 Yeah, we on boss talk, one on one, one on one. Yeah, we gon' talk. With you playing all those sports, let's fast forward to high school. You had gotten scholarships for each sport. Why baseball? Because you know, I'm from Fifth Ward, I'm from, you know, my liver conditions aren't the best. You know, I wanna always get my family out. So, hey man, they offer me a million dollars when I was 17 years old. Wow. And I don't, you know. Let's stop right there. Million dollars. I mean, I have to be. Boy, I need it. I'm so glad it could have been me. The schools ain't go off of that at all. This is the first thing you bought. What was the first thing you bought? I went buy my mama a house, you know. Let's see it right there. What was the first thing you bought for yourself? I bought a car, you know. Most likely. I get bounced up there, you know. Navigated on trains, deans, you know. Okay, if you had to go back, knowing all the things you know now, go back to that age, how would you do something different? Would there be anything you would have done different even with the money spending? Of course, you're still gonna buy your mama a house first. You know, just afterwards, you know, it's the spending you do after you get the stuff that you need, you know. So, pretty much you're 17, you know. You or your mom never had this kind of money, so you don't know what to do. It's going down. Yeah, you know. It's going down. Everybody in the hood talking, too. Everybody talking, like, they got it. They got it over there. You got, we gotta move different. Because I always feel like this. You have to move quick, like, I literally move. No, my parents, soon as I got drafted, I moved them out, you know, out of the neighborhood. Yeah, you moved them to the country. Well, kind of, like, consider to us, because we, you know, we had never, we weren't used to going though, well, so. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A few X's up the freeway with my country, you know. Man. Now, because I always feel like, when you hear a million dollars, you know, everybody's jumping up and happy for a million dollars, but I feel like you can run through that money. Oh, you can. Oh, you can. I don't think, I have no doubt in that. You can run through it real quick. Because of taxes and everything. How did you deal with that? Like, when you first got it, did you have, like, somebody to educate you? Yeah, I had a financial advisor. So I was good, you know, and all those areas, you know, just had to learn how stuff goes, you know, it's just automatically. Sack, I just thought about Sack. Sack said he went and bought everybody a car. You're, he lost everything. When he went to the bank, he was negative. He's like, damn, what do you got to deal? You know what I mean? Yeah, you know, it's just, you want to help out your family, remember, everybody coming for you. They coming for you. You know, you want to try to do everything and you can to help everybody. They might have gave you a dollar or something. Yeah. You know? But after a while, you have to realize that you can't be like that with everybody. You have to make some more decisions and save your money. Yeah, because as soon as you can't give them, they're mad. Oh, the first time you tell them, no. First time you say, no. Highly upset. They forget about all them years times. That's straight out the door. That's one thing I always say. I say, if I ever won a lottery, I will put that money up and I wouldn't touch it for a whole year. No, I'm touching it. Hell no. You won't be with me doing that. We ain't never gonna spend something. We for the advance to do something. Yeah, cause you don't know if you're gonna be here a year later. You don't do it like that. We blessed to be here now. If you think about all the friends in Fifth Ward and all the friends in Jamaica that you've lost, you'll start thinking different about that whole year cause you just never know. So you can't take life for granted. Especially friends your own age. Yeah, people that from 35 up, you start going to funerals a lot. You know what I mean? So you gotta be very, very different with your time. You know what I'm talking about? Shh. I know I ain't gonna wait no year. Me neither. Let's talk about, cause I didn't really get it. You did a second deal for a hundred and some million dollar, how did that feel that day? That wasn't a raise, the devil raise you talking about? Yeah, Boston Red Sox. Yeah, Boston Red Sox. I mean, like I said. How did you feel, man? Let's talk about that. It's just, you know, just. Yeah, I'm gonna go sign this paperwork. I've got to do this. Yeah, you know where you come from and you get to this point and you just never even, never in a million years without thought that me playing baseball would never like, would I even ever be able to mention that