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Speaker 1 (00:08):
The year was twenty twelve, and our radio stations across
the state of Michigan were all tuned to the Tigers
because the Detroit Tigers went on and won the American
League Central and they went to the postseason with players
like Prince Fielder and Max Scherzer and Justin Erlander, and
(00:29):
they dispensed of Oakland and then in the American League
Championship Series swept the New York Yankees. But they weren't
done with the West Coast yet. Jim Leland's team had
to face the San Francisco Giants and a fella named
Jeremy Affelts. And this is what he did to our Tigers.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I felt ready with it out too. Cabrera strikes out,
had a big strikeout Jeremy at Film as fielders set
up at one and two and he strikes out two
down after the leadoff walk to Garcia too, struck him out,
(01:13):
And what a job by Jeremy at Film.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Struck out the side and the Tigers ran into a storm.
In fact, the book by the player who played fourteen
years in the BIGS for the Royals, the Reds, the Rockies,
and the Giants. He's a three time World series. Champ
is on our radio stage right now with a memoir
called Built for the Storm and Against the Tigers. I
(01:39):
dare to say you were a one man storm, sir.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Thank you very much. I appreciate having me on.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
What do you remember about the Tigers? You swept them,
You just dispensed of them very easily. And some of
those games were in Detroit.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, you know that was a tough situation even, you know,
for them, to be honest with you. Olive part of
a Rockies team in two thousand and seven that did
the same exact thing. We swept the playoffs, and we
had too much. We had so much. We had ten
days off. That's when Boston and Cleveland were going out it.
Cleveland had them up three games to one, and then
Boston came back and took the series, and we came
(02:17):
in to the Boston, but we had ten days off.
We were in the cold weather, we were trying to
practice out in snow. Detroit had similar weather scenarios. They
had to take ten days off. And what we noticed
and I talked to the team about that was, listen,
you can't take anything for granted. This is a really,
really good team, but the reality of it is it's
a really hard thing to do to take that much
(02:39):
time off when another team has been playing in loser
out games, intense baseball. They've been in it and their
momentums going, and this team has been just sitting in
the clubhous and they've been practicing. They went on the field.
I know they brought guys up to pitch to them
and Tod, but you can't replicate the intensity of a
playoff atmosphere when you're sitting for ten day. And so
(03:00):
those hitters they did. They had holes and we saw
them and their swings were off or timing was off.
And they're really good hitters. I mean, Malchi's timing was off,
Princess's timing was off. You could pitch them in. We
knew it, which I'd take advantage of it, and we did,
and our hitters were just on point. You saw Pablo
come in and hit three homers in the first game,
two off of Berlander, who was at that time. I mean,
(03:23):
as good as it gets, you know. So it was
a tough thing we had to face. I think Scherzer
as well. We had a really tough, uphill battle there.
But because of where we were at, I think we
had advantage in there, and he saw it. We swept
the World Series. And it happens, and it happens to
teams that have to sit for a long time.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Jeremy Athought's new book is called Built for the Storm,
Weathering the storms of life with grit, faith and determination.
You got lots of weather in San Francisco, even in
the middle of the summer playing there as long as
you did. You never pitched a ball that ended up
in the water out there, did.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
You, well? I think I did. I can't remember him.
I didn't give up a ton of homers, but I
actually the furthest one I ever gave up. It didn't
get into the water, but it went off. I think
it went off the Jeredelli train out there and out
there in right center, and that's a long way to
(04:20):
hit it. I was facing Upton in Arizona, and I
remember Bochie was like, hey man, pitch him away, make
him beat you away. That's how we kind of knew Upton,
and I decided I usually throw all thinkers, and I
remember that one pitch. I said, you know what he's
going to look for that thinker down. I'm gonna throw
a fastball up and away here and see if I
can get him to chase it. And I decided to
(04:41):
throw a four seamer that I don't throw a lot of,
and I threw it. I threw it away and up.
