 Hey, everybody, yes, we're here. Again, it's Bob Lorenz and Paulo Neal with you today, doing our best at social distancing. We're several states away or beyond, Paul. Hey, I wanted to talk to you about experiences. Everybody has these defining experiences in their lives, some big, some little. And everybody Yankees fan knows, we'll get to your baseball career in a minute. You like to eat. It's close to your heart. Food is close to your gut as well. I mean that in a good way. You don't really have a gut. But anyway, let's talk about your tastiest or biggest go-to ballpark foods. What do you got? You know, looking back on when I was playing, some of the spreads were the same in every city. I was a big Mexican guy, so going down to Texas and Arlington, they always had a great spread of pure Tex-Mex food. Believe it or not, the last day in Boston was always good. We had Boston cream pie, lobster tails. The only thing about Boston was the locker room was so small that there's nothing like enjoying a lobster tail and some Boston cream pie with some hairy dude in a towel walking right by you. It didn't go together, but those two come to mind. It's like when you go to a party and there's no place to put your drink and your food and you're trying to eat and it's just a small area, right? So all right, so ballpark food you've covered. And I'm thinking like I have to have a hot dog when I go though. I know you eat right and take care of your body. Are you a hot dog at the ballpark kind of guy or not? I think I was when I was little. The one thing I never understood was cotton candy. It looks so good, but it's horrible. I'm sorry, it just, it looks good. It's blue, it's pink. It looks great on kids lips. It's just no good. Ice cream, huge fan. Pretzels, huge fan. Pizza in our booth, the biggest fan of all time. All right, you're sending Nev out to get ice cream. What flavor are you asking for? I'm pretty basic. It's either vanilla or just mint chocolate chip. You know, I actually made this spoke. Maybe she sends you out to get ice cream. I have a lot of chores now. I've had you, I do all kinds of stuff. Believe me, I didn't know so many things went on the line. This would be a great time for you to visit our house. It is spotless. Really? Because we do nothing but housework all day. I can imagine you're to-do list today. All right, so let's keep it with food. But what is the weirdest food you've ever eaten? When I was young, I had frog legs. It's the only time I've tried frog legs, no? I had frog legs. We used to, when we went to Milwaukee back in the old days as the American League team, and Bob Whitman was part of the team, he would bring in like, you know, jerky of bratwurst jerky and deer jerky, stuff like that. I just, I never got it. I tried it, act like I liked it, but it wasn't a big fan. All right, move on to experiences about you in baseball. Experience first time ever walking into a major league clubhouse. What was going through your head? Yeah, I remember being called up my first year in 85 and was greeted by Pete Rose, who was the manager at the time. And he told me, you know, you had a great year. We are in a pennant run. You're probably not gonna get much playing time. So sit, learn, enjoy. And so I did everything until day one. We went into extra innings and he told me to grab a bat. Let's go, it's time for you to pen chip. So he kind of like welcomed me, relaxed me. And then three hours later, told me to grab a bat your head. Love it. Now it's different walking into an all-star clubhouse because it's not all guys you know, it's not your buddies, but it is your peers. It is guys you obviously have a lot of respect for. How are you in an all-star clubhouse? I'm guessing it's like everybody, it's Paul O'Neill. It's funny, you do kind of peek around. And it's funny because the first one you go to, you are kind of starstruck because there's some guys, you look around and at the time, my first all-star game, I looked back, it was in Toronto and Cal Ripken Jr. and Andre Dawson and guys that are there every single year. It's just another day. But you know, as a young kid that makes it for the first time, you do kind of look around and see what the stars do. Now part of those all-star experiences, everybody signs for each other, jerseys, balls, that kind of thing. Is there anybody you ever kind of were intimidated by? Like, I really would love as an autographer to meet him, but I'm a little nervous to meet him. Not, I mean, not players-wise that you were playing with at the time. You know, Joe DiMaggio was the one guy that I wanted an autograph and I did send the bat boy up and the first time I sent him up, Mr. DiMaggio said, hey, I'm not signing today and I'm like, okay, I'm glad I didn't ask. I didn't look like a fool, right? But the next year, he walked over to my locker and said, kid, you still want that autograph and I couldn't grab a bat fast enough. To this day, I still have that bat. I had one Joe Di moment. I was covering the all-star game in San Diego years ago and they were doing, they played a natural like old-timers game then and I was standing there just watching it as a member of the media and I turned to my right and Joe Di was standing there. Typical Joe Di, full suit. I was gonna say, did he have the suits in tiling? And that was one of those like, whoa, moments, you know? It's Joe Di, it's not just anybody. You know what, when I was traded over, I had those moments the first time I took the field, I walked out and you know, you see Whitey Ford, you see Joe DiMaggio, you see Reggie Jackson, Yogi Berra and they just, these iconic names, all of a sudden, you knew them as people and I think that's one of the best things that the Yankees do is still bring back some of the old guy named Mickey Mantle. I mean, just to see that smile, I mean, you see a picture, but to see it in life, those are times that you don't forget. All right, so how was old-timers day? Glad you said that, changed for you. Like from the first time you went to now where we've got a mic and an earpiece on you and you're running around and hoping you get a groove in the fastball. You know, the first time I played, I thought, you know what, I'm hitting third or fourth. I'm one of the best, but I don't even know if I can make the lineup anymore. I usually hurt something coming out. So I'm much more at home in the old-timers day now than I was when I was younger, I believe. But there's a problem here because it seems like over the past couple of years, David Cone has been, I don't wanna say dodging you, but intentionally sending up sort of pitching