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Lovable Reunion - The WILD PRESSURE of pitching in Cubs' World Series w/ Justin Grimm & Mike Montgomery | Ross & Rizzo · Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: Anthony Rizzo, David Ross, Michael Montgomery, Justin Grim. Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: another episode of the Lovable Reunion Podcast.
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  Speaker 2: This episode this week is with Mike.
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  Speaker 1: Montgomery and Justin Grim, Unsung Hero and a World Series Hero.
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  Speaker 1: Both World Series Hero closed out Game seven of the
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  Speaker 1: World Series. Welcome guys on our show. It's been amazing
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  Speaker 1: ten years later talking about reminiscent on good old times.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Boys, the back of the Boys, it's been fun.
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  Speaker 1: Grimmer, you you got traded over here in thirteen and
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  Speaker 1: came up right away. I think he had like a
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  Speaker 1: handful of games, right, yep, we stunk fourteen, We stunk where.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get right into it. Where were you at? You
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  Speaker 1: were in Texas? You were a dude there, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I was a starter in Texas, you know, just finding
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  Speaker 3: my way and then the trade happened.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously wasn't very happy about it at the time. No shit, really, Well,
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  Speaker 2: I was in the big leagues.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they had a lot of injuries, and so
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  Speaker 3: for me, I was kind of like floating, uh, still
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  Speaker 3: finding my way. But you know, then when I got traded,
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  Speaker 3: they were like, you're gonna go to Triple A, And
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  Speaker 3: I was just kind of like, well, well, fuck, like
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  Speaker 3: that sucks, you know, but uh, you know, fast forward down,
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  Speaker 3: all worked out, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah. I remember seeing Area Area. They were in
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  Speaker 2: the corner, you know, just big broad chests. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: who the hell is that guy? Like, you know, that
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  Speaker 2: was like my first reaction seeing Area But yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: kind of I just came up with.
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  Speaker 3: Him, and Stroke was already in the big leagues, I think, so, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you all came over together.
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  Speaker 1: Grimmer was such a big part of our teams throughout
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  Speaker 1: the years. I mean, you came in thirteen, but fourteen, fifteen, sixty, seventeen, right,
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  Speaker 1: seventeens were last year. And for me, I tell this
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  Speaker 1: story all the time after I was done playing with you.
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  Speaker 1: In sixteen, we were so good at coming back, and
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  Speaker 1: I put all that on you because your role that
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  Speaker 1: year our bullpen was so deep. Your role was kind
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  Speaker 1: of if we were down two three runs, you would
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  Speaker 1: be the guy that came in. And every time Grimmer
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  Speaker 1: came in, he would bridge the gap for the inning
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  Speaker 1: or two of relief that gave us a chance to win.
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  Speaker 1: And so many times people would ask me, like, what's
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  Speaker 1: it about this team? Why can't you guys come back.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, well, our bullpen isn't deep enough. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: what do you mean? Your back end is amazing, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like I understand that, but the back end can
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  Speaker 1: only pitch when we're winning and when we're not winning.
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  Speaker 1: If we don't have back end guys, because you are,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt we're a back end guy on that bullpen
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  Speaker 1: as well, bridging that gap and being dominant, we can't
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  Speaker 1: come back.
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  Speaker 2: And you were always that guy for us in sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: I tell that story all the time. Awesome. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: My big thing was like, you know, Joe, he's calling
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  Speaker 3: down We're like down two runs, we're up two runs.
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  Speaker 3: It could be in the fifth inning, it could be
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  Speaker 3: in the eighth inning. You know, it can get tiring mentally,
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  Speaker 3: but uh yeah, I just kind of after me and
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  Speaker 3: him and talked. He's like, you're the fireman. You're gonna
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  Speaker 3: put the fires out right, and uh, you know, one
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  Speaker 3: thing after it was all said and downe it's like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like when you start an inning on your own,
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  Speaker 3: you kind of try to get cute next saying no,
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  Speaker 3: you're in a mess. And finally I was like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I get out all these fires, like can you not
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  Speaker 3: just let me get put my own fire out?
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  Speaker 2: One time? I got to sit here and watch this ship, right, So,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, well that's.
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  Speaker 4: Why good bullpens are made of the guys that like
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  Speaker 4: in a good staff, because the starter's grinding and then
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  Speaker 4: you know he may have some traffic out there, and
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  Speaker 4: how a team interacts and you know, kind of comes
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  Speaker 4: together is because he trusts when you come in to
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  Speaker 4: put out his fire, right, and then the guy behind
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  Speaker 4: you comes in and puts out your fire if you
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  Speaker 4: don't have it that day. Yeah, And I think that's
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  Speaker 4: a big part of what Riz is getting at is
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  Speaker 4: like the depth doesn't just mean locking down wins. It
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  Speaker 4: means holding a two run deficit. Five Yeah, give us
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  Speaker 4: a chance to score some runs. Because the best teams
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  Speaker 4: I've been on, and we've we've been on those teams
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  Speaker 4: that know how to come back. You never give up, right,
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  Speaker 4: And that was one of our slogans, like we.
