I didn't play to get to the Hall of Fame
. I didn't even thought about being in the Hall
of Fame, but this was a great feeling.
I had a rule. If I didn't get the
call at 545 everybody's out. Their families are wonderful
and, uh, we're gonna have a great summer
together. Celebrate Adrian Beltre. Congratulations. Thank you
. Um, you had some fun when you got
the call. I think you had some fun because
you really had a lot of stress. You knew
that you knew, right? Like that asked me
a good feeling. Right? I didn't know,
I assume I didn't know you assumed it was trending
well enough for me to be more comfortable, but
I didn't know. Were you the most nervous member
of your family? You know what? I was
not nervous. But what about your wife? My
wife was a little, little wreck, son too
, but I just wanna get over it. That's
all. Well, now you get to enjoy it
. Right. You enjoy it now. Not yet
. You know, I still have a speech in
July. Yeah. That's the only thing that kinda
hold me back from being completely like maniac, but
hopefully I get through it. Like I tell my
kid not to like, uh you OK, work
hard but you need to know what you're working on
. You know, I used to work hard and
be a mini, I trying to get better,
but I didn't know what I was doing. So
once I got more experience I understood what I have
to do to be better myself. You know,
what make Greg better know what make me better is
how it started to be more consistent. And even
though, like, I would not teach things that
I used to do when I play to young kids
, but it worked for me. Right. So
when I figure that out, then I started being
more consistent. Plus screens and you get more screenings
, you can understand things better, just little things
that, yeah, I mean, it's tough,
um, going through the whole process. Um,
for me, I didn't want to let down my
family. I didn't wanna let down my friends,
even though I had no control over it. I
wanted to get in not only for me but for
them. Really? You thought you were letting them
down by not into all that. That's why I
invite a lot of people over to my house because
I didn't wanna, wow. Yeah, I had
a rule. If I didn't get the call at
545 everybody is out. That's actually a pretty good
rule. It was pretty amazing. I mean,
a lot of things have to go right to,
to stay in the same place for that long.
Um, but things just kind of, kind of
worked out that way, you know, I kept
my mouth shut and I played hard and, uh
, and I was rewarded for that, you know
, to play on the same team. Does first
ballot Hall of Famer have a different ring to you
. Does it matter to you? Uh, yes
, it does. Um, one is, uh
, the nerves, the nerves leading up to it
. I'm glad I don't have to go through that
again, you know. Um, nowadays there's so
much, uh, you know, tracking and people
knowing where you stand on the ballot. Um,
you know, it's just around, you can't really
avoid it and I try to avoid talking about it
for the last five years. But, um,
definitely thankful to the writers for voting me on the
first try. Doesn't mean a lot. The history
. You, one of three catchers. Yeah,
I, I don't take that lightly either. That
first ballot. Um, there's, there's guys out
there that are very deserving of a first ballot and
, and didn't make it. But, um,
to join Johnny Bench and, and, uh,
V Rodriguez, um, those are two of my
favorites and, and idols that I looked up to
and, um, you know, I really can't
even describe it. It's pretty awesome. It's kind
of a story. Um, you know, career
there, you know, growing up a twins fan
, you know, 10 miles away from the dome
and, you know, where target field is now
nowadays. But, um, wanting that dream to
play in the big leagues, getting that chance to
play at home and then being able to stay there
. I know that doesn't happen and, uh,
definitely thankful for that opportunity. But, yeah,
it's, uh, it was, uh, unbelievable
ride. It just went way too fast. Jackson
. Welcome to the show. What does it mean
to you to be done? The number one prospect
in all of baseball? Yeah, it's a,
it's a really cool experience for me, um,
to be able to share that with Adley and Gunner
. Um, it's, it's really, really neat
to, to be a part of and, and
an honor to be able to, to be the
number one prospect amongst a whole lot of really talented
, uh minor league players. I told my dad
if, if he built the case, then then
I would get the, the rap soda and the
baseball. So I think it's a fair deal.
Um, but a lot, honestly, I haven't
, I haven't left the, the land since it's
been snowing and, uh, and icy rain the
, the past few weeks. So, uh,
so just to be able to, to have this
in, um, honestly, our me and Chloe's
apartment, it's, uh, it's, it's quite
nice to, to be able to just, uh
open the door and be able to, to hit
and then, um, shoot hoops and you mean
, seriously, you don't have to leave it.
So it's, it's really ideal to, to be
able to, to train here and, and,
um, you got really no excuses to investigate better
some deals Consummated. In the later hours on Thursday
, we speculated yesterday on this show where for Jock
Peterson, now we have an answer to that question
one year 9.5 million to go to the Diamondbacks.
That was one of the teams we talked about,
uh on the program yesterday morning. But I think
what Jock Peterson brings to the team is a little
bit of parody to where you, you do have
some balance within that line up with Christian Walker,
Gabriel Moreno and Eugenio Suarez. That right handed bat
very right handed, heavy right handed reliever David Robertson
of the Rangers in agreement to a one year 11
to$12 million deal pending physical and he knows how
to get out at the end of the game.
We had this discussion when we were talking about this
morning. See, why is the, is the
Rangers bullpen markedly improved from last year's version? Is
it just as good? Has it taken a step
back? Where are you with this group? Now
, I'm saying a slight click forward. I mean
, I don't say, I don't know if it's
markedly, but I think it's enough of a change
where you're trying to build a little bit more stability
in that bullpen to be able to have more reliable
pieces left. So you're essentially losing Aroldis Chapman.
Will Smith, who, when you really look at
the postseason, they didn't use Will Smith in the
post of Chapman, you were a little hesitant to
go to him in the postseason. So now you're
bringing in a couple pieces with Kirby Yates, David
Robertson. Now you have scores and, and the
clerk at the back end of that bullpen, I
think it brings you a little bit more stability to
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