Is it funny for you to see those guys clowning together?

It's so great to see, and I think they're doing a fantastic job.

And A-Rod, like the smart business guy, he knows everything about this game.

Like, A-Rod, like, let's...

some of the best stats ever and a great teammate he always knew i had his back whatever went down we've known each other since uh i was 14 he was 13 we played on a bergen beach team we went to euclid ohio and a rod was our number nine hitter wow i was our three hole hitter and You ever remind them of that? Oh, yeah.

No, I was built like a brick shithouse at 14, too.

And A-Rod saw how fucking strong I was.

By the way, how do you feel about that, by the way, that no one bats 300 anymore?

When you played for two drastically different cultures, '09 Yankees, '04 Red Sox, like, night and day or, or are there similarities if it's a winner?

Uh, oh, it's similarities because it's a winner and you have talent, um, throughout.

I think playing in Boston, you know, everyone invites you, uh, to dinner at their house, you know? 7, 7:05, TV's on, family's sitting down watching the Red Sox.

I think in, I think the percentage of the Red Sox fans pay more attention, but there's so many Yankee fans.

So you walk down the street in New York, um, people aren't necessarily walking up wanting a picture or an autograph.

They say, "You better do good today or, or else."

Right

... that we can create runs, which we did when I played for the Yankees, having to steal second and third base.

Yeah.

And A-Rod, like, the smart business guy, he, he knows everything about this game.

Like, A-Rod, like, that's some of the best stats ever, and a great teammate.

He always knew I had his back, whatever went down.

We've known each other since, uh, I was 14, he was 13.

We played on a, uh, Bergen Beach team.

Thanks, buddy.

All right, let's get right to it.

know, all the business.

Yeah.

Like, you know, so I'm carb depleting.

So, you know, like maybe we're not going to do hill sprints on the cardio blast today.

Cause I got no, I got no juice, you know? And I also know like, after so many years, you know, that you don't do any new exercises on the couple of days before they go on vacation or before they go to camp, because that's when they're least present, because they're thinking about, you know, going on vacation or that like campus two days away.

And, you know, we want to, as their trainer, keep them safe.

But that profession back then was the wild west, you know, like I trained at a gym that was a tennis club.

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Well.

The Red Sox told me to buy a house, that I was gonna be there for a long time, so I buy a house.

We, we put a pool in.

We have no offer from the Red Sox until I got an offer from, uh, from the Yankees.

So I told the Red Sox, I have four years, 52 on the table, and they're like, "Uh, you're lying." And then [laughs] and then, uh, like, Tito and, uh, Bronson was like, "Yeah, but Johnny doesn't lie to us." It's like, you know he has it.

And then Theo pulled his trick, dressed as a gorilla and walked out of the stadium so it wouldn't be on his watch.

Mm.

A lot of things you can't do, you know? A lot of stuff comes from the front office, you know, we're going to go get this guy, even though I may say, "Go get Kiki Hernandez, because this guy knows how to win.

Uh, but, but that off-season, knowing that you had come so close, how did that fuel you guys coming into 2004?

Yeah.

That off-season was very difficult, especially for me, because, I mean, looking back, I never should have been, um, able to get back on the field that year.

I mean, the concussion was so bad.

Um, it changed a lot of how I prepared myself, uh, how I lived my life.

Um, it was really bad.

Uh, constant headaches and, um, I thought I w- was strong enough in the, uh, playoffs to come back, but once the, uh, first inning started, [laughs] I mean, I was totally wiped out.

What is going through your mind as you race to home plate?

(laughs)

...

I've went about my business the right way.

Um, played the game, um, hustled.

That's the only thing you can really control in baseball, is hustle.

Like, your best swing can turn into a out, your bad swing can turn into a, uh, bases clearing, um, double.

So, it's, uh, you have to take the ups with the downs.

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