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Set 2: The Bat Waggle (w/ Gary Sheffield) · Stugotz and Company

• 0:21
  Speaker 1: I have a Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 2: It is called the baddest people to ever walk the planet.
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: And Gary Sheffield is a first ballot Hall of Famer
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: in that Hall of Fame. And it's always a pleasure
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: to see him. It's always a pleasure to speak to him.
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: Haven't spoken to him since we had him on.
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: Out in Lake Tahoe. Man, I miss that place, Gary.
• 0:40
  Speaker 3: Man, I tell you, man, I miss that golf course, too, man.
• 0:44
  Speaker 3: That's one of the best golf courses I've played on.
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: But them greens, man, they're so fast.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: That was bad.
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: The last time we saw you in Lake Tahoe, Larry David,
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: you were wondering whether or not Larry David, who was
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: on the driving range that day with you, you were
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: having a conversation with him. If he wanted to play
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: golf with you, and I assured you that he wants
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: to play golf with you, did you talk to Larry
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: about it?
• 1:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. We're going to have our match. He told
• 1:11
  Speaker 4: me when I come to L.A.
• 1:13
  Speaker 5: Nice.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to get out there and play. You know,
• 1:15
  Speaker 4: he's a great guy.
• 1:16
  Speaker 3: I love his work, and he's one of the best
• 1:20
  Speaker 3: to ever do it.
• 1:22
  Speaker 2: It dawned on me as I was driving in today,
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: and correct me if I'm wrong, I believe you have
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: played for five of the eight remaining teams in the
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: postseason in Major League Baseball.
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: And Tampa wasn't one of them, but you were born
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: in Tampa. So it begs the question, who is Gary
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: Sheffield rooting for?
• 1:39
  Speaker 3: Well, I was sitting next to my wife and my buddy,
• 1:45
  Speaker 3: Cheryl Penny.
• 1:48
  Speaker 4: At the Rays in.
• 1:48
  Speaker 3: The Yankees game, we was in the third row and
• 1:52
  Speaker 3: a bunch of my son's friends was calling to say,
• 1:55
  Speaker 3: why are your dad on our screen? And so they
• 1:59
  Speaker 3: was like, well, he's not made, when something happened in
• 2:02
  Speaker 3: the game, he's not doing anything. He's just staring, glazing,
• 2:06
  Speaker 3: staring at the situation. I say, well, because I have
• 2:08
  Speaker 3: to stay neutral. so i can't i can't go out
• 2:13
  Speaker 3: there like i'm rooting for the yankees in my hometown
• 2:16
  Speaker 3: i can't do.
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  Speaker 6: It as somebody who grew up in tampa calls tampa
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  Speaker 6: their hometown still are you surprised just as everybody else
• 2:25
  Speaker 6: that where are all these tampa bay rays fans coming
• 2:28
  Speaker 6: from because all we hear about is how bad their
• 2:30
  Speaker 6: attendance is gary's laughing.
• 2:31
  Speaker 3: Well You know, like, I know the area so well.
• 2:38
  Speaker 3: You know, I used to live by the stadium, you know,
• 2:41
  Speaker 3: when I lived in St.
• 2:42
  Speaker 4: Pete. And I grew up in Tampa my whole life.
• 2:45
  Speaker 3: So it's almost like it has something to do with
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  Speaker 3: demographics and location. And a lot of times, you know,
• 2:53
  Speaker 3: certain times, you know, a day, you don't want to
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: drive across the bridge.
• 2:57
  Speaker 4: And when the game over, you don't want to have
• 2:59
  Speaker 4: to drive back.
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: So opposed to the opposite way, driving to Tampa is
• 3:04
  Speaker 3: a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Different than driving to St. Pete.
• 3:06
  Speaker 3: So that's why the fan base is inconsistent for what
• 3:11
  Speaker 3: people think. But when you have a real good team
• 3:13
  Speaker 3: like the Yankees or the Cubs or, you know, like
• 3:16
  Speaker 3: a big-time name, Dodgers, people come out for that.
• 3:20
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 3:21
  Speaker 2: Gary, does it bother you at all that Yankees are
• 3:24
  Speaker 2: running around playing baseball with beards, with facial hair?
