 You are probably one of the top five files in baseball on Instagram. Sweet. So I pulled up some pictures from your Instagram feed. You ready to check it out? Sweet. This morning on the way to the stadium. I took a luggage truck. I woke up too late. And I missed the bus. So I was going to get an Uber and the guy was like, hey now we'll take you. We'll take you. I was like, what? He wrote the cooking truck on it? Yeah. It's better if he wrote in the back. With the luggage? Just getting all banged up. Got to be a part of everything. Be a part of the whole entire process that no one ever sees. Everyone just sees the major leagues and sees the field and all this kind of stuff. They have no idea that guys are underneath hitting, stretching, trying to get their bodies ready just to come out here and perform for actual 12 minutes of concentration. All right. The fat cow, the cow coming towards the donut. Someone sent that too and I was like, I got to be posted. The cow just like walking. That's me as soon as I see a donut. Yeah, I got it. I'm coming. But like I said, living out where I live in Maryland, you know, you got cows out there and I've definitely fed the cows. So it's kind of, it's kind of, you know, kind of hard on me. So one of your best performing posts actually was with the donuts. I'm telling you, man, I'm sentimental towards donuts. Who doesn't like donuts? People that don't like donuts is like saying you don't like breathing. You can't be friends with somebody who doesn't like donuts. Yeah, it's like that Maya Angelou post. You can't be friends with someone who doesn't like laugh. You can't trust them. You don't like donuts? Like seriously, you might like tasty cakes. Get like something sweet. Okay. I know sugar's bad. I get all that. Damn it. I want some donuts. You love donuts so much that you even put some on your cleats. My donut monarchs. You're filming those of the Homer Simpsons. These were going around social media too. These are a big hit, man. They still are a big hit. But I might wear them today. I brought them. And players weekend. KD Custom Kicks. Man. Look at those. Laentes. The monarchs. I mean, if you look at them, they're monarchs. And every dad in America's had them. You're going to have them soon. You'll catch them around the stadium if you just look. Trust me. Look down at people's feet. You'll see the monarchs. Those weren't as heavy as I thought. They had a couple hits the first day. The second day they didn't have no hits. So I didn't wear them the third day. You're trying to bring these bad boys back. Knock yourself out like throughout the league. I mean, everybody. I want people to wear monarchs. I want to. So for Christmas this year, I'm giving my brothers and my cousins all the men in my family. I'm giving them all monarchs. First off, they're 50 bucks. So I'm saving a lot. And they're comfortable. I think those are like 4E wide. Wow. Space shuttles. So I'll see you on Christmas. Yeah. 11 and a half. Now you also love cooking. This is years ago. So my best friend, Charity, we came. Me and my wife came up to New York. We were making pasta. It was good. We all made our own pastas. Made raviolis and... How'd it come out? We... Oh, it came out great. Nice. We didn't expect anything less. And you get it popping in your own kitchen. Oh, yeah, for sure. The real sous chef. Me? The best sous chef in America. The best sous chef in America. And here you are with your family. Your Christmas photo. In San Diego! You see his son? Only reason why we wore long sleeve pajamas is because we took a picture. I took that stuff off. And this next one. Boom. You feel me? 14 years old right there. Bello. In Spanish, bello. It means handsome. We're sitting on La Jolla Cove. I remember those batting gloves. This is 1999. So those batting gloves are some of my favorite pair of batting gloves that I obviously can't find today, but... So that's a good spot to take photos in front of the water, right? La Jolla Cove? Man, Christmas photo, Facebook photo. This is the shores. This is the shore side. This is me spending my money where I live at. This is the team taking transportation over to La Jolla Cove. Because we couldn't... The otherwise ain't allowance there. So it's two transformations that, you know, I get that 14, take a picture in La Jolla Cove and at 33, I get to live in La Jolla. Some more cool pictures. You've got these baseball cards. I sign a lot of baseball cards in off-season for tops and collectors and all that stuff. And some are really, really cool. A lot of the one-on-ones are really cool to pick. It's crazy, though, is I sign the card. But whoever gets them asks me again, can you sign this? I'm like, I signed the card. It's like, what do you want me to sign twice? So they want two autographs on one. A lot of people want a lot of things, man. So that's crazy. So you go from this baseball photo to actually having your own baseball card. That's got to be another crazy dream, right? This whole process has been a dream. It's been a fantasy. I mean, no one understands what it is to be a Major League player. And no one understands what it's to be a Major League player that, you know, like myself has sustained time and there's plenty of players on the other side who've done the same. And it's a dream come true. It's a pretty sweet card. You're known for throwing a pie, too, as some people. I missed