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Episode Date: March 31, 2026

David Ross and Anthony Rizzo celebrate the 10 year anniversary of their 2016 Chicago Cubs World Series championship by kicking off their new podcast, The Lovable Reunion. Over the course of the next three months, they will talk with manager Joe Maddon as well as former teammates Jon Lester, Kris Bryant, Jake Arrieta, Kyle Schwarber, and others about Chicago’s magical title run to break the team’s 108 year Curse of the Billy Goat. In Episode 1, Ross and Rizzo preview what’s to come on the series and discuss behind the scenes stories from an unforgettable MLB postseason run that saw Chicago beat the Cleveland Guardians (formerly the Indians) in Game 7 to make baseball history. Tap in for incredible stories about Rizzo’s naked ‘Rocky’-inspired speech to the team, their hilarious reaction to the home run hit by Cleveland outfielder Rajai Davis, and more! All lines provided by Hard Rock BetSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome to the Lovable Reunion Podcast, our first official episode. We are here at the iconic Murphy's Bleachers with my partner, David Ross. Padna! Where we talk about the unforgettable 2016 World Series. championship Chicago Cubs. We sit down with all of our former teammates, coaches, executives, Tom Ricketts, Theo Epstein, Joe Madden, John Lester, you name it. We're talking to them.

We're interviewing them. And we're telling you guys stories, what we saw, what we lived, things that you've all heard about, but now you're hearing the real stuff. Behind the scenes. Today, it's about us. We're not making this about us. It's 2016. I'm going to walk you through all the stories and all the episodes.

A lot of nakedness going on. Dancing naked. Lots of party and lots of drinking. Lots of teamwork, team camaraderie, all of it. So we've talked to a lot of our guys already. It's the day after opening day. We're here at Murphy's baseball season's back upon us. We can't be more excited for it.

I'm so punked. Let's get the little things out of the way first. What have you been doing since retirement? Dave. What's going on in your life for now? What an epic day you had when they brought you back here? to Chicago, Anthony Rizzo Day. Yeah, sitting in the bleachers, Wrigley Field, summertime.

It was awesome. The ball hit to me, the retirement party, all of it. And it feels good to be back in Chicago. It feels good to be a club ambassador. It feels good to be back in the game, doing games on Netflix, games on NBC. You're doing games on ESPN. So to be back in the game is awesome.

But this is our passion project. This is our baby. And it's been so much fun sitting down with our guys. I want to get into you and me meeting. Rossi and I met back when I was going through cancer, actually. Rossi was playing in the ALCS with the Red Sox in 2008, and we had the same agency. And Rossi left me a ticket.

He came and said hi to me before the game near the bullpen. Probably had no idea who I was. My agents are like, hey, can you leave this kid's tickets? Just say, hey, maybe snap a photo. And I'm like, all right, what's some, you know, charity kid. I'll go say, hey. Turns out, we're brothers for a lot. Life turns out.

Yeah, that was kind of crazy, the fact it went full circle and we're sitting here now. And we took a picture. I think I signed something on the sidelines right there in Tampa Bay. It's funny. I remember driving to Tampa for that game. We drove over that night in my mom's car. She had a Cadillac. And I left the car running.

So we got back the whole game. The car was running. I forgot to turn it off because I was so excited on empty. We barely rule. I think we had to push it into the gas. Well, that's a good story, but not a sign of things to come because things got a lot better for us. Can you believe it's been 10 years? I can't believe it's been 10 years. I can't believe we met so long ago. You know, my life has been crazy since with, you know, managing since then, being out of baseball.

Dancing with the Stars. That's what I did ever. Just got done with the WBC and that was when DeRosa introduced. me. He was like, and dance with the stars. And I gave him this and the room went crazy. So that's my new, yeah, I just did a little shimmy. And the crowd went crazy. So, yeah, man, things have been nuts for me as well. Ten years has gone by. I feel like it's happened so fast. Our kids, we got to see everybody at the reunion for Cubs convention. Everybody's kids have gotten older and a grown up and everybody's kind of, you know, doing different things in life. It's nuts how fast the 10 years has gone. It really has been. It's, when we first met, when Rossi and I really first,

actually met, we sat down at ESPN. At the end of the 2014 season, it was going into the playoffs. And we sat down at ESPN car wash and we just talked for like two hours maybe. We had the same agent. Our agent was there. And I literally told my agent after that, I was like, the Chicago Cubs need David Ross. Because we were on the verge of becoming pretty good, I thought. We had a lot of bad teams. But everything you talked about was everything that our team needed. So for it to come full circle and you to sign with the Cubs a few months later, it was insane. Yeah, well, I think, like, that was a moment. We definitely hit it off and talking baseball and felt like we were, had been friends for 15 years after that day.

I mean, we just hit it off so well. And I think, yeah, I was glad to be a part of that. But I think what we needed was Johnny Lester. We need a little Johnny Lester. I followed the good players around. If he hadn't noticed, look back in my career, just try to get on a couple good teams. and hide. But no, that day at ESPN and then you came to Tallahassee for a football game. We got to hang out and then me

signing here and us being able to go on this journey together and looking back. I can't wait for everybody to hear our stories and the stories of our teammates are going to bring a lot of laughs, a lot of tears. We've got some in the can already that they're pretty emotional and some guys really pour the hards out. It's pretty, pretty epic. Rossi was the king of two-year deals. And he would tell me in year one in 2015, he was like, I'll just wait till the second year. Like, I only do two-year deals for a reason. And it lived true. Like, by year two, I was like, I wanted to fucking kill him.

I had the clubhouse cancer second year. Yeah. Yeah. Not like that. And then next year he's like, I'm over his shit. For sure. When you came into spring in 2015, you and Lester came in and it was like, all eyes were on you two. You guys were intense. You were. you're a lot older than everyone else. So everyone was looking at you guys like on eggshells a little bit and you have such a good way of uplifting everyone,

bringing them up and when there's times of, you know, that they need to be talked to, you are the best in the business of absolutely motherfucking someone and making them feel good about it and making them walk away with a smile. And I don't know how you did that, but...

Well, it's a shit sandwich, right? You just start with a real positive thing, You say the shitty stuff in the middle, and you end with some positivity. That's what I learned early on. Yeah, and then you walk away, like, he just screamed at me, but I feel so good about it. Well, I think looking back on the group we had, and I appreciate that compliment. I think it's a compliment. But we had the character of our group.

I could be honest and say whatever you had to to our guys, and they took it, whether it's Schwerber and talking about catching and his body language, he tells that story about coming off. and coming up to me and tell me what I got when we're getting our butts kicked. And, you know, the little things about how guys in our group were receptive to the information or a little bit of criticism. But we also poured, you know, we poured into it to our teammates. Like we had such good guys. We all hung out. We had a young group. Like you were kind of the veteran guy.

When I came here, you were the veteran guy. Or you and Starling had been here for a long time, but still very young in your career, very young in age. And then starting to bring in some championship pieces that John had won. I had won, had been a part of that, and everybody just kind of, like, really looked to us and really gravitated to, you know, we had a tight-knit group and gravitated to each other, and we just took off, I feel like. Him and Lester came in, and they literally taught us all, it elevated me personally to another level of professionalism.

It was all about winning what it took to win, the energy it takes to win, which you don't know how to do until you do it. No. Losing's easy in the big leagues. You just, you lose games, you win a couple of games, you lose. We lost again. When you win, after you win a lot and you lose, it sucks to lose. No doubt.

The energy it takes every day to bring it. I look back and coming from Boston and winning with Lester and Lackey on that team, I feel like I owe them, you know, my rings because those guys were professionals and had won before. But until you go through the full journey and you finish the goal and our champions at the end of it, then you look back and it's like, oh, that's what it feels like. That's what it's like to bring our lunch pail every day, come to work with a mission, and just start stacking days upon days, good days. And then you get in the postseason and you've got to have a couple things go your way.

But you've got good talent. You continue to focus on the little things. I think that's something you learn when you're on championship team. For me in 15, and we talk about this a lot throughout the podcast with a lot of different guys and coaches, that San Francisco Giant series in 2015 in August here was like, franchise changing in my opinion because we were really good we were getting really good we had momentum and we were we were third place in the wild card at the time and we the giants come in for a four game set and we sweep on we boat race on the entire series and after that series I think that was like

the night we all went out we were singing at stanley's karaoke me dexter big cat was there theo was out like the whole team was out but that was like a defining moment for me um because we had lost so much. And then we finally won that. We're like, damn, we are good. Like, we just beat the San Francisco Giants world champions. They've won two rings already or three rings already. So, um, and I know you feel the same way. Yeah, that was the, I think talking to each guy, it was in the second half and August and that series, uh, really stood out because of the Giants resume with Buster and Baumgartner. I mean, they had, they had the boys. And I think they had two championships at the time. And, you know, we knew that was a good test and being able to sweet them and

handedly, I think we all started to feel. Yeah, that was when we started getting on our run. I think the young guys were comfortable then. We had brought so many guys up that year and just started, those guys started to kind of really get comfortable and off we went. Yeah, I mean, you had two guys in the home run derby, me and KB. It's not about us. It is today.

