Full Transcript for Tony Beasley – 3rd Base Coach for the Texas Rangers

00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:11.360 so let's go back to Tony Beasley's playing days at Liberty University baseball powerhouse kind 62 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:17.240 of like Delaware. I was, you know, and that was you were 63 00:04:17.319 --> 00:04:24.000 drafting eight was it eighty nine? Eighty nine? And who was who drafted 64 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:27.519 you? The multiple Orioles in the nineteenth row. Yeah, I was a 65 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:30.959 senior sign man, you know, It's like I got hurt my junior year 66 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:34.560 and hurt my ankle, and uh didn't get drafted that year. And then 67 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:38.680 so as a senior, you know, back then, like the senior signs 68 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:43.120 like maybe maybe now you get drafted. So I wasn't really sure i'd actually 69 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:46.040 signed up to go to the Marine Corps. Yeah, I tryed to go 70 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:51.199 to Officers School, and I just happened to get drafted and they allowed me 71 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:56.120 out of it and gave me a chance to pursue that dream. So here, 72 00:04:56.279 --> 00:05:00.560 um thirty five years later, still still doing it. So just a 73 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:02.720 blessing, Just a blessing. So you think you did make the right decisions 74 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:06.319 at that time? I think so, yeah. I mean I you know 75 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:10.600 what, I think that you know in life, like you don't know, 76 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:13.879 like at a young age, what's right, what's wrong, like what path 77 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:16.319 you're going to take. But I think that, you know, sometimes I 78 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:20.759 always walk by faith and just try to trust God to put me where he 79 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:25.800 needs me, and and I think that things always work out when you do 80 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:29.560 it that way. But at the same time, you know, from a 81 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:33.360 biblical standpoint, says everything that we do we should do to God's glory and 82 00:05:33.399 --> 00:05:36.920 so no matter what, no matter what area of life. When I think 83 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:41.519 as long as we're putting God first and trying to serve him in it, 84 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:46.560 then it works out because it's for his glories. So yeah, you're right, 85 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:49.360 because it's the lies you've changed, either through baseball or could have been 86 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:53.879 through the military or yeah, like you said, you never know what what 87 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:58.160 you're gonna do. It's the path that you go down. So you're twenty 88 00:05:58.199 --> 00:06:05.079 two at the time, twenty twenty one, I think, okay, December 89 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:09.959 birthday, Okay, so you're you're a late late one there, so that 90 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:14.079 so that decision you go to and at that as people they're listening when you're 91 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:15.839 drafted as a scene, you're basically it's like a bucket of bass at that 92 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:18.800 point, right, because they don't have to really offer you anything. No, 93 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:21.600 it's just you want to play or not. Basically, that's just just 94 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:26.560 you know how it was, and uh so I wanted to play and uh 95 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:30.720 just took a shot at it and uh just felt like, you know that 96 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:32.959 I could make the most out of it, and I did. So I'm 97 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:35.959 just just grateful that, you know, it was I had the opportunity to 98 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:40.079 do it and Uh, it's worked out. You know, it's worked out. 99 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:43.079 It hadn't been an easy ride. I can tell you that, you 100 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:46.519 know, just been a grind through the minor leagues and you know, nine 101 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:50.639 minor league seasons and you know, didn't play in the big leagues. Up 102 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:56.199 the Triple A I played, and then uh, transitioned into coaching and just 103 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:59.800 the grind of that, go back to the bottom of the barrel and start 104 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:02.879 all over again, and then you know, eventually it was fortunate enough to 105 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:06.120 work my way to the top. You know, that's kind of not the 106 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:12.680 rouge that that people take anymore. But I'm thankful that I that I had 107 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:15.560 to do it that way. So that conversation you said, you know, 108 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:20.000 your last year playing Triple A ball, is it did a coach or somebody 109 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:23.160 just come to you and say, hey, Tony, you know this is 110 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:26.560 the you know, the writings on the wall. Do you want to get 111 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:29.399 into this or is it just a decision saying hey, I see it, 112 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:31.800 this is what I want to do. Yeah, Well it was more I 113 00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:36.480 think in my situation, it was more me. Kim Bonifay was the general 114 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:41.560 manager at the time, and so he um he had told me that whenever 115 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:45.720 I was done playing that you know, there was a coaching opportunity for me 116 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:48.360 if I wanted it. And uh. But you know, but he said, 117 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:51.439 but play as long as you want to play, and uh. And 118 00:07:51.519 --> 00:07:56.800 I got to the point where I was married at a kid and I free 119 00:07:56.800 --> 00:08:00.959 agency was just starting to be a thing or you bounced around. I didn't 120 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:05.560 want to bounce around. Um, I had made money, I wasn't stable, 121 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:09.319 and I just I just wanted some stability. And I felt like at 122 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:15.560 that

point coaching was a little bit more stable than playing, and so I 123 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:18.879 just I went into it. I didn't really know what to expect out of 124 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:22.199 it. I just know I still love the game and I wanted to be 125 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:26.920 a part. And so I was a player coach in ninety ninety eight, 126 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:30.759 and because I wanted to see it, and so they gave me the chance 127 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:35.360 to see both sides of it, to be an active player but at the 128 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:39.200 same time be involved in the coaching side of it as well, which is 129 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:43.639 kind of rare unique. They don't do that much anymore either. But you 130 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:46.200 know, at the end of the day, I felt like, Yeah, 131 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:50.600 this is something I would enjoy doing. And after the ninety eighth season, 132 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:54.879 I was full fled coach. You know, some guys when they're done playing 133 00:08:54.919 --> 00:08:58.840 that it seems as if they're chasing something that they never got to write. 134 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:03.960 Seems like they're they're they're trying to fulfill something. But it doesn't seem like 135 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:07.679 that's what you were trying to do. It just it's like you talked about 136 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:09.919 it felt like this is where I wanted to go. You know, guys, 137 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:11.759 hang on the hang on. You weren't hanging on the hang on. 138 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:16.960 You were hanging on because you love the game correct exactly. I mean I 139 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:20.440 didn't, you know what. I always felt like, you know, whatever 140 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:22.000 I do, I'm gonna I'm gonna do it to my best and uh, 141 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:26.759 and you know, whatever comes out of it comes out of it. I 142 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:28.120 felt like as long as you leave it all out of the field. We 143 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:33.039 tell players at all the time, like excuse me to leave it all out 144 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:37.039 there and then accept the results. And so I you know, I looked 145 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:39.799 at my career that way, you know, just leave it all out there 146 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:43.720 and uh and let the chips far where they may. And it's like I 147 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:48.080 said, I felt like God was always in control, and so I never 148 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:50.039 like wondered like, well, why did this or why not? Why me? 149 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:54.559 And why not me? None of that stuff was just I'm just gonna 150 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:58.480 take every day and enjoy the day and give my best today and we'll deal 151 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:01.399 with tomorrow or winning if it gets there. And uh that's kind of how 152 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:05.360 it did it. But I know that my love and passion for the game 153 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:09.840 was not to be questioned, and I wanted to be a part of it. 154 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:13.799 I feel like, you know, when when I decided to do something 155 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:16.360 of my life, I wanted to be I wanted it to be a career 156 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:18.360 and I just, you know, something that was a flash in the pan 157 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:22.759 of yea of helping, of helping others and doing that. So as you 158 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:28.879 go through your coaching, the progressions and stuff. Were you a coordinator um 159 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:33.159 infield guy um and everything? So what you know doing all that, what 160 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:37.080 seemed to be your little niche that you liked the most? Was it the 161 00:10:37.159 --> 00:10:43.279 coordinating part of it or the stable, consistent coaching part where you in one 162 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:46.360 spot. Well, you know, it's weird because I started out as a 163 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:50.039 hitting coach, and uh, I absolutely loved it, and uh, you 164 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:54.120 know, even then, I think it was I think it was like two 165 00:10:54.240 --> 00:11:01.200 thousand maybe because either ninety nine or two thousand I had to go to Lynchburg 166 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:03.360 just because J. J. Davis was there and he was a number one 167 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:09.279 prospect and I was like a second year hitting coach, second year of coach, 168 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:13.519 and they put me in charge of him to get him right. And 169 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:16.159 it was a process, man. So it was the first time I really 170 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:20.720 had like a like a job specific task, like get this guy right, 171 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:24.360 this is our number one pick, and and the first half was slow, 172 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:28.120 and then the second half he took off and all the work that we put 173 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:31.639 in paid off. So it was that was gratifying. But you know, 174 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:37.200 I just felt like the passion that that you have to do the job. 175 00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:39.679 Like the hitting coach thing, man, I just loved. I love to 176 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:45.320 see the kids grow from start from scratch and then finished stronger at the end 177 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:50.360 and make adjustments in season. So the hitting coach thing lasted for about three 178 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:54.320 years, maybe four years. Then um really starred You was with the Pirates 179 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:58.679 then and he was like, b you got to manage and I was like, 180 00:11:58.759 --> 00:12:03.200 I don't really want to manage. I like what I'm doing. He 181 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:07.080 was like, number to trust me, you'd be good at manager, and 182 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:09.600 he said you have a way with people, and uh and and the kids 183 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:13.799 respect

