that contract.
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It wasn't Alex. And Alex came out and said that
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I had my and that's why he fired Scott Boris after that, because
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he was so offset with why Scott wanted to do that during the
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World Series and make him the storyline while the World Series
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was going on. Very interesting stuff.
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I thought it was sensational. Really great put.
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HBO put another documentary so very well put together.
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Yeah, I again, we'll get to the jobless point on the personal
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level in a Bay obviously being a teammate of his.
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But it was interesting when I was a kid, like it was always
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one of the ones that because he was so polarizing, because he
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was so like in the limelight, it was easy to say, oh, you get to
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take shots at him And obviously all this little steroid debate.
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And again, I was as a kid, it's like, all right, is he cheating?
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Is he really not cheating? And then like later on, I was
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maybe not as extreme initially as you were with the like
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everyone should be with the steroids.
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Like I always tend to decide with them more if they were
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always a better player. I always said like, OK, the
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steroids might taint him from being considered the greatest
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baseball player of all time, but it's not going to be something
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that should tarnish his legacy because obviously he was a
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better athlete than Derek Jeter was.
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He was better defensively at shortstop than Derek Jeter was.
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And obviously besides maybe the batting average by a little bit,
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like he was a better all around hitter than Derek Jeter was.
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So it always kind of stole that limelight.
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So now the steroid stuff maybe coming out publicly with it yet
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too might have been interesting because what I was hearing when
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the A Rod scandal came out in 2013, 2014 was he was starting
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in the minor leagues. And it wasn't just even with the
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Texas Rangers. Like, you know, when he was
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playing a ball, when he was playing coming up before he came
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up with the Mariners. That's where the 2014
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investigation started. So maybe coming up public with
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that shouldn't be that. But like you said it before,
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you've said many times in the past, like the way he's like
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influenced other players in the Yankees organization, the way
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it's influenced other other people off the field too.
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Since then, I think has really changed about who he was.
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And I'm sure like these types of personal things are shown.
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And by the way, he is the best baseball analyst in my eyes on
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that panel for Fox Sports over Derek Jeter and David Ortiz, who
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you can't even understand. I think he's the best.
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I love the way he goes into depth, what's going on in the
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games, and he is such a good baseball knowledgeable person to
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have a conversation. You can tell that he just loves
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the game of baseball so very. Much when he was with Pete Rose,
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before Pete Rose. Rest in peace.
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Before he passed, when those two would start talking about
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hitting, I literally like I froze because I'm like, this is
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2 of the greatest that you've seen do it.
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Steroids, no steroids, who cares?
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You still got to eye hands, hit the ball.
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That's what you got to do. And listening to like how they
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made it so simplistic when now everything is so analytical and
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like just listening to those two when they would, they would sit
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there and talk. I was mesmerized just because
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it's like as a kid that loves baseball, got the fortunate
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honor to be able to donate uniform and be able to play with
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him. To hear like how they made it
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seem so easy and simple, but how hard it is.
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It just, it boggles my mind. And for me, like somebody that
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stood 60 feet, 6 inches and those guys in the box and you
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knew, you knew that they were better than you.
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They knew exactly how you're going to attack them, what
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you're going to do, what your tendencies are, what you throw
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in this count, what you throw in this count and what a lot about
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it is. And I haven't watched the doc
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yet because it's for me. I'm going to at some point.
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But for me, I lived it for seven years and I got to see it every
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day. And what people don't know is he
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recorded the game. He would go home and watch the
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game. And what a lot of people don't
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know too, there's a time where I was struggling and they didn't
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want me to throw a curveball. And Alex is like, what the hell
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are you doing, Java? And like, why he goes, you can
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throw it for a strike. You can do this, like, get him
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off your slider. So legitimately, I would look at
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Alex. And Alex would call the game
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from third base in the way that he just understood baseball was
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beyond my imagination because, yeah, we all get there.
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And like, I was pretty good. I was OK but compared.
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To there's like different. Tiers of getting to the big
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leagues, right? And there's us that make it that
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spend, you know, a good amount of time in the big leagues.
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There's not a lot of us that have spent more than 10 years.
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I'm fortunate enough to be part of that group.
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But when you're that good and you know the game that well, it
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was, it was sometimes scary because he would just come back
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and he'd be like, hey, remember that two one pitch when you
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should have went in and you threw it away?
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And I'm like, what? He's like, yeah, this is.
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And I it just they boggled my mind.
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He he was the first person to buy me a suit ever.
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Never owned a suit and still have them to this day.
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They still fit. They're a little big now,
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actually, So that's kind of nice.
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But he just in what people perceived about him is kind of
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when we were talking about Scooby, when I asked questions
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about like asking and answering questions the fully correct way
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or like, do you want us to be authentically us?
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And I think he was such on a different level where he he
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we've never obviously had this conversation.
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We've had plenty of nights together and shared great
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conversations. He was great to my family, He's
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great to my son. And so the way people perceive
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him from the outside perspective and that's why it's a little bit
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like weird for me to like watch this when you actually, it's
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still weird for me. It's still weird for me.
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I sit here as a 40 year old man and understand what I did was
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really, really cool and I got to do something that I absolutely
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loved. I got to be a kid everyday going
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to work. I got to be a kid because we all
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dream of it and we don't ever think it's going to happen.
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And it did. But he took it to like another
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level. And he was just, he was so great
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to me and my family. But people saw like they, I
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think they gravitate more to the negative because you didn't
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really know a lot of the person that he was and like the work
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that actually went into it. And steroids are no steroids.
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You still got to throw it. You still got to hit it.
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You still got to show up every day, right?
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And he for me was just one person that I was very fortunate
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and I played with a lot of Hall of Famers.
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Alex Rodriguez, Hall of Famer to me, he's a Hall of Famer to me.
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And it doesn't matter if you have a plaque.
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I know some people live for that and that that's part of it.
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But also one thing MO told me and we had this conversation, he
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goes, why don't you get in year 1 your stats don't change.
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They stay the same. Like that's never like his stats
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will never change. Like we are going to know
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exactly. He had 3100 hits.
