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Lovable Reunion - Surviving Cubs dark days + 2016 World Series comeback w/ Travis Wood & Mike Borzello | Ross & Rizzo · Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to another episode of the Lovable
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  Speaker 1: Reunion podcasts. We have two very special guests today with
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  Speaker 1: Travis Wood and Mike Borzia. They were massive parts of
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  Speaker 1: our success in twenty sixteen and cannot wait to get
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  Speaker 1: into it with them.
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  Speaker 2: The reason why this is special is there are certain
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  Speaker 2: groups within the team that talkball pitching. Mike was our
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  Speaker 2: strategist for game calling, ran the catchers, very important coach
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  Speaker 2: for me, and a lot of back and forth in
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  Speaker 2: conversations would he obviously being a pitcher and a part
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  Speaker 2: time left fielder, and absolutely Rakes as a pitcher. This
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  Speaker 2: was kind of our group and these guys together are
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  Speaker 2: probably some of the most entertaining, knowledgeable and been around
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  Speaker 2: the coast for a long time with Riz for some
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  Speaker 2: dark days before the light hit. So's welcome these two
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  Speaker 2: to the podcast. Yeah, guys, what let's have.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about because us three are really the only
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  Speaker 1: three from that team in sixteen that fucking went through
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  Speaker 1: the dog days here we dunk right.
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  Speaker 3: What weird about that is every spring we would go
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  Speaker 3: through spring, but we're not gonna be as bad as
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  Speaker 3: everybody thinks, Like we actually got a squad and then
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  Speaker 3: it was awful.
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  Speaker 1: I remember one of my first spring trainings, Dale Swam,
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  Speaker 1: great manager, great person, great baseball mind, promised us in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twelve, I promise you you're gonna win sixty games,
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  Speaker 1: and you're gonna lose sixty games, And it's those other
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  Speaker 1: twenty that are the difference makers, right yep or thirty whatever,
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  Speaker 1: it is thirty two and we lost one hundred plus
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  Speaker 1: games after one. And I remember saying, Dall, you lied
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  Speaker 1: to us in screen training.
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  Speaker 3: We lost awful in twelve and ninety nine and thirteen
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  Speaker 3: were total of two hundred woo combined years.
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  Speaker 1: We lost one hundred year we had When we got
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  Speaker 1: my first spring training in Chicago, we were rolling out
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  Speaker 1: baseballs in a shopping yes, and I go to Otis
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  Speaker 1: Rec and pees Otis Hellman was the greatest clubhouse manager
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  Speaker 1: in the world, And I go, Otis, I go, can
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  Speaker 1: we get regular buckets for PP because that's the way
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  Speaker 1: we always done it? And I go, well, we had
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  Speaker 1: these fucking one around here in one hundred years, maybe
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  Speaker 1: we should switch something up.
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  Speaker 3: We had shopping cars, we had trumping carts market down
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  Speaker 3: the streets. And then do you remember apparently we threw
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  Speaker 3: too many baseballs in the stands, all.
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  Speaker 2: Were yelling at us.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the yonis started or just started keeping all the
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  Speaker 3: scuff one he used to get rid of him.
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  Speaker 4: He started keeping all the.
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  Speaker 3: Scuff ones and pushed a new shopping card out to
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  Speaker 3: the outfield for us to throw in there.
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  Speaker 4: He's like, y'all, if y'all want to throw them, throw these.
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  Speaker 5: It was it was low classes.
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  Speaker 1: When do you guys think for us the organization shifted
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  Speaker 1: because we were I mean, we went through so many
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  Speaker 1: trade dons were selling man.
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  Speaker 3: I would have to say it shifted at some point
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  Speaker 3: in fourteen because what we lost one hundred and one,
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  Speaker 3: we lost ninety nine, and then what we won seventy
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  Speaker 3: something games in fourteen?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we did, so we were on the up.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the your theo got there, No steel got
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  Speaker 1: there until yeah, we were all the.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I kind of gutted it right. Yeah, he had
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  Speaker 5: a plan and he got it plan.
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  Speaker 3: It just wasn't we're not gonna go after it yet.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna see where we're at. We're gonna throw a
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  Speaker 3: few filler spots in here and see see what sticks.
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  Speaker 3: And then fourteen we actually won seventy something games and
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  Speaker 3: then but we still got rid of the manager.
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  Speaker 4: But that's when Joe came available, and the.
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  Speaker 3: Moment we brought Leicester in, well yeah, and then you
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  Speaker 3: came and then lacking right right right, and then big
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  Speaker 3: holes field like KB came up and filled a big
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  Speaker 3: void and dominated Schwarber.
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  Speaker 2: I remember playing you guys in fourteen went the Red
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  Speaker 2: Sox and are Hat almost to a no hitter, and
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  Speaker 2: I played that game. He threw me a front door
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  Speaker 2: or cutter at like ninety three, and I'm like, I've
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  Speaker 2: never seen that, right, you know what I mean? So
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  Speaker 2: that was part of my free agent thinking was like
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  Speaker 2: there were they've already got a number one AREAA was nasty.
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  Speaker 6: Some trades right where you started to get excited. That
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  Speaker 6: one was a huge one where you're trading.
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  Speaker 5: Three Feldman, Scott Feldman, Scott Feldman, Clevenger.
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  Speaker 4: Clevenger's for stroke a.
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  Speaker 5: Deal.
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  Speaker 6: Wow, these guys show up. And I remember the phone
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  Speaker 6: call from THEO and he's like, hey, we made a deal.
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  Speaker 6: We moved Feldman and I said okay, and he goes.
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  Speaker 6: Cleve had to go.
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  Speaker 5: I said okay, and he goes.
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  Speaker 6: We got Arieta, who didn't live up to his potential.
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  Speaker 6: He goes, everyone has always liked this guy, but it
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  Speaker 6: just never happened. And he had as and then strop
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  Speaker 6: E goes and Strophie who can't throw strikes. So we'll
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  Speaker 6: see to guys that just haven't really ever reached their
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  Speaker 6: potential and then boy, did they reach their potential exactly can.
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  Speaker 5: It's a lot of credit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like.
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  Speaker 3: The mechanics correct. He knew how to fix you on
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  Speaker 3: the side, knew how to fix you on the side.
