CC SABATHIA TALKS RETIREMENT, REHAB, NBA, JORDAN'S AND MUSIC

a special guest man. It's an honored man. We came from the same Northern California territory um first Bout Hall of Famer Yankee legend C. C. S. Bathaman, appreciate you. Welcome to Retire Bay. Yeah, I'm ready, We're about to start the show. Okay, huh, I don't know. I'm good. I'm good. On your hand's good? Two shows in a row. Did you find his hand like he had a nice lather with baby notes, like like he didn't get it, he didn't get on. I got my hand and leave

a wet mark up my gradtball games. I used to be so nervous that I would have to like put lotion on and everything. Then I had to go wash my hands so it wouldn't be like sweating. Never never right, always ready, ain't got to get ready, So take me back man obviously Hall of Fame career, but you're emotional exit in the playoffs. Talk to me about that. Yeah, it was. It was crazy because I had been feeling good, like they put me in the bullpen for the for

the playoffs. Um. I didn't make the roster the first round because I had my shoulder, was myselup. Um. So I got a quarterso on shop and feeling pretty good. And I came out of the bullpen in Houston and got the out I was. I was feeling myself walking off talking ship. I was feeling good, and I started thinking like, man, I might be able to come back, like like unretired, you know what I'm saying, Like come out of the bullpen, get a couple of outs. I might be able to do this. And got out there

in that game and uh and Yankee Stadium. I think it was game four, um, And I was feeling good up until that one pitch. You know, let that pitch go, and it just I could tell my arm it kind of popped out of socket, not kind of popped out of socket and ripped the capsule, tore my labor room cuff everything, and walking off, I heard like the ovation of the fans knew it was gonna be my last time in front of the fans, and kind of got a little motion, come on, man, let's expected. I'm just detached.

You was real calm and sub blocks. It was too calm, and I was hoping that it wasn't it, you know what I'm saying. And the catcher ran out, you know, he's trying to console me. The trainer kind of popped it back in and I went back. I told the catch of the run back down there and let me try to throw one. And when that one and just it did it again. I can't even describe the feeling it. I mean, it was when some of the worst pain. Like everybody, I was walking off the field limping and

everybody was like, we thought it was your knee. I was like, now my shoulder was hurting that bad. But uh yeah, I mean that was the best way for me to go out on the field. Yeah, yeah, for sure. We spoke before we got on camera. Uh you were disappointed you only have one ring? Yeah? Tell me you felt you should have won how many? Yeah, I mean nineteen years. You know what I'm saying, One one ring? I mean, you know, not to discredit winning the Championships hard.

It's hard to do, you know what I'm saying. Um, but playing here for this long, I mean the gold you know in New York has a win champiship every year. It's like the Lakers Championships. Winning one out of eleven. That's a failure, you know. Um, but I'll take that one absolutely sure. What are you looking forward to next? I mean you're done. I mean we you know, we everything comes to an end. I found myself really enjoying just being able to get back and sleep in and

not be so But then that gets all quick. Yeah, like what is just kind of being around the family like I did three days and like sleeping in and not doing it Like I was like, Yo, I'm gonna be a bump, you know what I'm saying. So like I called my agent, I was like, Yo, get me back on ESPN, Like let's start getting back into like

normal life, you know what. And so I'm just looking forward to being a normal citizen, like having the summer I've had had a summer ross in ninety seven, So just traveling with the family, kind of hanging out, kicking it and just enjoying my family. Let's go back a little bit. Like I said, you were someone, Um, you know I heard about early on. You know, you were Valo. I was in Sacramentos the same year, about an hour

and a half from each other. Um, so I would definitely hear about you a lot and all three sports you played and I did the same. Take me back to kind of growing up in your path and sports. Yeah, So I grew up in Valeo, California. UM, and it's like a it's a it's a big sports town, Um, the Valley Joe. It's little. It's a small last city. Man, it's crazy. Um most popular known for you know, e forty Matt dre. I grew up on the side of

the town with mcdre's from, actually in the same neighborhood. Um. And it's you know, I had a cousin that played in the NFL. UM played for the Raiders point the University of Nevada. So it's just kind of one of those small towns that kind of like breeze athletes. There's a lot of athletes that come out of there, um that you don't really hear about. You know, different ship happens, whatever, but you know, super talented guys. So, UM just growing up in that environment, wanting to be one of these

guys that I saw. You know, I can name these guys, Major Norton, Jason Shelley, you know, Marcella Longmire. Just guys that you know that around my neighborhood, that that you know, played in college, that you know necessarily didn't make it but could have. UM. So I just wanted to be around those guys that played in park, stayed with those guys, you know, playing three sports, um and uh, you know, just kind of kind of filmed my way into baseball.

Like you know, you're talking about the boys with the high high basketball. I Q always had a high baseball. I Q just knew what basics to throw too, knew how to run the basis, new know, kind of different ship about the game, and it just became easy and natural. So I just kind of fell into it. Outside of baseball, I mean, people probably don't. You played, like you said, every every sport. What was your sport? Football? Football? Basketball?

Football is probably my sport. Basketball was fun, I mean, but I had to work at that ship so hard man. Like you know, I couldn't jump like you know, like I was, I couldn't jump play play below the rim. It was all so. Uh, I had the most fun playing basketball because I had to work at it and you know, kind of work to be good and starting all that stuff. But baseball was naturally fun and and just football was you know, it was easy for me.

So eighteen or nineteen when how were you even got dropping? And I remember that because I remember you going to U c. L A. And I was I had thought about going there to play football. Um, and I remember you going at the same time foot tight end. Yeah. I would have been an offensive lineman though, like and that have been three playing offensive tackle. So tell me what it's like seventeen years old with a million dollars in your pocket from Valleo. That don't happen out there. No,

that ship was it was bad. It wasn't that's it wasn't good the first couple of years. Man, I didn't have no work ethic. I didn't know what it was

to be a pro. I mean, obviously I knew how to show up and do my job when I was there, But you put me back in Valleo with a million dollars at seventeen, eighteen years old, I'm not working out like the first off season I didn't do ship, Like, I didn't pick up a ball until I got back to screen training, ended up getting hurt elbow hurt, you know, spent the year on the d L. So that kind of like the lay I would have been probably been in the biglies when I was nineteen as opposed to

twenty if I would have worked out and like actually cared about my career. So um yeah, I mean I was just a learning experience, man, you know, growing up without nothing, and then all of a sudden, you just give me a million dollars in free times. I mean,

