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Darryl Strawberry | Former New York Met & Yankee Speaks on His New Book Focusing on Faith Journey · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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Speaker 1: We have a lot in common, Darryl and I a lot,
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Speaker 1: and we'll get to a lot of that during this conversation.
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Speaker 1: So watching Daryl with Kaylee, Mac Andenny on Fox News
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Speaker 1: this weekend and then again on the MLB Network. And
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Speaker 1: he was here on Friday for the Fanatics Day. And
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Speaker 1: his new book is coming out too in less than
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Speaker 1: two weeks. It's going to be an amazing, amazing cell.
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Speaker 1: Here he is the Great Number eighteen, former Great met
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Speaker 1: and Yankee. My dear Wren Daryl Strawberry, Daryl, good morning, pal, Hawaii.
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Speaker 2: Good he said, how you doing, my brother.
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Speaker 1: I'm doing great. I loved you on Fox News on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: And look, you know, it's Jesus Christ for you, it's
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Speaker 1: Jusham for me. I love them both. I don't care.
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Speaker 1: I'm just happy that there's religion in people's lives because
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Speaker 1: I do think without it, we see what happens. You know,
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Speaker 1: I believe that school shootings and a lot of other
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Speaker 1: things that go wrong in this country is because of
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Speaker 1: the lack of religion. So to hear you talk about
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Speaker 1: your faith and what Jesus means to you and how
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Speaker 1: he has restored sanity and a great life for you
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Speaker 1: was very uplifting on Saturday, Donald.
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Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much for having me. Like you said,
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Speaker 2: we have a lot of things in common. Of course,
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Speaker 2: we have the same haircut, so that makes us really
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Speaker 2: good together. But you know, you get a chance to
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Speaker 2: reinvent yourself in this life, and a lot of people
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Speaker 2: don't take advantage of that. And faith is good, and
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Speaker 2: I think what it's missing and what is lacking in
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Speaker 2: a lot of people is that faith. You know, they're
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Speaker 2: more conformed to all this other stuff trying to make
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Speaker 2: them well, and it doesn't make you well. I had
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Speaker 2: all that I experienced, all that. I'm glad I experienced
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Speaker 2: all that. First, I'm glad I had to go through
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Speaker 2: what I had to go through to be able to
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Speaker 2: have that platform to play Major League Baseball and be
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Speaker 2: a star. And when and then God would come into
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Speaker 2: my life and transform me to go out there to
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Speaker 2: help others. And that's what the book is all about.
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Speaker 2: Another Life is not about me. It's about God giving
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Speaker 2: you a chance to do something for other people that
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Speaker 2: are still out there suffering, other people that still don't believe.
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Speaker 2: And I get a chance to go to all these
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Speaker 2: really cool places. I was just up and get a
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Speaker 2: recovery event the other night up in Connecticut, because I'm
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Speaker 2: in recovery and I'm just encouraging people that are up there.
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Speaker 2: Just because you have money, it doesn't mean to stay well.
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Speaker 2: You have to change your behavior of who you are,
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Speaker 2: if you want to get sober, if you want to
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Speaker 2: get clean. I did it, and many more have done that,
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Speaker 2: and some have to die so some can live and
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Speaker 2: we have been able to live to carry a message
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Speaker 2: of hope another life has that detail all the way
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Speaker 2: down through the book. It's not just about me. It's
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Speaker 2: about my wife. It's about a heart attack, coming through
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Speaker 2: that and God getting me through that. And it's about
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Speaker 2: going into the prisons and ministering to men that's lost
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Speaker 2: and broken, and going into hospice and they're those that
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Speaker 2: are dying and praying for them, and going into communities
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Speaker 2: where kids are struggling with addiction and drugs and trying
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Speaker 2: to help them understand it's a dead end road for them.
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Speaker 2: So we have a responsibility when our life has been changed,
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Speaker 2: and we need to carry that responsibility well and represent
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Speaker 2: whoever is. You're faith leader, you need to keep that
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Speaker 2: at the top of the picture of everything. That you're
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Speaker 2: trying to do to lead people and bring them so
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Speaker 2: they can get free.
