Deuces Wild with Eric Byrnes & Will Clark
Sep 12, 2026 · 22 min · 8 segments
Eric shares his personal experience of the 9/11 attacks and how it affected him. He talks about the aftermath of the tragedy and how baseball helped bring people together. He also discusses current…
And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." President George W.
Bush from Ground Zero just a couple days after 9-11 as he stood on top of the rubble.
That was a traumatic day 25 years ago it's crazy to think that it's been that long but for those of us who are old enough obviously it's a day that we won't ever forget and i was in the hotel the hilton in oakland when my hotel phone started blowing up at I don't know, whatever time that was, seven in the morning.
And it was like, yo, whoa, whoa, why? What? And I, you know, you never know what you're gonna see or what you're gonna get.
And I think at that point, The first plane had hit, and it was either right before or right after the second plane hit the Twin Towers.
And all of a sudden, you know, there's so much chaos that was happening, and nobody really knew anything at that point.
We also didn't know when it was gonna end, right? Like it was, okay, this is what happened in the morning, but who's to think that this can't happen again later.
So then they shut down all airports, all flights were grounded and we just knew that I was going to know somebody, somehow be affected by what had happened, whether it was at the Twin Towers or it was on that flight that was coming back to San Francisco.
And there's another kid we grew up with, Andrew Garcia, lived right down the road from Cavanaugh.
In San Francisco, first of all, it was like we all kind of gathered, right? It was like we were gathered at the stadium, and I was with Zito and Hudson and whoever else was sitting around.
And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." President George W.
Bush from Ground Zero just a couple days after 9-11 as he stood on top of the rubble.
That was a traumatic day 25 years ago it's crazy to think that it's been that long but for those of us who are old enough obviously it's a day that we won't ever forget and i was in the hotel the hilton in oakland when my hotel phone started blowing up at I don't know, whatever time that was, seven in the morning.
And it was like, yo, whoa, whoa, why? What? And I, you know, you never know what you're gonna see or what you're gonna get.
And I think at that point, The first plane had hit, and it was either right before or right after the second plane hit the Twin Towers.
And all of a sudden, you know, there's so much chaos that was happening, and nobody really knew anything at that point.
We also didn't know when it was gonna end, right? Like it was, okay, this is what happened in the morning, but who's to think that this can't happen again later.
So then they shut down all airports, all flights were grounded and we just knew that I was going to know somebody, somehow be affected by what had happened, whether it was at the Twin Towers or it was on that flight that was coming back to San Francisco.
And there's another kid we grew up with, Andrew Garcia, lived right down the road from Cavanaugh.
In San Francisco, first of all, it was like we all kind of gathered, right? It was like we were gathered at the stadium, and I was with Zito and Hudson and whoever else was sitting around.
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