assassins to get you out. Like I think Nellie, all of a sudden, you think you're getting a pitch from your yes, now we're colleague in David Cone. Oh, there's Jeff Nelson throwing heat at you. Yeah, it's not right. I figure I'm hitting second or third in the lineup. I get the starter, right? Last year they brought in Mariana who about broke my thumb with this cutter. He told me he laid right in there for me. I mean, yeah, you had Nellie, they brought in Graham Lloyd. You know, Coney is the ideal guy you want in the old-timers day. He can't break or paint a glass now. He puts it right there for you and he doesn't have an ego where other guys I think are still trying to get you out. That is a quote that will live forever about Coney, by the way, in his pitching. Can't break a pane of glass now. He's gonna love that, by the way. So let's shift gears a little bit. We talked about kind of the excitement or experience of going into a clubhouse. You went into a very different clubhouse in 1995. You taped an episode of Seinfeld and I'm wondering, were you nervous doing that because I hope people looking up on YouTube just put in Paul O'Neill Seinfeld. It's there and you looked like a natural. How did you do it? You know, it was funny because I didn't at the time, believe it or not, I didn't know a lot about the show and had kind of said no the first time and then was kind of re-introduced to the idea. My parents were huge fans of the show and I remember going, being picked up, we had a game in Anaheim that night. We were playing The Angels at the time. So got picked up, went to the set, was in there putting makeup on and Kramer comes in and introduces himself. You know, Mr. O'Neill, and I'm thinking, is this guy in character? Is this the way he really is? And you know, he basically was, there really was. It was a neat thing. I couldn't wait to the off season to when that episode was aired. And to this day, I still get my check from the screen actors' guild for, I don't know, 50 bucks or something. Yeah, that's great. Let's put that away. Like I said, the one thing I do remember was Kramer, I don't know if he has to do much for his character. That's basically just who he is. Right, right. Very frenetic, no doubt. Hey, so some people might not know you're a music guy too. What's the best concert you've been to and why? Best experience at a concert? Well, the most fun concert I ever went to was on a New Year's Eve. And it was a Melanchem concert in Indiana and we went and there was a break between like 11 or 12 and then he came back in and during that break we were fortunate enough to go back. And he came over and he said, you're playing the encore. I said, I'm playing the encore. I said, yeah, he's like, no, you're playing the encore. So I actually got to go up, play with the band for a couple of songs. And as I was playing, I felt like I can't hear my snare drum. There's something wrong here. I looked down, my one and only shot. My stick was broken. And so I'm looking around, looking around and I see the stick bag and I get my stick and I'm back at it now. I was grooving. But you played one time that I was a little overmatched but looking back one of the most fun times of my life. How long would you say you were playing with the broken stick? Just curious. I got, we played Gloria. Remember the old classic, Gloria? I was probably in the middle of the song when I figured out, you know what? This doesn't sound good. I don't have a good pop on my snare but once I got a full stick in hand, I was going. All right, so let's talk about a couple other things before we wrap it. Most scared or scary experience you've ever had. I can tell you probably for me thinking about it. I like roller coasters but I was unwanted. I believe it was Six Flags in Massachusetts and it's one of the ones that starts by going up, up, up, up and I hate looking up into the sky like that. I need perspective of the ground. But on the left, it was a river. So I'm just thinking, if this thing plummets, we're just falling into the water. So that was one of those like, I just saw my daughter. I'm like, I'm just looking. I'm gonna top this just because it's so recent in my mind. As I'm doing my vacuuming. Two days ago, two days ago, right? I have my ear pods in and I hear my wife screaming. So I think she broke something or something really bad happened. So I throw down the stuff, I go running in and all of a sudden I stop in iguana. You know what an iguana is? Sure, yeah. Had run in through the front door five feet long. It looked like a miniature dinosaur. Yeah, yeah. She's screaming. It scared me. I'm screaming. I'm firing towels, blankets, everything. So I tell you what, it ended up, we lassoed it, we got it out, got it outside. But I'm telling you, you run into your bedroom and you see a little dinosaur looking at you. It catches your attention. Wait a minute, how did you grab it? How did you lasso it? How did you? I went and grabbed every towel I had in the bathroom and just fired it on top of it, hoping that the thing knew that I was gonna try to be a friend and getting back outside. Yeah. Talk about just a prehistoric looking thing. When you run out of the bedroom, it's like that thing's not supposed to be there. Was it like squirming around and stuff while you were carrying it out? I think my wife's shrill screens put it in shock. Put it into a state of shock. Oh my God. It was a catatonic. Only if you pull in your Amazon box because you have everything delivered and then the iguana runs in the house, right? All right, so obviously when we put this up and I tweet about it later, it's just gonna say, wait for the iguana. That's what my headline is gonna be when we do. I will post a picture of this beauty. It's not a little tiny lizard now. Yeah, oh no. I'm telling you what. Yeah, yeah, please do. Maybe T-Rex. Bring the terror to every one of our listeners and viewers. Paul, great stuff. Want to remind our viewers, keep doing what you're doing in terms of self-quarantining, social distancing, et cetera. You can always send us emails at yesnetwork, not emails, but at yesnetwork, hashtag it yesmailbag. And then how about this, Paul? You'll be part of a show we're doing tonight at seven o'clock on Yes, right after the Michael K show. A compilation of the yes we're here like we're doing right now. So we're trying to hit as many viewers as possible and keep them again. You know what? If that's a highlight show, Bob, you and I might not be on it much. I'm just throwing that out there. Wait, what? All right, Paul, good seeing you. Talk to you soon. All right, hope you're well.