Speaker 1: You never know who you're gonna see at the ballpark,
Speaker 1: especially in Atlanta where the players play. And we're with
Speaker 1: one of the players right here, former Dodger, one of
Speaker 1: the great players of his generation, the one and only
Speaker 1: Carl Crawford here visiting the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: See see great to see you again. Man. I'm glad
Speaker 2: to see you guys. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I'm glad they called me and told me to come
Speaker 3: up see see you guys. I haven't seen you guys
Speaker 3: since what twenty sixteen, So you know, it's good to
Speaker 3: get around the game and getting the ballpark.
Speaker 2: You know, it feels good.
Speaker 1: What was it like going into the clubhouse to see
Speaker 1: some of the guys that you played with. There's not
Speaker 1: too many, but there's still a few familiar faces.
Speaker 2: But the funny thing is.
Speaker 3: A lot of these guys were so young when I was,
Speaker 3: when I was when I retired, that they like, oh
Speaker 3: like little brown little men into they farms now.
Speaker 2: So it was cool to see them. Man, I'm glad
Speaker 2: to see that.
Speaker 3: You know, guys that I worked with when they was
Speaker 3: young or you know, doing doing excelling and doing real
Speaker 3: well in the big league right now.
Speaker 1: Did you remember the little guy Austin Barnes. He is
Speaker 1: a second basement night as they catch you one of.
Speaker 2: The we with one of the who little ones.
Speaker 3: You know, him and Jock Peterson used to be side
Speaker 3: by side, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So yeah, man, well those guys, yeah.
Speaker 3: Man, Like I said, it's nice to see him and
Speaker 3: see him actually doing well.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Those were some good players and I always thought they
Speaker 3: was gonna be really good players. And to see how
Speaker 3: they how they turn out, is just great.
Speaker 2: Carl.
Speaker 1: You brought back some great memories. I do you remember
Speaker 1: in the clubhouse? Jack Peterson looking up to you just
Speaker 1: willn't leave your side. The player that he's become. Did
Speaker 1: you see that when he was a rookie?
Speaker 2: Ye? I saw it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: With rookie and then you know, like I said, I
Speaker 3: had to go down for a couple of thinks in
Speaker 3: the minor league. So I saw him when he was
Speaker 3: going thirty thirty in the minors, so I.
Speaker 2: Already knew he he had the talent to do what
Speaker 2: he's doing. Now, you know he's I'm.
Speaker 3: Glad his personality is still the same he still has
Speaker 3: fun to go about the game in a great way.
Speaker 2: So, uh, you know, it's good to see that he's
Speaker 2: doing well.
Speaker 3: One of my little ye what they say, protezades and
Speaker 3: whatnot little bros. Yeah, yeah, man, you little bro for
Speaker 3: real though, So now I'm glad to see you're doing well.
Speaker 1: When you look back at your career, what do you
Speaker 1: think about the most?
Speaker 3: I just think about just always playing and just being
Speaker 3: in different cities, meeting new people, being around the God,
Speaker 3: and just competing. You know, that's one of the toughest
Speaker 3: things that when you've done playing, you gotta find someone
Speaker 3: else to you to take that competitive nature too, you.
Speaker 2: Know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: And those are some of the things you missed when
Speaker 3: you leave the game.
Speaker 1: When you retired from baseball, Where did you channel all
Speaker 1: of that competitive design?
Speaker 2: How talented? Ho chalented?
Speaker 3: I can say it to the music business, you know,
Speaker 3: I took I took my craft really really serious. I
Speaker 3: understood that nobody was gonna take me serious in it,
Speaker 3: and that you know.
Speaker 2: If I put together, if I put the.
Speaker 3: F like I did into baseball, like I did into
Speaker 3: any other type of enterprise, that I'll be successful. And
Speaker 3: that's that's kind of an approach I took.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got your own record label. You're very successful,
Speaker 1: Carl Crawford.
Speaker 3: You know, it took me a lot of how to
Speaker 3: go through a lot, just like anybody starting a new business.
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, uh here.
Speaker 3: And I'm I got new artists that I want to
Speaker 3: put out there, and you know, I just want to
Speaker 3: watch my son play and promote.
Speaker 2: New promote new new artists and do stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Your son, Justin Crawford is rising through the Phillies minor leagues.
Speaker 1: He was one of the top picks in the Major
Speaker 1: League draft a few years ago.
Speaker 2: How proud are you of Justin?
Speaker 3: Well, I I'm so proud of him because he set
Speaker 3: goes to to you know, to beat my goals and
Speaker 3: to actually se him a compass though it was great.
Speaker 3: You know, I have a story here with one of
Speaker 3: the clubhouse here, Chico. Yeah, yeah, Chico used to be
Speaker 3: in a dugout with him when he was a kid.
Speaker 3: And I tell myself, I tell Justin, hey, don't you
Speaker 3: talk about money, contracts, nothing, And as soon as I leave,
Speaker 3: Chico say, he he talking about everything you told him
Speaker 3: not to.
Speaker 2: He say he gonna get that contract one day.
Speaker 3: He don't care what his daddy say, so and he
Speaker 3: and he did, so you know stuff like that.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, beat my time.
Speaker 3: In the sixties and uh, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: just just just being an all around polished player already
Speaker 3: at where he's at.
Speaker 2: In his career.
Speaker 1: How much do you think you bringing him to the
Speaker 1: ballpark when you were playing for the Dodgers really get
Speaker 1: gave him a couple of legs up on the rest
Speaker 1: of the kids.
