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Lovable Reunion - Jon Lester on SNAPPING at Anthony Rizzo, EPIC Cubs World Series stories, David Ross standing ovation · Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: All right, ready, I'm nervous, Tony.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what to do with your hands?
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  Speaker 3: Get to work, let's do it, ready and lock it in.
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  Speaker 3: I'm ready.
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  Speaker 2: I'm nervous.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know how you can start this?
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  Speaker 3: I'm nervous this.
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  Speaker 2: For three months? John, shouldn't you.
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  Speaker 1: Let the professional do the introduction?
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  Speaker 3: No, he's he's he's put a lot of work into
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  Speaker 3: this. This is be good?
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  Speaker 2: All right, fair enough, thanks.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like the arm camp. He's the talent and they
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  Speaker 3: are the true Craig. Shut up, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Should have been rolling now.
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  Speaker 2: Oh perfect, Okay, I'm nervous. That's this. Welcome this week's
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  Speaker 2: episode of The Loveable Reunion. Three time World Series champion,
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  Speaker 2: five time All Star, top five in the cy Young
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  Speaker 2: three different times, two hundred career wins, and an insane
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  Speaker 2: four and one world series record with a one seven
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  Speaker 2: seven e r A and fell little cancer survivor, Johnny
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: fucking Leicester.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, number thirty four in your programs, number one in
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  Speaker 4: our hearts.
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  Speaker 1: Just so, I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate the left hander.
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  Speaker 4: We got so many we got so many nicknames for you,
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  Speaker 4: but we got to set the scene.
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  Speaker 3: All right, We're here.
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  Speaker 4: At John's Farm Sanctuary Sanctuary thirty one thirty Boston days.
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  Speaker 2: We think it should be thirty four, but.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, there was a time and a place when it was.
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  Speaker 3: He started making money early.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, on that note, John, how rich are you?
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  Speaker 1: Well, Rossie, I'm not rich.
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  Speaker 2: I'm wealthy. I have rich people that work for me.
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  Speaker 2: I've lived my life by that quote. I don't have
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  Speaker 2: any rich people really working for me, so I don't
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  Speaker 2: really know where I.
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  Speaker 1: Can't fully take that.
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  Speaker 5: I stole it from Josh Beckett, so I got to
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  Speaker 5: give him credit for that saying.
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  Speaker 1: I learned that a long time ago from him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, your your cast of veterans that you played with
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  Speaker 2: are so intimidating to me years later. Yea, And like
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  Speaker 2: any time I ever see Tim Wakefield or Rest in
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  Speaker 2: Peace Waki, but Beckett, who is a Josh Tomlin, Timlin,
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  Speaker 2: Mike tim Mike Timlin, I'm just terrified of all those
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  Speaker 2: guys because of the stories I heard from you. And
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  Speaker 2: I walked into that clubhouse one time and Beckett was
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  Speaker 2: on the table when I was when you're taking me around,
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  Speaker 2: which we'll get into, and I was like so terrified
• 2:22
  Speaker 2: walking to that clubhouse. But do you think I felt, Noah,
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  Speaker 2: I know, I've heard all the stories. Johnny. You signing
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  Speaker 2: in Chicago in fifteen was it's the greatest signing in
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  Speaker 2: Cubs history. And what that simplified for our team was
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  Speaker 2: the most amazing feeling. As someone who was there, who
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  Speaker 2: lost one hundred games and we stunk and we were
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  Speaker 2: getting better, and then all of a sudden, we get
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  Speaker 2: Joe Matt and that signs out of nowhere, and then
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  Speaker 2: the biggest freege on the market, John Lester, comes and
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  Speaker 2: signs with us, and we're like, what is going on?
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  Speaker 2: Take us through that free agency process? Take us why
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  Speaker 2: you believed in us? Because we stunk and you were
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  Speaker 2: the best picture on the market, So why why did
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  Speaker 2: you sound with us? How did that go?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it wasn't an easy process. It was a
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  Speaker 5: fun process. Looking back on it, I wish I would
• 3:20
  Speaker 5: have kind of relished in it a little bit more.
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  Speaker 5: It was you know, at the time, when you're going
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  Speaker 5: through all of that, it's very stressful because you know,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, at the end of the day, I got
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  Speaker 5: traded to Oakland and I wanted to go back to Boston,
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  Speaker 5: right like, hey, yeah, trade me, we stink. Make your
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  Speaker 5: team better, hopefully, and then we'll come back in a
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  Speaker 5: few months and make it, make it right right, Like
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  Speaker 5: we'll go back to winning. And you know, it's kind
• 3:47
  Speaker 5: of like you break up with your first girlfriend. She
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  Speaker 5: dumps you, and then she kind of gives you a
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  Speaker 5: glimmer of hope that you might get back together and
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  Speaker 5: then stabs you in the back again.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you know, so been there right?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, am I saying anyway? But during the whole process,
• 4:03
  Speaker 5: it was the Red Sox the whole time. And then
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  Speaker 5: we went up to Chicago met with THEO and Tom
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  Speaker 5: and Crane and you know, all the whole cast. And
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  Speaker 5: as you guys know, THEO, I think can sell ice
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  Speaker 5: to an Eskimo, you know, and sitting in there and
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  Speaker 5: seeing what they were doing with Wrigley and Wrigleyville and
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  Speaker 5: the team and the vision and all this stuff and
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  Speaker 5: no offense to rendery I don't know the man. But
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  Speaker 5: once they hired Joe, it was kind of like, all right,
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  Speaker 5: this is real, you know what I'm saying. And I
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  Speaker 5: mean THEO made it hard not to turn down.
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  Speaker 2: I mean what made it hard? John? The was it
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty seven million?
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  Speaker 1: It was fifty five.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, sorry, was it the private jet hours that you
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  Speaker 2: threw into your contract?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, So I'll tell you funny story. What was what
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  Speaker 5: was the I'll tell you a funny story about the
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  Speaker 5: private jet deal. So we agreed to the deal. Me
• 5:00
  Speaker 5: and my family go out to dinner. We celebrate. You know,
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  Speaker 5: it hasn't been announced yet. I think they've only told
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  Speaker 5: or like we've only told THEO or whatever. Had too
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  Speaker 5: much to drink at dinner, go to bed, wake up
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  Speaker 5: the next morning, turn on MLB channel and they're you
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  Speaker 5: know how the MLB channel. They scroll across the bottom,
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  Speaker 5: like the details of the contract. So I'm sitting there
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  Speaker 5: watching it, take kids to school, watching it, and I
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  Speaker 5: see twenty five hours on NetJets. I'm like, huh wait
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  Speaker 5: a second, pull a phone call my age and I'm like, dude,
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  Speaker 5: I got twenty five hours on net jets.
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  Speaker 1: He goes, yeah, we kind of got that in there.
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  Speaker 5: I had no idea that was part of the deal
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  Speaker 5: when it went down, but that was I mean, to
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  Speaker 5: be honest with you, that was the best thing.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you had a hard time. I remember coming to
• 5:50
  Speaker 4: the Christmas party you had. Yeah, and San Francisco you said,
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  Speaker 4: pitched a really nice buster and Boach came in and
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  Speaker 4: pitch it.
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  Speaker 3: And then you were like, hey, what do you think Chicago.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and like from then on you were just quiet
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  Speaker 4: and it was all it was all working.
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  Speaker 3: But like that was that was a really big decision.
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  Speaker 3: I remember how much of weighing on you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and all your history, your kids growing up, being
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  Speaker 4: born in Boston, and.
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  Speaker 3: Haven't you had a house there.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we had a house there.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, I mean, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to say the Red Sox made it
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  Speaker 5: easy just based on how they were operating at the time,
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  Speaker 5: but they made it easier. The hard part of the
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  Speaker 5: end is, you know, when you're at that point in
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  Speaker 5: your career, you want you have a vision of kind
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  Speaker 5: of how long you want to play for, right, and
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  Speaker 5: mine was seven. I wanted seven years, however that looked whatever,
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  Speaker 5: however structure you wanted. I thought, Okay, seven years gives
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  Speaker 5: me the best opportunity in the city to hopefully win,
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  Speaker 5: do some personal things kind of.
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  Speaker 1: You know, get your.
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  Speaker 2: Roots in that still legacy. Yeah, like you did get
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  Speaker 2: your legacies in Boston and have legacies in Chicago, and
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  Speaker 2: you have a small see in Oakland.
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  Speaker 5: Small, very small, and DC and even a smaller one
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  Speaker 5: in Saint Louis too, But you know, San Francisco comes
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  Speaker 5: in and they they're at six years, six years, six years,
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  Speaker 5: and all of a sudden they come they go, all right,
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  Speaker 5: we'll give you the guaranteed seventh and you're like, hmmm,
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to go back out to the West Coast,
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  Speaker 5: even though I'm from there. My family's here, you know,
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  Speaker 5: and it's like, how do you do this? How would
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  Speaker 5: you navigate it? And all that, And then ultimately it
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  Speaker 5: was like, you know, we'll just play the cards and
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  Speaker 5: see how they fall, and hopefully I'm good enough at
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  Speaker 5: the sixth year where my option gets picked up and
• 7:34
  Speaker 5: we right off into the sunset. You know, obviously that
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  Speaker 5: didn't happen, but I mean I don't obviously don't regret
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  Speaker 5: the decision of coming over.
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  Speaker 4: So you go to Chicago, you have your signing, A
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  Speaker 4: big group of you guys went out to celebrate that night.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know where you're going with this.
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  Speaker 4: Can you walk me through what happened that night?
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  Speaker 2: So we go.
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  Speaker 1: I forgot even where we were.
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  Speaker 2: I'm assuming you were overs bub.
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  Speaker 5: City, bub City Bubs shout out bub City best fireball
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  Speaker 5: in town.
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  Speaker 1: It's to home made.
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  Speaker 5: In case you guys didn't know, it's their own recipe.
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  Speaker 5: Really yeah, it's it's pretty.
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  Speaker 1: So we go to bub City.
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  Speaker 5: It's THEO Jed me, my family, my agents, and we're
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  Speaker 5: sitting there talking and we're going over like kind of
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  Speaker 5: new place like what they need to kind of fill
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  Speaker 5: the roster for the team. And I'm like, y'all got
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  Speaker 5: a backup catcher and they're like, they go, no, I go,
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  Speaker 5: you need to sign Rossie.
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  Speaker 1: I forgot who said it.
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  Speaker 5: They're like, well, you know his ops and this and
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  Speaker 5: that has gone down over the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm like, yeah, but you need you need a veteran,
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  Speaker 5: veteran dude that knows what his role is when he comes,
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  Speaker 5: when he walks through that door, there's no I'm competing
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  Speaker 5: for the starting job.
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  Speaker 1: I'm this is my job.
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  Speaker 5: I'm here to pick up I think I think we
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  Speaker 5: had traded for Meggy at that time. Yeah, yep, I'm
• 8:58
  Speaker 5: here to pick up Meggi when he needs a break.
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  Speaker 5: And then he would obviously catch me. So I get
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  Speaker 5: to I mean, I'm bugging the hell out of THEO
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  Speaker 5: And finally he's.
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  Speaker 1: Like, it's two in the morning.
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  Speaker 5: We're the only people in Bob City, and he goes,
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  Speaker 5: you get him on the phone. We'll work a deal out.
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  Speaker 5: As a kid say bet all right, your culture prove it?
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  Speaker 1: Like here, okay, here we go. Pull the phone up.
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  Speaker 3: Three in the morning, Florida time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, I forgot that. So two in the
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  Speaker 1: morning and three in the morning. There I called his
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  Speaker 1: phone seven times.
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  Speaker 3: Now I'm waking up, going, oh John's drunk.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, like this is the this is I mean,
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: what are you doing? Fo call?
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  Speaker 5: But so I'm like, I go, Fair, do you have
• 9:40
  Speaker 5: highless number? And she's like, yeah, I go call her
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  Speaker 5: right now.
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  Speaker 3: How it goes this is that's that's Era's calling me.
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  Speaker 3: Because I was like, who is that? I was like,
• 9:50
  Speaker 3: it's John. He's hammered. She said it's fair. I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: I should probably answer this.
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  Speaker 2: What if you didn't answer, think about how history is yeah,
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  Speaker 2: not written the way it looks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thank God for Pharaoh. We can pay her for
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  Speaker 3: a long yeah damn.
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  Speaker 5: So he answered. He highly gives him the phone. I'm like, hey, bro,
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  Speaker 5: I'm sitting here with THEO. Do you want to come
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  Speaker 5: to Chicago. And he's like, fuck yeah, let's do it.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm sitting He's like, I'm all right, what would
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  Speaker 5: it take to get here? He goes, man, if you
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  Speaker 5: get me five and a half, that'd be great, or
• 10:19
  Speaker 5: six you started at six? He goes two for six,
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  Speaker 5: So mind you, and I don't remember bub City having
• 10:26
  Speaker 5: these after the fact, but THEO had this mug, like
• 10:30
  Speaker 5: an october Fest mug of beer.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm on the phone in one of those boosts.
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  Speaker 5: And THEO standing there at two am at two am,
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  Speaker 5: all right, and I go, hey, he wants two for six,
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  Speaker 5: And THEO starts drinking his beer.
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  Speaker 1: He just goes. He just keeps doing this over.
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  Speaker 5: And wouldn't say a word, just keeps going two five
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  Speaker 5: to five.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm like, uh ROSSI He's saying two five.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, all right, see you can get me five.
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: I'm like you can't. Real quick.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm going with Leicester to Chicago. Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I was like, dude, deal he wants
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  Speaker 1: to he wants five and a half. He just he's
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  Speaker 1: still this beer.
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  Speaker 2: What a what a g dude?
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  Speaker 1: Two for five?
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  Speaker 5: Just back and forth and I'm like, damn it, Rossi's
• 11:18
  Speaker 5: he's five.
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the most established baseball executives of
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  Speaker 2: all time, and this is how he's negotiating. Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna start doing that for now on.
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  Speaker 5: And he don't say a word, and he sits there
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  Speaker 5: and he just keeps doing it, and I tell I
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  Speaker 5: tell a Rossia, goo, man, he's two for five.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, all right. It's like silence. I think.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, it's still good. You got the phone. He goes,
• 11:42
  Speaker 5: all right, I'll take it. See if you can get
• 11:43
  Speaker 5: me a suite on the road.
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: I will go to the next morning.
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  Speaker 4: My agent was so, I said, I think I just
• 11:50
  Speaker 4: came I remember we had the same agent.
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  Speaker 3: I think we just came to terms with Chicago two
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  Speaker 3: for five. He's like, what what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 3: You get on the phone, cust them out.
• 12:01
  Speaker 4: But bro, you that that is like, that's like, it's
• 12:04
  Speaker 4: so funny how that went down to me, like nobody
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  Speaker 4: would ever. I don't think we've told that story.
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  Speaker 2: You came in, though, and you completely shifted the culture there.
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  Speaker 2: And we had great veterans before, I mean with Soriano,
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: Seln cashtro Edwin Jackson, Reed, Johnson, Jeff Baker, Dempster, great veterans,
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: but when you walked in that door, it changed. Yeah,
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: And I don't know if you ever knew that. I
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: don't think you ever got the actual proper respect and
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: runway that how much you changed that culture. But being
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: there for the time I was there beforehand and you
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: coming in was like, this is real and we're gonna
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: win now because you're a winner. And you bring in
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: h soon to be Grandpa Rossi with you and he's
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: a winner. And the respect to you guys, deem dude.
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: That first spring training, that first day in twenty fifteen,
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: I think you threw a live VP and it was
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: the most electric, intense live batting practice till this day
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: I've ever seen. And I was like, holy shit, Like
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: these two are legit.
