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all right before we get started very full disclosure to our viewers we go way way way way way back my 20s early 20s way way back since I was on the radio and what o6k miel so I've known you since long before I got with the Giants so let's be friends like we really are our people okay this is real talk right here yeah yeah this is really full circle for me here today and there's so much to cover but so little time so you've had such a remarkable career let's just start at the very beginning growing up in the Bay Area in San Carlos and growing up obviously everybody knows your late father was a fantastic major leaguer your Godfather Willie Mays so talk a little bit about being a little boy growing up with major leaguers in your family and in your life like that well my dad's in it was difficult because my dad's wanted you to be perfect do you know my dad was always like you would always never like do enough cuz I guess you know you have my it's like when I have kids now too so you have three kids my dad was push push push push I went to that direction like it drove me you know some people would go the other my brother still my brother went this way I went this way my sister went this way and that always that made me want it Willie was the type when I was a little boy the huggy lovey you're great I love you I'm there so I have both sides between those two but I grew up in a great community you know that's the key I don't I don't think my dad and Willie yes they were huge part of it don't get it but as a kid you have your friends so what about your wanting me to go back I was grateful for William my dad but I was even probably more grateful for my friends I grew up in athletic community I mean all we did was play basketball football baseball and every single one of my friends it's all we did and you excelled it and all of those sports but what was baseball always your dream to follow in the footsteps of your dad and and Willie not at first really it was just to ride my big wheel skateboard I played hockey I skate every Friday I'm a bad one ice skating a little kid Reese's cardboard slide down the hill and I wanted to be like this the number one best cardboard slider we should rope swing off the cliff switch crazy nowadays when you had to down hill and we said tie ropes up on it on these trees and swing up and see how far we could swing come back I grew up with the brown a bunch of kids that were we watered skied we skied we ice skated big wheeled we skateboard it we did so many different things it's like I try to say I did well to adapt a lot in everything in mind in sports like I said I'm okay and respectful in any sport I was just only really talented in one pay to see a picture of you ice skating I would love to say hey I don't do pretty good cuz Allen think you know before he passed away in Robin Thicke we used to take all the kids and play hockey down in LA and we just he used to I didn't do it he rented the whole ice skating rink we beat him leave my son and played hockey we beat him he goes you don't play hockey and I said matter of fact I have some hockey skates in my garage so let me just go pull out my old pair really in spite of the legacy that you came from the Bay Area's I I was grateful my community I mean I had a really good time in my community we it's hard to explain right now I mean I don't think it's really hard for people to grasp it cuz I think we all grew up in the same kind of communities at different eras of different areas you know some in Oakland some Richmond some San Carlos you know Palo Alto said or so on but I I had great friends I mean really good friends good teachers and I my school it was just a sport environment I mean that's all we did as kids you know we were always outside playing riding I even rode a bike for a little while I'm into bikes now I rode bike yeah but I is a ride like they used to jump the bikes with their mountain bikes kind of like and do all the jumps and I was a little scared to do a jumps to the boys it jump off the cliff I just ride in the dirt come back and go home always believed then that you should try everything yeah and are these are some of these people these friends and teachers still in your life I mean Sarah high school I think it's a brotherhood that never goes away tell me what is so unique and special about Sarah because as we know so many professional athletes have come out of that high school what is it about that program that lifts you guys to these professional Heights it's a brotherhood it's hard to explain right now I mean it's a brotherhood that just never dies I mean Kevin Donahue was my basketball coach and he also was the athletic department head of athletic department in I mean we still talk to this day you know Bob McClure Tampere back you know Rob Larry we still talk about the days back in Stara when we used to have to just like in basketball or football we just said basketballs back in the day well baseball back in the day sorry about that but baseball we had to put the nets in between the basketball hoops because we had to build them ourselves because we didn't have those I love so we used to build them ourselves back there and you know all our parents were always there you know I most of us that went to Sarah also played Little League baseball together in San Carlos in Belmont yeah you know we played against all the guys from Palo Alto Kenny Williams who was in the major leagues and then Jim you know for the White Sox when we go on and on I mean we all went to camp together sixth grade over to John's gulps way up there by Half Moon Bay on the top of 92 that's where I met most my friends from Saint Francis you know so all of that is a brotherhood and then almost of us easing went to Sarah st. Francis Belair man you know and we went all boys school send them and I was like lightning in a bottle in that era too that was a special time then too it was just fun yeah I mean it's a brotherhood it's Sarah I mean it's a unity that never dies yeah we'll get back to Sarah in a moment but I do want to talk about your mom and you particularly as a little leaguer because your dad was always working so you've always talked about the influence that your mom has had on you and her strength talk a little bit about Miss Pat for well my mom was the backbone to kept everybody together I mean everybody knows my dad played baseball you know my dad had a little bit of a drinking problem at those times of stuff so my mom kind of like my mom was always at the Little League game she was always like in the snack bar like that she always drove us but my mom what was was fun because I remember at eat we're not even at times when we were growing up for my dad you know my dad used to tell us I always watch her games but I used to sit on top of the hill so him you know he wouldn't get bothered by everybody but for us was like well dad we won we didn't know you were there we wanted you down here and my mom would always say your dad was there he was there yeah you know you always watched you guys so my mom always reinsured that value of your dad's there but when my dad stopped playing and stuff from when my dad when I started in high school I forget my mom we said you know how you are when you're a kid my mom's the best mama cuz my mom's real yeah she always kept at risk so I remember you know as you get older you're like my mom you have two drivers to score win take the bus right yeah Sarah and I went to Carrie school which is right above Sarah okay so my mom's driving and sometimes you know your mom just ain't gonna get dressed and drop you off at school and stuff like that so mama so funny as a mom you got to drop us off down the street you know cuz we want to walk into the class my mom dropped us it or not a good look all the things that I do for you so my mom would walk us into classes say my kids do not want me to bring them to school but she's our best friend my mom's my best friend my mom is like you know if it wasn't for my mom I think a lot of things would went downhill for us that's how I look at it based on my mom my mom's inner strength things probably would have went different cuz my mom was the one who really was like when I didn't want to play bass far I didn't want to do the things my dad didn't you know mom I don't play baseball my mom took me to baseball practice you know when I was a lily I don't wanna play when I was little really mm-hmm my mom Sagan drove me down there she says you don't want to know what's gonna happen at home if you don't try right and I hit a homerun my first at-bat what a shot you know I hit the ball I don't know if it's a home runs a bunch of errors because we went through all their layers and I would just ran around the bases and I touch home plate and from that time on I told my mom I loved it yeah I mean I came a home playing us like mom yes I like it yeah that's what started my career cuz my mom my mom do you never want us to not try got you know she was the one it's like you know if you can't deal with adversity in life if you can't deal with the struggles to improve or whatever it is did you not want to play baseball because of your dad and your Godfather's you want to forge your own path or it's just an interesting when you were little it just really I was good at it and it was something that I was already good at and so I just want to do something else it was like okay I can hit the ball really far I was a little kid I can catch they always wanted me at