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00:00I'm about to meet Dwight Gooden.
00:02You know, in many ways, Dwight Gooden is responsible for me being a Mets fan, you know?
00:0784, I was 8 years old.
00:09I knew a little bit about him, but I didn't follow day-to-day.
00:11But the first year I got day-to-day into baseball was 1985.
00:15I was 9, and Dwight Gooden had one of the greatest seasons ever.
00:19Won the pitching Triple Crown, became the youngest player to win a Cy Young,
00:23and he went 24-4 with a 1-5-3 ERA and led the National League with 264 strikeouts, I think.
00:30The strikeout number I'm always a little hazy on, but you know,
00:33next year they win the World Series, and I was hooked for life.
00:49One of the things that I always enjoyed is that we have basically the same birthday.
00:54I'm born on November 13th and November 16th,
00:57and when I was 9 years old and a fan of yours and becoming a baseball fan for the first time,
01:03it was just exciting.
01:05It was a great time, no doubt.
01:07The first year I got hardcore into baseball was actually the 1985 season.
01:11And every day, it was just stunning and amazing.
01:16And then when I came to New York, whenever I would go to New York,
01:20I would typically take the bus in.
01:23Because I lived in Newark, Jersey, I took the bus in.
01:26I took the DCAMP bus and went to the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
01:30And I knew I was in New York.
01:32When you come out of that tunnel and you're going on the bus terminal route,
01:36that big mural, that big mural of yours always is like,
01:41that's how I know I'm in New York.
01:43I see that picture of Dwight Gooden on that building, on the side of that building.
01:47And that was always like, I'm in New York now, there's Dwight Gooden.
01:50That was nice.
01:52For the Nike to do that my second year, being 20 years old,
01:55was definitely something special.
01:57I was overwhelmed by it.
01:59Because as a kid, when you're growing up, you just wanted to play baseball.
02:01You never think about things like that.
02:03And for that to happen in New York and at that age, I was amazed.
02:07And then when my family would come up, I would take them out there to see it.
02:10They'd take pictures. It was a great thing.
02:12And then the fans fell in love with it.
02:13I thought it was just a great era for baseball.
02:15I mean, obviously, you saw it from the other side.
02:20But for a brief period, a very brief period, the Mets ruled New York.
02:27The Mets ruled New York.
02:29Everyone wanted to be a Mets fan.
02:31It was the Mets city.
02:34And it's always been a Yankee city.
02:37The Yankees always are more successful.
02:40They're more well-known.
02:42But for a period, I'd say from 1984 maybe to 1991, maybe 1992,
02:49the Mets ran New York.
02:51And I think a large reason of that is because of you and obviously the whole Mets team.
02:56But you were just larger than life, that picture.
03:00And that picture symbolized this is New York.
03:03This is the face of the New York Mets.
03:06Yes, I think what made it great was, like you say,
03:09the Mets team we had at that time from 1984 to 1991,
03:12we're connected with the fans.
03:14We were part of the fans.
03:15I remember the curtain calls.
03:16I remember the fans doing the wave.
03:18Went to the same places to get dinner and all that.
03:21It was a great time.
03:22But the fans brought so much excitement to Shea Stadium.
03:26It made it great for us.
03:27And then we just connected.
03:28It was a great area, great time.
03:30I love the curtain calls.
03:31And, of course, today I'm actually wearing my Gary Carter jersey.
03:35Gary Carter's the best.
03:36We traded for Gary Carter in 1985.
03:38That was icing on the cake.
03:40I mean, he was just like, I know as soon as he joined the team,
03:43he was like a leader.
03:45And I know how good he was behind home plate.
03:47Gary was what we missed because we had a young staff, myself, Ron Darling,
03:52Sid Fernandez, Aguilera, and to have Carter come in, a veteran catcher,
03:57an experienced catcher, someone that knew the league.
03:59I know there was no reason why I couldn't have success in 1985.
04:04I had my career year in 1985.
04:05Gary was a big success to that and a big part of that.
04:08He was definitely a missing piece and played a big part.
04:10And what a great man off the field as well.
04:12I mean, you won the Cy Young at the age of 20.
04:19That's unthinkable today.
04:21No pitchers come up.
04:23They baby these pitchers now.
04:25These pitchers are the glass arms.
04:28They hit like 100 in the pitch count numbers.
04:30They're not going to pitch again.
04:32But you won the Cy Young at the age of 20 at an age where very few players
04:41even make the majors at 20.
04:43You won the Cy Young at the age of 20.
