 Dude, you're a huge fan favorite in New York, and you got a lot of awesome posts on social media You're ready to break down some of your best posts. Let's do it. Let's do it. I'm excited All right first man, you know how to have fun This is actually in front of my aunt's yard during COVID and Told some of my friends that I was gonna have like a slip-and-slide in front of the house So they wanted to come over they can and this is what we got out of it And the final pose on the side baby Just making it, you know real relaxed real smooth like like like if I was diving in second base. Yes, I love it That's awesome. That's a good first one and the second one baby, dude. You love this fish man You catch some pretty big fish. Yeah, I actually bought a house in the keys in 2019 and my parents Love going to the keys and my dad actually owns a boat. So we go we do a lot of fishing in the off-season Nothing crazy. Just you know, kind of like regular fish family-oriented stuff and That's kind of like my hobby to do go fishing with my dad. Yes, one of your most popular posts Yeah, especially on Instagram show them off. I think it's the snappers the mutton snappers or something Yeah, yeah, the the barracudas among snappers the yellow tails. I mean you name it We like to do it all you dinner at the Cortez house I'm coming. All right, you love the water so much. You're also a dog guy. Yes This is this is my dog Tyson with my girl actually holding him down because we didn't want him to fall out in the water We kind of have to keep an eye out for him because he would he would dive in himself So we kind of said hey, let's let's put him on this raft. See what he does and he was acting real cool about it So we were really happy and the caption was you're missing your little guy at that point So it's hard being away from him. Yeah, you get to be together. You have such special moments like this one for sure Yeah I mean we're here for six months and he's back home my parents now So they're taking care of him but every time we get a chance with him He we try to be with him Tyson even has his own driver's license. He does. He does. I got him one There you go. All right, dude You are Miami through and through so much to the point where you got the tattoo on the right arm 305 Maybe yeah, it's something I represented, you know, since I got to high school I think who who put that in me was Geo Gonzalez. He wrapped highly of very much You know and he kind of came back to our practice when I was in high school And it's something that he engraved in me and and I like to give back and I like to show support for my city So It's fun. It's fun to to to be able to represent and to have a community and a city behind my back Oh, dude, you do big time and I love that the caption on that post was I live where you vacation Highly I might not where you might not be with you but Miami is I'm only 10 minutes, you know west from from the beach So I kind of adopted that caption and then obviously put into Hialeah now as much as you love the beach in Florida You spent some birthdays out in Colorado here. You are 26 birthday, baby. Yeah, this was 2020. I was 20 27 I live in Miami. So it's you know, sunny around and I Told my parents and and and my family and my friends that I wanted to go to the snow to see snow You know for my birthday. So they kind of you know Help me out with that and we went to Colorado and it was a great time It was our first time actually in Colorado and it was a lot. There was a lot of snow Did you do any of the the slides like This vacation looked awesome this was going around everywhere on Twitter on Instagram just everywhere this trip that you and the boys Yeah, that's a good picture. It was actually a recesses a wedding. That's right He invited us over there. So we went to Mexico. We got to check out Mexico. It was awesome. The wedding was beautiful I'm very happy that I got invited and it was it was such a cool experience because You know with baseball stuff like that I would I'd never been part of a wedding this actually my first wedding I've been to so it was pretty fun to go and Be with the guys there and and we just had a good time What a great first wedding to go to and I even saw some of your dance move on Yeah, it was fun. We had a great time. We had a great time. Yes, sir You rock the cowboy hat really well and when you go to all these different cities, you guys are last year in Chicago with my girl We went to the bean Obviously, it's you know something super famous over there in Chicago and we want to check it out She wanted to check it out, you know, we also went to the that building where the glass windows are that you can You can stand over a kind of sit on and we did that too. So it was fun Is this one of your favorite cities that you visit because it is different from the Miami's It's different. Yeah, it is different. It's nice. We had a good time. I mean, there's you know restaurants and good views I'd say it's like the top five for sure. Cool. Sweet. It's