Wade Boggs Outdrinks Me | Bertcast # 599

apparently you drank like 100 beers from a cross country trip 73 hold on so what is the story yo Philly we're coming with the tops off World Tour November 29th and I'm bringing DJ Jazzy Jeff to Philadelphia then Norfolk Winston Salem Fairfax Rowan Oak Rochester Worster Newark Providence and Aly New York December 10th you realize this is like a this is like a childhood dream come true right now thanks you are and I say child probably when you were playing in the pros when we were all in probably high school I'm guessing yep you're a Jesuit I was a Jesuit and you were there's a handful of Legends that come out of Tampa thank you I'm wondering I'm wondering if you though you okay I got positively roasted over the that was great um and and it's and it's crazy it's it's just insan Saye to me like my this is my first question and this is like such a Tampa question where when you were a kid where did you get your baseball gear like your B your gloves your bats Florida sporting goods Florida sporting goods on Florida Avenue on Florida Avenue yeah really I'm the only I I was one of the only kids that uh never used aluminum bat so I would go down there and pick wooden bats out so my my Visionary of playing professional baseball I never used aluminum bat in high school really I use a wooden bat and I would go down there and pick pick bats out and Pete Rose was the model that I would pick all the time and yeah I had uh and it would break I'd put a couple Nails in it or something and keep it going and and uh but it's it's it it was one of those things because I didn't want to get used to an aluminum and then have to get used to a wooden bat when I signed professionally really so I used a wooden bat all my life and and my average would have been probably 50 60 points higher had I used aluminum bat imagining it would have been but I still hit 485 with a wooden bat in high school so good God that's insane I I didn't know that yeah and so where did you grow up playing were you did you grow up in South Davis Island Davis Island that was an Island rat are you serious 1970 was the first year of bore little league and that was my AAL year in Bayshore because I just moved from Georgia yeah and uh so I'm on the island and it was old Ed Wright over here in Swan yeah was the old uh Ed right Little League well they moved that little league because they were selling it for the inter for the uh expressway so they moved all of that to B Express and we had one field at bore and and all the games were scattered throughout the thing I mean now once I went to palmia palmia had four Senior League fields and one Big League field and a whole bunch of little league fields and all that but bayro had one one field yeah and that's that's where it all started that's those are like the craziest like CU you as a kid you'd hear stories about you playing a plant and you could you could Envision maybe a little bit of that part but never the little stuff like I played out of Forest Hills I played out of Forest Hills in North Tampa I remember Dwight Gooden when Ians and Dwight Gooden and I remember Dwight Gooden came out when he was like 19 years old in a Corvette and had his dinner on the hood of his Corvette as we were all practicing and our dads were like yo Dwight Good's out at the parking lot and you're like shut up as adults now you're like that's I guess it is crazy to be 19 playing in the professional like what do you do with your free time yeah you're sit in the hood of my car yeah I guess yeah but and so then you you went played it plant I would love to I would love to we because there's obviously high points I want to talk about but I I would love to just track out your career because I think there's things that glare to me that I go that stand out where I like some things are thorns in my side that have happened in your career where I go I feel like management could have done that differently and then there's things that I remember distinctly like I I want to talk to you definitely about uh about the getting on the horse because I remember that I remember that so vividly I remember that so vividly and there was a dude who there was a a comic I but we'll talk about that in a second um but I kind of want to track out so you then played it play how would were you always the kid when you played that every all the dads everyone was like he's just spectacular I was the first draft choice in the draft in uh bore little l really yeah cuz I just moved from Georgia mhm and I was I started playing little league when I was five and it wasn't coach pitch it wasn't t-ball we had 12y olds pitching to fivey olds that's how old little league used to be yeah and you could play at five if if you made the cut and at five I made the cut so I played against all of these older kids which made me a lot better a lot faster and so I was the number one draft choice for the Buick Wildcats on on on Bay Short Lake H which is your son's over in the corner I want to go that's merch I'd buy right now just I'm just giving you heads up if you give me a away bogs bu Buick Wildcat Jersey I'll buy that right now it can just be a t-shirt get me a fitted cap that's merch I'll buy right now oh I wish I had it I'm telling you those the days there's well there's so much I got a bubblegum card of it my sister-in-law took a picture of me in in the front room of of my house in my little league uniform and and somehow Topps or Don Russ or some turned it into a bubblegum card really yeah so it's a picture of me when I was 12 years old in my wild cat uniform but it's a bubblegum card now so so your drafted first did you have do and looking back and I only say this because there's so many podcasts out right now where you hear people talk about greatness and and how they achieve it and how they get there and and and their inspiration and the way their brain works and the and and I think you truly lived in a place in a time when when that wasn't the FOC like the focus was almost like Talent over over like pet Rose was a hard worker but like I'm curious to like as a kid what your motivation was how driven you were were you obsessed with baseball was it something that you just loved like I'm curious of that my dad started throwing me balls in Puerto Rico when I was 18 months old and Joe garol and Tony cubec showed it to Ted Williams on game of the week yeah and said do you know who this is and he says no but he's got a hell of a swing and it was me so shut up and and that was 18 months so then how that progressed God you D's a legend and so going through Senior League and palmia and all of that there were Steve Garvey and Tony laruso yeah were the other two from Tampa that went on I've met Steve Garvey one time I had met a mom who had dated Steve Garvey in high school and L panelo and L panello so those three are the ones that came out of Tampa yeah Jefferson and Chamberlain and all of that so those were the baseball but we had so many baseball greates that came out of West hampa and and like you said Forest Hills some I mean oh my gosh they they'd go the L League World Series and and just the the hot bed that this Tampa Bay area has of great players that come out to play professionally yeah is I'll compare it to Texas California anywhere you want to compare it this area with with an 18 mile radius will blow any any state away especially now when you look at these kids training the way they train oh it's it's it's insane it's it's so far I have a buddy whose son's going to pitch at Vanderbilt or probably pitching right now in Vanderbilt and I I I saw him his Instagram he's in physical training every morning before school like that we didn't have that so in uh my sophomore year in high school at plant we were on double sessions so the junior seniors went in the morning and the sophomores went in the afternoon well in order for me to make the baseball team they had to switch all my schedule around and I went with all the Juniors and seniors because I made the B there were only three guys that made the uh three sophomores yeah that made the baseball team my sophomore year um Harry Lynn Wilford Ramos and myself so we went in the morning I I never went to school in my class because they went the afternoon yeah so I had and then my junior year we were still in double session and my senior year it was all one so I got to I got to enjoy my senior year with with 8 to 230 or whatever so but uh I made the team my sophomore years a knuckle ball pitcher and a backup Short Stop to Billy Dow yeah how big were you uh sophomore year how tall uh 6265 170 PBS that was skinny no but I mean I would love to be6 I'd pay top dollar for that right now right exactly see but you lost a lot how much have you lost I lost uh about 30 pounds right now I'm just been for well I I it's the it's the obvious ones where you go like I haven't been drinking and I've been eating keto and I've been working out and I'm on testosterone that's a that's a big game changer speeds out the what do you think about what do you think about when you saw all these guys on steroids during the steroid error what did you think if that was available to you back in the day what would you think was available to me it was yeah really yeah really yeah I said no yeah it was available to me and HGH really HGH was available to me too wow but I had one pot of gold at the end of the rainbow Hall of Fame and I knew if I did something illegal and got caught that that would prohibit my chances of ever possibly making the Hall of Fame yeah and coincidentally that the guys that have gotten popped don't deserve to be in the Hall of Fame so there you go yeah I never uh I think people think of so it's a double-edged sword I mean you want to be great these guys are already great I mean there's only so much levels of greatness after you're great that understandably you're G to when A-Rod did it he did it for $250 million and then he did it again to make 250 more so okay he's made $500 million but he's not what's his legacy in a in the Holy Grail and he didn't plag his uh plant his flag in the uh the mountain of greatness yeah it's interesting they allow a lot they allow a lot and then they've got a couple rules for like yo no Peds No gambling and I guess yeah that's it's interesting because I think people think well to get there but once you're there why why the [ __ ] are you doing you're already great the thing that that I took from from steroids and that type of thing everybody called them performance enhancing drugs I called them play Everyday drugs PD that performance enhancing no it's play every day because you get to the end of end of August the beginning of September you're beat you're playing every day playing every day you you're your travel you're back and forth back and forth back and forth and you're sitting there by the end of the by the end of August you're going God just get me through September and hope you know we make the playoffs and then I'll get that uh that shot rejuven of of oh my gosh here we go we're in the playoffs kind of thing yeah these guys sticking needles in their rear end are the ones that run