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't take as as much as I would take
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  Speaker 6: any pitching coach when it came to those things.
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  Speaker 2: If he mechanics, if.
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  Speaker 3: Bos got to see you when you were dialed in
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  Speaker 3: the moment it got off, he saw Boss could see it,
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  Speaker 3: he'd be like, hey, this is what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: And the best part about Bozzio too is he was
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  Speaker 1: his own party of one character. He was at it
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  Speaker 1: was he was. He was part of the dynamic of
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  Speaker 1: this team that like, if we didn't have him, we
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  Speaker 1: don't win. And we say that every single guy, and it's.
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  Speaker 3: He was the bully that kept everybody honest.
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  Speaker 1: Respected though he respected the hell out of them, loved them.
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  Speaker 2: Remember when he started a pitching meeting without me there
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  Speaker 2: in my first year. I remember I was the players
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  Speaker 2: I've never been. I came at him because he was
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  Speaker 2: about to have my back and I was hitting or something,
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  Speaker 2: and everybody's we're screaming ready for a game, and left me.
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  Speaker 1: And him were face to face so angry, and he plays.
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  Speaker 5: But that's what I explained that story.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, please please. That's why I brought it
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  Speaker 2: up for you to tell the story.
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  Speaker 6: So before a series, you go and you have a
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  Speaker 6: meeting with the entire pitching staff, starters and relievers and
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  Speaker 6: catchers and catchers most of the time and sometimes because
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  Speaker 6: he didn't want to. The meeting is usually posted or
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  Speaker 6: scheduled for whatever reason that the everything got messed up.
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  Speaker 6: So we're in the food room where we're gonna talk
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  Speaker 6: about the report and how we're going to attack hitters.
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  Speaker 6: Ross He's not in there, and Boz is like, let's go,
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  Speaker 6: let's start the meeting. I go, Rossie's not here.
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  Speaker 5: He goes, all right, we'll give it another minute. And
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if anyone.
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  Speaker 6: Went to look for you or not, but all I
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  Speaker 6: know is Bos finally goes, fuck it start, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 6: I knew it was a bad idea.
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  Speaker 5: When I did it, I'm like, this isn't gonna go well.
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  Speaker 5: I go over the whole report, but halfway through, do
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  Speaker 5: you remember the door opens there he is Rossy looks
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  Speaker 5: and instead of coming in, he the door. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: this isn't gonna go well for me.
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  Speaker 7: I know I'm gonna get blamed for sure enough, he's
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  Speaker 7: catching That day, we go out, him and I play
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  Speaker 7: catch because I would get him loose game.
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  Speaker 5: Now, after we play catch, I'm like.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, maybe he's not upset.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe, And then out of nowhere, right like three minutes later,
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  Speaker 5: he goes and you're.
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  Speaker 1: Building before a game.
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  Speaker 2: You're supposed to have my back, and I go, fuck you,
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  Speaker 2: like he was. We were.
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  Speaker 5: I tried.
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  Speaker 4: I told him there, me and him.
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  Speaker 5: It was the beginning of where Twitter was the thing
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  Speaker 5: and it was all over. That was the beginning of.
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  Speaker 2: Our we were. I thought we were tighter after that
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  Speaker 2: because it was just like you knew where I stood,
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  Speaker 2: and the same thing, like you're you're big into like
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  Speaker 2: this is the beauty of the teams.
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  Speaker 4: The only reason why you're getting into because you're both
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  Speaker 4: the beadle.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, me and what me and Woody would
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  Speaker 1: argue all the time to just for all the years
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  Speaker 1: he would he was actually a really good hitting coach
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  Speaker 1: as a pitcher and taught me a lot more than
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  Speaker 1: I give him credit for. But fucking we've been together
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  Speaker 1: for five, six, seven years, and he was, you need
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  Speaker 1: to do this, Hey, do this? What do you shut
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  Speaker 1: the funk up? But then I would, I would actually
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  Speaker 1: and I would actually be doing doing it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like you, I know you don't want to listen
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  Speaker 3: to me, I said, finally on time, said Rizzo, there's
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  Speaker 3: a reason why I'm here early. I don't talk to
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  Speaker 3: pitching coaches about pitching. I talked to hitting coaches about pitching.
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  Speaker 3: I said, So that's how I learned how y'all think.
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  Speaker 2: And if I see something of that can help you,
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  Speaker 2: you might not want to listen to me, but.
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  Speaker 4: I might not be wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. You're right. Nine times out of ten you
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  Speaker 1: were right.
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  Speaker 2: I give you.
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  Speaker 6: I'm giving you the creak right now on a I
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  Speaker 6: remember going back to the original topic here about twenty
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  Speaker 6: twelve and thirteen, So building this championship club was we
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  Speaker 6: knew like you got traded over from the Reds, so
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  Speaker 6: you were hopefully going.
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  Speaker 5: To be a piece, and you were a starter at
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  Speaker 5: the time you.
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  Speaker 4: Did well horrible spring.
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  Speaker 5: I'll get to that.
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  Speaker 8: So so now.
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  Speaker 6: You knew you had pieces like damp Samarja Garza that
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  Speaker 6: we were probably going to use to get pieces back
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  Speaker 6: because we were so far away from being good and
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  Speaker 6: the only people on the team that you knew were
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  Speaker 6: going to be long term guys possibly were obviously Riz.
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  Speaker 1: Who they got for Kashner, right, Starling.
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  Speaker 5: Starlin Castro, and then you coming over, that's really like,
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  Speaker 5: that was it?
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  Speaker 2: That was it?
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  Speaker 6: So that's three out of twenty five at the time,
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  Speaker 6: so twenty two players no offense were We're not going
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  Speaker 6: to be part of this going forward, even the good ones.
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  Speaker 6: So then we Theo's like trying to angle trades and
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  Speaker 6: we're going to trade this guy for this guy and
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  Speaker 6: this guy for this guy.
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  Speaker 5: And now the key was them getting a good return,
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  Speaker 5: and you're like, okay, and THEO was on my ass.
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  Speaker 2: You have to make sure guards a pitch as well.
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  Speaker 5: The next two starts because he's fucking getting moved. Wow,
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  Speaker 5: And I'm like, the reports are the reports, like I can't.