• 13:10
  Speaker 3: I think I have a lot more than me.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's part of you know, growing up in
• 13:14
  Speaker 5: Boston though too, right, Like you get to Boston and
• 13:19
  Speaker 5: the media microscope there and the fan microscope is I mean,
• 13:23
  Speaker 5: it's so honed on you that when you show up
• 13:26
  Speaker 5: to spring training, it's not like I tell this story
• 13:29
  Speaker 5: about demp Ryan Dempster twenty thirteen or two thousand yeah, thirteen.
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  Speaker 5: So we're coming off twelve. It's my worst year of
• 13:38
  Speaker 5: my career and we got our asses kicked all year.
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: That was your boy, right, Yeah, that was the whole disaster.
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And so we get to spring training and dude, I've
• 13:50
  Speaker 5: been throwing bullpens for like a month and a half.
• 13:52
  Speaker 5: And when I mean bullpens, like the last six bullpens
• 13:55
  Speaker 5: I faced hitters before I left home and got to
• 13:59
  Speaker 5: spring training. So first day of bullpens, you know, I'm
• 14:03
  Speaker 5: telling the pitching coach Juandi Avez at the time, I'm like, hey, dude,
• 14:10
  Speaker 5: I'm throwing a fifty or sixty pitch bullpen. Like I'm
• 14:13
  Speaker 5: we're getting locked in and demp said on the other
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  Speaker 5: end of the six pack or whatever. And he hears
• 14:19
  Speaker 5: me say that, and he walks down. He goes, you're
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: throwing what. He goes, this is the first day of camp, Dude.
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: I go, yeah, what about it?
• 14:26
  Speaker 5: He goes, I haven't thrown off the mound yet. You
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, like, nothing against them. He was
• 14:32
  Speaker 5: a little bit older in his career.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: He knew it worked for him and that's how he
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: did it.
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  Speaker 5: But I was so upset about the way the year
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: went before and got you know, crushed and all that
• 14:42
  Speaker 5: stuff for my performance, which I deserve. But it was like,
• 14:46
  Speaker 5: all right, the accountability needs to be I need to
• 14:48
  Speaker 5: be ready. I need to be accountable for what happened
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: last year, and I need to get off to a
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: good start. The point I'm trying to make is Boston
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  Speaker 5: makes you think that way. Even though it's day one
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: of spring. There's fifty So I'm on media people sitting
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: there and they're looking at you, seeing how you throw
• 15:03
  Speaker 5: your bullpen.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: And how you do about It's another level.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:06
  Speaker 5: And so coming to Chicago, you know, talking to him
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: and a few other people getting there, it's like, hey, dude,
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: just be yourself, dive into your routine, dive into what
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: you do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I probably wasn't the most sociable person, but I disagree.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you just got to get break down the barriers.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to get past the resting bitch face.
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  Speaker 1: But other than that, you're good.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: But don't go I don't ever get any compliments.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I was like, why is everybody like you?
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: Guys like cause that's smile at him, Johnny.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: I just bro We were in whenever we went back
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: to Boston. I was with uh he was a Cubs
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: employee at the time. Jeff McGee one of our good friends,
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: and we were in like a little dive bar with
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: all his friends and they're from like Lowell, Massachusetts. They
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: have the thick accents and we're boozing a little bit
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: is after a game and his boys are just like,
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: we're talking about you, and they're just pissed off that
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: the Red Sox in a sign you back. And they're like,
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: there's no fucking price for Johnny Lester. I should have
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: got him when he was on sale, referencing they signed
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: David Price and Chris Sales and they just kept the
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: whole There's no fucking price for Johnny Lester. You should
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: have got him on sale. And like bro, these thick
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: they're passionate fans. There's only so many fan bases like that.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: You've played for two, I played for two, You've played
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: you know, it's just it's different.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: It's different.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: It's different. And Chicago was one of those places as well.
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: It very much is, and you know, it's it's a
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: little bit easier just because like the way I like
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: to talk about it is you got the Midwest people
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: a little more laid back kind of a little bit.
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: And then you got in the Northeast, which is you know,
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: you cross the street wrong and you're getting you know,
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: you're getting rid of culed about it.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: Well, you guys had a Boston connection you should talk about.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Well did the dude you signing too? Was like full
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: circle moment for me because in eight when I was
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: diagnosed with cancer, John was my It was part of
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: my inspiration. It was Lance Armstrong and John Lester. Yeah,
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: and I was in Boston and there was a rain
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: delay at the stadium in THEO. I said, Hey, do
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: you want to go down and meet Lester and Tito
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: and see the clubhouse and stuff? And I was like
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: absolutely So little does John know that he's bringing some
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: minor leaguer in that's gonna pep them up, like probably
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: get word, Hey, this kid just got diagnosed with cancer.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: And he brings me in and changed my life. He
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: tells me, hey, man, like you're gonna go through this,
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: You're gonna feel good, You're gonna feel bad on days
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: you feel good, Go out and be yourself. Go be
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: a kid. And like I still send that message every
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: single kid I ever talked to, because it's true.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: Well, and especially with cancer, man, it's so hard because
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: you're going through the treatment and you know the feeling
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: of it where you know, some days after treatment you
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: wake up you're like, man, I could go do my
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: normal training and hit and run and do all that stuff.
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: And then some days you feel like you can't get.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Out of bed. Yeah, like you were just like to
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: go to the.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Bathroom is a damn I'm you know, spectacle.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: So you you telling me that though, and you kind
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: of showing me that way.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Was this before or after you fainted exactly?
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: So I'm in We're in. Yeah, bro, it was because
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: I just had my first treatment like a day before,
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: but it does. Your first one doesn't kick in for
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: like two or three days. So we go to the game,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: and I'm like trying to be strong, right, I'm eighteen
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: years old. I'm on top of the world, Like I've
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: got to show these executives that like I'm the guy
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: right like, and he's showing me around and then we're
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: talking and he's telling me all this stuff and it's
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: all hitting me like I have fucking cancer, Like I
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: didn't even know what cancer was. And all of a
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: sudden we're in like this little hallway. I just like
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: drop and John just goes, can we get this kidd
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: of water?
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Bro?
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: I'm not kidding, like I'm so embarrassed right, and everything
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: hits me and I just fall down to my knees
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: and like thought I was gonna die. And he's like,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: can we get him a water? And then fast forward
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: to spring training next year. John is it's a spring
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: training game. I don't know what the team must have
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: been on the road. He didn't feel like going or something,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: so he's pitching on the back fields. So I was
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: back in camp and they called me over one of
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: the minor league, you know, slap dicks, to come over
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: and face him. And I was so excited. And I
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: got two at bats off John Lester. I was like, fuck, yeah,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: I'm pumped, Like I wonder if he remembers me. There's
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: no way he remembered me. I get two at bats,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: I see six pitches and I strike out twice, strike one,
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: strike two, strike three twice, and I got home. I
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: got home and I called my mom and dad and
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I was so excited. I was like, guys, they picked
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: me to face John Lester, Like do you think he
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: remembered me.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Now that you say that, I actually no, I do
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: remember it.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: But now that you say that it was the six pitches,
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: I think that's where where Tech invented the front hip cutter.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: At that makes sense.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: We've been Yeah, we've been working, you know, I've been.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Just for me.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: I ever seen that in the minor league.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: Never, And I think they called you over because you
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: were lefty, and it was like, all right, we're throwing
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: the front.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Please John, don't. This is why they say don't meet
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: your heroes, just give it to me. But then in
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: twenty fourteen, we're at the same All Star game and
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: another full circle moment for me. Right, this is a
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: guy I like leaned on hard through my cancer treatment
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: and process, and I like go up to him like, hey,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: like kind of remember me, and he did or he
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: played it off like he did.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I did.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: You still play it off and we're talking. I'm just hey, man, like,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Chicago's a great place, trying to recruit him that in Minnesota,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: and then you sign it. It's just like it was
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: the best feeling ever, but I left out after I fainted.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: His very next start was his arguably most special start
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: of your career. Which I take full credit for. He
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: threw a no hitter. You remind me he threw a
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: no hitter after he met with me and the Italian
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: family that I have. It's all numbers and signs, So
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: him throwing the no hitter was signs from the heavens.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: It was all for me.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: It felt bad for you. Yeah, yeah, a little vand
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: in front of that's so great?
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: All right, I want to fast forward to sixteen. All right, Yeah,
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: we talked a little bit about that. I'm going to
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: read off your stats nineteen and five a two O
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: two era thirty two games started, two hundred and two innings,
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: second in the cy Young lowest era, and whip of
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: your career two complete games, three and one in the playoffs,
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: six games five started, thirty five innings in the postseason
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: with a two to oh two.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: What's your favorite stat in that?
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Seriously, two hundred inings.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: I knew you were going to say that you loved posting, bro.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Why, I know why.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: If you would have read this starts, I probably would
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: have gone one one A starts and then one B
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: innings because it means you means that I'm accountable for
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: my teammates. The hardest part of a picture. So like
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: you guys, you know later in your career you didn't
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: play every day, but you had to post every day
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: right like you were there, something hits the fane. You
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: got to go in the game. You gotta be ready
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: my ass for four days, go team, I have no
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: I have If.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: I don't know, I mean I saw your skip for
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: those four days and it was literally a dream golf
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Come on now. The next day was some sort of
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: fast food in the clubhouse. The myth issue.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: If it was a day game, yes, If it was
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: a night game, well probably feels golfing.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: But definitely you know what you know you taught me,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: which you never even talked about this. It was just
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: by example. And leading by example is you literally, as
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: a pitcher would stay out all night. You'd have fun
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: and enjoy. But the next day I saw you one
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: of the first guys in the weight room busting your ass,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: and it's like you didn't need to do that, Like
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: your resume and your pedigree spoke for itself, but to
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: see you do that after the night out meant more
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: than just to see you do it after a good
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: start or something, because that's what it takes to be
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: a professional, and seeing you do that every day, weekend
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: and week out was like, it was so cool to
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: watch you.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: And I mean they learned that in Boston with you know,
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: with Beckett, and you know, I kind of got thrown
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: under his his wing early in his in my career,
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: early in his career, and Beckett was that way. It
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: was just hey man, you got to out prepare the
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: other guy, you know. And I never looked I wasn't
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: like Sheill would always look at who he was facing
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: in five days and be like, all right, I'm gonna
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: he wasn't. He was big in the weight room, but
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: not big in the weight room. He was more of
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: a I'm gonna outstudy this guy. I'm going to have
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: a better game plan than him, I'm going to last
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: longer in the game than him, and I'm I'm just
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: going to outperform him. He was thinking, like I'm competing
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: against that guy. I never liked that analogy. I like
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: because I don't ever face that dude, right, Like, I'm
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: not I'm not going against him, he's pitching on the
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: other side. I'm going against the team, right And so
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: like I learned that if I'm prepared, and my teammates
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: know I'm prepared, they're going to play harder behind me.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: Not to say that people take games off or plays
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: off or whatever, but we were ready.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you took what I'm saying, like you knew that
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: I had ready.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: We had you and we had him, so we knew
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: we were What was the line you said yesterday with
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: the three pound fishing pool.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Oh you couldn't put a three pound fishing line in
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: my ass.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: That was That was all most of the defenders, like
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: everyone was on edge as far as like you better
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: be fucking ready and the same with life you you, Yeah,
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: like the Cowboys demanded that respect and it it was real.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Well when you guys, you we watched you prepare obviously
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: like I just caught you, but like you had a
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: you were the most routine oriented pitcher I've ever been around.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I could take it through your entire routine right now. Yeah,
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: it starts the day before you're doing your film, sometime
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: before the game, uh after the game, the night before
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: you start, you pour yourself a stiff crown in sprite,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: right as a sleeper. As a sleeper, you get in,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: you do your.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Flush day right. It's like you it was that the treadmill.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: No, this is this is the start day, the start day.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: You get in, you do your bobs. Tewksberry shout outs,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: one of the greatest sports psychologists.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Put his headphones in.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Headphones, do your cards, go over your skinner report again,
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: take your little cat nap and then you throw on Well,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: first off, I forgot the Superstition's boxers. Are you wearing
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: those today?
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: No, I'm not.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: John had these boxers that he wore that two pair,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: one pair.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: I wore so much the crops got worn out of
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: them and I actually took them to a tailor had
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: new fabric put in them.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: And then you're a lucky boxer.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hadn't heard that.
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: And then, uh, for Christmas one year, my wife got
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: tired of seeing these holy boxers, so she got me
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: a set. So normally I wear like the tight ones,
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: the briefs or whatever they're called.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but on start Day they're like the loose the
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: loose ones.
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: Okay, And so one Christmas she gets me these this
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: box of three from Ralph Laurin or whatever, and gets
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: the Sanctuary logo put on them. And they're all three
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: different colors. So in spring training that year, I had
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: test runs, so like I wore.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: This pair, Yeah, which one?
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: If I pitched good in this one, all right, we're
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: gonna give this one another run if it doesn't go
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: well to the next one. And then by the season
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: I had a pair and then I wore that pair
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: of the rest of the time.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: And the end the Camo cam.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: That was like I remember too, like you being one
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: of my guys. I looked up to the most and
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: I tried to get that and you had the lifts
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: cleats that one year. It was like we did that
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: a couple of years.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was cool.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: But then you do that, then you then you just
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: start with the laser focusing in yeaheah.
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: But your superstition five o'clock, the five o'clock five o'clock
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: is I always had to go to you and do
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: the scouting report because he'd be getting rubbed down on
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: the table and we just go over the scouting part
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: again for like you had already done it and you
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: were if you had anything, it was it was like, hey,
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: we want to throw this guy cut her in.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: He'd be like no, no, Back'd be like no, no, no, babies,
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: no babies.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Back the no babies, back door no babies. I was like, okay,
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: we're throwing the back door cutter. This guy it was
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: you were you were you? Weres a professional well of
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: a play.
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: But also too like I realized at an early age
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: with the routine. You know, I get kind of thrown
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: in to Game four of the World Series and seven.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: You know, I'm twenty two years old and I'm in
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: the bullpen coming off cancer. The year before, Yeah, coming
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: off cancer. I had no eyebrows. I had less hair
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: than I have now when I showed up the spring
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: training and you know, go through the season, up and
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: down the season, like just physically mentally, get called up,
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: went down for a start, YadA, YadA, get to the playoffs,
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: and you know, luckily John Ferrell I heard this later on.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: He fought for me to be on the roster. Fought
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: he wanted to be on the roster.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: He thought that I could be, you know, some sort
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: of guy in the bullpen that could help out or whatever.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: So I'm in the bullpen.
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: Way he pitches game I think it was Game four
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: in Cleveland and comes out because he's hurt. He hurt
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: his arm, and so I get called in the office
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: after we win, and they're like, hey, you're going to
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: get a start in this series at some point.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Well, now I'm back to being a starter.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: So what do you do?
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: You immediately fall right back into your routine, right, And
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: I just remember being so nervous going out there. But
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: I'm like, all right, I have you know, lake kicks here,
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: I have this stretch or I have just kept falling
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: back to that, right, Like I'd get to the outfield
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: and I'd look around and start, you know, getting the jitters.
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: All right, what am I doing? What is my warm
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: up routine?
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Coming back?
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: And then now you start throwing, and first throw you're like,
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: oh god, okay, all right, where do I go from here?
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: You know, I do ten throws here, and then I
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: go here, and then I then you get into the
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: bullpen and now, like my routine was so locked in
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: from my warm up that everything just went away. Now
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: it's like, all right, three fastballs, three fastballs, this.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: This boom boom boom. Now you get in the game.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Now you're pitching.
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: And so at an early age, I learned like all
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: the routine actually calms you down, you know what I'm saying.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Like, So then from that moment on I was like,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: this is what I'm doing.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it prepares yes, way to handle it.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: So what happened with what got lost? Between spring training
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: all the PFPS and backfield work. What happened? Where was
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: the routine on pickoffs?
