PHNX Arizona Diamondbacks Podcast - Celebrate Good Times

Episode Date: November 6, 2021

On this episode, Jesse and Derek are discussing the hilarity that ensued at the Atlanta Braves' championship parade, Derek's favorite D-backs' celebratory moment, and Snake Drafting the best five-man 2001 D-backs World Series teams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hello and welcome to the PHNX DVax podcast right here on PHNX. My name is Derek Montia, occasionally known as the man that wears a thousand hats on PHNX. And now you know why somebody nominated me, the mayor, and ESPO made it official. It's because I am the mayor of PHNX and I don't care what Saul Bookman says. Thank you guys so much for joining us. Of course, this podcast is brought to you by the fine folks. over at the Draft King's Sportsbook. Go download Draft King's Sportsbook app now.

Use our code of P HNX and simply for betting $5 or more on any NFL team to win, you will get $200 in free bets instantly as long as that team wins that game. It's $5, and I am not going to suggest you bet on the Cardinals. That's, again, a game I would stay very far away from. But I wouldn't be the mayor just by myself without the, assistance of my vice mayor, my friend, my co-host, the one and only Thunderstick Jesse Friedman. Jesse, you're getting, you're getting as many nicknames as I am now. Do you hear all of that? I don't think I could ever have as many nicknames as you do, Derek, because you give yourself a new one pretty much on the daily.

I don't give myself them, Jesse. I earn them. That's, that's, that's, I don't know. I don't know if Mr. Parley was. Hey, hey. Yeah, yeah, you're right about that. That was pretty self-declared, I don't know. I don't know how organic that one was. Yeah. I heard someone call me at once. I don't know. I'm not sure.

Maybe I did make it up. I just know that I hit of Parlay and my very first week of gambling on the Draft King's Sportsbook app. It was a Kyler Murray related parley, and it won me over $400. So damn it, I staked my claim on Mr. Parley right then. I'll take all the nicknames. Didn't you say you also did like a 16 leg parlay? I did.

I lost that one. I lost that one miserably. Actually, you know what really upset me about that one? I only lost two legs of the 16 leg parlay. Oh, wow. You're actually really close. That makes me really quick.

Well, don't get me wrong. These were all like heavy favorites in college football games, which tend to kind of go the direction, right? And the ones that were upsets were the few that cost me, you know, the 16 leg parlay. So I wasn't trying to pull anything super deep on this one. Trust me.

I wasn't doing much celebrating. I was doing a little bit of celebrating, enjoying myself. But you know what, Jesse. I was not doing nearly as much celebrating as the Atlanta Braves were doing today in their World Series championship parade. First of all, I don't know if you heard this, but apparently they put a bomb on their bus. And the bus had to maintain a speed of 55 miles an hour on the freeway. or faster in order for the bomb not to explode, Jesse. Not on the freeway, just like right there.

Just right through the parade. They just took it right through the parade. That is one of the most goddamn hilarious videos I've ever seen in my life. I don't understand. I'm sure we're going to find out. I'm sure it'll become common knowledge why the bus that appeared to be carrying the Atlanta Braves themselves was cruising through streets that had just fans everywhere. Like there could be reasons, right?

this might have been an area that wasn't the intended parade route, and they might have been late trying to get to where they were going. Sure. And it's where all the fans maybe knew they were coming through, so they started to gather over there to get their own little private parade off a side street. And what we got instead was hilarious video of just, and, you know, it was probably going like 30 miles an hour, but just way faster than you ever see a bus and a parade going.

my favorite take on this was that Atlanta forgot what winning was like so this is what happens. Clearly they're not really sure to do this parade winning thing. They're having a great time. Tyler Motzik was not having great. Is that is it Matsik? Tyler Matsick.