• 3:29
  Speaker 3: Well, I know if old man was still living, that
• 3:34
  Speaker 3: wouldn't happen.
• 3:38
  Speaker 4: I just think that for me, it lost a little luster.
• 3:41
  Speaker 3: It lost a little mystique to the organization when you start.
• 3:47
  Speaker 4: Fitting in and doing what everybody else is doing. That's
• 3:50
  Speaker 4: what made the Yankees stand out. They had their own policies,
• 3:53
  Speaker 4: their own rules.
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  Speaker 3: They conduct themselves the way they do.
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  Speaker 4: And they don't waver for anyone.
• 4:00
  Speaker 3: And I think that that's been compromised and you can
• 4:03
  Speaker 3: see it on and off the field.
• 4:05
  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Gary, I'm wondering, because you played for so many teams
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  Speaker 2: and you played in so many big moments for those teams,
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  Speaker 2: can you articulate, is it different being a Yankee, the pressure?
• 4:17
  Speaker 2: Is it different being a New York Yankee?
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  Speaker 4: It is.
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  Speaker 3: Being a Yankee alone is more pressure. It's more, everything
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  Speaker 3: is added times 10. Every pitch, every play, every situation
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  Speaker 3: is magnified.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 3: The thing about that is if you're prepared for the moment,
• 4:39
  Speaker 3: you're prepared in your profession, then there's no such thing
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  Speaker 3: as pressure. Pressure is only for the people that's not prepared.
• 4:48
  Speaker 3: And that's why I always say when anytime I hear
• 4:51
  Speaker 3: somebody say, well, they got to get used to their
• 4:55
  Speaker 3: contract or they have to get used to their city.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they didn't make those excuses for me.
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: You see my point?
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: Yes. Right?
• 5:05
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: So they didn't make those excuses for me. I had
• 5:09
  Speaker 3: to perform right away.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And so I didn't have time to be worried about
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  Speaker 3: a contract or what city I'm playing in. I know
• 5:19
  Speaker 3: the Yankees fans bring out the energy. You know, I
• 5:22
  Speaker 3: knew it for me.
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  Speaker 4: Yep. So it was no pressure to that. They are
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  Speaker 4: on my side.
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  Speaker 3: The pressure comes from you not being prepared and you
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  Speaker 3: worrying about what if I don't do something?
• 5:34
  Speaker 4: What's going to happen?
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  Speaker 3: And that's what people focus on in New York about
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  Speaker 3: if I don't do my job, what comes with it?
• 5:42
  Speaker 4: What do your job?
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  Speaker 1: And you don't have to worry about it, yes. You
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: don't have to worry about it.
• 5:48
  Speaker 6: Gary, right now, as a Yankee fan, I am all
• 5:51
  Speaker 6: doom and gloom as we head into game three tonight.
• 5:54
  Speaker 6: Stu Gotts keeps telling me, The Yankees, they're going to
• 5:57
  Speaker 6: come back and win this series. I've seen with my
• 6:00
  Speaker 6: eyes what this lineup is doing right now. I don't
• 6:02
  Speaker 6: see any path. But if the Yankees do come back,
• 6:05
  Speaker 6: what's it going to take?
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  Speaker 1: Soothe them, Gary.
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  Speaker 3: Basically, the pitching staff, if you look at the Yankees
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  Speaker 3: pitching staff, that's.
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  Speaker 4: More than enough to win.
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  Speaker 3: And those guys can put up zeros on anybody any
• 6:17
  Speaker 3: given night.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that's going to have to be the key.
• 6:21
  Speaker 3: To this, you know, I know like people are talking
• 6:24
  Speaker 3: about the lineup, how the lineup is set up.
• 6:28
  Speaker 4: I look at the way they got this lineup set up.
• 6:31
  Speaker 3: I would do this lineup totally different than the way
• 6:33
  Speaker 3: it's set up right now because I would use what
• 6:36
  Speaker 3: the Rays is using right now to bring problems to
• 6:40
  Speaker 3: the defense.
• 6:41
  Speaker 4: And the Yankees don't have that.