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: There was an o routine?
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: No I know, but we did it. We nailed it. Yeah,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: we did it. Took a very long time, we got it.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: But what the fuck happened?
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: So I tell people this, if I knew, I would
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: fix it.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: We fixed it, though, Well, it's.
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: Easy when it's just like when you go, you know,
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: I tell I have you know, playing golf and stuff
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: with people and you get to know new guys and
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: you know, they get a few beverages in them and
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: they think they could have liquid courage and ask whatever
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: they want. And they ask about that, and I go, hey,
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: with all due respect, with all due respect, I'm like, hey, dude,
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: have you ever stood over a chip and you're like,
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: I got this and then all of a sudden you
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: spas them and you can't hit it.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: They go, oh yeah all the time. I go like,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: it's the same thing.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: What did it feel like?
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Though?
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: When we picked off Tommy Famo that later the announcers
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: were talking shit too.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Oh Tommy fans just steal Timcarver.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I'm over there literally like John, I got you, just
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: throw it.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: And I hate it when we started throwing over because
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: I'm like, I love throwing these guys out there trying
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: to He's like under a one to the plate, you know,
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: like yeah.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Well, and that's so good.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: That's the other part. Yeah, like the reporters out throwing over.
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: The reporters ask you about it, and I'm like, listen,
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: you know, in life, if you're not good at something,
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: you try to get better at something else to basically
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: negate that.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Sure, right, So I knew I was not good at that.
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: Okay, Well, not good is probably not the right word
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: to say terrible at that, And I knew, okay. In
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: order to hopefully fix this, if some capacity also shout
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: out to Joe, Joe was great with it. If there
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: if there was any other manager, it would have been
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: way worse. We would have been an issue and it
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: wouldn't have been handled properly. Joe handled it great, and
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: he's the one that taught me. He's like, if you're
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: not good at something, get better at something else. So
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: I said, okay, I'm going to and you know in
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: today's game with the pitch clock, obviously it would be
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: Nolan Boyd. But I got better at holding the ball
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: bar in my look, slidestepping. We implemented the the modified
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: pitch out. You know you did things over at first base,
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: having hobby at second base with the tag.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Oh no, we may do. Yeah, yeah, we may do.
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: But like so twenty fifteenth, for example, I think gave
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: up like forty stolen bases led the league in that.
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: So I had to come to Jesus in the offseason,
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: all right, if I'm not good at this, what can
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: I do? And worked on those things. I think the
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: next year we gave up twelve.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I stunked to start it too, Like I
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: wasn't throwing good. I remember to start that season, had
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: had to do a lot of that was just you know, you.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Found your you.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: We worked on it in spring training. Remember we started
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: like the bounce pass on some of the bunks and
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: different stuff like, but it was we knew they were going.
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: It was like and you were so fast.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: It was funny. We had, like you said, we had
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: risen hobby.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: It made it a lot of fun I want to
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: go back to we talked about those stats, and I
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: look back.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: On twenty sixteen. Do you have a favorite start outside
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: the let's let's put the playoffs aside. Do you have
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: a favorite start that year?
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: Because you got off to a little you put so
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: much pressure on yourself. Yeah, you came in there. I
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: remember coming in the dugout once that was like a
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: third start, and you you were just okay, and you
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: came up in the dugout and you were like you.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Got anything, you see anything? And I was lost.
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: I was like, compete, just fucking I was losing my
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: mind because if if you got take another game, didn't
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: do good. I didn't get to play, Just so we know,
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: I didn't get my last at bat. If he came
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: out of the game, it wasn't any did you get to.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: Play if it was the bus, or if it was
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: a hotel room, or if it was in the club.
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: I think it was in the clubhouse because I think
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: you kind of embarrassed me in front of everybody.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: But he comes in and one of those mediocre starts.
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: And you know, I think we're all we ended up
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: winning the game, we're all high five and afterwards doing
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: the party thing. And he comes in and he goes,
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: damn it, John, He goes, if you would pitch better,
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: I could get more at bats.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: He goes, if you stink, I don't get to hit.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: I remember it well. But you said the story about
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: was it coming into thirteen being like accountable, And I
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: know you weren't happy with your twenty fifteen year, which
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: ended up being a really good year. It was just
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: it was a grind for you all year, right, like
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: peaks and valleys, but ended up being a solid year.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: When we get swept by the Mets, Fucking Daniel Murphy
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: still have nightmares. But we come into spring training in
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: sixteen and everyone's like, we're we have already won the
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: World Series, and that really started with you. You're like,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: we already won. Just press play like the script. He
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: had shirts for us made literally with buck boats.
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: On them, right, that's a Johnny Gomes thing. Yeah, to
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: go back before I answer that, To go back to
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: your question, there's two starts that stand out in my mind.
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: One ended up being a good start, didn't start out
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: very well. The other one was probably my favorite one
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: because I didn't expect to get the opportunity to finish
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: the game. But we had a late season game in Pittsburgh,
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: tight race, two to one game.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I get in.
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: A jam in the eighth, end up punching out the
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: dude that uh Coglin broke his leg the shortstop. Yeah yeah,
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: Kim South Korean Korean and struck him out. Big situation.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: I'm out already at like I think I'm at like
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: that hundred mark fist pump fuck. Yeah, let's go give
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: it to the closing. Like I'm walking off the mountain
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: thinking because Joe usual didn't let you go, especially a
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: close game. I getting the DOUG and I sit down.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: I'm like, somebody shake my hand.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: I'm like Boss, Joe, nobody, all right, here we go.
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: And then Boss comes down with like one out or
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: two outs and he's like, hey you good. I said, yeah,
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: let's go. And we end up finishing that game, and
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: I like, not that I was happy he gave me
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: the opportunity, but I was happy he gave me the
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: opportunity to finish that game.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: Then the other one September two September, it was a priority.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Clinched about it, No.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: We were.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: It was on the verge.
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it wasn't quite there, but it was a big
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: game against them, and you know, one of those deals,
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: the other one ended up being a good game. Uhnck
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: went seven, seven or eight? Day game in Atlanta home?
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: Was that the Freddie Freeman day? Oh my gosh.
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: So we're in the I'm in there getting rubbed down
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: before the game. ROSSI comes in. We're going over the thing,
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: and I'm like, hey, I like, I like.
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: First of all, he hometown, like, lives in Atlanta, wants
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: to beat him bad day game. I was a brave
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: You always want to beat your former team, right, Like,
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: it's just kind of natural.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: So we're locked in day game. It's hot as heck,
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: and it's one hundred and sixty four agre.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, you're seven feet from hell Ol Turner.
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, so actually that wasn't sixteen, that was fifteeneen.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: So anyway, sorry, I got me years wrong, but played.
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: So we go over the.
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: Thing and I'm like, hey, I like two strike breaking
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: ball to Freddy like Chase. He goes, no, you cannot
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: throw a strike breaking ball to him?
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: You can?
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: He murders, well, yeah, vers is forty seven miles.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: I mean you can't.
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: So it's not about man, It's not about so anyway.
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: So first inning, something happens. Guy gets on second base,
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: two outs, Freddy's up, and I'm shaking and shaking and shaking,
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: and you can see ROSSI. He's just sitting back there,
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: going and keeps throwing stuff down and he won't put
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: down curveball time.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: He looks at me. He goes, curveball, yep, don't bury it.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Base it the right. We're down one nothing. We come
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: in the dugout. He yard sales his whole catcher's gear here.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: He goes, fuck it.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: Just throw it, just throw whatever you want.
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: I'm not putting down any more. Signs you throw it,
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: I'll catch it. And I'm like following him like a
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: lost puppy dog. Come on, bro, don't give up on me.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: Don't give up.
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: Almost that I meant to bounce it. He goes, but
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: I told you no strike breaking both John.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: We just went over it.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: We just went Do you think I did it on purpose?
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: He goes, no, but throw whatever you want.
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: So we sit down. We're in the air conditioning, we're
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: all drinking our water. Three outs, go to run out.
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: He goes, all right, we're good.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: You had to get off your chest.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was that was so mad.
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: It was I mean, it was hot, it was all this,
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: but you pitched, you did pitch. We we end up
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: winning the game.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: We get off to historic twenty seven to nine start.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: We're rolling, right what it was? Yeah, we were, we
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: were rolling, Yeah, and everyone, I mean spring training, we
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: already had the mindset of we're winning the World Series,
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: there's no one stopping us, and we get off to
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: this start. For me, there was a few games that
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: set out early on, but I want to know from
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: you what stood out on that team early that was like,
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: holy shit, we're gonna We're gonna do this.
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: I just feel like we were relentless early, you know
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: what I mean, And like when we had a chance
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: to step on somebody's throat, we stepped on it early
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: and we made a point and Joe Joel was harped
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: on it. I remember Joe spring training, He's like, all
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: I care about y'all get off to a fast start. Yeah,
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: that's all he talked about. Quick start, because if you
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: don't get off to that quick start, there's gonna be
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: a team that does. And now you're chasing and that's
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: hard to do. But I just remember we freaking we
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: came out and it was like, I mean we were
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: in LA and it was like.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: And we just went dinner. How much did we spend
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: out that team dinner?
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: Well, we talked about last night. I thought it was more,
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: but I think we agreed it was fifteen.
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: It was it was over fifteen because I think THEO
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: had told us like, hey, we're going to give you
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: this much money.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: We're coming from Vegas.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: Let's losch So we have spring two spring training games
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: in Vegas, which we blow it out on. But they'd
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: only wanted us there for one or two nights, not
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: the third night. We had it off heay, so they're like,
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: all right, we're gonna like they're forcing us to go
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: to Anaheim. Whin whole team wanted to stay in Vegas
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: because we all wanted to enjoy. And so THEO and
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: mister Ricketts agreed that they would buy us a huge
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: team dinner, which once John came over, he was usually
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: the one him and Lackey would fight for who's paying
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: for the team dinners. And we have this beautiful team
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: dinner and then we go out we roll.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: L Angels Angels. Yeah, it was the Angels.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: We take I think two three I'm saying from the Diamondbacks.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Sure, we got hurt.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Shore, we got hurt. Lacky gave up like five.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Or six early, and we end up winning that game.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: We ended up destroying them in that game.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: A lead off homer, yeah, he was.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: He never does that first fastball. Here it comes and
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: he nobody ever swings. Yeah, and he gave them a homer.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: But what was were some things just being relentless.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: And then because getting off to the good start was
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: key because I thought.
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: The messaging in spring training you're talking about, Joe, The
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: messaging in spring training was so like, expectations are good. Embrace, yeah, right,
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: embrace it embraced the targets, target which the targets on
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: our back because we went so far and everybody came
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: in hungry. So that was the most fun spring trade
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: decks came back.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: We had a decks from that.
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: I was retiring. You guys make it fun.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: We had all the skits with Bussy singing, the Kawasaki singing, Yeah,
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: the karaoke, the karaoke played drops of Jupiter on the
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: piano about me.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: It was a good time. It was a good time.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: I want to go back.
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: You brought up something that we're just thinking about stories here.
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: But you said Pittsburgh. Yeah, I want to hear I
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: want to hear the Pittsburgh story when you came in
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: yelling at Riz bro We so.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: That was right before the All Star break, right, and
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: we said Sunday morning before the All Star break. Keep
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: in mind, now we have two birds, because there's twelve
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: of us going to the All Star Game or whatever.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: We have two private planes waiting for us after the game.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: The morning of the game we roll in. We lost
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: nine of ten. We're getting shelled. If the offense does well,
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: the pitching sucked. Pitching does well, offense sucked. I'm riding high.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: I go into the All Star break raaking. I'm like fourteen.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: I'm like twelve or fifteen in that series, like on
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: a high. The game before John gives up three or
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: four runs, we end up losing. I go four for
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: five in the game.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: I think I give up six with a homer.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, homer, shy of the cycle. It's not about.
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: I have not.
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: Remember well.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: I remember this because I'm in the weight room the
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: Sunday morning before they all staring, and I knew that
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: night when the quote came out, I was like fuck.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: I texted our media relations guy, Peter Chase, and I
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: was like, hey, this came out wrong, Like, is it
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: that bad? He's talking me off the ledge because I
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: know what's what's coming. So you read the quote please, Yeah,
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: I have the quote here.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Well before you read the quote, do you know how
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: I found out about that?
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: I know, fucking Travis Woods. I know. I know. This
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: game isn't easy, said Anthony Rizzo, who went four for
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: five and was a home run shy of the cycle.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: Feel myself, it's impossible to boat race the whole season
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: like we were doing. We just have to clean up
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: our pitching a little. We're talking, we're walking too many guys,
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: and that's not the formula. We've had a formula playing
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: good baseball, and we don't have it right now. Maybe
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: we have to mix a few cocktails together and figure
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: it out. But that's what it comes down to. I
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: knew right away when I said the pitching.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: Also, if you read the whole thing, it's not as bad.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: But John comes in Wood. He showed me John comes
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: in the next day start before the all stream. He's
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: not pitching the all Stagram right, No, So he's had
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: a good night, And I'm in the weight room. We're
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: watching Me and Tim Buster are watching Joel Ostein. Right,
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: it was like our Sunday mornings. They have a small,
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: little small weight the tiny little screen and Joel Ostin's on,
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: or one of the shows are on. And I'm rolling
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: on the ground like socks, just shorts and like maybe
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: a shirt and foam, rolling in such a vulnerable position.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: And John comes in after Travis wood runs John, look
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: what Anthony said, Look what Rizzo said, like your little brother.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: And he comes in. I've never seen him, this mad face,
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: beat red, lip quivering, standing over me.
• 44:23
  Speaker 7: If you ever fucking talk about our pitching staff again,
• 44:26
  Speaker 7: I'll fucking kill you.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: And I was like, I'm so vulnerable, Like.
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: It wasn't the best choice of words that I said,
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: but obviously the night before was my start, so I
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: was still pissed. Sure, Like I said, if you read
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: the whole when you just read that off, that's the
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: first time I've ever heard the whole thing, of course,
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: because what it doesn't sound as bad as when Woody
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: just shows you we need to clean up our pitching staff.
• 44:55
  Speaker 7: If you we need to clean up our fucking you
• 44:57
  Speaker 7: never fucking talked about and I'm just looking at him like,
• 45:00
  Speaker 7: and I just remember the only thing I said to him,
• 45:02
  Speaker 7: and he couldn't do anything about it, say I'm sorry, John, I.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: Messed up, and he didn't know what to do, and
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: he just kept quivering and he just walked out and
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: like the whole Later on we hugged it out and
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: calmed down, but I.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: Was so stift.
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: Part of that is when you bring over winning players
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: and re establishing culture, right, It's like, you know, we
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: used to get pissed if somebody had a is always
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: there in front of their locker in.
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: A good game. You got to be there in the
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: bad game, you know what I mean?
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: Like you got to talk to the media like that's
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: a thing you're establishing as winners. And that's basically as
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: a veteran, a guy with two World Series rings coming
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: in and going, hey man, we don't bash each other
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: and that we're don't bash each other, and to the
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: media like you got like, I no shit, I wasn't
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: any good, you know, But that's that's the standard you
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: were brought up with in the winning culture. And it's
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: like that's how I think, that's how winning basically you.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: Taught me a lesson that day that I carried with
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: me for the rest of my exactly career. And by
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: doing that, I grew up and I became a better leader.
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: And when it was my turn to go talk to someone,
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: I didn't scream at him, because as I got older,
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: the culture changed and you can't get the old school cowboys.
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: But I also knew at that time in our in
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: our relationship and our friendship. I knew that by me
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: saying that to you, in five minutes, you would be
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: fine with it, and in five minutes I would be
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: fine with it.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: If I did that to.
