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Welcome to the Calm Down Podcast. We are raring to go these days.
I had a pumpkin coffee. Yes, I did also have a diet coke. Anyone want to mix in a water water water?
Hey? Week five, hanh, Let's do a little recap.
You had a home game cost you and not from a plane ride because all you did Gal was just work seven shows, drive to Sofi, drive back home.
Here we go.
Week started. You had the Rams and the Eagles now home game. Please describe the difference for everyone that is not familiar. Is this better? Is this worse?
Has it change your prep? All the things?
Home games are tougher? Why because pros and cons. Pro don't get on a plane, don't have to pack. Con don't have the time by yourself in the meeting room or on the four hour flight to get somewhere, to really get your last minute grind, study all the things on. Kind of got to balance it out in your house. Con when you pack to go on a trip, all your shits there. When you're at home, all your shits everywhere?
Every week? Where the fuck is this, I don't know, so that's true.
Pro you get to go right home with your hobby and get your Jammy's and order a big fat burger and watch forty nine Ers Dallas.
But yeah, so.
It's good with the baby in your lap as I FaceTime you, and he was so well behaved. He was just sitting and Mac was just sitting in Aaron's lap like not making a sound. I was like, this child is perfect and look like a Gurber baby.
In Jammy, but a cool thing that I am so grateful.
And we talk, you know, we always him and Hob about how you know, are how difficult sometimes our job is and how competitive it is. This is also where it's great. And Fox is very, very wonderful. When we are home. They do utilize us in the studio. On Sunday, Greg and I get to come in. We did that last year. I was sick as a dog last year. This year, I was excited. I got to have anything, and so we got to come in and even Friday night Fox postseason baseball has started up, and my play
by play announcer, Kevin Burkhard is doing double duty. So Fox was cool enough, which is incredible. Yeah, he's the that is so him and Joe Davis like when they both do football and baseball. And that's how I feel about Kirk kurb Street when he's doing college football and the NFL. Like this skill set and the amount of knowledge in the brain to be able to do that.
I digress, go ahead, shout out.
Oh, I can't even focus right now and I'm not even doing the double duty that keV is doing.
So Friday night was really cool.
Our bosses had us get together for a big dinner with Major League Baseball and with our football crew.
And it was a time.
I mean, anytime you can get Greg Olsen, Derek Jeter, big poppy hot a Rod was there. It was just awesome and I got to sit next to those two. I brought my husband, which I thought was so thoughtful, and there were just times and I called you afterwards. It's just that's royalty, baseball, sports royalty, and it's just so special. Can I tell you something, This was a really cool moment. We watched the Jeter doc. Have you watched it?
I haven't, admitting me, I've only seen clips of it. I need to watch it.
Yeah, now that you guys do not love him even more, exactly, couldn't be a nicer person.
Yeah, ridiculous, Like he left.
Our dinner and Gregg and my husband were just breaking it down like what a normal dude. But he's not right, like he's the captain so but he's just normal and he's royalty. So anyways, Jarrett I had said to Derek, I said, we love your doc. My husband works with a bunch of young kids in the NHL now and was writing down so many of your sayings. And he just said and I was like, oh, why do you
have to ask such a basic question. But he's like, hey, Derek, besides yan Key Stadium, where was your favorite place to play?
I like that, where do you I think? He said?
He can't say Fenway, he can't say Boston, Seattle.
M M no, where Anaheim? You want to know why? Why grass? Anaheim?
No? I know we were both we were like, Wow, that's nondescript. Like the reason I said Seattle's because I'm from there. But that's like a beautiful backdrop, like it's right on the water. My next one was going to Beriggly. Okay, so Anaheim because the grass was good. Grass was always fantastic.
Think about it, and I thought about it. It was like Pasadena and the Rose Bowl, like said, that's some of the best grass in college football, and he said the weather was always perfect, and he was like it was just such.
A nice like you know, change venue. It was cool to hear that. Yeah, I mean, go angels.
That would be the only redeeming thing about that stadium because I no offense, but like Anaheim's kind of like, eh, you're not on the water, No you're.
Not, Like, but that's where we thought it was, sotadium. Yeah, very cool.