first base to catch so I'd catch all the balls and I played shortstop and I'm like okay I want to go ride a bike right one learned how to do this I wanted to do this so I think just as a kid that's just natural it wasn't challenging enough you do become challenging when you got to Sarah is that when it started to kind of click in for you Sarris when I realize how town - I got at baseball mm-hmm when I was in Little League we I just was having fun right you know when I got to high school and Dave Stevens was our coach Mike went coached in and Bob the game started to change a little bit I started to really like it and then I started to understand why do I see things differently from my friends and I'm like I just tell my buddy Bob we played Sacred Heart let go Bob McCarron I'm gonna hit two home runs off this guy watch cuz he always does the same but I didn't understand it then right my hit two home runs right right you know Bob's like really III just start to it thinks it starts literally click in my head when I got into high school and I didn't understand what and then by the time college came my dad I wanted I got drafted by the Giants when I was in high school right but my mind I don't know if there's God or whatever but there's this Pat that said I'm not ready I'm going to college I just wanted to go to that next place and Willie's like you going to college you going to college my dad's like you gonna make whatever decision you want to make my mom is like well you better learn how to manage your money but all good advice from all yeah but I always wanted to be a giant now this was the key Willie was my gosh I wanted to play left field I wanted to be in the same outfit with my dad no really so the Giants drafted me right but it didn't work out I wasn't ready you wanted me I just wasn't ready got you I felt that there was something in my head that was just doing this about baseball and there was I don't know it's like I needed that class like you're going for your master's degree in school next level and I wanted to go to the best baseball school at the time was Arizona State wasn't right and it's like if I can pass this class then I can keep going up keep going up so I took those baby steps and those baby steps worked out for me it most certainly did and something that I think we all admire about you is how you really even at a young age you didn't realize it but you've always been a student of the game you've always paid attention and you've learned and you've watched and you had naturally you had a natural ability you were naturally gifted but it was also important for you to study the game you know we're now I it's hard because the interview is I'm really bad at today so I my daughter I'm introverted private person you know and everyone you know I've decided to just tell my story you know I don't really not say it anymore you know I don't hide behind I don't read well I just don't I can look at a picture a monkey see monkey do if you show me how to fix this and put this chair together I can focus in on it I can do it and I'm gonna do it better than you yeah or I'm gonna practice it to a tee until I am better than you yeah it's how my mind works I've always been like a loner type person you know my kids are helping me a lot to get out like dad no one knows you everyone they write all these things about you they say everything about you and you make zero comments don't understand I'm we know I have an IQ in baseball that is literally off the charts off the charts and I know that I'm not gonna hide behind it anymore I'm not gonna hear what do you think what do you think I think I already know what I know do you not I mean yeah but I'm that person I have people and Friends in mind that work on computers and stuff and they're I mean they're geniuses with these things but they'll have social skills and I was one of those people I have an IQ for sports and baseball and I can tell you a thousand stories and I can teach your kids and I can get with them and I can make them improve and I can do these wonderful things but then when you tell me Barry I want you to go talk to do this and do that my I can't do that I'm I go the other direction because I'm introverted into this loner and that so I'm trying to be open and honest about Who I am well now I've known you since I was in my 20s have you ever seen me out doing crazy stuff in your lifetime I have not I have not I've you're seeing me just I go into my things and I go that way that's what I've observed yeah I do this thing I go this way yeah and it's not it's not because I don't want to be there it's just that I'm overwhelmed by something I'm not overly great at or I'm not good at and so like the same people with the computer I said I go you guys he was well but he's not so sure he doesn't talk is it you this is who he is you're trying to be a friend with someone who doesn't do that you know and so when you explain when I try to explain to people in a they talk to me about sports or baseball what's not sports cuz I only know baseball I mean I know about other sports but I know baseball no it's like when you go over to I go over to my friend and I ask him about a computer and I say well how did you get to did it or this and he looks at me like I don't lost my mind do you know what I mean like how could you not know it's so simple just go put alt T this just I'm going this sounds so complicated but now I'm the same character and bass I got you and interviewing when you asking me well how do you think this in line swing the bat I mean my brain I got it so I'm trying to give me that person to wear so I'm trying to express myself let the world know who I really am and then at the same time try to be more open and and more engaging and so it's gonna take a little time so I'm trying and it's and it's much appreciated and you know what is also so important about it is the young kids and the young athletes that look up to you that might feel the same as you then feel that they have really great skills and knowledge as an athlete but don't excel in other areas but you can still be successful so it's important for you to share that for them I mean we got kids watching now that that probably really speaks to and resonates more so I appreciate you being being open with us it's just unfortunate I played us I had a job in a career that millions of people watching yeah and I did know how to respond to it I felt that okay I'm not good at talking so that's out of the game so I'm gonna show him on the field because that's the one thing I could do yeah so I thought just being quiet was because I wasn't talented at talking about anything I'm gonna just gain your respect and love by just performing and let your work speak okay yeah but it backfired on me a little bit more now that's like life's tough and and and as we always say baseball is a metaphor for life and you learned through baseball to to fight through adversity right because baseball is basically I love how a game of failure is just like life is good and you could have a bad day at the plate one day and the next thing you got to shake that sucker off you playing 162 games a year so and me working in baseball these last 19 years has taught me you know how to approach my life in a different way because it really is a metaphor for life you're always gonna get knocked down but the important thing is you know do you have the character to come back right and battle back the next day and you you've shown that throughout your career yeah yeah let's go to a Pittsburgh drafting you let's go to the Pirates let's talk about that you drafted six overall in 1985 and you made your MLB debut May 30th 1986 what do you remember about that day anything for five I think I struck out three times we were just talking about it right you got a bounce right back from that yes and I went into the clubhouse I didn't make a big stink of it I went down the hallway and I cried like a little baby did you really I called my dad up and I said I'm not ready oh man and he goes what do you mean I said I'm not ready he said did the ball change then sighs I said no he said did the pitch seem any faster than it was before you played came here he said no this isn't what are you not ready about my second I thought about that for a minute I said maybe he just could have been a bad day I said dad it's just like my knees were going like this but I'm the only one who felt them no one saw him but me and I felt like I was and I couldn't stop shaking in my hands and I was like everything I ever worked for is what I wanted yeah but then at the same time I couldn't stop doing this inside what the hell was going on you've done this a thousand times and in a second day I went through this is what we're saying yeah what a great career you had in Pittsburgh and one of the great baseball guys in my opinion of all time is Jim Leyland the best please tell me about playing for him probably the best minima driver played for my life really best friend like a dad but at the same time a mentor jury judge he was everything you know the reason why we had such a great relationship we're now was because Leyland had a different respect for his players he he uh he loved me I mean you could there was a relationship that we had I know everyone goes off that screaming thing that he we had a spring training but that didn't have anything that he did the right thing and I tell everybody he's our manager he did the right thing I didn't have anything to do with it I just got caught in the