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Hall Of Famer Adrián Beltré on FT · Foul Territory

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, man. I don't know if I'm excited. Should I
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: be excited for this interview? I mean, one of my
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  Speaker 1: former teammates, guy in the Hall of Fame, didn't get
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  Speaker 1: invited to Cooperstown, not cool. One of the best third
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  Speaker 1: basemen of all time. Adrian Beltre joining us today. Where
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  Speaker 1: are you living at now?
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  Speaker 2: Are you in L.A.? Yes, I'm in L.A. How are you, Adrian?
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  Speaker 2: And how are you? How are you? Yeah, I'm down
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  Speaker 2: in L.A., yes. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you got the fresh goatee, though, I see. You've
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  Speaker 1: had that since you.
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  Speaker 2: Were last here. Yeah, I just painted right now. Put
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  Speaker 2: his under here so I can look better.
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  Speaker 1: Was it getting gray like mine? Because mine's starting to
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  Speaker 1: get gray. And I'm like, man.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. I had to do it actually almost every week.
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  Speaker 2: Gray is just like almost white already. Not even gray.
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  Speaker 2: It's white already.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. All that stress. All that stress. All that stress.
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  Speaker 1: Adrian Beltre was in the big leagues like 18, man.
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  Speaker 1: All that grinding he did, Kratzy, you know, to get
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  Speaker 1: to the big leagues.
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  Speaker 2: You know this thing. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: First time I ever saw Adrian Belcher. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know if he'll remember this story. 1997, he was in
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  Speaker 1: Vero Beach with the Vero Beach Dodgers. You couldn't have been,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, 18 years old, 17, 18 years old.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how old you were. But they used
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  Speaker 1: to not have a fence. Do you remember this? In
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  Speaker 1: Vero Beach, it was just a hill, right? And if
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  Speaker 1: you hit the ball over the hill, it was a
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  Speaker 1: home run. It wasn't even a fence. It was a hill.
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  Speaker 1: And you hit a ball, and Jock Jones was, I think,
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  Speaker 1: our left fielder, right fielder. And he goes back, and
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  Speaker 1: he hits off his glove and goes over the hill.
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  Speaker 1: And they were like, home run. I'm like, that's not
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  Speaker 1: a home run. They're like, oh, went over the hill.
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  Speaker 1: There goes Beltre. Trot around the bases. I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 1: I want to play in this league.
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  Speaker 2: They home rules, man. Home rules.
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  Speaker 1: And also, I got a lot of Beltre. But in 2004,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, I was there. And you guys won
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  Speaker 1: the division. Steve Finley, Grand Slam. The year he set
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  Speaker 1: the home run record for the Dodgers at the time.
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  Speaker 1: I think he hit 49. I hit 49, I think,
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  Speaker 1: that year? 48.
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  Speaker 2: 48.
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  Speaker 1: 48, 48. So I was on the Giants. You guys
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  Speaker 1: walk us off next to the last game. Then we
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  Speaker 1: were playing, and we had to win, and the Astros
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  Speaker 1: had to lose to get to the post, whatever. And
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  Speaker 1: the Astros win because we're in L.A. And Jim Tracy,
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  Speaker 1: I'll never forget this. I think Jim Tracy was y'all's manager.
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  Speaker 1: I come up to bat to lead off the inning,
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  Speaker 1: and he pulled y'all sons of bitches off the field
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  Speaker 1: one at a time. One at a time. Every guy
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  Speaker 1: got a standing ovation. This was back when you had,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm standing there waiting for the pitch clock expired
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  Speaker 1: like 20 times. And last but not least, Adrian Beltre,
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  Speaker 1: standing ovation in Dodger Stadium. I'm like, man, this is
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  Speaker 1: how the big leagues are. Like, you could just pull
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  Speaker 1: dudes off in the middle of the game. Everyone gets
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  Speaker 1: a standing ovation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand. That was pretty cool for him to do.
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  Speaker 2: It was not premeditated. He wanted to do it. And
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  Speaker 2: especially that year, I was becoming a free agent. So
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  Speaker 2: he thought it might be my last year with the Dodgers. So.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get it why he did that. There was no
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  Speaker 2: time limit at that time.
