Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 136 | Tim Melville Went from BBQ to the Big Leagues

Episode Date: April 27, 2020

Rockies pilltosser Tim Melville went all the way off the rails with us on this interview. Check out the most wild episode of Talkin' Baseball yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 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.

Welcome to Talking Baseball. We've got a very fun interview on this episode with Tim Melville. But first, let's dance a little. What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to Talking Baseball. We hope you had a fantastic weekend. We hope you're having a fantastic Monday and you find us in good spirits. We have a very fun interview for you today.

My name is Jimmy. I have Trevor and Jake with me. As always, BBD in the corner. How are you two doing? I'm doing great. It's a beautiful day out. I'm excited. I'm in such a good mood.

A little feisty today, but I think it makes for some good talk. There you go. Jake, got a visor on, looking great. Good, NFL draft tonight. You know, James. That's one of my up there on my favorite sports events of the year. And, yeah, we've got an interview coming for that. the people. So we'll be quick because it's a long interview, but Tim Melville,

um, last year we found out that he was like in tune with our content, enjoyed some of it, bought a shirt from our store, wore it after everything. Jake had barbecue. You hear about that. This interview started off the rails, stayed off the rails, maybe got back on the rails for a second or two and then quickly went back off. There's a lot of fun. Tim's awesome. It's hilarious. The internet, the connection was going in and out. We did like, two different intros because we didn't know what worked and what didn't. Who knows what Zach, our editor actually made this final product.

But let's just throw it straight to the interview. Just wanted to give you a little warning. Get ready, people. It's a lot of food and hobbies and cats. And it's a lot. And it's a good time. Six cats. Six cats.

So here you go. Barbaric. We are joined by barbecue specialist, cat herder. I guess he throws a baseball too. Rocky's pitcher Tim Melville, my last first date, I think, as well. Tim, how you doing, dude? Wow, thanks for the intro. I'm doing excellent.

Some of that's true, some of it's not true. Okay. Yeah. You weren't my last. Huh? What's not true? I don't believe I was your last first date, or was it? Is it true?

You and I had a very nice lunch date in Denver, Colorado a few months back, and I don't think I've had any other first dates since then, no. How many first dates have you had since then, Tim? He's out. He's out. I got to say, Jake, I think he friend zoned you. You don't take somebody out a date to lunch. You take a friend out to lunch.

It was a date. okay it was a date maybe you guys dynamic is different anyway he he left because he was sick of you calling it a date i think the cat herder is out he's got kind of got a good face uh saved on the screen right now i know not everyone can see just play it but just pretend he's really quiet yeah speak up him uh i don't i don't know this has been a wild ride from the start if people if we do it end up keeping this in here. It's been a wild start. Tim's got six cats by him.

So maybe one of the cats jumped on his phone. Maybe. They all Game of Thrones names besides a Mary and a Pippin in there? No, most of them are Lord of the Rings. Jim, let's go. Okay. Well, there was Game of Thrones for Lord of the Rings. Frodo, Sam, Mary, Pippen.

Those are all hobbits. I can just go on about Lord of the Rings. I could just. Oh, okay. I know Frodo, but I didn't know Sam and Pippin and Mary. Those are pretty common names. Lord of Rings doesn't own those. If you say them all together, it's a Lord of the Rings.

Okay. You know, when you bunch those names together, we're talking about the Shire. You know, we're talking about four friends set out on a quest to destroy evil once and for all. Two break off and have to go to Mordor. The other two have to go and fight their own battles. Barbaric. All right. Let's run.

We are rejoined. by Tim Melville, pitcher for the Rockies. I claimed he was my last first date. He shot me down a little bit. And then the connection went out. So we're back here. Tim, what's going on, dude? I'm great.

Hang out. You want to tell us who? Yeah. We did this before the show, but you're, you're chilling with six cats right now? Yeah, just, you know, the standard amount, six cats. And it's pretty relaxing. Do you have a favorite of the six?

One of them's name's Frodo, and he's so relaxed. He's awesome. Actually, I think he's right here. Maybe I can bring him into the shot real quick. They're trying to eat my camera in here. They're so adorable. There's Frodo. Do you, oh, wow, right up close.

Good luck on your quest. Do you have a least favorite? A least favorite? No, I love them all equally. I think it's hard to, you know, decide. that one of this young. They're just all sweet. Eventually, uh, one. Where are you right now? Where are you quarantined? So I'm in Phoenix. I'm in Phoenix, Arizona. I'm actually in the house I was in during spring

training this year. Robert Stock has a place out here. Me and a few other baseball guys. His brother, Richard plays independent ball for the New Jersey Jackals and one of his teammates. Reese also lives here as well. And my girlfriend's here and then Robert's got his wife here. So it's like a full house of people. But we have, you know, maintain our sanity. And it's been a pretty smooth sailing quarantine so far. But Phoenix is going to get to like 100 degrees here soon. So who knows what's going to happen?

It's going to get pretty hot here soon. But how are you guys doing? You guys doing great? We're all right. Jake and I are in apartments in New York City. So there's not a lot of outside time at all, which blows. Like I keep thinking about people who are quarantined in their homes, like Trev who has a backyard and can like go outside.

I'm like, God damn, that's huge. Can't do that at all. It's really nice. Yeah. I'm going swimming all day today. I'm probably going to put something on the grill. I got a good. I've told you guys that from the get-go.