you, say you should manage. And so I wasn't going to manage. 184 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:18.840 And then Dave Lord Mclinton got the big league job. Dave Clark was 185 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:24.679 the short season a manager, and Lloyd wanted Dave won the staff, and 186 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:28.200 so he took Dave Clark to the big leagues. And so William's sport job 187 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:33.120 came open, and I was told because I think Willy probably talked to Cam 188 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:37.200 and uh he said, beast, you're going to manage a short season. 189 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:41.720 And so they didn't extend it. And that was like my managerial trial to 190 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:45.759 get some experience at it. And uh, I fell in love with it. 191 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:48.840 I didn't know that it was something that I wanted to do, but 192 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:52.200 you know, it was a different level of impact on the on the guys, 193 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:56.919 and it was not just hitters. It was the totality of the game, 194 00:12:56.240 --> 00:13:00.639 uh, going off the field, everything, And I fell in love 195 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:03.919 with that part of it. And just building those right relationships with with with 196 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:09.120 all these young kids and and trying to grow them into men and to show 197 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:13.200 them, you know that this is the life that you've chosen, that it 198 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:18.519 can be rewarding, but it's not about all about making it to the big 199 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:22.840 leagues. And because that's everybody's goal, but I told them everybody's not going 200 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:24.759 to make it. It's a small percentage that makes it. But everybody can 201 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:28.759 be productive in life. Everybody can make an impact in life. And uh, 202 00:13:28.840 --> 00:13:33.279 that was always my message to them. And so I guess I kind 203 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:35.120 of took on a father figure to the kids. And that's just the way 204 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:39.039 I enjoyed doing that. Man. And so we had success, we won, 205 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:41.679 but at the same time, I felt like, you know, we 206 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:46.600 were winning in life as well. So I love being a manager in uh 207 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:50.840 and uh, that that was that was what kind of really propelled me into 208 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:54.919 everything that came out to that. You know, I was a manager until 209 00:13:54.000 --> 00:14:00.679 I had an opportunity to in two thousand and six to be Frank Robinson's third 210 00:14:00.679 --> 00:14:03.799 base coach with the Nationals, and then the coordinating came after that, you 211 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:07.360 know, and stuff like that. So I've won many different hats in the 212 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:13.279 game. Thankful that I've seen a lot of areas of the game, so 213 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:16.039 you know, it makes you versatile and flexible, so you know, it's 214 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:20.000 benefited me in the long run. It seems like the impact that you talk 215 00:14:20.039 --> 00:14:24.799 about, especially on those the kids coming out of you know, the Arizona, 216 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:26.360 the Fire League, or the Gulf Roast. So these kids are some 217 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:28.960 of them, these Latin kids, some of them are seventeen eighteen years old, 218 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:33.600 young kids, high school kids. So the impact that you have at 219 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:37.759 that point right there, they really don't have the attitude. You know, 220 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:43.159 there's today's the attitude. So you're able to really start from scratch as as 221 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:46.000 a young as a young man, being able to teach these eyes look guys. 222 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:48.960 And it's amazing though, the impact that you can have on them. 223 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:52.360 I mean, it's the guys. So is there you know with those young 224 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:56.000 guys, is there anybody that really stands out from that core group of that 225 00:14:56.080 --> 00:15:01.120 first few years of managing that really stands out in your man? I had 226 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:05.799 to hose it Batista when he was as a young kid, and and hose 227 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:09.080 he loved the game. And man, I'll tell you what, he was 228 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:13.679 a fireball. Like he was so temperamental, it was unbelievable. Like it's 229 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:16.679 very talented, but he could not accept theory. Like he was a perfectionist. 230 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:22.279 Very intelligent guy, but man, he'd be like four for five and 231 00:15:22.519 --> 00:15:26.279 he made it out, which was a lineout, and and he was so 232 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:31.480 irata but that you know, he could not accept not being perfect every night. 233 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:33.480 And so you know, just trying to teach him how to be a 234 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:39.759 good teammate. And you know that you four for five with the lineout and 235 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:43.159 the guy next to you he's old for five with maybe three strikeouts, Like 236 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:46.399 he don't really want to hear you, wanting about blinding out, you know, 237 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:50.840 so stuff like that, and you know, just trying to let them 238 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:52.960 understand it. You know, being a good teammate is important, and uh, 239 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:58.200 and you had to look beyond yourself and recognize that the guy next to 240 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:00.200 you, like he's he's in the battle with you, and that you've got 241 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:04.039 to be cognizant of of of who's in that clubhouse each and every day. 242 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:07.759 So he was he was one guy that you know, I felt like I

243 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:11.919 had an impact on, helped him to grow up a little bit and and 244 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:15.799 turn him, try to turn you know, boys the men, and so 245 00:16:15.879 --> 00:16:19.759 he became a man. And uh, you know he's he's always reached out 246 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:25.000 and thanked me for that, and and you know, we still remained close 247 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:27.039 to this day. You know, we actually talked last this offseason. He 248 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:32.799 wanted me to come and manage in running ball with the team that he is 249 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:37.000 connected with and so things of that nature. But there are many other guys 250 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:41.039 that didn't make it to the big leagues. Uh, you know Brandon Agamanoni. 251 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:45.399 Uh, he still reaches out to me. Uh he he reached out 252 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:48.120 and it was maybe three or four years ago and he said, uh, 253 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:52.960 you know, thank you for teaching me. Um that you know that can 254 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:56.440 be got the men in the game. And uh, he said, because 255 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:59.960 of my experience with duty say got you know, I went into the minister 256 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:04.480 like I'm a pastor now and you know, so they're doing different things in 257 00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:08.359 life. But you know, both guys were very successful and productive in their 258 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:14.000 lives and that's that's what makes it all worthwhile. Yeah, the impact that 259 00:17:14.119 --> 00:17:17.599 that has of somebody coming to you after even though they never made it as 260 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:22.319 the baseball side, they made it on in life itself because of the I 261 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:26.640 said, the impact that you had. I mean, you never thought about 262 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:29.960 that going into coaching. I'm gonna I'm gonna change lives somebody. These guys 263 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:33.799 are gonna be x y z as opposed to I'm just gonna take this one 264 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:37.799 day at a time and you see the fruits of your labor. But I 265 00:17:37.839 --> 00:17:41.519 think that must be the most rewarding parts when somebody can call and say, 266 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:45.240 hey, bees, thanks for everything you did, regardless of the baseball side. 267 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:48.480 And I mean, how does that make you feel as far as just 268 00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:52.720 as a coach and just as a person in general. Yeah, that's that's 269 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:56.599 way more rewarding than the guy that was super super talented that you know, 270 00:17:56.680 --> 00:18:00.920 you know he was gonna make it regardless. And uh, it's it's the 271 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:03.759 it's the guys that, man, were the grinders and the guys that were 272 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:08.119 organizational guys and that you know, you made them feel like they were special 273 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:14.079 and they were a huge part of the team and you impacted their lives and 274 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:17.960 they were successful in other areas. I mean, those those are the guys, 275 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:21.440 man, that that made it all worth raw. I mean there's a 276 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:22.920 ton of guys that played in big leads, Ryan Domant, you know, 277 00:18:23.640 --> 00:18:27.599 Chris, Chris Duffy, those guys they still reach out as well. They 278 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:30.960 all reach out. So you know, I'm grateful for all all that, 279 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:34.599 you know, but it's it's guys that didn't make it that reach out as 280 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:38.799 well, and so I think that's the greater impact. And uh, because 281 00:18:40.640 --> 00:18:44.319 this this game is tough. Man, it's tough, and uh, the 282 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:48.319 numbers are against you, you know, from day one, and so you 283 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:53.160 know, it's important that we create value in people and uh and something Jeff 284 00:18:53.160 --> 00:18:57.279 Fantasy used to say that I didn't forget like we value people over products, 285 00:18:57.400 --> 00:19:00.799 and you know, we don't don't treat them like pieces. Everybody's a human 286 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:03.839 and uh, yeah, that meant a lot to me. And I try 287 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:08.240 to try to keep that alive. And that's that's it. That's the relationships 288 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:11.680 that you build, especially with the players, because players, especially the younger 289 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:17.559 words, can see the forest through the trees of knowing coach bees in this 290 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:21.960 more for them than just what's on the surface. There's more there, right 291 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:25.279 so, and you're able to develop that at a younger age with these guys. 292 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:30.519 And that's what helps help propel you right from a from short season a 293 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:34.160 manager to a big league coach. Because of the relationship you have, the 294 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:38.240 guys respect you, which means they're talking, which means somebody else is hearing. 295 00:19:38.279 --> 00:19:41.759 Other coaches are hearing. Hey, Beasley will be a great guy for 296 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:45.440 this job's and that's what it is, and that's so that's where it's carried 297 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:48.880 you. But and you never thought it would have taken you where it has. 298 00:19:49.160 --> 00:19:52.480 Yeah, I mean I never had to be honest with you, like, 299 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:57.039 after not planning in the major leagues, I never I never anticipated that 300 00:19:57.079 --> 00:20:00.720 I would coach in the major leagues. I was just I was pretty much 301 00:20:00.759 --> 00:20:03.680 content with like, you know what, I'm gonna be a minor league coach 302

