There’s a select few of guys that have a Jordan shoe deal if you have this Jordan shoe deal you are there’s a lot more guys nowadays that are in this exclusive but back in the day when you were one of five one of six Andrew Jones Mach CeCe Baltimore the visiting cage
The visiting cage yeah I know exactly where two miles yes after you walk two miles to get there through the tunnel which is hot and stuffy and all that is boxes of Jordon and it’s just Manny Mach Manny MCH Manny Mach Manny Mach Manny Machado I told him one time I’m like bro
If you leave these boxes out one more time G nag and something like that that was a fraternity that not a lot of people in the big leagues are in bro when I came up there was six guys I was a sixth person and I mean we looked up
To Jeter we looked up to Cece Jeter was the first one obviously CeCe Crawford J rolls then Gio Gonzalez was the first Lain guy to kind of like break that barrier and then it was myself then came Dexter mooki came right after now there’s a lot
More guys I think we cut it we cut it down now actually really there’s two more Lon guys coming out dude fire there they just added two more so there’s six guys now total that’s sick um it’s still small but it’s it’s just a small circle
It’s a family still small you know I feel like I want them to keep it like that you know what I mean like that is an exclusive crew Exclusive I took Jack the other day to Monster Jam down there Miami Marlin stadium first time I dude loved it you know how like so it’s loud whenever they rev the engine up you’re supposed to have the headphones on I tried to put it on him he ripped it off right
Away are like trugs but Troy like my son never liked monster truck he wasn’t really like about that give him a plane though no you give him an airplane he’s all about it how old is he he’s eight he’s eight it’s amazing to see what they gravitate to airplanes I
Mean he’s been on airplane since he was you know six months old does he play ball plays a little ball soccer Jiu-Jitsu he’s into he wants to sail now all of a sudden he wants to be a sailor like bro he only we do is from Cuba to Miami do that’s about it
Bro that’s about it fing a little bit nothing else bro we 90 miles and we good we don’t get on a boat anymore kind of luxury hang out have a good time oh man I got a funny jiujitsu story so born and raised in Los Angeles city of
Torrance and so across the street we had this family they just love Jiu-Jitsu so back in the 90s like we’re walking I’m walking to school walking to baseball practice and I’d see the whole family their white GES and they’re like rolling around like in in the garage and they’re
The two kids were some some of my best friends I’m like that’s is weird so their grandpa is like Justin come come uh do Jiu-Jitsu with us you have a long lanky body you’d be great at it this is like a 92 93 I’m like n no no I’m good
He’s like it’s gonna be big it’s gonna be big I’m like no I’m good and so time passes and then there’s they’re going to put on a big event and they’re like Justin you got to come to this event it’s going to be amazing it’s called Ultimate Fighter Championship it’s
Awesome number one it’s GNA be the first one ever it’s going to be big I’m like no it’s not it’s not gonna be big I’m not going to do it what this family is the Gracies so the the grandfather is Halo Gracie and he the Hoist Gracie won
UFC won and then on up and they’re the ones who started all this Jiu-Jitsu thing in Brazil and so now I look back it’s one of my big regrets I wish I would have practiced or learned Jiu-Jitsu age yeah but it’s hu great great discipline it’s funny sometimes I
Watch Like The Joe Rogan back in the day like and just like watching that and how he was doing the game like the commentating on all the fights and all that he was doing it for free yes the first like 10 15 episodes or first whatever fights Dan
White even said it he was for free you have suuma wrestler versus a kickboxer and it was just go get I saw that Dana White said when he when they purchased the UFC he went through like all these different tapes and it was like hundreds
Of tapes and he played a tape and it was Joe Rogan on one of these like late night talk shows he used to do believe it or not the show Believe and that’s how he liked him Fear Factor and he liked I great show Fear Factor oh Fear Factor was a great show
Back in the day Scorpions on your face like just I’m good this this is fun yeah dude yeah head in a box does that comedian jiujitsu like he’s done a whole bunch of things do you think a comedian a comedian have you noticed players these days are diversifying as well
They’re kind of getting into I mean their their own Brands and whether it be shoes or music or fashion or like is is that a trend that’s starting to happen are are players deliberately doing that say you know what let me let me go do other things and not great question
Manny you got you got underwar baby showing up so I will say this there is let’s transition over to the baseball world there’s a select few guys that have a Jordan shoe deal M if you have this Jordan shoe deal you are there’s a lot there’s a lot more guys nowadays
That are in this exclusive but back in the day when you were one of five one of six Andrew Jones Machado CeCe Baltimore the visiting cage the visiting cage yeah visi I know exactly after you walk two miles yes after you walk two miles to get there
Through the tunnel which is hot and stuffy and all that is boxes of Jordans and it just Manny Mach Manny Mach Manny MCH Manny Mach Manny Machado I told him one time I’m like bro if you leave these boxes out one more time G snagging something like that that was a
Fraternity that not a lot of people in the big leagues are in bro when I came up there was six guys I was a sixth person and I mean we looked up to Jeter we looked up to Cece Jeter was the first one obviously CeCe Crawford J rolls then
Gio Gonzalez was the first Lain guy to kind of like break that barrier and then was myself then came Dexter mooki came right after now there’s a lot more guys I think we cut it we cut it down now actually really there’s two more lion guys coming out dude fire They just
Added two more so there’s six guys now total that’s sick um it’s still small but it’s it’s just a small circle it’s a family still small you know I feel like I want him to keep it like that you know what I mean like that is an exclusive crew exclusive speaking of exclusive
Crews that this the Miami crew the the south Florida if you came up Miami through High School Miami through Summer Ball College all that type of stuff the route was you played for the Florida bombers which Yonder was the first baseman on the team and then I
Took over as a first baseman after him fairly good pedigree there was the University of Miami and then everybody in South Florida like if you played on both those teams you knew all about those guys you followed their whole career you did all that stuff and then
Step further in the offseason you guys would work out in Miami and work shout out to you and all that type of things and you guys have been doing this for you know years and years and years and some people know many don’t Yan your sister Manny met Yan through those
Workouts through you I’m sure so you guys have you guys have a a long long history with each other and and our family and then it’s come to a point now where it’s like yeah they’ve Y and Manny been married for for years there’s there’s kids coming coming along so how
Strong is that and that’s like a that’s a Miami bond that got even stronger I think it’s I’ll take it even like further than that I think it’s just like the Latin culture as well like you know I think you know that could have happened in Miami that could have
Happened in Wyoming that could have happened in Cuba or the Dominican Republic I just think it’s more of just like who we are how we came up I guess our culture with our parents and everything like that um but it’s just like you know just taking care of your
Own right taking care of your people taking care of people that you you see something even better than your pres their present lifestyle right you see you see them for something and you’re like you know what I can I can maybe better you I can maybe advise you I can
Maybe be like I mean and I’m talking at this stage you were 17 right and I was 20 21 was your first year yeah so it was like my first year Cincinnati and I remember like he hit me up and I was like how’d you get my number and he’s
Like oh I got it through leave me alone trying to be like him the time yeah I remember like I was like how’d you get my number man and back then it was like the iPhone had just came come out you know so um it it was great it it was
Awesome he was in high school and I was in I was a I was still I was Pro and I was like look I can’t work out with you because if you end up going to college it would ruin like your so many rules in University like D1 and all that stuff it
Would ruin like your ability to go to a division one school how about we do this hit me up so during this time there was still like eight months left till his draft he was a senior going into at breedo high which is a stack House of a
Of a school that has had great players so I was like look bro if you really want to work out hit me up in eight months and if you go pro which I think you will then hit me up and and for sure we’ll work out yeah forget about it I