I don't want to be having it to everyone's face. Yeah, I'm out in California. It's hot today. It's going to be up to 90 degrees. So, yeah, but I got a pool, man. You got to get in there. You guys can come out. I have room for you.

Get out of New York City. I'm loving to say Where's the John Bo Jet? Yeah, we need to get that Get on that We are like We share it with Drake When when

Yeah He mostly gets it When it's When I have to do laundry That's like a big thing It's like a yes An excuse to go outside Let's do this

It's like that's the exciting part You need like a you need one at your place That's a tough one The laundry That was Katie's must was she wanted laundry inside the apartment and we ended up getting an apartment that doesn't have it. Can you do like a pick me up service? Because I'd be super down for that. I hate laundry. That's what we do. That's what we do. We drop it off and then pick it up. Okay. That's great. It takes like five minutes, but that's our outside time. So if that answers your question, Tim, doing as well as I guess I can be excited about dropping off laundry.

You really opened up a can of worms with that. We don't talk about our feelings on this show. because it's tough times in the city right now. You've got a full quarantine, man. What's the dynamic there? Do you guys have like a real-world show for me? Do you have family dinners in four-view? Yeah, we do have some dinners and game nights. But, you know, no vlogs yet.

You know, we haven't ventured into YouTube area. I think that's ultimately the next step is have a reality TV show. but not a lot goes down. We're all pretty quiet, play some video games. I know stock is extremely in deep with the video game world. I am nowhere

near it, but I have begun to play some video games this quarantine. For the longest time, I always thought Minecraft was like a kid's game. And I recently discovered that during quarantine, and I've been absolutely crushing Minecraft.

So I don't know if you guys have heard of Minecraft after you know what it is, but there's a mobile version for your phone. And I just, I eat it up. Is there a way to win Minecraft? Yeah, how do you win Minecraft? I know what it is, but like, what do you do? Well, I think it's one of those where it's like you can play to win or you can just play to play to play.

Kind of like Sims. I don't know if you played Sims. Yeah. So what are you doing? Are you just building things? You just digging holes? Yeah, whatever, you know, whatever you want. Kind of like having unlimited money to, like, build whatever structures you want.

You build like a pool or you build a mansion next to a creek. or like you build like dungeons or castles and stuff like that but there's side quests you know there's ultimately an ender dragon that you have to defeat and you have to get there by creating a portal to this other world this other dimension and I don't know if you ever heard of the ender dragon but it's like the hardest part of the game and it's extremely frustrating because when you die in the game you get reset all your levels get reset back to zero and levels actually help you like develop and other stuff. So it's like hours are lost, almost immediately. You're in deep, Tim. You're in deep, huh? Yeah. It's emotional. What's your, what's your, what, so, hey, I was

going to ask what you're, like, is there, is it like wake up? Is it wake up and you like put in your two hours and then you come back to it? Do you have like a, a time set out for that each day? Is it strictly while shitting? You know, you can put it. The game is there whenever you need it. it. That's a great. But I do have a girlfriend. So I understand the parameters. And she works.

She's great. She's a nurse. She works in a local hospital here in Phoenix. Wow. She works a few times a week, but she works like 12-hour shifts. So I'm just, you know, unfortunately, I got to like, bored for 12 hours. And that's my time to shine with Minecraft for sure, crushing.

Well, I don't. We do talk some baseball stuff. I think last time, last I was tracking your spring training, did you hurt your rib or something? Are you healthy? What are you doing? Yeah, so I heard my rib. Last game of the last year, final game, I was pitching, had a lot of soreness, continued to pitch through it and play through it.

You know, it's kind of the end of the year type of motivational, like go through it. I was pitching in San Francisco. Got done with the game, and we had a few more days left. this season, but I was like done pitching. So my mind was like, well, kind of, if it's still bothering you to let someone know. And it didn't necessarily bother me that much. I felt like a muscle strain. And so went to the off season, had a great off season worked out. Didn't bother me. Started to throw in January. It felt good. I got a few pins in. And then it started to bother me again. It was kind of the middle of my back. So when that happened, it felt like, all right, I got to,

you know, speak up about this. And, I went to the team and we did a scan on it and turned out I had fractured my rib and it hadn't fully healed yet. Whether that's a combination of the workouts I was doing and then kind of, I was like playing golf and stuff. Like a normal off season, everything was normal. So that was a big blowback for me to get to spring training and, you know, have that diagnosis and have them tell me it's like, we can't necessarily do anything for this. Like you're going to have to sit around and rest and, you know, it's going to take some time to heal. So that happened, but, you know, fortunately enough, I was still in camp with the Rockies and I was able to be the part of the team day and day out, you know, kind of awkward, not like throwing or, you know, doing anything baseball-wise, but, you know, chit-chat with guys and, you know, seeing how, you know, that kind of viewpoint from a coach's perspective or just being a good teammate with everybody. You know, I love those guys, and it's an awesome squad and a lot of fun to be around. So I had a great spring training with them. And it's just been a whirlwind because,

Then the quarantine happened. And, you know, I was on schedule to, you know, start throwing again and everything. But now it's like, you know, just continue to shut it down. And so right now it's healed. Everything's great. So I'm just looking to get back to baseball when it starts up again. So it's, you know, it's something that's, you know, a learning, you know, you learn about it. And you just kind of heal from it and just move forward with everything.