04:45That has always just been mind-boggling to me.
04:48The game is totally different now.
04:49I don't necessarily blame the players.
04:51It's the system.
04:52Baseball is a copycat league.
04:54And whatever one team is doing, the other team does it.
04:56So, like you said, the 100 pitches, five innings, not facing the lineup
05:02the third time around, everything is a pitch count.
05:04So, you'll never see the complete games.
05:06In 1985 at 20, I had 16 complete games.
05:09You'll never see that again.
05:10With the analytics, everything has changed.
05:12And I'm an old-school baseball player.
05:14I like the way it was before.
05:15And hopefully get back to it.
05:17I prefer the old game better, you know?
05:1916 retired now.
05:20Seven of them are 16 retired.
05:22Even though I grudgingly accept a designated hitter in the National League,
05:26I miss watching the pitcher hit.
05:28Well, I feel both ways, okay?
05:31When I was playing, we took more pride in hitting.
05:33And normally, in Little League, high school, college,
05:36pitchers are the best athletes on the field.
05:38But what I think happened was they had to go to a designated hitter
05:42because pitchers would get hurt running, pitchers get hurt running bases.
05:45It was embarrassing.
05:46So, now they've changed everything.
05:48Well, the pitchers no longer, but you were growing up,
05:50the pitchers were, they pitched one day and then they played shortstop,
05:54second base, whatever.
05:55Now, if they find someone who's a gem pitcher,
05:59they're going to make them pitch, pitch, pitch, pitch,
06:01and they don't even care about them hitting.
06:03Down in the minor leagues, they stopped the pitchers from hitting years ago.
06:07Yeah, it's totally different now.
06:08Now it's about velocity and spin rate.
06:10If you've got a big kid, 6'4", 6'5", they're throwing 95, 96,
06:14they're going to put them on the pitcher's mound.
06:16They're not even going to look at them hitting.
06:17It's a totally different game.
06:18And the velocity and spin rate, it's max, max, max, max every pitch.
06:23That's why these pitchers are blowing out their arms.
06:25It's, I mean, you, when you pitched, you were a pitcher.
06:30You, if you had to throw a fastball, you threw a fastball.
06:34You had that Lord Charles, which was.
06:36Oh, yeah.
06:37I think now the difference is they're not teaching mechanics anymore.
06:40Everything's about velocity and spin rate.
06:42It's all about who lights up that scoreboard.
06:45That's right.
06:46110, 100 miles per hour, boom.
06:48100%.
06:49If I had a young pitcher, I would take the velocity off the scoreboard
06:52because even the pitchers now, they throw a pitch,
06:54they look at the scoreboard.
06:55They're more concerned about velocity than making a good pitch.
06:58Totally right.
06:59Totally different game today.
07:00I mean, and people may have forgotten about this.
07:04You actually won the Silver Slugger one year.
07:06Yes, won Silver Slugger.
07:07I actually loved the hit.
07:08I had eight home runs in my career.
07:10Hitting was my thing.
07:12I take a lot of pride in my hitting.
07:13Even the days I wasn't pitching, I would take batting practice.
07:15Me and Ron Garland would go into cages and take batting practice.
07:18But then the game just changed,
07:20so I understand I'm going to the designated hitter.
07:22Yeah.
07:23I like the National League group better.
07:24I begrudgingly accept it.
07:25It's something that I just like, yeah, it has to happen.
07:30But I wish it didn't have to happen.
07:32I'm the same way because I love to hit,
07:34but pitchers got to the point where they didn't care about hitting no more,
07:37and to me it was embarrassing
07:38because that's what separated the American League from the National League.
07:41You got the hitting, there's more strategy.
07:43The National League was always more exciting than the American League.
07:45Definitely.
07:46Always more exciting.
07:47I mean, a designated hitter,
07:51and I begrudgingly accept it as part of the game now,
07:55but I remember all my life thinking,
07:58the National League is true baseball.
08:00I agree.
08:01The American League is.
08:02National League is about, I mean,
08:03National League, hit and run, double switch,
08:05everything with the pitchers when they hit it.
08:07I mean, it's a large reason why I'm a,
08:09all these are large reasons why I'm a Mets fan.
08:11I always liked the National League game.
08:13I always liked, of course, big fan of you, 86 Mets.
08:17I mean, it's just, and that 86 team is just so amazing.
08:22It's just like, I love everything about that team.
08:25I love the book, The Bad Guys Won.
08:28That's my favorite book, period, by Jeff Pearlman.