so I love this throwback picture of you right here, man rocking the shades with your dad He even has a cool throwback Florida Marlin shirt up. But you're rocking it since you're a little kid Yeah, I mean proud that you know he's a proud dad. So I think that was one of his birthday posts that I put up Just kind of you know happy the way he has brought me up and the way he raised me You know, I couldn't ask for more and he He has sacrificed so much. So I'm happy. I'm happy I can be like him or try and be like him one day. Dude. So did he have one of these chains? You know, that's that's my ghost the nose chain That's like that's like a house I went to the yard to play a winter ball and he he uh, he was in the team with us and he came in He came he came he came in one day with with a chain. I'm like, oh, I gotta take a picture with this thing Put it on with like three pounds and I was like, dude, this is insane But uh, yeah, it's a nice chain next one. So you're rocking everything cool up top and even on the bottom You got the cool spikes was dude. You kept on breaking out so many over the last few years But this one I know we talked about before. Yeah nasty nester, baby This is actually done by so by sir on instagram. Uh, he's uh, we became really good friends. Uh, even though we don't see each other much My agent kind of like put me through him and and and he's done an incredible job with designing these these cleats I basically tell him, hey have fun with them. I don't really know what I want to put in them Just give me what you got and this is what he came up with and I was real happy with them And obviously social media was real happy with them too. So It was a fun shoe and it was it was nice for him to to do that for me Yeah, man, you guys make a cool one-two punch and you mentioned georg and dolls before how inspirational he's been and right here So this is even back in high school right when you started wearing like I was saying he's like the quick guy So I was in high school 2010 to 2013 and that's when he got his contract with the nationals. Okay So, you know, obviously he gets his contract. Uh, he's finally able to give back to the community Get back to the high school. So he's showing up, you know, every day I practice, you know, obviously getting ready for spring Kind of uh, show us, you know, the way it was done and the way he did it He obviously went to state champions back at our high school. So he was a big dealer too and he was able to, you know, Uh, give me some cleats and I was I was so excited to wear them when I got him I was the only guy with with with jordyn cleats on my on my feet. I'm like, oh man, I'm the man Dude, yeah, nothing like fresh jays And speaking of the man, dude, you're the man on the golf course. This ball went straight I don't know how you feel about your swing. One of the few You know what I'm not a good golfer. I started golfing maybe like four or five years ago Uh, I just picked up a stick and just started hitting them as I went. Uh, never took any glasses I'm like a 90 to 100 shooter right now. So it's not that great You got the righty swing going, but it's something that I would think that you're good at based off of this Lefty draw at the at the bowling alley. Yeah, it's all right. It's something I like to do. Uh, also my friends, uh You know, basically what we do is like the weekends. We'll pick out a day and and we'll go have fun and stuff like that So bowling is one of our favorites, uh, I have three or four friends that are actually pretty decent bowling And I consider myself a decent bowler even though I don't you know score anywhere, you know, like the Pros but um It's something I like to do and and and I guess, you know, since my strike throwing, uh Abilities, I probably could bow a little better too. So dude watch out mookie. Best No, no, he's really good. He's riding it on the board. Where was this man? This is in the dr Okay, um I had a friend over there that played with the Yankees and the miners But he was already retired and when I was playing with the strayas down there during winter ball He invited me to his house and he had a few horses down there that and I tell him Hey, I want to you know do something cool or whatever. So he's like, I got you. Don't worry I'm gonna surprise you and this is what he came up with. So I was we're horseback riding. All right turtles You probably know where this is going right now But turtles too. So at the time of this picture, this guy was 42 years old He's probably still living and kicking it for now and probably another 50 years because these things lift forever Dude, that's a that's a you're a big animal guy. Yeah, it was really heavy. Uh, this is actually one of my cousin's house He's a big nature guy Does a lot of flowers. There's a lot of birds Sells birds by birds ships birds. So and he had this turtle in his backyard So I I decided to carry it to picture was really heavy by the way Dude, yeah, how big you think that was like weight