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He almost had 7/14 time All Star.
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We know what he was and I think people's perception and I think
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what he did a really good job because he's a very calculated
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individual in everything that he does.
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He stays relevant because he knows and he's a smart, smart
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man. And you look at all the things
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that he's done over and you look at what he did.
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And like when he was blasted on the paper and I was in Toronto
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when it happened and the picture was taken, he was staying at a
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different team hotel, whatever, blah, blah, blah.
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And everybody was like, oh, he's the most miserable person ever.
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He has done such a great job of, I guess, building trust.
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I don't know if there's a better way to say it than that because
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now like he's authentically being able to be him where
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sometimes we have to hide them. I've, I've always war Muhammad
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say through my DUI, through all the other shit, I've, I've
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messed up. I did it.
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This is what I did. I was authentically me because
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that's the way I was raised. And you, you brought up like
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things with his dad and all the other stuff and you said that
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that doesn't do anything. But those things do shape you in
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a way that you don't really truly understand until you
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sometimes get older. And I think now he's become in
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such a position where he's understanding because I missed
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11 years of my son's life. Yes.
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Did he come see me? Yes.
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Did he do those things? But, you know, we're going.
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We're pulled in so many different directions to where
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now I don't want to miss a damn thing.
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I could have continued to play, but the look on my son's face,
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I'll tell you guys all one thing and I'll get to it later in my
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segment, but you can always make more money.
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You can never make more time. And that has hit me so hard and
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losing my father, Excuse me, but first Christmas that I had my
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family and my dad wasn't here. And when you start to realize
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those things and it's better late than never, it's better
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late than never. But you authentically get to be
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yourself. And he has a platform where now
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people have thought of him in one way and call him a cheater,
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do whatever you want to call him, but you're authentically
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getting to know who he is. And I think we all as
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individuals, because you see us on a level where you get AC-9
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innings and you get to see the stories that are portrayed, but
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you authentically don't know who truly, genuinely we are.
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And I think that is such a cool thing when you're able to look
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yourself in the mirror. And we all know the famous
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picture of him looking himself in the mirror, right?
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Well, I think now he looks himself in the mirror and I
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haven't had a conversation with him about it, but he looks in
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the mirror and he sees the reason probably why it was named
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that because he's not a rod anymore.
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And I don't think he's Alex and I haven't seen the doc.
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But based upon what you said, talking about being a dad and
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doing those things, most important thing in my life is
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being Carter's father. But everybody can be a father.
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Not everybody can be a dad. And I think he's understanding
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that and he, and he's getting the whole realm and you look
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back and all the amazing things that you did and your kids got
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to be a part of it. And that's one thing that Derek
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always said, like my kids will never know how good I was.
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And he got to share that. But he, he felt like he was
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absent at times. And like I said, I need to watch
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it because it might give me a different perspective too.
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But speaking from the heart, as a dad, I know how hard it is to
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miss stuff because you're pulled in 17 different directions and
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you got to strike why the match is hot and you got to do these
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things. But I think the gist of
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everything that I'm saying is just the honesty with yourself
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sometimes is very hard to do. And I'm not just talking about
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baseball players. I'm talking about us as
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individuals, as friends, as brothers, as husbands, as
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everything. It's so hard sometimes to be
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able to do that. And when you're able just to
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like let it go and like be who you authentically are, it's such
26:20
a great feeling. And I hope we all get to do
26:24
that. I've, I've been able to do it.
26:25
I've messed up, I've been great, I've been awful.
26:31
I've been an absent father, but I've learned from it all.
26:36
And when you authentically be able to look yourself in the
26:39
mirror and be like, you know what, through all of that, you
26:43
know what I'm doing, I'm standing on my own 2 feet.
26:47
And when we all get that reflection because there's one
26:54
thing we have to do, we we have to look ourselves in the mirror.
26:58
And am I the person that I really am or is that the person
27:02
people see? Then your circle gets really
27:06
small because there's a lot of people that see you in one light
27:11
but don't really know authentically who you are.
27:14
And when you are that person, your circle gets really small.
27:19
And for me, it's the understanding based upon what
27:26
you said in in the documentary and what he's done is like, I
27:31
hope he he's doing that and he feels that.
27:33
And I know there was there's some things left out.
27:37
There's one huge part of what his life involved that wasn't
27:41
involved, but also to there are things in our life too where
27:46
that that needs to be for us, that needs to be for us and
27:49
that's held and and that is OK. But that's the realization of
27:54
authentically being yourself is just being able to recognize
27:59
that and know that there are precious things, good and bad,
28:06
that need to stay with us. And that's that's where it
28:11
stays. But he was great to me.
28:15
He was great to my family. He was great to my father.
28:19
And you know, it's, it's exciting to see when you know
28:25
somebody and you know people's perceptions of them, because
28:31
perception always isn't reality. It's not.
28:35
And now you kind of get to see where we become vulnerable.
28:39
And you say because it's not easy.
28:43
Like, we're men, right? We're men.
28:47
That's not easy for us to be vulnerable and admit our faults
28:50
and admit what I was doing. And is there probably bits and
28:54
pieces left out? Yeah.
28:55
But you know what? That's OK.
28:57
But people are seeing authentically who he is.
29:00
And now they forget all the other things, like when?
29:04
When you lie, you combat it by lying about another lie, and
29:09
then you don't really know the truth.
29:12
And it's awesome to see in every context of all of these things
29:19
when we as men and women, I'm not saying it's just us, but
29:25
when we authentically know ourselves.
29:27
And I need to watch it. I I really do.
29:30
I think you do, because I think you would.
29:32
You would understand that Alex was really trying to understand
29:37
who he was, not just as a man and not just as a father, but as
29:42
a regular person, not just as a baseball player.
29:45
And I think he was. I think he got lost through the
29:49
years because he said that when I was Alex, everybody, you know,
29:54
everybody can understand me and everybody liked me.
29:57
And when I was a Rod, I was, I, I, I thought of myself as
30:03
somebody bigger than everybody else in that I didn't care about
30:06
what people were saying about me as long as I was out there doing
30:10
my thing and showing off and, and being the, I, I guess the
30:14
narcissist that he was. And, and he was, he admitted it.