08:33It is my favorite book, The Bad Guys Won.
08:36All the stories, the craziness off the field,
08:38how crazy, this team was just, the team was badass.
08:42It wasn't just good on the field.
08:45They were badass.
08:46They had, it was like, they had a take-no-prisoner attitude.
08:50I love that about the team.
08:52The team was great.
08:53I give Frank Cash and the general manager a lot of credit
08:55and David Johnson a lot of credit for dealing with the different personalities.
08:58It was like playing with your friends when you were kids.
09:01Everybody had one common goal when I was winning the World Series.
09:04We had to fight who was going to fight.
09:06Everybody was together.
09:07We had problems, we kept it in the clubhouse.
09:09Like I said, we fed off the fans with the curtain calls and all that,
09:12but we knew every time we took the field,
09:14our goal and purpose was to win and win bad.
09:17We wanted to destroy you.
09:18We didn't get along with no teams.
09:20We didn't friendize with no teams.
09:21I love that.
09:22It was us.
09:23And now you, even though Francisco Lindor is a great player,
09:27I cringe when he's smiling and chatting it up with the opposing team.
09:32The game has changed so much now because now a lot of these guys,
09:36they change teams a lot.
09:37They work out together.
09:38They have the same agents.
09:40So it's totally different.
09:41When we played, we didn't friendize with other teams.
09:43Like even Gary Sheffield, my nephew, when we played against each other,
09:46we did not talk on the field.
09:47Away from the ballpark, yes.
09:49At the ballpark, we didn't want no friends.
09:51We didn't wear the Met uniform.
09:52We didn't want no part of you.
09:54By the way, Gary Sheffield, to all the people who vote for the Hall of Fame,
09:59put Gary Sheffield in the Hall of Fame.
10:01He has 509 career home runs.
10:04I mean, I'm tired of everyone just trying to paint that error.
10:08Okay, a lot of players use steroids, but you don't know who used steroids.
10:12And you put Bud Selig in the Hall of Fame.
10:14If Bud Selig's in the Hall of Fame, the steroid error, you just forgive him.
10:19You forgive everyone.
10:20If they use it, if they don't use it, I don't care.
10:22I don't care anymore.
10:23Put the players who deserve to be in in the Hall of Fame.
10:26That means Bonds, Clemens, and Gary Sheffield.
10:28I totally agree with what Brian just said because, like he said,
10:31you don't know who used it and who didn't.
10:32Some guys that tested positive or in, it's not fair.
10:36It was just that error, like you said.
10:38And Gary, my nephew, definitely used steroids.
10:41I know for a fact he didn't do it.
10:42And he's the only guy to have 100 RBIs with five different teams.
10:47So he definitely deserved to be in.
10:49I mean, of course he has 500 homework to mess, too.
10:54That was a great moment that people forget about.
10:57I'm sorry.
10:58Oh, shit.
10:59Oh, shit.
11:04It's all right.
11:05We're still having fun.
11:06Are you guys okay?
11:07Yeah, I'm all right.
11:08I don't know what happened there.
11:09I didn't even, like, touch the table.
11:10It was like.
11:11You all right?
11:12That's crazy.
11:13Holy shit.
11:15I don't know what happened there.
11:18I love this picture that Dwight just gave me.
11:20It's signed by him.
11:22It says, to Frank, I am rooting for you.
11:26I love this.
11:27I love this.
11:28You know, I am so glad the Mets finally retired your number.
11:31I was there last week.
11:32That was great.
11:34You know, it's long overdue.
11:36I'm glad.
11:38I'm glad you're here.
11:39I'm glad you're here.
11:40I'm glad you're here.
11:41I'm glad you're here.
11:42I'm glad you're here.
11:43I'm glad you're here.
11:44I'm glad you're here.
11:45I'm glad you're here.
11:46I'm glad.
11:47I'm glad that they're starting to get a little more respect in the Mets history.
11:51Yes.
11:52I mean, that other guy.
11:55It seems like he was embarrassed by the 86 Mets sometimes.
11:58They're good guys.
11:59You know, Fred and Jeff are good people.
12:00I have no respect for those guys.
12:03Obviously, I want to put my whole career there.
12:05But unfortunately, in 1940, they want to cut ties.
12:11They want to cut ties.
12:12And I get it.
12:14But they have new ownership now.
12:16They're going in a new direction.
12:17I have a lot of respect for the organization.
12:19And I think they're going to get it right.
12:20They've got good baseball people working for them.
12:22So, hopefully, we get it turned around because New York City and their fans deserve a good team.