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  Speaker 2: Never give up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's important.
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  Speaker 1: Well and then MANI the best trade in Cups history
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  Speaker 1: because you close out the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: Well we'll get to that, but.
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  Speaker 4: Super we thought we were getting a closure the deadline.
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  Speaker 4: We just we thought it was a rale is but actually.
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  Speaker 1: Right right, we get you right right around the All
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  Speaker 1: Star Game early July and Moni comes over and does
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  Speaker 1: this thing.
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  Speaker 2: You're in the bullpen. You're kind of you made a
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  Speaker 2: few starts too, right.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I was in a weird spot because I was in
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  Speaker 6: Seattle and I was like a starter leiever type and no,
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  Speaker 6: you know, just out of the blue cub straight for you.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like kind of like him. I was like, man,
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  Speaker 5: kind of.
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  Speaker 6: Disappointed at the first, but then I realized, like, these
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  Speaker 6: guys are the best team in baseball. They traded for me.
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  Speaker 6: I got to go and find, you know, do my thing,
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  Speaker 6: find what role I'm going to have, right, So I
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  Speaker 6: was like, I didn't know.
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  Speaker 5: If I was going to be in the rotation.
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  Speaker 6: They called me, they were like, hey, you're going to
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  Speaker 6: be in our bullpen. We'll find a role for you.
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  Speaker 6: So it took me a while to kind of jump
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  Speaker 6: in and understand, Okay, am I going to be the
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  Speaker 6: mop up guy?
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  Speaker 2: Am I going to be laid in? And yeah?
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  Speaker 6: So that was the hard part, but like you said,
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  Speaker 6: the team we had was it didn't take long because
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  Speaker 6: I just was able to fit in and be like, Okay,
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  Speaker 6: here's where I'm gonna do and you know, here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you could probably.
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  Speaker 1: Relate to this because you manage just about seven how
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  Speaker 1: much did Lester shrowed our bullpen coach at the time,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Bosio, who probably you guys didn't interact with as
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  Speaker 1: much as Leicester you did. And Joe helped with your
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  Speaker 1: roles because it's not easy to be in a bullpen
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  Speaker 1: roll unless you're the closer, the setup guy, right like,
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  Speaker 1: because you guys are such hybrids. Tell me what you
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  Speaker 1: liked about Joe. Tell me what you didn't like. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if there was things you didn't like.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, so first I'll say, let's show is one
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  Speaker 3: of my favorite people in the world. Just having him
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  Speaker 3: down there, like he knew when like we could cut up,
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  Speaker 3: and then he knew when to tell everybody get locked in.
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  Speaker 2: And he was funny. He was funny.
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  Speaker 6: He had a good pulse on how to manage all
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  Speaker 6: of us as a group and individually.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, and then I interacted with Bozzio a lot. I
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  Speaker 3: love the guy and he was just good at like
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  Speaker 3: coming up to me and just kind of hey, like
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  Speaker 3: I noticed this or that, like.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's let's throw this out and just do that.
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  Speaker 2: There's no bullpen though that I've ever play with that
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  Speaker 2: likes the manager.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are always fucking pissed off and bitter because
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  Speaker 1: you think you should.
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  Speaker 3: Especially everybody, right, well, so that's that'ship. Like you really
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  Speaker 3: got to drop the ego. There's no doubt I wanted
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  Speaker 3: that eighth or ninth inning. Everybody sitting down there does right,
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  Speaker 3: But like if everybody can embrace their role and do
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  Speaker 3: it very well, it's going to pay.
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  Speaker 4: Off when you guys are your own little world down there, right,
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  Speaker 4: Like we didn't you know me personally, Like Lester took
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  Speaker 4: care of you guys, but we didn't like interact with
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  Speaker 4: Lester Shrove that much, you know, like just he took
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  Speaker 4: care of you guys and had that bullpen on lockdown
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  Speaker 4: down there. But to your point of like having not
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  Speaker 4: knowing your role and sometimes doing that going back to
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  Speaker 4: my managers, like you kind of get in and out
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  Speaker 4: of that trust tree, right and you guys feel that
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  Speaker 4: was like I may have a bad outing.
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  Speaker 2: I really want to get back out there. The manager's like,
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  Speaker 2: oh he didn't have the good stuff. I'm gonna get him.