the pies. It was a part of the, it was a culture. We started in 09 and it just graduated. And if you see, I'm really toned in that picture. Got a great physique. Straight Beach body workouts out in San Diego. You were filming Lifted Sand. But it's great that it was just a part of our celebrations. And, you know, I may have hit a couple of people too hard, but it was part of it. And it was part of the excitement. The fans really loved it, really enjoyed everything of it. They looked forward to it. You know, it was one camera. After the game, post-game interviews, it turned out to be, you know, 10 to 15 cameras. And then the fans stayed just for that moment because they knew I was coming with a pie. I tasted every pie before I launched it into someone's face. So we got a couple more. This one, you always got to reflect. Here you go. My fall league jersey. I still have that jersey. My mom finally gave it back to me. My mom got all my original stuff, all my firsts. And it took, oh, painstaking to get all that stuff back. She still has my first hitting ball and my first home run ball. But everything else, I had to get back. She's like, no, I want it. Can I get it back, woman? She's like, no. A couple bribings, a couple vacations, some patience. So you were able to get the right jersey back from her? I got, yeah. Because you got this one and you got the other one. I got number 25 and the number 10. And I got all those jerseys back from her, yep. And trust me, that woman's a tough negotiator. I learned my negotiating from my mama. You might have to hire her as an agent. My mama does my taxes. She does the first part of my taxes. I started making more money. She's like, yeah, it's a little different, son. So with Instagram, you also do a great job freezing awareness. And you always have. My tailgate. My six-annual tailgate is coming up. The best part about it, though, is the Raiders is coming. Oakland, a team that, you know, obviously I'm from San Diego. So I hate the Raiders. CeCe is supposed to be at the tailgate. Obviously he's a big Raiders fan. He's going to get a lot of flack for it. And I love his comment towards that. He said, I'm six, seven. What are they going to do to me? Are you going to beat me up? No, what it is, what you want. But the tailgate's been amazing. Low-cash has came out the last two years. They've been, their music has been blowing up. But what I called it is Baltimore helping Baltimore. I don't ask my outside friends. I don't ask my agents in LA. I don't ask people in different cities. I ask Baltimore to help your city. Everybody's saying, you know, in all cities, New York has problems. In England, it's problems. But if you invest in your city, invest in the kids in your community, you can reap that benefit. If you can change the culture of these 10, 11 to 14-year-old kids, change their mindset as they get to 15, 17, and become an adult, that goes a long way. A lot of people are scared to talk to these kids because, now I don't know why. To be honest, a lot of people are scared. Me, I've never been scared to talk to these kids. Because me, I see myself in these kids. I see kids that just need some help, need a branch of life. And a lot of people don't understand living in the inner city, living in the hood is not easy. It's stressful. It's depressing. You don't have resources. A lot of these kids, they need schooling simply to get meals. But, you know, a lot of the upper echelon, they care. A lot of people don't care for these kids. And me, and my wife, my family, we've been fortunate enough, obviously been blessed on the field to be able to do things off the field. And it's just been rewarding to see kids you don't know, but kids that are very similar to you have an opportunity now. And that's all I try to do is create an opportunity for these kids to do something. Now, whatever they want to do is up to them. But I'm just trying to give them an opportunity to be somebody. And it's awesome to see these kids that want to be somebody and fight to be somebody. So now, whether it's giving back, creating fun hashtags, like Stay Hungry, which is huge. What's your favorite part about Instagram? My favorite part of Instagram, I think, is just, it's the interaction obviously with fans, but it's the awareness that you can create. Just all social media in general, the reach you can create with it. You know, like I said, I've been able to meet some great people. I've helped out and they've helped me out in various things. I've been able to mentor random high school kids. I've told people I've always been open book and I've had a lot of high school kids just hit me up, send me their videos of them hitting and, hey, can you give me any idea? And I tell them all the time, you better than me. Can you give me any tips? But it's like the reach that you have with it is something you can't describe. And it's cool to be able to reach out to the people that support you, the people that come out and appreciate your work and say, obviously, you have to take the good with the bad and there's more good than the bad. But it's always been cool to interact with the people that really support you and find your craft to be amazing. It's time for the plug. Why should somebody follow you? I don't want to plug. You don't want to plug. You don't need to plug. Your content speaks for itself. You're lucky I let you into my life.