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  Speaker 6: Try harbor Earth And he's like, you just make sure
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  Speaker 6: he fucking pitches well so we can move it and
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  Speaker 6: sure enough, like that's how it went.
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  Speaker 5: And the Dempster trade to Texas, I believe.
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  Speaker 3: Think about how good Think about how good Texas minor
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  Speaker 3: league system was we because we twelve and thirteen. We
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  Speaker 3: pulled our main core from Texas minor league.
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  Speaker 5: System because they were ready to win.
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  Speaker 2: Yea, they wanted. Yeah, we had it right and we
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  Speaker 2: had good pictures we did.
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  Speaker 5: We did, I mean gars of Dempster, some Marsha, that's
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  Speaker 5: pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, imagine if the guy that returns, I mean Yeaddy
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  Speaker 2: and Wed that's where you got a credit draft j Yeah, those.
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  Speaker 4: Guys, Carl So we got Kyle from there.
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  Speaker 5: We got Kyle and yeah yeah, I mean we built.
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  Speaker 1: We grinded these three here. You may have grinded on
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  Speaker 1: your two year deals.
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  Speaker 2: But I grind every day. I was a two twenty hitters.
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  Speaker 1: I say, that's a good point.
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  Speaker 5: I want to. I want to My career was a grind.
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  Speaker 1: So for anyone listening that's not familiar, Borz did all
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  Speaker 1: the scaling reports for our pitchers. And when I say
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  Speaker 1: he did the scouting reports, he was basically what the
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  Speaker 1: new age, you know. He knew everything about everyone. He knew,
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  Speaker 3: You got to take that back to his time with
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  Speaker 3: the Yankees and the Nights.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I was going to say. How many rings
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  Speaker 2: do you have? Boards five rings.
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  Speaker 3: He came up with the best team and four with
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  Speaker 3: the Yankees with the cups, and he learned from the best,
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  Speaker 3: and he.
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  Speaker 1: Would he would do it in the most authentic way
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  Speaker 1: that I loved. And through my career when I was
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  Speaker 1: really young, I think thirteen to maybe seventeen eighteen, after
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  Speaker 1: every season, me and boys would sit down and he
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  Speaker 1: would break me down and he would be like, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is what you sucked at, this is what you
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: were really good at. And every off season I would
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  Speaker 1: take his notes, he would write him down for me.
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  Speaker 1: We'd go over him and I'd take him and I
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  Speaker 1: would go into my off season and be all right,
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  Speaker 1: this is what I'm working on this offseason, and I
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  Speaker 1: would try to correct it. And then throughout the year too,
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  Speaker 1: he would he would give me these little tidbits of
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  Speaker 1: of information that were so crucial to me. Where again
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  Speaker 1: I keep saying this about people I said about Hinsky
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  Speaker 1: and how big they were. If I didn't have you
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  Speaker 1: telling me these things, because during the year, it's so
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  Speaker 1: hard to make adjustments, and you would always be there
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  Speaker 1: barking at me, saying all right, well you fucking suck
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  Speaker 1: right now, or you're really doing good at this. And
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  Speaker 1: it was such a huge, I mean part of my career.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say the other one more point to that just
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  Speaker 2: about not to we're doing this to everybody. But like
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Male said this about skiing about there's honesty and truth
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  Speaker 2: that comes out of certain coaches like this guy is
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  Speaker 2: kno going to sugarcoat it when it comes to you.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to come in his office and he's ready
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  Speaker 2: for you when you say something got but when you
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: got something because he's researched it, he studied it, and
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: he's trying to make everybody on the team better with
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: his process of what he does. We've been talking a
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: lot about the pieces of the puzzle for this whole sixteen.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: So before y'all got there, my first two stars, they
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: weren't bad starts, but they weren't great starts. And I
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: would go in every after every game, because that was
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: back when you were in the video room, and all
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: he did was sit there and just watch the game,
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: put it in, watch the game, put it in, and
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: I'd be like.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Hey, how was it?
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: And he'd be like, it's fine, it's fine. I was like, Okay,
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Secon game, how was it?
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: That's fine, it's fine.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Third game, how was It's fine?
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: It's fine?
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: And I didn't feel like it was I was like,
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: I said, I said, tell me the truth, and all
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: of a sudden, I don't know if he had a
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: clipboard something, but it just got slimmed down.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: He said, you want to fucking know the truth, and I.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: Said, yes, that's why I keep coming in here. He said,
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: you can't locate your fastball. You got a decent change up,
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: you can't throw a curveball, for shit, what do you expect?
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: I was like, that's our coaching staff skiz, like.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: Honest, and I said, finally, that's what I've been looking for.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: I said, so tell me now we can work on
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: it and now flat or fast forward when y'all get
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: here in fifteen, I think, were y'all both fifteen or
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: we need a job with fifteen?
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, John, I'm like, hey, well, Boresy is awesome. You're
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: going to love him. You're gonna not like him at first,
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: I said, but you're going to love him and I
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: said because, And he's like, what do you mean?
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: And I said, I don't really want to explain it.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: You just gotta talk to him.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: And somehow it was after like his first or second start,
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: we all ended up at country club and I said, oh,
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: it's going to happen here, and I said, John, I said, just.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: That, said John.
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: I said, you're going to want to fight him. I said,
• 18:32
  Speaker 8: but don't. And I said, just you can yell.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: You can yell.
• 18:36
  Speaker 8: I said, but just listen, and by the end of
• 18:38
  Speaker 8: it you will understand.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: I said, But he's so forward that because he doesn't sugarcoat,
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: and there's no point in it.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: The only way you get better is to.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: And oh.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: They went at a shouting match back and forth across
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: the table, and John gets stood up and he came
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: to me.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: He's like, I hate that motherfucker right there.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I hate him, hate him.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: Minutes later, they're back talking. Twenty minutes after that.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: He was like, dude, you were right.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: He was like, you just have to know he like
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: he knows his ship best. And I was like, yes,
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: but you get the assist on that.