30:18
I was a narcissist. I, I was, I was, I loved myself
30:21
so much. I could care less about
30:23
everybody else around me. And you can, he admitted it.
30:26
He admitted it. And that's why it was Alex
30:28
versus a Rod. He says when I was Alex, I was
30:31
easy going, fun, energetic, easy to talk to and when I was a rod
30:36
you, I would tell you to go after yourself and you know, I
30:39
could care less what? You and that's that was one
30:41
thing for me because I was a fat kid from the north side of
30:43
Lincoln. My mom, she succumbed to
30:47
addiction and whatever and I grew up with that.
30:49
My dad was in the prison for 30 years and I didn't grow up in
30:54
the best part. And so I didn't care who you
30:57
were. Like, yeah, I watched you
30:59
growing up. But like, at the end of the day,
31:02
I put my drawers on the same way you do.
31:04
I wipe my ass the same way you do, like you do the same stuff.
31:10
And so I never cared. Like I just, I didn't like it
31:14
was harder for me going into AA and AAA because, you know,
31:19
everybody had this. And then I got, I got to the big
31:22
leagues and I'm like, well, Dan, I got here.
31:26
I'm the same as y'all. Like we do the same thing.
31:28
We shower, we do all this stuff. So it, it's just, it's really
31:32
cool to hear from a different perspective of somebody from the
31:35
outside looking in and hearing that's that's what you took from
31:40
it, because everybody's going to take a little bit, you know,
31:43
bits and pieces from it where it's like, oh, maybe he wasn't a
31:46
Dick. Maybe he was just.
31:47
So you know, Jabba, I, I loved Alex Rodriguez.
31:51
I loved him. I loved him.
31:53
I, I, everybody would pick on him and Boo him.
31:56
I rooted for him. I loved him.
31:59
And I wasn't a Derek Jeter fan. My friend has Derek Jeter
32:02
pictures all over his house. And I'm like, yeah, where's Alex
32:06
Robbery. I can't stand him.
32:08
He's like, give me a break. And you can't stand Alex.
32:10
Rod, I was the same way. I loved a Rod.
32:13
I was one of his last supporters going to the stadium, you know,
32:16
rooting for him when everyone was booing those that last year
32:19
and a half, Java, the whole stadium booed him mercilessly it
32:23
felt like because he was suing the team.
32:25
By the end when he sued the team, that's when he lost me.
32:28
I just didn't understand what the heck he was doing at that
32:31
point. He didn't know what he was
32:32
doing, he admitted. It yeah, I think that's the
32:34
point, right? Like he was, he was just such a
32:36
narcissist, like he just had to win this argument or whatever
32:40
the heck it was however he could.
32:42
I, I don't know, it was stupid, but he won't help the Yankees
32:46
win. That champion played really well
32:48
in that series. He's an MVP.
32:50
He was a great player, man. Fantastic.
32:53
I don't think there's anybody that can take that away from
32:55
him. And and you want to ask me who
32:57
honestly who the top five players of all time?
33:00
Alex is definitely on my top five.
33:02
I don't think anybody can argue that when you look at those
33:05
numbers and how sensational all time you're talking all time,
33:09
all time, all time. You look at those numbers all
33:13
time, 100% all time. You bring up, you bring up Ty
33:16
Cobb. Ty Cobb was one of those
33:18
miserable human beings. On the planet, they say he was
33:20
like, they think he murdered a couple of people.
33:23
Like there's there's stories about Ty Cobb.
33:25
There was a bad movie about Ty Cobb back in the day.
33:28
I don't think they've ever done it real justice.
33:30
How miserable of a human Ty Cobb might have been.
33:33
Yeah, it's. Crazy, like stories that you
33:35
hear and it's just like, what? What do we talk about too?
33:41
Like it's numbers, right? They, they don't lie.
33:45
Like they're legitimately like, I don't care if you're playing
33:49
T-ball, you get 3100 hits. That's pretty damn good.
33:53
But you know, the thing about numbers is you could spin them
33:56
however you want to spin them. And when it gets to like these
33:59
Hall of Fame people, you know, they're going to have the their
34:02
narratives, as you know, and the narrative for a Rod is going to
34:05
be he's a bad guy who disgraced the game.
34:08
And it doesn't matter what his numbers are until the day people
34:12
are just like, what are we doing?
34:14
Not putting this guy in. They always should have been.
34:16
That's what I hate. Exactly what happened to Pete
34:18
Rose. Like similar, like he got his
34:21
due before you could get his dude right?
34:24
He passed and got his due. Like give it, give it where it
34:29
needs to be when it needs to happen.
34:31
Like I bring it, I bring it up again and I'm just like, your
34:36
numbers don't change. You become eligible for the Hall
34:39
of Fame, your number. It's not like they went down.
34:43
It's not like we're seeing Phillip Rivers where his clock
34:45
starts over again. Like these dudes.
34:48
Numbers don't change, man. And it's like, so you're going
34:51
to vote for me one year because then the human element comes in
34:56
where oh, I like this guy better or he shunned me in an interview
35:00
one time. So I'm not going to like, I
35:03
mean, each year old. Great example, Derek, great
35:07
example. The dude that left Derek off was
35:10
like, I thought he was already in the Hall of Fame.
35:12
Why would I vote for him? Yeah, I, I don't, I don't know
35:16
about any of that. I personally just know that when
35:20
I watched a Rod play his entire career, he was the guy that
35:24
every team had to worry about in the lineup, no question,
35:27
wherever he was. And he was surrounded when he
35:29
first started by Ken Griffey, Junior.
35:31
Then he moved around to that Stack Texas team with, I mean,
35:35
Palmero, Juan Rodriguez. People forget about Juan
35:40
Gonzalez. And I I want. 130 He had 130
35:44
stakes at the break. I, I want to say, I want to say
35:47
something also in 2009, I don't think people and, and they came
35:50
into this documentary, Alex Rodriguez was coming off his hip
35:54
surgery that Yankees were really, really bad.