through brick walls in September and that's why they're outperforming all of the guys that are beaten up yeah and they're still producing at a high level and the guys are coming out of the games in the fourth inning that aren't doing it and the guys are pitching into the eighth inning that are doing it so they're they're extending the recovery time they're extending their their performance level and boom here you go I mean they're posting every fifth day you know for the pictures and for the players they're posting every day and they don't need a day out because like I said they when you when you do it you could run through a brick wall yeah that is the you know the recovery is insane yeah like I used to lift weights and like be sore I have not been sore once and I I it's crazy but you go well I'm ready to go back in and I'm just a regular person and not really pushing myself to limits I can't imagine what the schedule is like I had a buddy I won't speak for him on behalf of him but I but I'm paraphrasing uh a buddy Brad radkey he pitched for the twins I faced him yeah oh yeah yeah I faced him when a home run back in the day back to back triples clip that out send that to ragy yeah so and he came and played he came and uh played in in New York and was probably when you were in New York and was uh exhausted and I remember him saying this schedule is like I don't know how much longer I can last and he was still young at the time and he was like and I think I think that was one of the big things in him him retiring was the schedule was just CRA I think he only had like eight or 10 yeah if that I mean but I mean he was really good for that period of time he was their number one so I mean but I mean guys they just get it it wears you down it really does and but you got to be mentally tough as well I mean you just can't sit there and take like two or three days off and say okay I'll be back in I mean we're all not Cal Ripken you know playing every day but I prided myself on playing 155 out of 1628 158 157 right around in there maybe having four or five days off throughout the course of the whole year yeah every 21 days you get an automatic day off but normally that's travel so you're going from the east coast to the West Coast you're going from te uh uh New York to Texas yeah or or what have you so the schedule looks like for the average person that's listening that's like a MMA fan the schedule is every single [ __ ] day practically well you're you have seven game home stand 10 G uh 10 game Road Trip you come back for 10 you're gone for 7 you come back for uh an 8 game home stand you're gone for 12 days geez and well that's the thing when you have children that you miss their first words you miss their first steps and all of this and these are the things that you love about grandchildren now that you can sit there and I can't wait I can't wait for grandchildren the touring schedule is like that we're out for 13 like we'll go we used to go uh out for 3 weeks weeks home for a week out for three weeks home for a week and when I was at Travel Channel it was two weeks out one week on the road two weeks out one week on the road I never was home but I always I always defended it by I'm providing for my family sure and if I didn't do this I don't know what I'd be doing and I don't know like hey you think I'm I'm rough to be around now imagine if I'm working at Home Depot I might not be the most Pleasant dude there you go but and I always and I always said I always said cuz people other Comics would say how do you do it and I go you know there's guys that have it worse than me and when you look at a entire baseball season that must be like I bet it's I bet it's [ __ ] awesome though I bet at the beginning of the year you get [ __ ] what you do is is how I would do it I would use January 1 is my starting point January 2nd I started hitting before spring training I would report to Spring training possibly on February 10th so I'd have a month to prepare hit actually I hit over Jesuit quite a bit we used we used to have we used to have uh that we'd have people come pros come out Dave Magadan and Fred McGriff would come out when I played and and you and it was the the speed of the bat is so different than us in in high school it was so impressive to watch oh yeah and the how far they go oh I mean I remember just the crack yeah balls on the football field you know I was like these guys are watching me you know they're playing at Jesuit and all that and they're watching me and I'm hitting balls over the con the uh the Press Box of the football stadium yeah and uh they go oh my god wow and then I I wound up going to UT quite a bit uh but um yeah I'd use that as my my beginning get to spring training you play 35 games in spring training I wasn't the kind of guy that took a week off after spring training started like they do nowadays and spring training is going on and these guys aren't playing and I'm going how how do they I I don't know how they do this and a majority of them a lot of them don't work out or hit in the off season until they get to spring training so very first game in spring training I played I played 35 one year in BOS when I was with Boston and Winter Haven I think I had 12 at bats in spring training had 125 at bats in spring training then during the regular season I had 751 plate appearances holy cow so you play 35 162 and then you playoffs start so if you go all the way and win a World Series you have an opportunity to play 219 games in one year wow and that will beat you to death I bet it that will beat you to death and I I wanted to hit the ground running when I came out of spring training I didn't I didn't want any lws or anything like this because when you come out of spring training you're in you're in 92 94 degree weather and Winter Haven and your ears look like you have leprosy and they're going to fall off and everything and and then you go open up in Boston or Detroit and you're sitting there going this is brutally cold and so your first month of the Season traveling from Detroit the uh New York Boston and and Chicago various cities like that it's freezing yeah and you just want to hold your head above water during that first month of the season if you're hitting over 300 after the first month of the Season you have a great year really oh yeah that's how tough the the the cold is because H it's just it's just miserable miserable it's funny you'd come down to Spring season and you were home this is where you grew up and then you'd go back up into all these cold weather places right yeah yeah and then and then the day after the season's over I just come back to Tampa really oh yeah yeah I never lived in the cities we in New York when I was there for 5 years we running a a house so we didn't really have anything and my last four years in Boston we bought a um a townhouse but other than that when I came back home to play for the Rays it was like sleep in your own bed drive your own car all those good things have your son is the bat boy so it's like can't have your son as the bat boy is probably the best I can't imagine living in the city I live in like like people go so where do you live and I I say la but I I mean I'm not there I've maybe I've slept in my tour I've slept in the tour bus way more than my regular bed people go I do a read for uh for uh mattresses and uh it's the mattress we have at home and it's such a treat to sleep in it because it's such a great mattress but I I I just upgraded my mattress to my tour bus so like now I like I yeah now it feels like home you sound like a like a numbers guy were you were you did you were you aware of your battering average as you were as you were playing this show was sponsored by better help 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to shopify.com bcast now to grow your business no matter what stage you're in shopify.com bcast were you aware of numbers during the game during the season I didn't really have to calculate I I just worried on what happened that day yeah and I knew I knew if if if I walked a couple times I got on base a couple times and my job as a leadoff hitter is a score runs I was a table setter for Jim Rice and and all the guys coming up behind me and Dwight Evans and all of those guys and setting the table and scoring runs I mean I enjoyed scoring 100 runs a year and I mean that was my job yeah and kind of coincidental that uh I think it was 1987 85 or 87 that um Ricky Henderson and myself each scored 135 runs I had two stoling bases and he had 101 so I was like okay let's let's do the math here he steals bases and scores the same as bogs really yeah something's something's going on here that's crazy so what was it like what was it like like in your senior year of of high school was it then this is a very shallow question but were you like the man like everyone knew where you what was happening with you well the thing about it was was was uh Billy Dow the senior shortstop when I was a sophmore he graduated so now was a short stop yeah so my junior year I went up making all state and had 425 that year eight home runs and and and and we went to state playoffs that year and wound up getting beat by Coral City uh over in uh um Orlando I can I tell you what impresses me is I remember our losses and I remember our I remember our stuff just as much as you do but it's it's nice to know that it those memories are as important to you as they are to me as opposed to as as they are to everyone that played high school ball like I remember the kid whose position I took in left I remember the catcher I remember I remember all the names as well but I think a lot of people look at someone like you who has had such a legit Hall of Fame career and go there's no way he remembers the short stop who he replaced and of course you do right and that's the like I mean I don't know I mean it's I bet there's I bet there's dicks out there that like I don't know his [ __ ] name but that's what I love about you thanks I appreciate that so then we basically my senior had everybody coming back so it was going to be one of those no-brainers yeah and our very first game against Jefferson in the playoffs they went up beating us and Popa who Popa you knew Popa oh yeah yeah pesta was uh post 148 was the was Legion ball so so I was this is such a Tampa podcast right now this is like sew in the weeds for eore City exactly and uh and maaloa King and and everybody oh yeah wow yeah wow and uh Pete mry and oh I I can go on and on but but um yeah we were we were supposed to like breeze through all the all the playoffs go to State and uh we wound up losing 3-2 and I had first and second and popped up uh my last at bat in high school and it was it was so disheartening and just to know that we had an opportunity to be the best in the state and I let everybody down and I sort of antiquate that to the fact that yky in the playoff game in 78 yeah when he popped up to the infield to end the uh the one game playoff that they had against the Yankees it sort of made me feel like Kio shimsky when when he did the same thing yeah but um yeah i' I've always every time I'd see Pop I