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Speaker 1: Well said, and you were being kind of humble when
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Speaker 1: you said I had all that. Oh you had it down.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: I always talk about Mickey Mantle being that generation's hero,
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Speaker 1: that Mike brancessa generation. You're our hero. You know, every
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Speaker 1: metman I speak to job Nina, Oh you name it
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Speaker 1: who loves the Mets, it's Darryl. You were that guy.
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Speaker 1: And you won a World Series with the Mets, and
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Speaker 1: you won multiple world series with the Yankees. You had
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Speaker 1: it all, all of it, big contract with the Dodgers,
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Speaker 1: and then you had the issues which I had to.
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Speaker 1: And I guess my question to you is, I'm sure
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Speaker 1: that you asked for help many many times. I know
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Speaker 1: for me, I was in and out of the programs
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Speaker 1: time and time again. I really wanted to get well,
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Speaker 1: but I couldn't. I even showed up at meetings drunk
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Speaker 1: or high. But I remember the exact time when I
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Speaker 1: asked God for help and things changed, and my life
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Speaker 1: has changed dramatically. Do you remember the exact moment when
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Speaker 1: you're hit your knees and you asked Jesus for help
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Speaker 1: and you've been good ever since.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember the fact that, you know, I was
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Speaker 2: still stuck in addiction, and there was my wife Tracy,
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Speaker 2: who grabbed a hold of me, was pulling me out
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Speaker 2: of places and saying, God, it's got a plan for you.
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Speaker 2: And we're going back to Saint Louis. And she wants
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Speaker 2: to go back home. And I I thought to myself,
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Speaker 2: I don't want to leave Florida to go to Saint Louis.
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Speaker 2: I said, there's no black folks living in Saint Louis,
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Speaker 2: you know. So it's just how crazy you are when
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Speaker 2: you're in the midst of your addiction and lost and
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Speaker 2: think of all these different ways. And it was her,
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Speaker 2: you know, it was her faith and watching her and
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Speaker 2: watching her get up and go and be with God
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Speaker 2: and surrender her life. She got clean. She never went back.
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Speaker 2: She got twenty five years. I was still stuck out there,
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Speaker 2: and so she was already owned the journey of recovery
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Speaker 2: and faith. And I just remember, you know, going to
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Speaker 2: Saint Louis and I just remember getting into church and
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Speaker 2: I just remember going through this whole process of sitting
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Speaker 2: for like seven years to go through discipleships so I
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Speaker 2: can learn the word of God. And when you understand that,
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Speaker 2: all the different people that are in the Bible, where
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Speaker 2: they're just like us, it's just a different generation of people.
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Speaker 2: They all had struggles, had problems, you know, Moses, David, King, Solomon,
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Speaker 2: all these guys had problems just like us when you
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Speaker 2: come to that understanding. But they got to a place
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Speaker 2: where God became in their heart, not their head anymore.
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Speaker 2: And that's what happened to me, and God came into
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Speaker 2: my heart. Our heads always want to tell us what
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Speaker 2: to do and direct us how we should live and
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Speaker 2: how we should treat people. But when we understand God,
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Speaker 2: God is love, God is mercy, God is grace, God
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Speaker 2: is peace. And for those haters or people whatever they
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Speaker 2: want to be that criticize about God, man, you're gonna
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Speaker 2: need God one day. You're gonna die, and you don't
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Speaker 2: need when you die. You don't even know where you're going.
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Speaker 2: And you think, you just you know, this is it
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Speaker 2: live in this earthly life, and we think, well, this
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Speaker 2: is just it. I can live any old kind of way. No,
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Speaker 2: there's a price that you have to pay at the
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Speaker 2: end of your life. And that's my hope that I
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Speaker 2: try to bring to people. I don't throw my faith
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Speaker 2: on people.
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Speaker 3: I just live.
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Speaker 2: I want my kids to see their father as a
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Speaker 2: man of faith. Yes, he was a great baseball playing successful.
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Speaker 2: I love New York. There's no greater place to play.