So so Jarrett, you apologize and said that was a great question. Yeah, that was great. And then I kept being like my breath smelt is my brasth smeuth because I felt so bad because we were having dumplings. And then I tried some sauce that was super spicy and I was like, whoa, that was really hot, and I looked over at Derek and I go, and that's why your eyes are gonna water because my breath is so
bad right now, like I did you know? Well, we were also at upfronts with him, and I'm sure you said that same line there because asked shear, you're repeating the lines not to be confused with here's a breath mint.
Hey, here's a question for you.
When someone offers you a breath mint, do you immediately think it's because I have bad breath? Or do you like? Okay, I feel terrible about my side. Yep, I know I have a real thing about that. And then Dominique, sweet Dominique, who does my makeup, said to me the other day, would you ever tell me if I had bad breath? I said, I would offer you a mint, and I would offer myself one too, because I have two things in life, like bad breath or like just body odor,
like or any of those things. That one I'm not as because like that happens. In fact, Sweet Jacob Balman, I was blowing my nose the other day. I got to stop black in my nose. I'm waxing my nose and just running. It's because there's nothing there to stop it. So I wiped my nose, and Sweet Jacob, one of our seventeen bosses, was like, go like this on your nose, and I was like, oh, I mean, I don't care about that, but bad breath and body odor, well I'm
not going to have. I not want that breath. Maybe no booger Another thing. I get so embarrassed because my looke, how do you feel about the wood word booger?
Booger? Is? I can't terrible. What's your Luke Keagley incident? I don't know that one.
Yeah, I said it on air before I did a pregate my boy. I went to go talk to him, and after I got back to somebody who's like, you've got a huge booger in your nose, And I remember that I just talked to a little shit.
Every time Greg talks about him, I'm always like, does he bring out my booger? Oh fuck, I did not realize that. I don't remember that story, but the yeah, yeah, I leave a mark.
Okay, so we love being home but also hate we come to the studio. Yes, So Sunday was a big day. Aaron and I only get to be together at work once a year. If you're lucky it does because it doesn't even happen every year. And it just so happened that your home game this year coincided with all the baseball guys being in studio because October. Let me just tell you, I love all my employers, but my favorite employer. It's like if I had ten kids, and it's like, oh, do you have a favorite child.
No, you can't pick a favorite.
I have a favorite employer in the month of October, and that is Fox, because where else are you going to get Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Howie Long, Michael Strahan, Terry Brodby, Big Poppy, like Rob Gronkowski, Julian Edelman, Charles Woodson. I mean, the list, we get it, okay, we get all the people we work with. But in the studio at the same time, let me just give you guys a little preview what that green room looked like yesterday.
Hall of Famer, Hall of Famer, Hall of Famer, All Star, Allstars.
And you're like a and that the young aspiring sports broadcaster, and me the like eleven year old little girl. I was like, I wanted to call my dad right when I left, but he was gone, he was out of town. I was on be like Dad, Like, these are those moments where I rem myself like, how freaking lucky we are to have these jobs, because it is it's that little sports fan in me and the sports broadcaster that's just like, that's pretty cool. So and the cherry on top is my gal and I actually got to do
TV together, which never ever happens. So we're getting wave reviews right. Wow, the votes are in. The Academy has spoken. We are nominated for an award, a major award. No, not at all, but it's very sweet when people that we don't expect us text us. I'm like, oh, you guys should do segments together more often, and we say we're always available. Also, I have something to say. I told how Hee tighten my neck. Or I said to Howie I heard you're concerned about our podcast, and he goes, what.
I love that thing. It's like therapy for me. I just lay on a couch and listen to it. How We Long is our second father. We love. I love Dio and I can can speak for Aaron on this too. I'm mortified. Whatever he says to me, you guys on that podcast, you're gonna get fired. And I'm like, oh no, what did we say? And then my flashbacks of all
the things that we've said. My armpit looks like a vagina, I've got boogers in my nose, I can't take a pee with the s banks on, and I'm like, well, no, wonder he thinks we're gonna get fired.
But how we would say.
Howe, yesterday I was wearing the spanks with that dress and I go, you.
I can't even breathe in this thing.