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: Another player, yeah, it would be a long thing for
• 46:29
  Speaker 5: the whole you know, like I knew. And also too,
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: I knew if I did it loud enough that somebody
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: out here might hear it and be like, what did
• 46:36
  Speaker 5: Anthony say and look at it and go, oh, okay,
• 46:38
  Speaker 5: I need to pay attention to what I'm saying now, right.
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: I hate the fact that you were the guinea pig
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: on it, but no.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: You know, it is what it is.
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: I was. I was so it was like that your career.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: I was eating dog. After that, I was so scared.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: But again and then after we go to the All
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: Star Game and we have a great time.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: I mean ten minutes later, we're fine.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because that's what that team was. That was the
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: bond we had. And then we go into the All
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: Star Game, and then we go into the end of July.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: We're playing the Mariners Sunday Night Baseball. We have a
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: huge i mean, I'm talking the biggest road trip of
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: the year coming up right, that's been playing out for
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: numerous reasons, for numerous reasons that we're going to get
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: to after the this play, and THEO calls you guys
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: into the office with Joe and they they're playing Seattle
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: Sunday Night Baseball and they want to give the starters
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: a rest, right.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: And I think we had won the first two games.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: We're going for the sweet.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: Oh bro, we were rolling.
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: We're rolling.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: We were rolling, we were rolling. So we bring up
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: a starter to a spot start.
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: And also, nothing against Brian Matis. It's not Brian Madis's fault.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: No, it's just our team. Read our team was so solidified, right,
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: there's nothing that can break us. Well, we bring up
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: us for a spot start to give the guys a arrest,
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: and everyone's like, why fuck with why fuck with us?
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: Like this is working, and he ends up giving up
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: a bunch of runs early and we come back, and
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: that comeback was like probably the biggest moment I think
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: of the season for us, of like nothing can stop
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: us because I know this. The starters were all kind
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: of pissed off, like you're skipping my turn, like you're
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: messing with our routine. You guys are creatures of habit.
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: When it wasn't only that, it's the fact that it's
• 48:26
  Speaker 5: almost like when you're rolling and Joe's like, hey, I'm
• 48:29
  Speaker 5: gonna give you a day.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, it didn't happen.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: It didn't happen.
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, Like, no, now, it's not
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: when I'm rolling, you roll me out there until I
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: don't have it anymore. And that's kind of the starter
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: because we had pitched so bad leading up to the
• 48:43
  Speaker 5: break and we all came back and it was like
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: we're back.
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: They were pissed. Yeah, well I remember the starting staff
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: and it wasn't like legit, man.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's because we were we were back. We were rolling.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: Everybody was.
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: It was we were feeding off each other, it was going,
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: it was it was good vibe, and we all knew
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: we had that off day coming up. And then every
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: you just follow the off day, right, everybody just gets
• 49:05
  Speaker 5: that extra day. Well, they wanted to give us two
• 49:07
  Speaker 5: extra days. Yep, because go ahead, Sorry.
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: No, no, it's And so we come back in this
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: game on Sunday Night baseball, which at the time was
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: the biggest deal to have Sunday Night baseball. And we're rallying, right,
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: and the old school away. When you're rallying, the starters
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: are in the clubhouse, throwing back some pops, having some
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: rally beers. So not only did you have a suicide squeeze,
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: but I want to know, a.
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: Suicide squeeze to win the game. I've still got my shirt.
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: I shud broad day bunt to win?
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: Johnny, we bring Lester in. It was like the tenth
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: or eleventh, isn't extra inning, Well, we'll check the tap.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: Suicide squeezed, walk off wind Like big comeback had to
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: be a few pops deep because you were always for
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: the boys. But it was such a significant moment for
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: us looking back because of the unity that we all
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: came afterwards. What happened afterwards is something you never see
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: and you probably will never see again with walking into
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: the clubhouse with THEO.
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got so much respect for THEO to that.
• 50:11
  Speaker 5: I mean I had respect for him, you know before
• 50:13
  Speaker 5: and in any profession, you're gonna have disagreements with your bosses, right,
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: like total nature, that's life.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: But for him to come down and be like, hey,
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: that's on me.
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: He was apologizing to our team, to the whole team. Yeah,
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: and it wasn't anything against Brian mattis great dude. Yeah,
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: it was just what our team was building. And then
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: you just he kind of they claimed off waivers and
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: he came up for just a spot start, and it
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: was like him saying that to us was like wow,
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: like this is this is another reason why we're so special,
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: another reason why we're going to win the last game
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: of the year.
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, his accountability in that moment.
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: Was which you just don't see. He's stele Epstein, he's
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: you know prom Yeah, he's a Hall of Famer and
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: he's incredible. So come to find out the next trip,
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: which we all knew was going on, mister Lester, the
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: most generous player I've ever played with in my entire career.
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: The greatest road trip of all time.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: Of all time. We're going out west. We're going to Oakland.
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: We have an off day in Oakland, Thursday off day.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: So we fly out Wednesday, Wednesday night we land or
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: Wednesday day game. We land Thursday. At San Francisco Airport.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: John has a private plane for all the boys, the
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: eight of us to fly to Pebble Beach to play
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: Bebble Beach two nights day.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, we got in that night, played the next day. No.
• 51:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because I that's that was the whole point of
• 51:36
  Speaker 5: the of the of the why I got mad of.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: The pitching change. Okay, yes, we were rolling.
• 51:43
  Speaker 5: Personally, I was mad because I was supposed to pitch
• 51:48
  Speaker 5: the following day, I think the second day in Oakland,
• 51:54
  Speaker 5: but because of the pitching change, my day got No,
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: that doesn't make sense. I was supposed to pitch the
• 52:00
  Speaker 5: Wednesday day game, That's what it was, and because of
• 52:03
  Speaker 5: the start on Sunday, I get pushed back to the
• 52:04
  Speaker 5: Friday game in Oakland. So THEO tells us this, this
• 52:08
  Speaker 5: is before the whole Sunday night baseball game, and I
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: go I just I raised my hand. He's telling us,
• 52:14
  Speaker 5: I'm like eighth grader. Hey, THEO, I have a question. Listen,
• 52:19
  Speaker 5: I have set up around at Pebble Beats for eight dudes. Okay,
• 52:23
  Speaker 5: we have hotel rooms for staying there. I've got the
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: rounds taken care of, and I got a plane picking
• 52:29
  Speaker 5: us up and off and dropping us off.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: Mind you, it's a twenty seven second flight.
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: And he looks at me and he goes, so you're
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: playing golf on Thursday. I said, well, that's my question.
• 52:42
  Speaker 5: I'm supposed to pitch on Friday now because you's fucked
• 52:44
  Speaker 5: with the rotation.
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: You fuck with my golf.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: You fuck with not my balhap you fucked with Pebble right, yeah.
• 52:52
  Speaker 5: So and all the boys and all the boys, and
• 52:53
  Speaker 5: I'm like, THEO, I can't possibly sit on the plane
• 52:57
  Speaker 5: and watch seven guys get off a plane and walk
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: onto a plane and fly down.
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: There with that. I'm paying for it.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: And he goes, Tom was.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: The flight he was?
• 53:09
  Speaker 5: And I go theel dude, like, what do you got?
• 53:12
  Speaker 5: He goes, well, are you good to play? Your body?
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: Fine? I said, yeah, he goes go play.
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: I love him.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: I was like all right.
• 53:22
  Speaker 5: He goes, when are you guys getting back? I go,
• 53:23
  Speaker 5: we'll be back as soon as we're done. We're flying back,
• 53:25
  Speaker 5: we'll be in. We got back for dinner.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: We went on. Yeah, John paid, We're all together, We're
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: all this is this is now August like we're together forever.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: And we go to Pebble Beach. We play. We hang
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: out all night there like till the wee hours of
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: the morning. There we play golf, fly in on the
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: on the patio, fly in that night, and we still
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: go to dinner. That's how much we wanted to be together.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: And we were there. John as great as he was,
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: he's sometimes cut some corners, and he not only did
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: he buy us all eight rooms, but I was the
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: guy who kept him in check. He got us partial
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: view rooms. And it was like, John, if we're gonna
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: do this, you got the plane, You're gonna give me
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: a partial view, like a partial view suite. It was
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: a sweet but before partial view. So I'm just wearing
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: them out right, partial view, partial view. And we get there.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: The partial view is like there's a little parking lot
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: and then it's all ocean and cliffs.
• 54:28
  Speaker 5: It was a view of a parking lot with a
• 54:30
  Speaker 5: little bit of ocean over the top of it.
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: No, it was more ocean than but I panned and
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: like made it look like John this partial fuse bullshit,
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: like look at these rooms and he wore me out
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: and I wore them out about having to walk. But
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: that trip, I still have that picture of all of
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: us in the sand in.
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: The house. Everybody's posing, skis posing. It was me us three,
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: Maggie kb hen Ski Area, Lackie right, and I three. Unbelievable.
• 55:00
  Speaker 4: And we left there, went go to dinner, go to dinner, win,
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: beat the ship out of Oakland.
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: Friday night day game sevendy.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: While we're in the middle right now of what turned
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: out to be thirteen out of fourteen, and this was
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: we were on eleven row, and this is all the
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: stuff that's going on off the field.
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: Saturday, we have a day game, we beat Oakland.
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: John's got a boat race, and we got a sprinter
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: van that sends us down to San Francisco.
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: Forty nine ers, big up, the VJ police.
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: Escort, escort, Kenny Chesney concert.
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: Chesney concert, met the head coach, walks around the facilities,
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: party with Chesney.
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: Sammy Hagar's. There were hanging out back stage.
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: Go back sweep Oakland on Sunday and head home Like
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: that was like literally the best road trip.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: That was a good one.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: It was a street that was the best one.
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: Bro.
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: I think what people don't understand is how much we
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: enjoyed life that year off the field. Like it was
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: like we would got to the field and we were
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: excited to play together and we were equally excited for
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: what was about to happen. Yeah.
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: Well, I don't think Joe gets enough credit for the
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: mindset of which he created of be yours have fun
• 56:12
  Speaker 4: off the field, and you're going to be better at
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: your job when you come to work. Like that was
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: such a different kind of mindset than a lot of managers.
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: Like living and breathing Baseball twenty four to seven, it's
• 56:21
  Speaker 4: nice like coming to work every single day knowing it's like, yeah,
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: we've done a lot of fun stuff and off the
• 56:27
  Speaker 4: field that when we come we still want to hang
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: out and now we were a tighter knit group when
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: you come together and want to get to work and
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: play hard.
• 56:34
  Speaker 5: Focus for and to your point to that, I think
• 56:36
  Speaker 5: Joe did a really good job with the schedule and
• 56:38
  Speaker 5: the times of which we got to the field. Sure right,
• 56:41
  Speaker 5: Like it's on a random Tuesday and we've got a
• 56:44
  Speaker 5: seventy eight seven pm game, and he's like, all right,
• 56:48
  Speaker 5: Little League Week show.
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, American Legion Week.
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: Shout out to Davey Martinez too. Yeah, Joe handled the
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: media so well in US, But Davey ran that asylum
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: of communicating.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: You love the asylum.
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: Prisoners run the asylum. I've said it my whole career.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: If they don't, it's not a good team. If the
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: team's not controlled from within, it's not a great team.
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: But Joe, but I remember coming in one day. I
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: think I was at your house or something, and we
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: were just pounding wine. I think, what was the screaming.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: With this?
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: You opened up a screaming eagle for us or something,
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: a crazy bottle of wine, and I thought, I thought
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: it could have been the potatoes or the steak that
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: we had that night that made me a little fuzzy
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: the next morning.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: But it's always the steak.
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it could have been the wine. I go into
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: Joe's office and I'm able to have a conversation with
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: him like a friend, and I'm like, Joe, last night
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: we were at Lester's I believe it was there, and
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: we drank so much wine as oh brother, He's like,
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: how do you feeling it. I'm like, I'm good, Like,
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: just get through it, You'll be fine. I go out
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: and have a great game. But how can you say
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: that to your manager, because that's the environment he created. Sure,
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. It was like, there's nothing
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: better than that.
• 58:00
  Speaker 4: I want to get to one of my favorite games.
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: Because I've never asked you the story that the last
• 58:05
  Speaker 4: game of the season, Sunday Night Baseball Saint Louis, we're
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: going on the postseason and Joe takes me out of
• 58:13
  Speaker 4: the game.
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: Joe comes out. You're carving.
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: We're up and three to one, like the seventh, right,
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: it was late and you still had your pitches were
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: down Joe. I think we got one out and Joe,
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: here comes Joe out of the dugout. I look over,
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: I'm like, we got two, we got two out, we
• 58:30
  Speaker 4: got two out.
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: I'm like, what the fuck's he doing out here?
• 58:33
  Speaker 4: Like Johnny's rolling like so I'm like on one of
• 58:37
  Speaker 4: my pissed, like I played mad right, like I was
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: definitely all we know, we know, I know, I know,
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: I get this reputation.
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: Of like, oh, Rossie's so nice, grandpa blah blahah. These
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: guys hated me, so everybody knows I love you. It's it.
• 58:52
  Speaker 4: He's coming out and I'm on one of my my
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: rants to the mound and you're just you're staring at me,
• 58:57
  Speaker 4: and I'm thinking, what's he doing?
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: What's Joe doing? And You're like, uh, he's taking you
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: out of the game. Or Joe grabs me.
• 59:03
  Speaker 4: He's like, hey, I've never done this before. You went
• 59:06
  Speaker 4: in his office and told him to take me out
• 59:08
  Speaker 4: of the game. I want to know how that whole
• 59:09
  Speaker 4: thing went down.
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: So night.
• 59:11
  Speaker 4: I appreciate I appreciate that, but I've never heard how.
• 59:17
  Speaker 4: I can imagine a player coming into my office and going, hey,
• 59:20
  Speaker 4: we're gonna take this wen, take this guy out of
• 59:22
  Speaker 4: the game.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: So night before.
• 59:25
  Speaker 5: I send it home, you know, we're fair and I
• 59:28
  Speaker 5: are just talking or whatever, and I look at her
• 59:31
  Speaker 5: and I go, hey, what do you think about this?
• 59:34
  Speaker 5: I said, if everything goes well tomorrow, having Joe taken
• 59:39
  Speaker 5: Rossi out of the game before he takes me out,
• 59:41
  Speaker 5: I was like, but it's got to go perfect.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: It can't be.
• 59:44
  Speaker 5: It can't be the fourth inning when I've got eighty
• 59:46
  Speaker 5: seven pitches and we're losing six to three or whatever.
• 59:49
  Speaker 5: I said, it's got to go perfect. And she's like, yeah,
• 59:51
  Speaker 5: go talk to Joe. See what he says.
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: Said Okay.
• 59:54
  Speaker 5: So I get there early the next day, planning on
• 59:57
  Speaker 5: having to talk to Joe for like thirty forty minutes
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 5: right like give him the whole spiel. He's gonna talk
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 5: me down off this ledge and analytics say you can't
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 5: do this or whatever, and I go into jug Hey, Joe,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 5: I got an idea, he said, yeah.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: I said, now, same thing.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 5: If everything goes perfect tonight, what do you think about
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 5: taking ROSSI out for his last game before you take
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 5: me up?