Like completely forget about it I’m like all right I’m getting ready for my season whatever he’s doing his thing yo my man eight months to the day and homeboy calls me and he’s like hey remember me like it’s been eight months I got drafted I’m GNA sign I was second
Pick overall and I was like all right meet me at um you know next morning so it’s like you said like it’s it’s the it’s the the the mamy thing like the like like mhm we I looked up to him looked up to the guys that grew up in
Miami playing Miami University of Miami so you you like you kind of want to gravitate that he’s had success so I’m like I want to follow that path you know I remember watching haaz at a baseball camp at um and he went to a baseball camp at um a uh
Christmas Camp never forget and I was flipping like balls and he was I think he was probably like a freshman or sophomore in high school and I was like that ball would hit the fence and it was just different it was like a Col dude but he was sophomore in high school and
I was like all right this is this is different who’s this guy and then I was like introduce myself we we actually met during that time and that was 20 years ago yes you know it’s it’s going to be 20 years prob which is wild to to the old
Ag and then it’s funny because you see the transitions of obviously Age and and I guess players but how they mature as well like I remember this guy man like he didn’t know how to do a squat his first day like he couldn’t do a squat still can’t
No you know clean now he’s a FL like you can just see like a kid that you know was maybe like we were just coming on the way over here like eating Taco Bell rather than like hey man like maybe you got to stay off the Taco Bell man it’s
Not going to be good for you maybe in the long run you know or like making sure you eat well or like you know hydrate do this do that did you listen yeah sometimes I mean he play 15 years I think McDonald’s 15 got 10 left buddy
Buddy 10 left still got 10 left 10 left 10 but that’s Su we talk about this the your the city like where you come from the guys that are successful there you want to do everything they do right and these guys were the guys that that laid that groundwork for Manny and
Myself to come up and be like all right I know if I’m on this team or if I’m going here or I get this opportunity I’m on the right path and then to take it a step further the off seon life business other stuff comes at you it’s like man
Like just school me on the game tell me what to do you know I think I think that’s if anything we kind of brought that I guess that culture because then we’ve seen like the the Vanderbilt guys do it right we’ve seen like all these like USC guys are doing UCLA guys are
Doing it now right and so the north Tar Hill guys are doing it so I I think you see a lot more of that but I I’m G to kind of be biased about it and I think it it really started at that Miami like times during we have the best we have
The best weather I mean we it’s everybody hangs out everyone hangs out dinners I mean you’re in Miami like there’s no better place to work out hit you know you have the facilities you have you know whatever you need was was there for you you know so I mean it’s
It’s a Brotherhood baseball’s A brotherhood to begin with right and then now you have a Brotherhood that’s in your own city that you could see firsthand how they grow how they go about their business how you know they’re so successful in whatever it is you know obviously in this fact is
Baseball MH so you want to surround yourself with with those people yep it’s I’m seeing a pattern just as our all of our conversations we’ve talked to Elite level baseball players and is going to be really cool but then you learn about the Kobes the LeBron anyone who wants to
Be great it’s amazing how they’re students of the game they’re willing to call the generation above ahead or even watch videos and just say hey let me let me copy his moves and Jordan I think he said he said Co Kobe just would always call me up and and ask me questions just
Hearing you’re 17 years old my question for you for you guys is does it frustrate you when a younger generation player isn’t coachable or doesn’t want to get great where you’re like oh my gosh do that I think I think maybe I have two answers because I think when I
Played I would have been you know when I played I retired obviously three years ago but when I played I I probably didn’t have the patience and and I’m not the greatest of patience with younger players but even then now more I have much more patience because it kind of
Takes me back to hey what were you doing at 19 you know like we can get into that if you like you know what I’m saying so like like what was I doing a 19 was I this hote head what did I think I had it all
Figured out you know and and I always tell like these young kids and I’m like look man it’s all good do you want to go through the wall or around the wall I can give you the secret to maybe not go through the wall as much and maybe go
Around it which is great I mean listen it’s great I wish I had that or do you want to go through it all good we’ll go both ways if you want to go through it all right man here we go we’re going to hammer it down but if you want to go
Around it okay then let’s go that’s a two-part thing too that’s one thing to have the leadership but it’s one thing to have a kid that’s willing to listen too I was at an age 19 years old you couldn’t tell me anything I knew
Everything I was 19 I was in I was in Pro Bowl I wasn’t very good but I was still in Pro Bowl and I was from Australia I was this guy that you know I was I was making my own way but no I wouldn’t listen to anybody and it took
Aging and maturing and and and growing up to be a to realize that everybody was just trying to help me it’s not no one’s against you it’s funny like I was just in Texas and I was talking to dois Garcia eight home runs 22 RBI in the
Postseason and I asked him like how like what did you learn from that and I was like you know what I actually didn’t learn so much from myself but I learned a lot more from a lot of other people how they handled the situation how they
Learned about it how do they adjust it throughout like that whole series in the World Series and moving forward I asked a lot of questions because like I was just telling you like as soon as you get done with the World Series like you guys
Know you guys have played in in in a couple of them you don’t have that much time to kind of like turn around like The Season’s around the corner again so that’s a whole adjustment and I think with these great like players like tiger Kobe himself yourself you guys weren’t scared to
Adjust you know you guys understood who you guys were you guys had that base of goodness and like what you guys can bring to the table but you guys aren’t scared scared to adjust and that that takes a different animal because these players nowadays like the Young young
Ones they have this ego about them but it’s very hard to kind of mold them into saying it’s okay to adjust it’s okay to kind of change a little bit change is good it’s a failure thing we were talking about a little bit earlier on
That it’s the the fear of failure a lot of the time that stops guys MH that’s a big part of it that’s that’s big that’s probably the biggest one and they the willingness to adapt right because like as your career goes on the older you get
It goes from from getting work in on the baseball side of it and get a little bit older then it’s like all right I got to get work on my body I got to make sure my body is ready to go so and we’re not
Trying to get in all this and and and whatever but you know there’s certain stuff which I would love to pick your brain because now your brother-in-law you’re in media and there’s there’s stuff being said about certain players and and there’s lack of information so a
Lot yeah we’re not going to bring up names or anything like that a lot of La of information when people come out and say like oh this dude’s not working hard I don’t see him on field you you take a stop and you’re like hold on like do you understand the
Process are you in the building do you see what’s going on like I play you ask like where you getting from yeah where we getting this information from you know I’ve seen this guy is paid and he’s guaranteed for the next 10 plus years and he drove from Arizona to San Diego
To San Diego to Colorado because it was left inflammation on his leg when he twisted his his ankle or leg whatever it was so like how hard is it for you now especially working in that industry and having to bite your tongue because it’s like listen I can tell you what’s going
On behind the scenes but at the end of the day like I still got to stay professional and do my job yeah and like we were just talking about that on the way over here I I only have one rule when I started this and like the great
Like Harold Reynolds who has been in the game in the industry for over 40 years he’s a Pioneer when it comes to the media the media Outlet I mean I remember watching him when I was 11 years old in baseball tonight right and I’m I have a
Chance to like work with him at the network and and one of my first days at the network I went straight to his office cuz he had he had been to the University of Miami he’s great friends with Jim Morris who was the coach there at Miami so I introduced myself