It is about us today. How was that? Home run derby was sick. It was so much fun. In Cincinnati, too. All my family there, I mean, the night before we were out, like, hanging out with Sean Casey, who's such a legend. That's the story I want to get.

We got a good case story. We were in Pittsburgh in September, and we're, we win 97 games that year. The Pirates win 98 games. The Cardinals, I believe, won 100, right? We finished third in the division, second in the wild card. And we're trying to catch the Cardinals, or I'm sorry, we're trying to catch the Pirates, the one in the wild card standing. So we're in Pittsburgh.

We have a day game. It's a Saturday going into Sunday. So Saturday night. we were all hanging in Johnny Lester's room. Sean Casey comes over. All the boys are in the room. John has the penthouse. He orders all the food, all these beers,

and we're just, it ends up being until like four or five in the morning. We have a 12.30 game the next day, right? So. It was a fun. It was a night. It was a good night. I remember taking a cab to the park, like, panicked because I'm rolling in at like 11.

And on the radio, I hear the pirates people, like, dogging Andrew McCutcheon for sitting out in the game. because he's like, how could he sit out? We're in the wild car race, this and that. And I'm like, hell, yeah, I'm playing. Like, I'm freaking a little bit hungover. A little hungover. It's okay, a lot of it.

Some of your best games were a little hungover. I mean, we're honest. It is about you. My first abat, I ground into a double play. Basis loaded. Wait, can I set the scene? He's going to gloss over this. So we first think Charlie Morton's on the mound,

and Charlie turns out to be a really good pitcher. Love Charlie. Play with him in Atlanta. Charlie Morton wasn't the Charlie Morton you're seeing now. The back end of his career. Yeah, back end of his career. He was really good. He was figuring things out.

Yeah, yeah. And we got bases loaded, nobody out. And our four-hole hitter, who's one of the best players in the game, comes up and swings at the first pitch and grounds into a double play. We're grinding this guy. It's what we do. We grind pitchers. And might be a little – I was there, so I know he's not feeling. feeling great.

And I drove in a run, although I didn't get the RBI, because when you're going to double play. So I go back and like I always do, I go back to Rossi and I kind of break down my abat. Him and Hinsky, I would always break my abats down. And he's fucking fuming. He's like, you want my opinion? I was like, yeah. He's like, you are fucking ready to play. He goes, if you can't stay out all night and you're not ready to play, don't stay out all night.

And I looked at him, I go, fuck you, Rossi, I'm always ready to play. And I walked off so pissed. First time I ever yelled at him. So it's September 15, right? We're teammates now for six months for the two-year thing comes and play. But first time I ever snapped back on him because I respected them because you respect your elves. Hey, it's okay to bark back.

I just, you asked my opinion. I was going to say it. You weren't ready to play. He let me have it. You weren't ready to play. Right. And my next to bat, I come back up. I hit a two-run homer and I come in the dugout.

Wait. He hits the homer and it's gone. And before the ball is over the fence, he's staring at me in the dugout. Mean mugging him. Like, staring a hole through me. And I come back in the dugout, and I'm like, I'm always fucking ready to play, Rossi. Fuck you. Screaming at him.

And he's like, if that's what it takes to get you going, I'm going to yell you all the time. Hey, if you need me to piss you off to lock it the fuck in, then I'll do that. As the pseudo bench player, I'll do that if you need me to get on your crawl. And he was mad at me for a good bit, but then he was happy because he had a couple RBIs and had a home. He didn't have doubled in that game, too. Yeah, it was good. We won the game. We won the game. We won the game. Yeah. Another one, too, is later, literally the next week, I actually went to Joe's office. I played, I think, 160 games that year. And we had a make-up game versus the Royals.

And I walked in the Joe's office, I go, Joe, I need a day. I'm dead. Because I didn't know how to win. There's so much energy that goes into winning and your teammates. And I was gassed. And he gave me a day off. And I think I was late for the anthem. Or I didn't come out for the anthem. or I wasn't out, not for the anthem, I wasn't out for first pitch. And he wore me out. And it's something I took with me forever. He was like, you have bench players grind every day for you, watching every at bat, so invested in you.

And you're not going to be out there at first pitch to watch them and show them the respect that you're not playing today. And I took that with me. And literally for the rest of my career, any day I had off, I was out there for first pitch watching those guys. And I don't know why these guys like me. Because all I did was get on them about being pro. So I did that to Mike Napley, one of the hardest things I've ever done.

I caught a, and come to find out later in Boston. I got a day game after we had clinched and Knapp, I didn't know at the time, but had like a shot in his foot and all these things going on. But, you know, like you want the boys around there to root you on. And like the third inning came around and nobody was on the dugout in the dugout. So I'd go up like I'm getting a Red Bull or something. I see Lackey and Knapp who played. every day up there chilling watching football and I I was like his beard chicken wings yeah no no hey too soon

too soon um no but I and I said to nap I was like bro I'm out there grinding every day like it just is bullshit that you're not out there supporting me when I play now I remember almost crying telling him that because it was like so personal to me and nap's the best you know and nap tells that story all the time just because of like you know I think you lose sight of when your everyday player these other guys that are out there and so I just think like like That's just one other piece that keeps everybody together. And, you know, I am a role player, was a role player for most of my career. So it's like one of those things you want to, you're out there, root them on.

You want the boys with you. But that's another thing of leadership that people don't understand. If you're not out there, guys that are playing are like, oh, like, oh, he's too good to watch us. And it's like if you're out there watching and investing, like your guys want to play more for you, right? So you taught me that. And it's something that I took with me for the rest of my career. in 15 we go to the NLCS, we got our hearts broken. It was awful.

I literally thought we were winning in the World Series. And I remember after 15, I think we did a toast to Dan Herron because it was the end of his career. And Lester, another veteran moment here, John Lester pour champagne for everyone at the end and toast Dan Herron for having an amazing career. It was probably the end. And it's like, dude, that doesn't happen, right? And like the parties we had in 15 after we clinched, we beat the Cardinals. There's a story of a Schwerber that we talk about, about the home runs we hit, the Shorebomb. But those parties that Lester had were just another example of bringing the team together for the iconic 2016 team.

It all led up to that. And we went into that all season knowing, like, everybody's hungry. I always thought, like, when you get to the World Series and win, there's a sense of relief and, like, relax. Like, when you don't get there and you're heartbroken, like we did against the Mets. And they freaking Daniel Murphy. fucking I love him. Actually, we ended up being teammates, and he's a great guy. And he was a number.

And I'm like, I don't know if I'm like that. Yeah, but on the Mets in 15, he still haunts us. But it gives you that sense of like you're hungry going into the next season. And then the great job by Theo bringing back, Dexter, what a moment that was. We talked about that and how cool that was. And Dex walking us through his whole offseason. And then we signed Lackey. We signed Lackey.

Zobrist. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, that was a critical offseason where they brought us in everything we needed. And the whole Grandpa Rossi retirement started. And we talked about KV, Sartnery, the Grandpa Rossi Instagram and all the many episodes.

You can tell we're really at Murphys. You hear that? The iconic. We are right here in the heart of Chicago, Wrigleyville, and we've got fire trucks going everywhere. How many nights here. Many nights here. Many nights here. In 16, in spring training.

we rolled in and we had this very arrogant, but humble mentality of like, we already won the World Series. Let's just press play, right? Like, Lester had us shirts made, and I know there was stories in Boston where you guys had shirts made, but we literally spoke about us already winning the World Series this year, and we lived it, we breathed it, and we were going into probably your last year, right? Yeah, and the bet, well, that was, I got caught on a talk radio show saying I thought that was it and then it just kind of caught fire which I didn't think it would backup catcher who cares but got a lot of love for that and you guys took care of his break training me and kB me and kb well for us it was like dude you were so you're so instrumental in

my career and helping me become a better leader and a better teammate a better person and it was like I want to celebrate you and I know by the end of year or two I probably wanted to kill you but it was just we we make the grandpa rossi account we're bringing them out all these gifts, but it was just another way for our team to have fun. And Joe did such a good job about that. But the players did too, man. Yeah. We were, we were like the motley crew. Well, Joe let us, he let us have those moments and off the field stuff. And he championed that and talking about embrace the target. I'll remember just like, yeah, the target is on our back because we're, we're picked to win it. And how that was a good thing, you know, and I never felt really any pressure

that whole season because just the way he handled the media and how close we were and I felt like we kept our clubhouse so tight-knit and we're in our own little world inside that clubhouse that none of those curse things ever really creeped in I didn't think at all. Never, never. And so in 16 our last two games of the season were in Vegas

I'm sorry, of spring training. Oh yeah. We go to Vegas for two exhibition games and the whole team goes because after that we're going to Anaheim to start the year. So Rossi and I we played in Vegas every year for the most part in spring training. I went on every one of those trips. So Rossi and I were staying at the Cosmopolitan. I wonder why.

