December 20, 2024 • 20 mins
It iiiiiiiis Sportsfeld Storytime. This month, Jake and Zubes take a trip all the way back to August of 2015 to talk about a team that doesn't get enough press, the 2015 Toronto Blue Jays. Before the bat flip, before the AL East title, before the heartbreak, the focus was on one man and his Blue Jays debut. Yes, we are talking about the one, the only David Price. Take yourself back to a Monday afternoon game in early August to a sold out Skydome and David Price's first start as a Blue Jay. In the first episode, the guys take a look at where the 2015 Blue Jays were before the Price trade, talk some run differential, and talk some Troy Tulowitzki.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
David Price takes the non christ first start in the
Blue Jays uniform, and it.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Is a super charged atmosphere and the only question will
be whether or not David Price can control his emotions
here today. It's been a great start to his afternoon.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's the Blue Jays here, that's Williams on Monday afternoon,
and all eyes on David Price. It's his Blue Jay debut.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
A beautiful Holiday Monday, the roof wide open, fans who've
lined up for hours before the doors opened, clutching their
Russell Martin bottleheads. The stage was set for something special.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
You know, there's different class pitchers in the league. You know,
anybody's pitching started pitching the big leagues is good, you know,
and then there's a guy's you know, they kind of
separate themselves, and you know, David's at the top. He's
one of those guys.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
And it's not expected that Price will remain a Blue
Jay after this season, as he will likely test the
free agent waters. But after his performance on Monday and
all the love he received from the Rogers Center crowd,
Blue Jays fans are hoping that just maybe it's enough
to make him at least consider sticking around sports.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
It is sports feld story time. We move forward. It
is in the for the means of this show. It
is August third, twenty fifteen, back from a week vacation
in Montreal to return to David Price towing the mound
for the Toronto Blue Jays. I will say this game
(01:29):
and this night was full of a lot of moments
I'll never forget. And I think the very first one
when I knew this wasn't just a regular game was
he got a standing ovation for exiting the bullpen before
the game started.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I remember this game was like for It was, like
I said, August third, and it was impossible to get tickets.
This is the only time in my entire life that
I've gone to SkyDome to talk to physical scalpers because like,
(02:08):
there was just no way to get tickets, like it
was sold out on stub Hub even I think, except
for like paying nine hundred dollars kind of thing. And
I remember with Jay mc kramer we went down to
SkyDome and talked to several scalpers and they weren't even like, oh,
here's two tickets for one hundred and fifty dollars each.
They were like I don't have anything that was the
(02:32):
excitement surrounding David Price's first game, which other than playoffs,
and even including playoffs, I'm not sure I've ever seen
that before.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yeah, forty five thousand, seven hundred and sixty six fans
for Blue Jays twins and on April third at one
oh seven on a Monday, Like, if you take David
Price out of the equation, that will that will probably
never happened again in our lives. Truly stunning, truly, truly,
(03:04):
truly one of the most amazing like combinations of events
in my life.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
It also felt like I don't totally like how I'm
gonna word this, but you'll know what I mean. Like
it sort of felt validating in a lot of ways,
like for like being a Jays fan through all those
garbage years and going and seeing so many games with
like sixteen thousand people. To have the not even the
whole city on board, which happens in Toronto when teams
(03:33):
are good, which is great, I don't have a problem
with that, but to have the whole city on board
in the way that it happens, I'm trying to have
explain this. It's like I used to get this feeling
when I was younger and still sometimes now that like
you can tell when it's a big deal when like
the people outside of like our Twitter sphere, especially at
(03:55):
that time, were excited, and like the people who didn't
read Drunk Jays fans were excited, if that makes.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Sense, totally, No, it was it became the thing to do.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah, it became thing to do, and it became the
thing to do with like pure word of mouth almost
like the mainstream papers were writing about it obviously, but
it was just like everyone and everyone in the building
knew why they were there, Like no one was there
to see a Jay's game on Monday afternoon. Everyone there
was there because of David Price.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
M Yeah, that's that's a good way to put it.
The Blue Jays, we sort of mentioned this in the
previous episode, but they were a five hundred team, just
to like underscore sort of the run they go on
here at the beginning of this a month, they're fifty
three and fifty two, which is five hundred baseball. There's
(04:45):
six games back at the Yankees. They're not even in second.