Obviously he knew of me and all that stuff and and I asked him I was like hey man if you have any advice for me like what what would it be man and he kind of like chuckled a little bit he’s like you know nobody’s ever asked me that and he
Said but but I’ll give you one that I always I always use and I think if you use this it would always help you in every way possible and it’s bro before the show the brothers and the Brotherhood in that in the league tops every show that you’re ever
Going to see because of a one-hour show cannot be a sacrifice for the Brotherhood that you’ve played in and that you know and that will continue to be a Brotherhood for years and years and years before this show even like says all right we’re going to end this show
Forever you know so I think for me it’s just bros before show before the show and and understand like I was a player too man like this game ain’t easy you know okay so I got one I’m going to dig deep right here you ready Pap’s got his
Media shoes on right let’s go ready he got the J on so this guy right here this guy has an ability to at the end of the day not give a what anybody thinks about him I’m the opposite I want everybody to like me yeah so when we’re out in San Diego you
Know there’s certain things I’m trying to say the right things to Media I’m trying to do this the right way blah blah blah and at the end of the day like there’s stuff that’s written about you that is so not true but you don’t care cuz you know all your boys in the
Clubhouse everybody you’ve ever played with they know who you are so how how do you juggle that so good and not caring what the public thinks about you but knowing your boys know the truth like how H how do you go about that with such ease I mean it’s
It’s not easy obviously you know but I mean you you read the articles you read the reports you read what they’re saying whoever tells you they don’t read is is a liar that’s number one everyone reads you know do we care about it do we put too much into it probably not right
We’ll just read it though but I mean at the end of the day like I just care about the guys that are inside that Clubhouse like if I know that I’m boys with you and I have your back and I know you have my back that’s all that matters
I don’t care about whatever guy what a reporter says or what or an article is written cuz they’re not there 24/7 with you like we go out we go out to dinner we’re on a flight you know we’re we’re on the bus like we spend more time with
The guys in this group or in the Glad in that Clubhouse than anybody else in in our families you know than than our loved ones and our wives but just it’s just about the guys that are in there that’s all I care about you know if if
If if for me it hurts is like if if a player comes out and says something about me that it’s my teammate no that’s that that’s going to hurt me more than if someone writes something about me right right like is their job to write
Is their job to report it’s their job to do that and I understand that completely but at the end of the day is it’s for me what’s deep down inside is where you think about me and there’s I know there was guys in Atlanta that you played with
But it got to the point to where my last couple years in San Diego it was like all right we’re like you look up to the leader on your team right Manny was leading that team so it got to the point where it’s like dude like me and like
I’m getting older I won a championship in Kansas City already I’m like dude like I want to build this guy’s Legacy up because I want to see him win a championship so then I can tell people yeah I played with this dude I was part of that so like I already know in
Atlanta there was dudes that were like all right this guy is a guy that leads by example this guy has everything that I ever want and a teammate like who are some of those guys that that you’re like bro I’m gonna I’m gon to go above and
Beyond for this guy because I want it for him that bad I just wanted to hit on you real quick cuz your reputation when I watched you from across when you weren’t taking me deep when I watched you when I watched you across it was like it was like okay he’s young he’s
Learning he’s learning things but then every anybody that ever spoke about you to me who had played with you was like he is unbelievable he’s one of the best dudes you’re ever going to play with so just wanted to point that out to you real quick just let you know that the
League knows what what the real you is we were’t her I mean I mean we were talking about earlier I mean it’s it’s sometimes when you’re younger you do some some some [ __ ] that you know it’s not uncalled for but I mean it’s about maturity I mean you learn and again it’s
It’s it’s about my teammates I care about my teammates and I’m I’m GNA have their backs no matter what at all times and you know we had a good thing in San Diego going it’s good cop back cop you know bab’s always the guy that was the
The leader of the clubhouse and I was kind of a little bit more vocal and stuff and everyone would go to Papo for stuff you know hey what do you got on this or you know advice and so like Manny is Manny mad at me you’re
Good it’s just you got to you know sometimes you got to get some tough luck to these young guys we’re talking about there’s no no better Clubhouse than having that yeah like I I I I I don’t mean this like in a in a very negative
Way but there there needs to be a couple [ __ ] in a club Ross that’s I was going to tell goinging truth man just like like there’s got to be a guy that’s like I can’t stand this guy but then when you go home or the season’s over
You’re like man that guy made me a better player mhm you know you know like obviously don’t cross the line and things like that but there’s nothing better than that like when you when you have a little bit of of that if everybody’s too nice I’m like oh boy
Yeah it’s going to be a rough year you don’t want that well if that or like May 1 happens and you start looking at the Box SC you start knowing like your average and your home runs and now real men come out because now you’re either
Now now the realness is going to come out right you’re not nice anymore so it’s like which one like which one are you I think it allows the team to relax a little bit too because it takes some of the pressure off you know someone who’s there who’s going to police the
Team within the team it’s not the manager’s job to come in there and be like point fingers it’s it’s the group you’re a unit you are going to win this together and someone has to police it so what do you got on that because there’s there in my experience from it trying to
Be like an everyday guy and be that guy in the clubhouse it’s not realistic right like you need guys that are role players and they can get that heartbeat while they’re out in the field I’m in The Dugout I’m seeing how this guy’s handling things I’m seeing how he’s
Handling it in the clubhouse at 6:30 when you’re out on the field getting ready it it’s so true because you think about football so football has like leadership councils with the players they actually meet together they make decisions together and then basketball obviously you can have a dominant player
Who kind of T takes takes over baseball is really interesting because there’s no Leadership Council or like occasionally you have the C’s some guys with the captains but to Echo what you said with the Tampa Bay Rays every single player who com comes either goes to San Diego
From the Rays or was come to the Rays from San Diego every single one of them mention your name saying that guy’s one of the best leaders that I’ve seen and so it takes that one person to say you know what not am I not only am I just
Going to mature it sounds like not only did you mature but you said you know I’m not only going to mature but I’m gonna I’m GNA take a vocal lead a role in the development of this Clubhouse so my question for you is I heard it so many
Times I’ve always wanted to ask you this what is your philosophy on leadership and as a leader yourself lead by example it’s simple lead by example I mean it’s it’s it’s simple you got to go out there and show that you’re going to war every single day and I’m going to post up
Every single day if I do that then everything else is easy I could have a conversation you could show them what to do you could give them advice and whatever but if you don’t lead by example if you don’t go out there and you post what are you showing your
Teammates yeah right there was a game his first year in San Diego it was in like June or July you came into the field you get there around four or 5 o’ and this dude is pale as a ghost I mean the flu and mean he’s throwing up every
Two seconds he’s on the training table like this and we’re like oh Manny ain’t playing today whoever the extra infielder was we’re like hey buddy go take some ground balls at third he ain’t doing it whatever and 659 dude this dude comes rolling off the training table
Like this puts his uniform on he’s like no I’m playing I’m going out there I’m playing and that message from that point on those five at bats those nine innings went so far than that actual night because from that point on nobody in the whole entire organization not even