I'm gonna end up two pounds all that good. Literally hanging out, When did when did you Because people do understand they think, like you said, they think you're drafted and everything is part When do you feel like you kind of got to grasp what was going on and you started realizing how important the process of being a

pro in the off season was important. Man, Not until not until after my rookie year, not until after I made it to the big Leiggs, and I liked was around Robbie Alamar Ellis Bergs and all these guys and kind of seeing how they worked in the off season, like you know, coming from high school. You know, we just show up. You know what I'm saying, like, you just do what you do, and that that is you know,

it is what it is. But I didn't know all the work that it took to get into you know, to make All Star teams, to be a Hall of Famer, to do some of the things that I wanted to do in the game. You know, I figured out I don't have to work for it. And you know, after that first offseason, Um, I had a really good year. In my first year, I won seventeen games, want a playoff game. And then I came back the next year

and they gave me a deal. Like when they gave me that deal and made me realize like okay, like this is like I need to step my ship up and you know, kind of live up to what they expect me to be. We gotta get you going, We gotta get your clock firing. You had an amazing spand uh, you know obviously started in Cleveland, but there was a time where you went from cy young and oh seven to traded to make a run with Milwaukee, to signing a great deal with the Yankees and winning the ring.

Tell me with that span that was. That was a fast, fast spect that was that Like you just said that ship seems like all one year, you know what I'm saying. Like I wanted to say young and oh seven and I'm thinking like, oh, I got it now, you know what I'm saying, Like I have to ship figured out, Like now I'm about to start rolling. Came back in oh And I was the worst pitcher in the league and couldn't couldn't get it out, you know what I'm saying.

By June, had a good games against the Yankees, had a couple of good starts after that, and they trained me. When I got traded, I went from last place to first place or you know, in the hunt. So I'm like, you know, I gotta step up, you know what I'm saying. So that's when I went on that good round in Milwaukee, ended up getting a deal, and then on kind of

taking care of business and winning the World Series. But like that whole three year span kind of feels like one year for me, Like it's it's weird, like just like maturing and kind of like coming into my own winning the cy young and seven and oh seven and then you know, winning the World Series and I went on a winning team helped too. Don't doubt the environment.

Um oh seven. You know we had a chance that when we were winning team in Cleveland, and I felt like I was the reason why we didn't win the World Series. Like I was trying to go out and do too much and go out and had these great games and be the storyline and the reason why we won, and I was ended up being the reason why we lost,

you know what I'm saying. And that was kind of a learning lesson, you know, like that was the best year I had in my career and ended up sucking it up in the playoffs because I wanted to be the guy come back in OH nine. I come here and I'm supposed to be the guy that gave me the contract. But I'm looking around. I got Jeter, I got a run, I got Canoe, I got taxed. I'm like, all I gotta do is my little part and we're gonna win, you know what I'm saying. So it was

easy for me to like make it. It was easy for me. Is simplified once I got on the better teams play a role. Yeah, I mean You've spoke on it several times and just this brief stint. How mental being a picture is a lonely position, you know what I mean? So how exactly how how much are you in your head and telling your ship itself this and that and how do you kind of balance yourself? It's

all mental, it's all. It's all talking to yourself, right, all right, everything is talking to yourself while you out there. It's only you out there, standing out there people. You're out there by yourself. So everything about it is mental. But it's just onto the next no matter what happened, no matter what the result, home run, I'm part and called to strike. Whatever it is, just the next patch. So it's just about making sure I'm staying in my mechanics,

making sure that I execute the next patch. That's really that's all it's about. I don't think I don't see how y'all do it, because I don't think I'll be thinking about is that ball coming back? And now you know, the only time I think about getting hit with a line drive is when I'm not pitching, Like if I'm you know, sitting in my thoughts or you know, laying and down or whatever, I'm like, man, like, what if

I can hear with the line drive. Never think about that ship where you're out there, but like it gives you, you know, chills, and you think about it when you when you're off the field, where I can imagine you're getting hit with a line dry. Do you ever play baseball though? Yeah, but that's why I didn't play, because I was scared of the ball. They're making the ball come at your full speed and drop all that ship I'll be doing. Put me on the court where I

could drill and take my time with it. Did you play football too? I was receiving the safe. That was nice. I was nice for super nice. But when I got to high school, my mom a coach pulled me off the football field. You might not know what you're going to league? Yeah, and it was serious. You had to make a decision. They I was nice, but they knew they I didn't know I was going to the Bay. Then they saw it. I didn't, you know. I was still doing all kinds of ship football. If I playing

putball on the park, throw up to the talk. I'm doing all that while I'm playing basketball. That was kind of like Lebron. I feel like Lebron didn't know he was going to the league, Like what are you playing football in the tenth and eleven grade? He was good too, but I'm like, what did y'all doing? Like this is mother about to be the first pick and y'all got him.

And we test on this a few episodes ago and about how kids and we all grew up playing everything possible and being a kid and not lifting weights and eating right and having trainers at a young age. Like we touched on this, and you know, you have a son in high school and you told the offline that he was, you know, playing baseball and basketball and getting behind in this baseball, you know, getting behind him both because he kind of felt like other kids are playing

either one of those year round. Yeah, it's like pressure to pick one sport because the kids in your class are playing one sport and they're getting nice. Yeah you know what I'm saying. So when you catch up to that sport, you're like, funk, man, I'm behind it. But because you don't realize you've been playing another sport and it's gonna help you. So it's been that struggle back and forth with him right now, trying to figure out

what he wants to do. I think, I honestly think it's gonna be his last year playing, which I would I would love to see him continue playing six five, sixteen years old. You never know, you know what, you can shoot a little bit. He's slow as fun, but he can look. You know, he can move, he can dribble um. So but you never know, you know what I'm saying, what he can turn into. So slow kills,

slow kills. You're telling slow kills. So who are some of the people you leaned on your vets who leaned on you you feel like, whether it be a picture or another position that really kind of got your mental and kind of yeah, it's some Ellis Burke's was born. Yeah, um still to this day, like I can call Ellis right now and you know, um and Jeter. Jeter was

a big one. I like, anytime I got something going on, if you know, I feel something going on in the media, I need to say something to the team or something. I text get first like, Yo, this is what I'm thinking, blah blah blah. And he'll give me like a not an outline, but he'll be like, Yo, maybe you should say this. Maybe you shouldn't say this to the media.