Matzik, right. Yes. Arrested, almost. Almost. Acusted by a police officer. Did we ever figure out what that was about because that one I have no I've heard nothing about you know the only thing I can take it is he was dressed in very much fan gear now obviously from what we've seen of the video it looked

very cold to be there in Atlanta and Tyler was wearing a hoodie underneath his own Braves jersey there might have been a little factor there of his overall look mixed with the event mixed with the dress of other fans at the same event. He was off the bus and he was walking alongside of it. So I think that was all part of it too. Just some confusion that ends up getting caught again on camera. It's a little funny. Again, it just goes to the idea of it's been so long

since the city of Atlanta has celebrated a championship that they forgot completely how to do it. Act like you've been there before, Atlanta. Okay, back back to the bus thing real quick. I have to say I was at, I don't know, maybe you were there. Maybe you were there too. I was at like right outside of Sky Harbor Airport when the Sons had just finished their series with the Clippers, I believe. They had just beat the Clippers and they were on their way to the finals.

It was official. And I went down there. and I just want to say if those vehicles had been moving at the same pace as the Atlanta Braves bus was, like everyone would have died. So many people would have perished because everyone, and I mean everyone, Derek, was like right on the pavement, like right on the road. Yeah, there were cops,

these poor cops were trying to get people to step aside and stand the sidewalk. And no one was doing it. Yeah. And I was one of the rule followers, Derek. you know me i'm one of the rule followers i was trying to i was trying to be a you know a good person and not you know not getting anyone's way but uh but yeah there were so many fans that were just right on the street so if nothing else get on the braves fans for not getting in the way i guess and yeah i mean that's pretty good staying on the sidewalk yeah i do i do remember that becoming a

really chaotic event that eventually the airport had to kind of step in yeah i don't think they did it after that like when the suns got back from Milwaukee or whatever, I think they, I think they put an end to it. If I'm not mistaken, somebody set off a firework during that, a purple firework. Oh. At the airport. Oh, goodness. Which you just can't do, folks.

You just can't do. You know, you also can't do, drive a bus 30 miles an hour through a parade route. I don't care which direction you're taking a. And you don't arrest the night shift, right? That's what they were calling themselves, the night shift. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, don't get the stud reliever from fatigue.

Come on. I need the cops to familiarize themselves with a roster. I understand how hard it is. Jesse and I have a difficult time keeping up ourselves. Sometimes to see these guys and play in clothes, I just need every cop to study what their faces look like and get familiar with it when there's a parade like this. You know, do your city justice.

Don't go out there. I mean, especially like Tyler Matzek. I mean, he was like he wasn't the MVP for, the World Series, but he was among the MVP's for the Braves. I mean, he was not a small factor in this series for Atlanta. So for him to be waltzing around and a cop to not know the difference between the near World Series MVP and a casual misbehaving fan, I think it's pretty funny. Yeah.

So it's pretty funny, I guess. That bus video though, Derek, every time I think of it, it still makes. Oh, my God. Those poor fans, they got. got all these pictures that are just a blurred bus. You can't even see it. You can't even tell it was on the bus because it's going too fast. I got this shot of Jorge Saler.

No, you didn't. That is not. Yeah, that's not a Jorge Soler. Look, it is nice. They were going really fast. Well, it's funny because today, I don't think today is the actual anniversary of the celebratory parade, but today would be the 20th anniversary of the Arizona Diamondbacks, probably smoking some cigars right about now.

having themselves a cold one. Much like I am right now myself, because it is officially 20 years since the World Series was won by the Arizona Diamondbacks. That day, that series, that time period has now come and gone. We are beyond 20 years. And I just wanted to, you know, before we get too far past this milestone, obviously we're going to still talk about the World Series a ton.

But, you know, I just wanted to. give it it's due right uh sure with the arizona diamondbacks it's easy especially with the season that they just had to forget all the good times that we've had with this team and it's easy to think that this team is just an absolute cluster fuck and isn't going to figure the anything out that is absolutely not the case uh it's not the case with any sports franchises but i understand when some people don't believe in the franchise, you know, turning things around, how they tend to be a bit dramatic. This season was bad enough to, for people, I think, to be dramatic about.