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  Speaker 1: That's fair. That's fair. Anyways, all right, now let's get
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  Speaker 1: into a little bit of your career. I've told this
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  Speaker 1: story many times. Kratz knows this, dude. One of the
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  Speaker 1: best teammates I ever had was Adrian Beltre. And I
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  Speaker 1: say this about you, and I mean this with the
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  Speaker 1: most sincerity I've ever said. You were the best I
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  Speaker 1: had ever seen at running a clubhouse and keeping everybody together.
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  Speaker 1: When I was in Texas with you, we had Darvish
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  Speaker 1: from Japan. We had Elvis, who never showed up, from Venezuela.
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  Speaker 1: We had Kinsler from, you know, where Kinsler's from. You
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  Speaker 1: had me. You had all these guys. Beltre from Dominican.
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  Speaker 1: And you were the best I had ever seen at
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  Speaker 1: keeping everybody on the same page. What made you so
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  Speaker 1: good at that?
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  Speaker 2: I always believed that, you know, it takes a good
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  Speaker 2: clubhouse to be able to win. And it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: where you're from or where you are or where you
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  Speaker 2: were born. I think that, you know, we all should
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  Speaker 2: be put in for one thing, which is winning. And
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  Speaker 2: I enjoy being in a clubhouse, man. I enjoy it
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  Speaker 2: with my teammates. And I was trying to do my
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  Speaker 2: best to keep that core together. And I think it
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  Speaker 2: was easier just to have those guys, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: and me and Elvis. I know Elvis would never shut up. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, having Darby with a different culture. But it
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  Speaker 2: was a challenge at times, but it was– For me,
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  Speaker 2: it was always trying to figure out how we can
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  Speaker 2: make ourselves better and have that environment in the clubhouse
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  Speaker 2: that we can actually enjoy each other and pull for
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  Speaker 2: each other. And I think that was easier for me
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  Speaker 2: around this year because we have good players and we
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  Speaker 2: have good people too.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, you knew that AJ was coming to
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  Speaker 1: your team. Were you worried that he was going to
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  Speaker 1: be a bad teammate because of all that you heard?
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  Speaker 1: And how bad of a teammate was he when he
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  Speaker 1: got there?
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  Speaker 2: It's funny. You know what? Being honest, I think... AJ
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  Speaker 2: had a bad rap for the players that didn't play
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  Speaker 2: with him. When you play against him, you normally hate
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  Speaker 2: the guy. But when you get to see him playing
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  Speaker 2: every day and being in the clubhouse, you actually enjoy
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  Speaker 2: playing with him. AJ, we had a little worry about
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  Speaker 2: when he came in, but he was a professional. He
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  Speaker 2: came out to play every day. It was no complaints.
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  Speaker 2: He was direct. He can be direct. Sometimes he had
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  Speaker 2: no filter. And sometimes some guys can take that. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think the teammate, he was a good teammate.
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  Speaker 2: He was a guy that, you know, I enjoyed playing
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  Speaker 2: with because you didn't see many catches back then playing
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  Speaker 2: every day like Edge did. You know, he was a
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  Speaker 2: great defensive player and offensive too. So I enjoyed playing
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  Speaker 2: with him.
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  Speaker 1: It was fun. Listen, I wish I could have come
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  Speaker 1: back to Texas. I love that team, man. I loved you.
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  Speaker 1: I loved Ian. I loved Elvis. I mean, you name it.
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  Speaker 1: Every guy on that team was like Derek Holland. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: all of them, it was like, man, I'm like, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, man, I want to go back to Texas
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  Speaker 1: so bad. Anyways, I mean, I appreciate the kind words, A.B.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you were one of my favorites of all time.
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  Speaker 1: When you were in Texas, your first year, I got
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  Speaker 1: so many Beltre stories. We can't even, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: have to, we might have to go extra here with
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  Speaker 1: you because I love the Beltre stories.
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  Speaker 1: When you get to Texas, right, was it your first
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  Speaker 1: year when they went to the World Series? Was that 2011?