They're a game back of Baltimore, the Baltimo Orioles that
we forget were a good team for this little stretch here.
Baltimore was fifty three and fifty. The Yankees were fifty
eight and forty two and didn't win the division. The
most tellent play, it's crazy. It's truly ridiculous, the real crazy.
(05:07):
The Blue Jays had the best Pythagorean win loss by
far of that division. They were plus one hundred and
three run differential. They were five fifty six runs for
four fifty three runs against. It made absolutely no sense
that that team wasn't running away with the division. And
you mean, it normalizes shortly after this where they do
(05:31):
end up running with the division and doing it, you know,
not effortlessly, but on the back of a bunch of
huge runs. But they sort of, they really they They
were eleven and twelve in April, they were twelve and
seventeen in May. They went eighteen and nine in June,
which is when we sort of like, maybe this is
finally it and maybe they're gonna you know, they're a
five hundred club, and here they come twelve and thirteen
(05:53):
in July. All of that gives you a five hundred
baseball team. But oh, baby, David Price steps out onto
the mound He also got a standing ovation for going
from the dugout to the mound. He hadn't thrown a
single pitch yet he had is zero pitches, zero minutes
(06:13):
on actual gameplay, and he had already gotten three standing ovations.
Will I will never, ever, ever, ever forget that.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I remember being like weirdly nervous for this game, for
you know, game, whatever it is. Game they played one
hundred and fives game one hundred and six of a
baseball season beginning of August, like I remember, so when
we couldn't get tickets to the game, after talking to
many scalpers, we ended up at the bar at the
(06:41):
Loose Moose, which if you're not from Toronto is just
down the street from Skydom, not a bar I frequent often,
but the bar was packed because it was all people
who also couldn't get tickets to the game, which was
truly bizarre for a Monday afternoon at one o'clock, and
we were ended up sitting at the bar so it
(07:02):
was the only seats we could get. Bar was full
of Blue Jays jerseys and hats that we were in
Blue Jays jerseys and hats, and I remember watching I
guess Sportsnight would have been broadcasting prices like warm up,
and everyone went quiet and like it was like it
was like this like oh, he's here, he's here kind
(07:23):
of moment, and just watching him throw a warm up.
It started to have that feeling in the room of
like the minutes before tip off or the mids our
first pitch of a playoff game, which was really bizarre,
Like that game felt really important when like, especially based
on how the next two months went, it wasn't at all.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah, we should mention it was a holiday. That's why
they were playing at noon on a Monday, that is
the Civic holiday in Ontario. August third. Yeah, boy, boy,
I have a photo I took because I was big
into the panoramas at the time. If you remember, I
was taking panoramas all the time of photos. It was
the first time in my life I had ever been
(08:06):
to a regular season game there that wasn't a home
opener where it was totally totally, totally full to your
point in not being able to get scalpers. It was
the first time I'd ever seen the seats and if
you've been up in the five hundreds before, you will
know this. The seats beside the JumboTron that like half
(08:29):
of your view is cut because you are sitting beside
YEP a gigantic video screen. Those seats were filmed.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I know those seats. Well, you're right. That was like
the barometer that year of like how big is this getting?
Was when those seats had people in it.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
And boy, those seats had people in them. It was truly.
It was everywhere. And I think this is around the
time when the as well, the names got painted on
the sidewalk that are still there.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I want to say, yes, I do. And Also a
thing that I found sort of surprising to my brain
rewatching this game was that this was before the dirt
infield was put in.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yeah, isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
That to me feels like it happened a decade.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Ago that I agree that that is one of the
strangest like going back and rewatching this, I was like, oh,
that seems impossible, but there wasn't.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
There wasn't a dirt in field for the bat flip, which,
like has Mendela affected itself into my brain, I guess
to exist, but it didn't.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Boy, I tweeted a lot in this in this couple,
that's a lot of meats for me in this do
you have any good ones? Well, keep in mind I
also went, uh f you SMC happens a lot in
this sort of I tweeted that a lot. You remember that? Yeah, Donald? Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah? Which I think I think that was was that
from the case game? I think it was.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
No, it was from a little earlier in the year,
but it was certainly brought up a lot. There's a
lot of me, like just me saying that I'm laughing
like a crazy person. A photo of me drinking water,
which was good stuff. Ground balls to the left side
of the infield contained adult situations. Your depression is advised.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
What a fun, weird time.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
That was August third, one o nine pm, two minutes
after first pitch. I just tweet the words, am I alive?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
You know, I feel like I'm not going to speak
for anyone else. I know everyone else has. Everyone has
like fun memories of this season, no question, But like,
I think we were sort of like the perfect age
and time in our lives for this season to happen,
and it will never happen the same way again, because
(11:05):
this was kind of just like chaos for four months.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah, No, I think that I think that's a great point.