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: When you guys first came over, I'm like, I mean,
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: you guys, you know, have accomplished a lot won elsewhere
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: with Boston, so it's like you got to tread lightly
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: as a coach, like you've already had success. I have
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: thoughts of my own, but you guys have already, you know,
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: climbed to the mountaintop. So it's like I gotta pick
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: my spots on how I'm going to present what I
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: think can still help.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: And then you were the one that told John eventually
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: like let's buy in.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: Like it's it is real. Like but you you, as
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: a coach, you have to you have to time it right,
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: especially with veteran veteran players, especially to.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: A new team.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: That's right, that is that is such one oh one
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: feel that has been You can't you can't teach that
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: in baseball. We are so guarded as baseball players. Just
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: to explain to audience that if a coach comes to you,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: I had a coach one time, never met him and
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: starts talking to me about my first starts talking about
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: some defensive stuff and I'm just hey, I'm Anthony, Like,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: nice to meet you. Let's grab a beer. I learned
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: that from job Master. I learned that from Joe Matten,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Like I got to get to know someone before I
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: introduce something. So the fact that you're saying that is
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: like the best advice I can give to any up
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: and coming coach is like get or even a leader
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: of teammate, get to know someone first, and then once
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: you start talking it's it's out a love show.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: The person I invested in them just as much as
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: they're invested in the team meeting.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: He starts reading it off, is like, all right, sink in.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: This guy's a straight baller, and I'm like it was like, wait,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: someone would decipher this for me because he just went
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: over this hitter and I didn't understand the one word
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: what we're doing to this guy. But you catch on
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: and it all makes sense. It's like, right, I need
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: to know with it. So we went down but like
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: it's a it's a It was a cool process, especially
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: coming over here and the way we did it, and
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: we you and Tommy helping develop the wristband.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: No one will ever know until now.
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: When you talked about the information, you're like, poresy, there's
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: a lot of information.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: I said, yes, I remember most of it, but it's
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: hard to remember all of it.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: And I said, I get it for you.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you had lefties, right's yeah, it's so people go
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: through big hooks.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: What can we do? A smart guy goes what can
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: we do?
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: What everyone probably felt the way you did?
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what our process we came up with helped me
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: tremendously watch.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Football game watched one football game.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: Catcher ever to wear an armband with?
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Is that my partner?
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: And we have that's right, and now it's in place,
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: and I don't know what people put on the arm
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: band we had left.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Remember I could remember lefties, and we had all the
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: right art we had to start and finish. And then
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: we had in order of importance, which was really big
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: because I would be in between pitches, so it would
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: be like fastball in or slider away in order of
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: what they were.
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: All the options are listed, but and right handed pitcher
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: and fast one is at the top.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Fastball over slider, slider over curveball.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: So much that goes into every single pitch that we're
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: gonna get to it later when we talk about Game seven.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: But it all rides on your life is on the
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: line between the lines. Obviously, it's not like.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: Can be obviously in baseball, the games decided on one pitch.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, at a certain times, you know the guy not
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: getting a great secondary.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: Exactly, and like there you go, so now you don't
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: you're not a whorl.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Chair and that exactly we're not sitting here. We're not
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: sitting here.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: One one decision as a starting picture that that cost
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: you the game with him.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Can we tell the quick story because we want to
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: get into it. I just want to tell a story
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: about spring training, me get dress wood and going back
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: to back curveballs. Do you remember that?
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: Or you couldn't throw first strike.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: And throw the first start against the Dodgers.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: I miss this in baseball because you don't get this
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: kind of honesty.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Woody my first year there, right, what he starts in
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: against is this when you dropped a hit on me, and.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: Which wasn't the last time either, but I would.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Rather you come scream in my face than this, so
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: when it hurt me worse than anything in.
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: A report and a scouting report against a hitter, we
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: know a lot of times that they're going to take
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: a first pitch, breaking ball, first pitch curveball on the
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: sheets called the dumper, get me.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: Over curveball that a hitter just swallows.
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: So Woodi's pitcher, ROSSI calls it when he throws the
• 24:03
  Speaker 9: first one, it's non competitive.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: Last on my ball. Hold the ball, so now hold
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: the ball. ROSSI calls it again.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Right, yeah, you know you think, okay, they just needed
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: one to get The.
• 24:22
  Speaker 10: Second one was worse first and Rossie catches it and
• 24:30
  Speaker 10: the boty that this was the poorest body language.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: But I got it. It was like I understood it too,
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: and he throws it back. It's like, what the fuck
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: are you two?
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: What do we do? You've got eighty nine in the tank?
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: What are we doing?
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Now?
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: This is the big leagues? Now where do you want
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: me to go?
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: They throw it back like this.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: It was the and.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: That's what I was like, thro behind that happy with
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: you all right?
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: Sorry, I had to get that love like that was
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: that happened throughout the year?
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Is you never always nail it?
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: You're right Wood.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: He was such a part of our culture because in
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen was your first year going to the bullpen,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna give you your your run right here.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: You led the league in appearances and with postseason appearances combined,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: it was you led everyone in appearances, which is insane.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: First year reliever Joe would go to you like he
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: was like you were his safety blanket first year in
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: the bullpen, which is insane. But your role behind the
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: scenes was something that I don't think we are where
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: we are without you because we had like four, four
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: or five guys on the top of my head that
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: were like the characters on the team Me, you Woody
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: in Decks and we were like the four like kind
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: of we fed off each other. One day I didn't
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: feel it, they would bring it. If one day he
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: wasn't feeling, would bring And then you sprinkle in Leicster,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: you get him pissed off, you get Lackey pissed off, right,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Jay Hay pop in, Hobby pop in. So you'd have
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: all these guys. But what he was the main character
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: of the pictures, the bullpen of Team Bartender, Team Bartender
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: on the Planes, Team Bartender on rally shots introduced me
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: to a rally beer. First time I ever did a
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: rally beer was in I think twenty thirteen.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Did you hit a Homer?
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: You my next about we were in We were in
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Rosie's Little Players office there in DC. Homer. I chugged it.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I believe it was off Craig's Stammon too, new manager
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: of the Poject Dead Center, and I was like, holy shit,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: you couldn't always the rally bear. But I do give
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: what he the credit for the rally beer.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: What do you were?
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: You were?
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: You were? I remember coming on the plane and he's
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: got his backpack full of the bar that we needed,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: and he's fixing the ready drinks and he's like, I
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: don't get it. Rossie, I'm like, what's that. I was like,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: me and John we throw a lot of the same pitches.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: How was he getting one hundred and sixty million dollars? Why?