12:27I need another championship.
12:28I need one.
12:30I still think 88, you guys should have won.
12:35All right.
12:36Okay.
12:37See you later.
12:38Yeah, I agree.
12:39I think 88, we had a better team.
12:42But the 86 team had more fire and more heart.
12:44These guys had the no-quit attitude that wanted to win.
12:47And nothing was going to stop us.
12:49A lot of fire on that team.
12:51That's what I love about that team.
12:53I mean, people like Lenny Dykstra.
12:57I mean, these guys, Lenny Dykstra literally ran through walls to win games.
13:01He did.
13:02We don't win without Lenny.
13:04He was a fire plug to the team, no doubt about it.
13:07He played a big part.
13:08I mean, one of my favorite games during the 86 season was that game five of the NLCS.
13:15People overlook that game.
13:17You had a great pitcher's duel with Nolan Ryan in that game.
13:20Yes.
13:21That was one of my best games because Nolan Ryan was my childhood idol.
13:25And now, I got to meet Nolan in 84, the Ulster game.
13:29Now, we're going against each other in a pivotal game five.
13:32I went 10, and I think Nolan went 8 or 9.
13:34I'm not sure.
13:35But to go 10 against my idol was definitely a dream come true.
13:37I mean, that game, the whole series was like nail-biter after nail-biter.
13:42I mean, people remember Dykstra home run.
13:44People remember the 16 inning game.
13:47But that game five was pivotal.
13:49Pivotal.
13:50And it was such.
13:51I remember coming home.
13:52I came home maybe like the seventh inning.
13:54And it was just nothing.
13:56Nobody was giving up anything.
13:58And that was just.
13:59We had to have that game.
14:01Game five was like our game six.
14:03And game six was like our game seven because we had to win that game.
14:06Because we would have had Mike Scott in game seven.
14:08I mean, Mike Scott was clearly in the team's head.
14:12And just how everyone just talks about it.
14:14This confident, cocky team just says we couldn't beat him.
14:19Mike Scott was so much in our head.
14:20Love you guys too.
14:22Thank you.
14:23I appreciate you.
14:24Thank you.
14:25Mike Scott was so into our heads.
14:27I mean, he was an awesome pitcher that year.
14:29But he was so much into our team's head from a mental standpoint.
14:32He would have been tough to beat in game seven.
14:35But the way they rallied in that game and then the trip home.
14:42Oh, man.
14:43That plane ride was.
14:45Honestly, I don't know if we even knew it was on a plane.
14:48It was that bad.
14:49It was fun.
14:50But when you really think about what took place.
14:53Like if you could picture winning the World Series or somebody throwing a
14:56hitter how everybody had a pile on the mound.
14:59Just picture that but put it on a plane.
15:01I mean, you're talking players.
15:03You're talking players, coaches, wives, girlfriends, media.
15:07Everybody just piled, drinking.
15:09Food fights.
15:10Incredible.
15:11The story of that plane ride.
15:13I've listened to that video that you did.
15:16I think Lenny was in it.
15:18Everybody was in it.
15:19Everyone was in that video.
15:20Probably the only people that went in was probably Mookie and Gary Carter.
15:24Might have been the only two guys that went involved.
15:26Everybody else.
15:27I mean.
15:28That happens today.
15:29It's a major scandal.
15:30It don't happen now because with social media and everything that goes on.
15:32No.
15:33Of course not.
15:34Plus the airline.
15:35It would be a major lawsuit, I'm sure.
15:37But we trashed the plane.
15:38We broke seats, everything.
15:40It was unbelievable.
15:41And Davey Johnson just going, fuck you.
15:45Fuck you.
15:46You pay for it.
15:47We just want you to repent it.
15:49We had a workout.
15:50Yes.
15:51We have a workout at Shea Stadium.
15:53And Frank Cash, our general manager, comes in the locker room,
15:56gives the bill to Davey Johnson.
15:59When Davey looked at it, he goes, F you.
16:01We just want you to F and repent it.
16:02You pay for it.
16:03And I was like, wow, that's our guy.
16:05I mean.
16:08Now, of course, after you leave the Mets, you end up on the Yankees.
16:13Yes, sir.
16:14And you're trying to come back.
16:17And your first month was, you struggled.
16:20But May 14th, 1996, your father's very sick.
16:24Yes, sir.
16:25And you're on the mound.
16:27And you're effectively wild that day.
16:31And you still made it to nine innings.
16:34And you got that no-hitter.