Would you say that you consider yourself someone who has benefited from Corona. Yeah, in a sense, you could you could say that. I think about that. And like, if baseball's going on right now, I know I'd be more like, man, I wish I was out there, like crushing it with my team. I miss that aspect the most. I'm a big team player. I enjoy just going to the park every day, spend all day there if I wanted to. And just being around the guys and bring into this game, you realize that's the most important part is just being with a great team. team and a great set of guys. And ultimately, that leads the winning.

That's the end result for everybody. But, you know, that's kind of the most part. I'm missing the most right now. So I think there's a sense of, yeah, the quarantine is benefiting to me. But at the end of the day, I think it just sucks not being around baseball. I'm not even having it, you know, it's just, it's tough. Yeah. You guys have a catcher?

Like, I always wonder with pitchers, like, what you guys are doing right now? I have a few buddies that are pitchers and I ask them the same question. Like, you got to have some. someone to throw to, but that's not always the case, especially in a time like this. Are you guys getting down and catching each other or are you throwing into a net or what's going on in the house? Are we getting down for each other? Is that what you said? Get on the knees for each other, catching? Yeah. So Robert Stock, so this is his place. He built a mound in the backyard, complete dirt mound, everything you would need. He's got Rapsoto. He's got net. He's got a

He's got a plate. He was a catcher, right? Yeah, he was a catcher. So does he get down as he do it? You can get down and catch. But he also has a brother Richard who throws 95 miles an hour. And he catches and pitches, you know, kind of half and half. So it's like honestly the most picture perfect situation I could be in as a baseball player.

And it's essentially a baseball house that I kind of live in right now. Yeah, you're like in a baseball utopia. You just got like baseball buddies with you, six cats, the girlfriend's with you. Like you're, you're doing well. You're crushing Minecraft every day. It's like, sounds nice. It is not bad. It was worked out very nicely for me.

So for anyone that- Do you feel like the third stock brother? Because I mean, the dynamic, again, I'm trying to get into your world a little bit here. I mean, are you feeling like you now gain two brothers? Well, I have, there's three stock brothers and two stock sisters, but the sisters don't live here. And one of the brothers is not.

not living here right now. Okay. So I don't, I don't really think of it that way. I just, dumb question. Yeah, that was a really dumb question.

I have four older half brothers myself. So I feel like there's actually less of the tension here. You know, it's, it's a, it's a calmer house than I grew up in for sure. You know, I'm not,

I'm not getting duct taped on the regular. Oh, no. That's good. It's my feet going out. I'm sorry. It's okay. It looks great.

I thought it was maybe one of the cats just hanging out in front. I don't know if it was this start of our podcast or was the one we're going to have to delete, but you said that you went to lunch with Jake and it wasn't a date. So we came back. You friends owned Jake. How did that happen? Well, Trev, what you don't know is Tim is the first and ever model for John Boy Media.

He... I've seen the shirt. I've seen that. I remember you sent me that picture. Yes, Don the I love baseball shirt after like having an amazing game. How did you Jake meet and do you regret that ever happening? Do I regret it? Well, I think it was just a normal day, you know, in the big leagues.

You know, you just kind of wake up and, you know, you finish eating the room service or whatever from the night before. But I was still hungry and I wanted to go to the lunch. And usually my first shirt is like some barbecue place. local spot. And there was one in Denver called Albear. And some guy had been blowing me up in the DMs. And I'm this guy with this baseball thing. And I don't know, you see my friend John Boy, he does all this stuff. Oh, wow. Cool, man. What's up? He's like, I live in Denver. And if I can have lunch with you, that would be a drink come true. I was like, you know, like, you know, fans come first. And I just want to go to lunch.

And I said, hey, man, come on over. And we got to this place. It opens at like 11 or so. So I got there a little earlier. And I'm kind of hanging out in line and, you know, not really paying attention. And like, you know, people are coming in out of the restaurant. I'm sitting there waiting for this guy. And this kid, like, walks up to me.

And I'm like, great, like autographs. Like, you know, it's, what time is there? You know, he's like, hey, I'm Jake. And I'm like, oh. Hey, buddy. How's it going? And, uh, no, we had a great launch. It was awesome. And, uh, I get, I got really see where like the energy and, uh, just the wholesome friendship, um, where you guys, you know, he introduced that to me to your guys' kind of relationship a little bit, if that makes any sense. Like, you know, he was just open, friendly with me. And we had a

great launch and, you know, it was, uh, it was a good time. Barbecue. Tim, I have a question for you. When, you, when you, you came up with the Rockies and you had that game and you dominated and the big story was that you worked at a barbecue place the off season before little miss barbecue is that the name of it give them a little plug yeah that's correct all right so then the the public loves these stories oh there you go public loves these stories of minor league guys that have to work second jobs because they like romanticizing the the the the miserableness of minor leagues in that so when dobb nick for the twins goes to the Yankees.

I'm going to connect this. Everyone chants Uber at them. And then the world said that that was like so mean and that the Yankee fans were being so miserable. Yeah, they are. If opposing fans were to chant Lil Miss Barbecue at you while you were on the mound, would you wear that as a badge of honor or would you think they were being mean? 100%.