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  Speaker 2: 11, second year. I went in 2010, and then we
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  Speaker 2: went back again in 2011.
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  Speaker 1: Which one was harder, the 10 one or the, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the 11 one had to be, right, gut-wrenching? Because I
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  Speaker 1: was at that. That was the Nelson Cruz, the triple,
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  Speaker 1: and then the walk-off homer game six, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was not there for 2010. I came in
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  Speaker 2: in 11. Okay. That was your first series. I can't
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  Speaker 2: imagine any other series that wasn't that one. I think
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  Speaker 2: that that was the most painful time in my career.
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  Speaker 2: I think that everybody had a miserable time after that
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  Speaker 2: game six that we lost. And literally, I didn't sleep
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  Speaker 2: for about two or three weeks just thinking about it.
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  Speaker 2: We were literally two times one strike away from just
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  Speaker 2: celebrating and it didn't happen. That was... It was terrible, but,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's baseball, and you have to try to
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  Speaker 2: forget about it, but, you know, that was really, really bad.
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  Speaker 2: But the worst, probably, yeah, worst time of my career.
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  Speaker 2: I think that was the worst, being so close and
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  Speaker 2: not getting the job done. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I was at that World Series. I was working for Fox.
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  Speaker 1: It was my first postseason working for Fox, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: never forget, I was in the outfield, our thing was
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  Speaker 1: in left center field, and you could see the Rangers
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  Speaker 1: bullpen down the left field line, and there was two
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  Speaker 1: outs in the night, and I'm not going to say
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  Speaker 1: the players' names, there was two players on the Rangers,
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  Speaker 1: and the fans were wearing them out, and they just
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  Speaker 1: started giving the Aaron Rodgers title, and then David Freese
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  Speaker 1: got the hit, and I'm like, oh no, that did
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  Speaker 1: not just happen. I ain't going to mention their names,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm just like, oh no, they just jinxed the
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  Speaker 1: damn team, and then it happened, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, I wish I did not see that, so
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  Speaker 1: I'll I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of things went wrong in that game, man.
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  Speaker 2: Not only that, but, you know, I think as a team,
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  Speaker 2: we didn't really capitalize the things we were supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be doing. I think the coaching staff screwed up. The
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  Speaker 2: players screwed up. Because, you know, including myself, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people wanted to mention, you know, that Nelson should
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  Speaker 2: be playing here or should we catch that ball? It
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  Speaker 2: was a tough ball to catch. Yes, he should be
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  Speaker 2: playing even though doubles. And normally, you know, in the NBA,
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  Speaker 2: I normally kind of check where everybody's playing and make
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  Speaker 2: sure that the coaches know where they're at. And at
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  Speaker 2: that time, I became a little more aware about where
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  Speaker 2: I was supposed to be playing. And I didn't check
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  Speaker 2: the outfield. I normally do that. I check the outfield,
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  Speaker 2: make sure they are in the right position. And I
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  Speaker 2: just kept my mind, too. And the coaches, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: missed it, too. And when David hit that ball, I
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  Speaker 2: thought that it was right at Nelson Cruz. But then
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  Speaker 2: I realized he was not playing deep enough. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I just see the ball hit the wall that I
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  Speaker 2: couldn't believe it. But even after that, you know, that
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  Speaker 2: happened and we came back and and score two more
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  Speaker 2: runs and they still come back and beat us. So
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  Speaker 2: it's just, it was not meant to be. That's the
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  Speaker 2: way I want to think about it.
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  Speaker 1: You came on, you're smiling. Now you're not smiling. So
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  Speaker 1: I want to get you back in a good, in
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  Speaker 1: a good mood. You you finished, you finished at 39
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  Speaker 1: years old. AJ and I both played till we were 40.
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  Speaker 1: So you should have been able to play one more year.
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  Speaker 1: Did you think about chasing that number 500? I think
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  Speaker 1: you ended with 477. Was that something that you thought about?
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  Speaker 1: AJ's talked about 2000 being important for him for hits.
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  Speaker 1: Was that 500 important, or were you like, whew, that
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  Speaker 1: is a long way away to play another year, maybe two?