and he goes yeah yeah you popped up against me to end the season and I went okay Pop I remember it just as much as you do yeah yeah it's funny my last ITB it's so funny you say your last hbat I remember my last hit bat in high school baseball against plant it was for district championships and I had I had such a I have been my especially my senior year because uh uh you know I didn't know where I wanted to go with baseball but I was so um almost I couldn't enjoy the moment I had a ritual of getting in the Box I couldn't enjoy it that the last time I got up a bat I realized this is possibly the last time I'll ever be in a game of baseball I didn't know if I was going to go play a Florida State or not and I had never enjoyed I've never been more confident in the Batters box and I never enjoyed it more and I walked away saying where was that the the entire time I played right like and I said I I thought to myself cuz as I went to go to I had a lot of conversations with my dad about what I was going to do and when I went to play at Florida State I was like I don't think this I don't think baseball's my thing like I don't think for whatever reason that last time I bat I was so [ __ ] confident and I crushed the ball down left field fence uh for a double and and it it was fruitless we lost uh shout out to Aline Rodriguez there you go there you go I mean I can remember so many [ __ ] names I know but uh but yeah my dad had always said to me with radkey growing up playing with radkey my dad was like you know I would say like how come people uh how come people don't talk to me about me the way they talk about Brad and my dad's like oh it's just different with him buddy he was like and my dad's a very leg like probably maybe too much of an honest dude he said you know he well he was a Jedi Knight yeah yeah yeah that is that does play into it he was like he was like this whole point in life is to find your thing like Brad found baseball sure find whatever you're really great at and just love it and Excel at it and he goes look you know he goes if you play baseball you're gonna be the guy that has to bust his ass and work extra hard to do it Brad just can do it right and so when I started comedy I remember calling my dad and I correlated it to baseball I said dad I found my the thing that radkey had for baseball I found it it's comedy like I just it's it I I wouldn't say it's effortless to me but I I the same way I got up that last at bat very confident I feel that every time I go on stage I love being in that situation well the thing about it is is if You' have gone the baseball route you'd have been the funniest guy in the locker room I would have [ __ ] murdered so and by the way I would never had to change and go woke at all I can say whatever the [ __ ] I want I mean it's we all have them you know we all have the fun dude in the in the clubhouse and and you know that cracks jokes does practical jokes and and everything like that but but um well that was the thing after that lasted bat and I'm done with high school I'm still playing Legion ball so the next thing on the radar is the draft that's coming up and that was coming up on June 10th that year in 1976 so it was whether or not I was going to get drafted in the first couple rounds or go to the University of South Carolina and play for Bobby Richardson and be a Gamecock and uh so I went down to the Tribune building and they had back then they had the teletype come across and it was sort of the running tape and and the drafts coming in and Samy Spence who played in Brandon uh we went down and they're taking a p pictures of me and him because we were supposed to go either one two or first round and then second round or something like this well Sammy Spence wound up going in the in the third round to um to Cleveland I believe and uh so I stayed till the fourth round well I had a game that afternoon and I had to leave yeah so we're playing at Al Lopez field and at the time my my girlfriend now my wife Debbie so she came running down and my dad's right behind her came running down said seventh round Boston seventh round Boston so I quit taking ground balls go over give her a hug like this here comes my dad down and and gives me a big hug and all of this and and and said Son finway Park was built for you oh wow and this was before i' had even gone five and a half years in the minor leagues or even played in Fenway Park or anything he said Fenway Park was built for you and fast forward to ending of my career and everything like this there's one guy who's in second place at 363 in finway park average wise his name's Ted Williams and the guy that's in front of was at 368 and that's me so no truer words were spoken than my dad saying Fenway Park was built for you wow what was your what was your God that is that is uh I I that really it's like almost seeing it from 3,000 feet up right there you're like no [ __ ] yeah what was your what was your dad like uh military guy guy he spent his 16th birthday in gu Canal he was a a sophomore high school for Force his birth certificate spent his 16th birthday in guada Canal um where is he from Nebraska no Georgia Georgia Atlanta yeah he's from Atlanta Georgia wow yeah he's from Atlanta Georgia and uh um was a marine for five years and then enlisted in the uh Air Force retired Master Sergeant but I grew up military family and that's sort of where all the the IDOC secrecies that that I the superstitions that came from are all are number-wise because you had to dinner was at 5:30 and if you showed up at 535 it was in the trash you know you get up at the same time brush your teeth you're ready for school and all of this and and the buses at the same time and this and so everything's regimented yeah and sort of military wise and growing up with the with the crew cuts and and everything like this and then I rebelled when I got to high school and had the long hair so that was one of them was you got out at mcdill no he was uh he was in uh Hunter Air Force Base uh when we lived in in Georgia yeah out of Savannah um he was at offet in Nebraska that's where I was born yeah he spent three years in Ry and in Puerto Rico so yeah he was in sack strategic care command but uh baseballwise he was brilliant really yeah he was he he he was the all World fast pitched softball player the Air Force he beat Eddie fer twice wow so without saying something yeah so he was all world and and he just had this knowledge of hitting that was was Charlie L before Charlie La it's called the weight weight Theory uh Wei ght and W AIT T so it's shift your weight weight on the ball and that enabled me to hit the ball to left field consequently finway Park was built for me because he taught me oh wow that's right he taught me how to hit the ball to left field [ __ ] [ __ ] that's great yeah so he engineered this whole process of Fenway Park was built for you is right yeah and uh and originally starting out throwing left-handed so made me throw right-handed so I could play more positions so oh my God I love basically I love this guy so basically I'm amphibious that I can throw with either hand so I taught my daughters their swing I I I uh you've seen my swing you commented on my swing I I'll just say simply is maybe one of the greatest moments of my entire life and I had just played the Emily Arena but I uh I taught my daughters their swings and my daughters had beautiful swings and then they went in to play uh play softball and a coach who I think was working off some uh community service hours not the best coach in the world changed my daughter Isa swing or daughter Georgia swing and in and ruined it and ruined it it broke my heart and I would have to smoke I would have to hit a vape pen in the Outfield I was so bothered my daughter Isa who walked away from softball the same coach tried to change her swing and so she started hitting left-handed wow and I had taught her she was just a she's a weird kid and I would I would pitch to them in the front yard and uh God Georgia had the prettiest the longest swing like and I'm and I'm saying obviously it's my child but it a right-handed Daryl Strawberry Swing wow I mean just it was so beautiful it was the longest swing I and I I that's all I remember thinking about it and I love that's tough in softball yeah to have a long swing oh it was well sadly I didn't I didn't really care much about softball I was playing baseball with them I didn't give a [ __ ] about softball I was like come on ladies but uh but yeah it's uh God that's prophetic words coming out of your Dad's mouth and how when did he pass uh 2009 oh wow so he got to see all of it yeah he he got to he got to be at the hall of fame and and God you know that that's some of the the the difficult well my mom was was killed by the drunk driver in ' 86 sadly and I didn't want to bring this up but I I was I remember the day your mother passed we were playing baseball I think yeah June 17th yeah we were playing we were on a baseball field and she was hit by a car correct the driving it was a driver right it was a rock hauler yeah rocker a rock hauler That was supposed to be in Lakeland yeah and he was drunk and the road it was raining and she was right where the jail used to be where 275 and I4 come on and everything he was coming off he was coming off of I4 coming into downtown and she was the opposite car and the one car saw it stopped and she pulled out and yeah we were in New York and my act coincidentally my dad was in New York also so we had to fly home uh that afternoon and her birthday was June 18th so I had to buy her a casket for her birthday so that was the the the horrible part of 86 that that and and really my sanctity and and how I got through 86 was using the white lines MH as my area to go to once crossed the white lines I thought you talking about cocaine I was like no no we've been there we've been there but once once I crossed the white lines I every everything was quiet yeah and I didn't have to think about anything but just going out there and playing baseball and doing all of that and the iconic photo of me and The Dugout after the Mets clench of me crying and all of that and I'm the one that everybody's focused on uh partly to do with losing the World Series um my first World Series that I I I had gotten to but um losing the World Series and knowing that that I have to go back home and walk through that door and my mom's not going to be there yeah and it was just it was very difficult and you know at the time I had to make sure that Dad didn't fall apart and everything like that so um so then in 96 he was he was part of that regalia of and he was in there and I was pouring champagne over his head in the clubhouse and yeah and uh so he he got to experience both both ends of the spectrum with with losing one and winning one and and yeah he the Hall of Fame was just the the planting that flag in that mountain and knowing that uh okay wow ah your son did it okay great because so many guys now they get into the Hall of Fame their parents have passed and and various things like that and and uh you know it's it's difficult because they they raise you they want to