November 14, 2023 • 10 mins
Alex Rodriguez joins us to talk World Series, new podcast, partnering with OraPharma and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On with Mario Lopez. It's up.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
You're all Mario Lopez. Joy Men now on Zoom.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
One of the greatest baseball players of all the time,
Alex Rodriguez, Welcome to the show, my man.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
How you been.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I've been great, Mario. Good to see you man.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Good to see you too.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I was just telling you I enjoy keeping up with
you on social You really do a great job broadcasting.
It's a tough transition, I know, because that's what I
do for a living, and a lot of people aren't
able to make it. But You've been able to do
it in such a smooth way and really been able
to shine.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
So I just wanted to tip the hat to you
right there. Was it difficult for you?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Did you? Did?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
You find it to be pretty natural? Smooth transition?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Definitely not natural and definitely not something I ever thought
about doing during my playing days. I never thought about, like, boy,
I would love to be a broadcaster. But what I
did do was I studied the game. It's my first love.
I remember when I played for the Texas Rangers. I
would go home and then go watch all the Coast games,
(01:00):
the Dodgers, the Angels, the Oakland A's so I feel
like I know baseball really well. I'm really passionate about it.
Then the question becomes for me and other athletes is
can you convey the message clearly to the fan base
in a short, concise matter. But it's been fun at
Fox doing my work there.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, man, killing it killing And did you have the
Rangers bro in the beginning of the season. I gotta
say that one. I came out of nowhere.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I guess that's a beautiful basketball.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
It's crazy, Mario're like, I know you're a big Dodger fan.
I'm a big Yankee guy.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I'm about to ask about that in a second of
go on.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
To think about that. The highest three payrolls, right, the Yankees,
the Mets, and the Padres. Not one of them made
the playoffs. It's pretty remarkable. And you know, while we
don't have the greatest ratings in Fox the World Series,
it's healthy for the sport that is not always Goliath
(01:56):
that has to win, right, Everyone has a real shot.
And I appreciate.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
That that's true.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
That's true of looking back or from the outside, I
should say, it does make a lot of sense. You
mentioned my Dodgers man another one hundred wins season and
yet no title in Alex?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Is it more?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I mean?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Now, granted got plagued a little bit with some injuries,
and Julio.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Arias as I had to while out, and Bueller never
came back. Trevor Bauer got a raw deal. Don't get
me started all that stuff. But is it more about
the timing Alex? Because you win all these games, then
all of a sudden you get hot at a certain moment,
and then that's it. Should there be more equity valued
in all the games you want leading up to it?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Well, I think, what's happening Mario? And you see there's
a lot in business too, is some of these teams
are constructed for the Marathon one sixty two, and this
is not necessarily for the Dodgers, but just in general,
they're building these kind of data analytics, a lot of
robotic thinking. But people sometimes forget there's human beings playing
the game, and it's not just easy to go play
(02:56):
second one day and short the next and second. It's
I remember when Joe Torrick in spring training he said,
I said, Joe, can I go home and see my
daughter's in the day off? And he said, here's what
we're going to do, Alex, You're gonna get what you
want in spring training. I'm gonna get what I want
during the season. And what I want is I want
you to play one hundred and sixty two games and
you're gonna clean up every single day. And Mario, what
(03:19):
that did for me. It relaxed me because I knew
that it didn't matter if I was over twenty, it
didn't matter if I made an error. I'm gonna be
out there every single day. And I always say that
structure liberates the more you know where your office is,
where you're gonna be at what time, where you're gonna eat.
I'm a routine guy. That helps my performance. And sometimes
I think there's a blind spot with analytics that doesn't
(03:42):
understand how valuable Justin Turner is or a Johnny Johnny Damon.
But the Dodgers, I do think that when you miss
three or four pictures, that's too much to overcome. The
Rangers overcame the gram getting hurt, but that's one picture.
When you have three or four star pitchers, then that's
hard to overcome.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It does still gonna be I'm still gonna be there.
A child's ravine come summertime. But Alex, you're here today
to educate us about gum disease. Tell us about the
work you're doing with the.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, so I partnered up with or A Pharma, and
you know, anytime they say any disease, you obviously get
very scared or nervous. Health is the most important thing.
And I realized that I had gum disease, and I
just went in a regular checkup like I used to
do with the Yankees. You do that twice a year.
And I said, well, that was alarming. What exactly is it?
And basically some of the symptoms is if you have
(04:36):
bleeding gums when you dniflage or when you brush your teeth.
And yeah, the good news is I caught it on time.
Over sixty five million Americans have that is more prevalent
in our communities, black and brown communities. So it's important
that you go to your dentist. Even though it's not
the most exciting thing in the world, it is important
(04:56):
to take care of your oral health, and you know,
see your local physician and make sure that you're cleaned up.