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  Speaker 4: I'm give him a couple of days, you know, just
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  Speaker 4: to try to get on that. And that's a more
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  Speaker 4: so it's just a confidence hit. And then you think
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  Speaker 4: your manager don't have confidence in you when you're like,
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  Speaker 4: I want to get back in the fight because I
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  Speaker 4: had I didn't have my.
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  Speaker 2: Best stuff the other day, you know, for whatever reason.
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  Speaker 5: Yep, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: That's hard. That's hard.
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  Speaker 4: That's a hard I think it's the hardest role. It's
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  Speaker 4: the shortest lived kind of tenure for guys. And and
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  Speaker 4: uh and you got to go out there and be ready.
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  Speaker 4: And you guys know as well being in the bullpen.
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  Speaker 4: The one thing that we had, we had a lot
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  Speaker 4: of healthy guys that posted. Guys posted, you know, they're
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  Speaker 4: ready to go the back to backs. It didn't matter
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  Speaker 4: three in a row, like you guys, And that's a
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  Speaker 4: silences the horses, bro horses.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Joe wasn't scared to go to you. Joe
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  Speaker 1: wasn't scared to ride the ponies. Yeah, you know, And
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  Speaker 1: that's why I love Joe.
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  Speaker 2: He managed to.
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  Speaker 1: Win every single game. And that's the lost for part.
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  Speaker 1: Because sometimes teams will punt a little bit early. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: we've punted a few times, maybe a few games that year,
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  Speaker 1: but we're in it to win.
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  Speaker 4: I want to know, MANI coming over from a team
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  Speaker 4: to the best team where we were comfortable. What was
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  Speaker 4: the vibe when you first walked in. Did you know
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  Speaker 4: we were good? Did you feel a confidence about the group?
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  Speaker 6: It was it was a kind of a hard transition
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  Speaker 6: because I came from Seattle.
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  Speaker 5: We were young.
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  Speaker 6: You know, we had a couple of veterans, but it
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  Speaker 6: was we were a titnque group. But it was like,
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  Speaker 6: I come over, I didn't know what to expect. I
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  Speaker 6: had no idea what you guys had going on, And honestly,
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  Speaker 6: I was just in a I just want to try
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  Speaker 6: to find a role fit in in the sense of, Okay,
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  Speaker 6: how can I help the team.
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  Speaker 5: Just so I don't get shipped out of here?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 6: That's kind of like your mentality when you're young. And
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  Speaker 6: I was saying with our bullpen, we had guys in
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  Speaker 6: different stages of our careers where you had the stable
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  Speaker 6: and guys, you know, Strophie and these guys that had
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  Speaker 6: been there, Grim had been with the team for a while,
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  Speaker 6: but then you had C. J.
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  Speaker 5: Edwards me.
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  Speaker 6: I know, rob Z had kind of been up and
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  Speaker 6: down a little bit with us, so we're like new
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  Speaker 6: guys on the block and we're kind of trying to
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  Speaker 6: find our way.
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  Speaker 5: With Joe, it was like you're saying, Joe, and you.
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  Speaker 6: Have a good outing, you're probably gonna get called up
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  Speaker 6: the next day, right, so you know, if you do well, you're.
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  Speaker 5: Back in there the next day. And that was just
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  Speaker 5: what I remember.
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  Speaker 6: So if you guys had such when I first got there,
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  Speaker 6: the first personality group and it was almost like a
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  Speaker 6: larger than life person you know group that I just
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  Speaker 6: was kind.
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  Speaker 5: Of let me just go, let me just see what's happened.
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  Speaker 6: I don't want to come in and throwing you know,
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  Speaker 6: you and Lester and Lackey. It's like, Okay, I don't
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  Speaker 6: want to be you know, talking, Let's just listen a
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  Speaker 6: little bit and see where everyone's at, right.
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  Speaker 4: And Gremmor you were here in some tough times, and
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  Speaker 4: I've got to hear the stories of coming in and
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  Speaker 4: uh winning pretty quickly, Like what changed in your vision
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  Speaker 4: when you look back like we sucked and then going
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  Speaker 4: into like oh this where the where are the dudes?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think one part of that question is we
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  Speaker 3: we had guys like you, Lester, Lackey who.
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  Speaker 2: Had done it before with you know, the Red Sox
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  Speaker 2: and everything.
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  Speaker 3: So y'all kind of understood and set that precedent, uh
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  Speaker 3: going into fifteen, I believe yep. And then also, I
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  Speaker 3: mean I think just when you just start winning, it
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  Speaker 3: gets contagious and you.
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  Speaker 2: Start to realize it as it's happening, and you're like, you.
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  Speaker 1: Want to be a part of it. You want to
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  Speaker 1: be a part of it. Tribute Yeah, yea yeah. Well
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  Speaker 1: the thing too, with the thing too with Bullpens over
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  Speaker 1: my career is like, dude, you guys are on islands.