Maybe you shouldn't go off on the umpire tonight. You know what I'm saying, Like different little ship, Like he'll give me, he'll kind of try to help him guide me. Sometimes it don't work sometimes to do right. I mean, what was it like playing with historical franchises, the Yankees, you know what I mean, and then playing with who you play with, you know, Hall of Famer is something of the greatest players that ever doing and doing it

as a Yankee. Man, it was crazy. Uh. I didn't realize what it what it meant to be a Yankee until I got here, being around Yogi Bear, being around Ryan Gidrey, being around Whitey Ford, Andy Pettit like, you want to be on those lists. You want to, you know, try to be a part of that history if you can. Um So, winning the championship here helpefully, I mean hopefully,

you know, puts me in some of those categories. But um yeah, I mean it's amazing to be able to to say I played for the Yankeest for eleven years, you know, one of the biggest sports franchises in the world, and win the championship here and play with you know, each row a ride, um g Andy, I mean, so many Hall of Famers, Yeah, it's been crazy. I look at some of the lineup cards like that I played with him, like it's been a blessing that it's crazy.

It's crazy. I mean we can kind of compare it to you know, in basketball being a Laker, you know what I mean, No matter what, it's just it's it's once you get there. Until you get there, you don't understand it. And then all the media that comes with it. I mean, you're in the biggest media market in the world.

You know, I played with the Lakers, second biggest media market, and you know, are off days how big you know, a couple of sentences can get thrown out of proportion and you beat the fucking bad guys, you know, as crazy as that. We're the news, right, you know what I'm saying, Like you drive the news. The Lakers drive the news. In the NBA, the Yankees drive the news.

So you can't even turn on Sports Center like I was used to, Like in the clubhouse with the Indians with the Brewers, we watched you know, sports and the ship all day. With the Yankees, We've never had that ship on because it's us, Like you know what I'm saying is about us, So that was the biggest thing I realized when I got here is that we drive the news, so you really can't watch all that ship because half of it is wrong anyway, you know what

I'm saying, Like it's crazy. How do you handle the outside distractions of what you know once you get to a certain level. All star, millions of dollars playing for the Yankees, all the noise off the field. Yeah, that was hard. I mean I still I struggled with that. I mean I ended up in rehab two fifteen. You know what I'm saying. I mean I struggled the whole year not drinking, drinking, not drinking. I mean, obviously I struggled rehab and you know everything my whole life, I mean,

drinking my whole life. Um ended up in rehabing fifteen. But fifteen just kind of like everything came to a head. I got into a big thing in Toronto where it was kind of like almost like a little riot um, you know, coming out of a club, and I just felt like it was time, you know what I'm saying, Like it was a crazy time in my life. My kids were getting older, you know, they were able enough

to like start reading on the internet. Some of the ship that was going on, and I just felt like it was a good time for me to kind of like reset hit you know, hit the reset button and kind of start over, you know what I'm saying. And but but at the same time, let everybody know I got this problem. You know, I'm here, this is me, and it kind of like free me up, you know what I'm saying, Like since then I've been It's weird, man,

It's like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. Like everybody knows you I'm alcohol Like it is what it is, you know what I'm saying, Like I'm not hiding no more. I'm not trying to sneak a drink here and there, Like I'm just I'm good. How did balancing that problem being a Yankee star and having a family, How did that dynamic? How did that affect your family? I think that was the biggest part of me going to rehab was what I what how it started to affect my family.

You know, my my my sixteen year old now at

the time, he was eleven when I went in. Yeah, I mean, you know, seeing Dad coming home, you know, tipsy A couple of nights after after, you know, road trips or whatever, you know, just different things that you know, my my nine year old Now he sees my white drinking glass of wine and he's like, oh you you're drinking again, Like he don't even couirel, Like he don't even know that that Like I'm an alcoholic, you know what I'm saying, Like it's the funny joke in the

house that like now mom gets ragged off of drinking, you know what I'm saying, And dad's alcoholic. But it's uh yeah, I mean it was. It was one of the better decisions I've ever made in my life. You want to rehab to that? Did you hit a dark point during that rehab? When I was in rehab was one of the best times. Man. Like you don't have no phone, you kind of cut off, but you you talk to the people who you need to talk to, your family, whoever you know, whoever is close to you.

But you just kind of at peace, trying to figure your ship out, you know what I'm saying, Always talk my why I'm like, man, I need to like another little stint, like let me just like just to read, just to get away from people, you know, saying, let me turn my phone off get away, like let me go to rehab for a week or whatever, just to get away. But now, I mean it was it was just you know, you just had peace at that time. For sure. It's always the people that you love most

to get you to change for the better. It's always, you know what I mean, regardless how you go through it, we all go through it at a certain point. But you know, even like when when my mom died, you know what I'm saying, he's a different person since his mom died. You know what I'm saying. It wasn't It was tough for him for a while, but the person he is now, I know she's looking down him and proud of him. And I'm just saying that to say the hardest part, you like, make you the best person,

no question of the struggle get to get there. I mean since we went back to oh seven, right there, Jack oh eight, you're fucking with us during the we believe run every single game, every game that's gonna have the height of my season ticket. He was flying back and form I was coming to playoff games and everything. To tell us what that meant to you being something from the bay. Yeah, because this ship, I mean, we still get so much love. I was just about to say,

y'all still huge. Y'all there, like y'all is a part of y'all always be a part of that fabric in the Bay, just because if y'all started the Warriors, you know what I'm saying, Like for us, that was the start of the Warriors franchise. All that ship before that didn't matter that. I mean, don't disrespect to run t MC. I love their dudes, but it's started to know seven flogs,

you know what I'm saying. Like, I mean, y'all for ever be out to you know what I'm saying like, And y'all was just so cool because everybody y'all be out. I mean you was from there obviously, but y'all be out in the club, you know, dinner, whatever. Like I mean, y'all was really a part of it. So everybody tell us that though Mr flab Legit, everybody tell us that we all was really worthy. It was really a part

of the couchable. We was out in the hood. We we didn't call ourselves the film or five, but they don't know. I mean, we was playing for the world. But if you from the Bay and know about that area where he's on the corners smoking and feel more. Why we NBA players like that ship don't happen? Does not? But you can only do that in the Bay, right, you know what I'm saying, Like you only get love like I feel like you only can get love like that. Yeah,

being who y'all was because it's so much jealousy. Yeah, I mean, but they was really fucking with us out there, and that fan base has always been so amazing from you know, whether the teams are winning or not, you still got amazing fans out there. Crazy And I was telling somebody, somebody's asked me, Um, the tickets price has always been high, like they was even back then, like First Side was like crazy. So they I mean the van, I mean they've always packed that place. I was always supported.

I wonder now like them going to Frisco, what it's gonna be like, you know what I'm saying there, I've been there, but they got they like I said this on the team that showed us love even though I didn't win the championship with him, they still it was not of support, but they got our pictures up in the New Arena. Yeah, yeah, that was love. I thought that was big, you know, and the people to make us a part of what the new ARENGA. I don't know.