• 6:43
  Speaker 3: You got to put pressure on the defense and they'll
• 6:45
  Speaker 3: make mistakes, too. And so when you have a lot
• 6:49
  Speaker 3: of speed out there and guys moving on the base
• 6:51
  Speaker 3: paths and trying to create runs, you're basically putting pressure
• 6:55
  Speaker 3: on the defense.
• 6:56
  Speaker 4: And that's when you see mistakes happen.
• 6:58
  Speaker 5: Gary, can you take us into the dugout when you
• 7:02
  Speaker 5: come out and you're ready for this big game and
• 7:04
  Speaker 5: you commit?
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: Bunch of errors in the first inning.
• 7:07
  Speaker 5: Does it feel like, all right, now we're in quicksand
• 7:09
  Speaker 5: and we're all trying to hit five-run home runs with
• 7:12
  Speaker 5: nobody on base just to get back in the game?
• 7:15
  Speaker 3: I think with that being said, a lot of guys
• 7:18
  Speaker 3: trying to do too much. And the players that's making
• 7:23
  Speaker 3: the mistakes, they're great players to a certain degree in
• 7:27
  Speaker 3: certain areas. But when you're talking about the playoffs, you
• 7:31
  Speaker 3: don't have to be great. All you have to do
• 7:34
  Speaker 3: is do your job. If you just focus on doing
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  Speaker 3: your job, the guy next to me does his job,
• 7:40
  Speaker 3: we win. But when somebody don't do their job, somebody
• 7:43
  Speaker 3: try to do it for them, now they're doing too much.
• 7:46
  Speaker 3: And then that's when it escalates. And you see it
• 7:49
  Speaker 3: just piled on. It just kept piling on. And then
• 7:52
  Speaker 3: what happens is the pitchers start feeling pressure, and then
• 7:56
  Speaker 3: he tries to do more. And next thing you know,
• 7:59
  Speaker 3: you'll walk here, a base hit here. And so that's
• 8:03
  Speaker 3: where it just escalates into one problem after the other.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you this.
• 8:10
  Speaker 2: I'm interested in what adjustments you would make, but Taylor
• 8:12
  Speaker 2: and Mikey A, they would accept you as the Yankees
• 8:15
  Speaker 2: manager today if it meant Aaron Boone would go away.
• 8:18
  Speaker 4: Yes. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Because there's a lot of things
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't tolerate. That's number one. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I just don't tolerate certain things when it comes to
• 8:29
  Speaker 3: going out here and competing.
• 8:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah. You know, we compete to the death. Yes.
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  Speaker 5: And.
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  Speaker 3: And when I got a bunch of guys I can
• 8:36
  Speaker 3: look at and say they finna give me everything, then
• 8:39
  Speaker 3: I know I'm going to win. And the thing is,
• 8:42
  Speaker 3: is that when I look at this team, they have
• 8:44
  Speaker 3: more than enough to win.
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  Speaker 4: More than enough. Yes. And do it easy.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So the thing is, that's why I say I would
• 8:52
  Speaker 3: change this lineup and.
• 8:54
  Speaker 4: I would put the speed at the top. Right. And
• 8:57
  Speaker 4: I would have my guys running at all costs. Yep.
• 9:00
  Speaker 3: And we would put so much pressure on the opposing
• 9:02
  Speaker 3: team because that's what's happening to them. You know, these guys,
• 9:07
  Speaker 3: and by no means, it ain't easy to go into
• 9:09
  Speaker 3: Tampa and beat these guys. Even when I was playing,
• 9:12
  Speaker 3: it's hard to go on Tampa and win games.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Those guys play hard. They play hard.
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  Speaker 6: Gary, that is all me and Mikey A are asking for.
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  Speaker 6: Just a little bit of accountability from this Yankee team.
• 9:24
  Speaker 6: We cannot watch Trent Grisham jog.
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  Speaker 4: Half-ass for a fly ball anymore. I wouldn't put up
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  Speaker 4: with none of it.
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  Speaker 1: I told you.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't put up with none of it.
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now. No, I know you wouldn't.
• 9:38
  Speaker 3: I have to have players playing with a sense of urgency.
• 9:43
  Speaker 3: And when you play for the New York Yankees, Everything
• 9:47
  Speaker 3: is a sense of urgency. Now, I will show support.