I try to, again, look at it optimistically and say, there's no further down we can go. So we had to have hit, you know, rock bottom at this point. But I just think back personally about the enjoyment that this team has brought me, celebrating with this team. I have had a very fortunate experience to be in the clubhouse when this team was celebrating not only making the World Series, or excuse me, not World Series, but making the playoffs through the wild card in 2017. But when they first clinched the wild card position,

they had a celebration that night, Jesse. Yeah. Is that when you got like sprayed with champagne? No, okay. So, yeah, like I learned my lesson from when the Dodgers celebrated at Chase Field, and I brought with me this time around a pair of ski goggles that I wore. But all I wanted, I mean, I can't explain being a journalist personally, and Jesse can attest to this. We both have done this at times for literally the love of the game, for the love of this team, for no other reason than wanting to be, I think, where we're both at now,

but for just wanting to cover this team and wanting to be around it. I personally wanted nothing more, like in the 10 years that I covered them, than to be in the locker room, not of the opposing team, but of the Arizona Diamondbacks, when they celebrated something big like this, a momentous occasion. It's really like the highlight for a journalist because you actually do get to be a part of that moment. Like as a journalist, you're not really a part of moments with the team very much.

But you are sort of a part of that moment, which is really cool. The night that they clinch the wild card position for me was my favorite, absolute favorite moment I've ever experienced as a journalist. It was a little bit was the preparer. right i'd learned from my mistakes i've grown as a person and i brought goggles because when the dodgers sprayed me in the face with champagne as great and as enjoyable and as funny of an experience it was i quickly realized jesse that champagne fucking burns it burns your eyes and it doesn't stop burning your eyes it's not like a momentary burn like oh i got some carbonation from the soda in my eyes or something like that

no, it is a nonstop burn that only feels like it's burning more, the more that the champagne stays and runs in your eyes. I wasn't necessarily a target, but I was an innocent bystander a couple of times. Who sprayed you? Was it, was it, Yassio Pueek? No, it wasn't. Was it Jack Peterson?

It was actually Matt Kemp, is who sprayed me in the face. Interesting. I got a really fun video of Adrian Gonzalez getting one of their longtime reporters, and I kind of got a little bit of that action too on that. But with that being said, I don't want to talk about that. That was a miserable day for me.

Though I will say that was the day that when I walked into the locker room, somebody who is no longer with us that is an absolute hero of mine, a mentor of mine, even, I don't even know if I can call him that. I could just say I've gotten some advice from him, and he was an incredible person that I looked up to a lot. Pedro Gomez was in the clubhouse that day. Yeah. And the Dodgers hadn't come down and started their party.

And Pedro was standing in the furthest corner away from all of the action. And I went over and said hello to him because, of course, I'm, you know, he's like a hero to me. And then we joked because I asked why he was standing so far away. And he's like, and I think all he said to me was like, you should probably stand this far away too. and I quickly realized what he meant by that. But celebrating with the Diamondbacks in that moment when they clinched that spot was just incredible for me. And again, not to make it all about me, but just as a personal experience, it was something I'll never forget. It was the first time I heard Tori curse in front of me.

That was enjoyable. That got the hairs on the back of my neck, you know, in a positive way. It was like getting everybody all fired up. But it was just, it was being there in that moment of celebration and just experiencing that, you know, all the hard work that you witness this team go through all this year.

You know, just really being little kids, but little kids with a whole shit ton of alcohol. And, yeah, it was just a really fun moment. I remember trying my best to stay professional and,

you know, get good footage. and stuff, but, you know, you couldn't just help, but, like, have, you know, like, none of us were partaking, right? None of the journalists were drinking, but you definitely had a few of the ballplayers try. Try. Try to get you to tilt your head back and pour one in your mouth for a minute or something, you know. Oh, man. It's a great experience. And I, I miss it. I hope we can see the debacks get there.

And Jesse, let me tell you, after listening to Jeff Bannister on the show the other day, which again was an absolute joy and pleasure, I can't help but be convinced. I know some people think we're drinking the Kool-Aid a little early, and I understand where they're coming from. It's just, I would follow Jeff Bannister anywhere after listening to him talking, hearing some of his tweets,

reading some of his tweets, see it like I was talking about, social media interaction. It just seems like the kind of positive guy I like to be around and especially like to have like mentor me, you know? I need that. I'm a negative self-doubting person, Jesse. I need all the out of boys I can get. And Jeff seems to be, you know, seems to be that kind of guy.