It just didn't get enough away up, and he hit
it a long way, and I remember looking even at
the dugout. It went so far. I looked over in
our dugout and Kane had his hat over his face.
He was laughing. And as it went so far, and
I looked over at A. J. Hinch, who was my
(05:03):
first catcher in the big leagues with the Royals. Wow,
he caught my first win. Yeah, he caught my first win. Actually,
And I looked at aj in the Arizona dugouts. He
was the manager over there at the time, and he
just looked at me and said wow. And I'm like, yeah,
I mean I did. I honestly had nothing to say.
And I got back to the dugout and Boach pulled
(05:23):
me aside and he's like, he said his little voice, Hey,
I needed to pitch him away, but I need him
to hit it away, but not that far away. I
was like, you know, it didn't toss us the game.
So I think that's where everybody's laughing. But you know,
it made it a one run game or two run
game or something. I can't remember. We were up, but
it went a long way. If it would have went
(05:45):
to the water, he probably it would have been one
of the furthest one out in the water.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I can tell you that Tigers and aj Hinch were
very disappointed this year. Do you keep in touch with
him at all?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yes, I do, well, I text him right now and
then I haven't texted. I didn't text him this year.
I saw him last year when we had the Tenure
reunion for the twenty fourteen World Series and we were
playing Detroit. San Francisco was playing Detroit at San Francisco
last year, and we walked over and saw him. Actually,
(06:14):
me and Tim Hudson both went over there because Timmy
said that was his first who caught his first win too,
So you know AJ caught both of our first wins,
and so we walked over there give him hugs. So
I saw him then and I text him a little bit.
I mean to talk about storms in life, man. I
texted him a little bit after his the Astros scenario.
(06:35):
And we have the same financial advisor so I just,
you know, I texted him and said, hey, man, I
don't need to know. I don't really care. I just
want to tell you, man, I know you're going to
deal a lot, and I'm sorry you're having to deal
with all this. And and he just kind of gave
Woord's encouragement and he said, I get it. And I said,
but I checked in on him just because he is
a real man. He's a great man, and he's a
(06:56):
good he's a good father, and he was a great teammate,
and so it was something that I just felt like
I should do, and I reach out to him then.
But it's been great. He's a good guy. I'm pulling
for him. I think he's a great manager, and I
think he'll do big things for Detroit.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
The book is called Built for the Storm, Jeremy felt,
And that's very thoughtful of you to say to him.
I don't need to know, I just support you. And
that's I'm sure there were times when you would like
someone to have said that to you through your divorces
and struggles, even though you had great success. Can you
teach us before you go what we can read about
(07:31):
in your book. That's which I see you call the
buffalo mentality. We can all adopt that today in a
minute or so. What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Well, it's just to know that storms come over the
rocky mountains. So you know when you look at storms
and you look at buffalo, and you look at cattle
and cows. When storms come over the rocky mountains, cows
run from those storms. Buffalos, they don't. They when they
see when they heard of Buffalo, sees the storm come
over the rocky mountains, they run right at that storm
and they take it right on and they charge it
(08:02):
because they know when they run out of storm, that
storm passes over them. When you run away from a storm,
let cattle doo and cows the storm stays with you
a whole lot longer, and they get scattered, they get sick,
they die. And I think lights is the same way,
whether it be business, whether it be you know, relational.
Like I said, I went through a divorce. That's what
kind of brought me to write this book. Just tell
people threw I ran in some storms in baseball that
(08:24):
were crazy, and I took them right on and I
charged them. I didn't run from them. And life is
that way. We're gonna have storms come at us. We're
gonna have scenarios come at us. We're gonna have either
business storms or relational storms, or family storms or health storms.
And it's not to run a height. It's to get
people to surround you and hang out with you and
be a herd like buffalo. Buffalo's get into a herd
and they charge storms. Take those storms on, and it'll
(08:46):
make you a better person. You'll figure out that you
are built for that storm.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Drop the mic right there, God bless you. Jeremy Affelt,
three time World Series Champ. Built for the Storm is
the name of this book.