I said, let alone go to the bathroom and Michael how he goes savor it for the podcast there he said, I already did three episodes ago.
I love him.
I love him so much because this is and by the way he goes you and Chris, I listen, is his son Chris Long so cute. He's also like you and Chris and Aaron the things that you guys say. But Howie, what a dream you are? So yesterday was great and all the things. And I love being with you in studio. Also this text chain that we're both on. I should not look at tech chains while we're busy doing our podcast. This guy's like twelve years late to
the story of party. Anyways, look at this scalp applying lipstick the podcast friend Derek Jeter would ever come on this podcast. I think Derek just wants to limit the interaction to the dinners and the Sunday hellos. Hey, do you can you let everyone know what color that is? Because I'm gonna tell you what. We're gonna get so many inquiries about what color that is and what brand it is.
Just this influencer.
This is a real, really old, honest stick. It's so old the color is not even on here anymore. Hold on, ooh, it's a truly kissable lip crayon by honest Jessica Alba.
You know I love your product. She's very generous. Sheer chestnut kiss. It's very kiss.
It's very kiss You know, that's the holidayday. We never have gales over those little girls in that movie in the holiday with their little English accents. For the longest time after I saw that movie, which I still watch it, I watched it in July. Sometimes I wanted to marry someone British and my kids could.
Have an accent.
Maybe we'll start talking British around Mac so he thinks we're Burnish. Okay, Madonna, let's bring it back. Now, how old is that lipstick? We don't need any fungus. Kelly Stafford line one, this one on her. No, Now, I got to throw this out if you guys have any old products. And this is one of the many reasons, you know, Kelly just tells it like it is. This shadow is as honest as they come. She used a mask that was older and didn't realize it and it
messed up her face. So everyone throw out your projects. This is a PSA. It's also an ad. Listen to Kelly's podcast the morning. I was checking to see if infection was still there. There's still I still got to be on antibiotics. I think I didn't take them last night. I was trying to wean myself off.
But since.
Heroin trying to wean myself skin, you're supposed to finish an antibiotic. This is why I'm bad on antibiotics, and hence the chronic QTI is you got to finish the medication.
Where are you?
Yeah? Yeah, everyone stay with us. We're just getting started here on the Calm Down Podcast. All right, So Week five in the NFL. What a crazy time. I'm just gonna go on a full on race here before the season started. Okay, and we work for Fox NFC Centric. That's contract stuff. You know, a lot of quarterbacks and teams we'll see in the NFC. So it's like, oh man, a lot of the perennial quarterbacks have left the NFC and.
Here we are. Let's go ahead.
All the talents on the AFC side are tho those real like you know, Marquee guys, what's going on in the AFC? Now, you've got the best quarterbacks in the NFCRE around here. You got Buffalo. We don't know who Buffalo is. Is Buffalo the team that can you know, score sixty on you? Or is it the team that loses to the Jaguars. The Pittsburgh Steelers are in first place in their division and they're three and two, and last week we were telling them to just leave the league.
You got your Chase scores three touchdowns and hadn't had a touchdown all year. The Bengals look all world, you got I mean, it's like, I don't know what's going on. You've got the Patriots. We got back to back games, Bill Belichick.
Whoa, I shuugh. The AFC is all over the place. I don't know who's good. I don't know who's.
Bad, and literally perpetuates the movie the phrase any given Sunday because as a wager in a gambler, I don't know who and where.
I say who, I say how much? So I mean it's.
Difficult to bet on games because I don't know who I'm gonna get, although I do want to point out in my three game parlay, I'm two for three.
Let's see who wins tonight. I've got the Packers beating the Raiders. I digress.
Let's go to the NFC side of Daron. Oh my god, the Cowboys the Niners game. It's going to be a rematch of the NFC championship game. You know, the Niners have blown out the Cowboys in the playoffs the last two years. This is such a great matchup. Wanh like freaking San Francisco runs away with it.
So who's dalla? I don't know. Eagles looked very dominant yesterday, especially in the second half when they ran away with that. I don't know.