wash. I want to say like 50 or 60 pounds Wow. Yeah, it was heavy and you're in the cage I'm in the cage and I kind of like went in there and held it up Hopefully it didn't bite me or anything like that. So I was holding it like with fear and he took the picture and I just ran out All right, so of course we talked about the fan favorite This is probably one of the biggest ones and actually probably where you saw the the power of social media Was when bronxy came into the picture, man Around the club. I was like, hey, should we do something for the team? Like, you know, I didn't want to be the guy to initiate You know bringing a mascot into the clubhouse So, you know people guys through ideas out and we're like, hey, why don't we bring a turtle and kind of just went to the locals You know pet shop and and bought a turtle bought a tank bought rocks about you know, everything that's needed for a turtle food obviously And brought it into the clubhouse on there like man, you're freaking crazy. What are you doing? I'm like, hey guys wanted this and so kind of at first everybody was like, uh, I don't know and this and that and then I think we got like in a little streak and everybody's like, uh, the turtle's doing its magic, you know and I mean, we just everybody adopted it. Honestly, everybody in the team was was was really welcoming They you know, it was everybody was with the open arms Uh, we would take it to the hotel once we weren't on the field Obviously would bring it to the field when we were there So I heard one of the clubhouse guys, uh, took care of it while they reallocated it to a to any home So maybe like a month or two back they, uh, put it in a community center in new york Oh, great. Yeah, so they everybody could go visit. Yeah, bronxie. Yeah, so they made a huge deal about it I think they welcomed it like with welcome bronxie and like a nice a nice sort of home for him So yeah, we're happy that he's still alive and that he's still in new york Yeah, and yeah, no, like you said, he was he was great to help the team rally and uh, and and I think What you brought inside the clubhouse and onto the field has been awesome We see them the mustache obviously like the the gear that you rock and everything like that And we even saw the t-shirts and everything so it's everything was a great combination of stuff to make you fan favorite here in new york Yeah, last year was was was pretty special Obviously not only with the success, but you know how people adopted me in new york and and you know people were following my career so It was cool. It was cool to you know be part of something big obviously near yankees and And it was it was fun to help out the team, you know win some games Awesome. Well, we see all of your social media posts. What would you say is your favorite part about social media? My favorite part, uh, I think that we can stay connected through Through our social life, you know daily, uh, obviously, you know, we you know, there's guys that follow the brawn james, you know You know different different athletes that are that are super super huge And it's fun to stay connected with those guys and see what they're doing and see how they do it And and obviously like back going back to the baseball like, you know videos of mov videos of sports center videos of espn like Oh man, what did you know so and so did in oakland today and we can see that So I think the way that we can see things and not only wait to get to our our room and see and watch on tv, you know Uh, social media does a good job of doing that and and obviously, you know There's people using it for advertisement and stuff like that and and promos and So I think it's it's grown a lot in the last few years and and I think it's going in the right way Big time now for everybody at home I know they got a lot of great proof of why they should follow you just off of this conversation But why should somebody follow you? Um, I think uh, I think I keep good good good content on my instagram. Yes. Um, I like to keep Something that I I kind of did over the years was like, you know, I'm 510. I throw 90 miles 90 miles per hour You know, there's a lot of kids back home that can relate to me, you know You know, not only you can throw 100 and and make it to big leagues You know, if you do more power to you, you know, congratulations But I feel like, uh, you know, even like there's post that I'm on my on on my instagram We're like, I'm throwing a bullpen in between two boats or I'm throwing a bullpen in a backyard Um, you know, you don't really need a nice facility to go out there and do your thing. So Hopefully I can keep inspiring all those kids, uh, you know to to keep pushing forward and no matter what the circumstances are There's always a way a way out Dude, you said it best and now's the time for the plug Where could everybody at home follow you on social media shoot out your handles It's uh, Nestor Cortez 12. Uh, that's that's my my instagram handle. So hopefully you guys can follow me