The year was twenty twelve, and our radio stations across
the state of Michigan were all tuned to the Tigers
because the Detroit Tigers went on and won the American
League Central and they went to the postseason with players
like Prince Fielder and Max Scherzer and Justin Erlander, and
(00:29):
they dispensed of Oakland and then in the American League
Championship Series swept the New York Yankees. But they weren't
done with the West Coast yet. Jim Leland's team had
to face the San Francisco Giants and a fella named
Jeremy Affelts. And this is what he did to our Tigers.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I felt ready with it out too. Cabrera strikes out,
had a big strikeout Jeremy at Film as fielders set
up at one and two and he strikes out two
down after the leadoff walk to Garcia too, struck him out,
(01:13):
And what a job by Jeremy at Film.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Struck out the side and the Tigers ran into a storm.
In fact, the book by the player who played fourteen
years in the BIGS for the Royals, the Reds, the Rockies,
and the Giants. He's a three time World series. Champ
is on our radio stage right now with a memoir
called Built for the Storm and Against the Tigers. I
(01:39):
dare to say you were a one man storm, sir.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Thank you very much. I appreciate having me on.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
What do you remember about the Tigers? You swept them,
You just dispensed of them very easily. And some of
those games were in Detroit.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, you know that was a tough situation even, you know,
for them, to be honest with you. Olive part of
a Rockies team in two thousand and seven that did
the same exact thing. We swept the playoffs, and we
had too much. We had so much. We had ten
days off. That's when Boston and Cleveland were going out it.
Cleveland had them up three games to one, and then
Boston came back and took the series, and we came
(02:17):
in to the Boston, but we had ten days off.
We were in the cold weather, we were trying to
practice out in snow. Detroit had similar weather scenarios. They
had to take ten days off. And what we noticed
and I talked to the team about that was, listen,
you can't take anything for granted. This is a really,
really good team, but the reality of it is it's
a really hard thing to do to take that much
(02:39):
time off when another team has been playing in loser
out games, intense baseball. They've been in it and their
momentums going, and this team has been just sitting in
the clubhous and they've been practicing. They went on the field.
I know they brought guys up to pitch to them
and Tod, but you can't replicate the intensity of a
playoff atmosphere when you're sitting for ten day. And so
(03:00):
those hitters they did. They had holes and we saw
them and their swings were off or timing was off.
And they're really good hitters. I mean, Malchi's timing was off,
Princess's timing was off. You could pitch them in. We
knew it, which I'd take advantage of it, and we did,
and our hitters were just on point. You saw Pablo
come in and hit three homers in the first game,
two off of Berlander, who was at that time. I mean,
(03:23):
as good as it gets, you know. So it was
a tough thing we had to face. I think Scherzer
as well. We had a really tough, uphill battle there.
But because of where we were at, I think we
had advantage in there, and he saw it. We swept
the World Series. And it happens, and it happens to
teams that have to sit for a long time.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Jeremy Athought's new book is called Built for the Storm,
Weathering the storms of life with grit, faith and determination.
You got lots of weather in San Francisco, even in
the middle of the summer playing there as long as
you did. You never pitched a ball that ended up
in the water out there, did.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
You, well? I think I did. I can't remember him.
I didn't give up a ton of homers, but I
actually the furthest one I ever gave up. It didn't
get into the water, but it went off. I think
it went off the Jeredelli train out there and out
there in right center, and that's a long way to
(04:20):
hit it. I was facing Upton in Arizona, and I
remember Bochie was like, hey man, pitch him away, make
him beat you away. That's how we kind of knew Upton,
and I decided I usually throw all thinkers, and I
remember that one pitch. I said, you know what he's
going to look for that thinker down. I'm gonna throw
a fastball up and away here and see if I
can get him to chase it. And I decided to
(04:41):
throw a four seamer that I don't throw a lot of,
and I threw it. I threw it away and up.