middle of it crossfire yeah you know the Bill Virdon was just at me about something that happen and I was like I know you know he was talking about but then he's yelling at me you're not gonna yell at me for nothing I Leela jumped in and protected his coach like he's supposed to punish me whatever but no one knows the other half of that story you know because no one ever hears that exactly when I got called in the office and and leader said was an unfortunate thing that that happened and it was very unfortunate that they caught it on tape and yeah Barry you're gonna take a little bit of whatever is gonna happen no but we're gonna get through this together and have your manager just say that to you as a person what's special to me it says no one would have none of them most wouldn't say yeah you know you just deal with the problems he says don't worry about it we're gonna get through this together and he treated us like like men not like boys like real adult athletes that we're learning but at the same time he respected us as adults not oh hey kid you're just in the major leagues and like some of these guys go hey kid I could never do that to and he believed in I never get like you know he didn't he didn't care like if you stretched he didn't care what you did before the game didn't care about any of that he just said prepare yourself at 7:30 1:30 he made things easy like seem easy yeah so one time because of spring training I don't even know if he remembers this you know we're all sitting there and he goes all right I want all you guys to tell me we have 160 games I want every one we're gonna take 62 games off ok you guys pick 62 days you want off now you got a whole team going like this this is a trick question he says so before you guys say anything you can write it down you take whatever you do whatever when thinking this is weird 62 days off man I mean go to Tahiti don't show up he says don't even show up but you owe me 100 ok but then when you calculate that you're like if we win 100 games we're gonna be the playoffs like every year right so he he simplified it things like it was really simple if we were losing by like nine or eight runs in the fifth inning because back in those days we could leave you didn't have to stay at the ballpark okay do you know so when I played right you don't have to you didn't have to stay at the ballpark Lieven believed in off days with his main players so I was one of them Andy Van Slyke was one Bobby Bo you know her to start the the starting players if he gave you an off day he allowed you to pick it so most of you picked that night game to a day game that way tonight so your body can fully cover exactly what an off day he says you're not pinch-hitting you better go you better sit in this whirlpool you better get all the massages you want you better do all the office was off to hit means an off day off day for recovery he believed in like not killing you to just win one game yeah didn't believe I got a chance to ten days in a row with this guy too strong I'm not gonna kill him for a day he didn't believe in exerting his picture like if something happened in the one game we're out by 8 or some runs he just pulled us all out said go home you guys are playing I don't care if it's 20 runs after this but I'm not gonna sacrifice everyone for one day to win a World Series are to win the next game are to win the next five games oh my goodness you mention Bobby Bo Bobby Bonilla your boy my best friend talk to me about your best friend in baseball I met I hit three home runs in Durham in the minor leagues I met Bobby Bo that way he banged on the door and I was in my buddy chip my roommate chip and to still my best buddy - and I go dude there's this big huge dude outside her door and chip looks and goes and who is it guy who hit three home runs in Durham I said me you know as I you know I'm like Bobby's a big boy and um we became friends he said I like tonight and meet you and stuff and we became friends and Bobby Bo's one who taught me the game of baseball I'm in the minor leagues yeah okay because of college you can do anything right now I could we could be up by 10 runs you can still bunt and get on first base I didn't know though the the professional rules sketchy so we were in um one of the minor league trips I can't remember exactly where and we were up like six to one or eight to one and the sixth inning or something so they're playing back a drag bunt it got the first base and the manager on their sights just screaming but I don't think he was screaming at me I don't know what did scream it maybe this picture get in do whatever you know cuz I didn't really pay attention that if I came to the dugout I'm probably boat came up to me he goes he grabbed me said come here kid he says I what's gonna happen next don't do anything I'm like what do you talk about he sits trust me just what's gonna happen next just don't do not oh that's it okay so I get in the batter's box right here yes I got it I understood that real quick went down the first base well really did Iran I got the first face I stood there I looked in the dugout to Bobby Bo and I said thank you he's like you don't bunt that big of a run leave I didn't understand those rules in so Bobby Bo taught me a lot of rules about major-league baseball what you should and shouldn't do wow that's amazing okay so 1993 you leave Pittsburgh you come home finally Larry bear Peter Magowan call you and say it's time for you to come and wear the orange and black like your dad and your you got father and your dad's gonna be your hitting coach Dusty's gonna be your manager tell me about that really cuz the Yankees was in it and the other team were in it too and when the Giants came there was just a no brainer I mean to have the second chance to go back home I mean I had the first chance in high school didn't think it was gonna happen I was probably would who ended up going to New York at the time and they came there was just a no-brainer I mean it was think they could have just said anything at that time I was going home there was that's where I always wanted to be here that's where my dream of life was supposed to be and nothing was gonna stop that by the time they said would you like to come home I was already like don't you send me a first-class ticket already asked me that question twice did you feel like the timing was right do you feel like everything up at that point led you to this moment and that the timing was right for you to come home at that point perfect because my IQ was here I already went to and got my master's degree so I went through the training of school and through Pittsburgh so to me I'm Harvard professor in my sport and I went through the classes of courses and by the time I was in San Francisco I was already the instructor yeah I already knew it I knew everything I remember Peter McGowan was so nervous over the deal because I was think was a medians owners medians or whatever it was I was stuck in a hotel for two days with and I couldn't leave because it they didn't own the team at the time so they're like they were trying to announce all this and they're like well you can't leave I'm like I'm hungry and this is when I think at the same time The Bodyguard was out Whitney Houston or something I want to go see the movie I can't sit here - I had one suit I didn't have bring a change of clothes cuz I suppose it's going to come out you were like sequestered I was taking a shower like every hour so don't dirty my clothes and so Peter and them work you know worried about getting the team at the time and then Peter you know and also nervous when you sign someone with a big contract yeah that's a big deal for anyone baseball history at that time - that was the biggie it's a lot of player but I was already there mentally yeah and I was already there in my IQ vision yeah I remember Peter McGowan says how could are you I said Peter if I fail you I'll give you a million dollars back to whatever charity one that's how confident I was and how happy I was wrong that I was willing to sacrifice anything to prove to the town that I grew up in the boys I played with all of my coaches that I've had they're all my dad my godfather I had so much weight on me but at the same time relief - now I'm prepared I went through the battles in Pittsburgh I had a great manager to teach me I had a great outfield coach to teach me I had great mentors of instructors - now qualify me as an instructor so when I'm time I got San Francisco was pretty simple yeah man and then from there it was just skyrocketing I mean you were so good you would break your own records that's you know you're bad if you break your own records in addition to some MLB records but let's go to 1996 which was your 40 40 season you're the first national league player to do that and then in the following year you tied your dad for the most 30 30 seasons wet what was that like how did you and your dad share that moment in history together what you dad say well my Dow is really happy I mean when when my dad and I finally got together cuz my dad and I relationship wasn't as close at the time until I came home okay and when I came home well we even when I was in college we were we were it was building even better because my dad was my instructor there my dad when my dad got there the bond even just got better cuz my dad's IQ was as good as mine yeah and my dad was a genius too hitting you know partying a did his own thing but when it came to it he had the vision he just never utilized