you know see all the great things that you've ever done and then the the greatest day of your life is they're not there but my dad was and he had such a a wonderful time yeah it's a it's it's a testament to how much of Tampa you are in that I remember where I was when your mom passed wow I mean I I just it's I appreciate that thank you wow no no it was well because you you were it was a horrible day you were our guy I mean you you you know as as as well as like the penel always seemed Tampa friend like they were always in Tampa but you were our guy I remember I remember uh hearing things uh I remember one time it was either a USF baseball game or what plant baseball game you would come by the field everyone was like wait box is here wait box is here it was like a big it was a you know it's uh this sounds whatever it's going to sound like but as a kid I celebrity and the and the kindness of celebrities was uh mattered to me it it it it was like it you know that you'd meet Leroy Selman or or Jimmy Giles uh Jimmy Giles or or or Batman woods and you'd meet them and they'd be nice men it was such a like wow right and then you and then you'd have a moment in the car with your dad going like he's a regular guy ain't that great isn't that great like and then to think they don't need to be that but they are and and you were that consistently through our all of our lives and so I it's always nice to know I said Steve Garvey I met Steve Garvey this is the dumbest story in the world uh Steve Garvey apparently had said maybe he dated a guy I played baseball his mom and I and I'm so I'm an adult I'm like 40 maybe I'm 47 I don't even know but I'm doing good day LA and Steve garvey's in there and so I'm like I'm going to introduce myself to Steve G Garvey this Tampa guy so I come in and I said uh Mr Garvey I just I want to tell you I'm from Tampa this and that I big fan i' uh you dated one of my friends moms and he said in high school he said well really and I said yeah and I said her name he goes I don't think I did and I said I'm pretty sure you did well that was the story we got it could be different he goes are you sure it wasn't Steve Harvey and I said Mr Garvey that really changes the story if she dated Steve Harvey Yeah a different story we I laughed hysterically with Steve Garvey that's a totally different story and by the way he wasn't famous when I was a child but uh Drew wasn't Boss Hog way B there was boss yeah so you spent five years in the minors five and a half five and a half were they as fun as Bull Durham makes it look hell no no no uh actually I I take off spend my 18th birthday in almyra New York call home um 18 years old I'm 18 years old scared to death first time away from home scared to death don't know what to do uh Sunday afternoon um everything's locked up we stayed El women's college and it was all closed up and everything and and so I call home on a pay phone and get my dad on the horn and I said uh Dad this is brutal I don't know what to do godamn it find a p uh find a hotel and I went okay I I I don't know what to do after that he says grow up and become a man and I went wow that's coming from somebody that was spend the 16th birthday in gu canal and I said okay great so I walk about three block box and there was a hotel there a motel and it's probably the bats motel or something like that and there were only like six or seven rooms so I got I'm dragging suitcase and carrying my baseball bag and I'm out in the front of my room and all of a sudden this Dodge Charger pulls up they go you weit boxs and I said yeah John T Lino from uh Tampa he he played at TC and and he had been there 75 but he's going back on on uh rehab assignment in 76 and I went oh my God am I so happy to see you he goes I'll pick you up tomorrow morning at 7:30 I said great so I call home and said dad I got it all under control and all this I'm a man turns out you good advice dad oh my God and so I come in and we got we got uh 50 guys in the locker room on the team we got 50 players wow and I mean I've never been around Latin guys that don't speak English so you don't know how to communicate yeah so we probably got 15 20 Latin guys from Dominican Venezuela Puerto Rico everywhere and dick berardino is a manager and and so now I'm facing guys that are 22 23 year old coming out of college with sliders and all of this I said what in the hell is a slider and I have no idea what it was cuz in really in high school you got fast curveball that was basically it and now I'm facing these guys so wound up Elm in New York um hit 268 and thank God took all the ropes and knives out cu I was going to hang myself at 268 268 so dick berardino goes well we don't really know what we're going to do and everything like this and they're probably evaluate on spring training coming up and all of this well he had sent in a report and I had found out later to have me released really so I said wow I was the first Hall of Famer you were ever going to release and I till this day I still tease him about it he's so wonderful we got a great relationship and then got married that offseason 76 J at 18 oh my God yeah it'll be 47 this year with Debbie yeah holy cow so we got married went to Winston Salem and a one-bedroom apartment kind of unfurnished kind of furnished kind of thing and hit 332 that year yeah and that's when everything exploded really um next spring uh next spring training they assigned me to Bristol doua and find out that Debbie's pregnant with our daughter Megan so we go to daa in 78 and now Megan's born in in uh in December that year so 79 we have a a child in the minor leagues and I asked for $50 a month more and they wouldn't give it to me really yeah I said well hopefully down the road I can make that up I love that because so many people these days plan their children and go like at my best friend and and and I look at it I I look at it enviously my best friend didn't have kids until he was like 40 40 years old 42 years old and he was a millionaire at that point him and his wife both were millionaires wow and I go that's got to be nice and and and all the things all the trappings that would have made life easier uh they're they do and and and I see and my me and my wife will see and but he will say to me you know he witnessed me when I we had kids broke we didn't plan it I wasn't even headlining when I had Georgia I was just featuring I was making $750 a week and I had to pay travel hotel and I had to give my part to my manager I walked with such little money but he was there during that and he remembers he was so broke he was coming to my house for dinners that back then wow and so but it's nice to it's refreshing to hear just the that bootstrap family of like yeah yeah let's do it me Megan was the only child in the minor leagues there were no other children from anybody in the whole minor leagues she was the only child roaming around in the minor league so we'd go and then went two years to pet in 80 and 81 and none of the other married none of the other Mar married guys children or anything like that which is kind of rare in Triple A normally everybody kind of has one or two or something like that but no she was the only child and and and then in in 81 was the year that I had uh led the international league in hitting and hit 3 334 that year led the international league hitting broke like 17 records and all of this and at the end of the game the last game of the season uh Joe Morgan is calling in everybody the that's going to the big leagues M so I'm sitting there and I'm packed in front of my locker and I'm waiting I'm waiting idea any idea I thought it was a no-brainer yeah so Joe Morgan comes back out and seven guys had walked in and walked out and everything like this so he walks out and I said well I guess he was saving me for last or something he says boy have a good winter and I went what I it was like somebody hit me with a tu by four in the back of the head I said I I a get called up he said no boy they didn't call you up I went what and the hell do you have to do around this gin joint to to to make it to the big leagues yeah and I went all right so I walk outside and I got tears in my eyes and and I got my bag and everything like that and I said let's go I picked up Megan and we got in the red van and drove all the way from pet to Tampa Florida and I walk in the next morning walk in the next morning and my dad looks at me and goes what in the hell are you doing here they didn't call you up no he goes oh he was livid he was absolutely livid and oh yeah and so I said I don't know I just got to figure out what I'm going to do and a week later I'm Puerto Rico playing winter ball God that was and then added to the 40-man roster so I was invited to spring training in 82 yeah and that was that was the break that I needed to really yeah just golly take a look at me you know kind of thing God that's got to be you know it's it I I remember the frustration with comedy and not to once again I'm just trying to relate I remember the frustration with comedy but and but there was this intangible in comedy it's like you could have killed as hard as you wanted but someone could always write you off and say oh yeah but it's not that great of material he's not that smart he's just a he's there's a likeability that he's got there's all these people's opinions are are really what move it forward because the the front office back in the day they never really come around and watch players or anything they they'd rely on the managers and coaches to send in reports and then they would evaluate the reports of what they sent in they didn't get to see you playing on a daily basis it's not like today where they I'm sure they have live feeds of games and clips of games and oh they have so many uh cross Checkers that they go around and and make sure that this guy's ready to be called up and all of that hey go watch this guy for a week let's see what we got and various things like that but back in the day they just fill out reports and send them in and then when I made the ball Club in in 82 Ralph Hal was my manager and he goes yeah he goes uh uh the the the manager in uh in Winston Salem and Bristol he was sending in reports that you couldn't field and I went really he goes well you open my eye here in spring training because Carney Lanford play the first five and I'd play the end of the game yeah well I said dude I'm diving for everything and I'm I'm going to I don't care where it is I'm getting dirty I'm diving and all this and dive make a play throw the guy out and everything like this he says we all knew you could hit you're just seeing if you could field and you opened a lot of eyes here wow and I went well I appreciate that but wow it's sort of like okay they're sending bad reports on you and really the the reports aren't kind of true yeah and that's that's the disturbing part about a majority of that and I well when I was with Tampa Bay and the assistant general manager I went down to see Josh Hamilton play for a week yeah and uh him and uh Joe Kennedy so when I got back to Chuck Lamar and filling out the reports they got a rating system 8020 and