And I think even twenty sixteen wasn't nearly this fun, right,
It wasn't even right.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
It wasn't twenty sixteen was infuriating.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yes, that well, you're like, why.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Aren't they better fuck these guys?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah, boyle boy, I was. I was fine out. There's
there's tweets of me, uh watching the game and watching
a game in the uh in the pews at a
church in a goddamn wedding because David Price that tweeted
they were going to go one hundred and eleven fifty one,
and then they almost did. Boyle, boy It's just like
(11:57):
you said it was. It was really just such a
such a rush to the head. It was such an
unbelievable coalescing of events and everything coming together all at once.
(12:18):
There is things that I remember, I remember so well.
I remember, and we will talk about his partial performance
in the next one, but sort of the things that
I immediately took away from this was was how calm he
was at all times, and like he would always rewatching
the game. For this, I totally came footing back to me,
is he would he would pat himself on the chest
(12:38):
really lately twice like before anything of anything that that
was important. He would just pat himself on the chest twice,
and like I was like, oh, man, like we where
where has this been on this team as a guy
that like because he gets into trouble in this game
and he just pats himself on the chest, goes right
back to doing what he does. And the other thing
that I remember or just blew my mind watching him
(13:02):
pitch for the first time was how subtle and small
his wind up was, where, if you remember, it was
just like he would just take the smallest little step
to get himself going and then unleash it. And I
was used to huge wind ups and guys like throwing
their ass out and really and he was just so
he was so collected and so calm, and it was
(13:24):
so it was so small and efficient. I was just
blown away at the way this dude pitched.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I remember a thing that I probably shouldn't share in
the first episode but forgot about till the second. I remember,
like in twenty twelve, I want to say, I went
to a game to see like that bad Blue Jays
team they played the Rays, and Price was pitching. I
remember I was with my friend Cale and we had
really good seats. It's like some of the best seats
(13:53):
I've ever had for a Jay's game, like low one
hundreds behind home plate because there was only like twelve
thousand people there anyway, And I remember we got to
watch Price up close, and it's like, obviously every sport
is very different when you're up close. But I find
just because of my interests, I find baseball so interesting
(14:15):
up close, especially watching a pitcher. And I remember he
just like kicked our ass, like it.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Was he always payed well, he always pitched well in Toronto.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
And like it wasn't even close like the fast like,
because when you're sitting that close, you get a set
and behind the plate you do get a sense for
like how impossible it is that any pitch has ever
hit in baseball at all. And this was like young
David Price just working and just just killing us. And
I remember watching this game in twenty fifteen and being like,
(14:47):
oh man, like three years ago, it was like, imagine
if this guy ever pitched for us, and then lo
and behold and it was just like this cool, Like
I mean, it happens with the raptors in Kawhi or
you know, the leafs and Tavares or any player you watch,
you're like, wow, if we only had we had this guy.
But then there's those rare moments when your team does
get those guys and it's just like, fuck, yeah, look
(15:10):
at us.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Yes, I just you mentioning it that sort of having
great seats to see a great pitcher. I, Zach and
I got first row the first time you Darvish came
to pitch, and you remember rookie U Darvish was sickening
and he just like it was it was child's play.
He was just blowing the ball past whatever year's team.
(15:35):
That that was Holy smokes, Holy cow. Also, I want
to mention this in my tweets from that day eleven
fifty two am. Immediately following Jay's versus Twins, it's on
sportsfeld Get you have four hours to get your questions in.