it to his best but thirty thirty I knew I could do that yeah I knew I could do it more my but my dad always challenged me my dad was I was like you got to hit 35 times I said I'm looking at myself cause I wanted to get the more than that I want to do it six times or seven times though but everything that my father did was important to me to do everything that my godfather did was important for me to do and it wasn't important for me to do it in a sense of that I need just to try to just because I knew I had it I know I had the vision I knew I had to time it just to me say I was a good baseball player you know like my godfather was everything for him to sit there and say which is godson being him you know center fielder greatest baseball player I've seen in my lifetime like just to say you know what Katie Did okay good because Little Willie would throw the ball to now infield and I couldn't reach you know I was like five six years old and trying to throw the ball he's like how you gonna be good if you can't reach second base and I'm like so my whole mindset was like I just want you to love me I want you to like me what do you think that I'm great you know and so you know people think that I had pressures familiar but but pressure for me was just their acceptance for my father and Willie I remember you saying that at the the plaque dedication how as you always just wanted the approval of your dad and your Godfather as a baseball player and you got that I knew a hat the fans were my fans I was my family I grew up in the Bay Area so entertaining them was it was my pressure was to keep the family tradition alive keep the thrill for the family family business yep but the Bay Area yeah I took pride in that I took pride when Joe Montana in the 49ers win I take pride now that the Warriors there when I took pride in the Bay Area because I grew up in a great loving community yeah what are the fact of anything and I didn't want anyone to walk in our house with my family and disrespected all right all right let's move to the the new ballpark packed Bell Park in 2000 and what was it like opening that new ballpark being a part of that majesty and all that pomp and circumstance how did that feel for your family in the Bay Area that you were entertaining in this new beautiful ballpark well the get away from Candlestick was heaven oh my god that was you know if you really want to know the truth come on was just getting away from that Candlestick ballpark they could have built toilet anywhere else and we would have been happier and it was just because for us to have 30,000 people Candlestick seemed like there was 12 yeah you know what I mean said that I was there when they put this stadium there when we had a chance to hit off the roof when they first started it and just to actually see the view and then when we walk the stadium they have us all walk the stadium and just the views of what the appreciation of just the city itself and we were just walking around wow this is gorgeous you can sit even up or deck here you see so much of the city here you can sit here you can do this we were like this this is heaven and I was nervous about that tall wall in right field I was a little bit nervous I was really nervous about that because I'm like why are you guys have a little fence over here and then you sign me and you put a big tall wall over here and you want me and then their whole thing was well this is only 309 but that wall real mines bring the fence down and I could just go thinking at the time and it wasn't for my dad you know and then I wouldn't have figured that wall out is that right my dad said you hit it through it you hit through the wall it'll go over the wall anytime you try to climb the hill you're gonna mess up just hit it pretend it's not there and then and once I hit the first one it was you did all right you did all right all right so 2001 was a remarkable and an emotional season most notably you set the single-season home run record your dad said that watching you take that journey to tying and breaking that record he said that was the most relaxed he had ever seen you what made you so relaxed with did you just block out all the external media and pressure and chatter and everything how are you so relaxed during one of the biggest moments in your career it started during the offseason because I train all the time I mean that's what I live for I train I work out all the time your dad said you would work out in the winter to the point that you would have tears in your eyes you worked out so much it's amazing it's it I figured something out in the batting cage that I never would you know always trying to piece something together I'm always trying to put this puzzle together all the time and in offseason I'm hitting and I'm just swinging my dad and I'm going through this process and all of a sudden I'm figuring something out and it just clicked I might wait a minute I walk away because that's what I do leave it alone hmm come back can I repeat it because that's my dad's thing all the time if you can't repeat what you did again and least work to do I mastered practice yeah and I tried to explain it to the guys nowadays is that I mastered practice I don't know it sounds crazy sorry I love him don't even go there you guys what I talking about my own personal practice not team practice I am you know you have a guy that throws batting practice to you every single day and these are the things my dad installed into me all the time and you know what's coming all the time and do this and you don't you're not perfect with him right and so I'm like that's true so my dad says if you can't be good at this how are you gonna be good at that and that dudes gonna put a wrinkle in it or he's gonna do this or he's trying to change things he's trying to move things beat him focus on the things you need to do practice the things you don't do well and then it's starting all of a sudden that moment it clicked I got the spring training right now and I could not believe the way I could move this ball anywhere I wanted to at any time and do something and I was like wow this is crazy and then I didn't want to get too big-headed go I got this I'm like you know my dad always says when it's going really good that windows this small I mean this big you know there's more bad times you have good times so I'm cinder thinking wow so I leave I come back my staff do it again I'm like I I could just I could really move this ball like I'm something my body my hands everything was just going boom boom boom and then I just got hot and then just never got cold yeah and that's why you were so relaxed and again student of the game you you never stopped learning you never stopped improving yourself which is so admirable now one of the things we as fans love is the fact that you always had a flair for the dramatic a lot of your milestone homerun you know set on the big stage including number 71 that season and did you did you know when you hit when you would hit home runs could you feel it instantly when you made that connection or you're like it's gone right renowned my IQ so high as I planned every home run at home every record home run is at home I know only one it's not a home is 760 to the last one but I hit 714 in Oakland and I went through I was going hitting bad we had to go through some extra batting practice I need to do so and that's why I pointed everyone because see I worked on something it worked then I had a boat she threw to me like crazy for like 45 minutes when I hit 755 yeah five hundreds at home six hundreds of home so yeah the home sixes ones a help because these are my people entertainer if you if you want to come see our house you fly in buy a ticket come our house watch it or you can see it on TV but I did everything at home because that was theirs that's the love right now yeah it's I got love on the road I know how they make it seem like you know I I watched on the road I saw when people bou me and all of a sudden it stopped me going you know with their cameras I'm like operate home run okay be yeah alright you know I saw the love it wasn't like you know it's perceived to be and I respect that yeah and you know and I want the other towns and no I saw you yeah I I love you too you know and it's you know just cuz it you know I was a villain or whatever and the press made out seem like I was the most hated person I saw the love too and I love those cities but I liked it I mean boo me it's great it's a great stage I mean that's what weird Airport right I mean what if I came out in in LA and they were like ask you if you were able to be present and notice that the fan reaction and everything and we would see that in opposing stadiums watching on TV they would boo you as you came to the plate you knock it out and they're and they're on their feet cheering yeah but I had I was crazy at that time because I loved the dramatics from now I liked it because I knew I was talented to change it I knew I was good enough to change yeah so I walked on the fields late on purpose I didn't do it because I was just being him dummy I didn't there's a plan to all that because I could come to the ballpark and not have that vibe in my body or that feel and I needed something to kick me up so I'd be like late you're always late you're this one like you right and then I had to back it up yes that just started okay you want to talk okay and then that would get me fired up yeah and I get into the thing and I'm gonna hit it yeah and when I get it I'm like now