16:35Well, I'll tell you what.
16:37You're right.
16:38Earlier that year, I started 0-3.
16:40They put me in the bullpen.
16:41Well, basically benched me.
16:42When the pitcher gets benched, I mean, you're not pitching if you're up 10 or down 10.
16:46David Cohn got an aneurysm in his shoulder.
16:49I got back into the rotation.
16:51And I get back into the rotation.
16:55And it may be about my sixth year old.
16:56I'm pitching.
16:57And that day, my dad had been on dialysis for about 15 years.
17:00He was having open-heart surgery.
17:02The next day, I had a ticket to fly home to be with my father.
17:06And when I woke up that morning, I thought my dad would probably want me to pitch.
17:10So, I called Joe Torre, who was the manager at the time.
17:13I told him I was coming to pitch.
17:14He said, no, go home.
17:16Take as much time as you need.
17:17Ditch your father.
17:18When you're ready, you come back.
17:19I said, no, I'll see you guys tonight.
17:21Then I had to call my mom.
17:22I told my mom I wasn't coming home.
17:24And she said, you have to be here.
17:26Your dad needs your support.
17:27Everybody's going to be here.
17:28You have to come.
17:29I actually hung up on my mom because I was feeling bad about it.
17:32The first three innings of that game, I was standing in a walkway between the dugout and the clubhouse
17:37wondering if I made the right decision or not.
17:39Not until the sixth inning.
17:41You look at the scoreboard to see who's coming up to hit.
17:43And you see no runs, no hits, no errors.
17:45Parr started beating a little faster.
17:47Then Zazie kicks in.
17:48I was able to focus on the game.
17:50Like you said, end up pitching to the no-hitter.
17:52I remember the ninth inning, Camille Sotomayor coming up to the mound.
17:55They said, Doc, how you doing?
17:57I said, I had walked two guys.
17:58I said, it doesn't matter.
17:59I'm not coming out.
18:00Because once you get that close, you've got to go for it.
18:03And I pitched to the no-hitter.
18:05I took a ball from the game to get to my dad.
18:08And even when they were carrying me off the field and I'm popping my hands, all I could think about is my dad going to be okay.
18:13You know, being out of rotation early in the season, they're thinking about releasing me or sitting me down.
18:17Previous year, I'm out of baseball.
18:19And I pitched to the no-hitter at Yankee Stadium.
18:21So the next day, I get to the hospital, get my dad.
18:24The boys don't like support.
18:25But it turned out to be the last game he saw me pitch.
18:27He ended up passing away.
18:28But the last game he saw me pitch was to the no-hitter.
18:30I love that.
18:31And another book, I mentioned the bad guys one, I loved Doc.
18:35That was just, I think that was like a book where you just basically told everything, the whole story.
18:45That is like one of the best baseball autobiographies I've ever, well, I didn't read it.
18:51I audibled it.
18:52But it was one of the best.
18:54Thank you.
18:55That means a lot.
18:56I love that book.
18:57If you haven't audibled or bought the book, you should definitely get this book.
19:02I loved it.
19:05There's a lot of deep stuff in there.
19:07I came from the heart for that book.
19:09There's a lot of deep stuff in there.
19:11Thank you.
19:12I just basically told my story, ups and downs, everything that basically took part, why I thought it happened.
19:18And it was great therapy for myself as well.
19:20I mean, and then of course, you played for the Yankees.
19:23You won another World Series.
19:24Yes.
19:25You actually went to the World Series parade.
19:27Yes.
19:28I made that one.
19:29I made the two Yankees I missed the most.
19:31And the thing that kept me sick for a long time because I couldn't redo that.
19:35That's something that you work so hard for.
19:38And, you know, watching it on TV because of my sickness.
19:41Yeah.
19:42But you know what?
19:43I helped him get there.
19:44I had to forgive myself, which is a hard thing to do.
19:46At times, I still struggle with that.
19:48But you just get through it the best you can.
19:50I mean, it's day by day.
19:51I know.
19:52That's all it is.
19:53I know.
19:54I don't know if you've ever talked to Jersey Jerry.
19:55He works for, he's one of my coworkers.
19:57Okay.
19:58He does a lot of stuff with this, a lot of recovery because he's been through it.
20:02Yeah.
20:03My mother found him in a dumpster basically one day.
20:07And he basically, she put him on a plane to Arizona.
20:10Wow.
20:11And it was just like that turned his life around.
20:13That's awesome.
20:14And he does a lot of good work for us.
20:15He does a lot of good work talking about his struggles.