I believe that was that was That was like a
(15:56):
six person episode.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I think so.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
My dining room, my dining room table, and then Craig
and I had to go play play dodgeball afterwards and
we were not in good shape.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Also help me out here. Something charged up? Why did
I stay charged? I say, charged up? Like five times
in two days was that A Was that a thing?
I have? Charged you up? The thing?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
The only thing I can remember from of like that
was this. I remember the stir it up thing.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yes, I remember that too.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I don't I don't know what charged up was at all.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
I said it a lot.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Man, huh huh. Charged up I was, I say it.
The title of the episode is charged up. I right,
charged up. As soon as the first pitch happens, I say,
charged up. The day before, I say, going to see
David Twicce tomorrow, charged up. What in the world?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I guess you were charged.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Up at the time. I bet it made a ton
of sense. But it made an absolute ton of sense.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Definitely, Oh, every definitely made total sense for sure.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Boy oh boy, I'm ridiculously happy just going back and
seeing this. I played nine holes of I played nine
holes of foot golf that day as well, which also
mentioned Yeah, it's golf of soccer balls. It was really fun.
But it heard also as you mentioned, thirty first they
(17:45):
traded for Ben Revere and Low, not Derek Low, but
somebody else, Mark Low, Mark Low, and I have I
have a message here. Today's trade is for a player
who is merely, very very good. Oh well, and Sean
Uh correctly lets him so that Charged Up was a
(18:07):
drake thing, sure, which.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Before it pre dates Big Rings, which is my drake
thing of the twenty fifteen Blue Jays.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I stay silent because we had one. I'm very patient.
Six guy is watching. I just hope you're prepared to
face some charge. Dunk. I'm charged dun charged up obviously.
Oh yeah, I remember now he had just done the
back and forth with Meek Mill. So Charged Up was
(18:41):
the first of two disc tracks, charged Up and back
to back. Remember that, back back to back?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I remember for sure, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, So thank you, thank you, Sean the guy Uh,
I don't know, I don't know why. I don't know.
I don't know why. That was my rallying cry. But
please excuse my free minute side thing here about charged
Up anyway. What matters. What matters there is the twenty
(19:12):
fifteen Blue Days were fing incredible and David Price I
can just hear it now from the dugout to the mound,
and I believe Bluck Martinez says. The only question now
is whether or not David Price will be able to
control his emotions. Oh buddy, do you not Know next
(19:35):
week on Sports pol Storytime, First Pitch and Everything after
David Price makes his debut the Toronto Blue Jays. Please
join us next week on Sports fel Storytime, what's the
David Price takes the non christ first start in the
Blue Jays uniform, and it.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Is a super charged atmosphere and the only question will
be whether or not David Price can control his emotions
here today. It's been a great start to his afternoon.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's the Blue Jays here, that's Williams on Monday afternoon,
and all eyes on David Price. It's his Blue Jay debut.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
A beautiful Holiday Monday, the roof wide open, fans who've
lined up for hours before the doors opened, clutching their
Russell Martin bottleheads. The stage was set for something special.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
You know, there's different class pitchers in the league. You know,
anybody's pitching started pitching the big leagues is good, you know,
and then there's a guy's you know, they kind of
separate themselves, and you know, David's at the top. He's
one of those guys.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
And it's not expected that Price will remain a Blue
Jay after this season, as he will likely test the
free agent waters. But after his performance on Monday and
all the love he received from the Rogers Center crowd,
Blue Jays fans are hoping that just maybe it's enough
to make him at least consider sticking around sports.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
It is sports feld story time. We move forward. It
is in the for the means of this show. It
is August third, twenty fifteen, back from a week vacation
in Montreal to return to David Price towing the mound
for the Toronto Blue Jays. I will say this game
(01:29):
and this night was full of a lot of moments
I'll never forget. And I think the very first one
when I knew this wasn't just a regular game was
he got a standing ovation for exiting the bullpen before
the game started.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I remember this game was like for It was, like
I said, August third, and it was impossible to get tickets.
This is the only time in my entire life that
I've gone to SkyDome to talk to physical scalpers because like,
(02:08):
there was just no way to get tickets, like it
was sold out on stub Hub even I think, except
for like paying nine hundred dollars kind of thing. And
I remember with Jay mc kramer we went down to
SkyDome and talked to several scalpers and they weren't even like, oh,
here's two tickets for one hundred and fifty dollars each.
