Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz (Talk Hitting) with Lorenzo

his his career like people would see it would save manny being manny but like you said from an offensive perspective he didn't care if he struck out the first time back he didn't give a he knew he was going to get you the second the third or the fourth time but he was going to get you so the story about the club so here's the question guys and baseball's a game of failure if we're seven out of ten and we fail seven out of ten we're gonna you're one of the greatest now they have this one seven out of ten we failed you know hey we're still very good so many ramirez would go up to the plate first half back strike out wouldn't care you guys see him going back to the dugout like we would say oh he doesn't care he doesn't care tell the story it's not that he wouldn't care he didn't get what he was expecting tell the story about the guy that goes both ways that worked both way the one that the pitcher built up his confidence because he thinks he got the guy with what he got and then yeah and then the genius right here in his mind when he go back to dugout and he's happy about the result it's based on he know what is coming out next and then the next bad you know what happened the ball ended in the highway so say the story what's the story about the car no manny you know many stories he loved cars you know me too so we always had conversation about cars and i remember that year that cryles 300 just came out bad looking car looking amazing yeah it looked like a road it was it was it was it was not an expensive car but we used to you know mind you to get in the computer and put his pieces together we got a story about you including a car you know what i'm saying and i i walk into it i walk into it because i love car also but i don't know he used to do that so i remember this one game first i bet he got to hit i wasn't playing that day i was in the bench and he go to heat and he strike out with bases loader and i remember we had a guy named crespo cesar christopher brother of olympic crest but he used to be an uh utility infielder that was with us manny's coming from the from from from home plate walking towards dugout after striking out i better move my manny gonna be slamming things here and going crazy about striking out with no housing base a lot and like no relax money come and see right next women be like hey probably you know what i think i'm going to put 24 on the chrysler twenty-four trips what the i think we're gonna be going crazy i'm like no no no no just wait man you just never getting relax second he's just setting people up second back on the back man on first hit him in the highway with the same fish that history caught before and that was manny in a nutshell the i think the genius i think you said the word the genius of the hitting the mentality not only the technique not only did he understand how to swing the bat but the genius of how to set up pictures that he knew hey i got you four times today and if i don't get you for today when i get you tomorrow because it's a four game series so i'm gonna burn you true story yes or no i heard that you asked your scout you borrowed you asked them for money to buy a car when you got signed by cleveland not to buy a car to buy a motorcycle i motorcycle that so he gets a signing bonus and then he calls the scholars to say can you give me somebody i want to go buy a motorcycle crazy that's the money i know but let me explain something crazy and you said it the good thing is that tomorrow is another day if i go for three today i know i could have a chance tomorrow and if i was gonna die i'm gonna die with my plan and you had a plan that's one thing like he did i i i i can tell you right now the three best thing that happened in my career without without a doubt going to play boss [Music] the second one being blessed by god and the third one play with this guy right manny you had a great time manny batman robin robin in batman his approach his mentality his game plan he was never ending but he want people to believe that he was anything that he got the empty thing okay another rumor saying right here right now i didn't believe this when i was told so manny ramirez was known to hate the media understandable the media could be a pain in the ass to be honest with you fake news somebody told me hey manny's got two lockers one with the players and one with the coaches in the back and he escapes to the back i'm like no way you're trying to get me no now you're not playing true or not true did you have two lockers well it wasn't that i hate the media i was david you know i was kind of a shy guy quiet it's all good and i just want to you know just play the game and go home that's genius though it might be mine no he's not that's genius he knew how to do it me personally for some reason i was able to deal with the media in boston but it's not easy though how how did you do that i don't know you know is it just your personality i i just i i just had that type of formalities you know saying i guess but i i can't tell you how many that willian had the medium boss yeah uh i can mention tons of superstar that one no part of the media in boston because it's tough in boston it's hard man but but very fast but great fans [Applause] you got to keep one thing in mind they are trying to do their job and without them we're not going to complete our job so it's it's it's a back-and-forth thing the thing is that i noticed that in boston we have more fanatic covered in the media than regular people for example when i play in minnesota media if you come in i mean there are two different monsters without a doubt you know minnesota in a small market boston a bigger market so big market bring bigger attention so but any other place where you go the media will come in get the job done and go in boston it was like why are