35:57
And the Yankees, Hal Steinbrenner rushed him back,
36:01
rushed him back and, and the Yankees won 70% of their games
36:06
when he came back and he wasn't even 100% healthy yet.
36:10
And they rushed him back because the Yankees were playing so bad.
36:12
It's, it's crazy. And the numbers he was putting
36:16
up. I don't even know if we'll ever
36:19
see anything like that again. So I, I just think I, I
36:24
understand why people don't like him.
36:26
But you can't take away greatness.
36:28
Greatness is greatness. And Alex Rodriguez was great.
36:33
And I don't understand why these writers don't understand why he
36:38
did it. I understand why he did it.
36:40
I think Alex understands why he did it.
36:43
I don't understand why anybody would even leave this man out of
36:46
the Hall of Fame when he has proven time and time again that
36:50
we might never see a player of this magnitude.
36:52
And yes, I absolutely believe Alex Rodriguez is a top five
36:57
player of all time. You can book that when you look
37:00
and compare his numbers. This guy was the best shortstop
37:03
as a third baseman in all of the league.
37:07
The best. It's not even close.
37:09
So for him to go to third base the way he did when he was by
37:13
far dude, he was the best infielder in baseball and he
37:16
went to third base, never even play in the position.
37:19
I, I, I think it's, it's incredible.
37:21
It, it's an incredible feat when you're, you're playing 10 years
37:24
of your career as in the hardest, one of the hardest
37:26
positions on on a diamond, then move to third base because, oh,
37:29
you have another Hall of Famer who, by the way, was at one
37:32
point your best friend and you moved to third base because you
37:35
wanted to do it for the better of the team.
37:37
That to me says what Alex Rodriguez was.
37:41
So that's just my opinion and we got to move on.
37:44
But it was a great documentary and I got to give an A+ to HBOII
37:51
thought they were sensational. It really was great and good
37:54
good job for Alex to open up like that and not be afraid to
37:58
be himself. And I think that's what he did.
38:00
He he really came out and and and was himself.
38:04
But the, the, the, the things that I, I thought he was as a
38:08
person and the things that I now think of him as a person changes
38:12
my mind or should change a writer's mind on why he should
38:16
be in the Hall of Fame. That's just my opinion.
38:18
All right, ladies and gentlemen, we have to get into our end of
38:23
the year awards. And I, I wanted to get into this
38:26
because the NFL is over now. I mean, we have one more week
38:31
and I there's a lot of awards, funny awards I got to give to
38:36
some of these players and I told the guys, come up with funny
38:40
awards, you know, give me give me something that can make
38:43
people laugh. So my.
38:45
First mentioned Nippens request. Yes, go ahead.
38:49
These are called the mouthies, right?
38:52
As you can see, the trophy for the mouthy is a Golden Nathan.
38:57
It is absolutely the trophy for it could only one thing could be
39:01
the camo and blue blazer Nathan emblazoned in gold trim.
39:05
Does it come attached with the? Championship.
39:08
I should have put the leash in there.
39:09
Next year we'll get like an action figure where the leash
39:12
like is retractable for Nathan. But I mean, what a beautiful end
39:17
of the year celebration. Errol Marks.
39:19
We have the mouthies here. You know, everyone's got a few.
39:23
Yes, I only have one myself. But Errol, why don't you tell us
39:27
you know who you want to go in whatever order, and then we'll
39:30
just lay out some of our awards. All right, so we'll go around in
39:34
a circle. I've got a couple of them.
39:35
So my #1 award, I'm going to recap the ugliest draft pick of
39:44
the year, OK. And that's and that goes to no
39:50
other than the fifth. Well was supposed to went from 5
39:55
to #2 in a blink of an eye. And that is Travis, the gremlin
40:00
hunter who practically played less than I think he played 10
40:04
games this year was absolutely humiliating.
40:07
And by the way, after he was out for the season, they started to
40:11
win. So what I mean, seriously think
40:15
about it. They weren't even going into
40:17
they weren't even going to make the playoffs.
40:18
And they went from one of the worst teams in the AFC to one of
40:22
the best. I I honestly, I would say the
40:25
ugliest draft pick of the year would go to.
40:28
Travis the Gremlin hunter who had one touchdown and what I
40:33
think he hit 200 yards. It was horrible.
40:36
In 10, it was 10 games. It was horrible. 6 yards or
40:39
something. So my #1 award for the year
40:44
would go to the ugliest draft pick of the year, and that's
40:47
Travis the Gremlin Hunter. What a great award.
40:51
Travis is not here to accept it tonight, Errol.
40:54
Mainly because I think he probably would hate your guts if
40:56
you ever met him. He probably does, but I did meet
40:59
him but. I did meet him, we will send him
41:01
the golden Nithin in the. Mail.
41:03
I don't think he'll throw. I think he'll throw it out.
41:05
I don't think he wants to look at that blue blazer.
41:10
All right, so I'll continue with a common thing that's set on
41:13
this show, and my first award is going to be the LJ Script
41:16
Writing Award, which one of LeBron James''s minions, as he
41:20
likes to call him. We'll get the award this year
41:23
and for the the winner that I'm going to give it to, it's a
41:26
tough competition. You have Adam Silver, you have
41:28
Brownie James. You could give it to them, but
41:29
I'm going to give it to. David well, hold on one second.
41:31
We're going. We're going.
41:32
Football here, we're not going. Oh, these are all football.
41:34
All football it. Could be any anything, anything.
41:37
No Errol anything 2025. It's the end of the football
41:40
seat. All right, all right, all right.
41:42
Come on. You got to hear the LJ script,
41:44
right? Go ahead, give it to me.
41:45
The LJ Script Writing Award goes to Damon Jones for his
41:48
manipulation of himself in the entire NBA betting scandal.
41:52
Connected with everybody connected with LeBron, and
41:54
claiming he wasn't connected with LeBron came complaining.
41:57
Nobody else knew if LeBron was involved with it really.
41:59
So there could have been a lot of options.