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: I was like, I remember, I was, I was what
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: I mean because I'm like, okay, yeah, this guy's I
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: thought I thow the same cutter, the same a little bit.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: I said, Actually my curve ball at the moment, it's
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: a little bit better, got a better change up.
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: I get it.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: He's six five two forty and I'm five, one hundred
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: and sixty. I was like, I don't understand the difference.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: You can hit better, you had a better pickoff.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I was everything way better. What was
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: going Yeah, yeah, I mean I don't understand it.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: What what was going through your head when in that
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: game was the versus the Mariners, when you played the
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: outfield and then came into pitch.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: So that game so previously I had played outfield for
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: the first time in Cincinnati.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he did the double.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: We did the double thing, and then Trophy replaced me
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: in left field, but I never got a ball right, Like,
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: I didn't have to do nothing. And so when I
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: got put back out there, I.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Was like, I don't want to because power shadow I
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: give you that.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: I would I would take I would take some of
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: the young outfielders and explain to them why I didn't
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: want them to play d yes because I would play shallow.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: I would play shallow and be like, as a pitcher,
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: the ball that's gonna rock it off the wall or
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: one hop I don't need caught.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: I messed up.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: I threw a pitch that they could waffle. I need
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: the pitch that I just straight blew their bad up on.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: But because you're tickling the dirt on the track, you
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: can't get to because you're scared of the ball. One
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: of it.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: And I would just tell them, I'm.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Like, hey, if you just watch, there won't be one
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: ball I don't catch that doesn't one homp the wall
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: or hit the wall.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: You can do it.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: Got it.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: When I got there the first time, I was like,
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: I didn't get to do nothing.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Now, granted I was hoping for like a just a
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: nice easy pop up, and that is the first It
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: was crazy because I was looking.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: Back on it.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: We don't take VP at nighttime.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: No, that's the first ball I caught at night since
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: high school.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: I got I had a sweatshirt where you're I've got
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: a sweatshirt that five hundred level whatever made with you
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: catching the ball in the eye and your number at
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: the bottom.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I love that Joe did that.
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: Oh, I love that.
• 29:11
  Speaker 11: That's why I missed like that type of manager national
• 29:18
  Speaker 11: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but Joe didn't ever get scared.
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: Now, sometimes it works, sometimes it didn't, but he.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Was never scared. Joe was the ring leader of our circus.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Was your favorite thing about Joe?
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: I agree that he let me. He allowed me to
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: do those things.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: There's powershag because and I took pride in hitting because
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: I didn't just want to be a picture.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: I wanted to be able to help out. It's a
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: team any way that I could help out.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: That's the redneck in Yes.
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: I wanted to be involved in everything.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like even when it was at pit.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: I'm a baseball player picture right, I wish I wish
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: I was.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: I wish I could.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: Started first dace anyway other games, like, I just wanted
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: to be involved.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we mean, how did Joe affect you. How did
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Joe Joe Joe.
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: The way I looked at the game because I was
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: spoiled with the Yankees where we ran the same lineup
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: out for one hundred and sixty two and postseason, like
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: you had the best players with the best players, the
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: best rotation, the best bullpay, so there were no you
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: weren't moving pieces around.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: It was, you know, no block Jeter O'Neill, you know, like.
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: The same nine in the same spots for ten years.
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: Then I get with Joe Madden and it was like, oh,
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: wait a minute. He likes players have played multiple positions
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: and moving them around and changing lineup up and and
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: he was kind of the ironically the pioneer of analytics.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Like yeah, he was. He had his matrix called the
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Matrix Matrix.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Right, that's right.
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: And it's ironic because he kind of has been pushed
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: out yet because he is not enough of an analytics.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Analytical because now he took all the information and now
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: he's using his brain in his field, which is always
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: he always did. But at first it was like, oh,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: he's too analytical. He's like no, he's just using the
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: information and now going with it and his experience, which.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: Is experience, experience Trump experience experience and history.
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: Trump's is another level. So I embraced and I still
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: talk to our president of Baseball offs with the padres
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: that I work for now about you know parts that
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: interchangeable parts, how you can move pieces around, how how
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: a roster is built, And that's all because of Joe.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no explanation. The human element. I don't care
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: what the matrix says, what analytics say. As players, we
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: know everything on paper, could say you should crush this picture.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: He throws everything that you hit. There is something about
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: him that you don't sniff. Yeah, right, Just as a pitcher,
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: those those guys that is one of those guys you
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: just can't get out, the stretch, change up, just the
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: straight fit. There's just guys that as pitchers that you
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: just can't get out. It doesn't matter what you throw them,
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: no matter how you throw them.
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: But if you think about our our team though.
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: In fifteen and sixteen, and I had never experienced this,
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: This is why I love Joe Matten among other reasons.
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: But you had Chris Bryant, who played third, would go
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: to first if he had to, would play left center, right, Okay,
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: you had Hobby and Addie play short.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: And second like right, move move back and forth.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Defense exactly.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I played third base in sixteen.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: Hey Schreber, same thing, left and left and first would
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  Speaker 3: do a bunch of defenses.
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  Speaker 5: Risk cat played first.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: And pitched, and then you had up defenses right, yes,
• 32:57
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• 32:59
  Speaker 5: Hold on, you had zobers. You played all anywhere place
• 33:03
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• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Same same with Deck play one hundred and sixty one
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• 33:24
  Speaker 5: It's not about you. But that's what I loved about Joe,
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  Speaker 5: that that experience, like everyone was moving around. He made players.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy.
• 33:36
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• 33:41
  Speaker 5: Like moving around made it different spots. Joe made it fun.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: You didn't get stagnant, you didn't get He was like, oh,
• 33:48
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• 33:51
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  Speaker 4: Francisco Oh, if that's the case, I remember that series.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we swept him in August August.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I want to hear your thoughts too, like like
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  Speaker 2: that's what resonated with us when we started. And then
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  Speaker 4: Marja had a good game, and I read the reason
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  Speaker 1: Year fifteen March Shark was gone.
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  Speaker 4: No, Shark was gone.
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  Speaker 5: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: It was me who pitched that series.
