 You've seen this guy up close and personal the last few years. What does he mean to the Giants? He means everything and I can make an argument that without acquiring him the Giants don't win the World Series in 2012, they don't win the World Series in 2014. This guy is special. They spoke of him as if he's his ultimate leader. This season was tough. I'm not going to lie. It's not easy when things aren't going right. It's not easy when it's tough. That's when you find out what you're made of. They took me out of my role of the starting job. I was trying to give them everything I had as a pinch hitter. Do I still have it? Do I still want to play? You know, it was just kind of like they had moved on. It definitely hits your confidence. Hunter hits from sheer athleticism. We're not just changing what we're doing physically, but also mentally and emotionally because that's what his body is wired to do. I still feel strong. I still love the game. I still feel good and I want to play and I still think I can do this. I might be crazy, to be honest with you. I just have to make an adjustment. I have to get better. If I still want to play, I should go play Winter Ball. It's an opportunity with everything on the line to go to this country that loves baseball so much to showcase the changes that I've made. You know what I think we should do is just leave everything and buy all new stuff there. I think that's a good idea because I'm tired of packing. It's 6.15 in the morning here with Hunter and you're headed to the Dominican Republic. For him to want to play in this league, X amount of championship rings, it's unreal. His agent got in touch with us. Once I heard that it was Hunter Pence, I thought it was a joke. Hey, just so you know, I'm mic'd up today. Just want everyone to know and make sure no one has a problem with it. Well, baseball for us is like religion. It's the only thing that people want to talk about that what people want to do every day. Astros 2007, 2011, Phillies 2011, 2012, Giants 2012, this year. You with the Giants again? No, I'm a free agent. He's playing and I can tell you, one of the hottest winter leagues in the world. It's not a place you go to work on stuff. It's a place where it's like when now, basically hostile environment against incredible pitching that's dialed in with no scouting reports. A lot of times they don't mention who's even pitching to like 30 minutes before the game. They'll like trick you. They'll be like, oh, this righties pitching and then they'll start a lefty. Each regular game here is played like a playoff game. The humidity, temperature changes after six inning. Not only that, they face between eight to nine arms a day. For them to hit over 300 is difficult. You make one area, you're out of the game, really, really cut, bro. I am still obviously working on the swing and I'm taking that and I'm learning from all of these at bats. Right now I've hit two days of failure. I just want to win, have good at bats and feel really good and once I feel it then I'll know. I want to play. Keep going. I need some ABs. Sometimes you got to take a step back to take three steps forward. That's kind of the way this feels. Are you up? What time is it? 11.30. I was 0-4 for Danny, but it was much better than yesterday. I had really good at bats. I made some strides. I'm in the right direction. I feel really close to crushing balls. That's just like you're going too few. Yeah. Yeah, I'm getting invaluable. Yeah. It's kind of like a really good thing. All right. Thanks, Danny. Talk to you later. All right. So the plan today. We're going to have a four or five-hour bus ride there game and then bus back. So about anywhere from eight to 10 hours of bus riding. So I have everything here that you might possibly need. So here's our bug repellent. Anything you might need for a cold and then first aid so we can perform everything short of surgery. I love you. I love you. Bye. Remember what I said before. You don't fly in America. You fly in La Romana. I'm from La Romana, Dominicana, baby. Dominicana. Dominicana. Yeah. I'm going to follow you today. Okay. Thank you. You know, you just want it so bad for him. Heal those things for the fences. One, two, three. How it goes. Honestly, I was struggling but you're either in or you're not. You need to hit a failure and battle through it. I got to stay locked into now. Keep it together. I really minded myself with that mindset. That's my mentality every day no matter what. If I can get this right, it will be a game changer. My strengths are like mind and heart. Maybe I like work too hard but I don't know because like I said, if you aren't like just like pure talent, like the best way I can think to get ahead is to like work. You know your nickname here? No. When you die? When you die? I'm the dead man? No, no, no. When you die? Like, like. Old guy? No, like. Great, great deal, great deal, great deal. Someone will know, someone will know. Skeleton. Skeleton. Skeleton. I'm the skeleton. Skeleton. That's good. There, throw it more out front. I don't want that. I want that. Vacation, you can't vacation for that long. Please start getting a little stir crazy. And I know Hunter always says I just want her to relax. I want her to just hang out and have fun. Yes, your t-shirts are over here. You're hanging in the closet. Are you sore? Yeah. A good sore or like you can't move sore? No good sore. Are you sure you should work out? Oh yeah. I'm not as bad as I was after the first two years. All right. You ready? Oh, you're going to brush your teeth? You know our day still kind of revolves around his schedule and what he's doing and how he's performing and all that stuff like there's still that looming over us along with getting texts from his agent. Are we going to be offered a contract? I don't feel like I'm just here only to make a team. I'm here because I love it. I'm here to play to win while I'm at. Why wouldn't we go to like Japan? Yeah. I mean if those, well this is if I didn't get an offer anywhere. Like if I get an offer to Japan, I would definitely go. It's going to