I wonder why. And we shared the Penn House, the two-bedroom and Penn House. Like, hey, let's share a room, right? Like, we had a whole night planned. I think we went to Hakkisan, right, at the MGM, and we went out all night. We had a game the next day, but it was, we were going to get like two of bats. We walk in and Riz's got like,

Welcome, Chicago, Colorado. Oh, we blew it out. It was nuts. It was nuts. It was nuts. there. And it's just one of those things. I remember in 2015 spring training, I saw the Royals, the whole team party. And they ended up winning the world. She was like, dude, right? And then we kind of bonded like that. So the next day, we go in and again, it's not about me. I hit a home round my first debate. Rossi is on the training table with towels over his head. Dead. And I remember Matt Caesar, I think we told this story with Caesar. Matt Caesar walks in and he's like, hey, Rossi, are you good, bro? And he's like, fuck away from me. I was dying. And then Cashman

Field in Vegas, like that hard table. And I just put, I remember Davey Martinez coming up, like tapping me, waking me up. He's like, hey, you think you can catch three innings? I was like, I've got three. I've got three. So I got like one at bat and got out of there, was not feeling good. I think went back to a nap and then went back out of the next night. Yeah, well, we had a, that was an epic. That was epic. Well, some guys didn't want to go. And Joe and Davy, I'm not saying who under my recommendation, we had a Bloody Mary bar and a Mimosa bar pregame for all of us because they knew we were going out. And Joe was just, all right, we'll have mimosas and bloodies. Like, guys need it for the hangover. It'll be good going into the game. So it was just,

those were the, that was the vibe of our clubhouse. It was so much fun. It was so relaxed. But we knew when it was time to work. It was. And we rolled into Anaheim. Remember the team dinner? A Theo or Tom, the coach picked up the dinner that night, Make sure everybody got out of Vegas. Yeah, make sure everybody left Vegas. Yeah, so they wanted us. We wanted to stay in Vegas another night. They were like, no, let's get to California.

We ended up going to Maastros there in Newport. And Mr. Ricketts and Theo picked up the bill and guys were ordering like any team dinner. Lester and Lackie were always fighting over the bill. So it was obnoxious, the food and wine and the seafood towers that they would order. But it was amazing. And then we get into Anaheim and in 16, I think it was the end of 50. I always worked out in the morning on the road with our strength coach Tim Bus. It was like our time to just go, talk the game, go to a regular gym, and just be a normal person.

So before the second game, we went to the Equinox out in Newport, Newport. And you came and it was upstairs. We had like a blister. Yeah, there was an outside area upstairs that we were just training at. And it was a beautiful day. So him and I both took our shirts off. Bussey, too. We were the only ones there.

and we're training. There's these monkey bars. And I'm like, yeah, let's try these. And I do the monkey bars one time, and I get two blisters on each hand, second game of the season. And I am grinding, trying to hit, right?

And I'm like, fuck. But the point of this is, you coming on the road and coming to those workouts, it was a way to celebrate. And like, we went to the Rocky steps that year in Philly, Forbes and Stanwicks in Pittsburgh

at the Gold's Gym was iconic. We would go there every time we were in Pittsburgh. San Diego Gas Lamp, we walked around and grab lunch. We always grabbed. The only thing Riz had to eat at, when we go to Pittsburgh, he had to eat at Mose. It's like, bro, it's 10.30 in the morning, and he's got to, he's in there. Welcome to Mose! Every time in Pittsburgh. It was great. But I think that was a, to me, you inviting me on that and you getting up and doing that, me, you and Bussie, that bond, I thought, took our relationship to another level,

It was so much fun for me. It created a kind of a new routine for me of getting up on the road, going and working out when we first got there, going to have lunch, coming back, taking a little nap, and then heading to the field. And that's one of my favorite things I look back on of those times. We bought the Gold's Gym shirts. Oh, yeah.

With the, we all had these bright, uh, highlighter colors. Sleeless gold Jim's shirt. It was, it was, um. I mean, we went, I don't think you were with us, but there was a time where I went to Muscle Beach. Yeah, I wasn't there for that. Yeah, we were outside working out. It was all where Arnold worked out.

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We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts. We're starting a trend. But this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember.

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Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in. I'm Timbo. Every episode, we're cutting through the noise, breaking down the plays, the controversies, and the stories behind the headlines. We go straight to the source, the athletes themselves, their locker room stories, their reactions, the stuff nobody gets to hear. The laughs, the drama, the triumphs, the moments that never make the highlight real.

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And on the Renee Stubbs tennis podcast, I'm breaking down. everything happening at Roland Garris, every match, every upset, and what it really takes to win on Clay. Jen she went. I mean, she went down at three to Rabakina, but I'm delighted. She's an outsider to win the French for me. And she likes Clay. Listen, Lena Rubakina is arguably the best player in the world right now, and I actually can win

on any surface, because if she's serving, well, good luck. Consider this your court side seat to the French Open. Listen to the Renee Stubbs Tennis Podcast on the Iheart. Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. How cool was it for you when you hit your 100th home run? Backup catcher, when he hit his 100th home run, it was here at Wrigley, and, like, everyone exploded. We were counting down for it.

It was just, we rallied so hard behind you. Funny story, the guy hit that off. He ended up pitching for me, and he walked into my office in spring training. He was like, you don't remember me, do you? I'm like, what? Remember what? And he's like, you hit your 100 home run. I was like, oh, back-to-back changeups.

I do. It was a funny little story. Yeah, I remember like looking in the dugout. There's a couple things I think about the game seven home run that we'll get to. But the look on my teammates face with the 100 home run and the game seven home run. When you look in the dugout, I rounded second. And you guys were going absolutely crazy for me. Like, those are those moments you can't get back.

And to see the joy of the people you're grinding. with every single day that love you and are rooting for you. That was a special one for me. Here, you know, I got so many standing ovations, little curtain calls that year. How about when Yadi at the end here, we were playing the Cardinals as the last series of the Sunday night baseball. Sunday night baseball. And Rossi's first at bat, Yadi gives him his runway and gets a standing ovation. You do a curtain call.

But I thought that was so cool that Yadi realized that moment, understood how much you meant. to our team and gave you that moment at Rickley. He's such a professional, and I must have thanked him a million times every time I see him. But that was one of my favorite moments of my career. I look back on that year, and that game, you know, I got, I hit, I got another ovation. He gave me two of them. My second abat, then I hit the home run. We ended up winning, I think two to one.

And I gave us the lead. And then Lester goes in and tells Joe, the story he talks about, to take me out of the game. I wanted to kill Joe when he was coming out. I thought he was taking Lester out, and I go out. And then you put your arm around me. I'm about to start crying now. And I'm trying to give everybody hugs. I didn't even know what to do.

Like, that was one of my favorite games at that year, 2016. It was such a special moment. Everybody gave me so much love. The fans gave me seven curtain calls. And, you know, it was, it was, I mean, the people here, we're going to do some stuff about the fans. And, like, we're so thankful for Cubs fans, or I am at least. And I know you are.

but how you guys rallied around us, supported us, loved our personalities, and I got so much love walking around this town, going to restaurants and playing for this team. Grandpa, yeah. He still got Grandpa. I don't even think they know my real name. I think it's just Grandpa.

I know. That team, too. That team, in 2016, we had seven All-Stars that year. I remember us rolling into San Diego and at the All-Star game, it was, you know, the pitchers weren't pitched. I don't think Lester or Arelletta were pitching, so that.

It was nine of you guys, right? Was it nine? I think seven. Seven. Who knows? Okay. But the clubhouse was dry in Leicesterner. They were like, what the fuck?

So they'd, like, go out and, like, buy all this stuff for the clubhouse. And, like, we rolled in there. Like, again, we never showed up teams. I didn't feel like we were ever arrogant. I felt like it was really easy to root for us because it's been 108 years. There is a real curse here, right? Like, there's so much that went into it. We went so far in 15.

So I really felt like in six. team, even at the All-Star game, but going into the playoffs, like, we were America's team. We were dancing. I remember, like, they played whoop, there it is, every time on the, well, on the home run, and, like, the whole dugout, that small, tiny dugout was high-fiving and dance, and we all, all the coaches had their high-five. Speaking of, we had a little handshake pre-game, do you ever remember that? We did. We had a little... We had a little... We called the cock bump. Yeah, we had that. It's where... I never wore a cup in my career, but Rossi did, so it hurt me a little bit more than him, but we would...

Exchange. Yeah, we had that. We had to tell that with the, that's a Jay Hay one. We should say that for Jay Hay because he tells that story. We did that after Homer's, but our handshake was just, it was very professional. Yeah, he was always a lot, like, he was fun-loving, getting into his routine. And then the game, right before the game, he'd kind of like put on this, his go time, kind of like, here we go. I always said I was a switch guy.

So, like, he wasn't. When he was playing every fifth day or a couple times a week, he'd come in and he'd be, like in game mode, right? I'm playing every day. I plan I playing 16. I play in 16. I played 160 or 161. So I always said I'm a switch guy.