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  Speaker 1: Like you guys throw at your own time, you stretch
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  Speaker 1: it your own time. The starters are on their own program.
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  Speaker 1: But the starters are at least in the dugout with
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  Speaker 1: feel like I can go if you if you want.
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  Speaker 1: In the big leagues, you can go a month without
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  Speaker 1: seeing a reliever, especially with the clubhouses today, how big
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  Speaker 1: they are.
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  Speaker 3: And that's one thing I loved about Joey's like show up,
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  Speaker 3: get your work in, like I don't want to see
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  Speaker 3: I used to hate and this is more of a
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  Speaker 3: younger thing when I came up, Like Adrian Belcher was
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  Speaker 3: my locker mate.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you had to get that probably eleven a m.
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  Speaker 3: I had to if I didn't get to the field
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  Speaker 3: before he got there, Like my locker was like throwing
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  Speaker 3: to shit, and he's the old answer in the fo Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: And so then I go shift into Joe and I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 3: I hated getting there early and just sitting in my locker,
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  Speaker 3: just fiddling, like I got nothing to do for three hours, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, so I'd like i'd get there, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: get going. I love that.
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  Speaker 4: What's the story you guys looking back and we'll talk
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  Speaker 4: through all the cool contributions. But like when you tell
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  Speaker 4: your friends stories about that team of your assd or
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  Speaker 4: your favorite memory or moment or game, like what comes
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  Speaker 4: to mind.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I go with the humble approach.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, man, I was just a part of a
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  Speaker 3: really special group of people when I was just happy
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  Speaker 3: to be there and then they all come.
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  Speaker 4: On, you know, like, so I just kind of take
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  Speaker 4: that protun you talk about road trips or bus trips
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  Speaker 4: or story carefully.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all the.
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  Speaker 6: Stuff that happened outside of the field, like clubhouse bus trips,
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  Speaker 6: you know, pregame rituals, speeches, like that's the stuff that
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  Speaker 6: as a player is what separated I think us, because
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  Speaker 6: I've never been on another team that did that.
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  Speaker 1: Even you get traded over, bro, we're taking shot, we
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  Speaker 1: sweep and take shots.
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  Speaker 2: There's there's interesting going on.
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  Speaker 5: That kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 6: Having been on a lot of teams, you're like that,
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  Speaker 6: we never did that, But you know, does that mean
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  Speaker 6: that's why we were winning?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe?
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  Speaker 6: But you know, we just had the group of guys
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  Speaker 6: I worked with. So it was that stuff that I
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  Speaker 6: remember the most. And then but as far as like
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  Speaker 6: playing wise, I I the biggest thing I remember is
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  Speaker 6: I'm going into the game because I don't I don't
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  Speaker 6: want to let you down, or you or you in
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  Speaker 6: the bullpen. I'm kind of there for you guys. More
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  Speaker 6: than I was to break the curse or what you know,
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  Speaker 6: the winning. It was more just to not let you guys.
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  Speaker 2: That's I mean, that's what this seems about, honest.
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  Speaker 1: Because all the rituals we did on the field, all
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  Speaker 1: the rituals we did off the field. We did take
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  Speaker 1: shots before the games, we partied after the games, but
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  Speaker 1: it was we did it together and it wasn't like
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  Speaker 1: we enjoyed it right, And that's what made us us.
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  Speaker 2: I say, we're like the.
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  Speaker 1: Motley Crew, like we would just come in and reh havoc.
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  Speaker 1: And without I've been saying this to everyone, like without
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  Speaker 1: all the pieces to the puzzle, we don't win, right,
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  Speaker 1: Like without you bridging the gap on a lot of
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  Speaker 1: games that help us with the comebacks, or coming in
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  Speaker 1: and putting out the fires, without you getting traded over
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  Speaker 1: like you came in and the biggest, the most important
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  Speaker 1: part of history.
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  Speaker 2: Right, you are literally part of history forever, we all are.
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  Speaker 2: But you're the last person that I'm jeous. Well you said, right,
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  Speaker 2: he was sorry, you got them. You had no idea.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't know you were going to be in that.
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  Speaker 1: But as part of like looking back on it, you
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  Speaker 1: were ready for that. And I feel like as as
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  Speaker 1: being one of the guys on the team, like proud
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  Speaker 1: because like bro, you came over and got traded and
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  Speaker 1: like it's our job now to make you feel quickly
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  Speaker 1: comfortable and like yourself. And that's what Joe always preached,
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  Speaker 1: like be yourself. If you look hot, wear so when
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  Speaker 1: guys come over, it's like, dude, fit in, you're here,
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  Speaker 1: you go.