you gonna do this why you didn't do that you know what i'm saying it was it was it was a different type of way to approach but at the end of the day you got to do what you got to do you know i was lucky enough to get along with him yeah and get through it it's i think it's the personality and again some you know like i'm a shy guy i wouldn't probably want to be interviewed so i would understand i just thought it was genius two lockers man that's smart yeah but you got it you got everybody that made it you have to look you can be just any other players i can't hear anybody so if i walk in and say i want two lockers what happens that cost me at least two mbps that's crazy the numbers were there hey they were there the numbers were there but like i say the media is the one that vote for you to win an mvp and if you want an to then what you think you're gonna get back true so unfortunately that's how it was true but you know what the most important thing man the passing the pass this guy right here man why are we gonna get him on fox sports with you i'm gonna ask that right here right now why isn't he on fox 45 ready because you know what all you got to do is just talk about what you know we're not going to be talking about nasa or cars we're here yeah all day cars are hitting we talk okay question man i got to give a shout out to jack watertown extra innings he's got a question for you and this is from watertown boston what a time were you ever frustrated by short-term deals in boston or did you take it as a chance to prove yourself over and over you know what every player want to have security financial security you know every player won that but i guess it was my turn on you know you're fired i guess you know like like like i had a long turn in boston you know i'm saying everything that year year thing happened basically towards the end of my career until um john henry came in and was like you know what let's do this so we don't have to be talking about contract every year and you play as long as you wanted to buy at some point when you're when you're getting older it's i think it's fair because you don't know what you're gonna get from from an older player it doesn't matter the caliber of the play i think i think it's fair my thing is that when you are in you don't see it like you like like like i see it now you know what i'm saying now you're seeing the forest i'm seeing the whole picture now you know like when you are 36 37 38 you know it's it's like people is expecting you to fail especially in baseball you know what i'm saying as a player you don't see that and your mentality you might say you think that everything's gonna keep going and getting it done and so in my case even not knowing it it was basically my motivation oh you don't think i deserve lantern watch me then i put a good year together and then boom and then i put another good year together and they got to the point where basically they take the red sox they kill me you know like we're going to give you uh options easy to get 400 play appearance if you are healthy and you playing play you gotta get it you need to play and you gotta play even my last year when i retired i still have another g you could have played that kicks in no i was i mean you heard let me let me go from a hitting perspective could you a play oh yeah yeah yeah but boy i was the type of player that i have a lot of pride i took a lot of pride on what i do i know that the fans were playing they were paying for that ticket to watch me hit and watch me perform out there i was never i would never go out there and not give a hundred percent and that's how i was feeling after 2016. i was in so much pain you know that i feel like i wasn't going to give the fans what they were expecting for me of course man it's not all about them it's about it's about it's about you know respect and people and people respect that i mean of course respect that because i could take 70 million dollars that i have in my deal and just sit down and watch that wasn't me but that's what made you cuz you wouldn't do that that was that wasn't that wasn't me okay two things and we were just talking about this before we went live i i come from the school says i train you know i train major league hitters we train hitters i graduate we always do as train hitters and i look at today's generation that i think that they don't see the amount of work that it takes to get to your stage of your career and to get to what you guys got can you please explain that yeah you guys were born in the dominican when there was a lot of baseball but how hard did you have to work to get to where you got and how hard did you have to work to get where you're at and give me a typical date already when you were a big leaguer now when you were small if you were in the big leagues what was your typical day when did it start well let me tell you and and i'm opposite to too many so when i went from minnesota i was released in minnesota even having my best year with them you were released i was released because they wasn't they were they wasn't going to pay me i was supposed to make like two million arbitration police oh yeah they prefer to believe me whatever i was basically hurting because i had never been released and i had never been nowhere else but it was the best thing that happened to me let me tell you why when i got to boston i basically told myself pedro martinez you know was the one who basically made it happen i bumped into pelham in the dominican republic in a restaurant and we started talking and i told him that i just began to be afraid you were like what i mean i sort of screwed up i'ma take care of that he'd make a couple of phone calls phone call a couple of days later i was in boston but once i got to boston i have pedro right here and i have mine right here pedal giving me advice me watching man i i told myself i want to be the