everything in there what is it got a 75 arm 70 speed and all this I wrote on the report should be in the big leagues tomorrow really that's all I wrote I didn't evaluate him I didn't put anything in there I said he needs to be in the big leagues tomorrow that's all I put so I'm in my office and here comes Chuck Lamar he's screaming bogs get in here get in here what the hell is this he's showing me the report and I said what that's my opinion he should be in the big leagues tomorrow you don't need to evaluate any numbers he can play in the big leagues right now yeah so that was how Dynamic this kid was at 18 years old and I said he's just he's the best thing I've ever seen yeah he was spectacular he was special and God he was spectacular accident and then he got you know down the the Wayward path and everything like that he he was just I mean he was a man playing with boys that's basically what he was he was a man playing with boys and and he for those seven days he put on a spectacle oh my God homers stolen bases he I'll hit a triple for you this time and you talk about fly he could absolutely fly really yeah he he was he was one probably the best 18-year-old kid I've ever seen I didn't get to see A-Rod at 18 or anything uh but or griffy at 18 but I I guarantee I didn't see Bryce Harper 18 or something like that but but Josh Hamilton was he was a cats meow really was we who is H who's playing for um uh the Yankees right now bat and forth uh the big kid judge yeah so Aaron judge where we go to a Yanke game recently and uh Aaron judge is up at bat he's just he's spect I mean he's amazing and then whoever gets up to bat next I go how tiny is he and they go what do you remember this speed I go I go I go and they go well like no he's like 62 and I go no he's not 6'2 if he's 6'2 then Aaron judge is 67 and someone goes I think he's 66 I was like he's six6 well it's it's funny when judge and altu get to NE uh stand next to each other like on second base yeah I like oh my gosh look at that gosh that's uh yeah what what is Josh Hamilton doing now do you know no idea he's out of he's out of baseball I haven't I haven't heard anything yeah whether or not he's involved with baseball but I it bums me out when you see especially I'm I am a big drinker when you when you see that get the best of someone or or or drugs and alcohol it it breaks my heart cuz I just want to go yeah it's a it's a a path that some guys take and and you know I mean it's documented with Doc and and strawberry and all of that and and strawberry would come down to rehabs down here uh down in Tampa I remember yeah and same with Doc Gooden like just it it's crazy and I'm I'm certain people probably look at me and go uh but you know but you you know when you do drink or whatever clearly I I'm enough in the in the in my swing Zone where I can take care of myself I make sure I go to sleep I make sure I work out I may not be the healthiest version of myself when I'm partying but I I I do my best and it's hasn't I'd hear stories about Josh amilton where he'd be like he'd be doing great and then all of a sudden just it would and and it that bums me out yeah yeah it's a shame it bums me out because you you as well you're you're one of those guys that old school they don't make them anymore I don't think that is made anymore it's like but it's the thing that obviously ly and I and we'll jump ahead for a second but the legend of you I mean you know there are kids that are doing this I think Pete was one of them he knows you through always sunny right and not your your legendary career right like that's crazy and I heard your son is the one that convinced you to do Always Sunny uh finally talk me into it right I had turned it down originally really yeah and he says Dad you don't know you know how big this is it's massive it's huge it's massive it's almost like you've gotten this second life this legendary secondary Life Brett's in it Brett's in it for more seconds than I am I think I'm in for a minute 47 seconds and he's in for like 220 he's the one that gets all the cans poured in his lap when they're talking and they pour all the cans in his lap reading the magazine right there I'll tell you this is going to sound absolutely sacrilegious I have not seen that and I will tell you this I said this to CAD or my C this morning I don't even know the story I know the story that apparently you drank like 100 beers from from a cross country trip 73 s wait wait hold on can can you do me the will you tell me the legend tell me the story because I don't know I I all I know about you is your career right and then and then this is like the it's like it's like going like no I I I know of King Kong but I didn't haven't heard about the Empire State Building yeah exactly you're own skull Island yeah you're Skull Island really so so what is the story if you don't mind the Skylight calendar I'm blown away I love my Skylight frame now they have a skylight calendar the Skylight calendar is a smart touchcreen calendar and organizer for all your chores groceries and to-dos it automatically syncs all of the different 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Day game and we're leaving Boston we're flying to La so you pack some Ries to the airport and all of this and you got them in your case very excited so you pack some Ries to the airport and depending on traffic you're don't want to leave yourself short yeah okay so you get on the plane and I was playing blackjack with some other players and and was taking a couple sips and yeah I'll take another one I'll take another one and dealing dealing take a couple sips yeah I'll take another one so I was like two sipping beers and and we're we're probably over Nebraska or somewhere like this and and card game's going well and one of the players looks at me and goes boxy you realize you you you had like 51 beers I went really didn't seem like it okay all right cool he says we still got another hour to go I said well let's see how many we can get then so the the final tally was 7 three get off the plane and uh so five or six of us decided to go down to the Red Onion down in lagona Beach yeah and wound up having a total of 107 was the final total for the day and the next day we're facing Mark Langston and wound up going two for three with two walks and two doubles off of Mark Langston the next day holy [ __ ] that's awesome so it was one of those um don't try it at home kind of things but please do don't try it when you you know you're on the road or something and uh so now it it it it it grew and grew and grew and Always Sunny had approached me about them the episode was uh uh gang beat bogs and they were going to try to reproduce it from Philly to LA and see if they could beat my record yeah well they it was the the writing in it was was spectacular I mean it it was absolutely spectacular and how when I saw the final product and it was all put together and and I'm I'm a ghost kind of imagery that that Charlie's looking at and and they're all doing things on the plane and and Danny DeVito is just he's an absolute Hood I love Danny to death and and uh and and actually the producer came over and asked me if my son wanted to be in it and I said yeah he said but he can't talk he doesn't have a sag card I said oh okay all right so they bumped somebody out of the seat one of the extras bump them out of the seat Brett sits down so they're talking talking talking then dump all the hands in Brett's lap and all of that and so he got to be a a part of show it's really neat and uh great like I said originally I'd turned it down because I I I didn't really like to promote that yeah but you know I I well it happened I can't and then my wife Debbie sits there and goes well bad publicity is better than well it's it's funny because it's what it's the lead in a lot of these kids will have it it sounds crazy but you know if these days if you don't have a crazy haircut or or tats on your face no one's watching yeah and and you need you know I mean I was a I was a busting my ass as a comic forever and then all of a sudden when I everyone heard that I got involved with the Russian mafia and robbed a train it was like okay now we and I'm shirtless all the things it's like the stamp and it's like these kids these days go oh I know we bogs and you're like and I come at it from like a pure fan standpoint and everyone's brought it up to me and I go yeah I I know the story I've heard but like I don't know what I was like yeah those are those seem like the days the I would have liked playing baseball I mean that that was a neat thing when when I got to do cheers um I approached John magnam in spring training I said uh Mack I got an opportunity to go to La I said I said I just need two days off can you give me two days off he says absolutely not I said no you don't understand I'm doing a a TV show Cheers Cheers what is it I said well it's a bar in Boston kind of thing and all of that and and they wrote a script about me into the show get out of here I'll cover for you so M let me go so I go out and go through rehearsal and wardrobe and makeup and and and all of that and and and Jim burough comes out and and couple of the other directors and and said you know it's be it's going to be filmed in front of a live audience and I went well how many people it's probably 1,700 I said Mr Burrows I play in front of 51,000 little teeny audiences you know maybe we're in Cleveland or somewhere that's 1700 but other than that it won't bother me and he goes okay all right and we go through it one take we did it in one take really they chase me out of the bar and I'm running and they bring the pants back everyone said their lines and and AD lived a little a little bit especially cury alley oh God Rest her soul um especially cury alley when she said Weed B and did it that way and I went oh sort of startled me but no one missed a beat and so all of a sudden I'm up at the top of the stairs where they ran me out and I hear cut wrap put in the can and I went no way we're done come on I flew to La for this one take so one take wads right around you know he just one take W that's it one take Wade I'm 10 take Bert it takes me forever the uh that what was uh like you played you played when they started like I say cleaning up baseball but like where beers were where tobacco was no longer in the clubhouse like uh towards the end of my career towards the end of your career yeah I mean um us tobacco um it was like a convenience store I mean you had skull Copenhagen Garrett Redman I chewed during the game for uh for 10 years 10 years I chewed during the game and the last eight years I just went to gum yeah um and then dipped until my uh father passed away and then moved on from that yeah but I mean there just rolls and rolls of Copenhagen and skull for these guys they just line them up in the dugouts and back when I broke in in 882 guys were smoking in the Dugout really yeah and I I I thought that was kind of like weird but you know and you look at Jim Leland you know he's lighting up heaters all over the place and and Earl Weaver you know they're all all those the old timey guys are always