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Speaker 2: I love playing in front of the people here. But
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Speaker 2: I'm just hoping that my life of transformation will be
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Speaker 2: a life to people so they can see that it
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Speaker 2: can't happen. It didn't happen when I was planning. It
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Speaker 2: wasn't supposed to happen when I was playing. Yeah, I
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Speaker 2: probably was all my way to Cooperstown. But I'm all
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Speaker 2: my way to the Hall of Faith, you know, of
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Speaker 2: helping so many people. I mean, the work that I
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Speaker 2: get to do and the travel load that I have
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Speaker 2: to travel across this country, it's amazing that God would
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Speaker 2: pick someone like me. And that's the thing about it. Shit,
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Speaker 2: God's not looking for perfect people, because there is none
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Speaker 2: he's looking for. He's looking for people that's available that
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Speaker 2: will surrender to him and say yes to him. And
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Speaker 2: when you do surrender your life and your will to him,
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Speaker 2: he'll use you mightily in a different way to be
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Speaker 2: a voice for him.
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Speaker 1: Well, I've told you before. Even though You're a magnificent
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Speaker 1: baseball player, magnificent And yeah, you go short of Cooper's
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Speaker 1: down because some of the off the field issues. But
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Speaker 1: I've told you this many times. I mean this, your
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Speaker 1: best work has been since and you love God so
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Speaker 1: much and you want to deliver that important message so
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Speaker 1: badly that you're a minister. I mean, you talked to
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Speaker 1: a congregation every weekend, don't you.
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Speaker 2: Just about You know, I've talked to thousands. I don't
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Speaker 2: just get it. I get it from the ten thousands.
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Speaker 2: When i have to preach, you know, And I've never
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Speaker 2: went to school. I'm not qualified to do that. God's
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Speaker 2: qualified to call in me. He allowed the Holy Spirit
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Speaker 2: to come live inside of me and give and teach
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Speaker 2: me the Bible and give me the revelation of who
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Speaker 2: he is. And while we're here, and remember this is short,
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Speaker 2: this is not long. It goes fast. Make the best
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Speaker 2: out of it. Go out there, love on people, because
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Speaker 2: He extended his love to us. When he brings you
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Speaker 2: in and rescue you and redeem you and restore you,
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Speaker 2: he has given you his grace. And you know what
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Speaker 2: his grace is. His grace is something that we don't deserve.
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Speaker 2: But he gives it to us anywhere. Every day I
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Speaker 2: wake up and when my feet hit the ground, I
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Speaker 2: say thank you Lord, because that is grace to get
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Speaker 2: up and go another day.
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Speaker 1: One hundred Strawberry, the former great New York met and
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Speaker 1: great New York Yankee. His book Another Life, is coming
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Speaker 1: out August the eleventh. He's been making the rounds. And
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Speaker 1: we'll get to the sports stuff too at the very
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Speaker 1: end of the conversation. So I had the really honor
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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago for our mutual friend, the
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Speaker 1: great Bobby Hartman all the way out there and river
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Speaker 1: Headlong Island, Darrell, to co host an event with you.
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Speaker 1: Last year was Thomas Hollywood Henderson. This year was Randy Grimes,
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Speaker 1: you know all these names. But two years ago was
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Speaker 1: my guy, Darryl Strawberry, and your son Jordan was there,
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Speaker 1: and it was just amazing that I had the opportunity
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Speaker 1: to speak about addiction with you, and your speech was
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Speaker 1: the highlight of the night. So not only are you
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Speaker 1: preaching the will of God to people all over the
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Speaker 1: world and all over the country all the time, but
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Speaker 1: you're out there for brothers and sisters in addiction as well.
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Speaker 1: And we got a lot of those. And when Donald
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Speaker 1: Strawberry speaks to those people, that gives those folks real hope.
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Speaker 2: Well, shout out to Bobby.
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Speaker 3: You know, he texted me this morning and he said,
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Speaker 3: I know.
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Speaker 2: You're gonna be on what's it it? Because we all buddies,
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Speaker 2: and we all have the same thing in common. Just
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Speaker 2: because you end up an addiction doesn't mean you're a loser.
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Speaker 2: It means that you're just broken, and it just means
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Speaker 2: that you have to put the pieces back together on
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Speaker 2: the inside. Not what we look like on our side.
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Speaker 2: And everybody want to criticize and call you this, your
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Speaker 2: coke here, this, and that you don't know.
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Speaker 1: By the way, by the way, by the way, Donald
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Speaker 1: Ice still get that I'm sober a long time. And
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Speaker 1: my detractor is still call me a cold head, crackhead,
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Speaker 1: all of that, you know.