Like, I keep my mind off as long as I could until I have to turn the switch on and then I'm go. And he couldn't understand that. So like, when I'm joking around 35 minutes before the game, he's like, lock it the fuck in. And I go, Rossi. I'm always locked in. I'm always locked in.

Wait, I would go to me like, good luck today. Anthony, looking right now. He'd just stay in front of him. luck has nothing to do with it. Luck has nothing to do with it. In 15 at the end of the year, you came up to me after, I think I grounded out,

and Joe took us out of the game was the last game of the year and we were ready going to the wildcard. He took me out, and I was pissed, and you walked up to me, and I think I was already annoyed at you from the Pittsburgh story a week before. You wore me out for not being out there for first pitch.

So I'm like, this fucking guy, it's September. A lot of your teammates are your over-home at that point, and you come up to me after I ground it out and you go, hey, and I'm like, what the fuck you're going to say to me? And you just go, you shake my hand, you go, congratulations on a great year. And I went from like, I wanted to kill you to like,

oh, thank you. I gave you a big hug. I remember that. So then the next year, that's why we started the handshake. I remember that. I remember that. You were definitely ready to kill me, but you were, it was done. We had a playoff spot locked in and, yeah, it's like I think we forget about telling guys, Like, man, the journey's over.

Now we start a new one, you know, the postseason. Let's get to, let's get to some. The playoffs. The playoffs. San Francisco, that game won. San Francisco, we're the best team. The Giants are coming off of their every other year, even year World Series runs. So they won in 10, 12, 14, now it's 16.

And in my head, I'm like, damn, like, we're playing the Giants, right? Like, we got to go out west. I personally, my numbers at AT&T at the time are the worst of my country. career. I've zero home runs. I think I hit under 200 there. It's just, I don't know why. I never hit well in that ballpark, but game one, Hobby hits that massive home run into the wind, thought it was going to go onto Waveland, and it goes in the basket. And we win one-nothing off Quo who was, I think in the Sanyang contention that year. He dealt. And we go, I think it was game three or four when we do this crazy back pick with me, you, Javi.

I wanted to bring that up, and I know we're in the playoffs, but like you were, there's only so many guys that got to play with that were like locked in as much as I was to picking guys off. And you were so into, I remember the game we ended in Washington when Rondone was getting getting a little squirly, remember? I was Soto, I believe. It was a, no, it was the first base of Robinson or something. Oh, yeah, and we did one here too.

Yeah, yeah, we had a couple good ones. And yeah, for that. The one I remember game three, remember Arietta, we talked about this a little bit, takes Baumgartner deep, and we're up like 3-0. Insane. And it was so loud. And our dugout was going crazy. And then I pulled the whole veteran card and was like, in my mind, I'm like, everybody thinks we just won the World Series.

Everybody's going crazy. Like, long way to go. I think we're in the third inning. And second or third inning. And sure enough, they came back and beat us. But I was the old man, like, keep it together. people we got a long way to go. But the back thing. That was a nut. That was a crazy, crazy.

That series was intense. Five games, too. The first game, the first series too. We're nervous. We know our expectations are up here. We're the best team in the league. We have World Series or busts really all over us. So, but that back pick was just another, I think, symbol of our team of how loose Joe let us play. We're calling. So the back pick, I'll take you through it. It's a bun play where there's a guy in first. The pick. pitcher's up or we know the guy's bunting. I come all the way. You're the best of the business crash.

I come all the way up basically like 10 feet from the hitter. If he hits the ball at me, I'm dead. I understand that. I just play the odds of like, there's no way he's going to hit it at me, right? Thank God I never got to hit at me. But then Hobby comes around behind the first base runner after the pitch and Rossi picks it off. And it's a ballsy play at the time.

Yeah. But we do it and it's just momentum for us. But again, like Joe let us play. When you trust, Hobby was so. good and he was such his baseball IQ is some of the best I've ever been around like he knew what he was doing and you trusted I can just let it go because his hands were so good and he was

going to block it up same with you when you were back there and just a regular back pick you know like if you have trust in your teammates that they're going to sacrifice to do all they can to either keep it in front if it's a bad throw or be on time to get there like that's the stuff we had within this team we had a lot of good trust

talking about game four against the Giants. Yeah I mean literally just talking to Hunter Pence about this when we were out in San Francisco and we were down three runs going into the ninth. We had Johnny Quedo, they had Johnny Quedo going game five. And he's nasty. And he had good success. He had good success off us when he was in Cincinnati.

He had our number. And we came back in that ninth inning and I felt like, A, did not only do we party in San Francisco and on the flight home, but we ran out of their like thieves, stealing that game. Everybody was getting, I mean, balls were up the middle. Contreras, Javi, like things, everything was going our way in that inning. And they were just, Bruce Boch kept just rolling guys out of the bullpen and didn't matter. Yeah, it was just like a sign of like when you really look back at that World Series run, winning that game, coming back down three in the ninth, we were down to one versus the Dodgers,

right? Then we'd come back and win in game six. So we win three games or four games to two. Like, we faced our adversity in the playoffs, right? No doubt. We were down 2-1, we get back to Wrigley, we tie it, then we have Kershaw, game six. Remember the whole we tell with Caesar,

using his bat and that whole thing? Like, we've got so many stories within our stories that these other guys and memories that they have of just watching from different perspective. Like, it's been so fun, fun to do this. And that Dodgers series, I mean, they were good. They're really good. They're always good, you know what I mean?

And there was a game where Kenley Jensen was pitching, and I was using Matt Caesar's bat, or I was using my bat, and he jammed me. My bat shattered, but he didn't cover first base, and I got a hit. We lost the game. But for me, I was kind of grinding up until that point, and I walked in the clubhouse. We lost, but in the playoffs, you have to be real quick.

You know, you got to be like a goldfish, Ted Lasso, right? Memory of a goldfish. So after the game, I was just like, that's it for me. Like, that little meaningless hit, I'm about to go off. next game, I think I got three or four hits, hit a home run, and then carried that into the post-season. Yeah, you rolled. Into the World Series.

Game six, one of my more memorable home runs hitting a home run off Clinton Kirschaw, not about me. That was a bomb. Yeah, it is. That is about you. That was a bomb. Then we clinch it, Riggly. Like, Game six.

Is that the front front foot? Yeah, on one hand, and it's like game clinching game at Riggly to send us to the World Series. And the party outside of Riggly, like the fans, the emotion, It was like, it was so insane. I'm not going to lie, it actually annoyed me

because I was like, we still have a job to do. And, like, Cubs fans were almost like just so happy we got to the World Series. Like, that was good enough. And on the inside, we're like, no, no, no. Like, we need to finish the job. I remember thinking, like, I mean, we had an epic party at Lester's after that, which was crazy.

But I remember thinking, like, I thought, I was so worried about my last. year and like wanted to go out you know as best we could and remember like taking a step further than we went the year before and 15 for these people had bringing a world series back here like I sense I had a sense of like ah here now we go like it doesn't you know a little bit like we've we're back to where further than we were last year like now it's all gravy let's let's go win this thing you know not me I was I was head down in the tunnel like we need to win this like yeah this was cool the celebration it really but but it's going to be better when we win. And obviously it was a lot better when we won the parade and all that. But I remember game one here is like,

we didn't really give them a lot to cheer about. But the energy in the stadium of game one, or I'm sorry, game three, Rigley was just off. It was like everyone was nervous. I don't know if it was the corporate money that was here, but everyone was just like quiet, the energy.

I remember, like every guy said it. I was like, what's going on here? Like, usually we have to be, fans on our feet, like if it was a two-o pitch and we were hitting, everyone would get wild. And that game three was just, I don't know, it was nerve-wracking. We've got to get to an episode with fans for this because I want to know thoughts. And I think we're going to try to get some celebrities and some guys that we know and get some fans' perspective. Because there was that.

I want the fans roller coaster of emotions. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We had our own. We had our own stories. I want to know the fan stories of like what they were thinking, what they were feeling, what they were talking to, but with their families. Yeah. And then we roll into the World Series, right? We split in Cleveland. It's an iconic World Series. The Indians are having one in, what, 50-something years? We're 1008 years. Both fan bases were so happy. It really was. I played the Guardians with the Yankees, and those fans were absolutely ruthless to us. They hated us. But when we were in the World Series and 16 with the Cubs, it was just like, you saw everyone just so happy, right? No matter what, the outcome was going to be. good because one fan base is going to break their own drought. What was cool winning in game five was...

That's my favorite game. Well, we go down 3-1, right? And we had been down 3-0 last year of the Mets. And it was like we almost deflated in 15. And when we lost in 16 and we went down 3-1, I remember you saying like, multiple times times, dude, we've won three games in a row. How many times we went three games in a row this year? I remember, I remember, I don't know who it was, my back was turned after game four, putting my stuff in my locker, and somebody threw their glove and their lock, like, pissed off.