good as he is so i wanna i wanna see his effort how hard he work me and manny we were friends before i got the boss okay okay so he saw my situation and he was like you know what though let's work so he told you that yeah okay you you gotta this is what manny told me i remember like it was just they told me they might not give you the chance right now to play but you gotta be ready for when it comes so let's it's time to work bro this guy got me in the routine since spring training we used to go to the field at 6 00 am in the spring training okay say that so spring training 6 a.m at 6 a.m working all the way until four and then we will go to the house for a couple of hours to rest and then at six steady he had a trainer that the guy would train us for another three hours i remember juliana his wife after she had he was mad after she have him i remember like 10 days after 10 day or two weeks after which you off to the workout and i saw juliana and i was like yeah what are you doing here i'm gonna work out with you guys and i'm like but you just had a baby she's like yeah but i'm gonna work out she did the whole thrill all the drills she did with us and i was like man this woman is a beast right after that guy i was born bottom line means during the process when i first got to the restaurants i wasn't an aligner okay but he got to the point where this guy needed help and the manager thought that i was ready little by little he got in and then i started getting in getting it in and all of a sudden one two punch into his he took my spot i used to hit third so thank you so they can pitch him so they put me to him behind him they still not preaching him so they were pitching me so they put you so the thing what they did was because i was getting on base so much they flipped us i i started hitting in front of miami i was getting on base a lot and then they had to pitch the guy and it was like that i mean reality in the history of baseball uh anybody can send in a question if they want we're gonna take one question from our instagram people okay so that was spring training give me your typical day both you guys major league season what was your typical day regular day what time did you start remember when we were on the road i was gonna tell you about that okay this guy will be knocking doesn't matter what time we finish playing the night before which is usually before we eleven about time we go to sleep it's two in the morning he'd be knocking we used to have joint rooms so he'd be knocking on my door sometimes he would have been like he would walk into my room and be like you gotta put her shorts sometimes [Music] he got a sweet big-ass suite i got in a small room he would have sleep there 8 am let's go 8 a.m 8 am this guy right here mind you your game finishes at 11 and change by the time you shower by the time bro you guys don't get back to the hotel until too you don't care no but let me tell you what we used to do when we finish that workout we go have lunch rest a little bit and we will be at the stadium at two o'clock yeah hitting watching videos right in prepare first boss second bus always before the first one okay so if you guys don't know when you're away when you're a major leaguer you either go first bus when you're on the road you go first bus second bus usually the veterans are your second bus the first these guys would go probably uber if there was uber attacking back then yeah no buses the bus never resists for unless unless unless everything was shut down no you can you know when you have the this long night long game the money will be like okay we're not hitting on the field tomorrow yeah show and go pray like that but let me tell you what we used to do also in those days that we do show and go we used to go early and run with the pictures yeah do couple of sprints yeah physical yeah i got in my bedroom every time ever bro because and nobody ever sees that guys nobody ever sees and look you know i had the pleasure to work with you know some major leaguers last year and we were in the cage at nine in the morning i worked with one guy from boston at 2 30 at night in the morning to work so the name of the game is and you guys can tell everybody it doesn't come naturally they worked they got to work every day let me tell you something about myself i uh i had the i always had the ability to hit but my mechanic uh before i got to boston it was raw i my mechanic was all over the place and i uh the the pictures they had the ability to to was to make me speed up i don't know how to control that into i got to the professor with manny manny used to do this drill soft-handed and he used to wait wait wait for the ball and he used to everything hit it to the middle opposite field made up of and i'm watching and i'm like one day i asked my name why did you do that drill so much he's like so i can use my hands so now when you learn how to use your hands it doesn't matter everything that the pitcher are doing to confuse you you have to wait for the ball to be released and now you got your hands ready you know the velocity the quickness that you got here now you can wait for the ball and do whatever you want what you was exactly what you used to do i used to see money hitting ball in the blue paint a fenway opposite field as a left under heater hitting ball over the bullpen i think it's a nightmare this guy is to go into the bullpen like it was not he that was his approach you would see manny pulling the ball when he know that you were gonna attack him in but other than that when you teach the guy he had to stay inside the ball and dried the ball that's what he used to do for his to train and then he's working and then he started doing it i started doing paper with the green monster remember that i remember that but i i learned him from watching this guy he got he got even better because then in the scoring position he was