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  Speaker 3: Hammel Me Hammel Leicester probably probably, but all our remembers
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: we killed him. Whatever mind because I scheduled a fishing
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: trip after my game. I had the day game and
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: I had a fishing trip in the day. I'm like, well,
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: we need to get this one done. Will the only time,
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  Speaker 3: the only time he had was like really cutting it
• 36:41
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  Speaker 4: Are went seven and seven and a third or something
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: in fifteen before good.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: I had to go to the bullpen.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: But so we But that's when you knew we were good.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: That series.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: That was that series because we I knew we had something.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: But it was kind of like that.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: In twelve, I was like, oh, we're gonna be good
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: this year. Like what everybody says, we just look good.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: In spring, we lost one hundred and one. Thirteen comes around,
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: I'm like, hey, we got some new pieces. I was like,
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: we're gonna be good. Ninety nine fourteen, I was like, hey,
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: let me tell you this, guys. In twelve, I knew
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: we were gonna lose one hundred. In thirteen, I thought
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: we would lose one hundred. My glasses always half full,
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: my glasses always have fully.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Like this is this is the beauty that we get
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: out of, like unbelievable, this is a bad Let's let's
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: fast forward to we're down three to one. Oh, how
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: are we? We just got swept the year before, to
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: the a.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: Team that we swept all season we were seven and
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: oh we get swept.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: We go down three to one, and it's like fuck, right,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: but what for you two? What are you in the bullpen?
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Ors you're just looking on now at this point? What
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: what was that belief that we can actually do this?
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you the truth.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: That time of years in my hunting time, I was
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: in the bullpen. We had a meeting and I said,
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: I'm gona tell you, I'm gonna tell you the god
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: dang truth. I said, I want to win, and I
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: said so I want I said, I don't want to
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: string the shit out if we're gonna god dang lose.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: In the fifth game, sixth game, I.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: Said, I'm either going home and hunting right now, or
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: I said, let's go fucking do this. And I said,
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: I don't want to I don't want to string this
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: along to lose. You want to go, and I'm all in,
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: And I said, so let's do it, and they.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: Were like, let's go, and we did.
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: I thought I've been in, had been in a lot
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: of postseasons before that, even prior to the Cubs. So
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: to be honest, I had never seen a team, including
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: all my Yankee years and Dodgers, I had never seen
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: a team down three to one as relaxed as our team.
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: In my opinion, I never felt like it's over, we're done.
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: I never did, exactly. We never felt that to the
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: park for Game.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Five, hardest game of the series in my opinion, Yes,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: And it was like, if we win this one, we
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: rolled Game six, Yeah, we got we're winning. And I
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: didn't feel like anyone in the room didn't believe that.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: And I've been on teams that have been down and
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: you know it's over. You know what I mean, like
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: you know it's over, like you can feel it. You're like,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: we're going on, it's over. We're down three one or
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: three zero or you know, three to.
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: Two, but we're done.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: This one was the first time we're we got a shot.
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: We gotta show.
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: We just got to win Game five, and we did,
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: and then games the whole nother story personally, and then
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: game sex well, game six, remember again, it's not about me.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: I hit the home run in the eighth and Joe
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: sent uh Chappy back out and the and we talked
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: to Joe about this. I go Joe. I never hated
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: all back, and that's the one thing. If I can
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: go back, we're not sending Chappie, no doubt, and I
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: think he.
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: Would because I closed out he did it.
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: He hit that homer with two outs, right yea.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: And well we were in the dugout and everyone's like,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: could we fucking get Woody back up? Because finished you
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: finished Game six. But Chappie went out for the night.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: I remember that, and he was pissed because Chappie was
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: worse and he never complained, no, but when he came in.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: He had been our horse and we had ran him
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: and it was. We knew we were going to Game seven,
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: get three outs. We need him to have rest.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: We ran him hard, so we get to Game seven,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: all the pregame stuff. We're in there, and you you
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: run with this because your bullpen experience in Game seven
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: was epic between Johnny Lester, you coaching Johnny Lester being
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: in the bullpen to you and Lackey knowing you're not pitching.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: For the most part, the we.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: Did end up double barreling, which was unexpected, but very
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: greeted with open arms because I would have loved to
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: got in, but no. The when you said them, so
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: we're down there, I knew it was Kyle.
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: I'll call him.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: Carl Hendricks, and then I knew Johnny, and then we're
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: gonna piece together the rest a new Chapman probably at
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: some point. But they get Johnny up and he's been
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: in my ear all night, Like you know, I'm not
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: I don't normally do this.
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: I'm not down here, I.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: Said, dude, once you get loose, I said, just play catch.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: I said, you don't have to keep firing bullets. And
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: I said, if think it's bad enough, I'll stand in
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: front of you.
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: And I said I won't let you throw another one,
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: and he'd got draw humped.
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: Like nervous entergy.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah no, now, yeah, guys, yeah, you just keep.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so, because once you get loose, you earlier, yeah,
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: you know you're loose, but you're still down there, and
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: you're like, well, I'll make sure I'm real doubted, right,
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: I'll make sure I'm real doubted. Well, that's just with
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: your adrenaline everything. That's just wasting bullets that can be
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: for out there. And so, yes, At one point I
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: had to stand in front of John and.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: He said, what the fuck are you doing?
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: I said, John, you're not going to throw another god
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: dang pitch unless.
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: It's out there. He said fuck.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: I said, no, John, this is why you told me
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: to do.
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: I said, I'm standing here until you go sit down.
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: So John goes to sit down, and then so and
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: finally we know he's going in, like it is an
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: official that John's coming in.
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: And he goes in the half inning before.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: Johnathan I went down there, yeah, yeah, but before he
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: goes in, he funk. He comes and sets next to
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: me and he says, Okay, what the fuck do I
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: do with Lester? And I said, I don't know, huh,
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: I don't understand the question. And he said, it's fucking
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: it's like the fifth inning?
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: What do I do? Like, how do I right?
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: And I was like and I said, I said, Russie, yeah,
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: And I said yeah, because we had the whole scouting
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: report thing that we flipped. And I said, and he
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: asked about scouting, press said, fuck the scouting reports.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: The World Series.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: I go, you you don't go in and try to
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: establish the fastball in the fourth and fifth right, I said,
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: it's kitchen sink from the get go.