And I was like, I couldn't wait. My next start after game one where I felt like I went scouting, report heavy rather than John Lester's strengths. I couldn't wait to get to game five. Maybe my last game of my career ever playing, because John's not starting another game. And it's here at Wrigley Field. I'm going to retire afterwards. And I just want to feel, I want to take this field in a World Series

with Johnny Lester and the boys. And so whoever threw their glove, I remember saying, no, no, no, no, like anybody get their left nut to be here tomorrow playing Game 5 in the World Series at Ridley Field? There's, you know, 28 other teams home sitting on the couch going to be watching us tomorrow. And I remember thinking that.

And then you say to Vijay. No, to Bussey. To Bussey and BJ. I was like, no. It's not how many times you get knocked down. It's how many times you get back up. And I was like, we're putting Rocky one and every single Rocky on every single TV. When we come in tomorrow, no baseball on the TVs, it's all Rocky.

Like inspiration, right? And like, then we started doing the boxing. You walked in that day and they put on, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, and you come in doing all this. Just kept screaming. It's not how many times you get knocked down. It's how many times you get back up. Adrian. And on top of the, on top of the couches and the, uh,

And the little bar we had in the locker room, like, that was, that was an iconic moment because I think, like, just how loose, you know, your leadership, looking back was so much about taking the field every day and you're one of the horses that had to produce. But your leadership was, you're loose, you're fun. You always, I tell people this all the time, you always make sure everybody else is having a good time. When we go out, you're making sure the group's having fun and you're just enjoying everybody else's enjoyment. Like, that's how you're wired that way. And so as a teammate, it's fun when you come in and you're kind of veteran guy that had been there in Chicago.

And we know how hard you grind, but you're loose, you're fun. Like, let's forget about everything else. Let's go, Rocky. You know, everybody knows Rocky. So that was a big, that was a big moment for me. So we got to fast forward to game seven, can we? We win game five.

We win game five. Amazing. For me, actually looking back 10 years that I was literally just sitting at my house and I had the game five jersey, framed and it's like World Series game five, the World Series patch. And I didn't understand, I just clicked the significance. That's the only World Series game we won at Rigley. And what? And what? Well, I looked up the numbers on that. Daddy started that game.

You know what I mean? But that game was such a grind in Chapman grinding through that, throwing, I think, two and a third innings. I remember Eddie Better gave me a shout out during the seven thing stretch on that one. Oh, yeah, yeah. Talking about it may retire, but it'll always be in our hearts and never forgotten. I don't know. It was unbelievable. Like, what a, what a cool moment that was. Like, there was so many, that's my favorite game because I remember I was so jacked up before that game. And Lester had Jason Aldeen's song playing. I had my, I mean, I told him, one of those moments you were talking about earlier, like, I'm walking in and we talk about this, but I told him, like, we usually go over signs. And I was like, hey, I love you, man.

And he's like, bro, don't do that right now. You know, he's like game face all the time. He's like, bro, don't do that right now. And so I got behind there, and I was streaming the top of my lungs to get all my energy. You're singing the song. Yeah, singing an Aldine song. But that was my favorite. What a cool, I mean, there's so many emotions going into that one, and we win. Yeah.

Our mindset, at least the mindset, I was thrown out there in that the universe was, whatever we got to do to win game five, we knew we were going to win game six. Like, that was our mind. Like, we'll boat race game six, which we ended up doing, winning game six. And then game seven is game seven. Well, you helped us boat race at that big home run and they're late was huge. The World Series home run.

Sorry about it. Yes. But we get to game seven. It's not about you. We're pregame. For the World Series, I did not take batting practice once because when you get to the World Series, you have so many different routines,

especially playing here in Chicago. You have to have a few different routines with the day game, with different night games. We usually have late travel. So KB and I didn't take, KB actually took BP only in game seven And he took it for like a round And he tells the story about it and it's hilarious

But I didn't go out there once because the media is just crazy It's so much people talking to you It's not your normal routine No So before game seven I'm just chilling like playing Mario car Yeah, locked in the boys He got pissed off at us Yeah, I'm walking too. The game was until 8 o'clock

It's a late game I remember the night before sleeping I'm up at like four in the morning just staring at the ceiling like, holy shit, I got it asleep. Like, I'm like into the field to 4 p.m. Yeah, I woke up that morning. My son, Cole, is sicker in heck and coming out of both ends. And I'm like, what is going on?

And I guess he was like five at the time. So I'm going off to my last game, my career, waking up early, like, well, this is a good distraction in the morning and trying to take care of him a little bit. And then walk to the field, I walk in. It's like, all the boys are locked in on Mario Kart. I'm like, what are we doing? Nobody. No, we're in Cleveland, we played, they had like an arcade game,

an arcade machine, four-player Mario Kart, and we just, I mean, that's got our competitive juices going. Yeah, well, looking back, I worried about shit that I shouldn't have worried about for sure and trying to keep everybody locked in. Like, you guys were already, you know, like you said, it was already written, and you guys were so good at that point. And like, but I remember, and then Caesar and everybody's like, bro, you all right?

It's your last game. I was like, don't worry about me. I lock in. I don't care. About me right now, let's win this game. Yeah, let's just win. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers, and guess what? We have some big news.

What's the news, name? Huge news. We created our own podcast called, Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there.

But this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this.

We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, where people could call in and say, hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guide. Not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Jim Gaffigan to Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman,

help make you funnier. This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel, help an acapella band with their between songs banter. There's that worst singer in the group. The worst? Yeah. Me. Is there anything to the idea that because you're from Harvard,

you only got in because your parents made a huge donation. The group. The yard herds, right? That's the name. The Harvard yard, but they're open. Do you have a name suggestion? We're open. Since you guys are middle-aged, one erection.

Listen to humor me with Robert Smigel and Friends on the I-Heart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Humor me. I need some jokes to make me seem funny. Jacob Kingston grew up in an isolated polygamous sect. We were God's chosen kingdom on earth. He felt destined for greatness. So when a swaggering Armenian businessman catapults Jacob into an extraordinary world, he doesn't look back. Ferraris and Lamborghinis, private jets, meeting the president of Turkey.

I'm Michelle McPhee, and this is one of the most shocking criminal conspiracies I've ever come across. When Jacob met Levin this went to a billion dollar fraud. But with two kings from entirely different worlds, just how long can their empire survive? The largest tax investigation in American history. You need to tell me what you know. Is somebody coming after me? Jacob told Levan, you're ruining my life. Listen to Kingdom of Fraud on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in. I'm Timbo. Every episode, we're cutting through the noise, breaking down the plays, the controversies, and the stories behind the headlines. We go straight to the source, the athlete themselves, their locker room stories, their reactions, the stuff nobody gets to hear. The laughs, the drama, the triumphs, the moments that never make the highlight real. From viral games, from buzzer beaters to controversial calls, we break it down, give you context, and ask the questions everybody wants answered.

SportsSlice brings you closer to the action with stories told by the people who live them. Listen to SportsSlice on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more, follow Timbo Slicelive 12 and the TikTok podcast network on TikTok. The French Open is one of the toughest tests in tennis. And I know firsthand because I competed there myself. I'm Renee Stubbs, and on the Renee Stubbs tennis podcast, I'm breaking down everything happening at Roland Garris. Every match, every upset, and what it really takes to win on Clay. Genschen win.

I mean, she went down in three to Rabakina, but I'm delighted. She's an outsider to win the French for me. And she likes Clay. Listen, Lina Rabakina is arguably the best player in the world right now, and I actually can win on any surface. Because if she's serving, well, good luck. Consider this your court side scene. to the French Open. Listen to the Renee Stubbs tennis podcast

on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. Before the game, we're playing Rocky. This is probably 50 minutes, 55 minutes before the game. And we did this before game six, right? Five, six.

And now this is game seven. So this is my third act of what I'm about to tell you. So before the game, we start playing Rocky. I strip down to nothing. I'm completely naked. And I'm up on the table dancing. Like, it's not, I'm just given the same rocky speech that everyone's tired of now.

It's not how many times you get down. It's how many times you get up. Like, we got this. Fuck them. We're going to win this. Like, literally just putting myself out there, making everyone try to be loose. I'm obviously as loose as I can be.

I'm completely naked. And I'm dancing. And Hector Rondone comes and like sprays me with like the shoe clean. and like ruined like my whole like hurrah thing that I had done for game five and game six and I was like set me off I was so pissed and I went pouty into the showers and then rossie comes in and goes hey he goes it's not how many times he's getting knocked down you get your ass back out there and you show the boys it's how many times you get up so I ran out of the shower

I was like you're right but get back up start dancing again restarted the song restarted the song restarted the song get back into the shower And then I remember going out to the field. And the backstory to the dancing naked was there would be time to time throughout my entire big league career that if I was in a really bad rut or a slump, one of my coaches, Jamie Quirk suggested when I was really young, hey, why don't you just hit naked? So one day, I think the first time I ever did it was in Cincinnati. They just walked in there. I'm like, fuck it. And then I just developed like maybe once or twice a year if I was in a run.