smoking in the uh Dugout but but that was yeah it was and then uh Major League Baseball Bandit and said you know no more and then Clubhouse guys couldn't go out and buy it for you or they were fired so that's how Major League Baseball if you want to bring it yourself and then they said no more uh no more spitting on the field and so that sort of took out like if you got a Chaw in and you're sitting there I'm not going to swallow it yeah so I'm spitting on the field you know and so that was that sort of fin line like you know guy's going to 7-Eleven or what have you to get his own chewing de Backa and and and you're telling him he can't spit on the field but you know he he can chew it if he buys it himself and I went wow that's kind of kind of crazy but yeah but uh yeah there I mean there're a lot guys just eat seeds nowadays I I don't think there there are a lot of chewers or Dippers any anymore I I don't see anybody with a a big Chew in with a big Chew in and and majority of guys don't play with dip in because it it just moves all over your mouth and swallow it if you head first slide or something like that but I chew tobacco we could Chew Tobacco my senior year I mean you could Chew Tobacco if you wanted to during the games or especially during Legion ball uh I just I was I I'd get a buzz and I couldn't and I'd be like well now I'm buzzed I why don't I just play drunk I was like I'm out out but yeah I quit I quit dipping tobacco when I was in college I dipped from like ninth grade until college and I miss it every single day I loved it so much I they have a thing Buffalo zero that uh has no nicotine in it right and I'll sneak those in just just for the smell just for the ritual the smell and the scent and the putting it in and then but then ultimately you're like all right just stain in my teeth there you go yeah the uh but that's uh that's crazy what was what were beers always allowed in the locker rooms oh yeah yeah yeah that's the best what was what was your did you have a postgame ritual like do you look back it's like I right now I'm not drinking on the road and I and it's I'm hyper aware of just what my getting off stage cocktail in uh Starbucks class sitting down eating dinner and decompressing the show with the other Comics like and and I miss said a little bit I've changed it I've changed it now just because I'm not boozing but I'll start again in a couple weeks but did you have a postgame ritual not really at home I had to drive home so I had all the kids and the wife and everything like that so I I didn't drink after the games yeah I just go home have a bite to eat after the game couple hot dogs some barbecue chips or something like that and an iced tea yeah and then Saturday night Debbie and I would go out and and and eat drink and and that with friends and and that kind of thing Road's different I mean you're not driving you're taking cabs everywhere and you're you're just nothing to do basically on the road so so we just you know guys go hey let's let's go to here and just hang out and have some beers who's the funnest guy to be on the road with I I had quite a Jimmy key he was a left-handed pitcher came over to New York from uh Toronto um he was a good running buddy um believe it or not one of one of our jobs in New York was to keep Steve H straight really yeah yeah to keep him off the cocaine we had to take his room key we had to make sure we had to tape his door to where he didn't open the door during the night and so yeah that was M Mr steinbruner called uh Jimmy key and myself in and said uh you take care of that how we we need him pitching down the stretch and all of that I I said yeah boss we we take care of him yeah and uh keep him off you know keep him out of Hawaii I mean he'd get he'd get boomed up and and get on a plane and go to Hawaii for real yeah he went up in Hawaii one time like anybody seen doie I think he's in Hawaii he woke up on a beach in Hawaii one time oh yeah so so how what was uh if you compare and I know this is probably sacrilege in baseball but playing New York playing in New York versus playing in Boston and the fans is it a similar experience I had the best of both worlds two two great two the best knowledge the knowledge that those two fan bases have yeah the amount of History that's come through both cities um the amount of great players that have come through both cities um and having an opportunity to go to World Series for both individual clubs MH but I I think that that when I was there and and us trying to break the curse from 1918 that that was the big thing that that sort of upset me to the to the fact that we couldn't get the job done it was up to us to break the curse and thank God for 2004 came along and they finally won yeah and since then they won four championships uh in Boston and I think that that the negativity of that fan base has changed immensely and I mean in the in the lean years it was pretty miserable in Boston I mean fans they didn't have a lot to brag about now they've got a lot to brag about yeah and not so much in New York right now because they're struggling as as mightily as you can imagine but um yeah it was it was a transition that I I really never had in the back of my mind I was going to go to New York yeah did you that my first contract offer when I was a free agent in 1992 was uh uh the Dodgers really yeah they offered me a year and a year with an option and I wanted I wanted longer security yeah and I didn't think I was going to get it with a year and an option in LA and then have to go after they didn't pick up my option then I got to go someplace else and the second call was Mr steinbrener really so then we met at the uh the causeway over here at Mr steer's uh uh hotel and at that time he was suspended uh for all the uh allegations against Dave Winfield and and various things like that so Joe Malloy uh his son-in-law uh met with my agent and I Alan Nero and and uh said that uh Hey with a 11 million for 3 years keep you in uh uh pen stripes and I went well I'm going to have to go out and call my wife on my uh poror cell phone so I run outside say honey we're going to New York hung up and she and so then after the meeting I called her back and she was frantic about what what I mean you didn't tell me anything I said I didn't have to I had to get back before they changed their mind and and at the time we're sitting at a table like this there was a table next to the window and really didn't pay any attention to the gentleman over there reading the newspaper so I said I said well you got yourself a Yankee and the paper lowers it's Mr steinbrener and he Winks at me [ __ ] and he Winks at me oh and I went Hi boss and so boom I'm a I'm a I'm a Yankee and I went wow this it's going to be great my first time back in Boston God oh it was it was loud [ __ ] it was loud what was your relationship with Boston at the time uh was it contentious you leaving there the uh I was sort of run out of town I was sort of I heard I was run out of town Mrs Yaki at the end of the 91 season had called Debbie and I over at the last game of the season we're in the parking lot leaving and her driver comes over and says Mrs joaky would like a word with you and I said oh yeah absolutely and so I walk over and and uh so I said Mrs Yaki I said uh what's on your mind she said um I need to ask you a question if this is possible said would 37 million for seven years keep you in Boston I said Mrs Yaky do you have a napkin I said where's a pen and a napkin I'll sign it right now yeah oh no no no don't worry about it Lou and John will get a hold and and we'll we'll iron it out and all of this January 2nd she slips and falls in a tub and 9 January 2nd '92 slips and Falls in a tub and dies I go to spring training in March they take the offer off the table it's off the table they come back with a year and an option with a very little raise or anything like this and I said wow so we negotiate all the way through spring training and then my agent said after spring training we're not going to negotiate anymore so then I was the bad guy I was a bad guy and so now going through the season and and and The Herald the globe would write articles about me and this and that oh my God I can't imagine and just getting buried and getting buried to the fact and and and various players came out and said oh he's he's not a good teammate and this and that and I'm going what where's all this coming from an anonymous source and I'm going really there's an anonymous source it's okay who's that anonymous source and and so at the end of the season they didn't pick up my arbitration rights and I became a free agent and then the Boston Globe and Harold and all of those right that that Wade bogs the trador is going to New York for less money and all of this just to win a championship and to win a championship the Yankees are in last place yeah all the time I'm going there to win a championship to a last place team no I'm going there with an opportunity to play and and possibly build a team and win a a championship because Boston evidently didn't want me yeah and then 2016 comes around and Sam Kennedy for the Red Sox says hey wait we're going to retire your number in Boston one of the greatest days of my life yeah other than the birth of Brett mean my children I mean other than that one of the greatest days of your life now I'm back in The Graces I work for the Red Sox now and and everything your number full circle was your number given to another dude when you went to yeah Lum Maloney are you serious the very next year when I went to the Yankees they gave it they gave it out they well actually it was they gave it to a um a Venezuelan pitcher and a call up in September yeah and then the next year Lum Maloney uh took it for a couple to three years and and every time I'd see him on the field I said hey Lou you you getting all those hits that I left in that uni oh yeah okay one of those and then Brock H had it when they retired it so actually he took it off of his back and gave it to me at the presentation at the FanFest and all of that and at least he did the right thing yeah and and and I I kind of wish my dad had an opportunity to see my number retired because it was going to go up next to Ted and to see my number alongside Ted would have would have just been unbelievable for my dad cuz in spring training my dad had sit in the Dugout and talk to Ted for hours really unbelievable yeah they had a great relationship they talk about the war and and various things like that but I'd said Dad how much time did you talk about hitting no probably 45 minutes and I went I'll be damn 45 minutes with Ted Williams there you go and that was his that was his because he just idolized Ted yeah you know to the fact that the greatest player that ever walked the planet so but and then my dad got to meet Stan muel at the hall of fame and oh wow and bend his ear and and every and Al Kine and and talk to them about watching them play when he was young and all of that so that was a neat part about that yeah God I should have had a boy I could I would love I would love that that would have been funny as [ __ ] yeah