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  Speaker 2: This is what we do. You said.
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  Speaker 4: Last night we were talking and telling stories about just
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: the season you were like Russ had member Thoni. He
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: was like, I didn't want to let you down and
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: it was like that guy.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: But I was.
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: But I think like part of that is like we
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: held each other to a high standard on that team, right,
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: and you're talking about Lack and you know lack lack,
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: so was I. But Lack was like an angry to
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: day he pitched right like angry. Else, Yeah we're angry and.
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: Don't talk to talk to you guys in the day.
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah they were playing, thank god only played once a month,
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. It's like it was, but
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: that was part of that stuff he was talking about
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: bringing over and that expectation of being great and the
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: fact we were so close. I look back, like a
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: lot of guys said nice stuff about me and how
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: I got my reputation. It wasn't me talking about myself
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: on my teammates saying nice things about.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Like how who I was and how I treated them.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: And when you look back on everything, like these stories
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: were telling, it's everybody come together as a family because
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: of all those cool culture and Joe created that because
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: of the freedom he.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: Gave us shit And it's not about me.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Later on it's not about you later on in my career,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: so now I'm gonna make it about me. I got
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: a very good compliment and I got ticked this from you.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: The comblem was, I don't understand how you can literally
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: motherfuck someone right to their face and then when you're
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: done with the conversation, they're smiling and they feel good
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: about it, when.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: You just buried him.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: And that was literally to you, to its tea, how
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: you can portray and it was a leadership quality that
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: you had because it was like it wasn't like you
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: were actually baring something. You were just getting on someone
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: for the truth out of love, and you would bury
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: him by doing it, but then you'd walk away feel
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: good about it. And I like, there'd be times where
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: I walk away I'm like wait what.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: But I felt like, yes, that was me. But I
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: also gave the most love. I feel like on the team.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: When guys, I watched the game.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you watched fucking one hundred and forty games from.
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  Speaker 2: The bench, I always called myself on my team.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody's like what I was like, you're the back of characters.
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• 17:41
  Speaker 4: I sat there and just clapped and watched Miggy, you know,
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: caught Lester every once in a while, like to say, babysit,
• 17:46
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  Speaker 1: Took advantage of the Giants. They had a weak bullpen
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: that year and that was kind of their achilles. We
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  Speaker 1: move on, but let's get to the World Series in
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: that mentality, because the bullpen was in disarray, right, Joe
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: was going to like two guys for the most part,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: it was it was chappy.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: It was chappy, and it was chappy. Yeah yeah, yeah.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: And your guys' roles were so from what we did
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: in the season, yeah, so sporadic. You had no idea
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: how do you guys stay locked in in the World
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Series to be your very best?
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Well, you came in, you came in bases low with
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Game three, game one out.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Well, I felt like a month we hadn't seen you.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: I came in first and second, uh KB bobbled it
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: like he always makes the play, bobbles it.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Now I got based loaded one out, Mike had been warm,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Davis k hit a gerbel. I understand this, right, We're
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: going to throw them a ball.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: But then it was like, well, now I got Lindor
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: and I honestly, there was a point I was out there.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I was like, Mike's got.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Lindor, and then I I don't maybe I recall I'm
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: pretty sure I stepped off the mound for a second.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: It was like, hold on, here we go, like locked
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: it back in.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and through six straight curveballs, I'm shaking to the curve.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Ball, the nastiest curveball on the team. Yeah, two years
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: I was there and appreciate it. Really, I'm shaking and.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Catch Call's time looks over and it was like he
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: goes like that, and I was like, well, ship, here
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: we go. I'm either going to walk him in or
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: something's got to happen. So I remember telling myself, don't
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: make it nasty, just throw it and it ended up
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: working in I remember.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: That your emotion, we're right there, you're here, I'm here.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: I have the emotion of that.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: And just because we've been together now for three four years, like, yeah,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I know your wife, like I know you.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: So got working well, we fought, we got along, sit Yeah,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: you were a staple.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: And it's like that emotion seeing you do that and
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: like reliving that and watching it ten years later is like, dude,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: that was fucking awesome.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: What a moment.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: I just remember my body like it literally had electricity
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: going through it, Like I was just tingling my whole body,
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: like you know.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: And Mike, you threw what five out of the seven games?
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: Well, I was going to say in that moment, it
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: was a relief when you did that, because they had
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: called down and said you're in if he doesn't the
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: next batter, so it was either a double play even
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: if you struck him out, I probably would have been
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: in there.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: So that was like.