I just can't put my finger on the pulse of the NFL, which is why we love it. I thought the whole emotion in our game was really, really interesting, and I struggled with it because I asked Jalen Hurt in our conference call with him keys to the game. He listed several keys to the game. One of them was good communication with coach and player. They have new coordinators. That's such a big deal when you are both sides of the ball, yeah, on both sides of the ball.
And I thought our pictures were really I think our our crew does such a phenomenal job with pictures. And the picture of Sirianne, Jalen Dante Smith walking Jason Kelsey blowing up after he felt that they didn't have their acts together on the line. I thought that was really interesting, especially for a team that's five and zero that you know, is just has picked up where they left off.
Yeah. I just thought that was so so interesting. I like it.
I like the emotion on the sideline, and I know that media, you know, we were quick to but like, oh they're fighting, Like they're not fighting, They're trying to figure it out, make it perfect, right, I'm like, and I don't know. I think that that also says a lot about the confidence of that team that they can show that outward emotion and like have no question as to whether or not I.
Can't remember, which tells you my brain.
In our game with the Eagles, Jalen Hurts was going at it yeah with someone on the sidelines and then oh okay, yeah, and we were talking about it in postgame.
He's like it was fine.
It's like anyways, but and can I tell you something? I almost texted you, and I texted Joel about it. My sit Down features producer who works with both Chris and I and he's also a good friend.
He produced our segment yesterday. I struggled with it.
I almost gave myself like a freaking migraine during the game because I only get two quick questions and before they're booting me off. And I did the postgame with Jalen and I almost asked a question about it. But this is where it sucks all you aspiring whatever reporters or want you know, want behind the scenes.
Look, the game's out of reach.
You know, for most of the fourth quarter, we kind of knew that obviously the Eagles were gonna win.
Jalen's numbers were insane. There's so many questions you can ask.
I only get too and when you are sitting there and he's on a podium, you can get into that. But I really did want to ask about the emotion on the sideline, but that's like for somebody that has four to five questions, you can't ask that.
So I tried to allude to that in the way.
I asked a question like emotional win on and off the field we saw for you guys. He told me in our meeting that I don't even remember how I phrased it. People think this game is easy and it's not, and we saw that with their emotion. But what impressed you the most about the way your team was able to grind it out and get another win.
It's just hard.
I really battled with that on the sideline to ask about the emotion. But I knew that story with you with the AJ Brown and you guys doing that game, So if that was a hard one, I was so closely texting you about how to handle that. But you know what's interesting about that, because I always feel like some questions, you know you're not going to get an answer. He's not going to say no, oh I hate Agro their best friends, Like, he's not going to say that.
So it's almost like, do I waste.
One of my two questions when I know I'm going to get a generic response back. So I think I couldn't hear your post game because it was just the all the screens were up and I only had sound from our guy's post game show.
But I think that in.
That situation, you asked the question and I don't need to tell you how to do your job. You've done it a lot long at the highest level. But like, you ask a question that's going to elicit the best response. Yeah, and if that's not going to get you anywhere, then it's like, let's not waste anything. And then he looks at you like you really think I'm gonna say something exactly exactly, But asking questions is hard in those situations. I never did, which is probably why I don't do that.
Went to the clinic on like, I should probably take a course in asking questions again?
No, what, where? When? Why? How? I mean, you know, what's a good tool for me?
Even when Sean McVay I was coming out of the half with Sean McVay, I just texted Greg real quick and I said, what's the one thing you want to hear from McVeigh because I knew it had to be something about defense, you know, with the fact that Jalen they had just given up that huge drive at the end of the half, and Greg thought of one I wasn't even going to ask now that Cooper cup. You know, do you know that the Eagles are going to adjust?
How do you try to move him around? And guess what, Cooper Cup wasn't as effective in the second half as he was in the first. And that was a great question by Greg and I used it. I'll have a little teamwork, you know, makes the dream work. And also that just goes to show that you're not arrogant. You're like, I have all the answers. No, no, you know what Ryan just put in our chat. Circling back to pregame on switching roles question.
There was a great question.