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  Speaker 2: No, it was not important for me. I was not
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  Speaker 2: chasing that. I was not chasing numbers. I could easily
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  Speaker 2: play another year, because they offered me a year being DH.
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  Speaker 2: I just thought that it was time. It was time.
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  Speaker 2: My body was kind of getting injured more often. My
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  Speaker 2: kids were kind of growing too fast, and I just
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  Speaker 2: wanted to go home already. I thought that... 21 season
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  Speaker 2: was enough. And I knew that if I played one
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  Speaker 2: more year and I focused on maybe hitting 20 or
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  Speaker 2: whatever hormones I needed, I could have done it. And
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  Speaker 2: a lot of my teammates got mad at me because
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  Speaker 2: they wanted me to chase that. But I didn't play
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  Speaker 2: for numbers. I didn't care about it. And I just
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  Speaker 2: felt like it was time for me to come home.
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  Speaker 2: And I was at peace with that.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, I mean, 3,000 hits, 450 homers, 1,500 RBIs.
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  Speaker 1: You chased plenty of numbers. Don't kid yourself, A.B. You
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  Speaker 1: chased plenty of numbers. You might not have done it intentionally,
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  Speaker 1: but you got plenty of numbers wrapped up. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: gold gloves, you check all the boxes. So let me
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  Speaker 1: ask you this. You mentioned that your body broke down.
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  Speaker 1: I was there for this, and I use this all
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  Speaker 1: the time. I'm not trying to bring you down. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just trying to tell Adrian Glowstrate stories.
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  Speaker 2: It's still good.
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  Speaker 1: The time you got hit in the Netherlands down there,
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  Speaker 1: I was there, okay? And I use this example all
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  Speaker 1: the time, and I tell people this, and kids like
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  Speaker 1: my son, when he was playing, they would say, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to wear a cup. And I say, listen,
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  Speaker 1: you know who Adrian Beltre was? And they say, yes.
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  Speaker 1: I said, you think you got better hands than Adrian Beltre?
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  Speaker 1: And they say, no. I said, I watched him get
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  Speaker 1: hit in the nuts one time, and he had to
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  Speaker 1: get surgery, so you better wear a damn cup. If
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  Speaker 1: it can happen to him, it can happen to y'all,
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  Speaker 1: so wear a cup. So do you want to talk.
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  Speaker 2: I mean– Ow?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, it was not smart. I would never
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  Speaker 2: recommend it for kids not to do it. I think
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  Speaker 2: cops should be prioritized, especially if you play third base.
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  Speaker 2: But for me, I just didn't like playing. I just
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  Speaker 2: didn't like wearing one. I felt like, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: was good enough to just be good to defend my area.
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  Speaker 2: And it happened once in 21 seasons. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: a good, I mean, it's a good number. Um, and yes,
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  Speaker 2: I got hit there, but I didn't, I didn't need
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  Speaker 2: a surgery. I didn't get a surgery. It was, it was,
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  Speaker 2: it was good to go in a couple of weeks. Um,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, I think that wasn't as smart, but I
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  Speaker 2: just didn't enjoy playing with, uh, with the cup. I
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  Speaker 2: just didn't like it. So I felt like, you know, I'm,
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  Speaker 2: I can, I can take that risk.
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  Speaker 1: Did you enjoy playing in the heat in Texas?
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  Speaker 2: You know what? Uh, I, I rather play in the
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  Speaker 2: heat than cold. I'm from Dominican Republic, tropical weather. And,
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  Speaker 2: I don't mind the heat, yes. At times, Texas is
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  Speaker 2: really extreme heat. You're talking about playing 115 degrees, and
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  Speaker 2: Texas sometimes was overbearing a little bit, but I'd rather
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  Speaker 2: be at 115 than 60 degrees.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, y'all always did the IVs. I've never
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  Speaker 1: seen a team– the whole team would go in before
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  Speaker 1: games and do IVs. After BP, it was like– it
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  Speaker 1: was their thing. And it worked for them.
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  Speaker 2: I never did one. I never did one.