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Speaker 2: That, right, Yeah, me too. Yeah, but they don't realize,
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Speaker 2: you know, we've been sober for a long time, buddy,
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Speaker 2: So you're probably still out there. You think the party
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Speaker 2: is still good, and you're waking up and you're feeling
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Speaker 2: empty on the inside and you're wondering why. And we're
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Speaker 2: sitting over here, we're free as ever, and we love life,
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Speaker 2: and we love we love helping people. We love going
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Speaker 2: back and helping those that are still sick of suffering
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Speaker 2: because for the grace of God, they go I, they go, You,
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Speaker 2: they go, Bobby, and it's our job to go back
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Speaker 2: and extend the love to them and show them that
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Speaker 2: they can be free too. That that's what another Life
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Speaker 2: is about. It's about being free. It's about being free
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Speaker 2: and going back and giving back to people. There's a
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Speaker 2: lot of great athletes out there and they've achieved great
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Speaker 2: things and people go crazy for them, and a lot
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Speaker 2: of stars in different ways, but being a star in
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Speaker 2: a different life, for me, the most incredible thing that
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Speaker 2: I've ever experienced, more than just I mean, I've hit
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Speaker 2: tremendous home runs in this but I've never hit home
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Speaker 2: runs like Jesus hid man. I mean, Jesus saved people. Man.
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Speaker 2: I can't save people. I'm just like I said, I'm
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Speaker 2: just a vessel working for him to show them that
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Speaker 2: He cares for you. No matter what the circumstances are
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Speaker 2: in your life.
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Speaker 1: How bad did it get for you? I know for me,
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Speaker 1: for example, I've talked about this publicly. I'm not proud
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Speaker 1: of it, but My daughter saved my life in Cleveland.
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Speaker 1: My daughter able, she's twenty two. She was a baby
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Speaker 1: when I was standing on the ledge of the fourteenth
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Speaker 1: floor at the hotel and it was on the three
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Speaker 1: day coke pings, and really wanted to kill myself. So
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Speaker 1: I had that twice. I don't know how bad things
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Speaker 1: actually got for you, eighteen.
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Speaker 2: It got bad for me multiple times. There were times
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Speaker 2: you know that I wanted to Tracy was pulling me
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Speaker 2: out of the dope possus and I even got into
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Speaker 2: all the other crazy stuff, shooting Heroin and all that stuff.
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Speaker 2: It gets bad when you're out there because you're sick.
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Speaker 2: Addiction is a disease.
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Speaker 3: And people say, well, it's just a week, and there's.
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Speaker 2: None a week about me. I'm six six. You run
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Speaker 2: up on me, you think I'm weak.
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Speaker 1: Now with those forearms, you kid me, You'll go Steve
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Speaker 1: Gorby forearms.
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Speaker 2: And believe me and believe you. Still being a preacher,
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Speaker 2: you think you can run up on me and it
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Speaker 2: will never happen. I still have that kind of South
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Speaker 2: central lam me where I come from. But when you
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Speaker 2: are sick, you need help. And it got bad, just
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Speaker 2: like you said, your daughter, and you know my wife
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Speaker 2: Tracy and uh pulling me out of places, and all
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Speaker 2: my brothers in recovery down in South Florida always.
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Speaker 3: There for me.
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Speaker 2: And my sponsor Will g He was like, you guys,
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Speaker 2: wait till it's all over for him. He gonna have
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Speaker 2: one hell of a story, he tells me, because the
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Speaker 2: run that I had lost out there, and I do,
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Speaker 2: I have an incredible story. It's very empowerful, very powerful.
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Speaker 2: We all end up with a great story. The fact
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Speaker 2: is with us, said and Bobby, we're not afraid to
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Speaker 2: share our story. We're not afraid to share our experience,
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Speaker 2: strength and hope on what happened to us. And that's
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Speaker 2: the problem with so many people. They are shamed. Don't
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Speaker 2: be ashamed because you're recovering from alcoholic drugs. Man. God
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Speaker 2: has given you a gift to be able to give
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Speaker 2: back to somebody else. And that's what we all have
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Speaker 2: to remember. It's not always about us. It's about who
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Speaker 2: we can help when we get on the other side
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Speaker 2: of life like.
