 Four ceases and during that time Curtis Granderson was one of the most popular players in pinstripes. He had quite a few big moments too. As we continue here on BP TV the man himself joins us Curtis. Hello. We are so excited to have you with us today. First question. What have you been up to. How is life in the world of Curtis Granderson. It's been great and especially now it's starting to warm up. Summer's coming around and it looks like across the board things are opening up so I can finally get outside and enjoy summer especially here in Chicago and hopefully get a chance to get back to New York soon. We look forward to that. OK let's dig in. You were so beloved when you were here with the Yankees from your perspective. I'm curious what was it like for you being a Yankee and receiving all of that. What was crazy was being there for that time. I had the big four getting a chance to wrap up their careers with Jeter, Pettit, Posada and Rivera so playing with them and now taking a step back and looking at them and seeing wow I played on the same field with those guys. I batted after Jeter. I was catching Mariano's last out in a sage situation. You know Pettit's coming in there and picking up victories and Posada's out there doing this thing and catching and deaching and doing just amazing stuff to watch. And oh yeah I went to lunch with these guys and dinner with these guys. So all that stuff now that I sit back and look back at it it goes wow my time at the pinch strikes was truly amazing. What a picture you paid so I'm going to have to ask you to choose a few of the most favorite moments. First I'd say probably would be Jeter's three thousand hit because I was on deck for that. It was good and bad because he hits the home runs the crowd's going nuts which is crazy and obviously expected but then I'm on deck and I'm like hey everyone has to calm down I got to go hit so but it was it was awesome to get a chance to be there for it and watch him do that. Mariano when he got a chance to have guns and roses come out and do their I'm sorry Metallica come out and play for him when he entered the field at Yankee Stadium. And I would probably say the third and final one would probably be. Oh that's a good one. Wow so many different ones probably the three grand slam game would be probably a good one. You know us hitting all those home runs in that game against Oakland and breaking the record with three grand slams in a game. That's a good one. That's a good one. I was hoping you'd say that. OK. I'm going to ask you to point a finger on a few of your favorite teammates and why. C.C. Sabathia first and foremost one is the biggest. So you know you got to be friends with him. Not he's going to make sure you're friends with him but he's a big teddy bear but obviously he'll have your back in any situation. Frank Gardner still doing his thing out there and with him and I both being in the outfield bouncing back and forth between left center and right field him and I were always just talking about different things from face running to hitting to outfield and we both got it left handed. So having that in common with each other was always just really cool to get a chance to chat and talk about Marcus Thames who's now the hitting coach over there. Him and I had played together with Detroit and then got a chance to be in pinstripes with the Yankees. That's just a few of them. I mean everybody over there with that organization from Francisco Surveille to Derek Keter to let's see Romero Peña to Mark Tashira. I mean the list just goes on and on. There were just so many great guys great teammates just great people with that organization. There are a lot of amazing off the field moments as well. I'm remembering your trips to Taiwan and New Zealand. Tell us a little bit about those. If anyone doesn't know this about me I love traveling. So that's one of the things that's been tough right now in the pandemic. But there was an opportunity for me after my first season with the Yankees. They said hey we have this chance for you to head out there to Bermuda. I think I got a chance to do that one. I went to New Zealand got a chance to promote and then now Taiwan which was awesome. Robinson Cano and myself got a chance to represent the Yankees there with an all star Pat team playing against the Taiwan national team. I got a chance to bring a couple buddies with me. And it was just truly amazing. You got a chance to see baseball in another part of the country. Participate in it play in it promote it and the fans out there truly love Yankees staying with the Yankee theme. You had a lot of success while you were here. We've been talking a little bit about some of it. What do you think of the current Yankees edition. It's amazing to watch just the diversity that they have. You have power at the top of the lineup the middle of the lineup the bottom of the lineup. The guys that don't play every day bring you power and the balance that you're looking for especially as you go out there and try to battle in the AL East. I mean you look at Boston you look at Tampa even Baltimore this year is doing amazing things to start this year. So continuing to be able to slug with those teams and keep yourself in the ball game or if you happen to be behind one swing of the bat gets you right back in it. And that's what this team is really built around. It's been fun to watch. How about guys like Judge and Stanton. What do you think it would have been like for you to have guys like that in your lineup protecting you. Not that I saw a judge when he signed and I got a chance to meet him take his first bat one of his first batting practice. And with about seven swings he hit five of them over the center field wall and I remember him coming to me saying was that OK. Yeah that was more than OK. If you continue to do that it's going to be amazing. And sure enough soon after that he was making his debut with the pinstripes and he's been just going off ever since. So the power of the strength six foot eight two hundred eighty pounds followed by Stanton who's just rock hard solid just muscle when the two of those guys make contact. It's loud. It's fun to watch and you're glad you're on their team because you only can back up so far on the defensive side of things. So at least when you're on your team you have to worry about getting hit by it. I want to talk a little bit more about the great things you're doing for the game and off the field as well. And we have to talk about the players alliance and your involvement and its mission. The players alliance has been great. That's one thing that is one of the bright spots of this pandemic. We had a lot of current and former black players that were at home getting a chance to connect with each other about different things that were going on in the community that stemmed all around George Floyd and guys like Cece Sebastian who's the vice president of the players alliance myself and Edwin Jackson along with Cameron Maven who also played for the Yankees and D Gordon who were the spearheads of getting this whole thing started. So we got to do more. We got to try to get out in the community as best we can. And sure enough we started with our cross country pull up neighbor tour that actually started in New York. C.C. and Audubino and Della and the Tanzas and a few other guys were able to make it out in New York as we traveled all across the country handing out covid supplies food to those in need and of course baseball equipment. So these are some of the first and few things that we've been able to do. And hopefully the list continues to go on and on as we try to help out those in the community from where we live and where we play. Outstanding Curtis. Thank you so much for being with us today. Just great to see you. You are a forever favorite in Yankee land. Oh, thank you. Thank you very much for having me on there. I can't wait so we can get out there in person and do it and get back in the Yankee stadium. It's a deal. Thanks so much Curtis. Take care.