 We're ready to go saw some Instagram stories over the off-season Doing some ice fishing. Yeah We did some fishing went on some road trips buddy of mine was singing along to the radio like the whole ride It was awesome. We had a great time. Is that friend of yours a good dude to take road trips with absolutely He's my best friend back home and he's done plenty of you know road trips to go fishing before he always keeps it fun in the Car speaking of Chad the man to take the road trips with you can't escape Chad Hey, buddy, how's it going from your hometown and beautiful Ladner, British Columbia? It's time to go on another road trip. Here we go, buddy That's awesome He's got his dog with him So do you think that he does this like All the time in the car no matter what I think he doesn't mean by himself all the time The dude is a legend. Oh gosh, like I don't know Chad that well, but I want to and I think everybody who watches this Wants to be best friends with your best friend I saw the Instagram stories and right away. I was like, oh man, I got to get in touch with this guy What's the longest trip that you've done with your boys outside of baseball longest one is probably the soft season We drove like five hours. I want to say from Seattle To Idaho we caught some sturgeon the one that we got the picture with was six feet And we got a beach that one put on the waiters went out took a picture the biggest one that we caught I don't know how we did it. We snagged it on the tail and It took us like 45 minutes to bring it in because you know when you catch it on the tail They can just take off. So this thing was just fighting and fighting We had to pass the rod off a few times because it's just they're heavy, right? They fight so hard about 45 minutes later. It comes in belly up. It's like so tired We didn't get it in to To take a picture and stuff like that because it was caught in the tail We couldn't drag it to the beach, but it was definitely bigger than the six footer We caught we were guessing it was around eight feet because it was gigantic May believe tattoo on your forearm When did you get that and did you know that that was the tattoo that you were gonna get on your arm? Well, I got it in I think it was 2013 I had always wanted to get a tattoo. I just didn't know what of and I saw a Tattoo online where someone had this like same tattoo But they had a different picture on the inside and I kind of came up with the idea of getting the same thing But getting the picture that kind of meant something to me on the inside. So the inside here is just kind of like a you know scenic photo of This is Boyer Island right here and it's where my Family has a cabin actually my my grandfather bought it back in the day and he's passed away now But they still belongs to the family and they split it up. There's five siblings. They split it up They each get two weeks in the summer. I spent a lot of time there as a kid Got to hang out with my family my grandpa my cousins So we just had a great time there just reminds me of family and kind of where I'm from It sounds like you knew that when you would be getting a tattoo then that would be the one that you could get Yeah, I wanted to get something that meant something to me and felt like I finally figured it out So I went in and kind of showed them some pictures of what I wanted and they put it together for me And it was it was great and that added to your nickname. It did. Yeah, that came a few years later One of my coaches Tim Bogar told me that I needed a nickname and he he said oh Why not big maple and he must have told our head coach because he said it in an interview after a game and it just it took off and People were calm the big maple from then on You have any other ones? I don't have any other ones right now. I have been planning on getting another tattoo I just haven't got around doing it yet for some reason my off-season is just Just fill up, but I do want to do I want to finish off this arm I want to do a our beauties tree going up my My shoulder here because my grandparents on the other side of my family have this cabin On Saturn Island and they have our beauties trees that grow all around their property So I kind of wanted to do something for you know both sides of the family And you know that'll be I think a good one to kind of go up my arm and then when I talk to my shoulder I want to do like a mandala just to kind of like kind of a zen piece because I kind of feel like that's Kind of who I am as a person like pretty relaxed So I thought that would be a good good piece to get up there And then I've had people tell me I need to get something to do with the eagle put on me, too Oh, yeah, we'll see We'll see how I can fit that in yeah now Would you put the eagle tattoo on the area that like it came near you? I think so if I was gonna do it I'd probably do it on like my shoulder back here where it landed. Yeah, I don't know what I would do I'm trying to figure that out if I put