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Speaker 1: This twelve stepping that twelve step is a very very
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Speaker 1: big step. I agree with you, and thank god I
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Speaker 1: got one right. I got it really right, and I
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Speaker 1: got past three that was a problem for a while.
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Speaker 1: I know your relationship with Jesus, but I had a
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Speaker 1: tough time with three and now it's all about step twelve.
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Speaker 1: So I guess this is just out of ignorance, because
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Speaker 1: so I'm not a Christian. But do you pray every day? Donald?
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Speaker 1: Every day?
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Speaker 2: Yes, I do. I pray every day. I pray for
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Speaker 2: the nation. I pray for the political people, even though
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Speaker 2: I'm not into politics. I pray for them because they
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Speaker 2: are the ones that run everything in the country, the President,
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Speaker 2: the Republicans, Democrat. I pray for people because prayers the
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Speaker 2: answer to all supplication. God's here is prayers. That's how
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Speaker 2: I ended up here with my mother praying behind the
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Speaker 2: scenes where I was playing Major League Baseball. She was
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Speaker 2: dying from cancer. She was praying that God would stop
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Speaker 2: me and save me. I was out there in the
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Speaker 2: heathen lifestyle, you know, and thought I had it going on.
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Speaker 2: Thought I was all that in the bag of chips.
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Speaker 2: And at the end of it, none of us are.
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Speaker 2: We all got issues. We all got stuff we got
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Speaker 2: to deal with, and some people don't have to go
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Speaker 2: through it publicly, like a person like me and you.
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Speaker 2: We have to be persecuted publicly, but that's okay because
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Speaker 2: they did the same thing to Jesus. They did the
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Speaker 2: same thing to Gary Carter. And when he stood and
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Speaker 2: he smiled and he talked about Jesus, people persecuted him
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Speaker 2: and everything, but he kept smiling, he kept he just
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Speaker 2: kept on going. And I admired him and Mukie Wilson
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Speaker 2: for being able to stand in the middle of that
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Speaker 2: and have faith while we were playing Major League Baseball.
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Speaker 1: Also, the kid, the quarterback from Florida, Tim Tebow. He
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Speaker 1: is not afraid to talk about his love for Jesus,
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Speaker 1: and he got killed all the time because he actually
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Speaker 1: had the nerve to be a virgin till he got married.
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Speaker 1: What's the matter with him. He's a great guy, Ted Tebow.
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Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong with him. And he lives for Christ.
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Speaker 2: You know. It's those that sit up in the media
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Speaker 2: and think they know everything about Christ and think they
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Speaker 2: know everything about faith, and they really don't. Until you
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Speaker 2: have an encounter with Christ, then you'll truly know who
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Speaker 2: he is. You realize that he's more than just a
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Speaker 2: man man. He's a holy man that's never had sin
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Speaker 2: any and he washes the sin out of you. And
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Speaker 2: cleanses you. And people say, well, aren't you still a sinner?
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Speaker 2: I say, yeah, I just don't practice anymore. There was
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Speaker 2: a time I used to practice the life or like that.
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Speaker 2: But I live a life according to the principles and
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Speaker 2: the word of God, and I'm thankful that I got
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Speaker 2: the knowledge through God. So you have all a lot
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Speaker 2: of people doing all these podcasts and all these different
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Speaker 2: outlets now and they want to talk about everybody, and
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Speaker 2: they want to talk about people with faith. Well, when
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Speaker 2: are you gonna get some faith? Talking means nothing? I
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Speaker 2: mean I did all that when I played baseball, talked,
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Speaker 2: I had a lot of fights. I did all that. Man,
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Speaker 2: that's over. There's a brand new me. I have reinvented myself,
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Speaker 2: like I said to my glove, for my wife and
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Speaker 2: my kids and this country and those that are that
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Speaker 2: need hope. You know, it's people that need hope. I
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Speaker 2: don't waste my time on foolishness of people talking about sports.
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Speaker 2: You never done and played at the level I played,
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Speaker 2: So what are you talking about? How can you talk about?