I think it's gonna be different. I think I honestly, I think the ass it's a different to me, it's a different vibe now, you know. To me, now it's more l a business. I mean, that's all the tech business. That's you know, it's supposed to be like you took it from like the hoods backyard that was like people were off the freeway, everybody can get there, and then

you put it to like the billionaire's backyard. Yeah, you know what I mean, like where it's like harder to get there, and like all those people that's been working in the oracle, some people working there for some people got to go over there. You know. I was happy to see a handful of people. I'm not sure how many, but I saw a picture with some of them over there. But to me, you've priced the common fan out, you know, which is unfortunately you used to think it used to

be a vibe. And then the club down below when my mom rested pieces back there taking shots posses out on the balcony, when people a smoke, the serious my dad's smoking joints. Some people smoking weed in the arena. Like that's what Oracle was. So tell me about your Raiders, man, And I know you're a big Raider fan. Yeah, that's all I can say. Yeah, what about the A B situation? I mean, I was really looking as a fan of

football is my first love. I'm not a fan with Chucky though, with your coach group, I funk with think about the moves he's made and what what if you what's going on from the moves? I mean, what you think talking to me? I mean, you know you also doing somebody like somebody like Chucky. Don't want to get like kicked out of my season ticket. But I like Josh Jacobs, I like Waller. I think we got some pieces to Bill going to going towards Vegas, but we might need the quarterback. Um. I knew A B was

gonna be a problem when he was in Pittsburgh. Obviously they got the organization to kind of contain that kind of personnality in Oakland. I knew we didn't you know what I'm saying. I knew we just wanted the talent and not really control. Yeah, I mean, what did you I mean as a professional athlete from there, that's your favorite team. But as a professional athlete or world, what did you think about the way a be maneuver than that? Because me and him kind of had different views on it.

I was well as a fan of the team, I was happy because he was off the squad, you know what I'm saying. So, I mean I didn't care how you maneuvered out of it. Um as an athlete. I mean, as an athlete, I feel like I want guys to have more freedom. So the way guys are saying in the NBA, fucking trade me or as I ain't playing, I want I love that. So I mean, you know, however, you got to get out of the situation you don't want to be in. Yeah, do it. I mean I

wish I had the balls to do that. Ship in two thousand five when I was in Cleveland, Fuck you trade. You know what I'm saying. Like we was trash and it wasn't fun. It was just a bad situation. But you know, you just kind of that's just not the error we were from. You know, that's just you know, basketball is different and sports different now. So um, but I'm not mad at you know, it is what it is. I love it's like that he would he was trying to speak and and and determine where he wanted to play,

you know, and know his worth. You know what I'm saying. That's cool, But he was acting like a diva by the way he was going by doing it, you know what I mean. Then, not only was he being a diva, now you've got people that has nothing to do with him or his or his football success coming out with message trying to just throw more stuff on, trying to destroy him. That's what I'm saying. And I felt like he gave them the ammunition to do that, you know

what I'm saying. And if you if you're just worried about his career and han't did the right way with I was going into the media probably set it was just a conversation successful in Oakland because Carl won't gonna never be able to give him the ball the way he wanted the ball, So he was gonna it was gonna be disbody by now he would have been like all phone grouping. It's not that he wouldn't have been able to get Antonio Brown the ball the way he

wanted the ball. Roethlisberger is one of the greatest. Yeah, no question and getting the ball, you know what I'm saying, Like, I don't feel like I don't feel like Carl would have took Hi up to answers downfield, almost like with Baker what you're seeing with Baker and the same. But but a b it gonna be like he's gonna get on the program and be like that's my guy. But he's gonna get up what the fund is doing exactly. We was booming last so it was gonna come to

that point, you know eventually. Yeah, see, I think him going with Brady though, would have been a great move. I think, you know, when you go into certain situations like the Spurs, like the Patriots, like the Yankees, like the Lakers, like the Warriors, like you know how to and I never a superstar, but no matter what your ego may have been, like, you come into an organization and can expect excellence and you mature or you fit in, you don't try to stand out. And I think that

would have been a perfect situation for him. When you go into those locker rooms. No matter how much a leader you are, different you are you looked to kind of the lead to kind of be lad a little bit, you know what I'm saying, because you know that they do ship the right way. You know, you watch these franchisees win championships, so certain locker rooms you walk into, you leave your checking ship at the door, even if you don't want to do because you want to win.

And that's what we all want to do. So you know what I'm saying, It makes you check your ship when you go to these these prestigious franchises. I guess for guys that want to win, though I think everybody want to win at the end of the like when you get there and you see what it is you want to win. I've been, I've been on chance. Guys did give a fuck? What day is it? A bro? That's the worst. I can't remember. We had two at times. I couldn't do that. Tell me what it was like.

Now you're going from Major League Hall of Fame picture playing with little BBSPN, but you're talking football now. Tell me about how dope is that. I thought that when I see I was like, yeah, because I want to do that. When I first came out and I went through some ship and never got back on. But you here talking football on a real level. You know what's fun.

What's crazy is that is fun is obviously I don't watch baseball like I mean, I watch it when it's live and I'm there and I watched the Yankees, but I can't tell you about Gary Cole really like only watching. But I can tell you about path my home because I watch. I can tell you about Teddy Bridgewater and whoever else because I watched football, like I really really

watched it. Like Game seven, I was going, like the next morning, I was going to the ESPN U to you know, do the analyst thing and they were gonna ask me about the World Series. But it was the words is playing and that was a nice step brokeer's hand. So like I was watching the game, you know what I'm saying. I wanted to see the updates and ship like, I mean, they were getting blown out by Phoenix that night, but it was Game seven, and everybody's like, Hi, are

you not watching baseball? Sucking the Warriors playing right now? Watching from you talked about the Warriors. I mean they had a hell of a run of dynasty. They built the dynasty up in a five year span. Three championships should have been four. Um, tell me what it was like to be a fan. First of all, for their success. They took the next step, well you know they took

we believe to another step. Um, But tell me what that whole run was like to see it start being the middle of it and then in the way it did and then end with Katie leaving and with Steph breaking his hand, like it was dope to be there with you guys, like we believe in all that stuff, being like be a fan of being part of that, and then kind of watched them take the next step.