• 9:50
  Speaker 3: I will give you all the support you need. But
• 9:53
  Speaker 3: I got to have results. I'm more like the old man,
• 9:55
  Speaker 3: you know, Steinbrenner. If I pay you, I expect something.
• 10:02
  Speaker 4: I expect you to give me everything you got.
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: Yep, or I'm going to stop paying you.
• 10:11
  Speaker 2: Wait, Gary, you know so much about baseball, and you
• 10:14
  Speaker 2: love the game of baseball so much.
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: Have you ever thought about managing? Has that ever crossed
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: your mind?
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: No, it hasn't because, you know, the thing is the
• 10:23
  Speaker 3: game has changed and it's a sabermetric driven game. And
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: I think that I talked to David Roberts about this
• 10:33
  Speaker 3: and he explained it very well to me. It's like,
• 10:37
  Speaker 3: you know, the way his managing style is, he was
• 10:39
  Speaker 3: a sabermetrics guy when he got the job. That's pretty
• 10:42
  Speaker 3: much how he got the job because he knew it
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: so well. But he also had some stuff inside that
• 10:49
  Speaker 3: he wanted to do on the field or with certain
• 10:51
  Speaker 3: players that he wasn't allowed to do right away as
• 10:55
  Speaker 3: a manager. The same manager says this, he went with
• 10:58
  Speaker 3: the program. But as you win over time, then you
• 11:03
  Speaker 3: can implement certain things into how you manage and how you.
• 11:07
  Speaker 4: Deal with certain situations.
• 11:08
  Speaker 3: And I think that part, I'll have to gain patience
• 11:12
  Speaker 3: to be able to get to that point. But I
• 11:15
  Speaker 3: know what I know, and I know what it takes.
• 11:18
  Speaker 3: And so a lot of times I would make sure
• 11:21
  Speaker 3: that I don't interfere old school with what's going on
• 11:24
  Speaker 3: right now. Right.
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: Plus it really get into your golf game. I mean, just. Yeah,
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: that part too.
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: You and I were texting back and forth about what's
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: going on in the NFL with the referees. And two
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: referees have been suspended for a week for misconduct.
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: One of them cursed at a player, Trey McBride, the
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: tight end. of the Arizona Cardinals.
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: I say all that to ask you, Gary, what's the
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: worst thing an ump has ever said to you?
• 11:53
  Speaker 3: You know, it's what he didn't say, you know, and,
• 11:57
  Speaker 3: and because it's what he didn't say is, is I,
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: I got in a situation where I was a young
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: player and, and the umpire was Joe West and, I
• 12:08
  Speaker 3: looked back at Cowboy.
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: Cowboy!
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  Speaker 4: And I said, yeah, the Cowboy.
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: I said, I.
• 12:14
  Speaker 4: Looked at him and he looked at me and he said,
• 12:16
  Speaker 4: don't you say it. Like that.
• 12:20
  Speaker 3: And I say, well, you know what I was thinking.
• 12:22
  Speaker 3: He said, you know, you don't have enough time in
• 12:24
  Speaker 3: the big leagues yet, son, to question anything.
• 12:28
  Speaker 4: And I said, yes, sir. I said, yes, sir.
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: And because if I would have said something to the cowboy,
• 12:35
  Speaker 3: my career would have been like a long career dealing
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: with this guy. But he took care of me, and
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: it was more so like the old school guys, they
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: was more so like communicating to you. Like, hey, son,
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: I know I messed up the call, but you're working.
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: Just take it, and it gets better. And over time,
• 12:55
  Speaker 3: you'll start getting things to go in your favor with
• 12:58
  Speaker 3: certain guys.
• 12:59
  Speaker 4: And I think.
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: The misconduct from these umpires now, what they did, I
• 13:06
  Speaker 3: think they should be held to the same standard that
• 13:08
  Speaker 3: the players are. Because when we say things, we get
• 13:12
  Speaker 3: kicked out of a game just on one word we say.
• 13:15
  Speaker 3: And so we have to defend that in our case
• 13:17
  Speaker 3: when we're up against our ruling.