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: If his weak spot is a cutter, you throw it.
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: If it's a curveball, you throw it.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: If it's a change up, you throw you and you
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: just come guessing. Get right down there. You're talking to everybody,
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: get ready, trying to trying to because you're to You
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: go down there, and it's like, wait, I'm in a
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: different world, right, you bullpen than in the Dog Game.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: Seven of the world greatest World Series of all time.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: And as soon as I say that, you go, you're
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: fucking right, You're fucking right, and you just get up
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: and you go right when you leave, Johnny Lester comes
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: and replaces you, and he says, and he goes.
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: Hey, what the fuck do I do?
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: I get.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: And I said, We're going to Woody for advice.
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: And I said what and I go, I go.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: Rossie just asked me. I said, both the off bed here?
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: What are you doing? He's like, but not a bullman?
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: What do I do?
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: What I do?
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: He's like, the.
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: Scotter report says this, fuck the scout report.
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: I said, just go in, I said, and throw the
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: sink is now open.
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: Well, you just throw the sink at him if you
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: fill a curveball because he can't hit it. That's what
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: you're throwing first pitch.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: I said.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: It's no longer you're You're not a pussy for throwing
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: a curveball your first pitch of your game. You're in
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: the fifth innie.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah you get out, Yeah, you get out.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: I was telling U in one of the episodes before,
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: I was talking about how we were the Motley Crew
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: and how we would just come in and funck ship
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: up and leave, but very respectfully, never disrespectful to the
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: other team. As part of the Motley Crew, you were
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: in what how loud up were you at that time
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: in the bullpen because you and Lack were you were
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: rallying the boys. I know you were.
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: This is when it was a game.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: In our day.
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: Back it wasn't back in our day.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: It was just what we did for the boys. We
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: did whatever it took. And if you thought having a
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: rally beer or taking a shot, or being a half
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: of Crown handled deep.
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: Free game right like we got to.
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: May or may not, it's up to speculation. May or
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: may not have had some beverages in the bullpen.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: It just makes this story that much better, honestly, And I.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: May or may not have.
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: I may have may or may not have dumped out
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: gatorade to fill it up with the mixer.
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: That way, it still looked legit.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: So this is I mean, but this is the cast
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: that we want to portray in this what we're doing
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: this for us to paint that picture of how special
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: that group was. And you need it all. You've even
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: fast forward now like we're in the rain delay comes right,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: we're talking everyone about the rain delay. Borsy for you
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: you were at the coaches what do he? Where are
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: you at? What take us through.
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: Yourdow We came back, We actually all came in.
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: I was in the meeting.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: I was there, and here's your recount of the meeting.
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: It was just something got under j Hey and he
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: just he finally said, hey, you could say it.
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: Fuck that motherfucker.
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: We're doing us.
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: Don't care about anything that's going on. This is our
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: game and we're about to go out there after that
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: and we're going to win. He said, I don't care
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: what's going on from now before.
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: Everything is from now on is.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: What we can can roll.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: And it sparked us, and everyone re upped on their
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: pregame routine and whatever anyone did, and me.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: And Lack end up double barreling and wholeheartedly. I wish
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: one of us would have gotten the game because it
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: would have been epic.
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: I feel like I had hit one hundred that game.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: Well, dude, well I remember we fast forward.
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: I walked, Uh, you didn't want a curveball. I mean
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: we cutter, but no.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: C J.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Edwards in the game. Two outs and we're like, ship,
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: like this is it right, We're already he walks the
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: guy Joe pulls them and I looked down and I'm like,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: Mike Montgomery's coming in, and I love Monny.
• 46:38
  Speaker 5: He was great.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: He was great, fir ust, he was great. Out of
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: the bullpen guy, I was expected.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: Nobody was looking at I've heard this.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Story bars through the years now where I think you
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: tell the story of like everyone had done. I was like,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: what the fuck? What the fuck? And Bors is the
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: only one there? No one you were there saying, don't worry,
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: spin good, we got spin, We got spin.
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: So Lesser actually told this story too.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: This guy Michael Martinez has not taken one a bat
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: and he's a switch hitter. And he's a switch hitter.
• 47:10
  Speaker 5: You have to have the last pretty much the last
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: guy on.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: The Indians roster, and Boresy's saying he were good. That's
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: how locked in exactly. Our staff was where it was
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: like right away, no, we got spin.
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: We got it because you if ever there was a
• 47:25
  Speaker 6: hitter you could take a short cut on, it would
• 47:27
  Speaker 6: be Michael Martinez, no offense.
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: It's like, what are the chances? Right? But you if
• 47:35
  Speaker 5: you treat every hitter like this guy may be up
• 47:38
  Speaker 5: when the game's on the line.
• 47:40
  Speaker 6: And so it happened that way, And it was many
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: running in and I'm like, okay, we're good, and here
• 47:50
  Speaker 6: comes Mani and John Lester and Schwarber run up.
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: And go what do we got?
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: What do we got, I go, we got curveball, we
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: got curveball, and they.
• 48:00
  Speaker 5: Go, we got and then and then Niggie is in
• 48:07
  Speaker 5: the game.
• 48:08
  Speaker 6: I don't even know how many deep he is, so
• 48:11
  Speaker 6: he's catching, and I know he doesn't know Michael Martinez
• 48:14
  Speaker 6: hitting right handed, right. So he looks at me as
• 48:18
  Speaker 6: he's walking back and he and he's looking, he's staring.
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: I go, and he goes, yeah, it's like he knew it.
• 48:29
  Speaker 6: He's like, that's what I was thinking to Michael first pitch.
• 48:34
  Speaker 6: And that's why you got to give Mike Montgomery.
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: How much credit do you have to give that? Yeah,
• 48:40
  Speaker 5: you in the fucking land of that curveball circle right,
• 48:46
  Speaker 5: bringing it back.
• 48:49
  Speaker 6: Nails and Niggie catches it, boom strike and he looks
• 48:54
  Speaker 6: over at me and I go again again.
• 48:57
  Speaker 5: And there it was, And that was it.