that's who who was was there a change of ownership in 2016 that that made the decision to retire your number um yeah was it was it the new people now one person left one person left one person left and Sam Kennedy said that uh we're gonna we're gon to make this happen that's and I went wow and so now working for the Red Sox and the relationship's phenomenal and I I couldn't be happier it's funny I know I mean I I when I think of you I definitely think Red Sox I definitely think Red Sox yeah I do I well actually I do too because I spent five and a half years in the minor leagues and then 11 in the big leagues and so many great things but the moment in the sun is the horse I mean that's it's it's it's the that's the greatest thing I ever did like it made me a lot of money with that horse picture I bet I know so wait what's the so that is the for for people who don't know you guys win the world ser Series right we're dog piled on the mound and everybody's just and I'm crying like a little 12-year-old kid you won the world W the World Series and so we're just and I'm hugging Wetland I'm kissing Wetland I'm and everybody's and I'm on the bottom with Wetland and then somebody in the dog pile said hey let's take a Victory lap and the strange thing about this is new usually New York Sports you got to rush off the field because the fans are storming the field yeah and and they all stood in front of their seats and applauded no one charged the field I mean Believe It or Not There were 450 police horses around the field so they couldn't get on the field but everybody just applauded so to reward them we took a Victory lap next thing I know I'm in left center field on the back of a police horse I have no idea how I got up on this police horse and I'm riding around with number one like flash bulbs are going off and and then the the iconic picture with me and the police officer and bow the horse and and I'm doing number one and I've never gone back to look at the video to see how I got up on that horse really I don't want to know I don't want to know it's just it's it's just I and I'm making eye contact with everybody in the stadium practically and waving to them and pointing at them and and doing this and everybody's taking a picture taking a picture taking a picture and and not to win a championship in 18 years and the very first image that you see is me on a police horse that sort of signifies in a in a time capsule if they were to ever put that in there that they open the Time Capsule and go oh that's 1996 Yankees won the World Series yeah I just I moved to I moved to New York the very next year I moved to New York the next year and uh there was a comic that told a story about that he had snuck into that game with a press pass and he had ended up on the field and he was was saying it was this he would tell the story on stage but he was like [ __ ] way bog [ __ ] way bog that I'm a kid from Tampa yeah listen to the story going [ __ ] way it's F it's such an epic picture such an epic it really was really was and and I mean it was just like not scripted at all and like I said I don't know how I got up on that horse and and a police horse they're about 22 hands high if and I mean you need a a small ladder to just to get up on the back of one of these horses and and I don't know if I had Assistance or what have you but it it was worth it God yeah it was fun is there anyone you is there anyone like as a like as an it in retrospect that you go man I would have loved to play I would have fit in great on that team like I always used to look at the Phillies butra and and Kook and and those lunatics I go I bet I would have had fun on that team oh yeah that the the insanity Yankee years yeah with Reggie and all I mean they had you know they had Craig nuttles I mean I wouldn't G I would beat him out but but yeah with all of those with goose and gri and and oh I mean those are two of my they used to they used to play those on they used to play those on like I think channel 48 in Tampa yeah and and they play the Yankees games yeah I mean the Bronx bombers you know and and and and they were always on the back page for either getting a fight in an elevator Billy Martin was he was beating up somebody or or something like that but uh yeah because I I mean I just love goose and I love Gator and and every chance that I get when I'm around them it's like God we get along so great together it would have been great to you know play with them and yeah that's probably one of the where I would have fit in yeah the the I the the the sexy years of of bil Martin and Mickey Manel in those years the Yankees were pretty [ __ ] legendary yeah big time I would have Lov those 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bunt and thought that was the neatest thing ever and he goes he goes okay what's his name I said uh Winfield he goes to Winfield all the best Mickey Manel I went oh my God my dad's just gonna flip out over this one so was yeah and then coincidentally um I think he passed away about two two weeks after Oldtimer day that year but I had that was the only time I had ever met him wow and you know you walk in and bigger than life you know mck oh my gosh Mickey Manel and it's like oh Lord and I mean that that was a neat thing about not knowing Hall of Famers when I got to the Hall of Fame and I'm going wow I get to meet Bob Feller and I get to meet Lou Brock I get to meet Stan muel you know and and the names just keep going and going and going and I'm going oh my gosh you know all the greats that I watched when I was a little kid you know I mean Hank Aaron walks in and I'm shaking like crazy and I mean I listen to all the Milo Hamilton and Ernie Johnson radio broadcast Here Comes Hank Aon up to the poite and I'm going oh my gosh you know you just get goosebumps there it goes it's it's a deep Drive left center field and Home Run hammer and Hank Aon and I'm going oh my God you know you just get goose bumps listen to the radio and that's all we had back in Brunswick and and going out to the ninth here we go we got we got to we got to hold them Braves and and we got Phil Negro going for the for the complete Game you know you're just all these going through your mind and here I am going to my dad's softball games in in Brunswick Georgia and I'm six seven years old listening to the Braves games on a on a 69 or 63 Comet gosh yeah yeah that we went you know it's you forget the people that have uh real estate in your head the the names that you remember uh growing up you know there was um we just went to the uh negro Baseball Hall of Fame in Kansas City in Kansas City and I was a big buck O'Neal fan but Bas mostly from the documentary that um that uh Ken Burns did right Buck O'Neal just stood out as just such a just a big personality and they were showing uh they had a they have a whole thing for Latin American picturers and J.R Richards who I I'm I mean that was when the Astros were the Astros that was when that was like in the the biggest and I just went holy crap I I haven't thought of that name in so many years but I know that I know J.R Rich oh my gosh right and I went through that Latin American pitch thing and I was like holy cow all these names come out to me they all stand out and then and then and then uh Bob Gibson and I was like I I I remember when he was in flipper like like I mean this is just it's just crazy to me how much how much all these Legends even as you name the names I go oh yeah like it's just crazy right I mean it's amazing how you know baseball doesn't have the imprint it did on me as a child I don't know if it still does I have a hard time because and I think you'll understand this maybe but like I never had a team because I grew up in Tampa right because I was grew up in Tampa we didn't I we didn't have the Rays we didn't have the Marlins there was no teams down here so the first team I really got into is the Yankees because I moved to New York and we go to Yankees games and that is such it was such a legendary field the old one yeah it was so insan the grand old lady oh oh my gosh but I was an Oakland a fan living in Tampa really 72 73 74 oh that makes sense I mean you know and my palmaia Senior League team is green and gold yeah so I had nine I had nine for Ted Williams and Reggie Jackson I wore nine so you know and Tampa Florida you're an Oakland aan I never saw them on TV unless they were on the game of the week yeah you know you you basically just read about them a little bit in the newspaper but every time they were on TV Reggie was going deep or or V BL was you know striking out 17 and and here comes uh Raleigh into the game and he's saving it and and then you got to see them a lot in the postseason yeah I mean that's where I became the fan because they were always in the postseason yeah they were the only team in the you know and and oh back in the early days and like 70 when the Orioles were on TV and all the games were at one o'clock in the afternoon and I mean that was we had the Cubs would would come through to Tampa meaning like the the the station I think that was probably early TBS right is the Cubs the Yankees cuz Stein Brer lived in carolwood he had a house in carolwood and so Stein Brer the Yankees and then I think spring training for the Yankees was over by the bucksfield was over was down here but the spring training for the Reds was down here too so you were a Reds fan also well that that was at the complex right over here but they had Al Lopez field yeah the red the Reds trained here the Yankees were in Fort Lauderdale oh the Yankees were in Fort Lauderdale Yankees were laudale baltim in Miami they moved here in high school correct 96 yeah yeah 96 was uh the first year that we moved from Fort Lauderdale to here really yeah gosh so I spent two years of spring training with the Yankees here and then signed with the Rays and spent 98 99 spring training in St Pete oh that that's crazy yeah yeah do you do you do you wear baseball hats ever no that's crazy I don't don't even play this sport I wear them nonstop I know I love baseball hats I I've it's just I wear to play golf you know or fish or something like that but not with a team on it or anything along those lines what was retirement like for you difficult yeah yeah yeah extremely difficult because I was healthy um I was probably in the best shape at 41 that I had ever been in my life I'd figure out my back situation through chiropractor and so that and I just had knee surgery but it I was ready in nine days MH and they put me on the 60-day DL yeah and when they did that then the next year I had an option for 2000 and they didn't pick up the option and then I decided do I want to go do something else or just right off into the sunset and it was a it was a long tedious process of four to five days of just nothing but looking in the mirror and asking yourself when you cross the bridge there's no turning back and a couple of times I got halfway across and I would walk it back a little bit and then after about the fifth day I said are you ready to cross the bridge and that's when I crossed the bridge called my agent and said I'm done and and emotional