J. J. Hardy

I li- I like Jackson because I love, being a Brewers fan, you always think about the future 'cause we used to suck.

So I always think, "Oh, they got these young players coming up." Even from Ricky Weeks, Prince Fielder, JJ Hardy way back in the day.

And so when Jackson Chio was coming up, I'm like, "Man, we got this young kid that's fantastic." So I love jumping on the bandwagon of all the young kids.

They got a- another young kid probably coming up next year, Jesus Marte.

You've been around this team.

Is that something you recognize? I, I really started noticing that with the group that included Prince Fielder, Corey Hart, JJ Hardy, and Ricky Weeks.

And I think part of the reason was they grew up together-

Yeah

Never enough.

Prince Fielder, Ryan Braun, CeCe Sabathia for a while, J.J. Hardy.

Just really, really good teams.

Still no flags.

Like I went to Masson's like literally I went to Masson and they were replaying a Rangers Orioles game.

where Buck Showalter was in the dugout and JJ Hardy hit a single.

So just to give you the era, I don't know what the hell it was.

It was in Texas.

Jones, you're center fielder.

You're not Hardy at shortstop, so just play your position.

You're not a right or left fielder, just play your position.

You're batting where you're batting for a reason.

Unbelievable.

I mean, his, he's off the charts.

Yeah, his I- his baseball IQ is through the roof and, you know, it was great that he was able to have a JJ Hardy with him.

Um, and I think, uh, one of the people that, uh, was around him the most that people don't talk about it was Bobby Dickerson, our third base coach-

And they were all together.

And if we go back in time to the Prince Fielder era Brewers, you had Fielder, Corey Hart, J.J. Hardy, Tony Gwynn Jr.

That group all came together and they were winning championships kind of at each level.

Now, But Lexi kind of got put together this year, and then they lost Ragsdale or whatever eventually with the trade.

When you look at Corey Hart and the way he played the game, just his natural ability that he had, and going out and watching, you know that this was a young man that was He was talented when he was real young.

That whole group of guys with Corey Hart, J.J. Hardy, Prince Fielder, they all had a special, they were all very special athletes.

And, so I'm going to ask you this, because they were part, Jenkins was before, got like that.

I think this team... has the best chance to win the World Series of any team since 82.