And if you're not, just make sure you get the
right proper help.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
No, absolutely, absolutely, you got to make that.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I always say, make your health your top priority, and
your oral health is very important.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
If did you chew growing up?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
No? Never, never, you never chewed, so because I gotta
imagine that's got to sort of not be great for
it as well.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
That that would be all I mean, talk about exponiting
poor health, right, there's there's not too many things that
are worse to do that every day.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, yeah, oh wow, you didn't huh, Okay, that's good
to hear. You also got a podcast in the works,
The Deal.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
What is that gonna be a bad?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah? Maybe we get you Mary to come on. Hey,
it's a great partnership with Bloomberg. Is a business podcast
where we talk about media, sports, entertainment. I remember when
we were growing up, Mario, those were three different silos.
But now media, sports, and entertainment is kind of merging
all together. And I see you doing a lot of
sports stuff, and it's love is great, and it's almost
(05:58):
become like the fourth major in America with what's happening
with sports and media and entertainment. All athletes are investing
in sports, whether it's pickleball or other leagues are starting out,
which is really exciting. So we're gonna have some phenomenal guests.
You know, we're gonna have well I won't spoil it,
but we have some phenomenal guests that I'm really excited.
(06:19):
And we launched it up, you know, early in the
next year.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Oh that's great, congratulations on that. And yeah, I would
would be an honor and a pleasure to go on there.
My man, I hear you're a bit of a coffee addict.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
True, very true.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
But your hand right now, I got here. Oh you
got tea? Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
It was to the point where I was having like
seven or eight cups and Elena, literally my assistant, would
come like every thirty minutes and just give me a
new conference sights. Okay, let's just do like four profphees
and four tis.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
That's the move. I know why. I drink a lot too.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
And then ping becomes my new hobby because they're constantly
exactly through that.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Mario, let me ask you hot talking about health, what
have you done? I mean, I saw your fiftieth and
I'm my god, you look like you're twenty five. I'm
that you a morning workout? How you doing it?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I am?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I do because my schedule is so fluid and I'm
not always in charge of it because I'll do my
radio show, then i have my daytime show, Access Daily,
and then the nighttime show Access Hollywood every day, not
to mention all the other stuff I'm doing, so it
fluctuates depending on the people I'm talking to. So I
get up early and get it out of the way.
And because of my boys, my sons, I got them
(07:33):
into jiu jitsu and wrestling and.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Boxing and all that I get.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Those are the things I do right now just to
bond with them, just to kind of keep me sharp
and to destress. I always say I train Alex for
sanity really more than vanity. So I'll, you know, get
up about six and I'm either doing jiu jitsu today
I boxed, and then I'll give myself a good day off,
and then on the weekends I'll do just to mix
it up, something maybe spin class or just something kind
(07:58):
of like go for a hike or just kind of
to break up the monotony. But yeah, I tried to
get it out of the way in the morning or
else the dale get away from me.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
What about you? When do you get it in?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
So what I've been doing is I've been just again.
Structure liberates for me. So I basically since a pandemic,
my health was getting a little bit out of whack.
I was going back and forth between La and Miami,
and you know, when you're grinding in business, is so
easy to you know, forget your health. So I ended
up making a paradigm shift. I did not like how
(08:28):
I was looking. I was not liking how I was feeling.
Energy was low, very lethargic. So I've lost thirty five
pounds in the last twelve months.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And one of the biggest thing I did made two
or three main things. Number One, I started dedicating from
eight o'clock in the morning to noon to my health,
like this is me time, and that's what I do, like,
you know, forty five minutes of cardio, about an hour
of lifting. Then I come home and do sauna or
cold tub or stretching or meditating. Then I'm in the
office every day from twelve to six, and then I
(08:59):
come home, I have dinner with the girls. And now
it started a new walk, so I walk like forty
minutes and then I go in a night and trying
to eliminate the snacks with Netflix, which is killing me. Yeah.
And then the biggest change is I was eating steak
like five or six days a week, and now I
have it maybe once every ten days. And that's also
been a big.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Change, really the meat.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeh see, I'm I'm old, Alex. I'm having steak almost
every meal. I've been trying to kind of kind it's
just so good. It's just so good. That's awesome, man,
that's awesome. Well again, I've always been a big fan,
as you know, and love the transition in your life
while you carry yourself and all the different business ventures
you've gotten into.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Congratulations and thanks for the heads that.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
We'll put all the info up regarding gum disease at
on with Mario dot Com. Go there now to learn
how you can fight gum disease. Alex, thanks for hanging out, brother,
and hope to see you in person soon.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Absolutely next so let's do something or not and next
time we're in La.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
All right, you got it? Hit me up man, all right, Well,
take care
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Of with Mario Lopez
On with Mario Lopez. It's up.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
You're all Mario Lopez. Joy Men now on Zoom.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
One of the greatest baseball players of all the time,
Alex Rodriguez, Welcome to the show, my man.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
How you been.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I've been great, Mario. Good to see you man.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Good to see you too.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I was just telling you I enjoy keeping up with
you on social You really do a great job broadcasting.