type of stuff. So just to get to that point from where I started for him was just amazing, you know? Man. Just to see how it's still going and stuff like that. Like I happened to just walk, well got me serious about baseball. I just happened to walk into a random corner store one day and saw that a car Everett had signed for 50 million dollars. This was in like 1996 or something. I was in about the 10th grade. I remember saying, Jesus, you know what I'm saying? Man, to talking, man. It's that serious, bro. Like when you think about, when you think about what you've done, you're a freak of nature, man. Like everybody don't do that, bro. That's the thing that you got to realize. Like being in a picture, sometimes you can't see the picture. You know what I'm telling the truth. But for you to do something like that, man, that's, that's way, for me, that's a, hey, that's way up there, man. Yeah, MVP many times. Oh man, beast mode. You broke a lot of records. I mean like, you did amazing. I was just trying to like, you know, do the best I can, leave a good legacy for my kids. You know, and you know, when you black in baseball, you got to be good. It's no, the only way you can be up there is if you're all star, you know, so. And you four time all star. Mm-hmm, yeah. So I wanted to ask, so Hall of Fame, how does that work? Cause. I think it works with like writers, the writers, you know what I'm saying? Have to vote, man. Like we just got our letters in the mail where we can all vote for our peers. When are you getting in there? When they vote for me, because I gotta get probably enough. You know, I gotta get in there, you know, so. Cause you did a lot. I thought they would look at all that you've accomplished. You know what I mean? Right, right. No, well, it's like over time. That's my first year, you know, and I'm a speed guy, you know, but I just look at it as like I play really well during the steroid area, which was tough to play in at the time. Well, I bet. So I hope they consider that. Man, come on, man. You gonna be all right, man. Yeah, I think you, you know what I'm saying? You got that favor, man. I can tell, man. Yeah, so popularity, doing stuff like, like, you know, with the record label and just being popular outside of baseball, I hope that helps. I think it will. You know, so I just wanna keep doing positive stuff outside of the community so they can like just see. And then when me coming back with my son, hopefully, you know, I'm, you know, get back into coaching. I'm debating whether I wanna like go coach when he gets drafted or something like that. I like it. How many kids you have? I have five kids. Five, how many boys? Three boys. Got another boy that's coming right after my oldest son. How's he, how's he in sports? All of them, really? Yeah, he, he might be the number one pick in the whole draft, you know. Really? Wow. They just come out, man. I see them when they like two, two years old and I'll just be amazed cause you don't have to teach them that, you know. They already, they get it naturally. Are you doing the same thing for the girls? Cause I remember growing up, my dad would always do everything for the boys and the girl is like, oh no, you're a girl. I got the girl, she, my girls are athletic. They just don't know it yet. They just don't know what they can do yet. But I see them around the house. They play with the boys. They got a lot of energy. I'm just waiting to kind of see what they gravitate to. So you're not going to treat them differently? You going to still? I don't know. They're going to be aggressive too. I'm going to make them dominate the girls. Okay, okay. Of course I would like for my girls to play tennis, but they look like I might have a couple hoopers on my back. They're nothing wrong with that. You got two girls. Huh? Yeah, I got two girls. That's dope, man. There's a girl, you know, there ain't no money in the basketball, you know. That's what I see. Yeah, I want to go where they can get paid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean... You play golf? Nah, so I don't think you know what I mean. I don't know. I like to, I'm telling me the track, basketball, I mean a track or a volleyball, I mean a tennis. Tennis. Yeah, they can make good money. And they might want to play softball, you know. Yeah. I don't know. You know, it's hard, man. It's hard on the girls, man. But we definitely, we know y'all in the building and we know y'all run things. We just, we just here. Exactly. I'm just hoping, I'm just hoping that one day, like the basketball, like take off, you know where they can get paid more, you know. That would be better. I think it's going to take like a girl to just come down the lane and just smash one day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what it'll take. You know what I'm saying?