unstoppable okay you guys don't play anymore but you're in the game especially you know you're there man he's you know always watching help manny can play for the mornings right now by the way the money horns uh if you could find a runner he could still hit in your lineup for sure and so could probably follow but i know for sure this guy could hit in your lineup right now he's not going to get him for sure yeah he takes 300 swings that's true what do you see the difference in hitting today versus heading back down what do you see the difference of what we teach at the highest levels guys like you and even you know young guys like yourself what do you see the difference in hitting now and if you had all this technology would you have been even better okay i think heaters now they have this incredible advantage getting so much information about the game about their suing about pictures how they approach you can sit on youtube you can sit down anywhere on your phone you can watch everything basically right there but here's the thing guys can never forget about the game right now is 85 cyber metrics and 15 percent here but that 15 you know to know you need to know how to manage that 15 because that 15 percent is the one that gonna push they're gonna give you what you got over there the mamba mentality because it doesn't matter how good you are mechanically or how much information have you got from your coaches from from from internet from from from media from network stuff like that that 15 is the one that gonna put you that 15 is the one that's going to tell you i want it what i told you and if you don't like yourself you gotta look at this kid look at this key with those kids right there show them the lion or the gazelles okay you see those you see those guys right there let me tell you something about those guys those guys they have they they born with everything they need they got everything they haven't they haven't deal with challenge in their life no adversity god give us the blessing to give them the blessing they need a 15 the cohone is 15 the one that i wanted 15 they want that i don't have to be a man they don't have to be pushing them let me get up and get things done so when that shows up i'm good to go and that's this generation and again i and i'm gonna hear it like i get it from my own guys like oh here comes the old man now the old generation no it's the generation like hey man if you want something go get it work like you hear it like these guys were the best three four hitters in the world yet they woke up at eight in the morning who does that only the best guys in the world he's easy if you don't work you don't get paid no so unfortunately that's that's how it is and let me tell you what i love about the game nowadays so much talent oh yeah oh bro look everybody you know how players that play in the past always want to give credit to their time i give credit to this time we have so much talent right now we have kids at the age of bro listen i was watching sorrow here i was watching a cuny it made my mouth melt 21 bro you see the talent it's unbelievable you see guys preaching nowadays bro listen you i was watching a game i watched a lot of gang more than ever now especially now that i'm working on the network bro and i realized that if you don't make you living out of stutter you're done you're done because what is coming out of the bullpen bro you know how when we play they have a specialist coming out of the bullpen with the nasty slider you got right handed coming out of the bullpen 101 we bro the talon is on real right now so the speed the power so you think those guys like beirut can they hit in this era i don't think so i don't think so you kind of all cross over and hit me like this and pointing they don't know oh my gosh i mean but but you know what no friends no offense you don't take credit for from that time because that's what it was baseball hiding it's like lebron james playing 20 years ago like it is what it is that's what they got back then so we can't really criticize what it was back then it was like when we played the average fast forward in the big level was what ninety ninety nine ninety three eighty three ninety yeah now the average password is ninety seven point plus eight one movement you don't say so so it is what it is at the time you get credit to whatever you said to get ready at the time it's not like you you you're riding a a honda right now and 10 years from now you see a car that doesn't have no no wheels yeah it's what it is what the hell exactly hey the fans out there one question for poppy one question for manny here we go first question let's go with manny first questions coming from genesis [Music] we were talking about that the other day how to deal with pressure moments how did you guys deal with that world series championship game on the line everybody remembers this head let me tell you what he told me manny told me uh when caira and his prime yeah he got money out he used one game listen to this he got manny out and manny came to the dog up another game see right next to me and he told me it's gonna be the last time he's gonna get me out and i'm like what you mean he's working me with the same stuff over and over and over he started making he gave me over and then he want to finish me hard i'm gonna pick one or the other that's my game plan next time i face it you see that famous home run the man is staying to play like that that was the nest event after he told me what he told me game plan do you have a game plan in a pressure doesn't exist it doesn't exist you just you if you don't change your game plan no different bad that bad than any other about you just had a plan you just have a plan it's like let's see like is you watching right now my trial what he's trying to do he's trying to hit everything to the middle and he's reacting inside that's what he's