It's a tough transition, I know, because that's what I
do for a living, and a lot of people aren't
able to make it. But You've been able to do
it in such a smooth way and really been able
to shine.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
So I just wanted to tip the hat to you
right there. Was it difficult for you?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Did you? Did?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
You find it to be pretty natural? Smooth transition?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Definitely not natural and definitely not something I ever thought
about doing during my playing days. I never thought about, like, boy,
I would love to be a broadcaster. But what I
did do was I studied the game. It's my first love.
I remember when I played for the Texas Rangers. I
would go home and then go watch all the Coast games,
(01:00):
the Dodgers, the Angels, the Oakland A's so I feel
like I know baseball really well. I'm really passionate about it.
Then the question becomes for me and other athletes is
can you convey the message clearly to the fan base
in a short, concise matter. But it's been fun at
Fox doing my work there.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, man, killing it killing And did you have the
Rangers bro in the beginning of the season. I gotta
say that one. I came out of nowhere.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I guess that's a beautiful basketball.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
It's crazy, Mario're like, I know you're a big Dodger fan.
I'm a big Yankee guy.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I'm about to ask about that in a second of
go on.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
To think about that. The highest three payrolls, right, the Yankees,
the Mets, and the Padres. Not one of them made
the playoffs. It's pretty remarkable. And you know, while we
don't have the greatest ratings in Fox the World Series,
it's healthy for the sport that is not always Goliath
(01:56):
that has to win, right, Everyone has a real shot.
And I appreciate.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
That that's true.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
That's true of looking back or from the outside, I
should say, it does make a lot of sense. You
mentioned my Dodgers man another one hundred wins season and
yet no title in Alex?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Is it more?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I mean?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Now, granted got plagued a little bit with some injuries,
and Julio.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Arias as I had to while out, and Bueller never
came back. Trevor Bauer got a raw deal. Don't get
me started all that stuff. But is it more about
the timing Alex? Because you win all these games, then
all of a sudden you get hot at a certain moment,
and then that's it. Should there be more equity valued
in all the games you want leading up to it?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Well, I think, what's happening Mario? And you see there's
a lot in business too, is some of these teams
are constructed for the Marathon one sixty two, and this
is not necessarily for the Dodgers, but just in general,
they're building these kind of data analytics, a lot of
robotic thinking. But people sometimes forget there's human beings playing
the game, and it's not just easy to go play
(02:56):
second one day and short the next and second. It's
I remember when Joe Torrick in spring training he said,
I said, Joe, can I go home and see my
daughter's in the day off? And he said, here's what
we're going to do, Alex, You're gonna get what you
want in spring training. I'm gonna get what I want
during the season. And what I want is I want
you to play one hundred and sixty two games and
you're gonna clean up every single day. And Mario, what
(03:19):
that did for me. It relaxed me because I knew
that it didn't matter if I was over twenty, it
didn't matter if I made an error. I'm gonna be
out there every single day. And I always say that
structure liberates the more you know where your office is,
where you're gonna be at what time, where you're gonna eat.
I'm a routine guy. That helps my performance. And sometimes
I think there's a blind spot with analytics that doesn't
(03:42):
understand how valuable Justin Turner is or a Johnny Johnny Damon.
But the Dodgers, I do think that when you miss
three or four pictures, that's too much to overcome. The
Rangers overcame the gram getting hurt, but that's one picture.
When you have three or four star pitchers, then that's
hard to overcome.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It does still gonna be I'm still gonna be there.
A child's ravine come summertime. But Alex, you're here today
to educate us about gum disease. Tell us about the
work you're doing with the.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, so I partnered up with or A Pharma, and
you know, anytime they say any disease, you obviously get
very scared or nervous. Health is the most important thing.
And I realized that I had gum disease, and I
just went in a regular checkup like I used to
do with the Yankees. You do that twice a year.
And I said, well, that was alarming. What exactly is it?
And basically some of the symptoms is if you have
(04:36):
bleeding gums when you dniflage or when you brush your teeth.
And yeah, the good news is I caught it on time.
Over sixty five million Americans have that is more prevalent
in our communities, black and brown communities. So it's important
that you go to your dentist. Even though it's not
the most exciting thing in the world, it is important
(04:56):
to take care of your oral health, and you know,
see your local physician and make sure that you're cleaned up.