what you gonna say yes so it was good you know you're always gonna back it up always go back you know let's talk about 2003 another remarkable homerun you hit the game after you had laid your dad to rest can you even tell me the emotion of that moment where you even present was it kind of out-of-body I mean what kind of emotion robbery like that yeah like a whole bunch of all of that all up in one end up in the hospital after that - I'd like an irregular heartbeat scolding you you know it's weird because I was with my dad every day during this cancer and I just slept by him bathed them cleaned him up I did the whole process you know spent time and and got a lot of things out me and my dad sat and talked about and then I'll send at the game and then my dad passed away and that all happened I couldn't understand why had that same loss feeling you know what I mean because I think my dad and I shared everything at the time I think the things that I didn't like about my dad we got out the things that my dad said he was sorry for for all the things that went down we got out and I was so grateful for that you know that we could put a lot of things to rest that's a blessing yeah really had closure yeah cuz I sat down on my dad's floor and I was like dad you were oh he's like I know but you became something out of it so and all that bad right you know I'm an you know my dad sigh I'm sorry there was things didn't you know we're all different people we all come from distance but I couldn't understand why I had that same loss feeling and I think it was because I knew that I didn't have the eyes behind my head for my career anymore oh my good and I think that was the problem yeah and I think that's where that irregular heartbeat and that lost I had was that how am I gonna do this alone because people think I did all this by myself thank oh you got this great yeah we have the talent but I had eyes behind my head I might died I had Willie I had them dissecting everything I did and dissecting everything on the field because we all have were in the same classroom of conversation now I was like I'm by myself so when you look at it when you think about this my career went like this the and it stayed right here as soon as my dad was gone it started to go like this because the things that my dad would call me on the phone is say you're doing this I'm saying I got him how to call him got it I was the same way I got it and so I was just hanging on yeah you know just hanging on and going back over things that what he would say to me art I'm like and then I'm going no one's here to cuss me out you know my dad do I get your butt out get dirt well you know do and I'm I'm trying to live that person and you know when my dad passed away after 2003 2004 I played really well 2005 I got hurt yeah 2006 came I was hanging on 2007 I wanted to play 2008 and indeed I didn't have the chance but it was just slowly doing this because I did have I I was alone I said people understand understand I was never alone in my career of course I always had my dad right I got you and you don't leave your wingman no I don't care what it is and I don't didn't leave my dad no matter how our differences were yeah no matter how we fought our battle things I didn't leave my dad because my dad was a genius and so when my dad left I was like man and I didn't have the desire I was losing the DRI sure that's understandable to losing that dry yeah and you'd already had such a lengthy career you you'd hit the pinnacle and everything and now you lose that significant person you know I totally totally get raises were bothering me not never bothered me before yeah you know son somebody in stands go suit you're doing it might really dude I'm so tired listening I gotta go home exhausted you know right my Doc's are so focused isn't it interesting when we when we lose those key figures how you don't realize it in the beginning how that affects you know yeah yeah I totally understand that I just also want to just go back to 2003 because that year you became the only member of the 500 500 club and much is made of your hitting prowess but we don't talk a lot about you being such a prolific base stealer so did you I'm assuming you studied that just as hard as you studied started hitting yeah I mean I they can't all just a 5 to a player but I was six maybe six and a half will he says six but I think I have a half over him okay yeah but I 500 500 was icing to okay yeah because I was already 400 400 but they didn't make the big deal out of 400 400 but once I've already passed them yeah and I was a 400 400 by myself yeah 500 500 I was just trying to put it out of reach with nobody can get gonna catch me I knew there was a lot of talented ballplayers that could catch oh yeah yeah and I'm like no man I got keep it from my daddy I got a kid Willie I got a show there but like I said goes back to making sure that they approve of what I was doing is everything in my brain was like I'm not gonna let you catch me because even when I was at four and four was like I got more okay let me work on that one I gotta do this I love is like a rivalry between roller coaster oh that's so good alright well you talked about kind of losing your desire after your dad a little bit of decline in your play but in 2016 you ended up with the Marlins as hitting coach I think that surprised a lot of people that you took that job but I read that your mom really encouraged you to take it when do you tell me about getting that phone call and and how you decided to take that job well Lori called me up and asked me if I wanted to do it and you know my first reaction was and then I went back to these voices about my dad saying if you want to learn something you have to get in the fire first get in there you if you want to teach people or give the information that you've been blessed with to bless someone else then you get in the fire with them and you should show them and my mom I told my mom about it my mom was just like you you you I said I want to do if your dad you know I kind of like you know what my dad taught me you know I want to see if I'm capable and get back I said mom I'm not a social person now I'm I'm a loner I don't really talk that much so what am I gonna say to them my mom was just like you might be better than anything son if you don't try you don't know oh so when I went there to coach the guys all of them every single one of them tell you they we talked to this day know and they get what I'm saying now okay I first got there it was a struggle and I tried to explain it to Lori I said you know this is gonna take a process I mean I know you want to do this little one-year thing and that was all I wanted to was just to see if it was something I wanted to do yeah I mean it's not that I can't do it it's pretty easy but I said you understand we have their young players you just it takes time they're just the first few months there with me to break the ice of Who I am that they can't control it's going to be hard enough as it is for to get Staunton and to Ozuna just to say any name they want to call me coach very dummy whatever just to break that ice is gonna take time yeah you know and then the fact that they're going to explain something to me and I'm gonna giggle at half the things they say knowing that they're not ready at any thing they're talking about but then I had to think I backed up in this hideout with them you gotta treat them as adults i sat there and I said you know what I can't do it this way I got to respect them once they see my respect level of them and I'm not trying to be here yeah okay I'm already here I don't need to show it to you I need to understand you I need to understand what's going cuz baseball players we're all professionals right now we are professionals there's 1,200 in in the league or whatever and we're all professionals we got here from Little League made you know all the way up there one of like a percentage of people that are doing something so you have to respect it whether you're the Barry Bonds or you're the whoever you great yeah and you have to express how good that person we just have different talents at it that's the gift my dad gave me on that committees now if you put me in a round with that I can talk to you really well sure I can say you know what you're gonna be all right my friend yeah and then after wild they got it yeah maybe Gordon and Yelich and Ichiro they were you know Prado I mean they were some really some good energized great hitters and you know we had a great relationship I just wasn't there long enough yeah great for me cuz I'm home where I want to be which is fantastic yeah it's gonna have the experience that was fun and and if I happen and if I had a chance to do it all over again I would have done it the same way I think it was really good because my relationship with players got better yeah my talking skills in the sport were as good as I thought they were and I can communicate things without intimidating are being aggressive and saying disrespecting them as major league baseball players and understanding that there's we're all just trying to get to the same goals and hair a little Jim Leyland baseball I feel very very confident too I can stand up in a class I can talk to you I don't intimidate to you I know how to improve you with and and giving you the skill sets of being better yeah now tell me if you if you did say this because I read this day your time in Miami as hitting coach you said it was if not the most rewarding one of the