Jake Peavy

I think we landed perfectly on the number.

I don't want to see any more.

I love the human element of the umpire, and I just need to give the umpire a little bit of grace.

It's a very tough gig.

Thank you for asking that question because my time in Chicago was as glorious of a four-year run as I've had in life.

I first off didn't know I wanted to come.

If you remember, I was offered this trade early in the year in May and declined to stay in San Diego because I didn't know at that point in time I had to be traded and that the ownership was changing.

But then Kenny Williams really wanting me and saying, Jake, I want you to be a part of this team.

I love your attitude, and we're going to win a championship.

And I hear those words, and I jumped in full circle.

From the day I got introduced and number 44 was put on my back, President Obama called in that day because he's the 44th president from the south side of Chicago.

Super cool moment.

And then –

I was done for the year.

My first conversation was Kenny, and I had a career and life-changing event.

And I'll be short because I know we're always past the time, but I came over in that 2009 done for the year.

But we were trying to battle the Tigers and the Twins, and I end up pitching three games on a really bad ankle.

I came back to spring training, and that's what Don Cooper and Juan Nieves had saw of me on a bad ankle moment.

back to spring training, building off those three starts of video.

And I ended up doing something that no other pitcher had ever done.