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: Let him get let him walk off the field, get
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: his love, because I love it.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: That's all he said.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: And I said, any idea you ever brought to Joe? Yeah,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: he was like.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: And I sat there.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 5: I was like, I just can't imagine how that's it,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 5: and he goes, yeah, love.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 4: I remember starting to pulling the mask down, starting to
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: cry right in front of you, guys.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: You had a home of that game.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 5: Joe's like this, it's like in your face and you
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 5: got your mask off and you're like looking at me
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 5: and looking at him, and he goes you taking it
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 5: out of the game, and you didn't know what to do,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 5: and I'm like waiting for like a hug or like
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 5: a bro dap or something, and you just go, I
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 5: love you, guys.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 4: I was about to melt down, like I like, I
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 4: saw all the look in you guy's face and you
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 4: were just like staring through me, and I'm like.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: About I almost forgot to hug Joe and everything.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: It's another example of the things that John did for
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: us that no one knew about. Exactly, no one knew
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: that John did that, Like no one knew that you
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: went to Joe's office and pulled him out, and nor
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: did you want the credit for that afterwards too. But
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: these are all the things behind the scene that make
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: a championship team that it doesn't you can't quantify it.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: It just happens. And for Joe to do that, for
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: you to be able to have the confidence to go
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: tell Joe this right, it's just all of these things
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: come together to make it where the reason you want
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: to do that for him is because you guys were
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: brothers on the field and you care about him, and
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: you got your runway of your hundredth home run, the
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: Grandpa Rossi, the whole retirement tour, it's no, it's not
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: about you. But let's get back to no one gives
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: the stanting ovation to a backup catcher. Great point, you
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: know what I mean? Point that doesn't even get to
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: get all of that bats right exactly because of John.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 4: So we go into the playoffs and playoffs and you
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 4: put us on your back, bro, Like I mean, we
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: had obviously our whole pitch staff was really good and
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: the areata was on a two year run that like
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 4: I've never seen. And you you're different in the playoffs, right,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: Like what is that?
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: Like?
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: I think people need to learn from your mentality and
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 4: you're talking about routine, You're talking about your experiences.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: I always have a lot of lot to do with that.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: But Bro, you're dominant in the postseason.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 5: Looking back on it, I think a little bit of
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 5: a little bit of it is like I said, I'm
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 5: not I never look to see who I was pitching against.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 5: I didn't care, right like Adam Wainwright, Annabelle Sanchez, Joe
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 5: Shitt the barber, It doesn't matter, right, Like I'm not competing.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 5: I'm competing against him, but I'm not pitching against him,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 5: So that in my mind never scared me. You know
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 5: what I'm saying, and then I just I loved when
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 5: it mattered, right, Like, the season gets so long. Beginning
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 5: of the season, you're so hyped, you're ready to go,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 5: you're amped, you feel good.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: You should be somewhat locked in with your stuff.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 5: You get to the middle of the season, it's kind
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 5: of dictating which way the year is going for you.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 5: Whatever you get to August, you hate everybody.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: Sure, angry August say angry August.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 5: You hate everybody. You hate your family, you hate your
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 5: your teammates, you hate to say whatever you want, and
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 5: it's you hate everybody. September comes around, you get that
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 5: little boost where you call up the young fellas. They're there,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 5: they're getting to especially in our situation to sixteen. Those
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 5: young guys got to experience some first for them, which
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 5: is cool. You're in a playoff hunt. You're in a
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 5: playoff hunt. We clinch early. When you clinch early, it's
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 5: good and bad because then you're like, all right, I'm preparing.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 5: I'm still trying to win the games, but I'm also
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 5: not trying to get hurt, you know, So you're kind
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 5: of dodging and weaving your way through September. Now, those
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 5: lights come on, and the weather changes. It's getting dark early.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 5: You have flyovers all of a sudden. You know, you
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 5: got the big flag for the anthem. People are there.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 5: The stadiums filled before the Yeah, the stadiums feel before
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 5: the first pitch. Everybody's asses in their seat before the
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 5: first pitch because they want to see playoff baseball.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: The crowd is into it.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 5: First inning, two outs, three to two, right, like now
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 5: you your senses are amps romantic.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: It is right, you're really they're getting me gone on.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 5: That's why I love baseball though, especially like I got
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 5: spoiled early in my career to go to playoffs so
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 5: much and be a part of it and have responsibility.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 5: You know, I wasn't a fourth I wasn't you know.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: The you're you're the guy.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was here. Here's game one, Go get
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: them kid.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about game one because it it was cold,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: it was windy. Which Game one in NLDS twenty.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: Sixteen, Oh at Wrigley, at Wrigley.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: We're playing the Giants. The Giants are coming off their
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: even year. Was it three years in a row? Three
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: even years in a row. So we're now sixteen. This
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: is gonna be their fourth they won in fourteen, and
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: that's real, and it's real that we have one hundred
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: and eight year curse over us too, which we handled
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: really well. But that shit was real because we didn't win,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: and you get asked about all the time, and you
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: just add a little bit of extra juice. So we
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: go into game one and John shoves where do you go?
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: You go eight innings, five strikeouts, We end up winning
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: the game one nothing on Hobbiesbby.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 5: Hit a six mile homer that hit the basket.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: Hit the basket, barely got in.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 5: I mean, he's the fuck out and I still don't
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 5: think he's touched first base.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: Still he's still standing at home.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: We all knew it was a homer too, and it
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: barely got over and we win one nothing. But the
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: tone that you set for that game set the tone
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: for the rest of the playoff us because we do.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: We we boat race pretty much all season. We have
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: a little hiccup in July, we have a great second half,
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: we kind of start amping up for the playoffs, and
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: then Game one, boom, we get hit in the face
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: of quato and we win one nothing. But that game
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: set the tone that the energy there. We had a
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: backpick there game one that no one knows, like, this
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: is how fearless we were, and this is how amazing
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: Joe was that he trusted us. We do a back
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: pick in game one where a guy's bunting. I come
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: up in the guy's face. The guy at first takes
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: a big lead. Hobby comes around on the.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 4: Back and you trust Hobby, You trust Hobby, you trust John,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 4: you trust.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: You're trusting four guys there to do their job, and
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: we get a huge backpick there. That just another example
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: of us playing fearless, us being too young, we're too
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: dumb or what did you always.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: Say about saying young and young and dumb.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: That was John's favorite line, because we were all I
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: think twenty six or twenty five and under. We did
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: second youngest team. But that sets the tone. We win, then,
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: i'ds we go into game one of the NLC US
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: Dodgers and you set the tone again. There, you remember
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: what you did there.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: I remember Game five more than I remember Game one.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: Let's see Game one of the NLCS six innings, one run,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: we went eight four, Maggie Montero, grand Slam, Joelton, Joe.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 8: Joe Blain chess match between Joe and Dave Roberts, Jiggy Miggie,
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 8: and we'll get to this when we talked to Miggie,
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 8: But Maggie was for the whole team.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: If you weren't playing, you had a mission, and that
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: was to get runs. And how do we get runs?
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: John a little some we like to call rally beers.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: Rally beers or shots or because in sixteen I believe
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: it started in fifteen when we swept a series, the
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: boys would take shots. And if we ever got to
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: a little rut and we were kind of grinding, those
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: shots became instead of after the game, sometimes they were
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: before the game on occasion, on.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: Occasion, not very often, but it happened.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: It did happen when we needed it. You can't go
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: to the well too much or it doesn't work.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 5: And the crazy thing about Mickie is, I think earlier
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 5: in that day he couldn't walk.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: He just got a courtizone shot.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, it was that day, right, yeah, And he.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: Was still rallying for the boys. So he comes in
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: and it's that grand slam. I don't even think he
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: really knew his name at the time.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: Joe, Joe should have thrown the heater.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he hung but that was electric.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 5: I mean, dude, the whole playoff scene like whether and
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 5: and don't take this wrong way. But whatever side you're on,
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 5: whether you win or you lose, you will never forget
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 5: being in the playoffs, right, it never. And the further
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 5: you go, the more electric and the more your senses
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 5: are away, like you're you're you're hyped. You get to
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 5: the field, You're hyped as soon as you get there.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: The closer you get with your teammates, yeah, close to
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: the families get because all the families are rallying together too.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 3: And the fans. You're getting out of your car, the
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 3: fans are there. What's that in the playoffs? Like you're
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: getting out of your car.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 5: Like the That's what I'm saying, Like, I'll never forget.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 5: I'll never forget Game five. I'm jumping ahead of the
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 5: of the CS. But Game five of the World Series.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 5: You know, not very often at Wrigley do you walk
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 5: out of the of the dugout to go warm up,
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 5: which was if I think when we played seven o'clock
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 5: games during the play Yeah, because Chicago's seven behind some seven,
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 5: so I'd be out there at six twenty walking out
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 5: of the dugout right, you couldn't see a seat in
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 5: that place, Wrigley Special and they were I mean, bro,
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 5: that and I see everybody was standing, but you couldn't
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 5: see seats.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: What I'm saying, I guess for warm ups.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: We hadn't been to the World Series and sixty No,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: I get that. I know it's a series and what
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: I'm saying, and then I'll see, yes, you haven't at
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: that point, have gone. So when we win, you win
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: Game five, right, and then game six we win, we'd
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: beat Kershaw double play and the game to.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 5: Go back to Game five, I think probably one of
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 5: the best postseason games I've ever thrown.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: Bro, you dominate it.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: That's that was like I knew going into that game.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: I was lost.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 4: I want to talk about let's let's walk the I
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 4: think like you got a four to one record in
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 4: World Series games and the one loss in Cleveland Game one,
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 4: we went, I went us together, so heavy scouting report
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 4: and what did we say after that game? Like you
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 4: were having to throw it in a dixie cup by
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 4: the second time through the lineup because we're sinking away.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 4: We're change up back door, trying to cut it in off.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 4: They were giving up on the end, and your bread
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 4: and butter was I'm going to establish I rememb We
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 4: got an argument in Boston about it. I'm going to
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 4: establish my four seamer in that's when I'm at my best.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 4: That locks me in mechanically, and that gets everything everybody
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 4: looking in for my and then I can go cutter
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 4: off that I can sink away. Everything works after that,
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 4: and I learned that over time, and then got to
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 4: the World Series in game one and we went so
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 4: heavy scour report. Remember everybody, everybody was like, sink down
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 4: the way, no strike breaking balls, change up, different things
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 4: like that.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 3: And we had you had to grow. He grinded through
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: that game. You grinded.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 5: But you say, we just said something. It reminded me.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 5: And I don't know if you remember this. The reason
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 5: I said that to you is because the very first
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 5: time you caught me in twenty thirteen, Yeah, I know,
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 5: you came back. He was on a Hawaiian vacation all
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 5: year with his I had a good cushion, had scrambled brow.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: He had both of us there for years.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 5: He didn't know what planet he was on, and went
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 5: to Hawaii, came back all tan, you know, and the
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 5: gonna lie. The tan line was a little weird when
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 5: we got in the shower, That's all I'm saying.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: It was a little awkward. I didn't know what kind
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: of bathing suit he had.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 5: So thirteen started out really good for me, and then
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 5: I hit a lull, kind of like we're talking about
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 5: in sixteen for us. In July whatever struggled beginnings of Timber.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 5: We're facing Detroit. Do you remember this? Facing Detroit. I
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 5: know I'm getting off topic. We'll get right back there.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 5: Never caught me except for spring training comes in.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: This is.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: When this is when Detroit is rolling.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 5: They got Sanchez, they got Prince Torry hunterlin Uh, Victor Martinez, miggi.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 3: Omarvion Vonte, a really good player.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: Like murders Row.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 5: Okay, no disrespect to the Yankees. But so we get
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 5: in there and I'm dude, I'm like, I don't know
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 5: what I'm gonna do. Like these guys plus Victor Martinez,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 5: Tory Hunter, and Miguel Cabres ops against me is a
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 5: combined seven million love when you pitched seven million. Okay,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 5: So we sit down and I've got all my fucking
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 5: notes and I look at Rossi and he goes, hey,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 5: this is what we're gonna do. He goes every every
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 5: bit of film I watched, everybody kind of dicking off
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 5: with these guys. They're going back door breaking ball, this, this, this, this,
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 5: they fall behind two to one, two oh three to one.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 5: Then guess what happens, Pakaye Right like, now that's where
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 5: the damage comes. He goes, We're gonna come out and
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 5: we're gonna throw the ball as hard as we can,
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 5: and we're gonna throw it right at their hands till
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 5: they make an adjustment.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 3: Cool.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 5: The only left in the lineup was Prince Fielder. All right,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 5: here we go, Rossie, step back there.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 3: Peterran until over and over again, and.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 5: Just the first three innings, and like I was pissed,
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 5: like I was still trying to figure it out. I
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 5: was blowing like ninety six, ninety five, ninety six, just
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 5: Miguel's jumping out of the way. Next thing you know,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 5: got curveball under Chase. We end up winning the game.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 5: And at the cutter.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: What that did in thirteen was then all right to go.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 5: Back about statish, establishing your fastball, stamaging your cutter, which
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 5: made everything else.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 3: And it locked you in mechanically and you learned later
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 3: on too.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: It's like, just so we roll up game six at
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: Wrigley for the NLCS, right, you just win game five,
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: you go seven innings, I think one run. We have
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: a chance to go to the World Series and we
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: fell short the year before. We have first ballot Hall
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: of Famer Clinton Kershaw on the mound and we roll
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: him right and.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 3: Wow, Hendricks deal.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the professor went deal. Our whole staff, he dealt
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: two games. He got the loss in the in game two. Yeah,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: well we were down to one of that series. Right,
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: so we win off Kershaw the double play, and I
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: just remember Wriggly being so loud and that's celebration and
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: you winning the MVP, call m MVP of that series,
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: and it's like, what does that mean to you? You
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: sign there, you have this massive deal. You put so
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: much pressure on yourself. In fifteen, we exceed all expectations.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: We're going to the World Series. Job's not finished. One
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: hundred and eight year curse. You're the guy you just
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: went MVP. Like, what are you feeling?
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 5: I feel like I'm feeling at the time, like I'm
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 5: doing my job, you know what I'm saying, like, not
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 5: to downplay it, but I feel like I'm.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: Doing what I was supposed to be doing.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 5: You know, I think in fifteen, I know we're jumping
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 5: around a lot, but in fifteen I felt like I
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 5: needed to win the World Series in April.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah I remember that.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, make sense, like you're trying to live up to
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 3: that contract.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I'm trying to make I'm trying to make.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: You're still new. You're also grumpy and unapproachable and all these.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 5: Things allegedly, but yeah, I mean all those things. Thanks Ris,
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean I feel like at the time,
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 5: you're like, all right, I'm on a personal level, You're like,
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 5: all right, I'm doing.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: What I'm supposed to be doing, right, Like the.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 5: Pieces are falling now at the end of the day,
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 5: I'm just throwing this out there.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: I'm three for three on World Series.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 5: Okay, I've never gone to the World I just wanted
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 5: Black's famous line.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: Black famous line.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 5: Remember he said when we got to the World Series,
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 5: he said, hey, Tony, I ain't never been to a
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 5: World Series.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: I hadn't won, so I have how's that second place ring?
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: Anyway?