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  Speaker 1: I never did one either, but a lot of those
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  Speaker 1: guys would go in after BP and get IVs. I'm like, damn.
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  Speaker 2: Elvis was there.
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  Speaker 1: Elvis and Ian always, every day. That's because Elvis was
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  Speaker 1: dehydrated from not the heat.
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  Speaker 2: Long season.
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  Speaker 1: Long season. Speaking of Elvis, you and him had a thing. Where,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you couldn't touch your head, right? And you
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  Speaker 1: guys would do the pop-up thing, which always worried me.
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  Speaker 1: Because I'd see you go like this, and I'm like, no,
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  Speaker 1: he's not going to catch it. And Elvis, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he'd throw me off like the cameraman. Can you explain
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  Speaker 1: about touching your head? Because that was such a thing
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  Speaker 1: for a long time. Is there, because you weren't bald.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like you were fully, you have hair, or
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  Speaker 1: you had hair. I mean, I don't know right now.
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  Speaker 2: I do have hair. I still have hair.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 2: I just didn't like it. I didn't like it. Since
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  Speaker 2: I was a little kid, I didn't like my hair.
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  Speaker 2: my head being touched, especially the front of it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the sides is fine. The front of it, I just
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  Speaker 2: felt uncomfortable. And, but I never told anybody until I
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  Speaker 2: played with, uh, Felix Hernandez in Seattle. He kind of
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  Speaker 2: was touching my head. I told him, made the mistake
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  Speaker 2: to tell them that I didn't like it. And then
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  Speaker 2: after that, he would just, would do it all the time.
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  Speaker 2: And that, that create, carry on to Boston. He told
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  Speaker 2: Victor Martinez and Escudero that I didn't like. So they're
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  Speaker 2: doing over there. And then I went to Texas and
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  Speaker 2: I just carry on over. So, But the good thing,
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  Speaker 2: they would do it when I hit a home run
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  Speaker 2: and something good happened. And I would play with it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I kind of, I guess, allow it for
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: a little bit. But I really didn't like it. I
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: hated it.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: You hated that.
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: I do. I still do.
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: You still hate it?
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. I don't like it.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: Okay. Your one teammate, Michael Young. Do you remember what
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: he was deathly afraid of?
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: Because... Of you. Of course.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: You teased him. So I think some people touching your
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: head was fair because you were a bully to Michael
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: Young because he was afraid of....
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: Clowns. But that's weird. Isn't it? It's a clown. But
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: it's weird.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: If you don't like somebody touching your head, but then
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: you put on a clown wig and he gets angry...
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: then that's only fair game. Am I not right?
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right. You're right. You're right. But mostly it
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: was Elvis. I did it maybe once or twice because
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: I was forced to do it. But, you know, it
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: was mainly Elvis. Okay.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: Okay. That's fair. That's true.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: Elvis was an instigator of all instigators. And by the way,
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: you mentioned your friendship with Felix Hernandez. I've never laughed
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: so hard at some of your abats with Felix, you
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: and Felix. They'd literally be– you all would be hitting
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: against each other, and in the bat, Felix would be
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: yelling at you from the mound, and you're yelling back.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, the one swing, though, with you where you–
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: that was pretty funny.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, funny to you guys, not to me. When I'm
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: sitting there, fool.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, I mean, people haven't seen it. Just Google
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Adrian Beltre versus Felix Hernandez, and there's a million clips
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: of it, but it was– It's over.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: It was funny. Yeah, we started, you know, we were
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: teammates for about five years. And, you know, he was
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: like my little brother. And I kind of took it
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: under my wing. But I always teased him, hey, you know,
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: you think you're good. But when I face you, when
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: I get traded or I leave as a free agent,
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: I'm going to kick your butt. And we started just
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: like playing around. And then it ended up that I
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: left as a free agent and went to Boston. And
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: then it started, you know, I think two months before
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: we faced each other, we were already texting him. talking
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: all kind of crap about each other. And it just
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: became this thing that, you know, we didn't, obviously we
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: try to be professional, but we were trying to enjoy ourselves,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: facing each other, because I literally just want to hit
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: home runs every time I'm facing. I want to take
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: it deep. That's what I wanted to do. And it
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: became this thing that, you know, people enjoy, we enjoy.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: I look forward to it. He did too, because we
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: were just talking so much back and forth the whole,
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: the couple nights before. The whole game was just him
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: between me and, you know, it just became fun. And
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: I always wanted to not cross the line of being
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: respectful to our teammates. But, you know, I think people
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: enjoyed it and I enjoyed it. So it was fun.