It just didn't get enough away up, and he hit
it a long way, and I remember looking even at
the dugout. It went so far. I looked over in
our dugout and Kane had his hat over his face.
He was laughing. And as it went so far, and
I looked over at A. J. Hinch, who was my
(05:03):
first catcher in the big leagues with the Royals. Wow,
he caught my first win. Yeah, he caught my first win. Actually,
And I looked at aj in the Arizona dugouts. He
was the manager over there at the time, and he
just looked at me and said wow. And I'm like, yeah,
I mean I did. I honestly had nothing to say.
And I got back to the dugout and Boach pulled
(05:23):
me aside and he's like, he said his little voice, Hey,
I needed to pitch him away, but I need him
to hit it away, but not that far away. I
was like, you know, it didn't toss us the game.
So I think that's where everybody's laughing. But you know,
it made it a one run game or two run
game or something. I can't remember. We were up, but
it went a long way. If it would have went
(05:45):
to the water, he probably it would have been one
of the furthest one out in the water.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I can tell you that Tigers and aj Hinch were
very disappointed this year. Do you keep in touch with
him at all?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yes, I do, well, I text him right now and
then I haven't texted. I didn't text him this year.
I saw him last year when we had the Tenure
reunion for the twenty fourteen World Series and we were
playing Detroit. San Francisco was playing Detroit at San Francisco
last year, and we walked over and saw him. Actually,
(06:14):
me and Tim Hudson both went over there because Timmy
said that was his first who caught his first win too,
So you know AJ caught both of our first wins,
and so we walked over there give him hugs. So
I saw him then and I text him a little bit.
I mean to talk about storms in life, man. I
texted him a little bit after his the Astros scenario.
(06:35):
And we have the same financial advisor so I just,
you know, I texted him and said, hey, man, I
don't need to know. I don't really care. I just
want to tell you, man, I know you're going to
deal a lot, and I'm sorry you're having to deal
with all this. And and he just kind of gave
Woord's encouragement and he said, I get it. And I said,
but I checked in on him just because he is
a real man. He's a great man, and he's a
(06:56):
good he's a good father, and he was a great teammate,
and so it was something that I just felt like
I should do, and I reach out to him then.
But it's been great. He's a good guy. I'm pulling
for him. I think he's a great manager, and I
think he'll do big things for Detroit.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
The book is called Built for the Storm, Jeremy felt,
And that's very thoughtful of you to say to him.
I don't need to know, I just support you. And
that's I'm sure there were times when you would like
someone to have said that to you through your divorces
and struggles, even though you had great success. Can you
teach us before you go what we can read about
(07:31):
in your book. That's which I see you call the
buffalo mentality. We can all adopt that today in a
minute or so. What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Well, it's just to know that storms come over the
rocky mountains. So you know when you look at storms
and you look at buffalo, and you look at cattle
and cows. When storms come over the rocky mountains, cows
run from those storms. Buffalos, they don't. They when they
see when they heard of Buffalo, sees the storm come
over the rocky mountains, they run right at that storm
and they take it right on and they charge it
(08:02):
because they know when they run out of storm, that
storm passes over them. When you run away from a storm,
let cattle doo and cows the storm stays with you
a whole lot longer, and they get scattered, they get sick,
they die. And I think lights is the same way,
whether it be business, whether it be you know, relational.
Like I said, I went through a divorce. That's what
kind of brought me to write this book. Just tell
people threw I ran in some storms in baseball that
(08:24):
were crazy, and I took them right on and I
charged them. I didn't run from them. And life is
that way. We're gonna have storms come at us. We're
gonna have scenarios come at us. We're gonna have either
business storms or relational storms, or family storms or health storms.
And it's not to run a height. It's to get
people to surround you and hang out with you and
be a herd like buffalo. Buffalo's get into a herd
and they charge storms. Take those storms on, and it'll
(08:46):
make you a better person. You'll figure out that you
are built for that storm.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Drop the mic right there, God bless you. Jeremy Affelt,
three time World Series Champ. Built for the Storm is
the name of this book.
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