We have a little segment every Tuesday called the pre Game and people submit questions, comments and concerns. One of the questions was would we ever want to switch roles? I think meg a to do in sidelines and aerin going into studio. I think we've talked about this before, but readdressing it just because you were in studio yesterday. I have been very vocal, not in a negative way. I just have the utmost respect for you and going on the road and being, you know, a sideline reporter
for how many years have you done this? Twenty something at this point when you think back, anyways, I couldn't hack it on the sidelines. Nathaniel Hacket, congratulations on your win. I I it wasn't my thing. I just felt like there was more that I wanted to say throughout a game, and if I didn't get in, I got frustrated. I was like, why am I doing all this work if I'm only here to react to what I got seeing?
What's the Yeah.
So I always felt like I left a lot of stuff on the cutting room floor and I wanted to be not like more front facing. I just it was difficult for me to do all of that work and feel like sometimes, especially early on, I was a baby reporter and I wasn't good.
I frankly, I don't think I was a good sideline reporter.
So you're great at it, you love doing it, and so no, I'm much more comfortable and happier in Stewdo. And you're so really you're great at it. You're amazing at it. We were having this conversation. I appreciate that, but I definitely think like, it's so you're just you're it's you're you're at the mercy of the people around you, Which is why I feel so grateful to have the best teammates in both shows, because you know, I look
at Ernie, I love him. On the TNT show, and he's got Shack and he's got Charles, and it's like you are You're only as good as the people around you. The same way for you like Kevin and Greg, like you know, you are only as good as the crew that you work with, or your producer that's going to let you get in, or the director that's going to
get the shot of the things that you're talking about. So, without rambling further, for those of you that aren't really interested in the sports broadcasting part of this podcast, I just think that we are both in our respective positions for a reason, and I am very happy in the studio or on the road hosting a show.
I tried being cute yesterday during the Rams game.
I was wearing a little skipper Barbie outfit and our stylists had thrown me in a pair of boots that I was like, I'm not going to make it past a first quarter, and I gutted it out.
I mean I was in until the third quarter.
And then finally in the fourth, I'm like, I am miserable. I put on my sneakers. I'm like, I'm fucking done. I can't do this.
I am so.
Proud of you because so here's the pull back the curtain and tell the viewers and the listeners. So again, Erin and I never get to be in studio together, so when she's there, I get so excited. So after the game, after our show's over, I run downstairs and Aaron's changing into her outfit to go work her game. And as I saw you put those boots on, I was like in my head, I was like, she's gonna wear those all game.
And I almost text you and I was like, how are those feet doing of yours?
Because they were so cute, But I'm like, that is that's a tough heel, but maybe maybe she's gonna be into it. Then I saw the picture you had posted for wear or something and you were in sneakers. I was like, I knew she didn't make it. I knew you didn't make it.
I made it to the fourth.
But I just after that and then I should have put him on for my Jalen interview just to be qutqutequte. But at that point I was like, Jalen, I can't feel my feet. I mean, I'll just yeah, you've played four quarters. I get it, but I can't feel my feet, you know. I can't feel my face. At least you want a jeans all right, So we've got a fun week coming up. You are headed to Cleveland. I am headed to Kansas City. Give that Travis keel me a
big hug for us, can I can we say? I mean, this guy, he's got enough going on in his life. The comment he made on your page yesterday about our segment on the NFL pregame show say it louder for the people in the back.
Travis appreciate it. I love him so much.
It means more than people get. I mean, listen, yes, I, Jared and I were discussing it last night. Travis Kelsey is one of the top five. He's one of the biggest names in the NFLF five s Drake voice he is. And it's just despite whatever is going on in his personal life. The fact when we get a pat on the back from people that are faces of the league, people we work with, people of power in this industry, it just means so much to us. And I love you, Travis,
I really appreciate it. Shit like that is just special and you never need here. I mean, let's just all say what it is. You never need validation. I don't think as an athlete you like have to have people talking about you. I don't think whatever respective business you're in, you don't have to have that. But it is really nice.