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 3: So one of that.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 5: So anyway, I just feel like at the time, I'm like,
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 5: all right, we've accomplished half of the goal. We've got
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 5: to the World series, right, that's sometimes that's half the
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 5: battle total is getting there. All jokes aside, but we've
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 5: got there. Okay, we've accomplished goal one of getting there. Now,
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 5: goal too is to win the motherfucker right, Like, like,
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 5: we didn't come here for to lose, right, we came
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 5: here to win.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 5: Probably in my obviously I'm bias to this, but I
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 5: think one of the greatest World series in the history
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 5: of the game.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, hands down, hands down. There's not even the ups
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: and downs, the droughts, both teams, both.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 5: Teams, the cat and mouse game, two great managers going
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 5: at each other, as far as game planning, pitching, matchups,
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 5: you know, all this stuff starting pitching, offense, stolen bases, everything.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 5: Like then it ends up at game seven, which is
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 5: my first Game seven, it was incredible. Oh, roller coaster
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 5: of emotions.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: That's not skip out. You win the MVP of the
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: NLCS that night. That party at John's house was elite. Okay, basically,
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: the whole team's there, the whole city's rioting. Everyone's just
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: happy to be back in the World Series. We still
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: know we have a job to do, but we celebrate,
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: celebrated everything.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 4: Then it felt I don't know how you guys felt
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 4: when we won the CS, because we had lost it
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 4: the year before. I felt like boom, like that was
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 4: that was a sense of relief for me. It was like, Okay,
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 4: now we're going to the World Series. Just roll it
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 4: all out there.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 3: Whatever.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 4: But getting further than we did in fifteen to me
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 4: was so important because of the steps we had taken so.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 5: Fast growing and especially for the young guys, it's like
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 5: confidence right, Like you feel like and I know there's
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 5: guys that have done this where it's like I.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: Can't get past the DS. You know what I'm saying.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 5: There's a roadblock there, and maybe that's why that roadblock.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 5: It's like, oh, oh well here it is still the
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 5: same game.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: We're good. It's a funny story. After a game six
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: we win, celebrate all that stuff. Drive back to that.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I lived a mile from Rapley.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 5: Wife calls me and says, hey, there's a group of
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 5: people in the front yard tepeeing our tree.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: I remember this.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: Pulled around.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 5: We've got a alley way that you pulled into the garage.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 5: Berteaux that we lived on was a one way street
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 5: going that way. Pull around, go down the one way
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 5: street this.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: Way, pull up.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, what are y'all doing?
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 5: Oh, we just wanted to celebrate, and I go by
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 5: t peeing my tree.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: Didn't you invite him in for a beer? Yeah?
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: I go.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 3: If you guys want to celebrate, I go.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 5: You guys want to celebrate and knock on my damn door,
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 5: I'll come have a beer with you.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: And the one lady goes, we are so sorry, we'll
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: start cleaning up. They cleaned up all the.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 5: Well. I parked and came out and we cheers and
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 5: had a drink and then when went.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: Well, that party was. First off, I have to tell
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: you set the scene on John's house. John bought. Not
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: only did John buy a house, he bought the lot
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: next door. It was a house as well. He knocked
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: it down till his dog famously quoted and I quote,
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: I knocked it down so my dog had a yard
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: to shit it. Okay, that's the type of I may
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: have just told you that, but okay, well.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 3: I'm not anymore.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: This is what the this is what the people get John.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: But John has this party and we're all there and
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: we're all celebrating, and next thing you know, we're on
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: the back patio. Rossi's playing the guitar. My dad's there
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: playing the guitar. Eddie Vetty Eddie Vedder is there, starts
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: jamming out for us in the backyard, like I think
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: he's saying, what the Cubs go all the way right?
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: Someday we'll go all the way? Yes, And he's just
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: doing an acoustic Rossi's playing, my Dad's playing. This one
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: of my greatest memories because my dad loves playing the
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: guitar too, and all of us coming together there and
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: just knowing that the job's not finished, but we're we
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: we got this like we were sew together.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 4: And then we roll into game one, well because I
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 4: because me and your dad were playing our thing. Now
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 4: is we open for Eddie Vedder? Just so everybody did
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 4: you did? I opened?
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: You're an opener, I'm an o and we go we
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: go into game one of the World Series. You're setting
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: the tone for us.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: Didn't do a very good job.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: We don't. We said the tone.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 3: That was my fault. I take the responsible Me and
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 3: me and Borsello Mike Borsello. Yeah, and we went so
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 3: scouting report.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 4: But then in game five you came out and we
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 4: you fucking punched out the side going I'm being.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: Me, I'm being Game five was the hardest game of
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: the series, hands down. Game seven was its own fairy tale,
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: but game five. But let's go back to game three.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: At the first game at Wrigley in what sixty plus years,
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: the atmosphere there was so like dead coming off the
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 2: NLCS at everyone party in Suburn, and it was like,
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: we get there. In game three, we're tied one to one,
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: and the atmosphere was almost like everyone was just so nervous,
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 2: Like I don't know if it was just me and
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: I was projecting on the fans, but like the energy
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: in the stadium was flat. We didn't really give them
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: a lot to cheer for, granted, but we go down.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: We lose Game three, we lose Game four, and we're like, fuck,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: like we just got swept the year before. Ain't doing this.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: And you come out in game five and we get
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 2: I think we gave you an early early lead.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: How could you at home?
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: Well, you got us through the first An early lead
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: is the first three innings. John oh, man, I thought
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: hit a homer.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: No, it wasn't until the fourth or fifth inning.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 3: Third base hit a hit a homer.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: Second inning.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 4: Remember, we went in so much and finally I was like, okay,
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 4: we've established in when Ramirez hit hit a solo home run,
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 4: went heat her in second one heater in homer.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 3: I was like, okay, now we've established that.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: Game was now we go. That game was a gauntlet.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: We won three two, You go six innings, one run,
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: Chappie comes in, I think goes two plus.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll tell you this, h I don't want to
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 5: say it's the only game but I think it's one
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 5: of the only games that I have looked at the
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 5: pitching coach and taken.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: Myself out of the game. Your guest was really stick
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: with Yeah. It was realistic with myself.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: Thank god. Yeah, because six innings, one run, we're right
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: at your ball.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 5: I just giving up the second run. I grind it
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 5: in the sixth and somebody hit a base hit up
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 5: the middle. They scored, and I want to say it
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 5: was no, Yeah, Lindor got the base hit up the middle,
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 5: and then you threw him out a second to get
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 5: out of the inning, and we got down there and
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 5: Boss came to check on me. I was at like
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 5: ninety something pitches and I go Boss. I said, I'm
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 5: I can give you as much as you want next inning,
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 5: but also don't put me in there. And if I
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 5: give a base hit, take me out and and have
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 5: that reliever come with somebody on.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: I said, if if, if.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 5: You guys are questioning it, give that guy clean inning.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 5: And he's like, all right, fair enough, and so he went.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 3: And they so much emotions leading up to that game.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: That was, well, we knew, we knew. We win game five,
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: we're going to roll in game six. That was our
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 2: mentality because we saw Tomlin. He kind of diced us
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 2: up a little bit and game remember the win was
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: going out and it was him and Hendricks, and.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 4: I was like, oh, take the over in this game. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 4: game games. Yeah, it was like two to one one
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 4: game six.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 2: In game six, after we won Game five was a
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: huge exit, like, oh funk, we're gonna roll game six.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: Game seven is a crap shoot, right, And we did.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 2: We came out, We came out in game six and
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: we popped off and we're all celebrating early and I
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: remember ROSSI being so pissed off that like we're all
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 2: like happy games, pacing up and down the doug Ount
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 2: even though I don't even think you were playing. I was, yeah, exactly,
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 2: and we go up all the way to go was
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: the seventh or eighth and eighth in and I think,
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: and again, this podcast is not about me. It's about
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: the reunion. But I had a home run World Series
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: home run and we go up like five, five or
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: six runs and Joe left champion. And that was like
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 2: the first real time, first time where like you know,
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: during the year, you get a lot of bicker and
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: everyone questions the manager at some point, but that was
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: the first time where like the whole dugout came together
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 2: and was like, Joe, get this fucking guy out of
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 2: the game, Like we this game's over, Chappie's still in,
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: Like let's get him out. Get Travis Wood up.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 3: Like your homer made it over when you hit the
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 3: homer boom, got it.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 2: Mike dropped and I dropped a bat too. Again, it's
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 2: really not about me, but I did drop. It's it's
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: a good picture I have in the office. But that's
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 2: like the first time where we were like, get him
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 2: out of the game. Right, because Chappie was our dog,
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 2: he was our he came over at the deadline and
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 2: just what he did for us, the respect I have
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 2: for him. Yeah, and then we go into game seven.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 2: We're all ready to go, right.
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 5: Like baskets of emotions, game bro.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: That game was. But what was your what was your
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: mindset like mine because you just pitched, so you're kind
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 2: of on short rest.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 3: Me you lackey in area to go down.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 5: Well before that hold on game six we win, Joe
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 5: calls me in the office, Hey, how are you fine?
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: Wow?
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 2: What do you need?
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: We're this is what we're doing tomorrow.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 5: Kyle's gonna go five and you're gonna either four or
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 5: five and you're going to bridge to Chappie and then
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 5: hopefully we got the trophy. Right, That was Joke's what
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 5: Joe said. I said, Cool, Skip, I'll be ready and
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 5: I'll be ready whenever you need me.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 3: Cool.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 5: So now I'm going to bed knowing I'm pitching, which
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 5: I think, looking back on it was a blessing because
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 5: now your nerves go down.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: There's no question, there's no wedding.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Like I'm not walking down there and going when
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 5: the phone rings, you know, So like that helped, so
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 5: go ahead.
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 4: Sorry, no, but well going down there and I went
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 4: down there with you guys, and I remember.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: You were like the actual He was like, they really
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: the decision making.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 3: Because yeah, bought.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 4: You got down there and just started like throwing a
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 4: little bit. You want to take a while to warm up.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 4: And I remember catching you and getting ready, and then
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 4: I was going down early and you were still going
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 4: to be warmed up, and Noble was catching you and
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 4: I'm watching you pitch. I'm like, he's throwing bebies. Like
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 4: if this goes too long, he's gonna be gassed. It's
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 4: with in my mind right like.
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 3: He is down a boom boom. No.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 4: I went in at the end of the inning and
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 4: Joe and Boz came up to me. It was like,
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 4: how's he look I'm like, he looks great. But I
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 4: wouldn't just extend this was my advice. I was like,
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't have him sit down there and throw bullets,
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 4: like the bullets are coming out good.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 3: Whenever you're ready to bring him in, he's ready, like,
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 3: don't wait two innings.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 2: Well, you're supposed to come in on a clean inning,
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 2: supposed to come on a clean come in with what
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 2: running around.
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 5: We're all went first, first, We're all went to ry
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 5: was the third inning where Kyle kind of gave up
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 5: a little bit of hard contact and they scored the run.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: So it was one one.
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 5: And the next they called down then and they're like,
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 5: go get ready, mind you before all of this started,
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 5: before the game, I told Travis wood I said, Woodie,
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 5: I don't know what the fuck I'm doing down there. Okay,
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 5: I said one, I said, one's the World Series.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: Two, I'm in the bullpen. I have.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 5: I have my routine that I'm going to try to
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 5: stick to, but you can't because it's it's a it's
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 5: a damn.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 2: And now could go the season.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 5: And then once the phone rings are grenade goes off
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 5: and everybody goes everywhere, and you're like, what do I do?
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 5: And so I told Woody before the game, I said,
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 5: if you you watch how many pitches I'm throwing. If
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 5: I get to a point where I've thrown too many pitches,
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 5: I want you to stand directly in front of me
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 5: where I can't throw another pitch.
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 2: So you imagine that I do. On the broadcast what
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 2: he's saying, wish like John.
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 5: I wish I wish they would have got it. But
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 5: there was a point where when you left and I
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 5: was down there and it was just aimless throwing.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: Then I was just throwing to throw.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 3: You were loose.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 5: When I left Wood, he came over and literally stood
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 5: not like not like face three face, but like he
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 5: kind of stood off to my side where I knew, okay,
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 5: I'm done, damn. And he stood there and then like
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 5: I went to throw, he would be like, nope, uh huh.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 5: He's like when that phone rings and they say that
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 5: you're coming in, you fire three or four as hard
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 5: as you can.
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: And then you go in. And that's what we did.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 3: And then you came in and I fucked it all
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 3: and you you died.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: Bro, he died twice. He died was killed me, bro kipness,
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 2: what was it a swinging bar or did he swinging.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 3: Button swinging to strike cutter away and pulls off.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 4: But it went like this, I bust out, I blew
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 4: a handy and then and the and the process spin
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 4: row air mail.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 3: He kiveness runs into him. I'm like, I just got give.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 2: This a bowling ball.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 3: Bro.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 2: He's short in compact, yeah, like and I always said
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 2: too as a first baseman because when balls go up
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: the line, like when it really matters, I'll.
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: Stay in there.
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 2: I'll stay in there.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you hung in.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 2: And I felt so proud afterwards because I actually did.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 2: But that bro, he ran me over.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm feeling great.
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 4: I just got in this thing. Then no strike breaking ball?
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 4: Who got a theme here? No strike breaking ball? Still
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 4: indoor and you shake to the breaking ball and I'm like.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 5: All right, he's gonna bounce forty seven feet and literally
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 5: kill you.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 3: You died all.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 4: Of the mass, roll, roll my ankle, go to get up.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 4: Doc Adams saying, I'm concuss I'm stumbling everywhere.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 3: Two runs scored.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 2: Two runs score on a pass ball probably never happened
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 2: in world serious history before.
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 4: And I'm thinking, I just got in stand I'm the
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 4: defensive guy, and I just fucked.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 3: This all up. Like what happened?
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 2: Then you let off the next inning? Right? Was that
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 2: your last?
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 3: About second second? I think I hit second the next inning?
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, Andrew Miller, Andrew Miller and Miller and.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 4: I was why did you show emotions? I'm like, thank
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 4: god I got one back. It's let into so bro.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 2: You fucking threw what three and the third what was it?
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: And the third to bridge the gap? To bridge the gap?
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 5: Happy, ye, And I wish he wouldn't have taken me
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 5: out because because Jose Ramiers does have good numbers. Off me,
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 5: I think he's only got the one homer, but he's
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 5: got some hits. But we had two outs in that
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 5: inning and we're up six to two or three at
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 5: the time, yeah, six or three.
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: Well yeah, so I would coming in after.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 3: The crazy inning we came in.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 4: I had to hit him taking off my stuff, and
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 4: you looked at me, it's like look.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 3: I was like, bro, you're fine, your ship's great. I
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 3: fucked that up like he's like, looked. I was like, bro,
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 3: you're throwing great, just like.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 5: Other than the forty seven foot curve ball that killed him.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 3: But he had nasty So you were loved.
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: You were loved. It was good, I mean.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 2: And then and then we went We went right, Chappie
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 2: comes in, Raja Davis, HiT's the homer. We go down,
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 2: let's go before we heard that story. Have I told
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 2: you that story when Rocher Davis at Homer? Oh god, no,
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 2: but I do know that what you no one knows.
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 2: Sorry to cut you short. You Grandpa that that feels aggressive.
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 2: I'm attacking you or the trust trate. You didn't call
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: a slider? Yeah, all well, playoffs twelve years or all this, Chapman.
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 4: Well, so, like going back, one of my things that
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 4: I held was I got taken out a lot when
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 4: Chapie came in and he would do Miggy or Wilson,
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 4: and so I didn't The scouting report for Raj was
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 4: the slider coming into him was bad and change.
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 3: Us for good.
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 4: Well, I had never caught Chappy splitty, and I didn't
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 4: trust to throw it myself right, especially with runners of
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 4: scoring position. So I was just like and in San
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 4: Francisco it worked great. I just threw heaters down and
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 4: it was punchy, punchy punt or whatever it was. And
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 4: so I'm just like, guy a second r I look
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 4: at his bat. He's choked up, this fall, this far
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 4: up on the bat, and I'm like, he's got to
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 4: pop one of these heaters up right, it's one hundred
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 4: and three like back then, not nobody threw on it right,
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 4: And I'm.
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: Like he's got two people.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I'm like, so I'm just keep throwing down
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 4: heaters and I'm like I remember getting in. I was
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 4: like to Mike Borsellar catching guys, I was like, fuck,
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 4: it should don't slider.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 3: He's a slider. What the pitch? Don't splitty. I'm like,
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 3: I was bar.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 4: But I'm like, well, I have never even caught I
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 4: didn't catch him that much. So it was like an
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 4: insecurity of mine of coming out in that moment of
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 4: not not knowing what to what to.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 3: Do, and all the credit to Rajer.
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 5: Like yeah, I was to say, also, let's let's call
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 5: spade a spade here, Like Chappy threw the perfect pitch
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 5: with him choked up down to his bat path that
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 5: he hit perfectly for a home run.