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: Like the weight it was lifted off me because coming
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: in bases loaded situation, there's there's can fill your feet
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: when in those moments you're like, oh, that's confident, but
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: you're also like so scared.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: My body there's so much that goes into the bullpen
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: that no average fan, even if you're such a fan
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: of the game, you have no idea what these guys
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: go through every day.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, we get it. We're we've got to I've
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: got a zero E r A. Yeah, well it's not
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: about striking.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: But in the World when in the World Series, when
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: when Joe Joe was going to his guys, right, it
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: was pretty much Chappie.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: And well before we got Chappy, it was ron Don
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Strophy the playoffs andj.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: In the playoffs, I was just like, you were the
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: left Hey can I take the playoff roster?
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Right? I didn't.
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: I'm like, hey, can I just be on the playoff rosser?
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: To just be there?
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: And I think it was just I kind of started
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: getting people out and Joe just kept saying that many
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: you're in and it just kind of I think the
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: way the game shaped in the playoffs that year and
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: especially the World Series. And it was more of the
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: matchups too, because you know, he was alway is about, Okay,
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: here's your batters that we want you to face because
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: this guy can't hit a certain pass.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Is Joe telling you guys that is that Lester.
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: I think it's I mean Bosio did a lot of that, Yeah,
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: and then like did a lot of that, and I
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: know Tommy was involved in that a lot. So it
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: was kind of like in all those pitchers meetings, it
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: was like if we would have played a different team
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: that had different style hitters, it could.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: Have been him on the mountain in the last out.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: I think it was just like four or five hitters.
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: In the Cleveland line out that he had left handed
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: kurrballs or like weren't as good at you know whatever
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: I threw sinker or change up well, you know that combination.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: So that was just it was just all a matchup.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: And I mean I didn't go to bed.
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: Till like five am every night in the playoffs and
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: night it was starting to get light.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Out and I'm like, okay, I gotta get again.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: But there was just so much adrenaline because you don't
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: know if then that night you're going to be out
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: there to give it up to get the out. Like
• 25:00
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• 25:03
  Speaker 6: highest of your life. Yeah, and that's something that I remember.
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: I Mean, it took a lot a lot of time
• 25:11
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• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Let's jump into that because like obviously the biggest out,
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: the final out of the World Series. Right, you're you're
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  Speaker 4: down there in the bullpen warming up. You pitched the
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: night before with multiple innings. Yeah, so like you're and
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• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Well, where are you guys at before like with the
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  Speaker 1: come in.
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: You came in.
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: I stayed out there with Jake and I believe I
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: think it was me Jake and maybe Noble.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: I'm not sure, but we kind of we came in late.
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: And I remember coming in to Chapman tearing up and
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: I was like, ho ship, what did I just walk?
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: You know?
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: And guys are like around him. I'm like, this is
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: our guy. He's being emotional and John and you guys,
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: I don't know who it was, but and it was
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: just kind of like a surreal moment, and it just
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: was quick because by that time it was like Okay,
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: five minutes later.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going, we're going. Yeah.
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: And I remember going out with CJ and going, hey, CJ,
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: it could come down to one of.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Us and ready and came through and tell him.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: When Joe told him, I was surprised because like he walked,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: he had two outs and he walked the guy and
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I was like, all right, yeah, he.
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: Took second just for free or whatever, and then it
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: was a base hit but.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Got another hit. I remember, do you.
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: Remember that moment like before I went in like the
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: last out. I remember from my perspective, it was I'd
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: never seen guys like Lester or I mean, Lackie was
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: down there, Areata you, a few other Stroke and Rondeau
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: and they I'll never forget the look they all looked
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: at me as like please, Mike, please do this, and
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: it was just like, yeah, I was kind of like nervous.
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: You know, the cameras are on you as you're going.
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: It's like twenty stairs, you gotta go down in Cleveland.
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: But seeing those guys's face faces was like I'm doing
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: it for them, Like I lost any sense of where
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: I was in the moment, and I was like these
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: guys that I've been with and had that bond with
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: over the last few months, unlike any other team I've
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: been on, I can't mess it up or I'm gonna
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: do what I can took for them. And that was
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: why I always feel that way of coming to that
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: moment was it was more seeing you know, Lackey and
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: Grim and less our Arieta's face and doing it okay
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: for them.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: What do you remember about the range leers.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Well, so it couldn't happened at a better time because
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: obviously the momentum swinging their way, and it was the
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: crowd was electric, and hit happened. My heart, My heart sunk.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: I was like, oh no, like here we go, you know,
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: but not a lot of people know this. Me and
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Strope were warming up while you were pitching the Raja Davis.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Oh woman up, Poppy, it is over.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: If the hit that was like Martinez, you're talking about Martinez,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what down. When Joe called down, I
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: was like Moni's coming in. I was like, why the
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: fuck you cj out?