I was having this conversation actually with one of my bosses that a little bit goes a long way, And as you know, we both own companies and have employees just saying hey, great job with that, or good job of that, or I was really impressed with what you did here, this and that. Like you may think it, but when actually when someone says in it. It doesn't have to be on a social platform, it doesn't have to be anything. It could be a private message, but it
just I don't know. For me, it's motivation no matter where that's coming from, not just because it's a compliment, because I also like, you know, getting feedback. I ask my producer for Amazon once a week to email me things that I did well and things that I didn't do well in the broadcast, because I always have to think about it, like that's my game film and I watch back every show. I do not because oh I
want to watch myself on TV. But the minute that I start thinking that I'm so good at this job, is the minute someone else is going to take it. And for me, if those athletes that we watch go back and watch film of themselves on ways to improve the minute they come on the sideline, they got the Microsoft surface, what is working, what isn't working? I like to apply that same principle to my own job because there's little idiosyncrasies do I say, do I see like
certain things that I can be better at? And I just think that it's important to always ask for constructive feedback, but then also unsolicited get compliments. And the thing that Aaron's referring to is this Travis is like so been so supportive of Aaron and I long before Travis.
And the tailor and the whole thing.
But like I know I've mentioned it before, but even like you know, when Mack was born, Travis knew the second I told him that you were having a baby, Like he was so genuinely happy for you. And I think that this industry is so special because you do become friends with these guys and create these relationships and not just players on the field, but as we were talking about, you know, at work, like that feels like a family, Like Michael feels like a brother, to me,
feels like a brother to you. And if anything that we've went through in our lives, because we've went through stuff, those are the first people that call you. And it is really cool when work coincides and those individuals become friends and family.
Is this? I mean, I what Ted talk am I your life?
There were two moments yesterday I have to tell you about. Well one Lily was fantastic. She captured that Lily, thank you. Yeah, we both posted them. We were sitting back, all of us in that studio and watching this segment that was pre taped, and we were all laughing. I had my arm around Big Poppy and straight he had his arm around you.
It was so special. It was so great.
And that is also because and I know, I don't know if you've told the story about like how nice Big Poppy was to you when you first started covering baseball and when I just started covering football, like how nice Michael was. And I just think about, like I'm with Steve, because Matthew and Kelly, it's like this, these relationships end up really sort of intertwining. And so anyways, tell your stray story. I'll tell my Poppy story because I don't know if I've ever told my poppy story,
tell your stray story. Yeah, I mean, he was on Best Damn Sports Show when he was still playing for the Giants. It was my first national show that I ever got and Best Damn Sport Show. For those of you guys that don't know, I'll sucinctly tell you. It was a late night talk show. It was one of my favorite shows like that, you you know, it was the intersection of entertainment and sports, and this was a time where culturally, like you could say what you wanted.
I mean, just Tom Marnold's on the show. We'll leave it at that. And Michael being savvy.
Michael Straham, which is why he has the career that he does, was smart enough and one of the very first place to go on these types of shows while he was still playing, and so he was a frequent guest, he was a weekly guest, and he was so kind to me, and it was like, oh my god, it's Michael Strahan, and like, I'm this dumb. You know, I'm
saying dumb. He didn't ever make me feel like that, but you just sort of get insecure sometimes when you're first starting you're around these like massive personalities, and he probably, you know, just I had thought that he was like this, Oh god, who's the blonde bimbo over there? Never once made me feel like that. None of those guys ever, did John Sally, Chris Rose, Rob Dibble, any of those guys.
And Michael was just so kind to me and like took the time to be like, all right, so like where you're from and this and that, and I never forgot that. And so now just you know, twenty years later, being able to when anything bad in my life has happened, or even good things have happened. He's always absscall or a text that says like here for you, and that like means so much.
Look at me starting to cry.
But it's really sweet because it goes far beyond the job itself, and you never forget that.
Okay, big copy story. I love this one.
That's actually a line that Derek and I were talking. Derek and I we reck and I you know, we were just talking. We're just talking about when I covered him, when I covered Poppy, like I was saying to Poppy doing home run Derby's with him, like I just feel like baseball will never It was just not that it's not special now, but it was just a time, you know. Yeah,
Derek's in the All Star Game. Marianna Rivera like, it was just great, and I was talking about I asked how Jorge Posada was doing, because he was always so nice to me, And Derek said, you never forget those that were nice to you, do you? And I said no, And I was like, you were always great for me. I said, you never would give me much an interview,
but you're always awesome. But my first year of baseball with ESPN, my very very first game ever was the day that the Red Sox were getting their rings after they won it for the after what two thousand and four is that right, Ryan.