When they took the next step, it was still unbelievable, like they're about to win, like with shooters, you know what I'm saying, Like I didn't if never before, still couldn't believe it, like and just watching them like it was unbelievable to watch what they did and still amazing, like the game and it was and it was the Warriors too, Like I think the Warriors like win the championship, Like it was crazy, man to watch them win three out of five, and it's it's fun. I mean, it's

awesome as a fan, like the dynasty ended. But I mean I'm not mad, you know what I'm saying people, people get mad and frustrating all that. But but bro, like we're from where the Warriors came from when y'all took me to and with the guys excelled it to like, you cannot be mad if you're from the Bay At watching that franchise what they did, you know what I'm saying, So it was good. I mean it's funny. And I still think they one player away, you know what I'm saying,

Clay come back, Steph get healthy next year. You put Dremond back in the road and he needs to be in and you you know, you flipp D'Angelo, they still might be one player away from being right back. Not mad at that? Do you well, what team with basketball team do you support out here? Brooklyn? Okay, yeah, Brooklyn, Okay, it's uh, it's just it's fun. The energy and there you see the paper plane, you know what time it is. So so now the team you support, got k D,

got Kyrie, DeAndre Jordan, a good young team. I think I compare them to the Clippers in the West because I think they had a core of guys last year without a superstar. They really bought in. They did and you know they made the players, did you know? They did their things and now you add some superstars. Some comes with a little baggage. Um you think that, you think that hurts a guy like what's the what's the center? Uh? With the fro he was bawling. Alan showing up, Jared Allen,

Jared Thin showing up from last year. It hurts his development, or like Carris Levert's development because they you know, kind of Leverche kind of like standing around just like spot up shooting that where he was like playmaker turning into him. He was Almos turned into like an Oladipo type for me, where he could, you know, get buckets and score from all over the floor and he really kind of standing around.

He's inside of six man, he's inside. I think he's a great He's gonna be a great six man score for them because with Kyrie and Katie they have enough scoring. They're gonna need those young him and done with it. They don't need them to come off the bench and create some scoring and some energy off the bench for that team. And that's gonna take them over the hull. You gotta have guys like Katie and Kyrie to finished

games in the playoffs, especially in the fourth quarter. But you need these young guys to sustain it through the regular season. But I love I love Kyrie, but I look at like Jayson Tatum and like what he kind of stepped back, But like looking at him now, he started this growth and he is unreal. That's how he came into the league that first year, remember kids, and then back, but then he took a step back, you

know what I'm saying. But now he's back to where you know, he's kind of freak because he ain't got Kyrie there, and now he's you know, It's it's interesting to me because I was a role player. I knew my role. It was never an issue going places and playing. But obviously, like when I got to play with someone like Kobe or you go to the Warriors, or you know, playing with Chris and Blake, you kind of have to

find your rhythm and find your role. So I think early on all these teams, like these the players you mentioned, it's kind of still a filing out process, you know what I mean, because you know what I mean. As a team, how important chemistry is, and it takes time to build chemistry. And when you're adding such a dynamic player such as Kyrie and then you know Jared Allen and now you're sharing minutes with DeAndre Jordan's you know

what I mean when you know. So, it's just it's a process that takes time, and I think they'll figure out. But that the tough part is is once you figured out this year, you gotta figure out again next because that's a whole different thing, right, you know. But I think they definitely have it if chemistry and people stay healthy.

You know, by the time Katie is ready to be KD, they have a just as good a chance to get out the East to anybody, any of else, to me watching Kyrie up close and knowing what Katie is, if Katie comes back to what he is, they might be one of the best teams. Ain't know, Mike too it because they got a legit center so they can. Yeah, I mean, and that that young kid is nice. Jared Island is that his last name? Jared? It's nice. He had a good game night last night. What you too?

I feel like we would kind of like JR a little bit. Yeah, where he can like he's a wild card. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. And they got their solid Man, the NBA is you know, we're a handful of weeks in the NBA and there's still you know, there's still a few questions. You know, obviously the Warriors dynasty is over. Who do you like in the West? Man? I like the Clippers. I think they got the best team just because of from what they did last year. Um. I

like that. I like the fact that Kauai went there kind of opens up the NBA a little bit, you know what I'm saying. Fair And so I think Dame I want to see Dame win. Bro Well, I just want to see him play deep into the playoffs and I do too, and just hit some big shots. So I think it would be fun, you know what I'm saying that. Do you think about the Lakers? Obviously they're gonna be good. I think Danny Green will be huge

for them. I think Danny Green will be Jack had a game one game we was watching that ship over was the first game of the season. Well, yeah, it was open the night, right and it was over at Viola getting right watching the game, and he just didn't he was off Danny Green for the night. But Danny Green killed him. Just like Bro, He's a veteran he's been and they lost Nyaks going exactly what he ain't

he ain't got. Yeah, but I'm saying Approven knocked down shot having proving that, Yeah, I'll take Danny Green over a lot of guys. Yeah, I put a bed in for a D to win the m VT. Well, to me, if a D wins m VP, that makes me feel like the Lakers have the best shot to advance in the playoffs because that means a D carried him over to the Georgia season and Brown got to save Lebron could be Lebron in spots. I'm a Laker fan and

just thinking mentality and a big picture. If you see Superstar Lebron all season, they're probably gonna run out of gas. But I feel like Lebron said all the right shot on media Day right, like he was gonna play the offense a D all that stuff. But the first couple of weeks we've been seeing Superstar ar Brant, he first approved that after forty ten and ten he's not playing hard. You got a lot of it's easy for him. He don't have to work. I mean, but all I'm saying,

I'm not mad at him, but hold on. So he got to me at the beginning, he was going through a D to see what we had. And then people started talking about he lost the step and all this, and so can you that's that media market in l A. You know, can you take a here's what it is, and you take that step back and say, funk what they're talking about. I'm still gonna mind. I have a plan here. I'm gonna ride a DS motherfucking all season. That's the only way, and then I'm gonna give you

my ship in the playoff. That's the only way to gonna win. And everybody like you let him forget in the regulary, who gives a funk, But it's get it, get that. If he shows up scoring forty ten and ten, anybody's gonna say ship. If he don't, if he if he lets a D win the m v P, let's the offense go through him. And then he shows up in the playoffs Lebron Yeah, and nobody gonna do because

they're gonna win. I just feel like he just that talented and that much better than everybody in the league, that he can average forty without even breaking the sweat dog. But it's but he got to be able to do the game, but not. I think he can. Man, he make it look so easy. Maybe maybe I just think he's better than what he is. You know, he can good,

He's that good. But this is the same grap I used to watch him in high school and I'd be like, just scoring fifty points and he's just a basketball player the right way. But even in high school, I'd be like, yo, take the game in Cleveland. Was in Cleveland. So I've been watching he's a freshman, but he just plays basketball the right way. He's always gonna pass to the right, you know what I'm saying, Like he's he's gonna play it the right way. So maybe that's just me wishing