00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:08.039 and I'm going to impact you know, people's lives, and I'm gonna get 303 00:20:08.039 --> 00:20:11.680 the most out of these kids, and I'm going to develop major league players. 304 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:15.640 I'm gonna develop you know, great human beings and that's my calling. 305 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:19.400 And uh, I was. I was very content with that, you know, 306 00:20:19.440 --> 00:20:23.880 because the way that you used to get a major league coaching job was 307 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:27.359 you had to be connected with someone back in the day, and uh, 308 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:32.039 I didn't. I wasn't connected with you know, major league managers or none 309 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:34.960 of that. And uh and end up on Frank Robinson's staff was like, 310 00:20:36.680 --> 00:20:40.480 that's a god sin because like I knew no one to understand. I knew 311 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:44.039 who Frank was obviously by I have a relationship with him. You know, 312 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:45.960 I didn't know David Lows. I knew who he was, didn't know him 313 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:51.039 personally, you know, and um, Jim Bowden interviewed me. I didn't. 314 00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:52.680 I didn't know who Jim Bolden was. You know, he did who 315 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:56.480 didn't know who I was? And uh, he just happened to tell me 316 00:20:56.559 --> 00:21:02.720 that he was. I was like my league coach of the year, manager 317 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:06.240 of the year, and he said, I was just happy to be the 318 00:21:06.359 --> 00:21:10.720 Yankees had hired me as an infield coordinator. Yeah, before that, I 319 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:14.000 take that back, because they had hurted me his infield coordinator. I don't 320 00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:17.920 know if it's sparked interest or what, but he said, he said, 321 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:19.039 like, you don't know me, and I don't know you, and you 322 00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:22.240 wondering why you're here today and how did you get a chance to this interview? 323 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:26.200 And I said, yeah, I kind to him, and he said 324 00:21:26.279 --> 00:21:30.079 that, you know, I saw that, you know, the Yankees had 325 00:21:30.119 --> 00:21:36.359 interest in you, and then I saw the fact that my league manager a 326 00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:38.599 year. So I just kind of start digging and seeing if I could find 327 00:21:38.640 --> 00:21:42.960 something negative and he said, I couldn't find anything negative. Your team at 328 00:21:42.960 --> 00:21:47.799 all had always won every year, he said, And I called around. 329 00:21:47.880 --> 00:21:51.240 I just wanted to hear one bad thing and I said I couldn't find it, 330 00:21:51.799 --> 00:21:53.720 so he said, so I said, this guy deserves an interview, 331 00:21:55.240 --> 00:21:59.480 and because of that, he gave me an interview based on my reputation, 332 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:03.799 and he hired me, you

know, the next day to be the third 333 00:22:03.799 --> 00:22:07.720 base coach. Like he Jim Bowden, in my mind, took a shot 334 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:12.200 with me and he gave me an opportunity and it kind of propelled my career 335 00:22:12.839 --> 00:22:17.920 career and to you know, give the opportunities that I have that led up 336 00:22:17.960 --> 00:22:21.720 to where I am today. So you know, I'm thankful to Jim Bowden 337 00:22:21.799 --> 00:22:25.440 for that. I really am. And I don't know if people understand what 338 00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:27.880 minor league coaching is like, because you wants the season end. It's not 339 00:22:29.160 --> 00:22:32.160 as if you're gonna if you unless you have something else. It's season ends, 340 00:22:32.160 --> 00:22:33.319 you're done, right, you go home and then just wait to see 341 00:22:33.319 --> 00:22:37.039 if I'm going to get a call again. So it's almost is uh, 342 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:41.720 you know, it's almost you're hoping for something, right, the feeling of 343 00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:45.240 I guess it's the uncertainty of a minor league coach because if you're hoping that 344 00:22:45.359 --> 00:22:48.440 if you do well, you're you get to move up right. It all 345 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:52.480 depends on it because there's a lot of turnover. So I mean, now 346 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:56.599 you have this and all of a sudden that you've got a general manager calling 347 00:22:56.640 --> 00:22:59.920 you say, hey, Tony, we'd like to talk to you about well, 348 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:03.519 almost it's like a principal calling you into the office, Hey, what 349 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:06.680 did I do wrong? As opposed to know right you get that? Is 350 00:23:06.720 --> 00:23:10.799 that the feeling you get as a coach going through that process. Yeah, 351 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:14.480 I mean I think you know, for anyone that doesn't know, it is 352 00:23:14.519 --> 00:23:18.240 an absolute grind. There's no there's no security or longevy in it. I 353 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:22.359 mean, it's it's it's pretty much it's year to year. We worked from 354 00:23:22.599 --> 00:23:26.880 We work on one year contracts. Uh. You know, when after you've 355 00:23:26.920 --> 00:23:30.039 spent some time in it, you're lucky enough to maybe sometimes you get a 356 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:34.200 two year deal, and once in a while there's a three year deal, 357 00:23:34.279 --> 00:23:38.319 but that's very rare. And so, you know, there's not a lot 358 00:23:38.359 --> 00:23:42.480 of like stability as far as like I know that I'm going to be doing 359 00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:47.000 this for the next twenty years or thirty years and I'm gonna retire. You 360 00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:51.039 don't know that. And so but I remember one thing my father used to 361 00:23:51.079 --> 00:23:53.839 tell me, like like always just be good at your job. He said, 362 00:23:55.039 --> 00:23:56.759 be good at what you do. He said, you'll always have a 363 00:23:56.880 --> 00:24:02.680 job. Thinks. Don't worry about stuff. And so I just focused on 364 00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:06.960 trying to be good at whatever I'm doing and uh, and not not worry 365 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:11.920 about where I'm going or what the next step is. Just be good today, 366 00:24:12.119 --> 00:24:15.480 you know, and uh, earn yourself a chance to put the union, 367 00:24:15.920 --> 00:24:18.400 you know, one more day, and just keep doing that day in 368 00:24:18.440 --> 00:24:22.039 and day out, day in and day out, and you know, before 369 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:27.359 you know it. Man for me thirty five years of past and you know, 370 00:24:27.559 --> 00:24:32.079 still still putting the uniform on. And I'm just grateful and thankful. 371 00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:37.079 But it is a grind. And so the way you carry yourself and the 372 00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:41.160 way you treat people, and just just the way that you, you know, 373 00:24:41.319 --> 00:24:45.759 just give of yourself and your time and invest in others, it comes 374 00:24:45.799 --> 00:24:48.319 back to you. Whether it's good or bad, it's coming back to you. 375 00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:52.039 So your if your father always instilled that in use from a from a 376 00:24:52.079 --> 00:24:56.480 faith perspective of understanding, you know, you can't worry about tomorrow. Tell 377 00:24:56.480 --> 00:24:59.799 the kids all the time, you know, tomorrow's already take care of you 378 00:24:59.799 --> 00:25:03.920 haven't enough problems today. So that's and that has always been instilled in you 379 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:06.799 from the time you were a kid or is that just something that you just 380 00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:11.440 came within, you know, while you were playing baseball. You know my 381 00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:15.160 dad and he kind of instilled that in usum as a kid. Um. 382 00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:19.960 Yeah, my dad was a lumberjack man and uh we we we I still 383 00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:25.119 do that in the offseason for my brothers. So he worked hard. But 384 00:25:25.279 --> 00:25:27.400 you know my father, you know, he was he was a godly man, 385 00:25:27.640 --> 00:25:32.160 and you know, he loved the Lord. He made us go to 386 00:25:32.279 --> 00:25:34.440 church. You know, something make me go, you know, but he 387 00:25:34.480 --> 00:25:37.000 made us go to church. And he you know, there was principles and 388 00:25:37.079 --> 00:25:42.720 everything wasn't was revolved around your faith. And like he was like if you 389 00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:45.720 if you don't, if you don't go to church today, like you can't 390 00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:48.599 go out and play. You can't do nothing. Like unless you're sick, 391 00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:53.000 you go to church, you know. And I baseball like back in the 392 00:25:53.079 --> 00:25:57.079 day playing you didn't have travel ball then, but we had reck ball and 393