Players but staff anybody you can’t say I’m not coming to work today because I don’t feel good or I don’t whatever he talks in every hitters meeting he talks in all this and fundamentals whatever but that lead by example is something that you just can’t quantify and when
You see the dude doing that being paid guaranteed money there’s nothing you can say from that point on this is where I think the game has changed a little a little bit um where like Manny yourself myself yourself as well when we first came up there were three or four veteran guys
You know older guys like I I I know for me like I had Miguel Cairo Roman Hernandez Johnny Gomes Edgar Ria those those were my veterans right and those were the guys that Scott Roland his had three herniated disc and somehow some way guy was playing third
Base and you know diving at ball all day long and was a gold Glover but I think that being able because I know I know both of you guys had that right JJ Hardy right like you had Adam Jones like you saw these guys Mar these guys were
Posting every day and I don’t know necessarily if that’s happening I mean now today I don’t think the veteran there’s not that many veterans there’s not that many there’s not your 36 37 38 year old anymore that that’s like hey man yeah like I remember I was saying
This story the other day like I remember when I got called up from Cincinnati I was so excited dude I was so excited and I got called up I I thought it was I thought I had like graduated from college and and I walk in and it’s like
The third inning of a Reds game and I walk in with my bag and I’m like saying what’s up to the clubbies like what’s up man I haven’t seen you since spring man life is great I’m in the big Le give me my one 135 bucks meal money like that’s
All I was thinking about get that envelope give me that baby and I was like yeah and Miguel KY I’ll never forget this bro Miguel Kyro walked into that Clubhouse and he’s like the [ __ ] are you smiling about and I was like what’s up bro and he’s like get
Dressed bro you’re gonna be you’re probably GNA pinch hit get dressed get in the Dugout make sure you say what’s up to Dusty Baker so he knows you’re here because you’re in the lineup ain’t no time for laughing say say What’s up to the clubes later and like that was
Like wake up call big leagues like your moment like where you think it’s going to be super cool and Dy is like oh what’s happening and like you go into the Dugout and Miguel car is waiting for you with like a a folder of the of the picture he’s like you’re probably going
To face this guy this guy or this guy go get him ready to go yeah go get him so it’s like you say it’s missing that’s missing in the game that’s like missing you know that’s the reason why like maybe he’s like matured and and you’re seeing like this this different cat that
Came up had in his locker like only small talk right like like like right he he he talk BR I got to bring like he wanted a real conversation yourself like you you had veterans that were that were incredible too during those Kansas City Royals like runs right and I had the
Same so I I just think like that’s that’s a big part that that’s missing and and people are lucky to have him like or or another veteran yourself when there was young like corworth he had you you know like that that’s a big part that he’ll never forget that definitely
And I think guys like yourself have realized you know there’s not many of those guys those role guys there so I got to take it a I gotta make it a point to be that guy and school this guy on some stuff and like you said real quick
Like you said with Scott rowand like Scott rowand like you said two hernas two surgeries whatever I don’t need Scott rowand outside every day taking ground balls no I need Scott Rolland making sure his body is ready to go ready to go for 7 o’cl yes like me and
Todd Frasier Scott Roland was so beat up that he couldn’t bend down to pick up the balls in the Banning cages so he would swing and he would do his routine like 40 swings he’s like I’m good my back my back my neck my neck like he
Would talk to you and he would turn like and I was like how’s this guy going to play you’re still playing thir Bas every day too playing Third Base every day and and he was and and like me and Todd Frasier after his routine was done we
Would go in as rookies and like bro we got the balls man like go go go go to the training room we got the balls like we would just pick up the balls just because we understood what he was teaching us and he didn’t even understand that like at that moment he
Was just trying to fight a demon that he had in his back you know but he was teaching us something like if that guy’s doing it bro you better play with a little hammy or a little Bleak like you better play you know and that’s where
Like the next level of stuff of okay like we like Rachel has asked us before on here on the first episode like do you think guys should take BP shouldn’t take BP what’s your think what’s your take on that whatever and it’s like okay if you’re going to tell me and you’re going
To establish your routine you need to have earned that right you know this guy’s got 13 plus years in the big leagues he’s had a couple knee surgeries so he’s earned that right to be on the training table until 5 6 o00 and go and
Get your work in at that point in that time but the whole like no you need to check this box CH check this box and check this box it’s not like that you know what I mean so like a big part of that is earning that right to establish
Your own routine because he takes it a step further than just the season to where in the off seon he’s working out he’s eating the he knows so that’s where it goes above and beyond yeah I will I will say this like even the camaraderie
I I think that my last couple years I I really like to mess around with the rookies in a in a very good way in a very good way right a very like but but there was times like I would you know it was just it it would go a little further
But it was all cool it was the boys like it was the guys in the clubhouse and one thing that taught me is like Johnny Gomes and Arthur rhods and those guys Arthur RH dude they would crush me we’re talking about a different we talking about that different are today you
Should not be Bing AR road I’ll take it a step like even further than that they would crush me all weekend he has no business facing Arthur no shout out to Arthur disrespect that was for us yeah yeah yeah yeah but he would like mess with us all weekend and
Then and then he’ll be like hey man I got your dues this weekend right you know I was like so there’s a message there it wasn’t just we were talking earlier that’s I going to say you understood the message right like you you got it old school like when I first
Came up I was 27 years old signed out of the WBC I’m from Australia haven’t played Pro Bowl in eight years and I get called up two weeks into my triaa season and I’m like here we go and I walk in and Andrew Jones is there and everybody’s there and it was that
Culture of who is this clown and where do he come from and who does he think he is and I had that already bubbly personality that wasn’t received well I can rub people the wrong way I get that my jokes sometimes hit they sometimes
Don’t but early on in my day I it was like I tried so hard to be what somebody expected me to be and to have everybody like me that it came off as just this knob jocky I’ll tell you this about the Braves I had a spring training there and
I played with nine teams Co year right yeah there’s no team that he was using that Aimbot with h on Call of Duty that Aimbot on Call of Duty onl there was there’s no team that I was like holy [ __ ] I don’t know if it was because I
Grew up watching them so much in Miami like Miami it was TBS so like I I grew up watching Braves but like just I’ll never forget like Han Karen he was he was on our no it was uh jav Lopez it was Greg Maddox it was John smes Andrew Jones FAL MX
Kco um those were the in the meeting those were the guys that were that were uh on on on on the meeting like the first meeting ever it was all of them were there and and I was like holy [ __ ] like this is real like these dudes are
All Hall of Famers and like I grew up watching all these dudes and they were there in spring training like this is what we expect we expect you to win the division we expect you to get to the World Series and we expect you to win
The World Series it’s like all right go get him guys first day of spring you can I can literally name that whole Braves lineup the batting order to Physicians and all that incred incred we we always talk about like adapting right adapting with time and kind of growing and all
That type of stuff so as a leader and as you know the guy in the clubhouse coming from playing for a guy like Buck shalter to where it’s like bro if you are military three years or less you are playing every single day in spring training you’re playing every single day
During the season every road trip you’re playing you’re doing everything okay you when we when the Baltimore are playing baseball you will be out there at third Bas and you will do that so how hard and I watched it firsthand you did did it so well how hard was it adapting to then