like Try and do like a thing of an eagle like coming in at me and have it kind of look at backs You can see like the beak or something like that Yeah, we'll see I'll have to get some maybe pictures drawn up of that so I can Get some get some better ideas. Dude, that is a great idea. Yeah, we'll get a conversation started for sure and Man, I had so many conversations about that eagle. It was funny. Everyone wanted to know how that guy didn't run away or Swat at it or something like that. I really didn't want to swat out or anything because I figured if I you know swatted at the Symbol of America I might get deported. So it's like Somebody coming after you. I'm just gonna wear it Well looks like you knew exactly what to do like it was like super calm Yeah, for some reason. I just wasn't really that scared. You know, I don't know. I can't explain it Really it just for some reason. I wasn't uh I wasn't super afraid and when you're out in Seattle like you had the maple grill, which is your cheering section Yeah, yeah, that was awesome. Most people were a lot of fun. I actually Got a chance to meet them. They brought the group of them that kind of started it Down to the the field and I gave them some some maple bars We got to take a picture with the tree they put out there met those people Really cool people. I'm just it's it's fun that You know a game can bring together a group of people that didn't know each other previously I don't think some of them did but not all of them. It's great that they're having fun and cheering me on I really appreciate it. You know their support out there Soon after you became a Yankee Elm Street Donner up in Stanford A huge yes network favor. Yeah, they made that Big maple the stacked pancakes with the oh, yeah Maple in between the maple bacon that looked like a lot of food. Yeah, that probably would make me sick How many people you think would have to Pitch in to take that down. Oh my gosh. I would say at least four or five six people something like that because that looked like a lot of food Holy smokes and all the maple syrup. Yeah, and all the maple syrup. Holy smokes That'd be enough calories for about a week. I think Took that down by yourself An off day, you know how to spend those one time you had gone to the baseball game. Oh, yeah That was the san francisco giants, correct? Yep So we were in town playing oakland and my wife was with me and we had an off day We thought it would be fun to go to a game together Because you know, it's been forever. Usually she's just there by herself watching me It was really cool to go and Be a regular guy I watch a game with my wife and I got to explain a few things to her and just kind of take it in It was a lot of fun. We really enjoyed it. You know had a beer and a hot dog Enjoyed the game. I got a really cool vantage point for the game. I've got a nice view there and it was great I think my wife really enjoyed having me with her too. She's usually by herself So no kids, but do you have a very very cute dog? Yeah, we picked up a puppy. Name is duke Um, he's awesome, man. It's it's a lot of work. I haven't had a puppy before Uh, even neither is my wife. So it's it's definitely been an experience, but we've enjoyed it. He's uh Super cute. He's a miniature golden doodle. He's super friendly and hypoallergenic. Yes He hasn't shed very much like a little bit but very little had to come up with the name duke His name was ike actually when we first went and looked at him Which we kind of like but before we had found out that his name was ike We had decided on duke and we really liked duke. We've got a few different nicknames for him though We like calling them buzz. We're thinking we should have called them buzz. We call them buzz quite a bit My wife's got them all over instagram. All right. She knows what's up She knows what's up. She's she's huge on instagram I feel I was posting little videos of him every day and stuff like that. I post here and there I don't really have that strong of a social media game But i'm trying to throw out a few more things here and there the fishing helped this off season I got to throw out a few posts about fishing people always like seeing stuff like that anything off the field after like Yeah, what would you say is the one thing that you're looking forward to most about Experiencing new york experiencing the east coast because you've never been on the east coast or lived on the east coast really so yeah I think for me it's the fans at the stadium and how passionate they are I love it when i'm playing in a game home war road really doesn't matter if they're cheering for me or not just like the uh The energy I love the energy in the stadium when people are fired up and Passionate about the game. It just it makes it so much fun. That's one thing that I think new york Is going to bring more than anywhere else. It's just these passionate good baseball fans. I hope that uh We can win number 28 while i'm here That'd be awesome