I would just close the door. No one to ever know it's coming. And I would just walk completely naked. The coaches would die laughing. They would throw me BP, and I just hit for like 10 minutes, and I just like, ah, I'm just so loose and free. Sure not, every game, I would have a good game. Like, every single game.

There may or may not be photos of this. And it's a nice little, it pops up on my feet every once in a while, and it puts a smile on my face. Do you teach your photo? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I might need to throw it in the contact photo, but it's a, it's, it's a, it's, It's definitely was one of those things, again, where he kept everybody loose.

And we needed that, like that pre-game speech, the Rocky, all of us just shaking our head. And like, here goes Riz again, game seven. And then, you know, Rondon tried to put a little salt in your pancakes or whatever you say. He got to me. Yeah, and you came back out and we did it. But I remember after that, there's a long walk in Cleveland to the batting case. And I would go to the Batten Cage and Hinsky, Eric Hensky and John Miller,

hidden coaches are in the Batting Cage. And it's like, I'm usually the last one to get down there. I do my whole routine. And there's maybe four words set. It was just like tunnel vision walking down. David Ortiz and the Fox crew were in the hallway. Like I just give them like the locked in look. Like give them hello.

David Ortiz is a legend. And I'm just maybe set four words to those guys. And they were just playing music. Or no, I didn't like to hit with music. And through to me, took my two rounds, and they just go, let's fucking go. Walk onto the field for warm up, and they had to play Phil Collins into the night. And like, literally there's 50,000 people there. And Phil Collins into the night comes, and I'm just doing my pregame stretches.

And, like, the adrenaline, I'm getting goosebumps talking about. Every time I hear that song now, it takes me back to, like, this moment of stillness before game seven of just, like, I took in the whole stadium and I heard nothing except that song. And it was like the coolest moment for me before Game 7. I got a chance to do that on deck in Boston. And I tell people all the time, like that changed my thinking about prep sometimes. Like being able to step outside of kind of your skin a little bit or your thoughts and your routine and just taking that in. Like what a special moment you got for yourself.

Like you never forget that moment. Stephen Drew hit a home run in game six that put us up big. And as soon as he hit, I know it was gone. I was on deck and I look to the crowd behind me in Boston. You're so close there. And I just, I remember the hands just going up in unison. And like it's slow motion, right?

Yeah, it's crazy. It's like, I can't believe I took that in and how that played out and the same story for you. But what a crazy game. Dude, we go up early, right? Yeah. We go up early. In game six,

we were winning big what felt big I think we had a five or six run lead and all the boys in the dog are like yeah fuck yeah and Rossi's pacing the game's not over the game's not over

like beat red right and I'm like Rossi this game's oh I could finish this game like and obviously no game is you never count out but just the way the game was going

yeah game seven wasn't over either was it Ragee so we're up right and whatever ending it was I came up to Rossi and this is the glass of emotion story where it's, I go to you, bro, I go, I'm so nervous right now.

Like, I'm a glass case of emotion, right? And I gave terrible advice. Yeah. Terrible. Yeah. I don't know what to do. Tom of Estella, it's the next to us. But the reason I did that is because I knew how stressed he was.

And, like, in that game, it's so intense. And I go up almost. Delightly. Half-heartedly joking about it, but also like, dude, like, this is fucking nuts, right? And it gets aired and it just became this funny clip. Yeah, a little clip. I give the emotion, I know it's only going to get worse. It's totally going to get worse.

And then Rajay hits the Homer. Oh. And I knew. Like, you just know, like, sporting events and the best of the best and, you know, college basketball is going on right now in the World Series last year with the Dodgers and the Blue Js, like the back and forth. And you just know it just. Well, you came in.

You came in in game seven. Him and Lester come out of the ballpound, which is insane. And you'll get, and the Travis Wood, when Travis Wood tells the story of them in the bullpen, It's literally like, you're going to hear this story, like, this is what was going on in the biggest game of World Series history. So they come in. Lester spikes a ball, concusses Rossi. Like, Rossi that has no idea was two guys score. When I almost killed you, remember the swinging bunt from Kittness. I just came in.

He's swinging bunt. And I turn and spin throw. Launch it. You try to save me and Kipness hits you. That's why they go second, third. I always said on those plays, I would always usually bail during the regular season. I always said to everyone, like, when it really made. mattered. I would let it out. It mattered. And in game seven, you literally, Kipness is like a

freaking, he's like a running back. He's like a fullback. And he crushed me. He crushed you. They crushed you. And I'm like, oh, God, I just got in this game. John is no strike breaking ball still indoor. So he shakes to breaking ball. I'm like, okay, he's going to bounce it. Well, he took it literally. It's like a 40-footer. And I go to blog. It hits me in the mask. I go to stand up. Everybody's like, you look like you got knocked out. It's like I rolled my ankle. The next day, I remember waking up. That's why is my ankle hurt? hurt and I watched the video and that was why, but two runs come in and I'm like, wait a minute, I'm, I'm the defensive guy. I'm not, I'm not supposed to let runs in. This, I just,

and the place went absolutely nuts. The momentum kind of switched to their, their side. And I remember getting in after we got out of the inning and John's like, what do you got? I'm like, bro, your shit's nasty. I should have blocked that ball. Like, you're throwing the ball great. And then I got to, I got to get on deck. I was, I was second that inning and, and had to get loose and start to try to focus on facing Andrew Miller. You come up facing Andrew Miller. Hit a game seven, your last abat ever in the big leagues. Game seven home run. Oldest player major league baseball history. Thank you. Thank you, Lord.

It was, bro, I mean, like, what a ending? Well, we had, I remember thinking, you're in the league because you're catching. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Career 220 hitter race. You let two runs in, catching, and then on the offensive side, you hit a home run. It was completely, the strip was slipped. Well, what I used to tell you when you were struggling? Do you remember? I remember I was struggling one time and I look at Rossi and I'm complaining about my swing. He looks to me. He goes, bro, don't ask me. I fucking hit $2.20 my whole career.

Imagine going to work every day with my swings. So I used to tell him, like, you've got a good one. No, I remember like, you know, doing some homework and watching. I didn't watch a lot of video, but I remember the World Series. Like, if I'm on facing by, he's probably going to be a lefty. I had good numbers off Andrew Miller when Andrew Miller was in Florida and he was still in 91, not when he, I called him in Boston. And we were on a championship team together. 95, 97.

With freaking a net, that nasty slider. So just remember watching some video and him shaking to heater. And he did that within my bat. And before that last pitch, I knew he had me one, two. And I was just trying to put good swing on it. And sure enough, Rajay, Rajay goes back like this. And I'm like, if this dude catches this ball, I'm gonna kill myself.

And it went out and thank God, I was just like, you know, not even no emotions. We were so in the dugout too. We were so hyped. And the momentum comes back to us. Well, the picture I've got, too, of all you guys just like KB. Well, that's what it was all about. Yeah, it was so cool.

Everyone cared so much about our teammates in 16, and that's really another reason that this team was so special. We're on defense. Rajah comes up. Chapman's in the game. Chapman has been our, literally our workhorse, all playoffs. Joe went to him early and often. Yeah. And Joe left him in in game six, and we talk about Joe's decision in game six to leave him in.

and we break that down with Joe, and you'll hear that on one of the earlier episodes. But Raja comes up, you're calling all fastballs, and he was, however many he just choked up halfway to the barrel. And he hits this home run. And it's like off the bat, I'm like, no, no. Like get down, the high wall in Cleveland. And it goes right in the camera well.

It's like the most iconic, like that's such an iconic home run. Like I still think of that home run. I get the, like, Kibi, and we won. I still see Rajé to this day, and I hate him, but I love him. But it's like, we won, and I'm like, no. He was working for the MLBPA, and he'd walk into my office when I was managing. I'm like, bro, you've got to get out.

Like, my stomach's starting to hurt. Like, I still go back to that moment. And I, you know, we turned the page pretty fast as big leaguers. I remember being behind the plate, just not being able to get myself to stop thinking about what just happened, you know? I mean, bro, that was devastating. Because 100 and 8 years. We're the best team.

We won 100 plus games. We're in game 7 of the World Series. We're down 3-1. We come back. We're up in the game. Everything that goes into it. And then Rajé Davis hits that home run. I'm sitting there literally another moment where everything went deaf.

Like, I heard nothing. I couldn't hear myself breathing. And I'm just swiping dirt, like looking down, like trying to like not show like what's going on. The world just came to it in. And in my head, I'm just like, dude, like this curse is fucking. real. Like, there's a bunch of guys that talk about that. Holy shit.

Like, there's no way that just happened, right? And he ties the game. And then it's like Chapman goes out in the ninth, and I can't wait to sit down with Chapman and talk to him. The fact that Errol is just chimed out in the ninth inning and got us through the ninth inning in a tie ball game is like the unsung hero of all of this because there's so many times if you're a baseball fan, you watch the closer give it up in the eighth, like the game's over in the nine.