Like a young tddy come into spring training and it’s like all right buddy you’re going to play once every two days we’re gonna in we’re gonna give you steak on the third day and you’re gonna be like no road trips no Road not to D
Spot here play off your legs they got a nice schedule so as a leader of a guy it’s hard not to be like hey hey I had to do this you need to do this too yeah but now this new age like we talk about
It’s not the to get off my couch you you need to have more than three years to sit on there it’s like dude like we need everybody pulling on the same rope and we need this guy to win so like that was an adjustment I’m sure of of of leading
And adapting towards that it’s still hard it’s still hard honestly like you know for me for me like I want to like I know my stats are going to be at the end of the year I obviously want to win at wst Series so we’re going to need these
Guys right but for me I think the biggest important part is I want to like baseball’s going to continue I’ll be gone in 10 years you know and I want baseball’s going to continue I want that when I came up you know Jonesy uh JJ like they’re
You know to by the guys before them right then they taught me right now I want to teach the Next Generation that this Legacy is still going on right the little things where it’s like three years of service you know you’re going on every road trip you’re wearing your
Jersey out there you you know you’re not going to get the special treatment unless you got service time right so like I want to continue that and hopefully like that continues in the future right in 20 years the game’s changing now the game’s like you said
The guys aren going on road trips the guys that get special treatment you know you’re over here I’m going on a road trip and some of these guys are staying back and you’re like why why is this why is this guy getting back at bat like
He’s 20 years old I’m I was 27 at the time like give me sometime I’ve been playing every game for the last six seven years like you know I’ve earned the right right but it’s it’s it’s tough to adjust but like you said man like I I
Need these guys like right now I got Jackson Merill Marcy some of these guys are going to make the team that you know at the end of the day like we need them to go out there and ball out like I need them to feel as comfortable as possible
To go out there and play to go out there and perform to feel comfortable to go and play big leagues isn’t easy it isn’t easy you go up there and your you know we go to Dodgers Stadium and 50,000 fans are booing me and you’re like oh man
What they’re doing that to him like it’s intimidating right for young kid to hear that I’ve been through it I’m I’m fine I’m good you know but these young kids seeing it so it’s you know I want them to feel as good but at the same time
Like I’m still giving them that like that tough love like that hey you know I’m going to cut some slack on you you can wear your hoodie every once in a while but I want to see your jerseys I don’t know who you are who are you I
Don’t know your face I I don’t I haven’t played with you I you know are you a prospect you know no I want to see your jersey so when you’re running down the line and we’re stretching together I know who you are I can get to know you
Right you know I came up like that I had to wear my jersey I was wearing 85 these kids got now 32 yeah you know 24 you know these guys are asking for their numbers my biggest fear is going to spring training and being like let me see that number damn
77 the Umpire Strike Zone’s going to be like that bro true or not true true very true I I just think like the players today too and and and they’re smarter than ever I I think players are smart as like you look at these 15 16 year olds
Man they can tell you 12 weeks of what they did in the offseason what they at smart now I think that they’re not teaching that they’re not teaching they’re not teaching it it’s not that they don’t have it because they because they don’t have that veteran like for me
The way I kind of like talk about it is like I grew up with an old school like household where if you didn’t do something it was in timeout it was here’s a spanking here’s your sheta and we’re going to kick your ass and your
Ass is going to be like I learned my lesson where now it’s like oh it’s okay we’re going to go time out and we’re good and then like you’re gonna do it again you know and maybe like the third or fourth time you’re gonna be like all
Right like I can’t do that again like this is the third or fourth time I’m gonna get sent down you know if I do that again and that’s how I think we grew up like and it’s I don’t know if it’s a like for you because like marus
And M Jones and weers and all that they learned from K Ripken like bro KY Ripken like that’s who you learn how to grind every day like I’m sorry that’s that’s doing not fair it’s not fair you know it’s not fair you know it’s hard for me
To tell kids to go out there and grind every day but I can tell you to go out there and work every day you know I can tell you to go out there and be be the most prepared controllables you know you can control that stuff but don’t come
Here and show up late and you know just not go to the cage and work out or not work out not get your treatment done like you know I’ll tell you a story about this it was my first year in the big leagues I show up first road trip I
Was in the minor leagues on the bus like we’ve all grinded you know those I was doubling up on a on a two-seater my back was banged up my hips were banged up I get to the big Lees you know we got massage therapist I was like I get to
First road trip we go to Detroit I get you got on the table I got I got to the field at 12:00 12:00 cuz they told me hey if you’re going to get worked on got to get there early I was like all right cool out there at
12:00 I told the massage therapist hey can you get my can can you get my legs flush them out right quick you know I’m super tight all right he starts massaging me right you know in Detroit you got that tunnel before you go down down down it was right to the right of
That a little little room there there’s a curtain there right still there get some haircut get the haircuts so I go in I’m getting a massage you get a haircut and a massage at the same which you want bro two for one special do you want I think that that play plac
Though and man it was the worst day ever Adam Jones shows up at 1:00 guys just never shows up I’m there getting worked on I look up and he just walks down he’s going to the cage I think he was going to go out to hit early work and he looks
Up he’s like man who’s back there and I look up I look up I’m like oh damn put put my head down he goes damn man I’ve been here six months and I still haven’t gotten on that Tren new table and you’ve been here two days and you’re on the training table already
Getting a massage what’s wrong with you and he just he just walks out I looked up and I told the guy get done finish this leg and I’m out finish this leg and I’m out he finished my leg I got up never again did I ever step foot onto that that the
Massage table and it was just little things like that I you know I got up you know I wasn’t going to get told again I wasn’t going to you know get embarrassed again you know and he didn’t embarrass me he didn’t say anything he was just
Like yeah you know just making a joke out of it but at the same time like teaching you a little lesson right and boy that I learn you know so now the nowadays I want the guys to get a massage but at the same time you still
Want to kind of like hey there’s a time and place you come early you know get here early it’s it’s interesting just hearing all of this especially your comment when you’re talking about being raised there’s a quote that I love it says Hard Times make strong men strong
Men make good times Good Times make soft men and what’s really interesting about that is we could be raised a certain way getting spanked or the discipline and then we get raised and or maybe we were we grew up broke we didn’t have money we didn’t we didn’t we weren’t able to go
Out and do this things and then you work hard you make a lot of money and then all of a sudden you’re going to provide more for your family then you look at your kids I’m like oh my gosh when I was their age I they got it easy wait what
And then all of a sudden they’re a little bit they’re not as tough as we were and then it’s it’s then to cycle and when you guys are talking I thought wow that’s really interesting a lot of times just in Generations just not in just in anything it’s we look how we
Were whether be picked on or how we and we’re like no no I’m not when I’m the leader I’m not going to do that and then all of a sudden the pendulum swings the other way but it’s that it’s that balance it’s it’s just different yeah everything’s balanced right like the
League bro your career is a Balan like you look at your career from your first year to your last year and you’re like oh my God like what did I go through like that’s the way I felt like my my my happiest day was the day that I retired
Like really the day after oh dude it was like the most awesome day in the world I woke up that morning and I had breakfast and I was looking at him because we were in San Diego together and he was like getting ready to go play that game and I