I wouldn't think that it was being mean. you know someone didn't tell me that they felt like the funniest part of the whole story was it was being romanticized that I was some like broke minor leaguer barely making ends meet you know it was it was just ultimately like a side passion I didn't intend for it to be anyway like romanticized but I have so much respect for like the industry jobs I feel like it is a tough tough environment and people don't stay there like the idea is not to like stay there and have that job for a while you know a little bit and with whatever you have going on on the side you kind of work your way up so those were the type of people i met there and you know there was a weird blend of it at this particular restaurant because they are kind of consider one of the top barbecue restaurants in the country so it wasn't like a hole in the wall spot it was a spot i like i specifically picked down out because of my passion with food.

And I really wanted to be an environment that is like wholly based on team advancement and just kind of the pursuit of perfection and to also just provide for the community here in Phoenix. You know, I never really, I don't think I got to talk to about it too much to the media, just really purely what it meant to me. But I learned like so many subsurface lessons there that I think, you know, the media is just going to take like, oh, yeah, you just worked at Uber. for an offseason, but, you know, there's so much stuff you can learn about yourself when you're put into situations that are unknown and you kind of challenge yourself a little bit. And there's

definitely some funny times there, some uncertainty. And that definitely put me in my place, you know, considering my background, someone would be like, why did you even feel that way? Like, when you've pitched in the big leagues from 40,000 people, like, you've been a professional baseball for 10 plus years. Like, it's like, how can this make you nervous? And it was hilarious and overall a great experience. What did you do there? Yeah, were you doing everything? Yeah.

Stoke in the fire? What were you doing? Yeah, I told them day one, I wanted to learn the ins and outs and everything. They had opened up a second restaurant. So if you want me to tell the story, I can. Yeah. That's why you're here. We want to hear about you, man.

So I followed this Instagram barbecue restaurant here. in Phoenix, I've had them a few times. They're just absolutely unbelievable food, brisket, pork ribs, pork shoulder. They were the metric for me whenever I ate anywhere else in the country. Two years ago, they opened up a second restaurant, and they put out like an open interview process on Instagram. So I got really excited. I said, maybe I could do this. Like, it's September. I just got done with Myrle Ball. Like, I got nothing going on this off season. I'd rather hang out in a restaurant that's really cool than you know good golfing or hiking which I've done previous off-season's forever over many years so I go to the second restaurant and I pull up and I can't do it

I have to turn around I have to go home I'm like I'm like sweating I know I sweat a lot but I was like sweating nervous and turn around and went home and I had to like kind of pump myself up and like look at myself in the mirror like what am I nervous about it? What is this thing that's like grip to me but I went back the next day face my fears walked in had a great conversation with the owners and you know kind of just said hey I don't necessarily have any food experience I've worked at Ruby Tuesdays in high school but that was like 10 years ago and I was a salad boy but last 10 years I've been playing professional baseball like I didn't have like a resume you know just telling them this like I just felt like this prestigious restaurant would just like

scoff at me and, you know, kick me out like the first day. So they were nice enough to let me on. And I mean, I was excited. Like I'd never been so pumped for anything because, you know, I'd just been doing baseball for like 10 years. And it's like this new exciting endeavor. And I realized quickly that it wasn't going to be as easy, as simple as I thought, because you really do have to start from square one. And I wanted to like work the pits. I wanted to like season the meat and I wanted to make all the food and also wanted to like serve the customers and talk to everybody. But there's a learning curve. Like there's a learning process and it is like a whole new menu to learn. It's a whole new set of ingredients, how to cook stuff properly. I mean, they're good

restaurant for a reason. They're almost perfectionist. And I learned very quickly that it took a lot of hard work for them to get where they were. And it's going to take a lot of hard work for me to be able to live up to their standards. But, excuse me. But it was a great time. I ended up working mainly cashier. I have a pretty good face. And I had decent pit skills at first, as far as a pit work in the pits, the smokers.

Decent skills, but it really takes someone with a very specific touch. You know, I don't think the term, I think the term now pit master is handed out pretty frequently. more frequently than it should. You know, a pitmaster is someone who can pick up the meat and know it's done instead of using a thermometer, in my opinion, can look at the color of the meat and know that it is time to wrap the meat. So there's all these things, the art of barbecue that fall into making a pitmaster. I am nowhere qualified to be called a pitmaster, in my opinion, compared to some of the

guys I've worked with. And that's just out of total respect for them and respect for the art of barbecue. you. But I learned so much there. I got out of my comfort zone. I was kind of introverted guy. I think when you're in a position of baseball, you get a lot of things handed to you, especially at the highest levels. So in this environment, it was totally different. I had people yell at me. Like customers just yell at me straight up and like blame me for things. And it kicks your ass. It puts you right in your place, which is what I wanted. I loved it. I was just like, yeah, give me more problems to solve and to, you know,

you know, work together for in some weird way. Because I hadn't, I hadn't necessarily done that myself sometimes. I think in baseball, you get complacent. And, you know, you're not pushing yourself as much as you wanted to. And I felt like this gave me an opportunity to learn how to push myself outside the game. And, you know, there's so many little stories of people just going off on me. And just, I don't know. It's weird, but I enjoy my time there for sure.