00:25:57.119 --> 00:26:02.319 stuff and games on Sundays. He's that you go to church first and then 394 00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:07.119 you go play baseball. And he's like if you skip chers to go play 395 00:26:07.160 --> 00:26:10.599 baseball, you're not gonna be blessed. He's always instill that, you know, 396 00:26:10.680 --> 00:26:15.160 So everything was God first, God first, God first, God first, 397 00:26:15.720 --> 00:26:19.640 and that's just that just stuck with me. And uh, I don't 398 00:26:19.680 --> 00:26:23.640 want anything to get in front of God, no matter what it is. 399 00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:29.000 I don't want anything to get in front of God. And uh and I 400 00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:33.920 think that that's that's what's helped me throughout my life and my career and everything 401 00:26:33.960 --> 00:26:37.440 that I've done and been through an experience because it's God first. You know. 402 00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:41.559 Even I dealt with cancer, it was God first, and h That's 403 00:26:41.559 --> 00:26:45.200 how I got through it. And uh so I'm just grateful and thankful. 404 00:26:45.400 --> 00:26:48.759 You know that my father and my mother they instilled those values in me, 405 00:26:49.000 --> 00:26:52.400 and uh, I don't ever want to forget that. Try to instill that 406 00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:56.279 in my son as well, you know, with God in front of everything 407 00:26:56.279 --> 00:26:59.279 man and you and you and we talk, you're talking about that now, 408 00:26:59.559 --> 00:27:03.400 that's it was gonna be. My next topic was um the rectal cancer. 409 00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:10.039 Correct, Yes, you were diagnosed with how you know just that leading up 410 00:27:10.079 --> 00:27:14.839 to it finding out and during I don't know if it's during the season and 411 00:27:14.839 --> 00:27:18.839 and that time off leading up to it. What what kind of precipitated this 412 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:22.319 the process of you finding out about all this? Yeah, man, I 413 00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:23.960 didn't. I didn't have a clue. Look what was going on in my 414 00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:29.799 body? I M I'd never like had hemorrards before in my life. And 415 00:27:29.799 --> 00:27:33.240 then then twenty fifteen, which was my first year here with the Rangers, 416 00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:40.319 like mid season, Yeah, I started developing him ards and it's like, 417 00:27:40.359 --> 00:27:41.519 what's going on with that? I didn't know what it was. So I 418 00:27:41.599 --> 00:27:47.559 talked to doctor Hunter and he checked TCL you have some hymorroords a multiple hymboards 419 00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:52.799 and uh they were bleeding hymnboards and so you know, Steve Bushell had it, 420 00:27:52.920 --> 00:27:53.799 so he knew it was all about. And he's like, oh, 421 00:27:53.839 --> 00:27:57.079 there's a paint in the butt, but you know the literally yeah yeah, 422 00:27:59.160 --> 00:28:03.359 literally U. And so doctor Hunter told me

that you know, they would 423 00:28:03.480 --> 00:28:07.440 they would ease and go away, and if not, then he felt like 424 00:28:07.480 --> 00:28:11.880 I probably had some internal internal polyps and we could go in and and move 425 00:28:11.960 --> 00:28:17.519 those, remove those if need be. And so the off season came then 426 00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:22.359 they never subsided, and uh it was you. I was I was starting 427 00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:27.319 to feel like like a sharp pain going down my right leg. It's like 428 00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:32.000 a nerve. So I was seeing a chiropractic in the stretch. I was 429 00:28:32.039 --> 00:28:34.880 doing other stuff like something's just not right, and uh, I was having 430 00:28:34.920 --> 00:28:37.720 a little blood in the school. I didn't pay much attention to that. 431 00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:42.640 And because I have no family history of cancer, so you know, I 432 00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:48.200 kind of ignored some signs. I really did, and just nothing got better. 433 00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:52.359 And then my wife's like, you need to get get checked if something's 434 00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:57.119 not right. And so when we finally got a colonosophy and uh and when 435 00:28:57.119 --> 00:29:00.440 we got that, I was forty nine time, so I was like one 436 00:29:00.559 --> 00:29:06.680 year away from getting one anyhow. And so we got the philosophy. They 437 00:29:06.680 --> 00:29:11.680 found a tumor in my rectum and it was very low and so the doctors 438 00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:15.720 said immediately that from his experience that he knew it was cancer. So it 439 00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:21.240 did the biopsy and everything, and it did come back that it was cancer. 440 00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:25.680 And uh so at that point, it was like, let's beat it. 441 00:29:25.799 --> 00:29:27.279 That was my whole thing, man, like, let's beat it. 442 00:29:27.720 --> 00:29:33.000 And I just I just trusted God through that process. And uh, it 443 00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:37.039 was two thousand and sixteen, was it was January two thy sixteen, was 444 00:29:37.079 --> 00:29:42.319 when I found out, and that whole year was you know, chemotherapy and 445 00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:49.839 radiation, and I would asked me back temporarily. So it was just it 446 00:29:49.880 --> 00:29:53.079 was a different year. It was it was a year in which I would 447 00:29:53.160 --> 00:29:57.839 never anticipated experience and in my life. But man, it was a year 448 00:29:57.880 --> 00:30:03.720 that I learned some much about myself, so much about others, and so 449 00:30:03.799 --> 00:30:08.240 much about who God is. And I could truly tell you that's probably the 450 00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:14.039 best year of my life. And it probably doesn't sound right, but you 451 00:30:14.079 --> 00:30:18.319 know, because I could have never learned. I could have never known God 452 00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:22.359 the way I know him now if I had an experience going through cancer. 453 00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:30.400 My doctor told me last year, after six years of getting you know, 454 00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:34.359 treatments, and six I mean after six years of getting scans and updates and 455 00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:38.039 checkups, last year I was I was clean and clear. And that was 456 00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:44.640 the last checkup. And so after that last checkup, he told me that 457 00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:48.640 I was right at stage four cancer. I didn't I know that. I 458 00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:52.440 didn't know. I was thinking I was maybe stage two or so. And 459 00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:59.319 he said, You're an absolute miracle. The tumor that was in my rectum 460 00:30:59.839 --> 00:31:04.799 was very low and the reconnection process, but the tumor is low, it's 461 00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:10.920 almost impossible to reconnect the person. And so because your vale movements just won't 462 00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:15.000 function, and so they have to put it aus to me back permanently, 463 00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:18.559 and I was I was telling my doctor, I won't wear it. Ask 464 00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:22.279 me back permanently. I said, my body's gonna function the way God designed 465 00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:26.920 me to function, like nothing clean. It's gonna do all on my body, 466 00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:30.839 like cancer is not mine. Like if someone said your cancer, I 467 00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:33.160 would correct that right away. It's not my cancer, it's something that's in 468 00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:37.799 my body, doesn't belong on my body. Nothing. Then Queen's going to 469 00:31:37.839 --> 00:31:38.480 do it all on. Mean, my body is the temple of the hole 470 00:31:38.519 --> 00:31:42.680 of spirit. And that was my response to that. Doctors, I think 471 00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:48.960 kind of thought I was crazy because I'd never accepted any thing that they said 472 00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:52.960 to me about symptoms or you know, after treatments, you're going to experience 473 00:31:53.039 --> 00:31:56.519 this sh It's going to be coldness of touch, numbness, you know, 474 00:31:56.559 --> 00:32:00.680 lose your appetite, lose way, you're gonna tie year, you're going to 475 00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:05.160 vomit. Everything I did none of those things. I had no symptoms whatsoever. 476 00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:09.200 My platelets never went down, my my red and white blood count state 477 00:32:09.359 --> 00:32:15.720 consistent. The doctor amazed every time. But I was just covering myself with 478 00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:19.240 the blood of Jesus and trust in God that that he had healed me. 479 00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:25.200 Okay. I went to I went for the surgery to remove the tumor. 480 00:32:25.400 --> 00:32:30.519 And so before that surgery, we did scans on a Friday. The surgery 481 00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:36.200 was scheduled for Monday. And after we did scans at MDI Anderson, and 482