Was here ordering a California Burrito let me get that California Burrito bro like I’m good I don’t have to go all for four anymore four for four I don’t have to think about who I’m facing the stress like I remember I was just telling you before this like
Sometimes I look at my like YouTube like um uh interviews and like the bags are under your eyes and you can just go back to that moment or that time where you’re like boy I was stressing like I was stressing my swing probably didn’t feel right my hand meat
Hurt my left knee was banged up and like you can just tell right like if you go back and like it’s just it’s just great like it’s just it’s awesome that that in my opinion I don’t want to put words into your mouth but when I hear that
Personally when someone’s like it’s this it’s it’s a sign that it’s a guy who emptied the tank a guy who has l no regrets I am not that guy that’s like oh I still could play or I’m good yeah you’re able to like look back he’s like I can get dud
Out new man I’ll find my Sinker again I got this this is there I like the I’ll tell you what I I I talked about this the other day with Greg am singer because he asked me he’s like when did you when did you know you were like done
Yeah and I was like I’ll tell you Greg we were warming up and this is Co like year I was with you guys and we were warming up on the grass and I kept looking at that beautiful Bermuda and I was like boy [ __ ] pitching wedge right
Now I would tear This Grass up and the spin I would get 130 yards is the way to go like I wasn’t thinking about my routine that day my hitting I was like yo you’re thinking about a golf course like what what what what are we doing
Here you know you got to go how long after that did you realize that you were going to have a roll in media like you do um I never you fall into that or you just yeah I just fell I fell into that so okay let’s let’s dig a little deeper
Into that because you you didn’t just fall into something you you’re everywhere in the media yeah and like I told you the WBC you were calling games bro and and I was it it was the closest thing I watch football as man knows I take his money every year oh I know
About that you know I know about that you do so snake over here got hey I got my research I got my connects they’re they’re letting nothing else to do dude talk about it from now I bet you’s gonna send a message to the group chat right now hey who’s ready for fantasy
[ __ ] he I got Adam shefer texting me his list ready to go be surprised how much that fantasy group gets talked at the network by producers and directors yeah we got a pretty big time it’s a big deal it’s that fantasy people like people want to know who won that League that
Year they’re like hey who won the league who won that League this year um I had to pay uh TR no marisnick and Ben attendi there we go they won it but Ty so no Tyreek Hill was unbel but yeah last couple we play last couple weeks so
When I watched football when Tony Romo first got in the booth he opened up my eyes to like all right like all right Jim this guy’s gonna motion if this Defender doesn’t move they’re gonna run if he does move then he’s got the pass option here here boom boom boom and when
I was watching WBC I felt that same way in baseball terms of like the way you were breaking down the game yeah and dude like that’s three and a half hours of a lot of like information you got to give a lot of downtime you got to talk
And you were just flowing flowing flowing flowing like where I think it was just like preparation I was also super geeked for like the World Baseball Classic it was one of those opportunities that kind of fell into my hand like it it was I wasn’t something it wasn’t something I was talking about
It was just one day they were like hey want you to be the guy that’s going to be calling 15 games in the World Baseball Classic and I was like all right cool where he’s like no Miami I was and then I looked at the group and I was
Like you know Dr Puerto Rico Venezuela like I knew right away like this was going to be a hit you know and then I was home and then preparation just started and dude it’s like anything like I I I the way I like do this whole what
Goes in my brain is I only have eight seconds to tune you in like that’s all I got eight seconds like that’s kind of the way I feel cuz when I’m watching TV I’m like I’m all over the place when I’m watching TV I’m like TNT mob
Network and I only got 8 seconds and and I’m you know 36 years old so can you imagine a 14y old so it’s not 8 seconds it’s probably like six so I have to understand that I have to kind of intrigue the eight-year-old teach him something in the game but I also have
The 55-year-old that’s having a beer and that may not know so much about the game so I want to to put myself in a place where I’m kind of in a bar and I’m talking to you guys about the game you guys don’t know much about the game and
At the same time I have to put myself in a place where I’m giving lessons you’re expert in baseball and kind of go that whole route so the game tells you everything obviously it’s a blessing that I was able to finish playing and do that so a lot of the things are still
Still there right it’s still happening so but it was just preparation man just a lot of preparation and understanding what was happening and then just have fun with it I I always felt like watching guys like do games it was the old school kind of like slow honey right
And for me it was like the hell with that I want wings bro Red Bull let’s go like I’m going to teach you like this is what’s coming hey it’s got to be a sweeper here if it’s not a sweeper because he’s diving they’re going up and
In like I I need to see this guy right now on the ground like that’s how that ends sure enough boom up and in like all right here we go like it’s a game now so one of the so one of the biggest hurdles
For me and I told you guys this at at the baptism in Miami one of the biggest hurdles for me doing this now was to not be a douchebag and be like hey Manny bro you want to come on my podcast tomorrow you know oh I don’t think you ever be a
Douche I don’t think that’s your bon how how did you separate that of you’re going on the field for BP you’re going in the clubhouse that’s hard that’s still hard like how did you because at the end of the day dude like I was the first one when we were in the World
Series and you know this player we just eliminated is now doing Media stuff and I’m like you You’ got to worry about reason you’re out of here everybody too I I have the pleasure of working for one team yeah you’re National you’re doing different teams all over the place
You’ve got to know the league I know the Braves in I can I hope that the people that you’re asking watch your your work of of what you do and you understand how real they are like you know I’m I’m very transparent but I also know I’ve learned not know and I’m still
Learning on it is how to maybe talk about a player that’s not doing so well but not bash him yeah you know like there’s no need to bash like I know what 0 for four and 4ks is like I know what’s making an error in the ninth inning I
Know what seeing a guy give up eight runs in one inning like I get that man like I I know what’s what’s going on but if I’m seeing something I’m like hey look I’ll do a demo I’ll do this or I’ll do that so I hope like they respect the
Work of of what you do and understand what’s happening like I feel like all three of us and all of us here understand the media and understood like that’s their job too you know they have to do their thing bro like that’s just what it is but you hope
That hopefully when you when you do them you don’t catch them on a bad time and you just be super transparent like yo man I need you for five and it’s going to be three questions don’t ask him four ask him three right because then next
Month I might need you again and be like I need four out of you and he’s going to know like I’m going to walk in and get four questions and we’re good we’re out yeah I think that’s the worst part about convers like they ask go I hey just one
One second one second can I just get one keep 20 minutes and they got you there for 20 minutes I’m like that’s not okay you know L trust instantly you know then I’m never going to talk to you ever again yeah yeah yeah I think that I
Think that’s the key just being like transparent and real with them you know so you’re talking about the media what advice do you have for players now that you you’ve been on both sides what advice do you have about to the players towards the media look I I think the the
World has changed so much and I think when you look look at athletes has changed so much and I think when you look at you you have to be able to adjust right we talked about adjusting just look at the Players like other players other other sports right
Basketball like these guys are they’re their own like it’s a company man it’s a brand each player is a brand like you can have the 12th guy on the bench he has a brand you’re like bro who is this guy that was allowed the longest time too you weren’t allowed to be yourself
You were we when I first came up I had to wear sleeves to cover my tattoos I had to wear black shoes cuz that was 50% black like there was all these rules you couldn’t show personality you would get fine but Nike ID you can do