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Speaker 2: How can you talk about a man that's playing in
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Speaker 2: front of fifty thousand when everybody's booing his chair and
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Speaker 2: I'm still hitting the ball of the Scoreboy, that should
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Speaker 2: tell you who I am.
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Speaker 1: That's a good point. And you're a loving guy. You're
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Speaker 1: pro Israel. I love that about you and part of
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Speaker 1: the reason why you and I get a loan so well.
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Speaker 1: But you also love this country and you have thanked
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Speaker 1: President Trump often. President Trump did pardon you. I guess
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Speaker 1: it was last year, maybe the year before. And even
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Speaker 1: though you don't talk a lot about politics, you do
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Speaker 1: golf with Trump. You've been funny with Trump for many years.
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Speaker 1: You're eternally grateful for that parton.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm grateful for his family, his kids.
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Speaker 3: I know all of them and him.
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Speaker 2: I've had a relationship with them before he was living.
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Speaker 2: Even the president of the United States. You know, and
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Speaker 2: a lot of people talking about yourself sell out sell this,
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Speaker 2: you know. Uh, he's he's someone that cares about people
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Speaker 2: that he know, and he does the right thing. You know.
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Speaker 2: He pardoned me from all that I went through, and
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Speaker 2: people saying, well, why don't he partner this guy wondered,
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Speaker 2: why was he parton a guy like him?
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Speaker 3: Because he because he wanted to.
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Speaker 2: I didn't force him, I asked him to do that.
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Speaker 2: It's just the kind of gentleman he is went towards
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Speaker 2: the people that he loved and cared for. Everybody's going
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Speaker 2: to always have self to say every They're never going
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Speaker 2: to be happy with just what happens to people, just
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Speaker 2: because maybe it's not happening to you and you're not
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Speaker 2: in that spotlight. You just only want to tear people
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Speaker 2: down because of the spotlight. Man. And of course I
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Speaker 2: do love Israel. It's the Holy Land and it's it's
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Speaker 2: where the Messiah is coming back one day and we
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Speaker 2: better be ready. You better get your heart right and
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Speaker 2: get ready because he's definitely coming back. You better believe
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Speaker 2: that for sure. I believe it. Say people can say
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Speaker 2: what they want. It's the land that God has built
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Speaker 2: for his people, and that's what He has fought it.
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Speaker 2: The Jewish people is his people, and they have his blessings.
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Speaker 2: He has given it also to the gentiles. Now, if
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Speaker 2: you want to accept it and receive it, you can
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Speaker 2: accept it and you can have it too. But those
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Speaker 2: that sit in those media outlets, their opinion is about
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Speaker 2: something they don't even know about. They need to go
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Speaker 2: pick up their Bible and go to the Old Testament
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Speaker 2: and read it and understand you understand about the Jewish
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Speaker 2: people are being They're the chosen people. It doesn't matter
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Speaker 2: what you may think or say. God said these are
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Speaker 2: my people and he loves us all, but these are
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Speaker 2: the people on my chosen people.
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Speaker 1: Bottom line, Old Testament. There's no Christianity without Judaism. I mean,
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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ was born Jewish. I mean, it's so ridiculous,
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Speaker 1: the whole thing. I do want to get to something
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Speaker 1: you said on Friday, but I got to ask you this.
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Speaker 1: Did you say it? Darryl Strawberry because he happened to
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Speaker 1: be said, I know you're on this guy, but you
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Speaker 1: did say that of all the great players you ever
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Speaker 1: played with, a lot of them, right from Dwight Gooden
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Speaker 1: to Derek Jeter, the list goes on and on, you
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Speaker 1: said Keith Ornandez was the best. You meant that. Huh.
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Speaker 2: Yes, nobody was ever smarter than Keith. Keith was the
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Speaker 2: smartest best player I ever played with. To be around,
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Speaker 2: his intensity level of understanding the game clutched more than
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Speaker 2: you can ever imagine. Jeter was clutched too, but I'm
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Speaker 2: just talking about it at a whole different level. Keith
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Speaker 2: was lie a manager on the field and he directed
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Speaker 2: games and Tim D. Carter, both of them were outstanding
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Speaker 2: leaders and bought leadership to us. I'm not taking anything
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Speaker 2: away from other players. Barry Bonds is the best player
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Speaker 2: I've ever seen and played baseball against. But I'm talking
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Speaker 2: about the things that most people did and see from
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Speaker 2: day to day of how Keith was for us. We
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Speaker 2: were young. I was twenty I was twenty one when
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Speaker 2: he came over in eighty three. I was twenty four
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Speaker 2: when we won the championship. And we don't win the
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Speaker 2: championship without Keith and Carter. You know, leadership, responsibility, and
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Speaker 2: they knew how to handle younger players and help younger players.