00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:43.119 the tumor Friday was still there. The doctor was disappointed. The radiation hadn't 483 00:32:43.160 --> 00:32:46.079 done anything, that Kimo hadn't done anything to the tumor. Nothing. It 484 00:32:46.200 --> 00:32:51.759 was as pretty much the same as it was from the beginning, and so 485 00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:55.319 he was very concerned that he could not perform the surgery. And I said, 486 00:32:55.359 --> 00:33:00.160 you will. I said you will. I said, and maybe you 487 00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:01.960 won't. I said, but you'll be used. I said you'll. It'll 488 00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:06.319 be fine. Don't worry. And he said that I just can't promise you 489 00:33:06.359 --> 00:33:08.279 that I can do what you want me to do. I said, it'll 490 00:33:08.319 --> 00:33:12.599 be done. I didn't. I didn't doubt it. I never doubted now 491 00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:17.200 once. And I went my wife and I went to the hotel that evening 492 00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:23.279 and because we Saraday and Sunday just which is a waiting period. And I 493 00:33:23.279 --> 00:33:28.240 prayed and we prayed, and I said, Lord, I've done everything medically 494 00:33:28.279 --> 00:33:32.359 that's been required of me. You know, all their radiation and keimo And 495 00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:36.599 I said, but I claimed the healing back in April. I said, 496 00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:39.640 I'm standing on that healing. I said, I believe that that you do 497 00:33:39.680 --> 00:33:43.279 everything that you said. And I haven't doubted. I haven't way, but 498 00:33:43.319 --> 00:33:45.839 I just trust and believed in you. And I know that you've healed my 499 00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:49.079 body. I could feel it. I just know it. In the name 500 00:33:49.119 --> 00:33:52.559 of Jesus, I said, Monday morning, when the doctors get into my 501 00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:57.279 body, you're going to receive glory. I just know it. It's your 502 00:33:57.319 --> 00:34:00.680 time to show up and show out. And said, no can receive the 503 00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:04.279 glory about you. And I said, in Jesus name, Amen. And 504 00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:09.360 Monday morning I went in there. I had a robotic tectonomy was this type 505 00:34:09.360 --> 00:34:15.519 of surgery I had, and the doctors he got inside and got everything positioned. 506 00:34:15.559 --> 00:34:20.360 Man he came out, came out and told my wife after three hours 507 00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:24.480 that there was no tumor. There After Friday, seeing it, he couldn't 508 00:34:24.519 --> 00:34:28.239 explain that. He said, it was just scar tissue, and he cleaned 509 00:34:28.280 --> 00:34:30.039 it up and my margins were claaning, and he said he's going to be 510 00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:36.519 good, and so that's God. And can't nobody tell me anything different because 511 00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:40.079 the tune was there Friday, we looked at it, we saw it, 512 00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:44.960 the doctor was the scarist by it, and then Monday morning it was just 513 00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:52.320 scar tissue. So it's it's amazing out. Like you talked about being able 514 00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:57.559 to not even worry, right, not having too because of understanding unless you've 515 00:34:57.599 --> 00:35:00.519 been through that mock right, people don't know and like you said a minute 516 00:35:00.559 --> 00:35:05.559 ago, that year was the best year of your life, and people go, 517 00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:12.719 how can he say something like that because they don't know Jesus and what 518 00:35:12.840 --> 00:35:15.519 the power is and people can question that, but you know him saying, 519 00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:20.760 because maybe it gave you an opportunity to step away from baseball that you've been 520 00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:25.159 tied up in for what fifteen years at the time, twenty years at coaching, 521 00:35:25.480 --> 00:35:30.000 where you were able to get kind of get back on track. Maybe 522 00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:32.559 maybe that's why it was right. We don't know why things happen, correct, 523 00:35:32.599 --> 00:35:36.559 We just we just trust and know that it's just part of the process. 524 00:35:37.239 --> 00:35:39.440 But seeing that and hearing that from you, that's that seems like it 525 00:35:39.519 --> 00:35:44.199 was just kind of where maybe you were off track a little bit and it 526 00:35:44.280 --> 00:35:46.559 was one of those hey bees, this is what's going to bring you back 527 00:35:46.599 --> 00:35:50.760 on track. And that's why you, like I said, you look at 528 00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:53.920 it as, hey, this was a great year for me, right, 529 00:35:53.960 --> 00:36:00.280 And it's it's to make your story what it can do for one person. 530 00:36:00.440 --> 00:36:04.199 Right. We always tell the kids to tell people all the time, if 531 00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:07.880 I changed one person's life, I've done my job. You've done it, 532 00:36:07.159 --> 00:36:12.840 right, that's right. So I don't and I don't. I don't know 533 00:36:12.920 --> 00:36:15.559 that I was off track, but I think with me, it's I was 534 00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:19.199 asking. I think sometimes we've got to be careful we asked for because semester 535 00:36:19.239 --> 00:36:22.239 I didn't get it, But I was asking God. I was praying the 536 00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:27.400 prayer of Jay Bass that guy would have increased my territory and enlarged my platform 537 00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:31.559 and let me do more for him. And uh, and maybe that was 538 00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:36.599 the way it manifested itself, because you know, I was, I was. 539 00:36:36.920 --> 00:36:40.440 I considered myself faithful and uh, you know I wasn't. I wasn't 540 00:36:40.480 --> 00:36:45.920 living a messed up life or just doing weird stuff. Just that's why when 541 00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:49.519 when I was diagnosed, people like even David Low's called me and David los 542

00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:52.519 like like, if that can happen to you, it can happen to anybody 543 00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:54.960 like that, you have no and I and I was, I was. 544 00:36:55.159 --> 00:37:00.559 I was immediately like why not me? Like none of us are empt from 545 00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:06.440 a hardship or or illness or nothing, like we don't know. I just 546 00:37:06.480 --> 00:37:08.320 think that you know, you know, I wanted. I wanted to do 547 00:37:08.480 --> 00:37:14.840 more for the Lord, and he allowed me to go through something that gave 548 00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:20.800 me a bigger platform for him because I've been able to help people that are 549 00:37:20.840 --> 00:37:24.599 dealing with cancer and and I've been able to touch lives that I that I 550 00:37:24.599 --> 00:37:30.360 didn't have an avenue to touch before and so and and I've been able to 551 00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:36.199 know God more intimately as well, because just actually, you know, when 552 00:37:36.199 --> 00:37:40.440 you hear about healing, it sounds great, but like you don't really know, 553 00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:44.360 like like I always hear, I was like that, I really believe 554 00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:50.039 like healing like that, because but when you actually deal with it, and 555 00:37:50.079 --> 00:37:55.320 then you know, like God showed himself to me and he did a miracle. 556 00:37:55.599 --> 00:38:00.280 He did a work in my body that only he could done. And 557 00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:06.400 so it just made me just love him that much more and be that more 558 00:38:06.920 --> 00:38:10.960 on fire to serve him and to let people know who he is and what 559 00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:15.000 he's all about. You know, my favorite verse in the Bible, and 560 00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:19.400 I used to tell people Second Corinthians five and seven before we walk by faith 561 00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:23.039 and not by sight. And I said that before cancer, but I had 562 00:38:23.079 --> 00:38:28.199 to actually live that out. And so you know, I mean we say 563 00:38:28.280 --> 00:38:30.840 things all the time, but then God say, okay, that's your favorite 564 00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:36.320 verse. Let's see, let's see, you know, and so you know, 565 00:38:36.800 --> 00:38:42.360 just understanding that through faith, man, all things are possible, and 566 00:38:42.400 --> 00:38:46.920 that God can do anything if we believe and we don't doubt and we don't 567 00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:51.280 waiver, because he says a man that doubts and waivers, you know, 568 00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:54.199 he can't believe. That man shouldn't think that he can receive anything from the 569 00:38:54.280 --> 00:39:01.239 Lord. And so I think it was just solidifying and you know, my 570 00:39:01.360 --> 00:39:06.880 faith and and and believing in the trust and knowing who God truly is. 571 00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:10.000 And he showed himself to me man, I mean, he took a tune 572 00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:15.239 more away from my body, you know, from a from Friday to Monday, 573 00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:21.679 it was God that's nobody but God. And I know that through that 574 00:39:21.719 --> 00:39:27.599 whole experience. You know, I was so in tune with His word that 575 00:39:27.639 --> 00:39:30.559 I'd wake up in the middle of the night sometimes just just raised my hands 576 00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:34.880 up and say thank you Lord for healing me. Like in June and July, 577 00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:39.039 just never losing sleep and nothing. Just I just knew I was going 578 00:39:39.079 --> 00:39:43.239 to be good. I don't I don't know how I had peace through that, 579 00:39:43.440 --> 00:39:45.800 but I just had peace because I just trusted God through the whole process. 580 00:39:46.400 --> 00:39:50.679 But you know, I guess it was one of those times of my 581 00:39:50.719 --> 00:39:54.000 life was like maybe the enemy came to them and say, what about can 582 00:39:54.039 --> 00:39:58.840 I mess with him like he did with Joe. You know, he'll he'll 583 00:39:58.840 --> 00:40:01.360 denounce you if we touch his body or we do something. I don't. 584 00:40:01.440 --> 00:40:06.039 I don't know. Maybe when I heaven, I can ask God about that. 585 00:40:06.440 --> 00:40:09.840 Yeah, maybe give me some insight. But I'm just thankful that that 586 00:40:09.960 --> 00:40:16.320 I was able to be faithful through a tough time because it's easy to give 587 00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:22.280 God glory when everything is great, But can we give him glory? You 588 00:40:22.280 --> 00:40:27.000 know when we on the backside, on in the valleys of life and through 589 00:40:27.039 --> 00:40:30.360 the tough times of life, can we still praise him and be faithful to 590 00:40:30.440 --> 00:40:35.360 him. It's it's easy when things are going great, but whatever, when 591 00:40:35.400 --> 00:40:38.239 things are not going so great in your life, can you still you know, 592 00:40:38.440 --> 00:40:43.239 give God glory? And so I'm thankful that I was able to to 593 00:40:43.320 --> 00:40:47.320 keep him first, even through the midst of hardship's weather in that storm. 594 00:40:47.360 --> 00:40:51.400 And I guess, I guess off track was maybe a bad term, but 595 00:40:51.480 --> 00:40:53.760 you know, it's just a let I guess. Literally, you had a 596 00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:58.400 bump in the road right for you. Uh, you know, it's one 597 00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:02.039 of those things of talk about you know, what you live by. You 598 00:41:02.079 --> 00:41:05.800 know, you know a two rival verse I love. I lived by a 599 00:41:05.800 --> 00:41:07.519 proverb three to five, you know, trusting the Lord with all your heart 600 00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:13.400 and lean not on your own understanding. And the um I saw I'm forty 601 00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:15.199 verse two. He lifted me out of the pit of destruction and placed my 602 00:41:15.239 --> 00:41:20.400 feet