I'm excited to see what he's going to do for this team. He was just so, yeah, just an inspirational sort of. of guy, just the kind of person who you could just kind of hear talk for a long time. And just like, yeah, just like never say a word, but just enjoy every minute of it because just the, you know, the things that he's saying are just kind of speaking directly to your soul. I definitely felt like I had my soul spoken to yesterday. But yeah, no, thanks again to Jeff for for coming on and joining us.

I'm sure, of course, we'll, you know, we'll see him around the dugout. We'll see him around the clubhouse coming up next season. But yeah, just an absolute joy to be able to hear from him. And heck, for any of you listening, if you're listening to us right now, we always appreciate it. But if you didn't hear our interview with Jeff Bannister, pause this one and go check that out because that was a lot of fun. Don't listen to any other podcasts we do until you listen to that one because probably it's all downhill from here. It's nothing's going to be as good as that. Right.

That's all Jeff. That's all Jeff. And I will say this. I'm having a piece coming to go PHNX.com about that interview that we had and I think more specifically about the timing of having a leader like this come into Arizona during a time where our current leadership and other franchises and other sports have showed such a lack of everything that someone like Bannister seems to be about. Leadership, support, doing the right thing, being a good person, being a decent,

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I know your situation. But I want to do a little friendly wager with you. And I think it's time for us to do a little snake drafting. Oh, okay. All right. I need some snake drafting music like a rattle and maybe a snake doing some hip-hop music. I don't know. I'm getting a little imaginative here.

Somebody's going to get mad at me for trying to do too many ideas. But we are going to snake draft on this show a lot of stuff because we are the snake. right we are the snakes and we are going to do some snake drafting so today our snake draft is going to be specifically about the 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks World Series roster okay all right jesse so what we are going to do today is we are going to draft a five person team five band team okay of Arizona Diamondbacks members I want to give you I want you to give your reasons why I think will be obvious. I think some less obvious. Sure. But I want to give, I want you to give you reasons why.

And then I think we're going to take this to the Twitter. I think we're going to take it to the Twitter and see if we can decide on whose five-band team is the superior team. I've already won the many snakes of Newark thing. So that one's on me. I'm already want to know what against you. I don't know how the, I don't know how the, I don't know how the fire Tori Lovolo, don't fire Lovolo argument went, but obviously we know which way the Arizona Diamondbacks went. So

I'm going to flip a virtual coin right now, Jesse, to decide on who wins. I'm going to let you decide and I am flipping it now. Call it in the air, heads or tails? Heads. And flipping and it's heads. So Jesse, you

will get the first pick in the 2001 World Series D-backed snake draft. Don't insult me, Derek. You know who I'm going to take. I don't need to. Yeah. Just take Randy Johnson and shut your stupid mouth. I am absolutely going to take Randy Johnson, the Hall of Famer himself. This is sort of a no-brainer. I don't feel like I need to, I need to say a whole lot more than you, you're doing. No, you don't need to, no, you don't need to say a whole lot. And I, you got to do what you got to do.

I now, Jesse, I'm going to take two and you are son of a bitch. You're making me take. Kurt Schilling. But again, there's no other, there is no other person to take as far as the number two. Randy, Randy Johnson and Kurt Schilling were one and two in that World Series, hands down. And I have to. In this case, I feel like I'm separating the man who I dislike very much from the player and what he did in the World Series. So that's, that's where I'm going to go with that. And Jesse, for my second pick, again, it seems like a no-brainer. Oh, I forgot. It's a stink draft.

You get to pick twice. I'm going with Louise Gonzalez. Darn it. Oh, my gosh. I didn't see that coming. When I got the first overall pick, I was like, oh. Oh, yeah. I'm going to get both RJ and Gonzo.

So this is basically over. But all right. No. All right. You got two now, though. You got two. Okay. Um, hmm.

Now I have to think about this. I was just ready to, I was just ready to just get gonzo and run. I know. All right. I'm going to, I'm going to take, man,

this is tough. All right. I'm going to, I'm going to take, there's, this is where it gets pretty murky. Like, we all know who the front three is.