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Speaker 2: And that's what Keith did for me. Keith helped me.
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Speaker 2: Had taught me how to hit left hand pitching, and I.
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Speaker 3: Used to crush him.
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Speaker 2: I started crushing them hit. I hit twenty home runs
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Speaker 2: off of left hand pitchers and one season lead in
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Speaker 2: the league hitting home runs off of left hand pitching.
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Speaker 2: Because it was very difficult. But Keith was a student
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Speaker 2: of the game. He was just and a master at it,
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Speaker 2: at every piece of it, from fielding, from hitting, from
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Speaker 2: conversation and showing you things and showing you how to
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Speaker 2: take batting practice and hit the ball down the line,
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Speaker 2: you know, left field line, the center field, and then
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Speaker 2: you can start pulling it. Not hitting the ball to
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Speaker 2: the ballpark, because so many guys want to get up
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Speaker 2: there and hit the ball to the ballpark. It's five o'clock,
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Speaker 2: it does not count. And I started realizing that watching
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Speaker 2: Keith the way he took batley practice, and I started
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Speaker 2: doing the same thing. And when I came in the
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Speaker 2: game situation, I can hit the ball to the ballpark
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Speaker 2: either way. I can hit it to left field, right field,
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Speaker 2: center field, because I learned from him what it was
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Speaker 2: to be able to stay on the baseball when you're
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Speaker 2: taking batty practice and working on thanks.
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Speaker 1: And he loved the ball and he had similar issues
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Speaker 1: to you and I those early eighties talked about Saint Louis.
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Speaker 1: He had some rough years and one year in particular
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Speaker 1: where he they held his feet to the fire. Keith,
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Speaker 1: but he also came around and he's become really a
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Speaker 1: legend here. You know, he does a great job announcing
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Speaker 1: the games on s n Y. And that'll bring me
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Speaker 1: to the final question, which is this New York met team.
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Speaker 1: They said a couple of days ago. Donald. But outside
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Speaker 1: of five players, five one Soto, Ewing, Benji uh Nolan,
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Speaker 1: the kiddo pitched yesterday. I just forgot his name, McLean,
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Speaker 1: excuse me, and Christian Scott. Outside of those five players,
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Speaker 1: everybody is available. Your thoughts on that.
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Speaker 2: Well, they better put Lindor in there too. You better
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Speaker 2: not trade him. I mean, he's a phenomenal player. I
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Speaker 2: don't care what anybody has to say about him. He
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Speaker 2: has tremendous solargy. He one of the best shortstops that's
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Speaker 2: probably gonna be in're.
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Speaker 1: You're going to be mad at me, but I'm mad
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Speaker 1: at him. You're gonna be mad at me. Don't be
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Speaker 1: mad at me because I love you. But his wife
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Speaker 1: worn't for mom Donnie, and I can't Acee. I just
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Speaker 1: can't get over that. I'm sorry.
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Speaker 2: I know I'm not talking about the politics parts of
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Speaker 2: what people are, but I'm talking about from a standpoint
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Speaker 2: of an athlete. You don't You won't find many Lindors.
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Speaker 2: They forgot how good he was when he carried them
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Speaker 2: down that stretch. He put that team on his back,
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Speaker 2: and that's the only reason a lot for them to
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Speaker 2: be able to go into the National League Championship period.
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Speaker 2: Of course, Pete has some big home runs for them too,
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Speaker 2: but Lindora was the key to that. He's that kind
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Speaker 2: of player when he's well, when he's healthy and his
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Speaker 2: mindset is together, he can do those kinds of things.
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Speaker 2: Him and Soto, they can do those type of things.
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Speaker 2: And with the younger players that they got coming, if
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Speaker 2: they're going to get younger, get younger, the fantas is
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Speaker 2: gonna have to be a little patient. But Alanta always
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Speaker 2: did that.