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And but well.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: Then I was like in Trophy was in my mind
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: from a catcher standpoint, he just didn't know where it
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: was going after the chap It's all master and it.
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: Wasn't like a left right like Martinez, a switch hitter.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: So yeah, and at that time when they pinch hit
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: Martinez for Coco cris three three.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: Before if it was Coco cris I, he was the hardest,
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: the best against lefties, So there's no chance I would
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: have been in it was him, but because it was
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: Martinez and they had said he had not hit a
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: left handed curveball all season.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, bro, you didn't have one hit landing.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: And that's what I just don't like, I want people
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: to grasp, is you're young, in your first World Series.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: You're going with two outs, a fast down first. Right
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: before you came in, I was like, well, Rogers fix
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: is still off c J. He's not quick to the
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: plate and he's a second and now we're now here
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: we go again. And you came in and I was like, well,
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: at least we've got a left a lefty stare at.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: Maybe it won't go first move. And then you landed,
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: breaking ball, strike swallowed, And I'm like, that's impressive. And
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: then you know, because just that right, just branding that.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: First one with all the seven of the World Series,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: like everything's on the line, flipping a break, winning you
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: had a good break in Baltimore.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: We win champs, I know, and you do it again.
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: And it's kind of ironic because to let's see, three
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: years before, two years before I'd set the International League
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: I was in Durham Triple A, the record for wild pitches,
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: like everything, twelve of them came to curve balls, like
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: I didn't throw a curveball until I signed. Like I
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: was not a good curveball guy up until a few
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: months leading into that. I was more of like a
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: pitchability change up, you know, mix up speed, whatever. And
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: you know, my Dad's like, it took twenty seven years
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: for you to be to land one curveball, right, and
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: that was kind of And I did it twice and
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: it was like it wasn't even like I don't know,
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: you know, it's one of those divine intervention moments where
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: it's like I probably couldn't have done it. And two
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: years before I couldn't throw a curveball, Like I sucked
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: at throwing a curveball, and it was like, how did
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: I end up to? You know, going into that season,
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: the Mariners were like, you're not going to make our team.
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: Japan had offered me. I was like considering going there.
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: Five six months later, I'm on the mountain in the
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: World Series in Game seven.
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: Right, and I land all I had to do.
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: And even warming up for that game, you asked Chad
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: I was spiking him.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: I was.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: I came two balls, went to the visiting I was
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: like Okay, here we go.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: It's like a good BP. Think good BP. You're like,
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: you're worried about your game, you have a bad bullpen.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: You're like, I'm locked in out there.
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: And but that's what I mean.
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: It was just it was meant to be because I
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: go in there, and let's be honest, if I give
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: it up, City of.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Chicago, we're not sitting here.
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah we're not.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: We're not.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: No, if we give it, I let like seven runs in.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: The stand. Yeah, yeah, I didn't block one two runs
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: come in. When in that ninth inning I had.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: I was so fucking nervous at first base, like it's
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: freezing out, it's even colders in there. I put so
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: much pine tar on my glove. And when when Martinez
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: hit that ball off you, I'm like, fuck, that's my
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: because I thought he was a lot faster we had
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: seen him in the series.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: When it fell like a chopper, I was going to
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: be like, what's going through your mind?
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Is the ball's coming to you? Like, don't miss.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: I'm playing far off the back, so I'm head down
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: sprinting and I look up to KB and he has
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: it with his little smirk on his face, and he
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: kind of sails it and slips.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: I'm like, whoa fuck. So I go up and I'm like,
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: please catch this.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I'm so scared because you know, in those moments,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: any mistake is like any life changing as much as
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: winning is life changing. Like any little mistake in that
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: big moment, you're like forever it hit like it's bad
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: history in Chicago up until this point.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that but we catch that ball, bro.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: The fucking celebration like coming and jumping on you, like
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: the brotherhood and all of it was just what do
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: you remember about that?
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: The celebration, the relief, the parade, Like.
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: I remember, I mean, like you say, it's it's a blur,
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: but yeah, and I see pictures and I just remember
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: the sense of relief of like just rushing through you
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: the same way the adrenaline, did you know, going into
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: the moment when the sense of relief was even more
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: than the adrenaline and being in the middle of the
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: dog pile and seeing that picture.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Now, oh, it's incredible.