most rewarding baseball experiences of your life yeah now that might surprise some people after all that you've accomplished but you found that to be so rewarding right for the reasons you just shared with me yeah because I was like I said so interpreted introverted and closed and I've been so such a private person inside like a loner person and I didn't have the great communication skills as an athlete as as an entertainer but baseball like after the game you know talking with people and I would always just dash away you know go home do this try to come back and I I just like I said like my mom the things I guess my mom gave me a try you don't know how good you are and I've learned that I have the great communication skills when it comes baseball yep when it comes to teaching kids baseball and to really inspire them or to build them up or to show them the right way and kick them in the butt when they need it yeah I have that skill yeah and so I stay in my lane I just stay in that Lane and I don't go another one but I'm trying my daughter and my my kids are trying to getting out so dad go I think since I've been out of baseball I've been a lot better you think you're a little bit more relaxed I think because it's not shoved at me you know when you're working when I'm at the ballpark I'm just trying to kill my legs I'm just trying to go to work but when you have 30 reporters in your locker by the time I take my shirt off they're like Barry what do you think of this that is not the time to bother anyone and with us has just magnified but I know you or anyone else it well you coming my dressing while I'm trying to get ready you know what I mean I'll have that moment what we want to do but in the sports world you know maybe on the only do you happen even when you're in your dressing room I have to be onstage and I really wasn't good at that I did I couldn't separate the two my job I don't have that mentality their thought process in my head my head is I'm at work leave me alone like I'm just programming myself all damn day what what leave me alone and that's what I that's I couldn't do to I can't do both yeah I was never good at that and I don't blame the press I know now that I'm retired I don't you're doing your job you got families to feed you got things to do but it at that time I wasn't thinking like that why are you bothering I know and then it's like you know why are you saying nasty things about me then want to talk to me tomorrow why you know I'm things to do I have to plan how to perform you had way too much going on up in there yes you know I just but now I could do whatever I want to mm-hmm and I'm learning I'm taking my baby steps that's why I do this you know I don't do interviews I know don't do interview that's why I'm grateful thank you I'm taking these baby steps because my like I said my daughter and then we're just like you need dad people don't know you dad but it's okay you can tell them yeah and do it at your own pace just try and my moms like try so yeah and this is what I'm doing now I'm actually really trying but so people always ask me does it bother you no because I can stay home now there you go I don't have to go I can walk away so now I like it I have more fun I stay longer than normal before I be like okay stomping my feet trying to get the hell out of here I still do at the beginning make sure you know okay let's make sure cuz you know these are baby steps but then once I get in it I'm okay here I'll just happen yeah cuz I'm just afraid I'm kind of like what am I saying I know what am I gonna do right now am I gonna say the right things or how's it gonna be edited or because you know I got your human working with ya and you get your feelings hurt and I think mine got hurt a lot more and I've not think I know that for somebody did come up to me and I'm just a human being a person I'm just a baseball player just a person and I'm trying to do the best I can out here yeah that your money can buy and it's not gonna be perfect and I have someone that says I want to do this wonderful piece on you and next minutes like Vaughn's the thermite wait a minute didn't we just have a earlier conversation about how wonderful this was gonna be and then I got it I took it to heart I I really really really that physically mentally yeah then when I got to the point in my career where I could dictate it my own way I was a brat I got even that's pretty much what that's how I sum it up okay I said okay now you need to talk to me you ain't talking to me because you the one who said you were gonna be nice to me and then you weren't nice to me so now you're never gonna talk to me yeah and so I went to the extreme cuz like I said that OCD in my head yeah that introvert loner person said go straight to hell and then then I couldn't get out of it you know then I got caught in it and then I was like okay maybe fight that's why I said maybe if I can perform I could ease it I could eat it because I'm never gonna say the right thing I don't I don't think like that yeah if it's red light red light green light green light I don't know that yellow light yeah you know my personality yeah what if you tell me where no go right I just go fight yeah you know and yeah and if you tell me good luck I just go laughs yeah but some people can do that like if you escape your knee people I love that that's such a bummer just I'm like put a bandaid on it can we let go you know that's my thought process so that's who I am but I don't mean anything by it I'm not some people are great for that you know I watched Michael Jordan and I watched Muhammad Ali's my whole life and I loved him so much and I would watch some 24 hours a day but then I'm waiting for like myself or Tiger Woods he's a quiet person he doesn't really do a lot of things but do I dislike him anymore I love him just as much this just his personality but he's still a wonderful person if you sit with the guy to talk to me you hang on you're like I think you're like really cool but so now when I tell these kids I said now that I got to see this I tell them hey tell him who you are and that's what I'm telling you now I'm telling you who I am and now you can love me or you cannot love me yeah but I'm gonna tell you who I am I'm not gonna hang out with you all day because it's just not my character I'm gonna stay I'm gonna don't dislike no I know I mean I kind of get nervous or claustrophobic but if I find that it's a safe environment and I don't feel threatened but I have to fill it out first of course don't take a person if I'm at a party and I'm gone in about two minutes like what you don't drink so I just tell people who I am now and I don't know it was hard to do I'm sure again I appreciate you doing that and sharing so much in this conversation because a lot of the young kids that they look up to you this is gonna impact them in so many ways you have no idea how you're gonna how your message is gonna resonate and how you're gonna reach a lot of a lot of young athletes so thank you for that now one thing we didn't cover was you know the biggest of all you know the all-time home run record I don't even know where to start with that but when you finally tied Babe Ruth what do you remember about that home run because I know what they at the end of the game you said oh thank god that's over with or something like well I struggle against lefties at the time yeah we had a left-handed pitcher at that time so I I figured it out on the field cuz I hit early but Kim from the Diamondbacks a side armer mm-hmm kills me it was killing me and I knew we were gonna face them that next series right and I knew I was gonna see him and I prepared for that guy for about a week cuz I I figure I'm gonna get seven four teams I'm on the road I'm I haven't gone to many games not hitting it and I didn't want to put where I had to do two at home cuz that might be a little bit harder I gotta get this out of the race I went to go hit extra it worked out and then I knew if we were diamonds backs on us we were always this battle even in Arizona we get these last innings and just happen to work out even though we win so much so but we were always battling and I always got Kim and he kept doing it suicide everything and so I practiced him and I practiced him for a week and I really kind of like walked him right into that pitch and I just set it up for him and I just said there you go and I just inside your mind and how you approach you know hitting very who would think that you would spend a week working on one pitcher I mean that's genius to me I spent a week on him your preparation and you attention to detail and again just a student of the game that's when that's why so successful okay so talk to me about talk to me about the emotion of chasing that record and and you know breaking Hank Aaron's record and did you feel pressure what was there a lot of outside noise getting in your way I mean did it ever start to wear on you or weigh you down it oh yeah I believe all these things wear on everyone but we're focused people so we can turn that switch on or off anytime with the way you can I mean all the great ones can yeah all of us can we can shut that switch off no matter that's amazing we're focused thank with you we have something to do we're gonna do it focus on like my mom and my dad would always sit there say those problems you have off the field so gonna be there three hours from now depends how you want to spend your three hours okay I figured that out and I've already gone through so much