They were like I don't have anything that was the
(02:32):
excitement surrounding David Price's first game, which other than playoffs,
and even including playoffs, I'm not sure I've ever seen
that before.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yeah, forty five thousand, seven hundred and sixty six fans
for Blue Jays twins and on April third at one
oh seven on a Monday, Like, if you take David
Price out of the equation, that will that will probably
never happened again in our lives. Truly stunning, truly, truly,
(03:04):
truly one of the most amazing like combinations of events
in my life.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
It also felt like I don't totally like how I'm
gonna word this, but you'll know what I mean. Like
it sort of felt validating in a lot of ways,
like for like being a Jays fan through all those
garbage years and going and seeing so many games with
like sixteen thousand people. To have the not even the
whole city on board, which happens in Toronto when teams
(03:33):
are good, which is great, I don't have a problem
with that, but to have the whole city on board
in the way that it happens, I'm trying to have
explain this. It's like I used to get this feeling
when I was younger and still sometimes now that like
you can tell when it's a big deal when like
the people outside of like our Twitter sphere, especially at
(03:55):
that time, were excited, and like the people who didn't
read Drunk Jays fans were excited, if that makes.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Sense, totally, No, it was it became the thing to do.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah, it became thing to do, and it became the
thing to do with like pure word of mouth almost
like the mainstream papers were writing about it obviously, but
it was just like everyone and everyone in the building
knew why they were there, Like no one was there
to see a Jay's game on Monday afternoon. Everyone there
was there because of David Price.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
M Yeah, that's that's a good way to put it.
The Blue Jays, we sort of mentioned this in the
previous episode, but they were a five hundred team, just
to like underscore sort of the run they go on
here at the beginning of this a month, they're fifty
three and fifty two, which is five hundred baseball. There's
(04:45):
six games back at the Yankees. They're not even in second.
They're a game back of Baltimore, the Baltimo Orioles that
we forget were a good team for this little stretch here.
Baltimore was fifty three and fifty. The Yankees were fifty
eight and forty two and didn't win the division. The
most tellent play, it's crazy. It's truly ridiculous, the real crazy.
(05:07):
The Blue Jays had the best Pythagorean win loss by
far of that division. They were plus one hundred and
three run differential. They were five fifty six runs for
four fifty three runs against. It made absolutely no sense
that that team wasn't running away with the division. And
you mean, it normalizes shortly after this where they do
(05:31):
end up running with the division and doing it, you know,
not effortlessly, but on the back of a bunch of
huge runs. But they sort of, they really they They
were eleven and twelve in April, they were twelve and
seventeen in May. They went eighteen and nine in June,
which is when we sort of like, maybe this is
finally it and maybe they're gonna you know, they're a
five hundred club, and here they come twelve and thirteen
(05:53):
in July. All of that gives you a five hundred
baseball team. But oh, baby, David Price steps out onto
the mound He also got a standing ovation for going
from the dugout to the mound. He hadn't thrown a
single pitch yet he had is zero pitches, zero minutes
(06:13):
on actual gameplay, and he had already gotten three standing ovations.
Will I will never, ever, ever, ever forget that.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I remember being like weirdly nervous for this game, for
you know, game, whatever it is. Game they played one
hundred and fives game one hundred and six of a
baseball season beginning of August, like I remember, so when
we couldn't get tickets to the game, after talking to
many scalpers, we ended up at the bar at the
(06:41):
Loose Moose, which if you're not from Toronto is just
down the street from Skydom, not a bar I frequent often,
but the bar was packed because it was all people
who also couldn't get tickets to the game, which was
truly bizarre for a Monday afternoon at one o'clock, and
we were ended up sitting at the bar so it
(07:02):
was the only seats we could get. Bar was full
of Blue Jays jerseys and hats that we were in
Blue Jays jerseys and hats, and I remember watching I
guess Sportsnight would have been broadcasting prices like warm up,
and everyone went quiet and like it was like it
was like this like oh, he's here, he's here kind
(07:23):
of moment, and just watching him throw a warm up.