42:01
Brownie, Adam Silver, all the manipulation with the NBA draft,
42:04
but Nope, I'm going to give it to Damon Jones.
42:07
Wow first blocks a punt and runs it in for He blocks a kick and
42:13
runs it in for a touchdown. Pretty cool.
42:17
Incredible. They're coming back, aren't
42:18
they? That's, that's crazy.
42:20
Dijon's having like the legendary night.
42:23
And Speaking of that, I've got the legendary award that I'm
42:27
going to name for the man who legendarily sat in his two
42:32
legendary suite for five rounds in the NFL draft this year when
42:37
he thought he was going first or second overall.
42:40
Yes, the legendary award for 2025 can only go to Chador
42:47
Sanders. If you remember during draft
42:50
night, he had that done up room with his two legendary brand for
42:56
what? I guess that's making him
42:57
probably all of the money because he's not making a ton in
42:59
the NFL. He's playing, I would say
43:03
mediocre at best. Is is to be kind to how he's
43:07
played this year. They did get a win.
43:10
I'm kind of like he touchdown pass.
43:12
He kind of just threw it up and the defender didn't make a
43:14
really good play. I wouldn't really give him too
43:16
much credit on that one either. But you know what, they got the
43:19
win. Shidor is a legend, legendary
43:22
award. Shidor Sanders.
43:25
I'm going on arrows. This is the deferred award, and
43:33
the deferred award goes to all other 29 teams other than the
43:39
Dodgers because as our subsequent Co host and the mouth
43:46
himself started referring to them as the DD, why didn't
43:53
everybody else do it? So that's why they get the
43:56
deferred mouthy award for not doing what the Dodgers doing
43:59
because they won two years in a row.
44:04
Interesting you have anything? Back-to-back to you.
44:08
Oh, Tommy, you got anything? Well, I can say it's going to be
44:12
a little more on football, but one that I actually had off the
44:16
top of my mind was going to be drawned to the best game of the
44:20
year. So now I'm going to have to it's
44:22
going to be somewhat of a Co winner because I can't choose
44:24
between these two. But I'm going to have to go with
44:26
the first Sunday Night Football game between the Bills and
44:29
Ravens and that absolute amazing shootout.
44:31
And then just a week ago we could go to with the Seahawks
44:34
and the Rams. You know, those two games,
44:36
absolute shootouts. Like I said, we started off with
44:38
the Ravens and Bills game. That game was absolutely
44:41
phenomenal. Ravens, Derrick Henry
44:43
accidentally put it on the floor, gave it up for the
44:45
Ravens. And the Bills absolutely won
44:47
that shootout. Absolutely.
44:48
Climbing back in another game where they're climbing back was
44:51
the Seattle Seahawks, just like we mentioned the last couple
44:53
weeks, right now, looking at poised to be #1 seed right now
44:57
in the NFC. And that really was because they
44:59
actually had that very, very impressive when coming back the
45:02
way they did against Sean McVeigh and those Rams with
45:05
Matthew Stafford leading the MVP.
45:07
Amazing game, absolutely amazing game.
45:09
One of the best Thursday night games I've ever seen.
45:11
So it's going to be a Co winner. It's going to be a Co winner
45:14
between Thursday night, Seahawks and Rams and Bills and Ravens
45:19
for best football game of the year.
45:23
All right, my, my next award goes to my Fool's Gold Team of
45:29
the Year and my Fool's Gold Team of the Year goes to the New
45:35
England Patriots, who has had a sensational year 110 games in a
45:39
row. And they're in one of the
45:41
easiest divisions in all the football cuz you got to play you
45:45
got to play all these garbage teams.
45:47
And Miami actually picked up and actually played a little bit
45:50
better at the end of the season, but they've been so bad all
45:53
season long and the way their schedule was set up before the
45:58
season started, they had the third easiest schedule in NFL
46:01
history. Now you got to play what's on
46:03
your schedule, but everybody talking about Drake May and
46:06
Drake May my win the MVP because of this bad game by Matthew
46:09
Stafford. Nevertheless, I, I, I think it
46:13
was full fool's gold because this team is going to get into
46:16
the playoffs and I wouldn't even be surprised if they get knocked
46:19
out in the first. Well, then they they get the bye
46:21
week if they get the number one seeds.
46:23
So and right now the Broncos have the number one seeds.
46:25
So all right, it it they're not going to get the bye week, but
46:28
nevertheless, it's my fool's goal.
46:31
My fool's goal. War goes to the New England
46:33
Patriots cuz I I really think they're not that good so all.
46:38
Right. So I'm going to go to the
46:40
mouthful that didn't perform, the mouthful collapse of the New
46:46
York Mets winning the worst choke job of the year with all
46:49
the talking, the all the mouths that were hyping up this New
46:53
Yorker Mets team at the beginning of the year.
46:55
All the Mets. Yeah, and obviously the big
46:57
prize in Wan Soda there was a carry over from the the miracle
47:01
comeback. They had to make the playoffs
47:03
the year before they beat the Phillies, which I guess and we
47:05
we took the all Mets fans are going to take to do that.
47:08
But then they do the exact opposite in 2025 with higher
47:11
expectations. They probably the worst single
47:13
trade deadline you could imagine with getting all those relievers
47:16
and Cedric Mullins that didn't pan out.
47:18
And what do they do? They fall apart in historic
47:21
fashion, All mouth, no performance.
47:23
Interesting. That's our, well, my dates in
47:29
college all mouth. I don't even want to know why
47:33
you gave her that. I don't know if you can call
47:37
those dates, but I I got, I mean, as soon as I tell you the
47:42
name of the award, Errol is going to know exactly who this
47:45
is for. This is the bag of doughnuts
47:47
award for 2025's Worst Football Executive of the year, and it
47:53
can only go to one man Yes, Joey, bag of Donuts himself.
47:58
Joe Shane. What a what a remarkable
48:01
offseason. Once again, if you remember
48:04
correctly, it was still in the year 2025 where Saquon Barkley,
48:09
who Joe Shane thought that, you know, we could replace him with
48:12
Devin Singletary and John Runyon a block better.