I was Lebron. I had Lebron, everybody just go out there average, you know what I mean. I haveage fifteen by myself. I had Lebron, I would average fifty. But I don't know, maybe you'd be out there burning tooif loaded loaded. Now, I think he gotta let a d win m v P turn into Lebron in the playoffs and they win, because he's gonna need that, because that's the best. What do you think about Houston? I don't know. Yet they don't play no defense. I like the fact

that the coach don't even came spell defense. Who's their coach? Dann Phony get more jobs than anybody, anybody, that's every sport though they got one guy like that. You got one guy like that, Like he ain't want nothing but keep getting jobs, keeping coaches like that too, Baseball to keep getting jobs. I like the fact that they closed Westbrook and Harden. I think that's going to help if

they have a chance to make it work. It's because of that, yes, because everybody the first game, everybody was making a big deal them arguing on the court, and I was like, no, that's that's homeboy, perfect, it's home boys because it's game one and they're already in it. Like that's like they are they gonna They're gonna figure it out and they're gonna figure this out. But they just gotta figure out to play defense. The way you play is different when you're playing with your own boy.

You know, you care more, you give more, you know, and you can always be like, yo, what the fund is you doing? Yeah? You know what really is? Yeah? And ain't taking his hate either, Yeah. He like in the East Man, I like Boston. I like Boston. I like, uh, Tatum is tough, trying to tell people to me, he and I like him. I like him, but I like Tatum um u. That's my I like Boston a lot, but I still like the Seven Sex or two and Bi. But obviously they ain't got nothing. Boston ain't got nothing

this inside and paint. Yeah, but they're gonna do there. They did with Philly when they did with Philly A little too big boys, Philly, I mean to me is it's it's Philly's East. I like Milwauke. You can never overlook Milwaukee. But I just Philly's tough. Yeah, you know, Philly's real bigger than Philly. Though they got they got the two Lopez brothers now and they got You can't play both of them though, Why you can't the ones the shoot you can't play. Yeah, but you can't play

both of the same man. They're so slow and the pig Come on, man, I've been on the Lopez twins since, like their brother played a You with me, so they used to be twins. A little au ship like underneath the bleachers, always getting into some ship, like stealing purses, like doing uneath the bleachers, and all of a sudden one day, these motherfuckers are seven feet tall, bigger than me. Going to Standford. I'm like, yo, those are little homes.

He used to be underneath the stands, stealing persons from Like, no, they're from our team was based on the spreads. No, but I'm not sure where, uh where they were from from. They're different from Callie. Good dudes, real good dudes. Happy the way their career ended. Let's let's jump back into baseball. I mean to me, it always seems like and I don't think it happened to you because you're still doing so much stuff. You're gonna be doing so much stuff.

But stars in baseball kind of get lost in the mixed post post post career because they're not as vigilant on social media. Like, what do your thought about that? No, I mean that's just the nature of baseball players. I think the nature of baseball in general is to kind of be private. You know what I'm saying. You have to be humble. The game is hard to play, you

know what I'm saying. If you succeed three out of ten times out of hit, or you're a Hall of Famer, you know what, I'm saying, So it's hard to play. So in your nature, I think as a baseball player is to be humble and kind of reserve. So yeah, it's no big social media presidents, you know what I'm saying. Like, I'm not I don't even have Twitter on my phone, you know what I'm saying. So, um, yeah, I mean I just think that's just kind of the nature of

the guys. And a lot of the guys don't even want to be They don't care about it, they don't even want to be on TV or you know, any of that stuff. So it's kind of the guys that you see in baseball that that do it are the guys that want to How do you do you feel that them being not as present, uh on the social platforms hurts baseball? Yeah, I think it definitely hurts the sport. And I think, um, I mean, you know, I mean, it's it's it's a big problem. Obviously, a lot of

kids are not playing. We can't get you know, a lot of viewership. Um, you know, it's even hard for me. It's hard for me to watch the ship, you know, if I don't have anybody in it. You know, it was just saying talking about Mike Trout, you know, him

being out in public. You know, he would much rather not recognized, not recognize him, you know what I'm saying, to not be noticed, And he's the biggest player in the game, you know what I'm saying, Aaron Judge, you're gonna notice in six pounds even still he still don't you know, he's still you know, I don't want to be, you know, out there like that. So I just think it's you know, just just the nature of baseball makes it hard for us to be on social media every

day with you know, being flash hard. You know what I'm saying, You know, you're gonna fail a lot. What are your thoughts about people like Mike Trout and and some of these other players signing these long term deals and then like a situation like with Bryce Harper where he decides not to take the money and go somewhere else and then you know, his his former team. Yeah. No,

I mean I think it's good. The baseball teams are making so much money, Like it's crazy, Uh, the amount of money that's in the game and the amount of money that's out there for these for guys to make I think it's dope. I think I think, you know, I would want it. Might try to make fifty million a year. I want Mookie Best to make sixty million. You know what I'm saying, Like, Uh, these guys deserve

it to me, you know what I'm saying. So I think it's great that these guys are signing these huge deals. And I think it's good that these guys are signing nineteen year deals with one team. You'll you'll get back to seeing franchise players. You'll get back to seeing the Derrek Jeter play with one friend, you know what I'm saying, the you know that one guy that played with that one franchise at their whole because that's lost in sports now,

that's lost. But then on the flip side, it's differently for being a purist and fear from back in the day, like that's what we like. But then at the same time, the excitement of moving parts now with superstars is what makes the NBA are starting to rise so much. That's true, you know. So it's it kind of goes both ways. I mean, I just thought it was crazy that, you know, Washington loses Bryce Harper the playing wild card and they

win a championship man. Sometimes when you lose that one super that one superstar was, it's all like most of the time, it's all about them. It kind of like it's just them and then as y'all. So then when he left, it didn't matter. It was just us, you know what I'm saying. So now it's just as anyway. Huh So it just kind of makes it better a little bit. When it's that that one guy is that big, you can rally around just your group, you know what I'm saying. I think that's kind of what they did.

And I was able to free up some money not giving million. I saw how many people they signed with the money they were gonna give him. Yeah, and I mean not for nothing. Bryce Harper had. You know, he's won the m v P, but ever since then, he hasn't really been what people expecting to be. Mike Trout is what Bryce Harper gets the attention that Mike Trout she did, and Mike trust the player, you know what I'm saying. So effective coming from someone that you know,

it's in that space. Yeah, I mean, you know, it just kind of is what it is, and it was it was cool to see them, dude, you know, I'm friends with Scherzer, so it was good to see him, you know, kind of come back and win game seven. Um, now that was that was that was fun to see and to see you know, Michael Taylor, Juan Soto, all the young dudes, m Howie, Kendrick he Man, and there's so many, so few African Americans playing the games. You

can see him kind of doing things. I mean, it's uh, he was huge for them, being someone that played multiple sport. I kind of saw you brought your swag to baseball, which you hat the way you wore your hat eventually coming out and motherfucking playing in Jordan's you know, tell me, tell me what you think about you know what you brought to the game. I just tried to bring. I guess the crest for Lao. You know what I'm saying, like myself, um, just my authentic self whatever to the game.