Korea. It's going to Japan. If it's going to the minor leagues, I support you 100,000%. You do? Yeah. I just hope you know when I finally become your sugar mama that you'll have to travel wherever I go. So that I'll do the same for you? Yeah. Deal? Deal. Have you heard anything from Danny? No. I haven't. Nothing that you haven't told me about? Nope. I haven't texted him. In a while? Yeah. She's a co-agent is what Lexi is. She was very involved in the process. A lot of questions about the type of people that are running the team. It's certainly not rare to ask those questions, but it is somewhat unique because Hunter and Alexis are so real that I think that they want to be associated with an organization that has real people running it. Look how high this leg comes up. Why does this leg go up so high? That is crazy. Can you even do that? No. I think you got it. I cannot imagine pitching like that. There are players who have accents, sticks, and things that they show their public persona to be and they're really not that way. And then there's Hunter who is every bit as real as you see him on camera talking to him over a cup of coffee. It does not matter. Go, Loco, let's go. I'll be right now. You, Loco, baby. Aye! Aye! Give me an eye. Give me something. Hunter pants. Hunter pants. Let's go, Hunter pants. I do still believe I can play. If I get an opportunity to play for another team, I'm going to be all in with them. The pitcher comes set. The wind-up, the delivery. But it will never take away the things we've done with the Giants. I love them. They were my first team with you. And I figured we'd always kind of be with them. I think that's what I panic more about is, like, believing that. Pence takes it. Strike one. That may seem scary at first, but a lot of your most amazing experiences are from things that are scary at first. Wind-up, slider away. Takes a swing. He hits a line. Drive to right field. And he's going crazy. He's going through. He's going through. He's going forward. Inside the park. Hold on, baby. Woo! Yeah, I'm alive. I'm alive and kicking. I think there's opportunity for me to be a lot better than I've done, so to speak. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so we've been on fire since I got here. We've won four of the five games. I don't mean like 20 of them or 25 of them. I mean, 29 are all in conversation. But 29 of the teams are incredibly impressed of what you're doing. Whoa. Like blown away type of many guys who actually seem to be, but super impressed. So 29 general managers are all about... I did not. I didn't expect to hear that. Thank you. That's really cool. Yesterday, I know I didn't get any hits, but a lot of things click. I feel really good today. Yeah, me personally. And that's kind of the nature of playing every day, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's all a process. I'm gaining stuff from every one of these at bats. Oh, baby. Yep. Ooh. When you do it, right? Yeah. Yeah, different feel. Take that. Ooh. Yes. That's sick. That's a perfect line. Drive the other way because it stayed through it. That's when you know you're on. Oh, baby. That's what I went to bed excited about was that right there. I didn't get that angle until those last couple. If things get stale and stagnant and you're just going through the motions, you have to find a way to increase the wonder. And you have to find a way to increase that fire, that enthusiasm, that passion, that faith in your heart. The more out of conscious I am, the better I am. I want to have an empty mind. I have my best at bats where I'm just literally blacked out. You just have like an inner vision of the pitches that they're throwing and how you're going to meet them. You have to trust your instincts. You have to have trust your preparation. Hey. We love you. We love you too. Don't be afraid. Not as much important. But it's very important to improve. How do you say improve is Spanish. Yeah. Yeah. Constantly improve. Get better. We got one more game. Let's bring it. One, two, three. Basically our magic number is just one. We'll win the night we're popping bottles. Yeah, but if we, yeah, when we win, we pop bottles. That's it. We're three games up with three games to go. We win one game and we're in the playoffs. I've been told that the Toros haven't made the playoffs in a long time. The whole city is just pulsing and fired up. It's important to us and it's important to them. We have an outstanding team and we have a really tight team. It's something special to be a part of. It's difficult but you've just created that challenge to bring out your best self and to get the most out of yourself. I thought I was going to train my swing. The experience of being there was life changing in more ways than one. We were agreed upon. Yes. Okay. He's gone so tomorrow I'll see what that is and I'll go over with you. Okay. So you had to ask for an award package. I love that. Let's freaking go, Danny. We're getting awards. Hey, how are you doing? I'm Martinez. Hey, good to see you. Good to see you with the blue jersey. Oh, all right. How's everything? Everything's great. I just want to commend you. I bought a winter ball. Wow. It's a hell of a move, man. Thank you. I appreciate that. We went down there to get back together. Yeah. I had to make some adjustments and it was a great life lesson to be honest with you. Even if I didn't make a team it was worth every bit of it. That's wonderful. I doubted the new swing going into the Dominican, especially when I didn't have the success with it right away. After that, going into spring training, I felt like 10 steps ahead of everyone. I relate it to like your first day of school. It's just like a new adventure. This is amazing. I'm still watching him play. And who knows how long this will go. But we're going to ride it out and it's awesome. Let's see. Hold it. Oh. Let's go, Danny. Ah. Rangers. Our base is closing in on 350. Full count pitch to Pence. Look at where we are. From winter ball, from cages to everything to get here. Yeah. That's what it was all for. Oh wait. Oh yeah. We got to do it.