upon a rock, making my footsteps firm. And you know you talked 603 00:41:20.400 --> 00:41:23.599 about job. I always I always tell people when things go you know, 604 00:41:24.039 --> 00:41:27.440 why is it? Why aren't things happening? You know, why is it 605 00:41:27.519 --> 00:41:30.800 not? I said, Look at Joshua in the Battle of Jericho, Right, 606 00:41:30.119 --> 00:41:34.679 you heard that story about what they do they just keep just keep walking? 607 00:41:35.159 --> 00:41:39.079 Really, really, what's gonna happen? And that's and that's what it 608 00:41:39.119 --> 00:41:44.840 is. Until you've been through that muck. You know what it's like when 609 00:41:45.079 --> 00:41:47.440 you know people, you know, he said, Beasley's been hey, right, 610 00:41:47.480 --> 00:41:52.079 we've all had that that believers understand. They've had their moments of where 611 00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:57.199 something bad has has really happened, and it's it's weathering that storm because it's 612 00:41:57.559 --> 00:42:00.320 I remember Pastor telling me. He said, it's not gonna be easier, 613 00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:05.360 but it will be better. I thought about that for a secondment. That 614 00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:08.760 makes sense, So you know what, it's right because there's times when you 615 00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:14.559 want to yell and just just be why is this? And he realized And 616 00:42:14.679 --> 00:42:16.039 when you do that, all of a sudden, you sometimes the answers come 617 00:42:16.039 --> 00:42:20.760 to you. You go, I understand, I get it. I got 618 00:42:20.760 --> 00:42:23.079 it right. So that was your moment where you had it and understanding. 619 00:42:23.119 --> 00:42:27.880 But it's um but how people can see it and you did it with a 620 00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:30.760 smile on your face. I remember that year you were gone of you know, 621 00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:34.360 you know, where's bees? How's he doing right? And all this? 622 00:42:34.519 --> 00:42:37.960 So were you really during that time were you in touch with baseball at 623 00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:42.599 all or is it just a complete step back for a year. No, 624 00:42:42.760 --> 00:42:45.960 I was. I was. I was still with the team. I just 625 00:42:45.079 --> 00:42:47.440 you know, I wasn't coaching third, but I was, you know, 626 00:42:47.480 --> 00:42:52.840 the doctor because I had the port in here from the treatments. But the 627 00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:55.480 doctor wouldn't meet him, want me stand because I would have actually stood out 628 00:42:55.519 --> 00:42:59.679 there and I would you know, Spike, Spike coach third that year. 629 00:43:00.280 --> 00:43:04.880 I was SPI going, But I am. I felt like I was. 630 00:43:05.400 --> 00:43:07.920 I didn't want to like succumb to cancer. Like I was like, I'm 631 00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:12.639 gonna keep doing my stuff, Like I was still going to practice. I 632 00:43:12.719 --> 00:43:15.079 was still hitting ground balls.

Like when I was having treatment. I used 633 00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:20.480 I used to have to wear the the treatment that the drip for forty eight 634 00:43:20.480 --> 00:43:23.920 hours. Yeah, and so I think my my batters getting trying to get 635 00:43:23.920 --> 00:43:28.719 a little here and I um and I was still doing They were like, 636 00:43:28.719 --> 00:43:32.000 what are you doing out here? Well? I wanted to maintain a normal, 637 00:43:32.119 --> 00:43:36.719 my normal lifestyle. And uh, I wasn't gonna lay down and be 638 00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:39.559 like, oh I'm down and out. I wouldn't do that. The bobbles 639 00:43:39.599 --> 00:43:44.159 just did then, habitten, she should not should not say I'm sick, 640 00:43:44.920 --> 00:43:49.320 don't say it, And I never said it. I just I did what 641 00:43:49.400 --> 00:43:52.079 I could do, you know, I just had treatments and stuff like that. 642 00:43:52.159 --> 00:43:57.599 Then I just respected that process. But I wasn't Uh, I wasn't 643 00:43:57.639 --> 00:44:01.719 going to lay down and to come to it. And it's and the amazing, 644 00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:07.039 Like I said, the story that you can tell people of of asking 645 00:44:07.079 --> 00:44:09.559 about how right, because you know, we're seeing a lot more and more 646 00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:14.000 cancer, you know, coming up with people and stuff. And the story 647 00:44:14.039 --> 00:44:15.599 that you tell, well, you know, when somebody comes up to you 648 00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:17.719 and they just say, hey, hey, Tony, how did you How 649 00:44:17.719 --> 00:44:21.920 did you handle this? And you tell them you start talking about Jesus and 650 00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:24.679 God and so it's a hard pill for some people to swallow. It is 651 00:44:24.719 --> 00:44:28.440 so so when when it is, when it is that hard pill for them 652 00:44:28.440 --> 00:44:32.639 to swallow, how do you navigate that? I just tell my story, 653 00:44:32.679 --> 00:44:37.679 man, and uh, I don't navigate it. I just tell it. 654 00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:42.079 And uh, because if someone asked, then I have to tell the truth. 655 00:44:42.280 --> 00:44:45.320 And uh, the truth is that you know, everything that happened to 656 00:44:45.360 --> 00:44:47.360 me was God. It wasn't. Nothing that I've done on my own is 657 00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:51.840 not that I'm deserving. Well, it's his grace and his mercy, and 658 00:44:51.880 --> 00:44:54.559 I'm thankful that, you know, tried to live a life that's that pleases 659 00:44:54.639 --> 00:44:59.280 him and that he find favor and he found favor in me man, and 660 00:44:59.360 --> 00:45:05.000 that the blood Jesus healed healed my body. And I don't I don't sugarcoat 661 00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:08.280 it, and I don't navigate it. I just tell it. And because 662 00:45:08.639 --> 00:45:12.840 my story is what it is, and it can only be told one way, 663 00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:17.559 because it only happened one way, and and I just hope people can 664 00:45:17.679 --> 00:45:22.119 see that and accept that. But I have to tell it. It's like 665 00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:27.519 the Gospel. We have to tell the Gospel as it is, and people 666 00:45:27.559 --> 00:45:30.880 have a choice to accept the reject Christ. And so our stories. You 667 00:45:30.920 --> 00:45:35.239 know, when Christ has dump something in your life, you have to tell 668 00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:38.599 that and give him glory for that. And hopefully people can accept that. 669 00:45:38.920 --> 00:45:45.199 But I won't. I will never navigate it. Yeah. And here you 670 00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:51.360 are now it's what eight years now, ye seven? Yeah, year seven 671 00:45:51.559 --> 00:45:54.760 of this and here you are just continuing stronger than ever of you know, 672 00:45:54.880 --> 00:45:58.760 third base coach with the Rangers this year. I've never the last few years 673 00:45:58.760 --> 00:46:01.519 have been kind of a struggle, to say the least, as far as 674 00:46:01.800 --> 00:46:06.239 you know, on the field, um, you know with bringing in Boat 675 00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:09.679 an old school guy. You're an old school guy. You know mad Dogs 676 00:46:09.679 --> 00:46:14.280 there as well, another old school guy. You hopefully you can kind of 677 00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:19.119 flip this script to get back to baseball and when we were playing it, 678 00:46:19.239 --> 00:46:23.800 right, I'm yeah, and that and that's what you want. That's what 679 00:46:23.880 --> 00:46:28.199 the fans. The fans want us. They want to see the old school 680 00:46:28.199 --> 00:46:32.039 of the small ball stuff. And you see and and you know the rules 681 00:46:32.039 --> 00:46:36.360 and how they've changed, and I don't. It's tough, right, It's 682 00:46:36.480 --> 00:46:38.280 sometimes it's still hard to watch, you know, and I'm sure it was 683 00:46:38.320 --> 00:46:42.760 for you for a while watching out there how the game was going, um 684 00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:45.599 and seeing that, but you're understanding if like you said, there's there's life 685 00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:47.639 the end of the tunnel of seeing it right, it's just about having that 686 00:46:47.719 --> 00:46:53.000 faith and understanding that it's there. Guys, we've just gotta so. I 687 00:46:53.039 --> 00:46:57.039 mean, so there's you know, let's let's last year. I just real 688 00:46:57.079 --> 00:47:00.880 quick that you're the managing part of it. Well you were when you got 689 00:47:00.920 --> 00:47:05.719 those the last one was at forty or fifty games, eighty forty eight games? 690 00:47:06.800 --> 00:47:12.719 Did that change the juices that the adrenaline back to Tony Beasley minor league 691 00:47:12.719 --> 00:47:16.360 manager. Did you have that or was it just I'm still just the third 692 00:47:16.360 --> 00:47:21.559 base coach feeling mentality or did it kind of just flip? Yeah, you 693 00:47:21.599 --> 00:47:23.800 know what,