because I knew I could still play I I just needed a place to play and I I it's kind of emotional but I I didn't want to be one of those guys that hung on to the end and everybody goes man he should have retired like two or three years earlier and so then the Rays offered me the assistant GM job and that's was terrible I hated being in the front office and so then I told Chuck Lamar uh they just gotten rid of their hitting coach I said uh I said I'll throw my name in the Hat so I had an interview in spring training in 2001 with Larry Roda I said or in January I said I'd like to be the hitting coach well how can you teach Fred McGriff and and Vinnie Castilla and Greg vaugh and all these guys how to hit home runs I said very simple don't change their swing okay oh that's [ __ ] brilliant don't change your swing there's yeah that's that's so many people try to change swings and say you got to do it this way no don't change your swing because if you try to change the swing they're not going to hit home runs yeah and so it was a difficult job and then at that time my son was was uh becoming a freshman in high school and I said you know what I think I get more enjoyment out of coaching my son for four years than I would traveling around the United States yeah and that's what I did for the 21 years to coach High School baseball here in Tampa at Wharton so that was a lot of fun very rewarding but the one thing we didn't do is when the state championship we came close a couple times but um I I think that that would have been the last little piece of the puzzle that would have would have sat really well to win a state championship and and and I mean it just you look around Tampa so I mean I think um I think it was Strawberry Crest just won this year yeah Strawberry Crest or um wasn't Bloomingdale I think it was Strawberry Crest just won the state championship this no I'm sorry sickles sickles won really and yeah and Jesuit always going to the state playoffs but um I saw one of those kids last night at the Bucks game he was like he came out to our batting practice last year epic I was like oh thanks I was like I'll be back this year I can't to see how I hit on steroids perfect yeah there you go a lot more homers a lot more a lot more homers that uh that would be nice I would love that that seems like a it seems like perfect a perfect Dismount is to come out of the pros and Coach coach at home would be awesome yeah I still got to put on the uniform I you know I still got to teach baseball and ride the yellow buses around to various schools and all of that good stuff so I bet yeah yeah the the retirement thing I'm I'm trying to figure out cuz it's hard with comedy that you don't ever really need to retire because you can always work they always find you know you can always do spots you can always do standup and I think we're at a weird part of this this generation is it's the rules have been different you know like even David Spade's not that much older than me so it's not like not like David Spade's 70 even though he's had like easily 20 more successful years than I've had like if not 35 I mean he's been right like but he's we're the same roughly the same age it's just comedy's changed so much I I was saying to my C to today cow head I call him cow head still I was saying I was saying to him uh I was like maybe I'll do like a couple more tours and then I'll do like another movie or do a TV show and then then maybe I'll just call it quits at 55 and get get a boat and he was like you could never do that and I can't imagine how difficult walking away from baseball would have been walking away from baseball me for me in real life was tough to to to walk away from a game to walk away from a game that I played since I was I mean since I was the four or five sure and that day that I decided to stop playing baseball was a very very emotional day and by myself in college at 18 years old uh walked off the Florida State field in back to the dorm luckily I had marijuana to soften my Landing we got high and and I sat in this room in the high in the dark and I thought so I'm done playing baseball like I'll never need my baseball glove again yeah like I'm it was it was like little things like I I have like I had all my gear up because I thought I was going to play and I just was like no I'm done and I literally said I think I'm going to focus on partying and it worked out wow oddly enough it worked what about what about having a residency in Vegas you ever thought about that that type of I had a good friend who got offered to rese in Vegas and I told him I said buddy I think this is the best thing you could ever do and he died like six months later really in Vegas maybe not the best shout out to Ralphie B there you go I I was I would I would I would thrive in residency in Vegas I would Thrive I would love it I would love it I would love it yeah I would love mean I I would I would think anybody at the top of their profession in my opinion it would be a no-brainer because every night you have so many different people coming through the venue and they're coming to Vegas just to see you yeah you know I mean you go to you go to Minnesota you go to Washington or you you go wherever various people don't get to see you but people will fly to Vegas just to see you oh yeah and I I think that that that's one one of the neatest things is the people at the height of their industry if they yeah I want I want a residency of Vegas okay I'm going to do Wednesday to Wednesday to Sunday or something like that or or whatever the days are and anything like this and uh you know they put you up in the big Penthouse and and all of that good stuff and oh I already I've already mapped it out I have I have different scenarios that I build out in my life like one is me and Tom were s girl were talking about this if my wife left me so I have to find a city where she doesn't want to go because I'd be devastated I'd be devastated so like I Key West uh New Orleans she doesn't want to go to Key West my wife is such a drip that's the greatest place on the planet it is [ __ ] awesome oh sloppy and Uncle Tony oh my God I love Q qest is the best we we have fishing tournaments down there all the time and and it's just so laidback and and it it's terrific it really is God I bet I bet the games do they do they still do like celebrity games and baseball games in Florida in Tampa they used to do that when I was a kid or maybe it was uh alumni games alumni games alumni we used to have those yeah yeah they used to do alumni games God Bob Feller would still pitch in them it was yeah it was crazy yeah I played in a few of those after I retired and Mark Harmon and I won a home run home run derby before one of the alumni games yeah over in uh Clearwater yeah at the uh Phillies field really yeah so Mark Harmon's my partner in the in the thing and and we went up against allot and another actor or something like this and and and I said I said you do know one thing that allot cannot beat us I mean all you know Mike allot when he walks in it's like ja a he's he's cut like the Hope Diamond and so I'm sitting there going he they can't beat us and I just started finding the jet stream I think I had 15 and they were just right center right center and bombs too and I'm going damnn I might have to come back and start playing again cuz oh the swing's still there they're a lot of fun yeah the uh it's it's been uh I it's one of the things I love the best is we go to these uh we do during the Summers we do a festival called fully loaded where we play at minor league stadiums yeah and so they'll set up the stage like just past second base we'll hang out as comics in the Outfield and like couches they put up couches for us but they fill up the infield they and we sell the stadiums out and inevitably the teams will show up and you and they're always like we heard you're into baseball I'm like yeah they're like you want to take batting practice I'm like you [ __ ] know I do and that's like one of my favorite things that great yeah one of my favorite things I mean you know I'm curious to because like you came to my Tampa show my Tampa show was just thick with like all my heroes and I was like this is this is like the payoff and it sounds like that was your getting into the Hall of Fame of seeing all your Heroes and being like shut like who who you ever shocked that you were like I can't believe you know who I am Frank Robinson Frank Robinson yeah wow yeah yeah I was surprised you knew who I was Willie ma didn't know who I was when I was on the bus going to the uh induction that Sunday morning he told me to get off the bus are you serious I'm on the bus in the back you know and I'm sitting there he goes who are you and I went Wade bogs he goes you ain't allowed on this Buzz I went I'm I'm going in it's my induction year what no and I went yeah it's me don't me to get off the bus I went oh okay here we go then I think uh uh who was behind who behind him Bob Gibson or somebody and uh and Gibby said Willie what you doing harassing bogs he goes trying to kick him off the bus he goes he's going in today and they were just going back at each other and I'm I'm sitting there nervous anyway yeah and that didn't help golly yeah that didn't help that's [ __ ] yeah well I got to be honest with you man I it it is been an honor to thank you I appreciate the invite I I am I appreciate the invite I cannot express to you I and I I'm only certain that you may have felt this with other people in your in your life but like what an important part of baseball you've been to any kid that grew up in Tampa but and I and I say that exclusively from my experience but to me independently I like I said to follow you and then and then to follow right after you to go to New York right after you went moved to New York and start my standup and then it's just been and without a doubt my dad was not impress he was impressed he just isn't a very vocal man and when I did Emily he texted me and he said Wade bogs is here and I said I said yeah I know and he goes do you think he knows who you are I said well he's about to find out like I'm going on stage I'll definitely introduce myself when I get on stage and he goes can you believe this and I and I wrote back actually Dad I can't believe it but you're making me a little nervous like and then for to have you backstage and and my dad there and it was just it was like such a like like there's very few times that you get to feel I think in this life like you've made it and I know that's such a a shallow phrase like you've made it but I'll tell you without a doubt W but you made me feel like I made it thank you brother I appreciate thank you I appreciate that no thank you and and I'll tell you what I gotta I got to bring you out if you ever want to come out to LA I do a cooking show I'd love to have you out I got a cookbook for you for real yeah really my wife and I wrote a cookbook it's called foul tips yeah I just got it that's great well let's do it we'll bring out and we'll that' be fun yeah that'll be a blast that' be fun hell yeah thank you so much all right man my [Music] [Music] pleasure