That's awesome. And, yeah, I mean, it's something to throw yourself into a world. you're pretty engulfed in that just to throw yourself into a whole new world there's got to be weird shit do you do you cook barbecue a lot now is this like have you do you are you a barbecue snob do you make your own or where are you do you let just love all barbecue yeah so working at the restaurant is absolutely ruined my taste buds for any other barbecue okay i have to compare to that and i know how it's made now so i can tell what they've done to the barbecue to uh get the end product and I can like be like oh they they you know they skip these steps and they make shitty

barbecue and sometimes I call them out sometimes I don't just like oh they tried like it's a tough business you got to make money you got to cut corners and the place I worked at they did not allow that they do not allow cutting of corners so I respect it but I cook a lot of food I watch a lot of YouTube and there's a lot of guys out there make a lot of good YouTube videos in this quarantine has been like a dream come true as far as that aspect of my life because I've made pizza. I just bought an ice cream machine that I'm going to start working on. Wow. I googled how to make ice cream the other day and then I was like, stop it.

Can't do that to myself. And it's a whole process. Not at the time. You can kind of dive into it. Yeah. It just tastes different. I don't know if it's the aspect of like doing it in your kitchen or you put the hard work and sweat into it.

But little things taste different. I did like, I don't know if you guys. I've heard of it in New York. It's called Duchess Cookies. You ever had those? I don't think so. I know like Duchess in that term. Yeah, yeah.

There's a place called Dutchess Cookies in New York. It's phenomenal. They like to kind of stuff their cookies with random items. It's usually just like another cookie. So they'll do like a chocolate cookie. That's what it looks like inside of a sugar cookie. I like that. So my days here in quarantine has consisted of like me waking up.

like turning over to my girlfriend and I'm like all right like can we make like a donut cookie or like a brownie stuffed cookie or like you know this quarantine has been like great and then I'll go research it and then it's like a little project and then I try to whip it up and make it so we made like brownie stuff chocolate I made a lot of stuff and if anybody's like worried about my weight you know I'm fine it's like literally the only thing I eat during the day is like maybe one pizza and then you know i have to i work out every day which is great but you know i'm just straight junk food right now um you know it's it's awesome so did you any of you guys do you got can i ask a question um yeah please do you guys have any like favorite what's your

favorite uh quarantine snack food if we can like start with jake and like has there been something that maybe came back from your childhood for me it was like you think i'm a big snacker I know I know Jake's answer You're such a snack You're such a snack Jake why Now you're out of the friend zone It was the day

I know your answer Jake What do you have for me Jim Oatmeal with milk Oh yeah That's not a snack That's been a new breakfast thing I've been working in Just because I didn't know

Enough about me Honestly no I'm pathetic I would say honestly like the halo ice cream finds its way into the fridge once a week and that's just the little I'm having a dessert and I'm half healthy but I'm not at all that stuff talks and that's it does yeah um but you know that's kind of how I live my life if anyone else would like to answer I've been doing a lot of peanut butter crackers I just do it make tiny I get really high

and then I make peanut butter and jelly on a little ritz cracker and I just I sit there at the table, like, and I make this whole, like, I slowly put all the rich crackers down, like four. And then I slowly put peanut butter on all of them. And then I take the squeezable jelly and just go ploop, plop, plop, plop. Plop. Plop. Did you say ploof? Plop.

Plop. And my girlfriend walks by and she goes, what the fuck are you doing? I'm like, oh, my God. I forgot you were here. She looks at your garage. She's like, okay. So that's my snack. And then I'm, like, thinking, like, every bit of this.

is like there's a healthy version of it, but then they just added a ton of sugar. Like the jelly is just, you know, the jam could probably be healthy, but then the ritz crackers, there's nothing but sugar. So that's what I've been doing. Yeah,

I've been doing pickles, like anything pickled. So I like don't eat dessert anymore since I stopped playing because I would just get super fat because I have like no self-control. Like if it's in front of me, I'm going to eat it. So I decided one day,

it's been almost a year now. I said I love beer. Like I'm a beer guy. So I either have to give a beer or desserts. And that was like the easiest decision in the world for me. desserts have been gone. So I don't do anything sweet anymore. But pickled stuff I'm like all about.

Pickled cauliflower, pickled carrots, pickled cucumbers, obviously. Just that's kind of in my snack lately, which is interesting. Yeah. I don't have any experience, but I feel like you can almost break someone down psychologically. with their snacks. If you don't mind me asking Trevor,

was there a point in your life where you felt safe and pickles were like your thing? No. Do they remind you of Phil Hughes? Do they remind you of Phil Hughes? I just have to find something different to snack on.

You know, I can't, you know, just because I've given that up, so like I just found something different to snack on. And it's so easy. And they stay good in your fridge for like a million years. So I made a video on it,

but that banana and peanut butter ice cream that, I don't know, you probably didn't see it, but I just put that in a food processor, frozen bananas, peanuts, a splash of milk and it's like banana ice cream. That's like my go-to little dessert at night.

That's like a nice little healthy. Yeah, yeah, it's basically a pliable base, like a smoothie bowl base, but I just make it on my own. That's awesome. Hey,

since this is a cooking podcast now, I got to just get something off my chest, because this really bothers me. I don't know why it bothers me so much. But you're like a real deal barbecue guy, and I like that about you. Like when I imagine you getting on the barbecue, I imagine you like with a real smoker,

like actually tending to the fire, like whatever kind of coals you use, you're really doing it. What I can't stand is people that buy a Trigger grill. Nice grills, great. It's like training wheels, and they act like they're, this barbecue pitmaster,

literally all you, you do with the Trigger is set the temperature and go. Like you're not a barbecue pitmaster if you have a Trigger. Had to get it off my chest. Thank you. I'm, I might leave now. I don't know. Is that a statement?