negativity in the sport already it really kind of like was not really yeah it was kinda like okay what else can go wrong I mean what else are they gonna say what else are they gonna do so I was like and I knew chasing the record the record could come next year it could come anytime it was there but at the moment everything was just falling into place boom boom boom boom so I couldn't shut it down okay you know it was such a big thing and then you start doing yourself I'll break this record this year do you think I'm gonna listen to this again starting next year you know that's whole build up in this you ready to get out yeah yeah I was I was ready the situation worked out great because we're playing Washington I knew they had a strong pitching staff to a point but I knew they didn't have enough to where they could prevent me for three games unless they walked me and so when bastard was pitching I was you know I tucked a little bit his his slider curveball was pretty good at that moment I don't know three two came and I just I can like I said I don't read well at all but I can sense what you're gonna do I know exactly who you I could tell you everything these people thought she was kind of skeptical of me when I first came in because I attacked two right at the very beginning and now she's starting to like me a little bit because the the thing is am I correct or am I wrong thank you and I don't even know this person in my life I can sense things off a person and I can see how that vibe went you know so you could sense that off of the opposing picture as well so that three - I just sense right there with just his demeanor oh he's coming at me like his body language and now was just I've seen that picture so many times you got patterned so many times throughout my career it was and then again you do it at home in front of entertaining your your family the fans in the stadium there's a science to hitting though right now and I don't I don't people just need to understand it there is a science to it and I did perfect it yeah I don't have 3,000 hits well that's only because my career got short and I would've had 3,000 hits I probably would've had 800 homeruns there's there's things for my last was just shortened but a lot of walks to a lot of chicken dancing going on I there's a science to it and it does work yeah and you can perfect it to your ability that's the thing that's the science of it is not trying to perfect it to me yeah because you may not be me yes it's perfecting it to your ability customize it to your base and your ability really really good so it's just realizing who you are because you have so many different tools in a person that wants to be on this ladder and you're not there but you can perfect your tools to be really really good that make you look like you're on this ladder you just need to perfect your tools and not try to do that that comes with these tools but when you're reaching for this you know I can't slam dunk I got it past the ball and eventually if I practice jumping jumping jumping within my realm and not pull out my back yeah I might jump one time shock you and slam it right take these little baby steps we got to form ourselves and I I try to tell him I took a little bit from Tony Gwynn which I know I took a little bit really I took a little bit from Hank Aaron I stole a little bit from Petros I took a little bit from cow I took a little bit in this guy and this guy and then I mastered mine the pictures all right you hit 756 you're yeah at the home ballpark Nikolai's there as he was so many times and and your Godfather your dad is not here just if you can put into words that moment of crossing home plate and having your family there and thinking about your dad and everything I mean were you were you like physically drained at the end of that were you just like exhausted it was both I kind of kind of like everything yeah you know it's like a it's hard to explain it's like everything I don't have to hear from my kids saying pitch to you daddy why ain't he pitching to you that was good oh that was so it was great for I did it at home so the great parts was like I did it home all the people I got to hug my son he was so happy you know my family was there except my dad and Willie you know was like when Willie was there it's like am I in did I did I do it for you you know I mean was like all I wanted him to say was you okay you know like that approve that little boy exactly so was that and then he gave it to me yeah and then when I went up to and I was in tears for my dad I said you know thank you you know that time when they gave me the microphone and that wasn't the perfect time for me to take a microphone so many emotions good it was great I felt all of that emotion with you yeah and I said thank you to my dad was because he was the mastermind behind my career hmm and then then from there was over for me I was like I was pretty much checked out in a sense not overly checked out of the game I still love the game but the the level of where I wanted to play was I'm not going up there anymore out I can hit 28 30 home runs in my sleep I can do that I don't care if I can't do that I'll walk away from baseball ripped my uniform off and leave I can hit 25 home runs and just on my GP yeah so I figured you know I was figured I'd just do that but then I I I wasn't checked out on the team because I really wanted to get another left fielder there that could take my role in and have that time to mentor him a little bit but we didn't have those yeah and so but I was I was checked out really no I wasn't my I couldn't turn that switch on to where I really wanted it yeah the moments I couldn't play day games after night games anymore my body was just wearing to have an alarm and I felt bad for the fans and stuff at times because as much as they really wanted me in those day games and stuff I just couldn't do it again physically just it wasn't mentally I could go out there but the energy level that you've set for yourself yeah for so long I refused to touch what God gave me that blessing on that field if I wasn't mentally and physically I don't mind losing okay I don't ever care about that cuz you never lose as long as you try I just don't want to be a quitter and at certain times if you know they would say well Barry thinking go out there I'm like no I can't they're like sure I'm like no I can't and it wasn't that I physically just couldn't go do it I was checked out in my brain and my body was just torn down like I could have got up and really would fought through it like I did something to her but I was checked out and I I I was like it's over yeah it's getting over and I needed to accept that at that moment I knew I could play one more year yeah but then I wanted to really kind of I never got to retire never had that retirement I've never never got to do that for what I've done but whatever I just couldn't do it anymore I did you had to have been completely physically and mentally exhausted at that point I was done I mean you had done it all and your you had put your body through so much for a couple of decades I totally totally get that I was I was checking yeah I was good enough to look okay you know but you know when I was in left field and I would go to balls and I I could see myself losing a step you know to the ball I can feel it yeah and you can fill those things yeah I was like were you okay with that or did that mess with your head a little bit I knew how to position myself to cheat it you know I mean I know this is myself to get there make it look good I know how I knew how to position myself to let the ball go down the line and I know you can only get a double no matter particularly six weeks over there to get it but it's a double anyway and it looked good on paper right I didn't want you to beat me in a gap because I knew I couldn't run that part over there were awful and hamstring your diet and do oh that's tough so I kind of like you know I knew the positions to do in I've seen the guys at thousand times yeah but it wasn't acceptable for me anymore it wasn't that high level you right he's not gonna happen right yeah hey what it was the time for someone with the youth ability and I really honestly couldn't see myself watching a 21 year old at my age thinking you know I had to go back in 2007 my hands like I might just do this one more time but was bought what was bothering me then was the fact that I'm preventing a 21 year old to start his career who has the offical ability and young enough time to play as long as I did to now step in and I'm gonna stay here for another year or two and take this man I was gonna be 22 23 taking years off his up his time yeah when he's ready yeah and I couldn't live with myself like that I knew I could do it one more year because there wasn't no one there and I was like who we're gonna put out here cuz I'm not just gonna walk away from my people right and me ain't got no this is bonds Willie bonds so somebody's got to be out here to continue this legacy yes and that's what I was thinking - I was trying to I was almost selfish about it you're not gonna tell me who you gonna put out here I got you I mean you don't want to say anything but I'm not gonna let this has been a tradition for since 1958 58 since you people stepped in it's been bonds Willie bonds and no way you guys are gonna take that away and who was gonna come here and keep this the family business I was a family business I was being selfish and trying to hang on yeah by the same time I was