48:16
So we'll just get those two guys for the price of Saquon Barkley.
48:20
Let him go to the Eagles. Sure enough, 2024 he puts up
48:24
2000 yards rushing. 20, 2025 he becomes Super Bowl champion.
48:28
And what do we follow up that disaster with in the offseason?
48:32
A bunch of garbage. Best retained free agent in this
48:37
past season, Joe Shane? Looks like you got Paulson
48:40
Adibo, who has been below average at corner and hurt as he
48:45
was previously where they had him in New Orleans.
48:50
The other guys that they retained, Greg Van Roden, what a
48:53
great guard to spend your money on.
48:56
Jets legend. They played him all year because
48:58
literally Evan Neal was worse, which is hard to believe, but I
49:03
guess he was worse. Javon Holland spent a lot of
49:06
money on Javon Holland. He isn't good at football.
49:11
We have Roy Robertson Harris, that actually was a pretty good
49:14
move. He's been pretty good at
49:15
defensive tackle. Obviously the draft pick of Dart
49:20
kind of get lucked into that. Say that he did a good job with
49:22
Dart. I'll give him the one thing and
49:25
one thing is all you need to get the bag of doughnuts award.
49:30
Joey. You get to keep your job for
49:31
some reason until further notice because you made one good choice
49:37
of getting Jackson Dart, although we all know that was
49:39
Dabel's pick. Joey, bag of doughnuts.
49:43
Interesting. Mine's.
49:45
Mine's more of a when I was going through this and I knew it
49:50
was kind of NFL focus, but I was like, if we're going to go off
49:54
the rails a little bit and I wrote down a bunch of ideas and
49:58
I was like, you know what 1 mine is, is first of all, being so
50:02
grateful and and honored to to be with you guys every week.
50:07
But mine's going to be the the popcorn award.
50:10
Nice. Mine is going to be the popcorn
50:14
award for two of our very, very important people that make me so
50:21
happy when they start going back and forth.
50:25
I don't care if it's fantasy football.
50:27
If it's Giants and Jets, I don't care.
50:31
I get so excited to wait for Speedy to send me a message.
50:35
Where's your popcorn? The popcorn doesn't leave.
50:38
Put a new shipment in that. I'm going to ship to all you
50:40
guys and I'm going to need all your addresses, but the popcorn
50:45
award goes to none other than our executive doser Aaron
50:50
Fishman and Mr. Errol Marx. I appreciate it.
50:57
I appreciate. It I was going to have some new
51:00
popcorn intros coming in for 2026.
51:03
Better believe it. Hey I'm I'm I'm working right
51:05
now. All right.
51:06
So we gotta move the segment along quicker.
51:09
Error one more. I'm only gonna do one more if
51:11
you have a few more. I've got two more, but I'll let
51:15
you go and then I'll give you my 2.
51:17
I'm done, you guys. Have one more too.
51:19
I want to. Share Other one more Other one
51:20
more so. All right, go ahead, Tommy.
51:23
Yeah, mine is kind of quick, but I'm gonna go with the best
51:26
touchdown celebration. Not if you guys saw this the
51:28
other day, but Jedi Walker from the Bears the other day caught a
51:32
touchdown, and I thought this was kind of neat.
51:34
He did this. Little Nitin has one too, by the
51:36
way. Oh, does he?
51:37
OK, cool. So we'll go with Nitin
51:38
afterwards. But he did this kind of Juby
51:39
slide after scoring A touchdown. I don't even know how he did it.
51:44
It looks like he's actually gliding.
51:46
So I thought that was kind of neat.
51:48
You know the Bears are going to be moving on into the
51:50
postseason. Let's look at that one more
51:52
time. But yeah, the Bears going to
51:53
move on to the postseason playing absolutely amazing
51:56
football, amazingly coached, amazingly quarterback team and
52:00
amazingly stylish with the touchdown celebration.
52:03
So yeah, best touchdown celebration got to go to Jade
52:06
Walker on the Bears. All right, yeah, I'll finish.
52:09
I'll finish it off. You mentioned worst executive in
52:12
the NFL, but I don't think anyone had a worst year.
52:16
So this goes to the why did he ever have a job award?
52:18
And that would go to Nico Harrison.
52:20
I mean, he started off the year badly.
52:22
He finished off the year badly. Tried to justify his plan that
52:26
he claimed he had after a pretty good 2024, getting the trade,
52:30
those trade deadline move to help The Mavericks get into the
52:32
NBA Finals. His 2025 couldn't have gone
52:35
further worse. He just said, all right, I'm
52:37
going to throw out there a trade.
52:38
They get trade the second best player or the best player in the
52:41
NBA for Anthony Davis and he gets hurt the first week and
52:45
then he tries to justify it and then he gets a gifted Cooper
52:48
flag. Yay, that one.
52:50
You could probably follow up as another one that we could have
52:52
done with the the great Chuck Klosterman that had that take.
52:55
But nevertheless, they got gifted Cooper flag and then all
52:58
of a sudden he's trying to say, oh, I'm going to justify right.
53:00
Then he gets fired. Yeah, maybe probably 6 months
53:03
too late. So, executive of the year, why
53:05
did he ever job Nico Harrison and he gets my last award?
53:09
How's it going? Why do you have a job?
53:10
I guess that Cooper flag pick was so easy, even Nico Harrison
53:14
couldn't screw that one up. Apparently now if he stayed
53:17
there, he could have traded him after two years out of nowhere.
53:20
That's true because he likes to drink light beer after games.
53:24
I'm not going to give the Thumbelina Award out to Josh
53:27
Hart right now, but I do have the Mizuhara's Revenge award
53:34
that has to be given out. You already mentioned one of the
53:36
gamblers, Speedy. I'm going to go to the other
53:39
guy, the guy who took six baseballs and dirtied them six
53:44
times in a row when he is notoriously one of the best
53:48
control relief pitchers in the game.
53:51
One of the best pitchers in the game.
53:53
Emmanuel Class A, the former Cleveland Guardians pitcher who
53:58
is probably never going to be allowed to pitch ever again.