• 17:38
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• 17:40
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• 18:37
  Speaker 1: All right, talk about being disrespectful. The guy, Hansel Rincon,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: did you see the tilted hat with Doug Eddings and
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: they made him his hand?
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I saw that.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: A young man from the Dominican Republic making his debut.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: What did you feel when you saw that? When you
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: saw that happen and how Doug Eddings handled it for
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: that young man's debut?
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't have all the information. It's just
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: based on what media is saying. Allegedly, Doug was saying
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: that the catcher from the Rockies asked him to fix
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: his hat or where he was batting. And, you know,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: he came out and denied it, that that never happened.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Sometimes just some umpire, they feel like They have to
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: have the power of the whole freaking field, and they
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: want to dictate whatever's going on. I just didn't think
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: he handled it right. He could have just said a
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: little different. They're not supposed to be straight. That's number one.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Some guys like to do a little sideways, but who cares?
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Right now, people do a lot of things. If you
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: ask me, I will not do that. I will not
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: be okay. Guys haven't had to decide, but but, you know,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: to each his own. But I just think that he
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: handled it a little differently. He shouldn't have done it.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: At least he came out the next day and apologized
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: to the kid. But, you know, it should have been
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: that big of a deal for him to do that.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: It was like when Jerry Young asked you to move
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the on-deck circle, and you said no, and you moved it.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Jerry Davis. Sorry, sorry.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Another one.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: If you haven't seen that, Google it. Adrian Beltre asked
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: to move the on-deck circle. It is absolutely hysterical. I mean,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: you picked up the whole thing and moved it.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: I'm surprised. You know what?
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: The only way it would have been better is if
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: you would have made, like, one of the bad boys
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: come out and say, hey, the umpire is asking me
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: to move this and had them help you move it. Because,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: you know, you could have hurt your back moving that thing.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: No, I was trying to be helpful, you know? And
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: the whole thing, the funny thing about it is that,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: you know, we were, I was maybe about four to
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: five hits against from getting to 3,000. So we were
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: losing by eight, nine runs. We were getting, you know,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: beat up at the time. And most of the fans
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: were just staying there to see if something happened. And,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: you know, this was, I think it was 2017. I mean,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: I've been in the league for 20 years. standing on
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: the same spot for 20 years, and not once have
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: ever any umpire mentioned to me, you have to be
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: on top of the under circle. And he picked that moment,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: specifically that moment, to tell me that. And I go,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: what are you talking about? He's telling me that I
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: have to be on top of the circle when everybody
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: else is not standing on top of it. And if
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: you look at that game, nobody has used that rule
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: that he said we're supposed to be on top of it.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: So it was kind of weird for me. And I said,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: you know what? Listen, I get it. I'm on this
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: side because I don't want to get hit. So if
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: all you want me is to be in trouble a bit,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: all right, that's fine. So that's why I pulled the
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: circle where I wanted to be safe. And that was it.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: He threw me out for that. I don't get it.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: I was following rules. And I got thrown out of
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: the game anyway. So who knows?