It started to have that feeling in the room of
like the minutes before tip off or the mids our
first pitch of a playoff game, which was really bizarre,
Like that game felt really important when like, especially based
on how the next two months went, it wasn't at all.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah, we should mention it was a holiday. That's why
they were playing at noon on a Monday, that is
the Civic holiday in Ontario. August third. Yeah, boy, boy,
I have a photo I took because I was big
into the panoramas at the time. If you remember, I
was taking panoramas all the time of photos. It was
the first time in my life I had ever been
(08:06):
to a regular season game there that wasn't a home
opener where it was totally totally, totally full to your
point in not being able to get scalpers. It was
the first time I'd ever seen the seats and if
you've been up in the five hundreds before, you will
know this. The seats beside the JumboTron that like half
(08:29):
of your view is cut because you are sitting beside
YEP a gigantic video screen. Those seats were filmed.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I know those seats. Well, you're right. That was like
the barometer that year of like how big is this getting?
Was when those seats had people in it.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
And boy, those seats had people in them. It was truly.
It was everywhere. And I think this is around the
time when the as well, the names got painted on
the sidewalk that are still there.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I want to say, yes, I do. And Also a
thing that I found sort of surprising to my brain
rewatching this game was that this was before the dirt
infield was put in.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yeah, isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
That to me feels like it happened a decade.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Ago that I agree that that is one of the
strangest like going back and rewatching this, I was like, oh,
that seems impossible, but there wasn't.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
There wasn't a dirt in field for the bat flip, which,
like has Mendela affected itself into my brain, I guess
to exist, but it didn't.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Boy, I tweeted a lot in this in this couple,
that's a lot of meats for me in this do
you have any good ones? Well, keep in mind I
also went, uh f you SMC happens a lot in
this sort of I tweeted that a lot. You remember that? Yeah, Donald? Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah? Which I think I think that was was that
from the case game? I think it was.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
No, it was from a little earlier in the year,
but it was certainly brought up a lot. There's a
lot of me, like just me saying that I'm laughing
like a crazy person. A photo of me drinking water,
which was good stuff. Ground balls to the left side
of the infield contained adult situations. Your depression is advised.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
What a fun, weird time.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
That was August third, one o nine pm, two minutes
after first pitch. I just tweet the words, am I alive?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
You know, I feel like I'm not going to speak
for anyone else. I know everyone else has. Everyone has
like fun memories of this season, no question, But like,
I think we were sort of like the perfect age
and time in our lives for this season to happen,
and it will never happen the same way again, because
(11:05):
this was kind of just like chaos for four months.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah, No, I think that I think that's a great point.
And I think even twenty sixteen wasn't nearly this fun, right,
It wasn't even right.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
It wasn't twenty sixteen was infuriating.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yes, that well, you're like, why.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Aren't they better fuck these guys?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah, boyle boy, I was. I was fine out. There's
there's tweets of me, uh watching the game and watching
a game in the uh in the pews at a
church in a goddamn wedding because David Price that tweeted
they were going to go one hundred and eleven fifty one,
and then they almost did. Boyle, boy It's just like
(11:57):
you said it was. It was really just such a
such a rush to the head. It was such an
unbelievable coalescing of events and everything coming together all at once.
(12:18):
There is things that I remember, I remember so well.