I'm going to take Mark Grace. Okay. Because Mark Grace is Mark Grace. And he had a really solid performance throughout the world series. he had almost a 400 on base percentage throughout the entire thing. Yep. So I'm going to take Mark Grace. And I am also going to take, let's see, all right.

I am also going to take Steve Finley. Oh, that's a good one. That's a good one. I was hoping you weren't going to take him. I was hoping you weren't going to take him. He had a pretty darn good, he had a pretty darn good World Series. And his, he sure did. he was he hit 368 in the world series with an OPS over a thousand i feel i feel pretty good i feel

pretty good about that yeah i would too i would too i like that pick all right i'm going to come over the top with you with my two picks jesse you ready for him here i got ready i got two more and then i'll have the final pick so with pick number two i am going to go with my guy my guy one of my favorite players on this team. Danny Batista. Okay. All right. Now, I know it's a small sample size, which Jesse hates, and that's more of the reason why... In the World Series, small sample sizes are okay.

Seven for 12 with a 583 batting average, 615 on base percentage, and an OPS of 1.365. It's pretty compelling. Yeah. And then I'm also going to take Reggie Sanders. Oh, a little bit bigger of a sample size.

Reggie Sanders went 7 for 23 for a 304 batting average in the World Series. He only slug 348. He only slugged 348. He's got on with a bunch of singles. I need singles. And then Danny Batista is going to drive them home, boy.

All right, go ahead. All right. So this would be your final two picks. Yes, yes. Okay. My final two. I get the last pick. All right.

to confirm so far, you have taken Kurt Schilling, Luis Gonzalez, correct. Miguel Batista. Nope, Danny Batista. Danny Batista. Okay. All right. Well, I'm going to take Miguel Batista then. Because he, a lot of people forget this, he in two games went eight innings and did not allow a run in the World Series in 2001.

I like that. I'm all over, I'm all over, uh, Miguel Batista. to hear. Yeah, so he's one of them and then I've got one more. You got one more. Okay. Well, this is where things get

tough. Really murky, right? Right? I mean, I feel like people are already going to be put off by Kurt Schilling leading the way for me, but then I feel like I win them back with Luis Gonzalez. You might want to just submit four names

when we put this on social there. I don't think you want to, put Kurt Schilling out there. That's not a terrible idea. All right. I'm going to go, oh, this is tough. I'm going to go ahead and say, uh,

these two players are so neck and neck. It's so hard to pick one. I'm going to pick Tony Womack. Because Tony Womack, we all remember him with the double and the ninth inning. That was obviously a huge hit. He didn't play that well throughout the World Series necessarily. You just hit two 50s.

but that was obviously an enormously important hit in the ninth inning in 2001. And had it not been for that hit, Derek, we wouldn't be having this conversation right now. So I'm going to go with Tony Womack as my last pick. That's a really, really, really good pick. So good that I'm kind of left a little bit not knowing who left a pick. So I'm going to go with Matt Williams as my final pick. Okay. That's the other guy I was, that's the other guy. Yeah. I think Matt Williams' numbers in the World Series were a little bit better, but a little less memorable. And I think he was also pretty hobbled in the World Series, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, I think you're right. But all right. So, uh, team to recap here, who we got, uh, team under the manager of, of the one and only vice mayor, Jesse Friedman. We got, uh, team. Uh, team under the manager of, of, of the one and only vice mayor, Jesse Friedman. We got, uh, uh, Randy Johnson, Mark Grace, Steve Finley, Miguel Battista, and Tony Woolmac.

And for team Montia, we have Kurt Schilling, Louise Gonzalez, Reggie Sanders, Danny Batista, Matt Williams. I'm going to say that that's a pretty even split. I think it's a pretty even split. I'm going to say. I think Kurt Schilling might sink your chances of winning the poll. I know, I know. But I had no choice. I couldn't give you Kurt and Randy.