Whatever you want on the cleats it was like this makes no sense going to tickle you a little bit you know you’re ready whatever you want we’re going to find you black I remember that I do remember that now I feel like guys are are encouraged more to be on social to post
Some things go through photo day with the occasional like hey man we’re like teams are opening up to the fact that they need to promote their players for them to generate interest otherwise the game’s going to die and the young they’re trying to attract the young fans
Right like the attract like this the World the game is international whether we like it or not it’s just not an American sport it’s an international sport like the two best players right now in our game one is Japanese the other Venezuelan one hit 40 and 71 bags the
Other one throws 105 and hits balls 500 feet yeah one’s from Japan the other one’s from Venezuela so I you know if you want to be like that if you want to track that you got to be International you got to be open to all these ideas at
The end like as kids like we all put ourselves in like what what would we like look at you know like for me it was I wanted the Jordan batting gloves I wanted what Derek jeta was wearing what Miguel tahada was wearing what noar Garcia par was wearing with the TPX you
Know that’s what we wanted to wear you know we wanted we wanted that as kids so like what you’re saying it’s it’s they’re opening up the flug dates where you know let’s show our like you know our personalities out on the field let’s see what color cleats you can wear
Batting gloves sleeves whatever it is like that’s what that’s what attracts the fans that’s what fans want to see at the end of the day it’s not you know baseball’s baseball but it’s funny you say that I was in 2017 in Oakland uh the Clubby there um had these old Eric
Chavez like white shoes do you miss and let me tell you bro these things these these things were so thin like you can put them on and feel every cleat but I wore them for for one game because like I when I grew up watching
The A’s I grew up Chavez 48 gold gloves and him doing his thing and I was like I gotta feel at least what Eric Chavez felt at the Coliseum with these cleats bro that [ __ ] lasted four Innings like get me my cleats because I can wear
These things but yeah man it was like just what you’re saying like I wanted to be like these guys man you want to wear all their stuff and that’s what’s happening in today’s game like come on man you you you you want to open that
And why not guys yeah guys want to go a step further like I want to see Manny’s Locker I want to see all the Jays they’re sending you I want to see what kind of clothes they’re sending you I want to see that stuff so in a in a age
Now where this player driven media is kind of taken off you know football it’s proven now NBA it’s proven now and now with baseball it’s like at the end of the day like the player driven media side we’re not trying to break news like I’m not trying to tell you so and so
Wants to trade so and so wants to get opted out or wants an extension whatever that is what blah blah blah but I think in a day now where players are like listen like I got some insight I can share with you or I got you know something behind the scenes that you
Don’t know this guy can do that can help you at the end of the day so I really do feel like it’s adapting and and you are one of the first you know baseball guys to do that because you’ve taken a job at the network but at at the same time
You’re going to Dominican do doing stuff down there you’re giving back to the community so you’re growing that game yeah I definitely felt like when when I got started like that was one one of my biggest like obstacles or or I guess goals was to kind of show a little bit
Of Life of you know what people go through in the Dominican or in Venezuela or in Puerto Rico like I just think people don’t really understand like what these guys go through like so when you see a kid that just got here from from Venezuela there’s a really long story
Behind it all you know like this kid was probably somewhere like in a jungle and he was hitting uh with a stick on a tree you know trying to throw coconuts down that’s why he threw so hard like that’s real stories that are happening in like today’s day like it really happens guys
That are in the big leagues they all have a story man they all have a probably a pretty good one too so I wanted to show some light on that and the network has given me the ability to be like full on go man and it’s the best
Dude it’s awesome I love doing it it’s my favorite it’s crazy to get into a place where you know we try to make to the big leagues right and like we said we have this Miami community and we feel like like this is our community this is
Our these are our people and now like like yonder’s working for like promoting the game Manny is one of the top guys in the game so like to see people and to feel like like hey like we’re the ones that are going to be passing down knowledge on the game we’re the ones
That are going to be reaching the youth we’re the ones that gonna be doing all that type of stuff is crazy to think about yeah absolutely but at the same time it’s it’s it’s pretty sweet dude like we’re the ones that are going to be able to do that for baseball and that’s
And that’s a new wave that we’re all trying to start speaking of like Swagger and stuff did you do the uh Jordan like meeting on the zoom with your new like shoes for this year how’s that sick I got Fire coming this year can you talk about that absolutely what is
It wait baby just did J help you huh you guys she always helps me yeah yeah she she does my designs most of the time those meetings are so I was a part of like one of them what two years ago two years ago that was yeah it’s a zoom call
I mean not just a zoom call I mean they show you everything dude I mean we could we have like the ability to do whatever we want with our shoes so last year I wanted to you know obviously with Kobe’s passing I wanted to do something for
Kobe right so I did some cleats last year for Kobe that I had to kind of derail what I really wanted to do which was to bring I want to do the grinches I want to do the grines the Neons I want to do that but I wanted it to be exactly
The same shoe the same material everything that it was on that Kobe shoe so Nike hits us up you know we go back they get back to me like well we can’t do it you know because it’s like a special material it was only made for
The Kobes and um you know we’re not able to get to that we could do the print but the print was not the same like if I’m going to do the shoe I want to do the shoe so I derailed with it they a couple months pass they hit me up again they’re
Like hey we’re doing them this year so nikee ended up opening opening up the Vault and they’re letting me do the neon vots with the actual material so of the mamba mama mentality shoes on them so Manny was the reason I stopped trying to get good cleats because I’m like I can’t
I can’t compete with this guy so let me just give me the stock everything you got you swag there’s something of a lefty first by the way the game has if you play first base you should play Lefty like like like a lefty left fielder this guy told
Me you just have to look down at his hand and it was already you got you get blinded by the gold I saw I saw a I saw a clip the other day of you wearing you had gold cleat on bro yeah sure did gold hey but
It was the World Series the World Series wasn’t a regular twoes think about that how ballsy you have to be be like I’m wearing gold CS to Mohawk yeah also walked out to it goes down in the DM you know what I mean uh but this guy
Told me something he goes bro I knew from the first time I saw you in between Innings roll a ground ball to a guy I knew you can play first base and like roll the ball you just know the position you can see how the guy move you see how
It all goes I got like parents like they’ll be like how do you know when you know your kid’s like a ball player just the way he wears his uniform kid like you you either you either got it or you don’t you know if I see a kid wearing a uniform and
Like you just know at 10 years old like you know just by wearing the uniform it it sounds so like Sil but in Miami like the kids that are playing in Miami 10 year olds you can just tell you’re like oh my God that kid’s going to be good
He’s 10 and if you go down to the Dr you’ll definitely see that oh you know you’ll be like this kid’s seven he’ll be in the big leagues see videos of drills they’re doing down there that adj just these kids are running through Fields Rock Fields there rocks everywhere catching them like nothing
Yeah you just know you know but yeah this guy as soon as I saw him I was like oh man look like speaking it sounds crazy but like remember the day I went to your house and I wanted to change my swing yeah and I was like one night 2016
I’m like all right I look up all the guys that had leg kicks because I wanted to change my swing and I was like Hosmer the guy always a foot down guy foot down guy and I was like Hosmer’s the guy I got to like talk to and I remember like
During the game I was like man I got to go to your house I really want to ask you about this swing I want to change my swing but I need to learn more about your swing talk about like the Miami like Bond we hadn’t really like hung out