I mean it was hard. A lot of people hated me at the first I'm saying with my hat and you know, baseball's kind of a conservative game. You know, was grabbing my hand, you know what I'm saying, I get the third out, I get the ball in my hand, like they didn't like that ship. There was a lot of ship that people didn't like about me when I first came up. So, um, I had to play good. I had to pitch, I had to I had to perform to be able to do what I wanted to bring.

You know what I'm saying. So you know it ended up working out. What do you mean get your hand? What do you mean by that? So like if if I get the third out, they throw it to the third baseman, like I was just grabbing with my hands, just kind of a thing I started doing in high school. And we had an old third basically named Travis Freeman. He was old school. Um, he didn't like that ship.

He hated it. So the whole first half of the season he would throw that ship hard, like like most of the guys like when I was in my leagues, you know, grab it. He thought that ship hard. I'm just grabbing my hand, fuck it and get right back in the ma what I'm saying. So, like, I had one good game against Detroit and halfway through the game he stopped doing that ship and and it just kind of kind of left me alone. It's that too many African American is in baseball. Why do you think that

is it's hard. It's it's it's uh one of those sports where it's expensive to play, um till at an early age with the travel ball, it's expensive to play. You know, you need gear. Um I think, um in high school, you know, I mean in college, you can't get a full scholarship to play baseball. Really, so the most you can, you know that the most they give guys is you know, so us growing up, you know,

we played football and baseball. So you played football and baseball, and you got a scholarship to go to U c. L A To play football and cow to play baseball, and it's fifty baseball, Like you gotta take the football. It's not even a you know what I'm say, it's not even the option coming from where we came from. So that eliminates us, like you know what I'm saying, like eliminates us from college baseball right there. Um, so

that's that's a huge problem. I think. Um, you know, I think baseball is one of those sports where you know, like my dad was taking me out, you know what I'm saying every day, and I think, you know, the last you know, this last generation. I guess I feel like a lot of the dad has been incarcerated. You know what I'm saying. In baseball is one in the

sports where your dad's gotta teach you that sport. And it's been hard in the hood to have fathers around old enough to like baseball and to teach their kids that, you know what I'm saying. So it's a lot of different contributing factors, but it's a big gas problem in the game. I think basketball stone Some of that too, is the hype of basketball. The hype of basketball, like you said, the moving parts of superstars moving everybody is

they're very visible, you know what I'm saying. We're buying Kyrie shoes, We're buying Jordan's, We're buying Kobe's and Katie's. Um it's way more appealing and and basketball players are more like us, you know what I'm saying. I mean, we can see ourselves out there on that we can see ourselves and we don't really see ourselves. But when I was growing up, you saw yourself Ricky Henderson moment, you know what I'm saying, Like that was me. I saw myself out there. Kids in the hood can't see

themselves on the baseball field. No more. You know what I'm saying, too bad because I loved it, Because I mean I loved I played it through high school. I still play traveling softball. Like I really loved baseball, and I put the twins. I think I put the twins in the two really because they excelled in football and basketball, and then they could hit baseball, but no one else

could hit so the game was too slow. So then that defense sucks and I'm like there four or five and they cry and we have to go to practice and don't want them just like I'm not gonna make my kids do anything when it comes to sports. So you know, I kind of had to pull away, and I was hurt, But I got a eleven month old. He's gonna play baseball. Ashton is gonna play baseball, and by the time he's only going to get one of these five hundred million dollar contracts. Tell me about your

Jordan collections. I heard it's insane. Yeah, I got a lot of James. But I've been need to go shopping in this close now I don't even I'm not even I like like the kickids, like through I need some air maxim Runners. And now I've been with I signed with Jordan's and oh seven, So I mean you know that's the same year I signed them boxes seven. When did your boxes stop coming? Jack said stop my box to stop coming in fourteen? So if m J sees this right now, what would you say to MJ about

your boxes? MJ? I remember him taking back and gave me my deal right on the sideline when I signed with the Bob Cats, and unfortunately somebody was working that was not working for your company now took my deal. Ain't number of the conversations. I need the boxes, bad man. And if you don't get this message, gonna get it. If you do get this, man, you're watching this police keeps into my back. I just need your boxes even don't understand you understanding, bro, I never got the boxes

like y'all got. But but but growing up not being able to force ship to just having boxes of Jordans delivered of all shows like Live It to your house. I had my first pair of Jordans. I was seventeen years old, you know what I'm saying. Like I was senior in high school. You know, my mom busted her ass, like went to them all like showed up at my game. We played hoping for She showed up at the game with Jordans and like I cried, you know what I'm saying,

Like I'll never get that. So I wore him to school, played in the game with him, him to the party. So dope, okay, in the same path on everything, I got something to give away to people. Think you know, it's like it was. It was a blessing somebody. I need the boxes back, man, I need them that But anyway back back to your collection, Yeah, no, I mean I got a lot. It's crazy. I give a lot of them away. Though. I got three cousins that wear fifteens perfect and uh in Valleo, so they get all

the boxes. I know they stayed fresh. Yeah. But one of my little cousins though he lived out here for like five years, the lot, he just moved back so he would get the boxes. I had to get the jordan A to see like what shoes is though, because you know my old as, I'm like, you just take them. You know what I'm saying. This Nick was taking all the giving you the team keeping there like oh this is this is I'm like, yeah, I gotta be I gotta beat you to the mill box to get it's crazy.

You better. Uh, it's fun though, It's it's cool to be a part of it. It's fun to be a part of brand. Yeah, that's dope. So being from the West Coast and we definitely have a certain type of music and swagging and flare. And then you're kind of a New Yorker now you know you've been out here for ten plus years? Yeah years, you know, so what is what's your media game like? Right now? Man? Right now? I was just driving in right now, I was listening

to the Blueprint to um New Yorker due to you. Yeah, it's crazy, but I still got like, you know, I still got my old Valeo forever, high feet, always veteran now so that I always be like, that's always That's just a part of me, you know what I'm saying. Um, And then I'm a big I've always been a big Hole fan. But right now like new music, the baby, um with the baby. Um. We just who's your top five rappers all time? Mac Dre is number one for me for sure, Pop Snoop, Hole and Biggie. It's just

my top five. It's your top five, Yeah, Scarface, Park, jay Z, Biggie, bumby. He went on something craziest fun big nice. Scar Face DM me the other day asking when we gonna play golf? That ship blew my fucking man, brother mob right now, yeah, families said, he said, Matt, we're gonna get out there and play golf. I said, who the fund is this? And he's running for something? Yeah, congressmen right now, Congressman, that's dope, shout out and Scarface.