That was a surefire loss. I think you, Derek, I think you very well could have. How did he hose you on this? What happened? How did Jesse end up with Kurt and Randy? I think you could have taken, uh, you could have taken Gonso is what you. Well, I mean, wait, so you took now I'm all confused. Darnie, you got me all confused, Derek.

So I know, I'll be 100% honest because I will do it in the order. I did Kurt Schilling, Luis Gonzalez, Reggie Sanders, Danny Batista, Matt Williams. So yes, Kurt Schilling was my first overall pick. I'm with you. I could have stacked it, Louise Gonzalez, Kurt Schilling. Didn't matter. It was a snake draft. You people can take it whichever way you can.

When I put it on the internet, I'll probably put Louise Gonzalez first. Yeah, I'm sure you will. I'll probably put Kurt Schild like third. A little bit. Yeah, just see. I'll stick him in the middle somewhere so people don't notice he's there. No matter what, yeah, no matter what, one of us is going to wind up with Randy Johnson and the other person was going to wind up with both Gonzo.

shilling. It's made sense to really do it any other way. It's the guys. And like you said, even Luis Gonzalez doesn't have great stats in the World Series when you look at his playoffs. No, but he has the hit, so it doesn't really matter. He has the hit. And he also let me

cut in line in front of him one time at Dutch Brothers. Really? Oh, did I not, yes. And by the way, Louise Gonzalez, when he knows your name, he fucking knows your name. Like, he knows your name, period. I wasn't even wearing my press badge. and Luis Gonzalez, Luis Gonzalez,

Gonsu, you know, the guy that got the hit. Yeah. He was like, hey, Derek, casually. Like, I wasn't going to freak out about him knowing my name. Hey, Derek, go ahead, get in front of me is what he tells me. Oh. Again, another great day. Probably up there in my top five around where I got, you know, alcohol sprayed in my face.

Wait, so you were, you were like in line outdoors at a Dutch bros? No, no. There was a Dutch bros in Chase Field. Jesse, I'm not told you about how they took it away from me. Yes. Yeah, no, we have had this conversation. I'm sad just going down this path of discussion. But yes, when Dutch bros would open up before they open the stadium to fans,

a lot of the employees would go get Dutch bros. So the line tended to be a bit long. And one day when I was walking up, it wasn't really too long. And it was one of those situations where, like, Luis Gonzalez was with a couple of people. And we kind of arrived near the same time, but they were easily there in front of me. And he just stopped the line and said, go ahead, get this guy, the world. Like, I should be stopping the line for him. I should have bought his Dutch brothers.

But I was, I was, I did not have very much money. And Dutch pros is very expensive. But next time, Luis Gonzalez, your Dutch pros is on me, I promise you. That's definitely a part of like, I feel like our audience should know this. part of covering the Diamondbacks and being around the stadium is just getting used to seeing former Diamondbacks players. Correct. Just waltzing around everywhere. Like Gondo and Randy Johnson.

Mark Grace. Mark Grace is around. Brandon Webb is everywhere. Brandon Webb's super nice and just, yeah, exactly, around all the time because he's a broadcaster. Mark Grace broadcaster. Yeah, it's and I mean, again, they are, they're legends in our mind. So it does. it's a bit difficult to

not fanboy out around them, but I definitely enjoy the conversations I've had with them because they're all super nice. And I will give you I'll give you the piece of advice that I saw a pro wrestler and the current king of the ring, King Xavier Woods,

give a fan right in front of me when the guy was freaking out. And that is, hey man, we're all just people. I'm a person, you're a person. Let's just hang out and let's be cool. You know, and wait, wait, wait, we're not, we're not just people, Derek. You're the mayor and I'm the vice name.

Yeah, we're politicians. I forget. Yeah, we're on a different level, Jesse. I forget that a lot of the time. Don't ever forget it, Derek. I was on the ASU podcast earlier. Jesse, I've almost done every damn podcast on this network this week. I got it.

You're having a bit of an identity crisis this week because you've been on so many shows. So we better wrap myself so thin. I know. I got to get some sleep or something. But I just want to remember. remind you guys to jump on the Drafking Sportsbook app. Once again, use our code of PHNX. And for betting $5 on any NFL game,

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