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Speaker 3: They fans were very patient.
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Speaker 2: I know, this is New York, you know patients. It's
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Speaker 2: because what people are expecting, the expecting the mess to be, like, well,
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Speaker 2: where's another Dala Strawberry coming up at twenty one, Where's
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Speaker 2: another Doc Gooden coming up at nineteen. You rarely see
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Speaker 2: that on the franchise team. But you might have to
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Speaker 2: have some younger players come in and start developing, and
25:48
Speaker 2: so you can have that generation for the next couple
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Speaker 2: of years. If you could build around some of these
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Speaker 2: guys you already have and what you have in your
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Speaker 2: form system, and if you trade some players and you
25:58
Speaker 2: get some more talent, there you go. Before you know it,
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Speaker 2: you'll be back in the mix. But it's gonna take
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Speaker 2: you a minute to get there. It's not gonna take forever,
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Speaker 2: because it's because talent is real good. When you evaluate
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Speaker 2: young talent, that's the most important thing. Frank Cashing built
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Speaker 2: a program and the Mets system on the young talent.
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Speaker 2: He went out and got Keith, he went out, got Carter,
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Speaker 2: he went out, got Ray Knight. Before you know it,
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Speaker 2: you got Davy Johnson as the manager and three years,
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Speaker 2: you know, within the next three years, we are in
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Speaker 2: the championship. And so it's not like that. Today. The
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Speaker 2: players have to come to the big leagues young and
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Speaker 2: not a whole lot of experience, and they got to
26:41
Speaker 2: you gotta go through it. They're gonna go through They're
26:44
Speaker 2: gonna go through the ups and downs and a part
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Speaker 2: of baseball and just like life, exactly, everybody's got something.
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Speaker 2: Everybody's got something in life they got to go through.
26:54
Speaker 2: There's just not public. Sometimes ours a public and people
26:58
Speaker 2: want to like point the finger that people with uh
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Speaker 2: that's in the public spotlight. Well, if they looked in
27:03
Speaker 2: your closet, what would fall out of your closet junking?
27:07
Speaker 2: You got some junk in your trunk too, and we
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Speaker 2: all do. So that's just right. Let's just be people
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Speaker 2: and be pleasant and save time things to people and
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Speaker 2: help people. You know, that's the most important thing. And
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Speaker 2: I'm so proud of Lenny Dykester, you know, for one guy.
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Speaker 2: You know that he's sober now he's got saved. You know,
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Speaker 2: he's in a different direction too. So people want to
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Speaker 2: like kill people because of what they go through. It's
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Speaker 2: life here, man, it's life. And then we're gonna die,
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Speaker 2: and then it's gonna be over when we're dead and go.
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Speaker 2: You won't even be talking about jos Strawberry, I said,
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Speaker 2: our Keith or Lenny Dykester anymore.
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Speaker 1: You're right, Donald, this was such an amazing conversation. I
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Speaker 1: couldn't love you more than I do. You just you
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Speaker 1: you're my favorite player going up and now you're like
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Speaker 1: my favorite person. I swear to God, Donald straw but
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Speaker 1: I love you. The book is another life. It'll be
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Speaker 1: out there on August the eleventh. From the old time
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Speaker 1: great New York met and New York Yankee, but an
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Speaker 1: even better person, my great friend Darald Strawberry, Daryl great job.
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Speaker 2: Hey, And I'm having a signing July thirty, first at
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Speaker 2: City phil Oh. Wow, another life for my book, you
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Speaker 2: know you have for the fans, whoever comes to the start,
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Speaker 2: you know, I told them bring two pieces of memorabilion.
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Speaker 2: I signed them for free. The books is twenty eight much,
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Speaker 2: but my autograph is more than worse than that. So
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Speaker 2: if you own a baseball hat or so whatever you
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Speaker 2: bring and July thirty first, six pm at Cityfield.
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Speaker 1: That is awesome. Well, that's great, Tyrol, that's awesome, buddy.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. We'll see you on July thirty first,
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Speaker 1: my man, thank you so much.
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Speaker 2: All right, sir, I love you, man, appreciate you.
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Speaker 1: I love you even more. Darold Strawberry right there, the
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