John Smoltz

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546 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Jul

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And I had all that pressure that basically I was, in most people's eyes, not delivering to, but they were great teammates.

Greg was great in the way that he taught me some things and I was able to teach him how to have fun and play games and still have a career.

because he was living such a high level and an expectation was so great that there's nowhere to go from there.

When you win four Cy Youngs in a row,

There's nowhere to go from there.

And I, again, was underperforming in other people's eyes until I won mine in 96.

And then Glavin was ho-hum and taught me individually how to just be – how to fake it, you know, how to have no – I was an emotional pitcher.

I wore my emotions on my sleeve.

It had its advantages and it had its disadvantages.

He taught me how to fake it because when Glavin was on the mound, you didn't know if he was winning or losing.

You didn't know if he had a no-hitter or giving up 10 runs.

And I think that part of I learned how to –

I had a successful campaign, a successful year from Greg.

I learned how to fight through my issues and not give the hitter an advantage to Tommy.

And so collectively, we showed up every day without saying it, trying to one-up each other.

And by one-upping each other, that meant indirectly, Greg threw it.

complete game, two runs, five hits.

Then for me, it was, all right, I want to give up two runs and four hits or one run.

And, you know, so it made us better.

And we checked our ego every time we came into the locker room.

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