I'm sorry. What happened? I'm sorry. I see all my friends all do it too. I'm sorry you guys just lost your Trigger sponsorship. Yeah. No, great grill. Don't call yourself a Pitmaster if you use a Trigger because.

So literally pressing a button. Yeah. Trigger works. It does what it's supposed to do. I'm just saying it's training wheels. And that was probably... And I'm out. Okay, see you guys later. Yeah, you're okay.

Everyone just has a lot to get off their chest. Yeah, Tim, please. Well, maybe you can... Trevor, you can kind of compare it to like karate dojos. So I think it's... I've never trained in karate dojo, but I've only heard stories, but it's like, hey, man, if you think your karate is better than mine, come challenge me. Come in my dojo and we'll see what happens.

We'll see who comes out to Victor. So I don't know. I'm more of everybody's got their own styles with their barbecue. And every barbecue is great, in my opinion. That's not true. If you want to throw down. If you want to throw down, come down to Phoenix and I'll show you some things. I don't want to.

I'm just saying I. have friends and follow people and they put cook shit on a trager and they act like they are a pitmaster okay know what you have to do i'm sorry guys i am just in i'm in a weird mood today yeah you're mad about this and no i think it's fired out that you have some hidden secrets with your pickled stuff and that's fine but i think right i think what we have here is kind of a game of throne situation when Tyrion has Bronn fight for them like whenever you see someone

pissing you off in the barbecue world you can be like oh I got a guy if you want to do barbecue go talk to Tim Melville because what you ain't what you aren't doing is barbecue Hey Trev do you have you guys too

Do you have any opinions on the green egg Green egg not some wood pellets, the oppressive button, and then mills itself at the proper speed and keeps the temperature perfectly. Like, you really have to put some work in. I like that aspect of barbecue. And now you got me going off again.

Okay, we'll take a quick break right here. A little behind the scenes. We have producer BBD in the bottom corner. And during quarantine times, BPD, he's here to take notes, to give to our editors so they can chop up clips about what we've done so far. Hey, David, can you just give me a quick rundown of what your notes say on this baseball podcast so far? Okay. Lunch date, six cats, quarantine in Phoenix, John Boy, laundry, Minecraft, rib injury, picture routine,

worked at barbecue place backstory, Dutchess cookies, favorite quarantine snacks. Jake is such a snack. Bluff hates fake grillers. Grilling is like karate and then green eggs. Okay, perfect. So we've covered all our bases. That's awesome. I think I'll try and ask one baseball question.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. You pitched a lot of places, Tim. I'm going to try and ask a baseball question. You've pitched a lot of places, right? You go, you pitch for four different teams, I believe. You get to Colorado.

is there any like when you get there and then you're you're called up hey this pitch might not work here or does the pitching coach have any like hey i know that looked really good in arizona but in colorado that slider or that whatever won't actually work is there any big change that like they try to hit you with when pitchers come to colorado so fortunate enough for me this year that had a lot of trust in me to literally just say go do your thing And I just, you know, re-uped the trust in myself and self-confidence that I had. I had been competing at Albuquerco. For people who don't know, the dimensions there at that ballpark are smaller than Coorsfield.

And someone argued that the environment there is the exact same as Coorsfield, high altitude, dry climate and wind and, you know, factor in the new baseballs we had in AAA this year. obviously everybody crushed their homeowner records, you know, halfway through the season. All that stuff can be on your mind if you let it be on your mind. But day one, when I got there, I was really able to just focus in on my process and listen to my own voice versus listening to, you know, the voices around me, whether from my own team or other teams or friends, you know, hey, I heard you're pitching at Albuquerque. Good luck with that ERA, buddy. And so, you know, you constantly can, you know, listen to those inputs on a daily basis if you want to.

But for me, I felt like in Albuquerque, the months I was there, it really helped hone that process of the routine of what information am I going to allow to come in right now and how am I going to make adjustments in game to allow, you know, the best results to happen. So there were some tricks that I found throughout the year that could help. I'm not a pine tar guy. I could just flat out say I just use rosin, sunscreen, and sweat. And I feel comfortable with competing like that. So it wasn't I needed aid. It was always like I could figure this out with what I have already. And whether that's changing my pitch location,

uses of different pitches. You know, there's so many factors that you can look into changing their swings. You know, teams will come into our park in Albuquerque and change their swings. And I noticed that in Colorado too. And, you know, teams coming in and literally just swinging for the fences as much as they can. Like, first pitch of the game trying to hit a home run. And you take that into account and you change your approach then. So it's such a challenge

And I think anybody, you know, looks at it that way. They're going to have better results than looking at it as like an issue or a problem. Because the other team has to play there too. So it is an even playing field in my book. And the best one to win is the one that looks at it as a challenge and, you know, faces it head on with every resource they have.

Yeah. Sounds like a perfect attitude to go in. I don't think I think I'd be like, fuck, I can't throw my pitches. This sucks, trade me. Colorado is such a strange place too because you show up there and you hear, I only played there a few times, but you just hear and you know that the ball flies there. But when you walk up to the batter box, it's huge.