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: You just wanted to go home. It was hot.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: You wanted to go home.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: It's cool. Hey, we all been ejected. We were taught
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: we want to go home. It happens, especially when you
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: get to 20 years, you can do whatever you want.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: One of the things I did want to talk to
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: you about is this Baseball United trip you guys have
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: in Cancun. November 4th to 7th, in partnership with the
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Tigres de Quintana Roo, one of Mexico's most historic professional
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: baseball franchises, 10 of our MLB legend co-owners to Cancun,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Mariano Rivera, Barry Larkin, Adrian Beltre, Robinson Cano, Bartolo Colon,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Felix Hernandez, Starling Marte, Elvis Andrews, Didi Gregorius, and Jair
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Juergens for community initiatives, a celebrity golf tournament, celebrity softball game,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: and premium cocktail event. Adrian, there's only one thing that's missing.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: My invite. WTO.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Do you have any get it? It's coming.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: No. I did check my spam folder. I apologize. My
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: spam folder must be full. So tell me about this event.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I want to hear all about this event.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we obviously, you know, at Baseball United,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: we have a baseball league down in the UAE trying
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: to grow the game in that region. Over there, it's mainly,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: you know, cricket and soccer. And we're trying to bring
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: the baseball over there in that region. And so far,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: it's doing good. We had a successful season last year.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: But because everything that's going on with the war this year,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: so we kind of was pushed to potentially move it
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: back a little bit later. we still hoping maybe we
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: do something in March and down in Abu Dhabi or Dubai,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: or if now we go back to November of, of
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: next year. But, you know, we were trying to keep
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: it afloat and, and we trying to create some different
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: events for fans and, and, and, you know, investors and
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: different people of our organization. So we created this little
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: tournament in Cancun so we can have some fun and,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: and bring some players and bring some of our core group,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: the baseball engines, we call it. And we're doing that
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: down in Cancun, so it'll be fun for everybody.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Right. Who's still the best player? In that group, who's
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: still the best player? Who can swing it or move
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: or run or throw it the best?
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: You mean baseball?
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Yes, actual baseball.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, Cano? Cano's still playing. That's the only one that's
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: still playing.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Didi is too, no?
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Didi, I don't know, but Cano still acted in Mexico,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: hitting like 400. So we have to say Cano. It's unbelievable.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: The guy just doesn't get old. I mean, he's like
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: 50 years old. He's still hitting 400 everywhere he plays.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: So it's amazing.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Who's going to win the golf tournament, though, out of
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: that group? Who's the best golfer?
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. I mean, Mariano's pretty good.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Larkin is a decent player. You know, I'm not terrible.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: But we'll see how it goes. You know, that's something
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: you never know. It's one game, one day. So whoever
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: has had a day might take it home.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: No, whoever has the best pencil. And I've seen you play.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: You're pretty good. So whoever has the best pencil is
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: probably going to win that day. Let's be serious here
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: for a second. I mean, it's a scramble. I'm assuming
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: it's a scramble. It's not just a straight up. So, yeah,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: whoever has the best pencil and whoever has the best team.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: is more than likely going to win. Is there anything
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: else you want us to know? Baseball United is the
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: one that had the six-run home run, right? Back in
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: the day. Do you guys still have the golden ball
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: or whatever it is with the six-run home run?
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: As of right now, yeah, we're trying to play around
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: with different rules, and we're trying to keep it in
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: MLB-type rules, but we're trying to make something fun for
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: the fans. So, yeah, we created that, and it became
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: a really huge thing And people like it. But we're
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: playing around to see if we're going to keep it
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: or not. But we're trying to just keep it exciting.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: And Bonamics stuff is too crazy. So we hope we
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: can keep it and see how we can keep the
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: fans engaged. If the players like it, we might keep
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: it in there.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Got it. Got it. Well, Adrian, thank you so much
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: for joining us. Again, Baseball United Golf Tournament, Cancun. Where
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: do they go? Baseballunited.com? Is that where it is to
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: find out?
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Yes,. com. Yes. Correct. Yes. Okay.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, great. Baseball United, Cancun. You get to meet– there's
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: a lot of Hall of Famers on that list, guys
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: that are already in the Hall of Fame. Felix Hernandez
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: will be there one day. Elvis is in the Hall
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: of Fame for having the biggest nose in the history
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: of Major League Baseball. I love you, Elvis. What a nose.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: I love you. Adrian, thank you so much. It's always
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: a joy whenever I get to see you, get to
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: catch up with you, man. One of the best. Tell
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: the family hello, man, and good luck. If you need
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: anything from us, let us know. Thanks, AB.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Thank you, guys. Thank you for having me.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Thank you.