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: Sure you know what I'm saying, Like.
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 4: But you're right, I called I think it's twelve. We
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 4: should go back county twelve. Heaters around. But then when
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 4: Miggie came in, he threw almost all sliders. Remember that
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 4: Chappy stayed in another inning and threw it on the sliders.
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 2: The fact that Chappy got through, that's is the unsung
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 2: hero of the entire game.
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 5: Imagine, imagine your your emotional baggage. Bro, you just gave
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 5: up the game, tying homer and now you've got to
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 5: go out for another inning and try to get three out.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 3: Bro.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: Every every time as a kid watching that, ten out
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 2: of ten times the guy comes back out, he's gonna
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 2: give it up ten out of ten. So the fact
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 2: that he was able to do.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 5: That, And that's what I don't like though, is everybody
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 5: wants to talk about about Chappie giving up that homer
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 5: to tie the game. Let's let no forget that. Let's
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 5: talk about him coming out and going one, two, three
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 5: the next inning. Yeah, because that takes the freaking cohonents.
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 3: Bro We rode like they him, I mean.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 2: He out more a tagging up are the two biggest
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah moment you talk.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 5: About baseball people, that was the wrong thing to do
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 5: is bringing back out.
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, I'm more taken out.
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's in the baseball like if you talk like no,
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 5: you don't tag up on that.
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: And I'm more tagged up and got the second.
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 2: And more tagged up on a deep fly ball by
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 2: KB which earlier in the game the win turned around,
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: which would have been a home run that and al Mora,
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 2: who was a rookie, had the wits about him to
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 2: read where that ball was going, understand that it's either
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 2: a homer and out or probably homer and out.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 3: How high body contributed on that.
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 2: It goes and tags up and gets the second base
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 2: and then the rest of most.
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: Coaches are going to tell you halfway yeah, and he
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: went back and tagged out.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which is the baseball with the base open, walk
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 2: me and then goes over us and the rest is history.
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 2: But the fact that Chappie can get through that, then
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 2: we have a seventeen minute rain delay. But when Raja
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 2: hit that home run?
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: What do you think before Raja hit the homer after?
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 5: You know, because kind of the rule of thumb is
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 5: if you as a as a pitcher, if you get
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 5: taken out of the inning and you have a runner on,
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 5: that's yours you stay. You have to stay in the
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 5: dugout till that run scores or they get out of
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 5: the inny.
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: So I gave up the hit to Jose Ramirez.
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 5: Uh, who's their damn guy or Brandy Geyer. He could
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 5: hit a damn cannon ball for as long as that
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 5: cannonball is coming from the left side, he could hit it.
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 5: Hits the ball in the gap, hose Airmera scores, So
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 5: it's six to four now right, he had a two
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 5: run homer, right, yes, yep, so he hit the double.
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 5: So I'm I'm like, all right, I'm good. I'm going
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 5: to the clubhouse. Well, I go into the clubhouse. You know,
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 5: Cleveland's clubhouse. You got to go down five stairs and
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 5: up three hundred and forty two stairs to get up there.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 5: Welly get up there. They've got the damn champagne. Oh
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 5: my god, I fuck, they got the signs World Series champs.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 5: They've got they walk to the clubhouse too. They've got
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 5: the damn what you mud call it, the saran wrap
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 5: overall lockers, the whole thing.
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 5: So I kind of come in and I'm like, this
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 5: is weird.
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 2: You know, how are you going in there?
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 5: I'm just curious because I was done and I was
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 5: gonna go get out of my stuff and then come
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 5: back down really well, and I have a pop too.
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm done for the day, dude. I'm it's it's.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 2: It's literally, your job is season's over.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: My season's over.
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 5: I cannot re enter and there's no game eight. Okay,
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 5: So I get in there and I'm taking my I
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 5: take one cleat off, I get my ankle tape off,
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 5: and you know, Raja's got pitch thirty seven from Chapman
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 5: that he keeps filing off or whatever. And I go
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 5: to untie my second shoe, and I hear the crack
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 5: and I look up and I just see the ball
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 5: going over the fence.
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, I take my shoe off.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: What was the cluby's name, Willie? I take my shoe off, and.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 5: I they had the entrance right there. I didn't know
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 5: he was coming around the corner. I throw my shoe
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 5: as hard as I can the entrance. I go, wille
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 5: what he comes around the corner. The cleat missed him
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 5: by this far.
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 2: That's great.
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 5: I go get this fucking ship down. There was people
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 5: that came out of places in that clubhouse I've never
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 5: seen before. Champagne gets put up saran wrap over the top,
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 5: signs down the whole thing. And then so I changed
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 5: and I come back down to the to the dugout.
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 5: But he was not happy with me. I apologize to
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 5: him after the fact.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 2: But what what do you remember when we had the
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 2: rein delay? Where were you at first? Were you?
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: Were you in the dugout?
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 2: So when you came into the weight room, was it
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 2: after the fact, when everyone's coming in or like, what
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 2: what's your biggest.
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 5: I followed everybody in there, so we all went in there,
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 5: and I remember it kind of being at first a
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 5: little somber, you know. Everybody kind of got in there.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 5: It was almost like a simultaneous deep breath, you know, sorry,
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 5: And I remember sitting there for a second kind of
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 5: you know, one of these like all right, like you're
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 5: kind of you went back in your corner as a fighter,
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, Like I got my breath,
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 5: I'm gonn get a drink of water, maybe Miller light.
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 5: And I just remember Jay, Hey, I remember Jay start talking,
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 5: And at first it really surprised me because Jay doesn't
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 5: talk right, Like Jay's not a vocal guy. And I
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 5: kind of sat up and I looked at him, and
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 5: I don't remember I think him speaking surprised me, you know, like,
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 5: holy shit, what's he saying? What's he saying? But I
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 5: don't remember the words of what he said. I just
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 5: remember him saying, all right, fuck it, guys, we have
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 5: a restart were zero zero. It's kind of what I remember.
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 5: I don't know if that's exactly what he said. You
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 5: guys can correct me and then the best part of
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 5: the whole meeting was they're like, hey, they're pulling on
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 5: the tart and Schwarver's.
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: Leading off and he walks out and he goes, I'm
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: gonna get a hit.
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 5: You drive me, you you fucking drive me in to
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 5: whoever he was talking to.
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 2: He got the lead off single.
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he came by me. I was selling the bench.
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 4: He had his bank gloves on, and Shawl was pitching
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 4: me the cutter guy, and he goes, this guy.
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 3: Throws me and fucking cut her in.
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 2: I'm want to knocked off the buck got at.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 3: It right in my face.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 2: His fucking second year Kyle Schwarmer broken knee, just came
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 2: back the third game of the season. Came back as
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 2: like the fact that they let him come back, I
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 2: think speaks volumes to us too, because our belief in him. Yeah, right,
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 2: Like if we didn't, I think if the boys didn't
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 2: believe that.
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 5: There's no other young guy, no way that would have
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 5: come back and been allowed in that clubhouse like Swarber was.
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 3: And he hit the ball so hard.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 4: Kimnus was in the grass with a shift and I
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 4: swear it's like a foot to his right or left
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 4: and didn't been time to get it.
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we reset. I remember in the dugout in
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 2: the ninth when we were hitting in the ninth, everyone
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 2: was fucking white as a ghost, bro, because I was like,
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 2: even me, I was, bro, I'm sitting there at first,
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 2: I'm like, this curse is fucking real. I'm just playing
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: with dirt like I couldn't feeling. I couldn't even hear myself.
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 2: I couldn't hear anything. I was literally numb. And we
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 2: get into dugout and everyone's white as a ghost. And
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 2: then Chaddie gets us through it and we give this
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 2: the rain delay and then we ended up going out
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 2: scoring winning.
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 3: Another one that Miggie doesn't get enough love that second
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 3: base hit never of.
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 2: Course, yeah, because they ended up scoring a run in
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 2: the ninth one. Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 4: Er was on first and I'm like he's fixing the
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 4: steel and going back to that. I remember that home
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 4: run like usually I could turn the page really fast
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 4: and like okay, on to the next thing, like I
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 4: was legit. Could not get that out of my head
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 4: catching for the rest of that inning, like it was
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 4: just like.
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 2: The rest of my life.
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 3: Bro, Damn.
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, I know we won, but I still see
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 2: Rajer was a special assistant for MLB, and I saw
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 2: him a lot, especially when I was at the Yankees
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 2: bro Every time I saw him, I got like, you
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 2: know what I mean? We won, Like, so we win again,
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 2: let's go back. KB gets the round, ber I got,
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 2: I catch the last out. Where are you? What are
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 2: you thinking? This is now your third World Series championship,
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 2: one hundred and eight year curse.
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: I was not well in the dugout. Was not well.
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 3: You hate side note, you hate sitting the bench.
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 4: He like he can't handle the nerves, all right, you'd
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 4: go to your routine during the game.
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 2: It's one of the greatest left handed pictures of all time.
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 2: Just does not on an actual serious note, dealing with
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 2: his own demons of like nerves routine to get him
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 2: in the one of the greatest left handed pitchers of
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 2: all time Hall of Fame pitcher, and everyone goes through that, you.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: Know, like, I didn't like so.
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 5: I played in two incredibly historic stadiums, Okay for the
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 5: majority of my career, even when Rick redid their dugouts,
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 5: two of the worst places to sit in the dugout
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 5: and watch the fucking the game.
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 2: You're we're in Cleveland, John, Well.
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 5: I'm just saying, well, hold on, normally, I'm talking about normally.
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 5: Wrigley is four and a half miles from home plate. Okay,
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 5: Fenway is twenty seven feet from home plate, and you
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 5: can't see anything.
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 2: All right. Yah.
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 5: I know it looked as if I wasn't a great teammate,
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 5: but I liked being able to see what was actually happening,
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 5: because you know how it is. You sit on the bench,
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 5: guy gets wrung up on a call. The guy goes, oh,
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 5: that's not a strike. Now, everybody in the dugouts like that.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 5: Get your shit together, right. Well, when you're sitting in
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 5: downstairs and you watch the TV like, no, that's a good pitch.
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 2: So you were downstairs when we wanted them.
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 5: No, hold on, I was just saying, I gotta know, John,
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 5: this is why I was not well. I was up there.
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 5: We bring in Carl Edwards Junior to finish the game. Okay,
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 5: I'm going back. The only way to call my nerves
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 5: is I'm going to boresy, and I'm looking at the
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 5: scouting report with boresy like, all right, I know this
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 5: dude only throws cut or curveball. What do we got
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 5: And he'd be like, all right, we've got X, Y
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 5: and Z.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 2: Mike Borzello was our like our scouting report coordinator, but
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 2: such good game call.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 5: So so that, yeah, that's I should have said that first.
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 5: But so anyway, I'm going to him to where I'm
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 5: like trying to call the game, trying to take my
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 5: mind off of what's going on, and I'm literally pacing
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 5: from him to the end of Doug, him to the
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 5: end of Dougah. So Carl gets two quick outs and
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 5: I'm like, let's go, we got to get one more
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 5: infield pop up. Let's just make it simple. Okay, I
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 5: think he walks. Somebody walks. Now we bringing Mike Montgomery.
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 5: No offense to Mike Montgomery. Okay, but I look at
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 5: Borsy and I go, what are we doing.
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 3: I'm like, we got no fend.
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: Like I said, no fense.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 5: We're in the tree trope, roundant and closed for us
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 5: for three quarters of the year until we got Chappie, we.
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 3: Got Woody, we got other area and lack here down there.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Arieta, like we got these people once again, Mike,
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 5: no offense, But well.
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: I love you.
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 5: We've got, We've got.
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: He was one of their bench players.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 3: Michael Martinez. Ye.
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 2: First the Battle World series.
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: World series, mind you.
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 3: Because they made a switch when he brought on the left.
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: Remind me to go back to that hold on.
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 3: Who was it, Coca Coca Chris.
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 5: That's right, he took Coco out. We did something I
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 5: can't remember what we did. We made a pitching change.
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 5: They brought Coco in for that guy. Coco only was
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 5: hitting left handed, and then we brought in Mike Martinez,
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 5: so they took Coco out. And so anyway, I literally
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 5: take one step, I come off the rail. I take
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 5: one step to boards. eCos, don't worry, we have spin.
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 5: And I'm like that sounds. I go, oh, Montgomery is
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 5: a badass.
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 3: Curveball. We're good.
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 5: Let's go first pitch curveball, roll over to KB. I
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 5: did everything I could to hurdle that thing. I went
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 5: to jump and I was like nope, and put my
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 5: foot down and then jumped. And then as I did
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 5: that and landed, Jason Hammill face plants right next to me,
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 5: and I'm like, I am so glad I put my
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 5: foot on the rail because that would have been me.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 2: Oh bro, that's celebration. The celebration that night was special.
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 2: We party, we pop champagne, we fly back to Wrigley,
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 2: we get we're all blitzed, right, And I remember getting
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 2: off the bus at Wrigley. Well, I remember on the
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 2: field giving you this big hung bro, like it felt
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 2: so good, Like you win the World Series and first
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 2: off your gas run a two year run for me
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 2: at least, like I just learned how to win fifteen.
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 2: All my energy now is winning the World Series this year.
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 2: It's like a lot make or break so game sen
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 2: of the World Shiti. I actually remember talking to this
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 2: at second base at some point during the same seven
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 2: I'm like, bro, thank god, the season's over tomorrow. Like
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 2: win or lose, right, We're still at the heat of
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 2: the battle, but like to be able to just turn
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 2: off for a second and talk to him. Giving you
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 2: guys a hug, right, is the best feeling in the world.
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 2: We party with our families the plane ride, have great
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 2: pictures of my parents and Emily, my girlfriend then soon
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 2: to be fiance, and my wife baby Mama love her.
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 2: But just the celebration of the families. And then we
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 2: get home to Wrigley and I have the trophy. So
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 2: I walk off the bus with the trophy and like
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 2: there's fans outside of Wrigley and it's great. And I
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 2: look at VJ Air traveling secretary. I'm like, hey, like,
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 2: what do I do with this now? I don't know?
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 2: So I just took it home. I took the trophy home. Well, bro,
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 2: what's so mad? I not only going to make it
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 2: so mad. I get home at like six thirty. We
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 2: lay down for like, I don't know, an hour and
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 2: a half, like that's the only sea behalf for like
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 2: four days. Get text phone, I'm up and Vj's like, hey,
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 2: John's pissed off. He took the trophy home. And I'm like,
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 2: how the fuck? First off, how the fuck does John
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 2: know I have the trophy? It's thirty in the morning,
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, I don't really care, Like the trophies
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 2: in my bed overlooking the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. Right,
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 2: So I'm like, fuck, John's mad at me. Right, I'm like,
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 2: all right, So I get up, which was a great
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 2: reason to get up.
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: It was love mad. It was yeah, no, I know,
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: it wasn't bring.
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 2: The trophy back to Wrigley. And then I think it
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 2: was like nine thirty or ten am. Emily and I
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 2: got to the bar Bottle blonde O. Our guy Eric
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 2: Farron opened up. I texted him, hey, you opened up.
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 2: He's big Cubs fan. And we sat at the bar
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 2: from like ten am to like two am, and then
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 2: from two am we went to underground and just went
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 2: till like the next morning, and like throughout the day
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 2: everyone started coming and partying. But for me, it was
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 2: like it was just I was in heaven.
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 3: Bro.
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 2: It was like my dream came true, right and I'm
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 2: with all my friends and family. But where what were
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 2: you doing after? What were you doing that you texted
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 2: at eight thirty in the morning saying you're mad at
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 2: me for taking a trophy?
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: And I don't know if I went to sleep at
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: that particular time.