you know I knew I wasn't gonna be like any and it wasn't like are you gonna be like anyone else and so insists like that and just hang on to something I know I had a little bit left in me I could just do that but I wasn't playing everyday and I'm like if I can't play every day I'm not gonna cheat this kid I'm not I couldn't do it it had nothing to do with the team and then I would have probably in 2008 I probably would have lasted May and I would have told them that our probably would have done it in spring training I was already checked out right seven right so I just wanted the opportunity to say my own goodbye and thank you in a way that should be yeah and I think that I don't even think I would have made it past great training Wow because I was already gone and I was already looking for someone to like really gave the torch to me to give the blessings to another kid keep this tradition alive yeah keep us going you know I'm gonna be sitting over there later I like being a fan now you do you think about it because I don't have to have the stress part of it cause out there you know yeah I mean I still hear dumb stuff that's never gonna go it's like I admire athletes or now I don't care what sport is like I'm in a cycling and I love it it's you know if it's done wonderful things for me because like I say I'm hosts Edie when I get it in the middle so now I'm just like trying to get as skinny as I can because I want to be a fast uphill climber yeah anyway I'm dreaming and but I admire sports like I I love the art of it and I don't get mad at this is my friends like lawyers I say okay now you're gonna say okay weird whatever or halfway through this year I said well when the Warriors get to play us what bandwagon are you gonna jump on I say come on dude and then like with the Giants they're like my friends say well they can't do this you should put a uniform I said it's I'm like I didn't even hear all this stuff when I was playing like seriously yeah one of my best friends and you're talking like that it's funny I said you know I I worry audist that in the August mid-august time is when you're not working on your cylinders by then you ain't be working you ain't hot in August it's just you gotta be close enough to grab that tire you know it's like you just gotta be in striking this you got to be that snake and let that rabbit just and you just have to be in striking this you not to be there but a championship is with several teams hot at that moment it doesn't have to be the best we've seen that time and time again joins third three years we're not the best team on that field but they clicked on all cylinders when that time came second half team most of them right yes I've never seen anything like in my life and it's like you know the Braves want so many playoffs and then only won one world no we always thought they had the best team Peary yeah you know and they didn't they didn't win all they don't know but one in and then you have the Giants who didn't have the best team on the field and won three and got the key and I try to tell people you know you can go back to Reggie Jackson but I said just tell me you can say Joe Carter because you remember Joe Carter oh yes that was great I said do you tell me go back in all the history of sports is name it how many of the superstars really won the games were it's always the unknown that you're always won the game for you it's like all of a sudden like I remember mark was it Lemke was it with the Braves all sudden he's like where did he come from we would get this guy up thousand times over dude here next week he's hitting 700 four home runs in the playoffs it's so true and so it's never it's never always been a guy pitchers have a strong upper hand because they get more rest they get a little bit extra time which is good yeah we get those days off hitters are more rhythm type things so we get out of rhythm and you give us days off in that shutdown mode they're used to that pictures are used to be in a shutdown exactly we're so going day day day day once we got a rhythm let's just keep it going so it's you know well as we wrap here you are back in the organization as a special advisor I know you spent some time in spring training and what kind of other things are you doing I do whatever they ask me to do whatever role they want it's funny because I oh my what do you do I've said I listen now I don't have to I said that's your office is my office playing the boss but now I have a boss is weird saying I do have a boss but I hadn't won my whole career but I am you know anything the players want and I I go through all the coaches so I mean the hitting coach you know I go through anything that they want me to do watch films go down to the minor leagues go to San Jose go to Sacramento whatever they want me to do to actually help make presidents see if there's you know but I you know like I always get with the coaches so that we're always on the same page because you know you really don't want to teeter line that line because that's their job that's their profession you really don't want to do that so I really make it clear that you know I'm gonna do something I work with the hitting coach and I said there's okay this is what I see what do you see and then we both process it and then he goes and he'll tell them or sometimes I'll sit down there and I'll say if you just tweak this you might get a little bit better if you just do this but it's things that we've already talked about I'm only here to help you know I mean if you if you have people with our kind of IQ why wouldn't you want them there to help yeah I mean I can go sit in Bill Gates office if I had that kind of intelligence believe me he would have a hard time getting rid of it you know and that's like my godfather I stuck to my god father was the best why aren't you you know I only have this for so long and I try to explain to these guys eventually I'm not going to be able to see I may not be able to hear and there's any time I'm not gonna be here you better absorb all you can if it doesn't work it doesn't hurt you it's free just grab it yeah if there's something you think if it doesn't work throw in the garbage it's right you know do you know me darks mind me and my dad threw dye through the garbage because it didn't work but eventually something's gonna stick or something's kind of quick you know but the guys here they utilize it yeah well it's awesome to have you back and I know you can feel the love from the fans every time you come you know and thank you for this time this has been an amazing conversation I'm really grateful to you and let me just ask you how the kids are because we watch the kids grow up before our very eyes and your kids you have done a great job with those three kids of yours how are they all doing they're good Nikolai would be 29 29 years old he's working for a startup company and they both all work for me which is great because my daughter works for me she's my marketing managing I don't really do I mean how does say oh yes I do social media way but I don't do it I really can't I can't deal with the young people yeah so but she does all my foundation stuff and I have other other teams but she's really as she is getting her business degree as well she decided west school and get her business degree as well good Asia is 19 she goes to Santa Clara and she's after she actually wants to graduate in three years and be a lawyer well excuse me I said three years I said where did you get it from she goes well what do you do at school I said honey they said you only have to get a 2.0 that's all daddy talked to it's too many hours in that course they are great kids let me just say that as big as an accomplishment as anything you did on the field to raise wonderful smart compassionate talented kids or a real tribute to you thank you that's wonderful Thanks give miss Pat my love oh I will please do we'll look forward to seeing her at the ballpark and just I have a little something for you by the way before we wrap things I better get it for my mom too cuz you know something how can we now dig get me one well I want to get to sure you don't want anybody yeah no we did back in my cameo days at the club on a case we did here so you know and I know your thank you very much I appreciate this you're a health nut now you may not use that like we did back in the club days but we did hang out of the club a little bit yeah you don't really know like that anymore mr. avid cycler and mr. fitness and everything that's cool that's alright I could put my um recovery drink in here it is I could make my little recovery drink in here and I can stick it on my back of my shirt when I'm right boom people be thinking I'm drinking I'll be like you know so there isn't I always have a secret there like I'll make up the story you know I'll make up and I might keep these I'm like I gotta tap it off a little video but I can put my recovery drinks in here's just a small token of my appreciation and thank you so much for this has been awesome thank you in the great really great stage well again I can't thank you enough this has been an amazing conversation and I'm so grateful to you and and just thank you for joining me I know the fans are gonna appreciate this and thanks to silver oak for having us I love you more cheers two years it looks except so good thank you
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Length: 82min 57sec (4977 seconds)
Published: Wed Sep 12 2018
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