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: It's you know, it was my first big year in
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: the big leagues, first full year in the big leagues,
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: and I was down and out going into the season
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: and then here I am on the mound to end
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: Game seven, in the middle of the dog pile, and
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: it was it was a lot of like just sense
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: of Okay, finally, you know, I wasn't thinking, but now
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: looking back in that moment, it was like like, fuck, yeah,
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: I did it for everyone else. Everyone's happy, but for me,
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: looking at yourself, I did it for myself, Like how
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: many people have shitting me out? No one even knew
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: about me ever. Being the Cubs was like, okay, I'm
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: the mop up guy. But to go in there and
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: do that, like it just gave me a sense of like, Okay,
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: I did it, you know, like.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: What about you? She's just running in. I mean, even
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: if you pop the hamstring running in, you wouldn't have
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: felt it. You just be like whatever, here we go.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: But yeah, no, It's just a lot of excitement, relief
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: and just enjoyed the moment, the beauty, if her hand
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: was there.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: Everything was all these stories.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Hearing all these stories is like each guy was going
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: through their own journey, like, yeah, you're you're telling this
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: story about the curveball, Like, dude, if I knew that,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't even my pants even more. Your journey as
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: I started getting pissed off and.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Getting traded and then where it ended up.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, and it's the first two years. Hey man,
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: I think training as a story. I remember, he goes, Yeah, no,
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: that's that's great. He goes, but we're going to need you.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: You were He goes, I got six starters and five spots.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: I said, I'm paying six starters and I got five spots.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: I was like, all right, the team me and not
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: going to Rossie and I had going into the playoffs right.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: We we were winning the World Series, going with the
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: playoffs right, and in our playoff share meeting, we gave
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: out an insane amount of playoff share.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: It was a record up to that point. I asked it,
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: but I think we got with most shares.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: Did y'all not mess like so like Tim Buss brought up,
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: but y'all were messing with Rizzo and like we were
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: just going through players shares like ah, like you know
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: Tim Buss, what like quarter and was like, what.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: This guy's been with us? He got high. I fought
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: from my guys down.
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: That was most his heart generosity came out those meetings.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: He was fighting for everybody.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: It's good.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Rossie and I had this master plan though, because we
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: were so close of He's catching on playing first, the
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: likelihood of us catching these balls to move on or high.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: So I caught the DS ball to.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Send us to the CS, the CS ball to send
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: us to the World Series, and we were like, bro,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: we get the trifecta, like this should be worth a lot.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: So I get the World Series. I throw it in
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: the pocket and the rest history but later on that
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: or just yeah, but are you kidding me?
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: You know much of in my head?
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: I'm like not much, just and eight years of like
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: misery coming to an end, and this is it.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: I know, this is my extension waiting for it.
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: And that was my first saying I know.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: So.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: So Mike comes up to me, like at some point
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: during this celebration, like I have this ball like security guarded,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: like I have our head security with it. Get it
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: authenticated right then and there, get it back like you
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: do not touch this ball right, don't want Champagne on it.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: And Mike comes over to me is, hey, Ri is
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: like you think I can get that ball?
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: That was my first That was my first ever save
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: in like any part of my career, Like it was
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: just mean a lot like my first save ever, and
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: I'm just like, yeah, fucking right, dude, I laughed the
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: old body or body. Eventually I ended up giving the
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: ball back to mister Rickets. Everyone asked me, which you
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: have to, but it was just like the emotions of
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: all of it, and well.
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: The amount of people that asked me like, hey, did
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: you get that ball?
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: Ba if it was a game number ninety four of
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: the regular season.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you get it right away?
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, sure, And so that's everyone asked, like the
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: number two question besides like how was it?
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: Say?
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: It was like did you get the ball? Where's the
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: ball from your first save? And I was like, well,
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: you saw Rizzo put it in his pocket, and you know,
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: I think you did it right though, Like it belongs
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: in Cooper's Town, which is probably where it is.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: So I'll probably here.
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: I caught the last out in Red Sox and I
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: kept the ball. No ever, nobody asked me for it.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: And then I had it from remember when Kogi came here. Yeah,
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: I had found out in my time away from that
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: he had every ball from every save except that one.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: He never I don't even think he knew what the
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: ball was, so I brought it to him here especial.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so he's got that now somewhere in his case.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: I think, Wow, it's crazy because we've talked about how
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: the puzzle on our team, like without every single guy
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: and every character in every role, we don't win.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: And the story really isn't complete without.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: You, guys the bullpen and like you at the end
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: coming in and broke, like no one had that on
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: their card, you closing out games somebody, but you.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Will forever be a part of the hype video.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: No, we all rose, but you were ready. You were ready,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: and that's testament to our team. It's testament out close
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: to where and it's the reason we're sitting here ten
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: years later, reminiscently.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: So we appreciate you guys, Love you guys. Yeah, thanks
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: for your time too. This is amazing. Yeah, yeah, I know.
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: This is it's fun to talk about because, like you said,
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: there's stories that you don't.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: Know about, but we're getting all yeah right.
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: I'm getting all the stories and it's fun.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Cheers to another ten years.
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, do it right?
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: All right, boys, thank you. That was a great, good one.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Young