That much during that time it open his doors to to his apartment hung out for like five hours that we were doing straight dry hacks in his living room like he’s like all right get in your pose and like all right this is what you’re going to do you got to go back
You got to do this this is what’s going on in your mind it’s like 3: in the morning and we’re doing dry hacks you you think players don’t care 3 in the morning doing dry hacks you know like that’s that’s just like Miami for you right there we were with Seattle it was
Danny Valencia and dice I lived with daon that year we were all at the house take me through that take me through the leg kick d that was a some of my best memories are breaking down games post game in someone’s hotel room just sitting in the hotel room shooting the
Sh talking about what’s going on talking about the team learning stuff from older guys it’s just it’s family we keep saying that it’s keep part maybe the only thing I miss is that like just the the after the game Talking and like hanging out but even then like nowadays
You get done with the game bro and like half the roster has left 20 minutes in Co ruined that bro yeah because Co before Co yeah because as you know before Co the game ended at 10 o’clock first bus is at 11: so I can shower I
Get my treatment I can eat I go to whatever Co it was the first 10 people get on the bus the next 10 people get on the bus so dudes were rushing to get to the bus and dudes were just trying to get out out of there you know what I
Mean right let me ask you this one and that’s crazy you lose the the the the the theader of the team everyone’s bouncing everyone’s leaving we all started playing Call of Duty all the time Call of Duty we all laptops on the road we would go hey like all right let’s sign
On in the plan that was the only way we could talk the planes were still good that was the only way we could talk the plane was great we would still play cards we would have a great time there’s nothing like a west coast East Coast
Plane ride five hours oh man that’s a grind with San Diego bro every flight is don’t tell me I was in Oakland and Seattle seatt they’re number one somebody asked me Seattle someone’s like why do you think Seattle has playoffs I said the travel bro so the year that I
Was in Oak not drained by the second the year I was in Oakland and then got traded to Seattle I did 63,000 miles 63,000 miles and I remember when I got traded from Oakland I was like oh [ __ ] where am I going and all I was thinking about was short flights
Wherever I go and he’s like you’re going to Seattle and I was like [ __ ] what Seattle a little bit longer there buddy Seattle shortest place toky that’s insane might be closer sucks bro it was miserable dude so let me let me ask you a baseball question especially for you so the NBA All-Star
Game everybody after the NBA Allstar game was making a big thing of like there’s no competitive All-Star game but MLB correct so like how does MLB make it like their Super Bowl like the Super Bowl is I get it it’s the end of the year it’s the final game so you’re not
Going to get players in the league that aren’t in the game there but like if that’s the biggest event baseball has and we’re in some we’re in a city for three four days how do you make that the mecca for baseball I’ll go step further and I’ve like even brought this to the
League like making the all-star week when there’s World Baseball Classic make it that week I think that you’re going to get more players I think you’re going to get more guys prepared I think more guys will be more in on like I’m gonna go because they already have you know
You’re wound up already yeah 90 Innings pitched so it’s not like dude I think insurances will probably cover a little bit more more guys because they’ve already played three months but I just think if you want to make it like the Super Bowl in the off start I think you
Give guys two extra days off and the World Baseball I think the allstar break I just think the All-Star break is just not enough like man like I get it I know you want to start that Friday but right man so what and if you play if you the
Guys that do go to it you got you got got no break at least the guys who didn’t have four days if you especially if you play on Thursday or night before was Friday Friday everybody some teams make you practice that day too some team people don’t know that
Practice you practice that Thursday you know so like people don’t understand that I think you give guys two extra days everybody plays on Sunday that’s the day Sunday yeah make it a full week whatever you got to do a full week and the WBC this year killed it too exactly
So many people were watching the last game was great I mean it was competitive last out was insane last out Otani versus trout all that type of thing mean I don’t think they could ride it no couldn’t have got any better for them yeah that would be that’s what cuz I was
Thinking I’m like two extra days off I think will be like the I think the players would number one I think everybody would enjoy it I don’t think it would if anything it would help every team I think every owner would be a part of it if somebody’s banged up you get
Now a week of recovery rather than like put the guy on the iil or if a guy pitched you know that day then you can you have enough time to use him on that Sunday or that Monday so I don’t know I just I just think there’s so many
Different ways of doing it I also feel like you gota I like like we’ve all been all star right like it’s oh sorry hey some of us second back end all stars second half All Star sure dude 2020 oldstar I was just check it out
Look it up look it up yeah but it it it’s it’s a matter of like it it you want to enjoy the moment right you want to enjoy the allar you want to and and there’s not enough time to really like like for me I’ve never really enjoyed it
Because it’s it’s just so much going on you have media day you have this dinner with your agent then it’s the the Home Run Derby like the Home Run Derby is the best part of it and it’s like there’s so much go leading up to it that you really
Can’t really like sit back and really take it all in because everything’s so fast it’s two days you have two days you get in there Sunday night and Tuesday after the game you’re out you know so it’s like it’s not enough time to really like soak it in and like like the full
Famine experience the full like it’s it’s an All-Star game like it it it should be special like I went from Seattle to Miami for my All-Star Game home so I’m my allar game is at home so I went from Seattle to Miami on a red
Eyee after the game and you got home at what time I got home at 7:30 in the morning in the hotel CU I wanted to stay in the hotel to experience the allar like I wanted to experience it you know so I was like I’m not going to stay at
Home I’m going to stay the hotel and and at 7:30 and I was like dude you have two options here either you suck it up because it’s the Allstar Weekend and it’s at home in Miami and your whole family’s there you’re going to play for free so 100 people coming or you’re
Going to you got to buy tickets tiet yeah I kind of like said it but they ain’t giv you no discount no discounts no just the taxes no it’s 50 Grand yeah and there goes that that’s why you get a that’s the bonus gone the 50 Grand it’s gone before
You even like that thing gets wired B yeah and you’re like the hell with it bro like I’m going to stay up you know so then you’re up and then but this is what I mean by the the two extra days off because I I was in so much pain for
Like two weeks after the All-Star break oh my God like I couldn’t even get up I I was because I went essentially 72 hours without sleeping you know and so I was so geeked up in Miami like I was so on a high it’s a moment where you should be enjoying it
Like taking in at home like like bang bang bang and you’re I was so tired like I was so ex but it was so great that I was like who cares bro I go for 20 who you know like poor teammate my teammates were like bro come on like the hell with
That dude you should have seen what we were doing you know it was 3 days was just bananas you I’m trying to recover did you guys open the second half back in Seattle Oakland oh my God we Oakland Miami I was like dude 63,000 miles dude
It was like oh man I became accustomed to five hour flights I was a storage by the end of that I knew where we were at oh you got your wings Road we’re by Denver we’re we’re going to get there we’re eventually get there 2 hours left we we
Knew where you were at yeah man it’s crazy like that dude so like like I said this guy OG of Miami right here playing days try to be like him follow exactly what he did even now post playing days same way calling you for advice all the time and you’ve
Always been there and all that thanks and then this guy he was he was my young boy and then all of a sudden this dude turned into to a leader to where like I’m sitting back learning from you every day like God bro like Manny just stays
It’s right here all day every day like something special about that man so you guys are the man I appreciate you guys coming through and we’ll be tuned in baby I’m excited watch we’re excited beautiful that was [Applause] sick [Applause]
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