I remember, and we will talk about his partial performance
in the next one, but sort of the things that
I immediately took away from this was was how calm he
was at all times, and like he would always rewatching
the game. For this, I totally came footing back to me,
is he would he would pat himself on the chest
(12:38):
really lately twice like before anything of anything that that
was important. He would just pat himself on the chest twice,
and like I was like, oh, man, like we where
where has this been on this team as a guy
that like because he gets into trouble in this game
and he just pats himself on the chest, goes right
back to doing what he does. And the other thing
that I remember or just blew my mind watching him
(13:02):
pitch for the first time was how subtle and small
his wind up was, where, if you remember, it was
just like he would just take the smallest little step
to get himself going and then unleash it. And I
was used to huge wind ups and guys like throwing
their ass out and really and he was just so
he was so collected and so calm, and it was
(13:24):
so it was so small and efficient. I was just
blown away at the way this dude pitched.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I remember a thing that I probably shouldn't share in
the first episode but forgot about till the second. I remember,
like in twenty twelve, I want to say, I went
to a game to see like that bad Blue Jays
team they played the Rays, and Price was pitching. I
remember I was with my friend Cale and we had
really good seats. It's like some of the best seats
(13:53):
I've ever had for a Jay's game, like low one
hundreds behind home plate because there was only like twelve
thousand people there anyway, And I remember we got to
watch Price up close, and it's like, obviously every sport
is very different when you're up close. But I find
just because of my interests, I find baseball so interesting
(14:15):
up close, especially watching a pitcher. And I remember he
just like kicked our ass, like it.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Was he always payed well, he always pitched well in Toronto.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
And like it wasn't even close like the fast like,
because when you're sitting that close, you get a set
and behind the plate you do get a sense for
like how impossible it is that any pitch has ever
hit in baseball at all. And this was like young
David Price just working and just just killing us. And
I remember watching this game in twenty fifteen and being like,
(14:47):
oh man, like three years ago, it was like, imagine
if this guy ever pitched for us, and then lo
and behold and it was just like this cool, Like
I mean, it happens with the raptors in Kawhi or
you know, the leafs and Tavares or any player you watch,
you're like, wow, if we only had we had this guy.
But then there's those rare moments when your team does
get those guys and it's just like, fuck, yeah, look
(15:10):
at us.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Yes, I just you mentioning it that sort of having
great seats to see a great pitcher. I, Zach and
I got first row the first time you Darvish came
to pitch, and you remember rookie U Darvish was sickening
and he just like it was it was child's play.
He was just blowing the ball past whatever year's team.
(15:35):
That that was Holy smokes, Holy cow. Also, I want
to mention this in my tweets from that day eleven
fifty two am. Immediately following Jay's versus Twins, it's on
sportsfeld Get you have four hours to get your questions in.
I believe that was that was That was like a
(15:56):
six person episode.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I think so.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
My dining room, my dining room table, and then Craig
and I had to go play play dodgeball afterwards and
we were not in good shape.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Also help me out here. Something charged up? Why did
I stay charged? I say, charged up? Like five times
in two days was that A Was that a thing?
I have? Charged you up? The thing?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
The only thing I can remember from of like that
was this. I remember the stir it up thing.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yes, I remember that too.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I don't I don't know what charged up was at all.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
I said it a lot.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Man, huh huh. Charged up I was, I say it.
The title of the episode is charged up. I right,
charged up. As soon as the first pitch happens, I say,
charged up. The day before, I say, going to see
David Twicce tomorrow, charged up. What in the world?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I guess you were charged.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Up at the time. I bet it made a ton
of sense. But it made an absolute ton of sense.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Definitely, Oh, every definitely made total sense for sure.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Boy oh boy, I'm ridiculously happy just going back and
seeing this. I played nine holes of I played nine
holes of foot golf that day as well, which also
mentioned Yeah, it's golf of soccer balls. It was really fun.
But it heard also as you mentioned, thirty first they
(17:45):
traded for Ben Revere and Low, not Derek Low, but
somebody else, Mark Low, Mark Low, and I have I
have a message here. Today's trade is for a player
who is merely, very very good. Oh well, and Sean
Uh correctly lets him so that Charged Up was a
(18:07):
drake thing, sure, which.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Before it pre dates Big Rings, which is my drake
thing of the twenty fifteen Blue Jays.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I stay silent because we had one. I'm very patient.
Six guy is watching. I just hope you're prepared to
face some charge. Dunk. I'm charged dun charged up obviously.
Oh yeah, I remember now he had just done the
back and forth with Meek Mill. So Charged Up was
(18:41):
the first of two disc tracks, charged Up and back
to back. Remember that, back back to back?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I remember for sure, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, So thank you, thank you, Sean the guy Uh,
I don't know, I don't know why. I don't know.
I don't know why. That was my rallying cry. But
please excuse my free minute side thing here about charged
Up anyway. What matters. What matters there is the twenty
(19:12):
fifteen Blue Days were fing incredible and David Price I
can just hear it now from the dugout to the mound,
and I believe Bluck Martinez says. The only question now
is whether or not David Price will be able to
control his emotions. Oh buddy, do you not Know next
(19:35):
week on Sports pol Storytime, First Pitch and Everything after
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