54:02
You get this award, Sir, because you ain't getting anything else
54:05
other than jail time after what you've done in this situation.
54:09
Unbelievable. Apparently only did it as Jabba
54:12
put in our chat for $15,000. I really hope there's more to
54:17
the story than that because that's out of control, stupid,
54:21
and there has to be more. But because of the story as we
54:25
know it, Mizuhar is revenge. The award goes to Emmanuel Class
54:31
A, and just like school on Sunday, the Class A has no
54:36
class. All right, I got 2 awards,
54:39
ladies and gentlemen. I've got the Willy Whoppers,
54:42
Speedy Willy Whoppers. Of course.
54:44
The Willy Whoppers award, I'm going to do a whopping on this
54:50
guy. It goes to executive of the
54:54
Cincinnati Bengals, Duke Tobin, however way you want to
54:59
pronounce his name and the just a mockery of this organization
55:03
in the offseason. Not really leaving Trey
55:06
Hendrickson to hang until the end of the end of the offseason,
55:10
not giving him a chance to really work out and train with
55:12
the team. And then you go into a season
55:14
where you've had you drafted, you drafted A defensive lineman
55:18
that barely even played some people even says shouldn't have
55:22
been a first round draft pick. And now you're wondering what's
55:25
going on with Joe Burrow. Does Joe Burrow don't even want
55:28
to be there anymore? I I mean, everything in
55:31
Cincinnati is falling apart and who we going to blame?
55:34
We going to blame the coach or the guy running the show?
55:37
My Willy Whopper of the year, and I'm doing a whopping on him,
55:42
is for Duke Tobin, who is an absolute joke.
55:46
Stupid, dumb, ridiculous. That's perfect.
55:50
And my final award goes to and I'm going to find this over here
55:53
because I'm going to give it to it.
55:55
Do you want to jerk me off? Well, the Jerk Me Off award and
55:59
I, I will say this, I'm not jerking this guy off, but
56:04
somebody's going to be jerking him off one way or another.
56:08
And that goes to Victor webbing Yama, who has just bursted off
56:14
the scene. I'm not a big webbing Yama fan,
56:16
but I I got to give him a little bit of credit.
56:18
The guy plays 25 minutes a night and he's putting up the numbers
56:21
that he's putting up. It's pretty damn amazing.
56:24
And somebody might be jerking him off.
56:27
You're going to have to probably got to climb the ladder or bring
56:30
a ladder out to get, you know, get a hold of that thing or if
56:32
it hangs to the ground. But what he has done so far
56:36
early in the season, early in the season has been pretty
56:39
amazing. 25 minutes. He's putting up ridiculous
56:42
numbers. I, I mean, Michael Jordan asked.
56:45
No, but this guy is showing, showing me off on some of the
56:51
takes that I've had against him over the last couple of years.
56:55
So I will give him the Jerk Me Off award.
56:58
So there you go, Victor Webinyama.
57:03
Hey, great way to finish us off. That's, it's been a great year.
57:12
It's been a full year with Jabba Chamberlain.
57:13
It's been a full year with Fish. It's been a full year with all
57:17
of you guys. It's been a great one.
57:20
The factor where we are and where we're going to be next
57:23
year could be special. I, I couldn't have done it
57:27
without any of you guys. I again, specifically the work
57:32
that gets put on on put in on the back end is, is amazing and
57:38
I appreciate everybody's hard work and dedication.
57:40
I, I have a lot of love for everybody, all the fans out
57:43
there listening to us and TuneIn and download and look out for
57:47
the craziness that could come about this show.
57:51
We appreciate you guys and I, I guess I'm going to speak for, I
57:54
guess unless Jabba wants to speak to for, for the fans.
57:58
I, I appreciate everybody that puts the work into this show.
58:03
So. Yeah, I mean, I don't, I don't
58:05
know if words can express you guys have literally, I thought I
58:11
was a sports fan. I wasn't.
58:13
And you guys have opened my eyes to so many things and where I
58:17
pay attention to so many things different because I don't want
58:20
to sound like a Jackass. And you guys have just like
58:24
opened me up where I look at sports so differently and it's
58:29
made me look at life differently.
58:31
And, you know, just embodying what sports can do for all of us
58:37
and not only opening us up to to different perspectives and
58:43
different thoughts and views, but opening us up as people.
58:47
And you think that's the greatest thing about sports.
58:49
And I think that's the greatest thing about this show because
58:51
you don't ever know what you're going to get.
58:53
And it's been awesome. It's been frustrating at times.
58:57
It definitely has. I love you guys, but it has been
59:01
and you know, we crawl before we walk and it's just been it.
59:06
It's going to be a fun journey. And I know it's frustrating
59:09
sometimes for for all of us in in different ways, but I'm so
59:15
grateful to have these moments and, and where I can, I can
59:21
share my thoughts and I can be me.
59:23
And then, and you guys don't judge me and our fans don't
59:27
because I love them because they're the reason why we do
59:31
this. We love sports, but we love
59:34
giving a different perspective and maybe a different thought or
59:37
a different view. So man, I hope it's been a fun
59:41
year. I think we've learned a lot from
59:44
each other and I, I truly, genuinely appreciate that.
59:48
And it's been a tough year for everybody.
59:50
Like, I mean, that's, that's life though.
59:52
But what we look forward to is, is the things that lie ahead and
59:57
just very fortunate to be in this opportunity and and do
1:00:01
these things with you guys. So I appreciate first and
1:00:04
foremost, because I know time is precious and I appreciate your
1:00:08
guys's time. And more importantly, I
1:00:11
appreciate you use the effort and the fact that you care about
1:00:15
what we're doing and just thank you guys so much.
1:00:18
I mean, there's, there's not much more I can say.
1:00:20
I want to before I let everybody go and I want to thank everybody
1:00:25
on Apple and Spotify that TuneIn and download and write all these
1:00:31
crazy things on all the Reddit fans that say the the most
1:00:37
derogatory funny things I've ever seen in my entire life.