Like you look out into like center field, left center, and right, there's a huge wall. And you're like, this is a massive park. And then you take a few swings and you're like, oh. Like it's not that big, you know. But the ball just goes there. And I think what people don't take into consideration when they talk about Colorado is because it's so big, there's a lot of hits in front of the outfielders as well. It's not just home runs. It's like there's just hits everywhere.

We got Jake's dog in the mix now. And I think Tim is out. Oh, he bounced out. He got sick of what I was saying about Colorado, which I get it. I'm just not a good podcaster today. We don't have our days. You know, some days were great. Some days we're not so hot.

Hey, the barbecue people and the foodies have loved this so far. I think it's great. I'm a big Tim Melville fan now. Is Tim back? Is Tim back? Thanks, guys. Tim, did we face each other in the IL in 2018? What team are you on?

I was on Lehigh Valley. I was on Ohio. I can find out if you have a good year that year. I don't think I did. This was in 2018. you were playing for Norfolk and I was a Lehigh Valley Iron Pig for a majority of the year I was in a big least for a month or a month and a half I don't remember but the majority of the year I was there I remember my first

games with the Iron Pigs was in Norfolk but I don't I only think I played one game and I don't know if you pitched you in 2018 2018 yeah and what team were you on Treve I got moved I was a pig yeah food there by the way bacon on a stick oh Oh, at the pig stadium? Yeah. So good. Is BPD looking it up or did he leave it? No, I'm looking it up.

I mean, Tim made two starts versus the iron pigs. Let's see. Yeah, Plufe, you deached. Oh. Deached. And Plufe, you had a hit in the game and to walk, but I don't have like the, wait, I can maybe find this out.

Oh, this is great. Yeah, wow. We're connected. And the second, you ground it out. So he got you there. Tim, Tim pitched. Nice pitch. He pitched into the sixth inning.

So let's see, Plufe. Your second at bat, there was only a seven inning game. You singled to line drive to center fielder, Joey Ricard. So one for two so far. You guys each got each other. Okay.

What day was this? Can you have a date? Yeah, it was Tuesday, April 24th. 2018. You guys have faced each other. That was the first game. Yeah, it was like the first game I was there. I hadn't swung a bat. No offense here, Tim, but I hadn't swung a bat in almost a month because I went home, was quitting baseball, and then I decided to go play. So I flew in in Norfolk, met the team. And then, yeah, I guess we faced each other. Very cool. Yeah, small world.

Swinging bats. Tim, you go, you get called up for the, for the Rockies. You pitch. You go seven innings, one, two hits or whatever, you had two RBIs. What were you more excited about the great pitching line or that you got a two RBI single or that you got to wear your I Love baseball shirt in the post game? It's a bad question. Think Tim dropped out again. Jake, do you want to answer as if you're Tim? Yeah, I had a great, had a great game.

There he is. What were you more excited about the two RBI single or, or all the good innings pitching. I got to say the two RBI single. I knew it was going to be a slider. And I just put a good barrel on it, got it right at the middle. I hadn't had a hit like that since high school. How did you know it was going to be a slider?

Some buzz? Uh-oh. Yeah. My heart. I'm connected in the moment. And I dreamed about it my whole life. And you just know. That's awesome.

Cool. You think they're going to give me that? You think they're going to really give me that day one? Yeah, yeah. The inside, the inside secret. Did they give it to the starting pitcher? I mean, the Astros would have. They're clearly not all there.

Have you guys talked a lot about that stuff, by the way? The Astro stuff? Good amount. Just barely. You just see what happened. Yeah. Spurtle. It's very interesting.

You know, I came across this podcast. It's a Bregman podcast or something like that. Looks really cool. I don't know if you guys checked it out yet. Yeah, this guy, well, I mean, great stuff. Like, joking aside, like tons of money raised for Houston. And it's a big thing Bregman's doing now. And it's good.

I think it's good for Houston, baseball, everybody to kind of move on and forget about it. Because the sooner we can forget about it, then the better for, you know, Bregman to move along with his career. And, you know, it's going to be good. Yeah, it's good. He started a podcast?

He's doing charity stuff. That's PR 101 right there. I'm so, I'm so, I'm so interested to see how they are on the field, the Astros. If they're that. you know, swagged out. They don't give a shit anymore, Jim.

This whole thing has helped them immensely. They don't care at all. Oh, yeah, the Astros are pro-Corona. They're all for it, just like Tim. They all benefited. Now, I shouldn't say that. I should not say that. We're going to edit that out.

The editors better not clip that because that would be rude of them. Jake, what's your last question? as Jake muted. I think you're muted. Way to go. What a mess of a show this is. Hey,

what are you guys going to get your mothers for Mother's Day? If you don't mind me asking you. I'm curious. Ooh, give a reminder. Flowers and a card with a thought-out note. That's the best way to go. Cards the best, yeah.

Got to have that handwritten. I'm going to have my kids, write one as well. You got to do it. Oh, nice. Jake still makes necklaces out of pasta for his mom. Um, okay. Um, nice necklaces. Uh, find them on my Etsy. But yeah, it's, uh, it's flowers for me. Um, I, my, my first, like out of college, got a job, big flex, uh, 32, five a year. Big, no big deal. Um, I was like, you know what? I'm, I'm getting, I'm getting my mama a nice Mother's Day gift. And I got her like this nice, like, spot. massage day package thing.