20:20And it's just, it's terrible.
20:24It's a terrible disease.
20:25I hate it.
20:26It's something that you have to understand.
20:28Not only you suffer as an addict that's suffering, but your family, your loved ones, everybody suffers.
20:33Everyone.
20:34Everyone.
20:35And the best way you get through it, and I think the medicine we have, is sharing our stories, helping to expand.
20:41And it's a reminder to us.
20:43And that's what helped me get through it.
20:45I'm certainly glad that everything is going well for you right now.
20:48As you said to me, you're rooting for me, I'm rooting for you.
20:52Thank you.
20:53I appreciate it.
20:54Now, you bounced around for a couple of years.
20:56I know you went to Cleveland, Houston, Tampa, but you ended up back on the Yankees.
21:00Yes.
21:01And I remember specifically your return to the Yankees happened at Shea Stadium, the opener of the day-night two-stadium doubleheader.
21:11Yep.
21:12That was like, that was your last, that was your only appearance against the Mets.
21:17Yep.
21:18As a visiting player.
21:20And it was that game, the opening of the day-night doubleheader, the day game was at Shea Stadium, the night game was at Yankee Stadium.
21:28Yep.
21:29And I remember that specifically.
21:31I actually went to that game.
21:33I remember that game specifically, and it was just, it was finally, he actually came home and he was, you know, he was on the Yankees at the time.
21:43It felt a little weird coming into Shea Stadium from the visiting side, warming up in the visiting dugout, I mean visiting bullpen, sitting in the visiting dugout and taking the mound from that side.
21:53But the fans supported me.
21:54They gave me a nice ovation.
21:55Yep.
21:56That was great.
21:57And it's funny because when I was in the bullpen warming up, I didn't have anything working.
22:01Nothing was working.
22:02Curveball wasn't working.
22:03Location was off.
22:04But it felt like once I got to Shea Stadium on the mound, everything just kicked in.
22:07It was like being at home again.
22:09And one of the best things I had, I ended up getting the win, staying with the Yankees the rest of the season, and we ended up beating the Mets in the World Series.
22:16Don't remind me of that one.
22:18I know.
22:19I'm always a Met.
22:20I'm going to be a Met man.
22:21I said that last week, too.
22:22I remember that.
22:23But the way that all happened and took place, you couldn't have wrote a better strip than that.
22:26I mean, to me, that period, though, from 84 to 91 specifically, it was just like the Mets were everything in that town.
22:37And to me, especially with that mural, that unbelievable mural.
22:42And, you know, I remember about a couple of months ago, actually, it might have been one of my first top tips, like an early walk when I started this walking journey.
22:53Today's my 207th consecutive day walking.
22:56And this was like, I don't even think we were in the, I think we were barely in double digits at the time.
23:04We walk down to 42nd Street and I think it was 10th Avenue, 9th Avenue, and try to find the building it was on.
23:14Wow.
23:15Just to remember that that's where that mural was.
23:18Yes.
23:19I don't think I remember the building myself either.
23:21It's been so long, but it'd be nice to see the building again and see what it was.
23:25They built so much around it, it's hard to even recognize it.
23:28Oh, that's crazy.
23:29I had to look it up to find out for sure where it was.
23:31So much has changed.
23:33That's like 39 years ago.
23:35I mean, that mural, that to me was like, welcome to New York.
23:40Right there.
23:41Dwight Glenn's right there.
23:42Yes, sir.
23:43And I loved that 86 team.
23:44It was a great time.
23:45I mean, like I said, you were probably my first favorite.
23:50I mean, I'm a Dolphin fan of football, Dan Marino.
23:53Okay, good choice.
23:54But when I first started to truly understand baseball, you were without a doubt my favorite player.
24:00Thank you.
24:01And you're still one of my favorites.
24:02The 86 team, finally getting to walk with one of them.
24:05I'd love to walk with more players from the 86 team.
24:07Yes, sir.
24:08But I am so glad and so thankful you did this for me.
24:12Thanks a lot.
24:13Thank you.
24:14I mean, this was great.
24:15It really was, as I expected, a dream come true.
24:19And thank you for joining me.
24:20Oh, thanks for having me.
24:21I appreciate you.
24:22Thanks, and good luck.
24:23Thank you.
24:24And stay healthy, man.
24:25Yes, sir, I appreciate it.
24:26Thanks for having me.
24:27Great time.
24:28I enjoyed talking to you.
24:29You're a good man.
24:30I appreciate you.
24:31Thanks.