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  Speaker 2: How many years went by before you felt comfortable saying
• 13:23
  Speaker 2: something to Joe West?
• 13:25
  Speaker 4: Never.
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  Speaker 7: No, no.
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: I say I got to about 10 years, and then
• 13:32
  Speaker 4: he kind of like.
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: We're having communications out there, even doing that bat. And
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: I felt like I can take a close pitch if
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: I knew it was a ball that he wouldn't ring
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  Speaker 3: me up. So a lot of times you don't trust
• 13:46
  Speaker 3: certain umpires on certain calls because you don't want to
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: put it in their hands. But now with the challenging rule,
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: I guarantee you in my era, if Tony Gwynn or
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: It'll be guys hitting 400 nowadays with that box.
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: Yes. It'll be at 400.
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  Speaker 1: Gwynn should be the one who determines whether it's a
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: strike or not.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he's hitting 400 if he had that.
• 14:22
  Speaker 6: Gary, some of my best memories growing up in New
• 14:24
  Speaker 6: York were just in the backyard or at a field
• 14:27
  Speaker 6: trying to emulate your batting stance. What's the origin of
• 14:31
  Speaker 6: how you came up with that batting stance?
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: Controlled chaos.
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: Actually, when I, you know, we didn't grow up using
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: wood bats. And when I got the rookie ball, I
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: used a wood bat for the first time, and I
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: hit a couple balls foul, home runs or whatever.
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: I just didn't want to get jammed.
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: So I was so quick on inside part of the
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: plate and I was hitting balls out the park. So
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: I got in BP the next day and I start
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: putting stick them on my bat and I start wiggling
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: like that just to get the field to make sure
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: it didn't slide.
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: And I was like, man, that felt natural.
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: And I went in BP and I hit 10 balls
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: out the right center in a row.
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: And I've never did that.
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: I never hit three balls out in a row and
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: I wound up hitting 10.
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: And I was like, OK, I'm taking that in the game.
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: And I took the same.
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: Approach and I went deep twice and I never stopped
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: doing it until I got to the big leagues when
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: my hitting coach, Sam Muser, wanted me to stop doing
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: it because he said that I wasn't strong enough to
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: do it. I said, well, I've been successful doing it
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: in the minor leagues. Why wouldn't I do it up here?
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: And so I struggled because I had to stop wiggling
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: the bat.
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: But I bet on myself and I went back to it.
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: And then that's when I had my success again.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: How many hitting coaches in your career?
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: How many hitting coaches in your career are like, no,
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: you got to stop doing that?
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, I'll stop doing that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, he was the only one, actually. He was
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: the only one.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, right.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: And Don Manley, I couldn't hit knuckleballs to save my
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: life with that style. So Don Manley told me, to
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: stop wiggling it so hard and just play it like
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: softball and swing up.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: And ever since I.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: Did that, I was, like, owning Tim Wakefield and all
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: those guys, knuckleballers.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: I will get Mikey A.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Here to some Little League questions that he has for
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: you because Gary is watching his son play baseball. And
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: I'm wondering, you love it, right? Like, I know it's hard, right?
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: You want your son to do well. But watching him
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: is better than you playing yourself, correct?
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: Yes? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: My thing is that I always tell my kids, all right,
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: you already got generational wealth, so you don't have to
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: worry about nothing.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: So you just go out there and play baseball.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Just go take some hacks.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: That's it. Just go out there.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: And enjoy yourself. It ain't no pressure to do what
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: I did. I've already laid the path forward. you know,
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: for you. Um, but, but I want you to do
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: it your way, get it done your way. We're going
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: to all be educated. You get your degree. And if
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: baseball just so happened to be in your future, then
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: go out and play it. Otherwise we're not going to
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: let baseball dictate our relationship. We're not going to let
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: baseball dictate anything. We're going to play it as hard
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: as we can. And we're going to play it as
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: long as we can, but they're the same, the end
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: all be all.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: You're far more mature than Mikey A is as it
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: relates to your kid, watching him play, giving him advice.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Mikey, go ahead. You have some questions.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Because, Gary, I'm telling you, his kid's playing Little League,
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: and he's a crazy man in the stands.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Mike.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: First off, I'm a crazy man in the fans positively.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Positively crazy, yes.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: Now, my question for you is my kid's like the
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: biggest and the strongest, but he's getting to a point
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: now where– everybody's kind of catching up. How do you
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: keep him from being one of the best hitters because
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: he's the biggest and the strongest to be one of
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: the best hitters because he's one of the best hitters?