it was kind of weird. Um, I think when you 694 00:47:23.920 --> 00:47:28.559 take over the interim spot, like like we had forty eight games left, 695 00:47:28.559 --> 00:47:32.480 and uh, the season was already tough, and a lot of you know, 696 00:47:32.760 --> 00:47:36.159 it had kind of been the one to say was lost, but it 697 00:47:36.239 --> 00:47:39.159 was you got forty eight games, not that you have one hundred and forty 698 00:47:39.159 --> 00:47:45.039 eight. You have forty eight left, and it's kind of tough to It 699 00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:52.119 was tough to to find like how to make change with forty eight games left 700 00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:54.000 too, And so there were certain things I felt like we could do, 701 00:47:54.639 --> 00:47:59.559 but then there were certain things I felt like you just can't do in forty 702 00:47:59.599 --> 00:48:05.639 eight days with a team that's already kind of set and how it's how it's 703 00:48:05.639 --> 00:48:07.719 going to be in its personality and identity. It's it's tough to change the 704 00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:13.360 identity with that little bit of time left and pretty much no hopes for the 705 00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:17.079 playoffs, and so, you know, I just felt like, you know, 706 00:48:17.159 --> 00:48:22.119 let's enjoy the last forty eight games. Let's play hard, let's try 707 00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:25.440 to you know, finish the season with some dignity and keep our heads up 708 00:48:25.440 --> 00:48:30.000 so that we could get some momentum coming into this year. Uh, there 709 00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:35.800 were some things internally that we wanted to do differently. It just just from 710 00:48:35.800 --> 00:48:38.039 a team concept, you know, and just have a good atmosphere in the 711 00:48:38.079 --> 00:48:44.400 clubhouse and make sure that that you create a brotherhood and that everybody's together and 712 00:48:44.480 --> 00:48:49.119 playing for each other. I didn't want the forty eight games to be you 713 00:48:49.159 --> 00:48:53.119 know, bloom and doom, you know, coming in the clubhouse with a 714 00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:58.519 bad feeling, a negative attitude and just not feeling good about your day. 715 00:48:58.679 --> 00:49:01.239 And so we wanted to have we we wanted to have fun, enjoy those 716 00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:06.119 last forty eight Thames. But it was it was it was a challenge because 717 00:49:06.119 --> 00:49:08.559 there were certain things that that I just didn't have the freedom to do. 718 00:49:09.599 --> 00:49:14.840 Um stepping in at that point, and uh, there were things that you 719 00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:17.400 were asked to do. Is like, you know, you didn't know if 720 00:49:17.400 --> 00:49:22.719 it was the timing was right, and you know, being the third base 721 00:49:22.800 --> 00:49:27.679 coach and now being the manager and being the interim manager and the prospect of 722 00:49:28.280 --> 00:49:31.079 you know, what's going to happen next year, so it's a fine line 723 00:49:31.119 --> 00:49:36.880 between the compromising relationships and certain things. Uh. So I could this year, 724 00:49:36.920 --> 00:49:38.679 I'm the third base coach again, so you know, there were certain 725 00:49:38.719 --> 00:49:43.679 things that I could have done it possibly compromise you know, you know, 726 00:49:43.760 --> 00:49:47.480 my relationship with players and things if I've been too strong in certain areas. 727 00:49:49.599 --> 00:49:52.440 And so I feel like I would have loved to have the opportunity to have 728 00:49:52.519 --> 00:49:59.559 a whole spring training to to get the team, uh with my thoughts and 729 00:49:59.719 --> 00:50:04.400 the I felt like we should approach the game and play fundamentally and and things 730 00:50:04.400 --> 00:50:07.400 of that nature. But you know, Boat is here now and he's doing 731 00:50:07.440 --> 00:50:13.480 a great job, and I'm just thankful that you know that I'm still here 732 00:50:13.519 --> 00:50:15.679 with him. But uh, it was it was it was tough, it 733 00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:20.159 was fun, it was fun. It was it was a learning experience for 734 00:50:20.239 --> 00:50:22.960 me. Um. But it wasn't the same as when I'm managed it in 735 00:50:23.079 --> 00:50:29.920 my leagues because I just didn't have just the ability to start from scratch and 736 00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:35.360 to to to really build a team chemistry and identity to what I would have 737 00:50:35.559 --> 00:50:38.280 wanted to be. Uh. But you know, I'm thankful for the opportunity 738 00:50:38.320 --> 00:50:43.920 and just tried to make the most out of it. Yeah, it's yeah, 739 00:50:44.119 --> 00:50:45.920 it's kind of one of those where he was fired and hey, beast, 740 00:50:45.960 --> 00:50:49.920 you're managing more and you've right, You've got a short amount of time, 741 00:50:50.480 --> 00:50:52.880 so you're right there as far as your philosophy, what what do I 742 00:50:52.920 --> 00:50:55.559 have time? Do I have more time here to get these guys just to 743 00:50:55.800 --> 00:51:00.800 because it could have been the character builder for them. Guys. This this 744 00:51:00.880 --> 00:51:04.760 is going to define, you know, how you handle yourselves right twenty years 745 00:51:04.760 --> 00:51:07.199 from now, you know the last forty eight games where you were out, 746 00:51:07.360 --> 00:51:10.440 but this is the maybe this is the mark that you had a chance to 747 00:51:10.840 --> 00:51:14.960 do that and you won't now right away to see, but right now it 748 00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:19.960 looks like it's been a good fit so far from for maybe those forty eighth 749 00:51:19.960 --> 00:51:22.239 that you had last year carrying it into this year. Yeah, yeah, 750 00:51:22.280 --> 00:51:25.960 I mean I felt like that we did bill some momentum. U. I 751 00:51:27.039 --> 00:51:30.559 felt like we kept them around up and you know, we kept some guys 752 00:51:30.559 -->