The car thirteen?
I think right, foury twelve, So it's when they celebrated at Fenway and the legends came out of the Green Monster. Bobby or walked out, Bill Russell walked out, Teddy Bruski, who had just suffered a stroke, walked out. My dad and I were praying to God that Larry would come out, but he didn't, so it was so exciting. I got my dad tickets to the game again. It's my first baseball game ever for ESPN, and I still remember who this person was. It wasn't a producer, it was an
executive at the network. And I was just like, I wonder what my first story should be, and he said.
I'll give you one.
Why don't you go try to get a ring and not a bat boy's ring and show it on Sports Center because before our game, sports Center was on and so you always had to fill for Sports Center and have stories. And I was like, okay, I grew up a Red Sox fan because my dad, my dad's from Springfield, mass He's at the game. Frickin' awesome. I knew who my favorite player was. Never met him before. I walked
right into the Red Sox clubhouse. Boys had just gotten their rings at probably the night before, and I walked up to Big Poppy David Ortiz and I said, Hi, my name's Aaron Andrews. I'm new to baseball on ESPN of college football, one of my favorite baseball players ever. Sports Center is asking if I could get your ring to show? Would you mind? If you know anything about the Big Poppy? He loves the word fuck, and he just said in the most darling way. He goes, I
don't give a fuck have it. Gave me his World Series ring. MLB security was there. I don't know if Team security was there, and like, she can't walk out on the field with this, and he goes, why not never met the guy after shaking my hand with his gorgeous smile, and he goes, she can have.
It, bring it back.
I took big Poppies ring and I walked out onto the field and I grabbed my ESPN MIC and I said, I got the ring. I got the ring and they said whose is it? And I said David.
Fucking' Ortiz and I showed it on Sports Center and he's been my man.
Then Nope, not a bad way, which is such a backmannd it but that's just yeah, good for you.
And those guys were awesome.
I had Derek and I were talking about this. Rick Suckcliffe, I worked with him. He's such a great guy and he really broke the ice for me with a lot of people. I remember him telling Roger Clemens, she's with us. She's a good one. And you know, Derek was asking what he's up to. I need to get back in
touch with him. But what's really cool for us? And I know you know this with your amazing group that you have on Thursday nights and the bond that you guys have created, like to get into certain circles, it's really helpful when your teammates go to bat for you. And the Yankees clubhouse, I mean they weren't. They weren't like the Red Sox Clubhouse. Red Sox Clubhouse is there. They're like, either're drinking and the clubhouse they're having a time.
Yankees are hiding. You're not finding them.
But when Rick Sutcliffe said to Mike Mussina, Roger Clemens, Derek Jeter, like she's one of us, they were really really cool.
To me, that was awesome. It's really cool.
And that is that invitation into a sacred space, the clubhouse, the locker room, the whatever, you know, insert analogy here, but it is once you get invited, it's your job to stay there and appreciate it because it can get taken away at any moment. So it's really special when it does. And yeah, for all of you Boston fans, four, seven, thirteen, and eighteen, those aren't my measurements, those are your World Series championship. Yeah, it was up to the two thousand
and four World Series. I got to do that for again, all of you Boston fans yesterday. It was really cool having Poppy came on. Our set was Poppy, Jewels and Gronks and I'm like, holy shit, between and the Bruins were great and the Celtics were great, Like the Convergence in a fifteen year span. That city had ten championships in fifteen years. Like growing up in Seattle, like we have one. We have the Seahawks with one and it's like, it's crazy to think like that, you know, that is
like the mecca. And yes, of course you've got New York because I at one point I was like, there's a guy next door. Because they were like, oh, we have the best fans in the world. I'm like, there's a guy next door that might, you know, think a little a little bit differently of that.
But sports it is highest level. It's very cool. All right, Week five, sister, you're headed to Cleveland. I'm headed to city. Week six. Oh, it's gonna be weak. Yes, Week six, I can't keep it straight.
I'm excited to have a wonderful You and I are off to dinner tonight and we will have stories.
I'm sure on that. At some point, and we love you all.
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