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll say this to you. What it looked like
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: on Monday, it can change on Thursday.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: Okay?
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: So I wasn't the biggest, fastest, strongest in anything, but
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: I was the best in all of it.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: You see?
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: So that's how I look at it. Like, I had
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: guys that could hit a ball farther than me. I
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: had guys that could throw it harder than me. I
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: had guys that could run faster than me. I had
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: guys that was bigger than me. But the one thing
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: that you got to teach your son and always focus
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: on is know everything that you're supposed to be doing
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: and know what everybody else is doing. And when you
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: have that down, that means you're more prepared than everybody else.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: And you're going to be that turtle going down the
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: road on a consistent speed.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: And everybody else is going to have ups and downs
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: in their game. If you're the most consistent person and player,
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: you'll be the best player.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Let me try to broker a deal here. Mikey A.,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: if you move to Tampa, perhaps Gary Sheffield will be
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: your son's hitting coach.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: He doesn't want to manage, but hitting coach, that's not
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: nearly as.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Much time or responsibility. I got family in Tampa.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: So, Gary, if I get in the move, because Lord
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: knows I want him to move down here, would you
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: spend some time with this kid?
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: I mean. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: We'll have him right.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: I'll get to see that.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: I'll go straight to his weaknesses and see how he
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: can overcome it.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes, and, Mike, he can take over the family diner.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I'll see you in December. Yes, sir. Yeah. Just sit
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: him on.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: I'll make sure we clean up the weaknesses.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: He's going to be a lot harder on your kid
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: than he will on his own kid.
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. He likes it.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: All right, Gary, we appreciate the time. Before we get
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: you out of here, we have a game around here
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: we like to play. It's called One Table. Taylor will
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: play the imaging and then we'll go from there.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: Go ahead.
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: There's one table left at the hottest spot in town
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: and everybody wants it who's getting it and who's getting
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: left outside greatness gets seated everyone else waits This is
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: One Table.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: All right, so we're in New York. It's Sheffield Steakhouse.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: I'm not certain why that doesn't exist already. But Sheff
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Steakhouse in New York. You are the guy who is
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: in charge. I mean, you own the restaurant, of course.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: But you're the guy who's in charge of who gets
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: the table. And there's only one table remaining in that restaurant.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Taylor's going to give you two options.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Taylor.
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: So, Gary, Derek Jeter walks in. Jalen Brunson walks in.
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: Who gets the table?
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Well, normally I would say Derek Jeter because he has
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: five championships, but the Knicks getting a championship is like
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: the equivalent of five.
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: So Jalen Brunson.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Wow. Shocking. Oh, I guess not. Mikey, you have one?
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: Bernie Williams walks in.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Jorge Posada walks in.
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Putting you in a bad spot.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: There's only one table and there's only one seat at
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: the table, Gary.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Both of those guys are my guys. I love both
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: of them.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: But Posada is a little mean, so I'll probably give
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: it to Posada.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: He likes the meaner people. I love that. All right,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: one more and we'll get you out of here. Go ahead, Taylor.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: Aaron Judge walks in.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: Hideki Matsui walks in with the 2009 World Series MVP trophy.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Who gets the table, Gary? Matsui. Matsui. That's my guy.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: That's my guy. Gary. I love you, Aaron, but Matsui.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: You love this game, Gary. I can tell. You like
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: the game. It's a fun game.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: I love it. I love it.
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Let's get on that. Sheffield Steakhouse, New York City.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir. Chef is cooking, baby. Yes.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Gary, enjoy the time with your son, watching your son,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: with your wife, with your family.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: It is great.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: I've had the opportunity to do it with my daughter,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: with my family. There's nothing like it. So enjoy it.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: We always appreciate the time. I appreciate your.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Friendship, man.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Thank you, guys. I appreciate you guys for having me.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Gary.