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 2: Air was pregnant. It was now sy Sy Elizabeth soon
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 2: to be nine, soon to be nine, which is crazy,
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 2: So I.
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: Don't, I don't.
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 5: There's a little bit of a blur there one sleep
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 5: deprivation to some beverages were in involved there. I I
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 5: just remember, I don't know how I even came to
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 5: about it. I was like where somebody might have said
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 5: something to me, and I was like, where's the trophy?
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 2: BJ?
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: And he goes Riz took it home and I got mad.
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 2: Fucking right, I took it home. Bro, I was there
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 2: with the one hundred lost team.
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: Well that's not my him, it really is all. It's
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: not my fault. I had you got to pick better.
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 3: Timy agreed, agreed, whatever, John.
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 1: Anyway, let's get let's get to the parade.
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 2: What what happened?
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 5: Rossie almost died? We're on the We're on the bus
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 5: so well, Rossi lack and Woody almost died.
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 2: I'm on the second last bus with KB and the
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 2: country cowboys.
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 1: Get right here, didn't you?
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 3: I had my nose almost.
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 2: We're pulling out a Wrigley and we're getting like these
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 2: look granted. Meanwhile, this is the first time the Cubs
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 2: have ever done a parade, right, Like, no one knows
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 2: what the last parade was like. So we have we
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 2: have the buses, the double decker buses, and we have
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 2: like our guides on.
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 5: There not getting rupty. But do you remember when we
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 5: got to the clubhouse and I had that whiskey. I
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 5: never told you this. I had somebody date that whiskey.
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 5: It was from nineteen oh eight.
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 2: No shit, really. I had a whiskey too from nineteen
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 2: o eight that I took a shower of my dad
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 2: after we won.
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 5: So that remember that and my locker I had the
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 5: old bottle that had the messed up thing. It was
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 5: from nineteen oh eight and you'r me, you your dad
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 5: my Oh yeah yes, And we all took like the
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 5: cork was like dissolved in it, and we're like, well,
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 5: we're either gonna that.
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 2: That moment at Wrigley where we were all there, yeah, yeah,
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 2: that was cool.
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 3: Everybody's family.
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 2: I have a I had a guitar signed by all
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 2: the boys with the World Series patch.
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 3: That's what I've got. He gave that to me. He
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 3: gave me. We had my favorite thing I've got.
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 2: Everyone was there and it was just so special. And
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 2: we get on the buses and we have like our
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 2: like almost tour guide on the bus basically giving us
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 2: like a tutorial, like, hey, when we get out of Wrigley,
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 2: the power lines are really low, so there's gonna be
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 2: a few times we have to dock on.
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 3: We didn't get that message.
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 4: We had camera cruit on ours, okay, and these these
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 4: wires that pulled a sheet so we could walk from
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 4: the parking lot to the to the States. So there
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 4: was these these steel wires that held the curtain up. Well,
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 4: everybody had forgotten. They didn't tell us this, but everybody
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 4: for gotten.
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 5: Everybody's excited, Yeah, how are we doing it?
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 4: Comes we go to that and the camera guy was
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 4: facing us, having a camera shooting us on the back
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 4: of the bus.
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 2: There's footage of this, and I've never seen it.
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 3: I hadn't seen it.
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 4: I han't seen it, but I know the camera guy
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 4: got hit first. His camera caught and the thing pulled
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 4: really taut right as we're driving, and so his camera
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 4: goes boom and falls and then whips the line right
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 4: across Lackey's hat.
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 3: Sunglasses went off. He got hit across the face. I
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 3: got hit right in the nose, nose bleeding, Thank god,
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 3: if it would hit me. Here we go off the
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 3: back back dead. Probably I probably got a statue.
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 5: And I don't know what happened, but I kind of
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 5: went like this, like I don't know why you escaped.
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 5: Had I had a damn gouge in the top of
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 5: my head right here for like.
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 2: Six I remember seeing you guys bleeding because I was
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 2: in the bus and front of you.
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was I had my wife at the time
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 4: breaking out tampons and stick up my nose.
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 3: It stopped bleeding. I could wave to the fans.
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 2: I was five million people.
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 3: Five million people stage was crazy.
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 2: I'm sure the Boston parades were insane, the duck boats,
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 2: the passion, but it wasn't It wasn't bro that. Our
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 2: parade was like it went forever and the fans and
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 2: then we get on stage, what like, what's your what
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 2: do you take away from all that?
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 5: So I say this when we were on stage and
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 5: they were like calling people up there to like say something.
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 5: When you're standing there and you're with your boys and
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 5: you're like kind of away from you. You know you're there,
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 5: but you're removed, you know what I'm saying, Like you're
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 5: not having a microphone in front of you and having
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 5: to talk.
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: You're like, damn, that's a lot of people. You're kind
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 1: of like, that's a lot of people.
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 2: There's people in fucking trees.
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 3: That's all I remember was heads and then the tree top.
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 2: But deep remember crossing the Chicago River that it was blue.
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 2: They died of the river blue.
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 5: So Big Gem's like, hey, John, you're next I'm like, yeah,
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 5: cool man, I've got enough liquid courage.
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: We're good. I don't like talking in front of people.
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 5: And five million people, five million people have a million
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 5: and he calls me like somebody talks.
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: I think it was you. I think it went after you.
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 1: And he's like, you're up, let's go, well, stumble up there,
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 1: get up to the podium and you look up and
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: I was like, uh, I don't know what to say.
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 5: There's a lot there's a lot of damn people out here.
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 5: From five feet right, you're staying with your boys like
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 5: you're good, you no problem. You're like, damn, that's a
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 5: lot of people. You get up and you're like, holy fuck,
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 5: what is this? And then all I said was how
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 5: about this shit? That's what came out of my mouth.
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 5: That was that was my how about this ship? And
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 5: of course as soon as I say it, I look
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 5: right there and there's like a nine year old kid
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 5: just looking at me like.
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 2: That, I'm.
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 1: Once again the asshole.
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 2: Sorry, we want when you win, you can do anything.
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you should have said.
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 2: I mean you used to always tell me though, winning
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 2: solves everything. It's all when you win. And I tell
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 2: us all young players that I play with, especially now
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 2: in the social media air days, like winning solves all
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 2: your problems and you said that where it's like you
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 2: can come up and have this whole social media following
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 2: and do all this stuff. But when you win, that's
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 2: how you make the real money, like, because when you win,
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 2: you can do whatever you want.
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 3: That was my saying being a backup catcher. It's like
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 3: everybody wants a winner. Everybody wants a winner. You're on
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 3: a winning team, you're just gonna you know, solves everything.
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 5: And the guys so they had to keep playing, you know,
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 5: Like you're looking at sures Er Verlander right now, like
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 5: they're forty two, forty whatever, forty one forty two still pitching.
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: Well, they're pitching because they've won right right right. And
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying they don't have good stuff and they
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be pitching. They still have good stuff.
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 5: But teams want those jokers around because they've won right
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 5: right right right. Like you, if you win, people want you.
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 3: And there's a lot of knowledge in winning and experience
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 3: and having that no doubt.
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 4: I want to know because we're going down that road
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 4: looking back at everything. Right, you're retired, you've been home
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 4: raising kids, enjoying your life, Like looking back ten years ago, Now,
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 4: what would you tell John Lester than that, you know,
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 4: now enjoy it more.
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you fucking enjoyed it though.
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 1: Man, I did enjoy it, but I didn't. I didn't
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 1: relish in it.
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 5: Like I had this conversation with ROSSI one day, and
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 5: I'm kind of envious of like the relationships that he has,
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 5: which obviously little different personalities.
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 1: Okay, like lately more vivacious.
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 2: Like Dancing with the Stars. Yeah, yeah, you know, Dancing
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 2: with the Stars lives in the middle of nowhere.
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, but my thing is is like and
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 5: I'll never forget this. So it's Game one of the
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 5: twenty thirteen World Series. Okay, Fenway Park, Me and you
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 5: were getting ready to go out, and their weight room
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 5: is upstairs, and where the lounge cherry to hang out
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 5: was upstairs. Well, I walk through, and I come up
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 5: the stairs and I hear music playing. It sounds like
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 5: radios is playing in the or the you know, speakers
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 5: playing in the weight room. And I get up there
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 5: and fucking Kenny Chesney has like ten dudes around him
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 5: just jamming big Green tractor, And I look at those guys,
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 5: and I'm like, man, that sure looks fun. I had
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 5: to go hop my ass on the bike and get
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 5: ready for game one.
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 5: Point of what I'm trying to make is I'm not
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 5: saying that's the time to relish in it, but the
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 5: times that Dabbo comes into the clubhouse, or Brett Eldris
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 5: comes in the clubhouse or eighty Vet or Bill Murray
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 5: or whateva, taking ten minutes and going over there and
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 5: talking to him, stopping what I'm doing and going and
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 5: talking to him. But also too, I know in the
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 5: back of my head, if I stop what I'm doing,
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to go back and finish it.
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know so, but that's what made you great too.
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 3: So it's like I definitely, I definitely.
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 1: Get that, but I do.
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 5: Wish I would have put just to tick more effort
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 5: into some relationships in my when I was playing.
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 4: That's what's all about, right, We're talking about all these
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 4: stories we're going to tell throughout this series. Is like
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 4: it takes a group of special men to come together
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 4: and you create it. We're brothers for life, right, and
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 4: so those are racist ships are special and I think
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 4: they grow.
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 3: But when you're in the middle of it. You're just
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 3: in the middle of it. You're doing you bro, You're
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 3: doing You're You're you.
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 4: You were brought in at a high price tag to
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 4: establish what winning is and this is how we go
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 4: about our ship. And THEO recognized that because he had
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 4: been around you, and you had been around great players,
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 4: and that's the great thing about being a veteran and
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 4: passing that stuff down. So the reason why you get
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 4: the ball in game seven and we are all i mean,
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 4: going game one of each freaking series. It's like, this
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 4: is the writer, die dude, that's putting us on our back.
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 4: This is a motherfucker that here we come right and
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 4: after him, we got another good one, you know, and
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 4: we got another good one.
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 2: John, you single handedly, I said at the beginning, you're
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 2: the best freeing and signing in Cups history. You brought
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 2: winning single handedly to an organization, from your leadership on
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 2: how you went about your business, from how you treated
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 2: everyone else, from how you were like a giant teddy
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 2: bear at times but also a prick as well.
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 3: So generous every team dinner, like all.
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 2: My cowboy boots are from John. On John's dime, I
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 2: have two pairs of these have a Rolex two hundred,
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 2: und win rolelegs, private jet hours, you flew me an
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 2: Emily home on your dime, blew Grandma passed away. Like
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 2: all of these things just created so much love and
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 2: within and brow through one sixty.
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 1: Two also to man like.
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  Speaker 5: You're my boys, Like you know what I'm saying, Like
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 5: E like yeah, but like everybody's my Like if you're
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 5: on my team and we're doing it like we're we're
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 5: we're supposed to be in this together. I spend more
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 5: time with you than my family, right, So I didn't
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 5: care if it were in the tree, no offense. I
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 5: didn't care if it was your grandmother or if it
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 5: was the twenty sixth man on the roster's grandmother.
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 1: If you need to get home, I've.
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 5: Been blessed with this perk, right, Yeah, I put in
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 5: the work and I got it and whatever. But at
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 5: the end of the day, that's not like you should
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 5: go home and if you got to go home at
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 5: midnight and get on you go. Like That's the way
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 5: I look at things. And I didn't do it because
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 5: I wanted the fucking story on ESPN. Never because I
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 5: loved every I loved you guys. I showed my love
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 5: in different ways. Wasn't the nicest person sometimes, but I
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 5: cared about what I did, and I cared about you guys,
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 5: and I cared about fucking winning, dude, Like you play
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 5: fucking sports to win. He said, that's right, bro, played
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 5: to just go participate.
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 2: In an air of In an air of social media,
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 2: all the things you and Pharah and your family have
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 2: done are It's like Instagram versus reality.
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 2: You have people who put stuff on Instagram and think
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 2: they're living this lavish life. You lived it behind the scenes,
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 2: and you have done the coolest things that nobody's ever
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 2: heard of doing and literally changed my life on that
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 2: because when I was younger, it was like, you know,
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 2: you want to flaunt a little bit, like I'm in
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 2: the big leagues, I'm young, I'm single. It different, and
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 2: then I see you and fifteen come over and it
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 2: was like from that day on, like I rarely ever
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 2: post anything I'm really doing because of how you went
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 2: about it and like how you shape my life as
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 2: a twenty five year old. Now I'm thirty six, you
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 2: know what I mean. So it's like I don't think
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 2: you really understand how much, John, I don't think you
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 2: understand how what you mean to me? All right? I
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 2: got one one question too, because he asked about the
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 2: ten years. If you can go back to that season,
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 2: playoffs or regular season, what's one moment you go back
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 2: to that stands out, that's like, you'll never forget.
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 1: The whole season, the whole.
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 2: Season, spring training, regular season, postseason, whatever.
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 5: I think the feeling I had walking out of the
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 5: dugout with Rossy in Game five of the World Series, damn,
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 5: and like stepping on that top step. It was the
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 5: old dugout. I always went on the left side and
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 5: stepping out. I always tried to make it a point
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 5: when I stepped out to look around. And I got
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 5: out and I started in left field, and I looked.
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 5: I didn't go behind me, but I looked all the
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 5: way as I'm walking, I looked as far as I
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 5: could look this way, and I was like, there is
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 5: not an empty fucking seat in this place.
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: Wow, like that feeling, that's a badass feeling.
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 3: Your fucking song came on. I was so emotional.
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 4: I was singing, Jason Alden, you no, We're here at
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 4: the top of my fucking lugs.
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 3: For hide my mask just so you could a go wreck.
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 4: Because I was just like my heart was on another
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 4: level and you're out there just like here we freaking go.
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 5: So I think I was on like pitch three and
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 5: it's like a point where like the drums come in
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 5: or whatever, and you know, I had my little routine
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 5: that I did.
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 1: I looked down or I do this look down. I
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 1: never put the ball on my glove and then I'd
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 1: lift my leg.
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 5: Tap the ball or tapped the glove and then look
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 5: home and ROSSI is back there before I throw the ball.
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 3: And he'said, I had to get out on the Uh.
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 3: We've got a couple that.
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: Was like that. We were talking about this last night.
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 5: That moment, like I'll that moment is like ingrained in
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 5: my head. And then the other moment was we were
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 5: talking about last night the thirteen World Series for Game
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 5: one and national anthem plays and the flyover was late
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 5: and you know, I'm getting ready to throw a pitch
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 5: and all of a sudden, you just hear you know,
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 5: it's it's pitch black.
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 3: You can before the game, yeah, Mary J. Blige whales, Yeah,
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 3: And then this flyover while all you see.
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 5: Is the after burners as they passed Fenway and just
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 5: do this and it's loud and you just like you
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 5: could feel them. And I was getting ready to throw
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 5: a pitch and I put my foot back down and
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 5: I love planes. I love flyovers, and so I'm like
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 5: looking for him, just trying to see what kind of
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 5: planes they were or whatever, and I, you know, kind
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 5: of dig back in and I looked down and Rossie
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 5: and ROSSI squatted down. He's like yeah, but like at
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 5: the same time, it's like, you know, like you're having fun.
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 5: You're having fun. It's a grind, but it's it's the
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 5: best man like, when you're in that moment. I wouldn't
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't trade that, yeah for anything.
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 2: Cheers for ten years, ten years? How about that? Hey?
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 2: By the way, this is John's famous line. Hangovers or
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 2: ten hangovers are temporary legends last forever, and for us winning,
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 2: we last forever.
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 3: Fuck yeah, Johnny Man, that's a wrap.
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: I think that's all you guys are gonna.
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 3: How long are you talking? Seven hours