Juan González

And, uh, he asked me about the baseball player, and I started mentioning names.

[laughs] I was like, "Carlos Baerga, Carlos Delgado, like, uh, Roberto Alomar, Juan Gonzalez, Iván Rodríguez." So, so he's like, "Oh, wow, you know a lot of those." And I say, "Yeah, Dad, like, you know, I follow them.

I think they are, uh, incredible baseball player." And he said to me, "You know what, Carlos, uh, you do what you want.

You know, at the end of the day, uh, you have a- abilities in both, but I do believe you have, uh, abilities and also a reference on the, on the people that is, uh, already, uh, playing the game and representing Puerto Rico." So man, I drop off volleyball and I just focus on baseball, and, uh, that was my last day actually playing volleyball.

is a tight, tight, tight window.

What Dak did there from the far hash... into to the far sideline with a safety with them too high that is not a single high safety there is a safety right on the numbers there and that is not easy and and he does he puts that full send missile the touchdown is a lofted throw with a trajectory on it same route Same basic throw, except on that one, he's hanging up the ball to give Seedy a chance to kind of win a jump ball, where this one, like it's a Juan Gonzalez home run, man.

It barely gets higher than the outfield wall.

It's right over the top of the helmet.

And he said to us, if you happen to be on the road to Cardenas, which was the out village where...

Juan Gonzalez, Elian's father, lived.

You just might see something interesting in the morning if you're there early enough with your cameras.

So I walked out and I said, he's producing.

And you get to see the way Sam does it.

And you'll only benefit because pterygoids, like, I have my own way of doing it, and it's a lot different than the way Juan Gonzalez, Dan Holdsclaw does it, because I had to basically teach myself how to do it because it was before they were teaching.

Dan was especially was teaching courses before he wrote a book.

So I had to figure out how it worked in my hands.

No, he

signed Juan Gonzalez.

That's

another story for another year.

Rick Helling pitched eight innings, gave up three hits and a run to earn his 20th win of the season, just the third 20-game winner, and the last 20.

20-game winner in team history.

And Juan Gonzalez was the AL MVP for a second time in 1998.

Had a double homer and drove in his 157th run, which at the time was the most in the American League since 1949. and he would end up 13 RBIs more than his previous, his own club record of 144 in 1996.