• 48:59
  Speaker 6: But you're right, it was because we were prepared. And
• 49:03
  Speaker 6: if you whether you win or lose, as long as
• 49:05
  Speaker 6: you're prepared, you can sleep at night.
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the whole thing.
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: Whether it's it's Jason Kipness who's their best hitter, or
• 49:14
  Speaker 6: Carlos Santana or Michael Martinez, you like, you know.
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: You're prepared Montgomery coming in and you looking like we
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: got spin right, and he throws two heaters and we
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: get beat your you're angry, Killings, You're angry.
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: You're angry.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: That way. It's right. The fact that the fact that
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: Miggy looks back is because of the respect that we
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: all had for one another.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: He was locked in that.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: It wasn't individuals playing.
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: That was the best thing about that team is that
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: everybody trusted everybody and everybody had everybody's back.
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: There was no blame on that team.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: There are not a lot of teams.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: That's why the celebration was so. There was no bank
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: because we did it together. It was like a two
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: year run, and when we won, it was like that
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: nobody half.
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: Asked it couldn't like.
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: Couldn't every game from the start of spring training.
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: You couldn't blame any who cares if a guy made
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: an error, it wasn't from lack of effort, right. He
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: gave it as all on that play, So even as
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: a picture you can be like he related and didn't
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: know he gave it everything. It just wasn't meant to
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: happen on that play.
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: The other thing that why why you talk about how
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: how loose.
• 50:25
  Speaker 6: This team was even behind. When we get to game seven,
• 50:29
  Speaker 6: I'm sure people have spoken about this. You're doing the
• 50:31
  Speaker 6: rocky thing, running around naked in the clubhouse.
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: And it was like, I'm sorry, we didn't hear that
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: running around.
• 50:36
  Speaker 6: What this is my first time being a part of it,
• 50:44
  Speaker 6: talking about it and how important stuff like that is
• 50:48
  Speaker 6: chemist stressful moments and the fact that you're not overly
• 50:54
  Speaker 6: stressed as a premier player, that you're doing this is
• 50:59
  Speaker 6: what makes everyone else relaxed, right, And I.
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: Thought, wow, that is huge, Like we're still having fun.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: And it was talking about that, Joe talked about not
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: changing anything. We didn't change right, right, And I think
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: going back to what Riza said a million times, every
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: piece of this puzzle has been so important, and like
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: you go back and talk. We tell these stories about
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: the impact that each person has had and us winning
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: the World series, and you know, we some guys had
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: bigger roles than others. It's it's it's amazing to us
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: and it's great for us to be able to do
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: this and tell these stories.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: So there's no role. It was every literally everyone, I said,
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: every every episode. Everyone took all nine of us. It
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: took every win. The m v P. H Lester finished
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: second in the Ion that year. I think Hendricks was third. Yeah, Hendrick,
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: you know I was fourthing the MVP that are not
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: about me, uh or all that we trade for the
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: best closer there is chain.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: Right, yeah, you know went all run off that We
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: talked about that. Right.
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: When did we bring in an All Star break other
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: than Chappie because Sheffie w wasn't there to start, right?
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: We got him at All Star Break, correct, We got
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: him at the Labor Torres, right, labor.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: I told you I love labor because I'm like labor
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: without you should get a ring.
• 52:19
  Speaker 5: That was a Chappie brought.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: I feel like we're doing that the labors. Now we
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: brought hogging back.
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: We brought them back. Yeah, we did bring coming.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: So after we went on, before we end, I want
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: to tell the story of the parade. So you guys
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: are on the same float. What he's in there with
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: his beer vest on. Uh, we're all getting absolutely.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: Shirt off, by the way, shirts always off before we
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: even start the surprise. You wore this for the for
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: the episode tomorrow not tomorrow, just wait.
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: But before we even got started on.
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: The purpose, that's what I'm saying, that's why the story
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: gets decapitated by our cable.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: So we're in the double deck almost ripped my nose off.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: We're in the double deck buses.
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: We had to grab your legs because you know, anyone
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: knows this.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: They don't know how to celebrate parades here. They've never
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: done it. No, okay, So we were the guinea pigs.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: So we have like this guy on the bus is like, oh,
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: no alcohol, and they said, okay, get the fuck out
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: of here.
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: So I'm the second to last bus. They're the last bus.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: You lay last year, last there, and our guy on
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: the bus is like, hey, when you're going, you got
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: a duck Like we're in Wrigleyville, Like there's there's low
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: lan hanging power lines, didn't lights. So I turn around
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: and these dudes are fucking bangs up Ross's. They clipped
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: a power line. I'm I'm no joking dead.
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: That We walked across and my head off, John's head off.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: Lammerman was holding filming. There's a cameraman holding filming us
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: like and it hit him. It hit him in his
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: camera and he tried to hold him the camera and
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: then pulled the camera down and it whip whipped and
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: just went. There'll be a statue out there right now
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: if it hits me, Harry carry down or David Roth
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: went the World Series carried off, he went out on top. Well, anyways,
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: thank you guys, you got.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: The team is not special without you. You guys are
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: such a core part of that team. And I'm so
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: happy that we were able to talk about this time.
• 54:32
  Speaker 6: We've got a party to get to like this his brothers,
• 54:35
  Speaker 6: and you're right, it feels like we could have done
• 54:38
  Speaker 6: this for another two.
• 54:40
  Speaker 5: It feels like yesterday on the story Thomas.
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: Pasted just sitting here talking.
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's all it's all just reliving these fun
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: moments and we've I've gotten chills and hopefully like just
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: telling them when and hopefully everyone.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: Get a glimpse of how truly special when we say
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: how special this team was, hopefully throughout this entire series.
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: I had never been on one before, and I never
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: was on one after that.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: It was the same.
• 55:00
  Speaker 6: And I can't believe that it's been taken years, right,
• 55:04
  Speaker 6: and remember the stories like they happened, Yes.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: Yell them all night.
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: What I was shocked about it is ten years, you know,
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: normally come back and people look different and somebody's got
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: everybody still looks.
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: Like a new thing. Right. You've seen Addie and he
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: looks like he gets still, So you're saying we could
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: get the group.
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: It's ages Agentine.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: Let's go around Union Podcast.
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: I love you guys.
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: We're kind of like trappic to that. Yeah, they got
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: words stuck.