Speaker 3: You always give him advantage because you know that the
Speaker 3: wild factor is gone. They come in and they like,
Speaker 3: oh well, I mean, you know they people gonna always
Speaker 3: get excited because just the big leagues. But you know,
Speaker 3: it makes it a little easier when you can come
Speaker 3: see a guy that you was chilling with, you know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying when you were about seven or eight,
Speaker 3: you know, and just talk to him and kind of
Speaker 3: get comfortable and uh, you know that way you can
Speaker 3: go about your business. And then he has a real
Speaker 3: business like approach. So whether whether he was in the
Speaker 3: clubhouse or now, he's gonna come in and focus.
Speaker 2: He lays the show.
Speaker 1: Focus and Carl Crawford still got that signature smile. Justin
Speaker 1: looks almost exactly like you. When I see him smile,
Speaker 1: I think of you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Nah, that's cool. That's the way it's supposed to be. Man,
Speaker 3: that's my son. Even though he you know, he like
Speaker 3: we look you know, we looked more like brothers.
Speaker 2: Like brothers together. So he don't like tell people I'm
Speaker 2: his daddy, you know.
Speaker 1: He speaking of family, what about your brothers? Do you
Speaker 1: still got the barbecue going in Houston?
Speaker 3: We still got the barbecue restaurant and burn Barbecue. My
Speaker 3: brothers still aroun dad. We still do all the family stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I got other kids coming up, you know, Justin.
Speaker 2: Then't gonna be the only one in the big leagues. Yeah. So,
Speaker 2: and then I got nephews.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Like, if we still have
Speaker 3: a whole feminine fell wow, the major leagues.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so awesome. Carl Crawford is our guest. All right, Carl,
Speaker 1: before I let you go, that's John Sue.
Speaker 2: Who John sou Who? What's up? Baby? Right? Your kids
Speaker 2: like thirty years old? What's going on? Man?
Speaker 3: Making me feel oh man like Jesus?
Speaker 2: So Yeah, man, it's all good.
Speaker 1: You were with the Dodgers for a short time, but
Speaker 1: it seems like you left such a great impression with
Speaker 1: everybody that came in contact. You had so much joy,
Speaker 1: and guys would tell me you were the funniest guy
Speaker 1: in the clubhouse.
Speaker 3: Oh no, you know, you gotta try to stay loose,
Speaker 3: like I say, Man, it's a long season, and enjoy everything.
Speaker 3: When I got to La, you know, it was still
Speaker 3: was just one of the those things where I was
Speaker 3: able to smile again because you know, I had just
Speaker 3: came off the stuff from Boston, so La was just
Speaker 3: like it was just the hend of note.
Speaker 2: I needed at the moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you people ask me what you were like, I
Speaker 1: always tell him, I said, I would read Carl the
Speaker 1: schedule for next year, and I would tell him whether
Speaker 1: or not we were going to Boston.
Speaker 3: Hey, I was able to I was able to avoid
Speaker 3: it for three years, man, So you know, hey, man,
Speaker 3: I gotta looking man. But you know, like I said,
Speaker 3: I enjoyed my time in LA. I wish I could
Speaker 3: have played longer, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: I took it for.
Speaker 2: What is worth.
Speaker 3: And uh, like I said, I really appreciate the fans
Speaker 3: in La, the people, the city, to town, everything, So
Speaker 3: I really enjoyed my time I stayed in La.
Speaker 1: You were at the beginning of this run of winning
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers. You were part of that when they
Speaker 1: made the trade for you and Gonzo and those guys
Speaker 1: that really started it. What have you seen from the
Speaker 1: team and what do you think they need to do
Speaker 1: to get over that hump to win it again?
Speaker 2: Oh? I think they just got to keep doing what
Speaker 2: they're doing.
Speaker 3: I ain't gonna lie, you know, since I'll have and
Speaker 3: then I been watching it as much.
Speaker 1: But I know they've been seeing the old tiny show though.
Speaker 2: I've been seeing that. You know what I'm saying. I
Speaker 2: want to meet that guy because he's awesome.
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, they're gonna always
Speaker 3: win the same way with pitching, defense and timely hitting.
Speaker 3: So uh, you know, I don't see why they shouldn't
Speaker 3: take it all this.
Speaker 2: Year, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 3: All right, and I'm in Houston, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: you know, but I know that I know what the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: I know what the Dodgers are capable of.
Speaker 1: Yah and Carl great, seeing you great, sharing you with
Speaker 1: the fans again, come around more often.
Speaker 2: We miss you, I do, man, just you know you
Speaker 2: feelings see me with Justin.
Speaker 3: It's just when you starting to when you're starting any
Speaker 3: type of business and you know you want it done right,
Speaker 3: you have to be hands on with it, you know,
Speaker 3: and it takes you to kind of get stuff the
Speaker 3: way you want it. You know what I'm saying, Because
Speaker 3: like I say, you know, you gotta be deal with
Speaker 3: the ups and downs of learning something new. And but
Speaker 3: once I get it well, you know, selling smooth exactly
Speaker 3: how I want it, I'll be back all the way,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: With all that blink, it feels like things are going
Speaker 1: good for Carl Crawford.
Speaker 3: Hey, man, I can't complain at the moment, that's all
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: Had them funny. Yeah, Hey, great to see you, Carl.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot for the time, all right, man, thanks
Speaker 2: for having me