1:00:41
And on Instagram and TikTok and Facebook and all the fans, Jabba
1:00:47
the mouth fans in worldwide sports radio network fans out
1:00:50
there and all the guys that do their shows, you know, from, you
1:00:54
know, Josh Silverberg and his father and Eric and and then
1:00:58
snowman. Thank you to them for really
1:01:01
putting out a good product. And and like I said, next year
1:01:06
is a week away or less than a week away, actually a couple
1:01:09
days away. And I'm going to say one thing
1:01:12
to all the fans and all the people out there and all the
1:01:15
podcasts out there, watch out. So all I'm going to say, you can
1:01:20
take it whatever way you want. Watch the F out.
1:01:25
That's it. Anyway, I'm.
1:01:27
Just going to give you 2 lines, Errol, that no one has got a
1:01:29
more original show than what we do here.
1:01:32
Everyone's got sports takes, but no one has the creativity.
1:01:36
People are stealing segments from us that we see on the big
1:01:39
shows. 100% that I know that I came up with with you on the
1:01:43
phone, Errol. You know, so I'm real proud of
1:01:47
kind of being a trendsetter as well in an industry that seems
1:01:51
to be a lot of the same. Lost.
1:01:53
All absolutely lost. You're absolutely right.
1:01:56
Fish lost. And that's what you're seeing
1:01:58
right now with WFAN and they're firing people and letting people
1:02:03
go and Trinity Sports is gone and everything is flopping
1:02:07
around and they're trying to figure out what to do next.
1:02:09
Here's what you do. Watch out and look at the the
1:02:13
talent that's out there and realize that there is talent
1:02:16
right in front of your faces. Open up your checkbooks and get
1:02:20
ready because you're going to be paying.
1:02:22
That's all I'm going to say. You're going to be paying
1:02:24
because you had, you had this sitting for such a long time and
1:02:29
you're going to be paying. That's all I'm going to say.
1:02:31
That's it. I, I had to add that because I'm
1:02:34
just disgusted with the garbage that I've seen on television and
1:02:38
radio over the last couple of years and it makes me sick to my
1:02:40
stomach. Anyways, I'm going to let you
1:02:43
guys say your final goodbyes for the new year.
1:02:47
Tommy, you first. Yeah, you guys pretty much said
1:02:50
a lot of it. You know, we've been putting a
1:02:52
lot of work and especially thanks to you guys, you know, I
1:02:54
don't think any of us can do ones job without the other.
1:02:57
So I really do appreciate, you know, all the hard work that you
1:02:59
guys put into the show. You know, I really appreciate
1:03:01
you guys, you know, being welcomed in every to every.
1:03:04
Week. It's fish and speedy, just so
1:03:06
you know. Of course, yeah, Fish and
1:03:07
speedy, you know you guys are awesome.
1:03:09
Jabba and Arrow, you know you guys being the on air talents.
1:03:11
Of course, you know you guys doing what you guys do.
1:03:14
You know it's all appreciative. Of course, even Nathan.
1:03:16
Shout out to the man. Nathan is in here, the PR
1:03:19
manager, the man himself. But you, it's been a whole hell
1:03:24
of a 365 days and looking forward to another 365 with
1:03:28
y'all. Yeah, it's I've definitely been
1:03:31
appreciative of all you guys are bringing me in eight years ago
1:03:34
and seeing all different people come and go with this network
1:03:37
too, but always supporting me and always helping me out with
1:03:40
everything on the on the show and throughout the network as
1:03:43
well. And all the guys that have been
1:03:45
coming and going on this show as well.
1:03:46
Fish, you brought a new, new vibe since you joined the show
1:03:49
back in January of 2024 and you've done a lot of great
1:03:53
things. Tommy, you've been always a
1:03:55
social media guy, fungi to talk with off set a lot of the time,
1:03:58
even before Jabba you came along and Jabba reaching out to you
1:04:01
for the first time as a guest. I reached out to a lot of
1:04:03
different Yankees and first time you ever had you in the show,
1:04:05
you were a tremendous storyteller and and reached out
1:04:09
at the time with the Yankees playoffs and obviously we built
1:04:11
something very nice and Nathan as well and Nick Goody Nathan.
1:04:14
With Goody. Shout out to Goody.
1:04:17
Yeah, Goody, Goody. The first time we had him on the
1:04:19
show, it was funny. It was actually the first week
1:04:22
we had Sylvester Williams on the show last year too.
1:04:24
It was also the same week we had Goody on the same day and, and
1:04:26
Goody Goody. I remember Goody because he came
1:04:28
in 10 minutes early. I never saw a guest come in that
1:04:30
early ever. And he was so fired up.
1:04:33
He was so funny and always brought that good vibes.
1:04:35
And of course, Nathan is our PR guy doing some great things.
1:04:38
All this event planning, all that stuff.
1:04:39
Fantastic. And shout out to all the fans,
1:04:41
all the ones I've met in person, all the ones I have it in
1:04:42
person, for supporting what we do here.
1:04:44
I don't want to say something else before I go to Jabba
1:04:47
Chamberlain. I didn't think this was going to
1:04:49
work. I didn't all right, I did.
1:04:51
I'm going to be honest with you, I didn't think it was going to
1:04:54
work, but it's been a fun ride and it's going to be a fun ride
1:04:58
in 2026 because I I feel like we've built a good, good vibe
1:05:04
and a good relationship. We have our differences at
1:05:07
everything that we do, but that's what partners usually do.
1:05:10
But I, I've grown to understand who you are as a person, not
1:05:15
just as an athlete that I followed as a kid and or like to
1:05:19
watch you throw a ball. I, I, I like throwing pitches at
1:05:22
you and I'm sure you like to throw jabs at me, but I, I feel
1:05:26
like we've built something and we're, we're building something
1:05:29
that could be something really, really special.
1:05:32
And I think fans, and I say this with with love and compassion,
1:05:38
if if it wasn't for the people that understand what we're
1:05:41
trying to do here, we wouldn't be here.
1:05:43
So thank you to all of you guys. Anyways, that's it, Good night.
1:05:48
Thank all of you, appreciate it well. 2026 Here we come.
1:05:51
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