Yeah. And then. some miracle. I remember Miggie throwing a ton of sliders all of a sudden coming in and throwing just all sliders those guys and getting him through. Miggy's another ununged hero getting that last RBI for us

that we ended up eventually needed. Oh, yeah. I mean, big hit. Like Chappie, well, we got to get to, you know, before we skip ahead, like the range of late. 17 minutes of literally the tears in heaven, tears of joy, I think Dexter said, of all the Cubs fans, right?

and Joe West was the umpire, the chief of that crew. And he called the delay. Until this day, whenever I saw Joe West, I was like, Joe, you called the greatest delay in baseball history. Thank you. He would just laugh. And I love Joe West. I love that.

But we come down and we're just like, dude, our dugout in the ninth inning was like ghosts. Like you look over to like Theo too. He was right down. Everyone's a ghost. And it's just like we get through the ninth. And then when the rain delay happened, And then during that rain, I remember I re-upped on my pre-game concoction that talked about in the Dexter series. But Dexter and I, our pre-game concoction was a shot of Woodford Reserve and a five-hour energy presented by Bill Murray.

So Bill Murray, I think game six of the NLCS came in. He's in a fishing vest, right? And we're just talking. It's Bill Murray and Vince Vaughn in our clubhouse. Yeah, I remember that. This is like. Rule number 375. Everybody met, whatever.

Right? So Bill Murray, me and Dexter, talking about him, he's like, hey, take this. It's a Woodford Reserve and a fire for energy thing. I call it a speedball. And I'm like, all right, let's do it, Dex. Like, we've done shots before the game before. And it's like, let's do it. And then we just did it every game of the World Series. So we get to the rain delay. Me and Dexter, re-up on our pregame stuff because we're about to go into extras. We're in the wait room. Just like, there's no fucking way we're losing this. You know, talking to Dexter, Bussie. Guys started gravitating in. And then Jay Haye pulls everyone in. And it was like that moment for us is, is, it's a legendary moment because we, Jay Hay and a few of other us brought us all together and was like, we're not fucking losing. Like, remember who we are.

When Jay Hay speaks to the fact that he came up to me, was like, hey, team meeting in the, in the weight room. And I just remember like, wow, like he's got something to say, right? He was not a guy that was like vocal. But when he spoke, it kind of carried some volume. I remember walking in and everybody's in there. And I had to go get Chappie off the, I walked back out. Like everybody's like, where's the Rallis? I walked back out to the dugout.

He's got his hands in his face just crying, balling, crying on the bench. So like, and he walks in, everybody talks about remembering that. And like, we wouldn't be. Yeah, we wouldn't be here about you, bro. Like, you know, and then we close into, and guys start talking. And I remember coming out of that. And we talk about this. Schwab talks about his kind of journey and his rehab back.

and then coming out of that meeting, he was leading off against Shaw. And I remember right before that he walks up to me and looks at me in the eye. He's got his batting gloves on. He's tightening him up. I'm out of the game. And he looks at me. He goes, this guy throws me a cutter in.

I'm going to knock the fuck out of it. He hit the ball. He didn't get in the air. Yeah. He was like, if he would have been in the air, it had been a bomb. But he hit it about this far.

It felt from Jason Kipnis and who was playing short right field. And it got by, and that's how hard it was hit. But, yeah, I remember that speech was so that kind of moment reset us, everybody talking about how we're the best team in baseball all year, our win, totals, and just how we played for each other. And too, our bullpen was set up and theirs wasn't.

They blew all of their guys. So we knew we were in a, from a pitching standpoint, we were in a better position too. So I remember talking about that. And then going out on the field, it was like everyone got their color back. It was like we were able to take those 17 minutes and like regroup because that Rajah Homer,

was like just the most gut-wrenching thing. And what's so cool on this podcast is every guy tells their version of the rain delay. And it's so cool hearing their stories and through their lenses. And I remember going back to Cleveland every year, every time we went back to Cleveland, I literally looked in the wait room. And I, whatever team was on, I goes, that's exactly where I was sitting. I was sitting right there on that. Right by the door with Chapie.

I was sitting right on the treadmill. What do you, so Schwabber leads off, Pinch Run. Al-Mora, KB, deep fly ball, thought it was gone, wasn't. Great tag up by Al-Mora. Greatest tag in history of the game. I think so. And you get walked. What was going through your mind?

You're going to the plate. Did you feel like they were going to walk you? There was a lot going through my mind because that's the cat-mouse game of the game. There's a base open. And this is all of my advice that I've got in my career is coming to the biggest moment. And they end up intentionally walking me, but walking to the point. plate in my head. I'm like, all right, he's going to pitch around me. He might try to steal a pitch one, so I'm going to be really aggressive pitch one, but he might totally pitch around me.

So all these things are going through my head of like, don't try to do too much. And then I get up there, I'm like dialed in, and then I see Tito put the four out. And I'm like, fuck, right? Right? Because like, in that moment, you want to help. You were swinging the back. Yeah, and you were swinging the back. Yeah. And they walked me, and I'm all right, like, now it's, like, now it's on those ogress. And then he hits that, and the iconic picture where Riz has got his eyes and your hands.

It's just the adrenaline of that, the meaning of that, like, I was here when we sucked, right? Like, we lost 100 games my first year. We lost 98 in my second year. Like, Otis, rest in peace, our clubhouse attendant,

the first year I got here was pushing balls in a shopping cart for batting practice. Like that's how far the organization was behind. So in that moment when Zobrist hit that ball and we scored, I was like, holy shit. Like, we just won the World Series. Like, we just won the World Series, right?

And then Miggi, with the insurance run, just adds on. But like, in that moment when Zobrist hit that, I knew, like, I just had that belief we were going to win again, right? And everything was coming full circle. It was like, we're literally now three outs away from being World Series champions.

breaking a hundred and eight year curse. We know how much Cubs fans this means to them, what the city of Chicago. We've seen the city of Chicago parting for the last two years because of 15 run and now 16. So that iconic moment of me and my head, all of that was running through my head. That's crazy.

Oh my God. I'd have such a good visual like when I watch it back and like your genuine surprise and like, holy shit, we're about to win the World Series. This is all over your face. And we do, I didn't have on my bingo card, Mike Montgomery, closing it out. No. And he tells us a great story. The story Mike talks about is his pitch is, is like, it's such a full circle podcast because so many guys talk about their,

their personal journeys to that game seven. And him coming in and Michael Martinez is hitting in the grounder to KB. And that was, that was Michael Martinez's first at bat of the series. I thought it was a lot faster. And I thought I didn't read the ball good because I had to bust over to first. And before that inning, I, like, loaded my glove up with pine tar. Like, I'm like, I am not fucking missing this ball. Like, if a ball comes to me, it's pine tar up. And KB gets it. And I'm like, oh, shit, if he throws this over my head, there's a guy in second, like, I need to catch this ball. And he sails it at first. I'm like, caught thousands of balls of KB. I'm like, oh, no. And I ended up catching it. And it was like the perfect... It wasn't as high

as you felt like it was about... It wasn't as high. It was a... About to go, from everybody's perspective. Yeah, his ball just went, boom. And I caught it. And, like, right away, my first reaction, and I get emotional telling the story is when I was a kid, me and my dad would always play catching the house, and we can do, like, lightning round. He'd hit me golf balls.

But at the end, if I won, we'd always raise our hands and do, like, champion of the world. And, like, we would just scream, of the world. And, like, KB threw it high, and my other hand goes up. And I'm literally just, like, a champion of the world. And then you and I had talked about getting all the baseballs and just like immediately. I've watched probably 20 World Series that I remember of the last out and all the reactions. And like I always say what I would do. And like in that moment, it was like, boom, put the ball in my pocket.

And let's go fucking party. That's history. That was like, so I could barely get over the railing. I was trying to get out there so fast. I remember my spike getting caught in. And then we go. It was like this ending grandpa moment, not being able to get over the rail. serious question. I'm going to ask Jay, hey, too, that I really have never heard the answer to.

I'm doing an interview. We're all celebrating. I get pulled over with Ken Rosenthal doing an interview. And you guys come and pick me up and put me on your shoulder. Like, I don't want to get emotional. Like, who's that? Who's that happening? A couple guys that have concussions getting emotional. Always. Always. I've been too many blows to the head. But like, seriously, like, to have that moment in looking back. And for me, it's like, holy shit. Like, these guys, like, I don't. Nobody deserves that. It was like Rudy, Rudy. Like, how did that all transpire?

Because I've never heard this story. You just, through my personal career, I've had so many people in my life that helped me get to where I am, literally today, 10 years later. But up to that point, I had so many good veterans. And, like, you were just so life-changing for me. And another guy who comes off the top of my head is Eric Hinsky with Hitting. And we talk about this, how he helped me become the hitter I was. but you shaped perspective for me. You shaped how to handle all phases of the game,

the bullpen, pitching, like situations, talking like a manager, and just what you meant and like going out, the emotions of you going out, hitting your 100th homer, hitting a game 7 home run, like the glass case of emotion coming to you because you're like my big brother.