And if you're not, just make sure you get the
right proper help.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
No, absolutely, absolutely, you got to make that.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I always say, make your health your top priority, and
your oral health is very important.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
If did you chew growing up?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
No? Never, never, you never chewed, so because I gotta
imagine that's got to sort of not be great for
it as well.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
That that would be all I mean, talk about exponiting
poor health, right, there's there's not too many things that
are worse to do that every day.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, yeah, oh wow, you didn't huh, Okay, that's good
to hear. You also got a podcast in the works,
The Deal.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
What is that gonna be a bad?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah? Maybe we get you Mary to come on. Hey,
it's a great partnership with Bloomberg. Is a business podcast
where we talk about media, sports, entertainment. I remember when
we were growing up, Mario, those were three different silos.
But now media, sports, and entertainment is kind of merging
all together. And I see you doing a lot of
sports stuff, and it's love is great, and it's almost
(05:58):
become like the fourth major in America with what's happening
with sports and media and entertainment. All athletes are investing
in sports, whether it's pickleball or other leagues are starting out,
which is really exciting. So we're gonna have some phenomenal guests.
You know, we're gonna have well I won't spoil it,
but we have some phenomenal guests that I'm really excited.
(06:19):
And we launched it up, you know, early in the
next year.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Oh that's great, congratulations on that. And yeah, I would
would be an honor and a pleasure to go on there.
My man, I hear you're a bit of a coffee addict.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
True, very true.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
But your hand right now, I got here. Oh you
got tea? Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
It was to the point where I was having like
seven or eight cups and Elena, literally my assistant, would
come like every thirty minutes and just give me a
new conference sights. Okay, let's just do like four profphees
and four tis.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
That's the move. I know why. I drink a lot too.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
And then ping becomes my new hobby because they're constantly
exactly through that.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Mario, let me ask you hot talking about health, what
have you done? I mean, I saw your fiftieth and
I'm my god, you look like you're twenty five. I'm
that you a morning workout? How you doing it?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I am?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I do because my schedule is so fluid and I'm
not always in charge of it because I'll do my
radio show, then i have my daytime show, Access Daily,
and then the nighttime show Access Hollywood every day, not
to mention all the other stuff I'm doing, so it
fluctuates depending on the people I'm talking to. So I
get up early and get it out of the way.
And because of my boys, my sons, I got them
(07:33):
into jiu jitsu and wrestling and.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Boxing and all that I get.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Those are the things I do right now just to
bond with them, just to kind of keep me sharp
and to destress. I always say I train Alex for
sanity really more than vanity. So I'll, you know, get
up about six and I'm either doing jiu jitsu today
I boxed, and then I'll give myself a good day off,
and then on the weekends I'll do just to mix
it up, something maybe spin class or just something kind
(07:58):
of like go for a hike or just kind of
to break up the monotony. But yeah, I tried to
get it out of the way in the morning or
else the dale get away from me.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
What about you? When do you get it in?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
So what I've been doing is I've been just again.
Structure liberates for me. So I basically since a pandemic,
my health was getting a little bit out of whack.
I was going back and forth between La and Miami,
and you know, when you're grinding in business, is so
easy to you know, forget your health. So I ended
up making a paradigm shift. I did not like how
(08:28):
I was looking. I was not liking how I was feeling.
Energy was low, very lethargic. So I've lost thirty five
pounds in the last twelve months.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And one of the biggest thing I did made two
or three main things. Number One, I started dedicating from
eight o'clock in the morning to noon to my health,
like this is me time, and that's what I do, like,
you know, forty five minutes of cardio, about an hour
of lifting. Then I come home and do sauna or
cold tub or stretching or meditating. Then I'm in the
office every day from twelve to six, and then I
(08:59):
come home, I have dinner with the girls. And now
it started a new walk, so I walk like forty
minutes and then I go in a night and trying
to eliminate the snacks with Netflix, which is killing me. Yeah.
And then the biggest change is I was eating steak
like five or six days a week, and now I
have it maybe once every ten days. And that's also
been a big.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Change, really the meat.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeh see, I'm I'm old, Alex. I'm having steak almost
every meal. I've been trying to kind of kind it's
just so good. It's just so good. That's awesome, man,
that's awesome. Well again, I've always been a big fan,
as you know, and love the transition in your life
while you carry yourself and all the different business ventures
you've gotten into.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Congratulations and thanks for the heads that.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
We'll put all the info up regarding gum disease at
on with Mario dot Com. Go there now to learn
how you can fight gum disease. Alex, thanks for hanging out, brother,
and hope to see you in person soon.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Absolutely next so let's do something or not and next
time we're in La.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
All right, you got it? Hit me up man, all right, Well,
take care
Speaker 1 (09:56):
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