She cursed me out. She cussed me out. She's like, don't spend your money on this shit. Like, Mom, this is a nice kid. So,

yeah, we just keep it at flowers and we keep it moving. Yeah, there's trade back the same flowers. It's a good mom. His birthday. Mother's Day his birthday.

It's a good mom. Yeah, it's a good mom. Big fan of my mom. Big fan of your mom. Oh, all right. Did we lose Tim again?

My roommate just walked in. He's like, what are you doing? Tell him you're just live streaming a session with the cats. He's like, you got a camera. Just put out hot content. That's what we're doing. I think we'll, I think you could cat porn. I put a live feed of this.

You did make some money. Live stream the cats. Make a catstagram. It's huge. Oh, my God. Castogram. Great. Hey, I got to make a side hustle, man.

I unfortunately wasn't on the 40 man when all this went down. So I'm making my. minor league pay and it's uh it's uh it's time to find alternate routes of revenue um so so one of the cats it is a possibility yeah just make so one of the cats what are you talking about you're the worst i mean it's a option it's just one option that's loud do you have any cats no i'm highly allergic also petrified yeah petrified yeah yeah scared of cats big one of my bigger fears. I don't know.

They just could jump on my face at any time and then it's over. Cats are great. People who don't have cats don't like it, but they're great once you have a cat. Look at how sleepy he is. Frodo. It's a sleepy cat. He's about to pass out.

All right. Let's wrap this up. It's been wild. It's been great. Tim, thank you for joining us. Thank you, Tim. One of the more eventful.

Jake, do you have your final wrap-up song you wrote? It was good seeing that smile in the face again. Yeah, Jake likes to end all the interviews with the song. Hey, Prince, man, Purple Rain. Come on. Yeah. Purple rain. Prince. Prince can fucking shred.

I don't know if you guys have watched in the Prince videos. There's a Prince song called Bambi, and it might be my walkout next time. Okay, that's huge. We can break that. I'm really energetic guitar intro. Oh, my God. Bambi shreds. The lyrics, I think, are a little vulgar, but I mean, the guitar work is just fantastic.

Prince is just, Prince is like, no joke up there with some of the top guitars of all the time. There you go. Sing Purple Rain. Sing Purple Rain. RIP, yeah. He actually just, his anniversary of his death was yesterday, I think, two days ago. So there you go. That's why we've all been thinking about him.

Jake, sing Purple Rain. I think, I think more fitting for this. Me and Jim have a close mutual friend who lives in Denver. He's my roommate for a period of time. Jeff and he, we got invited to a friend's bat. Well, I was invited to a friend's bachelor party in Denver. And I was like, hey, can I bring my friend Jeff? And they're like, yeah, sure.

And we got really drunk. And he sang the song Purple Rain. Well, he sang Purple Shame. And the crowd really loved it. Nobody knew what it was really about. but purple shame purple shame brought down the house so and i think it's perfect for this okay so you'll do your rendition as we i know i can't i want to do it justice and i i think we'll save it for another time but um this is this is as an eclectic as an episode as the talking baseball people again

wow it's a good time pushing boundaries yeah yeah all right i feel like uh oh i can keep talking Perfect You're good And all that with you guys You guys are great Oh man All right We'll do a little post game

Thank you man Stay out Stay with us But I'm doing a fake ending For the show Thank you And we'll have you on again later Wait this is fake

Barbaric All right That was Tim Melville Everyone go give him a follow Reach out Tell him to give Constant pictures And videos

Of his six cats To you He may be selling one I'm not sure Where we landed on that but that was that was uh that was a that was timmy melville low miss barbecue wild um couldn't couldn't believe some some of the corners we ventured into in this world um and he's uh so a a how about a little back end for me so i meet up with them i don't really know what i'm getting

into like i'm obviously not going to fan boy out um you know but also i'm not well no i'm not going to get barbecue lunch with this guy and be like, oh, dude, that two seamer you through the other night. Like, I don't know. I'm meeting the guy. And so we get barbecue and like, as you heard, my man's nose is barbecue. So he was, he was like walking me through it. He showed me like some of the barbecue I got. He's like, oh, we wouldn't even serve that at the other place. And I was like, oh, nice. But no, and I think my other comment is whenever someone, interviews interviews us about the Johnboy media stuff and you know they're like oh so Houston must have been big and we're like yeah Houston was big the boon savages blah blah

I'd say Tim Melville wearing the I love baseball shirt in his post game interview was one of our most like what moment like the big is out of left field yeah and yeah the Tim Melville experiences Trevor just saw is is a little out of left field it is I'm happy to hear that that was an organic thing that he just bought this shirt because that makes it so much better. Yeah. But definitely he's a fun guy. We found out that him and I actually faced each other in the International League of 2018, which is pretty cool. I do have to apologize for how I was this episode.

I commented on people who used Tregor Grills and I was very harsh to them. But, you know, sometimes you just got to let it fly. and today I had to do that. So I had a good time with it. Yeah. And know what? If I was Trager Grills, I'd be like, you know what? I'm going to send those guys each a nice grill and sponsor their podcast to show them that we are Trigger.

Well, I will say this. Trigger Grills are incredible. Like they do the work for you. That was my point. Like you're not a pit master. They're too easy. You can't buy a Roomba and then call yourself an expert housemaid. That's a great comparison.

All right. That's all I do here. And we're out. Thank you guys very much for listening.