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Can you explain to everyone that listens to
our show what it actually means to be a Boston

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athlete? Being a Boston athlete like.

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It's like, uh, to me, in my case, in your case
, you know, we play for.

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The best fan base. Out of all, I mean, I, I, I
, I got to play Minnesota. There was no fan

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base down there and uh when I got to Boston
and, and, and, and I see how the decay.

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The fans were down there, how, how into. The
games, the fans are over there,

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it, it was like a magic touch for me. Because
as an athlete. It all depends how you wanna

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take it. I took it as a as a personal matter.
Some

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guys, they quit. They don't, they, they can,
they can deal with, you know what I'm saying,

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and And you embraced it. I embraced it. I, I,
I. I wanna

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do something for those fans every day I step
on the plate. It, it, I don't wanna get no free

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pass. I wanna just execute every time because
they were expecting that from me. They wanna

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see you running through people all the time
because you give that to them. You know what

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I'm saying? They love when athletes go by the
business the way we did. They embrace that, you

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know, and, and, and, and to me, that's a
motivation. I remember after the 2003 season.

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When we got shut down by the Yankees, I saw
people suffering that, and you know what I did?

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I went to the offseason and I just worked my
ass up. I wanna be better than what I than what

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I was the year before because of it, because
of what I saw coming from the fans. I respect

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that, you know what I'm saying? And the
following season I had a monster season and we

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won the World Series in a type of way, but we
did, and the fans. That town was, I mean,

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I think that was. I mean we have the
opportunity to have to win three championships

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while I play, but the one parade in 2004, that
was insane. That was like.

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And the funny thing is that you broke the
curse, bro, bro, we came into that season and,

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and we look strong, we look invincible, and
then we end up winning and, and, and, and the

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fans, man, I mean. It was, it was a very
special time. And I can never start talking

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about those two decades, the way we did things
in that town. I mean, Patriots, Celtics,

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Bruin, Red Sox. I mean, I think those were the
two best decades. Had to have been.

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I've been to every championship winning game.
I won a Super Bowl. I went and watched you guys

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win. I went and watched the Bruins win. When I
first got there. The Celtics won, you know what

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I'm saying? It's crazy. I don't, I, I always
tell in the same town, same town. We almost had

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it in the one, I think we almost had it in.
1413, remember I think we almost all did it.

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That's right. It was a parade after the parade
after the parade after the parade. Favorite

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parade memory. What's your favorite parade
memory? Oh man, I, uh, I

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remember going into the duck boat. That wasn't
my thing. That water was too

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cold. I'm not a good swimmer. And the minute
they say, oh, we're gonna go now into the water,

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I was like, uh, what? For all you guys
listening, a duck boat, there are these boats

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that Boston athletes, if you go to a parade,
it's a, it's an, it's a boat that drives on

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land, and that's what we do our parades on.
It's like a big thing, and they, at the end of

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the parade, they bring you up in the Charles.
That's right. And, and, and, and the guy, I

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remember one of the police guy asking me, Man,
you're from an island. How come you don't know

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how to swim? I'm like, they never brought me
to the beach when I was a kid.

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Baseballs, you know what I'm saying, they keep
me busy on the baseball field. Mama, mama Juana

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is baseball's, baby, you know what I'm saying.
Oh boy, but yeah, man, that was, that was, uh,

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that was some good memories, man. Great, great
time. I mean, I always gonna appreciate the

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fact that I got the opportunity to play in
Boston. Boston is my city. Boston is, is the

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place that, uh. You know, we, we, we go way
back in and, and, and. And we did

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it, man. We did it for them.