00:51:34.639 going, some guys finished and had had good years and didn't want guys to 753 00:51:34.719 --> 00:51:37.239 waste the rest of their season. One of guys to finish strong, and 754 00:51:37.320 --> 00:51:40.519 a lot of guys achieved a lot of stuff. You know, Nate Lowell 755 00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:47.039 won the Silver Slugger Award at his best offensive year so far, and things 756 00:51:47.079 --> 00:51:51.480 of that nature. So you know, Marcus finished strong, Seeger finished strong. 757 00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:53.159 You know, those guys played to the end, man, and they 758 00:51:53.199 --> 00:51:57.199 played hard to the end, you know. So you know, our core 759 00:51:57.280 --> 00:52:00.440 group of players, they continued to post up and do good things for us. 760 00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:05.280 So I feel like I felt like it did and it did. Record 761 00:52:05.280 --> 00:52:07.199 wise, it didn't end like we wanted it too, but I felt like, 762 00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:10.840 you know, effort and things that we need to accomplish as far as 763 00:52:10.920 --> 00:52:17.039 team unity and camaraderie, I felt like it went well. Yeah, I 764 00:52:17.079 --> 00:52:22.840 think it the whole finished up here. I think it goes to Tony Beasley 765 00:52:22.920 --> 00:52:25.880 as a man of weathering the storm right you. It was already a bad 766 00:52:25.880 --> 00:52:30.920 storm at that point, and you're giving the keys to this saying here you 767 00:52:30.920 --> 00:52:32.360 go, Bees, and it was just you were able just to keep it 768 00:52:32.440 --> 00:52:37.039 right you. As players, you know it can go south really quick. 769 00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:42.599 Managers fired new guys in, and everybody can just kind of go their separate 770 00:52:42.599 --> 00:52:45.199 ways. But it seems like you were able to weather that storm. It 771 00:52:45.199 --> 00:52:49.199 goes back to your faith and in all of this and and seeing where it 772 00:52:49.440 --> 00:52:52.280 where it led because I saw the interviews with you, Like I said, 773 00:52:52.280 --> 00:52:54.280 you always have a smile on your face. It's it's it's a fun part 774 00:52:54.320 --> 00:52:58.079 of what it does. And it's and that's a testament just to you and 775 00:52:58.119 --> 00:53:01.960 how you were raised and you know, and if and the what you have, 776 00:53:02.239 --> 00:53:05.480 the impact you have on all these players and everything else. So I 777 00:53:05.719 --> 00:53:08.159 really commend you for that. And it's like I said, that's probably one 778 00:53:08.199 --> 00:53:10.840 of the hardest things to do in all sports. It's just to jump up, 779 00:53:10.880 --> 00:53:15.119 Hey, you gotta go right now? Wait what so? And it's 780 00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:19.000 and like I said, I commend you for that and and the effort you 781 00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:21.639 did with that and what you did with it. So you know, because 782 00:53:21.679 --> 00:53:22.880 I, like I said, always seeing you with that smile on your face. 783 00:53:22.920 --> 00:53:25.719 Man, never it never changes, never ceases to amaze me with it. 784 00:53:25.960 --> 00:53:30.559 See there it is, man, It's always there. But you know, 785 00:53:30.639 --> 00:53:34.559 I didn't one thing I didn't want to happen, um, because I 786 00:53:34.639 --> 00:53:37.360 wasn't you know, I didn't ask for that. Um, I was asked 787 00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:39.880 to do that, and uh I didn't want. Uh I want I didn't 788 00:53:39.880 --> 00:53:45.119 want to become a situation where it looked like I was lobbying to get the 789 00:53:45.199 --> 00:53:49.360 job. I still want, you know, players come first, and I 790 00:53:49.400 --> 00:53:52.559 want the players understand that that it was. It's not about me. It's 791 00:53:52.880 --> 00:53:55.039 still about you guys, and uh, you know, I'm going to back 792 00:53:55.079 --> 00:53:58.440 in support you. And you know, I want to take care of the 793 00:53:58.440 --> 00:54:00.719 players in the clubhouse. And you know, I wasn't going to do things 794 00:54:00.760 --> 00:54:05.800 that for my sake and because I didn't care about that. I care about 795 00:54:05.840 --> 00:54:08.079 the coaches that were left there, and hopefully I want to help, you 796 00:54:08.079 --> 00:54:13.360 know, preserve their jobs and things of that nature. And so it felt 797 00:54:13.360 --> 00:54:15.920 like we did a pretty good job because most of the staff is still here 798 00:54:15.920 --> 00:54:20.719 as well. So grateful for that. Yes, And sure the fans are, 799 00:54:20.800 --> 00:54:22.159 like I said, you've been grained yourself here in this community for a 800 00:54:22.159 --> 00:54:25.880 while now, and they said, the impact you have. And it'll be 801 00:54:25.880 --> 00:54:30.840 amazing to see how the Tony Beasley story finishes out here in the next twenty 802 00:54:30.840 --> 00:54:34.840 five thirty years, right just to see how you know, like you talk 803 00:54:34.880 --> 00:54:37.360 about your platform or what you can do with it, so you know, 804 00:54:38.079 --> 00:54:40.679 help fans on there get a chance just go say how to Bees and ever 805 00:54:40.719 --> 00:54:44.159 you see he's like always has a smile on his face. Just yeo, 806 00:54:44.239 --> 00:54:46.039 hey Bees, and you know it's just but like I said, you're having 807 00:54:46.079 --> 00:54:50.039 fun. You're a kid, and it's always tell people you've got to have 808 00:54:50.039 --> 00:54:52.079 a lot of little boy. You need to play this game that's becoming a 809 00:54:52.159 --> 00:54:55.119 business. And you've and you've done that, like I said, you've instilled 810 00:54:55.119 --> 00:55:00.079 done a lot of players and the impact you've had throughout your career. And 811 00:55:00.280 --> 00:55:01.800 you know, it's like I said, it's always fun. And I'm glad 812 00:55:01.800 --> 00:55:06.239 you're able to jump onto that bees and and tell this story because like I

813 00:55:06.280 --> 00:55:08.239 said, one person, one person, here's this and change them right. 814 00:55:08.280 --> 00:55:14.320 You've done your job, amen, Amen, So then I appreciate it, 815 00:55:14.360 --> 00:55:16.360 I said, jumping on here and uh, you know, off to a 816 00:55:16.400 --> 00:55:19.519 good start here at the Rangers. Like I said, you guys just just 817 00:55:19.639 --> 00:55:22.239 keep going right, one day at a time, one picture at a time. 818 00:55:22.360 --> 00:55:27.079 Right, can't we can't look, can't get if you're there to corral 819 00:55:27.119 --> 00:55:29.760 them in, right, guys, hey can't get ahead of ourselves. Like 820 00:55:29.760 --> 00:55:31.960 I said, it seems like they're having fun. Yeah, fans are enjoying 821 00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:35.760 it. Yeah, it's it's it's it's really good right now. It's good 822 00:55:35.800 --> 00:55:38.039 atmosphere, it's fun. Uh, you know, the belief and who we 823 00:55:38.079 --> 00:55:40.920 are is is strong right now. And uh, like you said, we 824 00:55:42.039 --> 00:55:45.239 just got to keep going one day at a time, and and and bringing 825 00:55:45.280 --> 00:55:50.119 that inergy and passion and and and playing the game between the lines. We 826 00:55:50.639 --> 00:55:52.480 know we still have to play good baseball. We can't just take anything for 827 00:55:52.559 --> 00:55:55.360 granted, no matter what. You know, Oakland's coming into town for us 828 00:55:55.400 --> 00:56:00.039 now. And if you take them for granted, you get beat professional baseball 829 00:56:00.039 --> 00:56:02.840 team, the major league team. And uh, so you know, you 830 00:56:02.920 --> 00:56:07.760 gotta play the game. You gotta play right, play hard, play smart, 831 00:56:07.199 --> 00:56:10.599 and be fundamentally sound and just do the right things and do what the 832 00:56:10.639 --> 00:56:15.800 game's asking you to do. And uh, we always say when means what's 833 00:56:15.840 --> 00:56:20.400 important now. And that's that's all it takes. And so just stay humble 834 00:56:20.480 --> 00:56:25.480 and make sure that we approach today like it's that last day, because yeah, 835 00:56:25.480 --> 00:56:29.000 because we never know, because it might be. That's the best advice 836 00:56:29.039 --> 00:56:30.639 I give my kids. You play every game like it's gonna be the last 837 00:56:30.679 --> 00:56:34.480 one, because one of these days it will be. That's right, exactly, 838 00:56:34.559 --> 00:56:37.280 right, man. But I appreciate Bees jumping on here man and taking 839 00:56:37.320 --> 00:56:39.679 the time, and uh, you know, good luck the rest of the 840 00:56:39.679 --> 00:56:43.480 way, and I'll be out there. I'll come see you. Come out 841 00:56:43.480 --> 00:56:45.719 there, come out there and give you a big old hug. Man, 842 00:56:45.800 --> 00:56:50.480 Come see yourself. Our relationship goes back a long long way. Come come 843 00:56:50.559 --> 00:56:52.159 see me. Please. Yeah, I will. But I appreciate it, 844 00:56:52.199 --> 00:56:55.119 bees Man, and good luck man, and we'll be in touching guys. 845 00:56:55.320 --> 00:56:59.480 Check out Tony, check out a Rangers game, go out and just say 846 00:56:59.519 --> 00:57:02.119 hello. So but I appreciate it, bees, Thanks Mann, thanks man, 847 00:57:02.119 --> 00:57:05.639 Thank you for having me on. Sir, Yes, sir, absolutely, 848 00:57:05.880 --> 00:57:07.679 thanks man. All right, let's see it