doing that's it simple is that yeah and he's changing some approaches amigo cabrera those guys they i don't know they do the same thing exactly if you're gonna die you're gonna die with your plan that's it you beat me let me ask you a question all right you walk through the door but before you walk through the door you tell yourself the minute i walk in i'm gonna i'm gonna see what is going on in the cage but then that's your game plan before you walk in but as you walk in you're walking in like this looking at your cell phone what's gonna happen you're not gonna know what's going on right here so your game plan is over that's exactly what happened when you were hitting right if if you get prepared and you do you drill and you watch your video and you see how the guy approaches you with nobody on base we met in the scoring position you start building up your idea right and now you had a game plan once you step on the plate manny was the best at it and i learned a lot from that because i learned a lot from that because you would throw you you i saw money strike out with three pictures right there boom boom and people was like what is wrong with him he don't want to play what is this what is that people that was now what he was looking for setting you up next pitch breakable [Applause] my dad i remember my dad one time i told my dad he always used to tell me why you taking the first pitch why are you taking the first pitch why are you taking the first pitch and i thought that we have a series with the yankee why don't you come in town oh yeah i'll be there and you know what i what i got in my seat right behind the plate after the game his eyes look like this like a freaking ghost like he so it goes and i'm like what happened when your face is so intense he's like man the first time i see behind the play and everything looks so fast and i'm like exactly the purpose of you or me seeing you back there is so you know that what you see on tv is not what you're saying it's not reality when i'm in the play i'm dealing with being with things faster than what you used to so i had to have a mentality a game plan if i want to take a first pitch i'm trying to graduate myself to velocity see what the guy i have if his ball is moving if he's going to feel comfortable pitching me away or pitching me in that's my mentality different than you watching on tv you see every pitch in the tv looks right every pitch on tv look right there come and see it from when i see it you know what i'm saying see if that is one more question and we're wrapping it up we're really going grebby caban young lefty that we have in our program he wants to know david will have your experience playing the wbc it was beautiful man it was beautiful i think uh um representing your country competing against the best is is this uh it's the best challenge that you can ever i remember after after i played my my first year in a wbc my mindset my mentality going into the season it was even if we didn't accomplish what we were looking for because we have one of the best thing ever put together we got defeated by uh i think it was cuba in san diego uh going back into the season i feel like i was above the lead mind wise and it was because every day during the work classes during the work classes i faced the best of the best they put the best thing together to represent each country with the best talent the u.s had the best talent puerto rico has their best talent asia cuba i mean you failed and we did it almost to the semi-final so you know that as as as the process go by you continue facing the best of the best of the best towards the end so that helped me so much with my confidence level going into the season because if i was able to hit the best of the best why i feel like i had to doubt myself when it comes down to doing what i was supposed to do so it's an unbelievable experience you know you basically connect with you you older with you you and sister i would say people probably your grand grand grandfather who probably was born in aruba and your mom is attached to it and even if you were born to stay you wanna you know sacrifice your mom representing the country where her grandpa was wrong it's beautiful man it's it's a beautiful connection with with the fans with reality and and and i have an amazing experience best moment last question for sure best moment in your career what was it say it whatever it is it is and then personally so manny and me come on this is the best hey this is it you got to put it down on paper this is about my whole career this is my best moment so manny and me in 2004 i was the alcs mvp and manny was the worst serious mvp so giving giving boston when he was really needed that type of trophy a world series trophy i think it would never be forget you know boston it's their city it's their city when are you running for mayor huh when are you running for mayor uh i am right now put the vote hey guys best dominican players coming out of santo domingo by far i would say top two players ever to come out a pleasure to be with a pleasure to deal with them every day i learn from them every day i enjoy just talking hitting and doing other things and being able to help them and get their kids better uh you don't see this too many times three or four the best combo in the history of business last message with all the kids watching out there remember if you want to be a baseball player you gotta want it your father your mom your friend your uncle might be pushing you for you to chase it but if you don't want it it's not gonna happen so you have to sacrifice yourself educate yourself and work hard every day and i guarantee you that after the process it's gonna be a result and remember your parents are your best friend they always want the best for you so you better listen to them that's it g-swing dolly

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