My top five would be part Snoop, j Biggie Nipsey. I knew it. I knew it was yeah, because I get stuck. Jack knows I'd be getting stuck on ships ever since he knew me. Was all pop. And then my brother put me on Nip in like two thousand nine, two thousand ten, and it was little cousin put me nip with Matt. But I didn't listen to jay Z until I got to the minor ladies to college because we didn't like we wasn't really bumping ja on the

West Coast. We had like only listen to Max Drake, you know what I'm saying, like best from my neighborhood and listening as you listen to. So I didn't listen to to to jay Z until I had a roommate in the minor leagues that was a big jay Z fan and that's all he played one summer, So then I kind of got on it, like nine eight, same thing. I didn't start listening to jay Z until I was at U c l A with teammates who were from

other places, you know what I mean. Like it wasn't we listened to West Coast music, you know what I means. So you know what's crazy people always make Like back then, people always made fun of the forty. Now they come on, they get his respect now that not not your but like like I we should listening to the fort you know what I'm saying. That was like it did back in the day. Now it's like they gotta respect him for him. The other day at the name drop moment

at Gabby Union's birthday party. Yeah, seeing them short and her little cousin sweety. But forty is a fucking legend, legend, big Tine Warrior fan hero. He rocked with us the whole He's been rocking with the words he's not with forty two. In Texas, we had a DJ and DJ screw recipe and he used to slow the music down, but Cibo uh spice one all that, and that's what we learned about jay Z too, because he's just music from everywhere. Yeah, so we have m c a all that.

He used to screw all that music. Yeah. We were just on the West Coast ship like me and I was in high school. I was listening. The only outside person I was really listening to was Masterpeek, Masterpeek. The only maleside person I was listening to was Biggie. Always

gravit my fat as, always gravitating towards rapper. Yeah, so I like heavy d Biggie, you know what I'm saying, Like, yeah, mcmaul, Yeah, yeah, of course I was like Cebo brother lynch All the Bay Area ship, Snoop spice Mall had a classic album, his first album, Selly Sell Sell Sell. You need to get right, They get right, they get right. Yeah. What's up? What's your favorite restaurant out here? Favorite Carbone Carbone? Hit that money to go straight back to our little spot,

real quick and congregated. Yeah, I think we should. Any hobbies or anything you're looking forward to getting into now in any of the retired life. I want to get better at golfing, Yeah, my daughters held up. Let's do it. I'm playing. I'm a big I love fishing, Okay, I go fishing all over all over the place. I love fishing. Um drive, that's gonna drive yall, Candy watch you'll play smoke with y'all, wife, I don't want to play. Shout out a whiz pack. They got the dopest you see that,

you get cold. Shout out, that's the best golf back in the game. Yeah, shout out Mike Evans and bro send me's got a speaker on it. Yeah, DJ for y'all, Yeah, DJ, whatever, But I'm not paying. What kind of I got? I got plus one plus plus one and a half. So I got oh that's my uh from my Adidas that used to be titlists. I got those. But I need to actually need to get refitted. I've just seen Cobra just came out with a new said, I think I'm gonna try to get on that. But how long are

you gonna be down with your show? I think until having on and I think, what are they doing here? What are they doing to you? I think they're gonna repair the whole thing, uh, just so I can be able to throw because you know, I got the Boys and the night and your own be able to throw BP, be able to throw BP to the boys at Yankee Stadium if I had to, you know what I'm saying. Um, so they got to repair at all bad practice. Yeah, and then next time, you never the celebrity game, you

gotta have me and Jack comet. I'm gonna do it. I want to do it in the summertime next year. Like on the weekend, I pulled up and just watched. I know that happened to be in Townpa's the mother Ship and they said CC. I was like, damn, let's go back next year. Even if y'all like do the pot from there. I know what I'm saying, Like, I want to do a live pot. I want to play in pot. Yeah. Tell me about your foundation and with what you and your wife do and the kind of

stuff you got to do in the community. Yes, the picture of me and Nember started two thousand and eight. Um, we just try to help kids in the hood. Um through sports and education. Uh. I grew up in a Boys and Girls club and I try to, like, you know, help those type type of tools. Partner up with the boys and Girls club, here. We do feel renovations. I'm actually doing two now. I'm doing one in Vallet, I'm doing and I'm doing one in the Bronx. Right now,

what do you guys do? Redo the whole part? Um, come in and make it like a big league feel, you know, like you just want to play on something nice man like, like the wolfball, like the pro. So we do that on both coats. We've been doing that. We do backpack giveaways here and in vallel um and you d a marathon to right? My wife. My wife has a running team. She has a bunch of people that runs a marathon. I'm not never running. That's not your game, huh. I can't run from to the door.

Him and his wife a great parents because my daughter used to living and his daughters and my daughter were real close, you know when they've lived there. So yeah, I have some great prank and your daughters, sweet and sweet girl, tell me, tell me how amazing fatherhood is for you. It's been fun, man, it's been Uh, it's been good. You know. I lost my dad in two thirteen. We was real close. I was twenty three years old

the same year my son was born. Um, so it's been fun to kind of like grow up and kind of turned into him. I see myself a lot of this ship. I say to my son, I'd be like, damn, my dad, you know what I'm saying. So it's fun to be a dad man. It's it's it takes. It makes sports like easy, you know what I'm saying. Like I come home after a game. They don't care if I threw a no hitter or gave up seven runs, like dad's home, time to play, you know, funk everything else.

So that kind of like, because I'm super intense when it comes to like sports, so that kind of took it kind of took took my edge off a little bit. So it helped me out a lot. And they they I've been to to his daughter's birthday party before they go all out on are they parties? Are I just you know, she's super fessive. I just live there. I don't be knowing ship. We had a whole uh, we had a whole ready uh renewal last year and that, but I didn't know ship. I was walking in like

this ship is amazing. I was just as amazing to guests like to show up. Man, it's fun. It's all right, you gotta do. Have you have your wife, have you life? All right? Man, that's a wrap, my man. Ccuh man. We came out to your city. Man. We appreciate your time. Thank you for working with us. I appreciate you always. Thank you. New York has been a blast. All the smoke episode for finding on Showtime, Basketball, YouTube channel and all platforms streaming pot How many of them? All of

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