I remember there's a time his son Cole was running out to his dad in left field before a game at really. And he's like, Dad. And I go, no, he's my dad. And I go, Dad, and, like, me and Cole are sprinting to you. And, like, all that. And I know how much Jaye meant.

When Jay Haye signed here in 16, Jaye, in his, I don't think in his contract, but told Vijay, a traveling secretary, hey, every single road trip we go on, Rossi gets a sweep. So that's how. Anski, which is, which were his mentors. And Jayh was my locker mate in Atlanta when he was coming out. So that's how much you meant to us.

And it was like, we knew that was your last game. And to carry you off the field, it was just like a celebration of the boys and for you. And like how cool was that? Bro. That picture. Well, and it's like you see the look on you guys's face. Like you're smiling so big. Skies behind you.

Like, I can't believe that that's happening. I'm up there. I don't know like what to do with my hands. I remember like putting up number one. And then I'm like blowing kisses for some reason. I'm like, what am I doing up here? Like it was so, yeah, like what is this? But what a special moment for me?

Like, I put up the end of my career versus anybody that played the game, not because of staff, but because of how you guys treated me. So that was really, really special. And then we go, we go celebrate. We got a parade. The celebration was, I mean, the plane ride back, too. There's pictures. And I just put it up on our level reunion, the pictures we put up of us on the plane with

the World Series trophy and, like, our families are all together. Our families, too, like, remember in the World Series, especially in Cleveland, after every game we had a hospitality room with all food and everyone would just go and decompress after the game. And our families were so invested in. They flew back with us. We had to take pictures of my parents with the trophy. My wife with the trophy. It was just like such an amazing thing.

And we get off, we get back to like five, six in the morning. My daughter, Landry tells a story all the time. Cole was six. We gave him his own row and just laid him down. And my wife at the time was sitting down with him. And I was kind of bouncing back and forth, checking him. going with the boys. Well, my seven-year-old daughter was in the back, partying with the Lester family and Lacky family. She kept coming up with $100 bills. And I'm like, where are you getting these

hundreds? She's like, Dad, the guys are giving them to me. I'm like, go tell them they're not allowed to give me more money. And Lester's in the back going, show kids, show kids, just give them $100 bills everywhere. So she tells that story all the time. That plane ride was epic. It was just, and I remember. Demster and, I remember Dempster and Theo. We were racing down the hallways on like. In the carts down the aisles and the little the beverage cards. Yeah. As we're taking off. Yeah. It's going down. They're flying down there.

Not safe. I remember, too, a big thing for me, I think being with the Cubs for so long up to that point and then playing after was like, there's so much. There's so many guys who played before us that set the tone for us there. And after we won, like I made sure to say that. Like, this is for the Ernie Banks, the Ron Santos, the Sandbergs, right? Even the Starlin Castro, the Soriano's, the veterans I play with Ryan Dempster, Kerry Wood, the list goes on and on. But those guys were such a big part and so loved here in Chicago. Like, I always wanted to make them feel like they won it with us because they laid the groundwork for us.

And I remember driving back because like five in the morning, we're on the buses. And Dempster was with us. Ryan Dempster was with us on the bus. I was like, dude, take the trophy. And like, I gave him the trophy for a lot. He literally reminded me the other day. He's like, dude, that was so awesome. they did that. Because that's how much those guys mean. It's like respecting the guys before you,

right? No doubt. And then we get home, I have the trophy getting off the bus, and I'm like, I'm just going to take this home, right? So I took it home. I have a picture of it, like, with the perfect shot of like, it's in my bed with Lake Michigan in the background. And I get to text at like 8.30 in the morning. I literally get home to like 6.30. Barely slept. My phone's blown up by VJ or traveling secretary. He's like, hey, Lester's pissed. You have the trophy. I'm like, well, I don't really give the fault. Let's her talk about that. I was like, why does Tony got the trophy?

So I bring it back to Wrigley at like, I get there at like 9, 9.30, leave Wrigley, go to Bottled Blonde here in Chicago, me and my wife, her, she's my girlfriend at the time, and we just go sit in bottle blonde in Chicago from 10 a.m.

to about 5 a.m. Like, we literally go, we sit there for like, probably 10 hours in bottle bomb. All the, my friend opened it up. I'm like, hey, are you up? He's like, yeah, you want to come in? I came in.

He still has the bottle of crown that I drank that day. He had me sign it like years later. He's like, dude, this is the bottle. Your first bottle of crown you drank after winning the World Series. And then we go out there. All my friends come. Then I come back to Rigley at some point with all my friends.

I have pictures on the field, like with the trophy. Just you could do whatever you want. Yeah, right? Remember we got a ride home. that we from the, a ride from, I don't know if we're at town. We were meeting everybody at Country Club and we were in the back of the police cars. Yeah, it's just like, you see all the reactions of Cubs fans. And it was like, holy shit.

We knew. I knew how big it was going to be. I really did. I had no idea. Everyone's like, you understand. I'm like, no, I do understand. And then it happened. And it was like, my expectations were here of it and they were high and it blew them out.

Yeah. It blew them out of the water. Like, the people. People at the graves going and saying, like, laying the W flags on their parents or grandparents or whoever's graves. And, like, people listening to the final out, Pat use iconic moment at the grave site. Like, it's just... That's my favorite thing to ask when I travel is people come up and say, you know, thanks for 2016 or they want a picture or something. It's like, I want to hear their game seven story.

And the passion they have, the fans, like, you're so thankful for just a generational fandom. that has been passed down from so many people. And I mean, Michelle Obama told us at the White House about watching it with her dad and started crying. I mean, like, it just, like, those stories that fans give us are so much more valuable than, you know, the ring or any of that. Like, I love hearing their stories. I think the best part, too, is, look, 10 years later,

and I'm not kidding, the passion that the fans have when they tell those stories are literally still the same. It's like, these people, I literally was at opening day yesterday, like, 2026, and people are crying about what it meant to win the World Series. And it was, it's just so awesome what Cubs fans meant to us and how they showed out for that parade. Because that parade, what, six million people. I remember looking at being on stage and like you said so many nice things and, you know, you're not concussed at the time, but you started getting a little teary eye too.

And I couldn't even get any words out because of how I wanted to thank all the guys and tell them all what they meant to me, like, and how each guy affected me. and I couldn't get a little like you. You barely get anything out. But like you looked out. And I just saw like the heads of people and then the tree tops. Like it just like people were in the trees way off in the distance. It was, it was.

It's iconic. Yeah. It was just it was literally in the parties to follow, the parade. And like, bro, literally yesterday. Again, I'm at opening day. And it's just me because I've had a crazy schedule. And everyone's coming up and it's like, hey, how are your parents?

How's Emily? Like, we haven't been here in 10 years, right? Yeah. And everyone's like, how's your wife doing? We loved her. Like, we miss her so much. We're your parents. Your father, man.

Like, your father, we drank one night. And just, like, all the ushers and people that working at Wrigley are, like, genuinely asking about my family. And it's just like, that's how much of a family playing here in Chicago is. And it's just why I call this home? I love this place so much. Yeah, it's a special place. The friendly confines is real, and the people around here. I remember all the police officers, when I come back and go to a football game or whatever,

they thank us for the overtime they got in 2016. They got a big check for getting. And then, like, corral and all the people. Play more years here. Obviously, I get traded, go to New York and really enjoy my time in New York, go to another World Series and lose. And, like, it's gut-wrenching, right? I don't know what that's like. Exactly.

You won their last game you ever played in? I lost it. Okay. Funny story, I was at the final of the WBC, and Rossi's getting a silver medal after they lost. And I have a video, and I just go, how's it feel to finish second now? Because he used to always scream like,

I don't know what finishing second feels like. Yeah, that wasn't a good feeling. That wasn't a good feeling. But this was, I mean, this podcast is going to be unbelievable with telling all these stories. We're so thankful for the fans. The fact that we get to sit down with all of our guys like you're it's such a treat and it's it gets emotional there's so many stories there's

it all comes full circle and the fact that all the guys were so nervous coming like what's this going to be about and then when we're done they're like dude i could have talked for four more hours like it's just it's so special we we had our reunion already a little bit the one night and having all the guys back was incredible and in july when we have another reunion the whole weekend it's just going to be such a celebration. I hope everyone can get the behind the scenes that they want, follow us on all of our socials, everything. But the love and subscribe. And that what they say on YouTube? Yeah, what the kids say, I think. I don't even know. But the Loveable Reunion podcast, it's going to be celebrated all year. And we can't wait to take you guys for the ride.

With me and Anthony, it's not about us. Again, it'll be about everybody else. This one was about us. But the rest of them will be all the stories from everybody else. I can't wait, bro. And next episode, next week will be our skipper, Joe Madden. Amazing episode. We sat down with him. He was one of our first episodes. And we go so deep with Joe. And what he meant to us, you'll find out through all of these episodes on what he meant to every player throughout their careers. But without Joe, there's no way we don't have the success. So tune in. Tune in. Thank you. Thanks fans. That is a wrap. Anna. All right. Hey guys, it's us

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