Quincy Carter
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But, yeah, my original hometown team, let's say it like that, the Chicago Cubs drafted me in the second round.
And it was a dream come true, Mick.
I think I told you this, but I tell everybody, man, that getting that phone call at graduation practice was pretty cool, you know, because I didn't know what time it was going to happen.
You know, the baseball draft could go on forever.
you know, what, I think 30, 45 minutes a pick or something like that, if I'm not mistaken.
I think it's changed now.
But to get that call of graduation, man, it was pretty cool.
What is that like?
Well, shoot, not to cut you off, sorry about that.
But me and my granddad, you know, I went to Chicago right after my short kind of baseball season growing up in Gresham Park.
I went to Chicago the rest of the summer.
So me and my granddad sat there and watched.
Well, first we had to watch the Bozo show because grandma wasn't playing games.
Then it was General, I think General Hospital, One Life to Live, one of them.
You know, then we can watch the game.
But, yeah, man, shoot, we watched, you know, Chicago baseball, man, all summer.
And growing up and seeing Andre Dawson, I mean, Sean Dawson, Andre Dawson, I'm sorry, Sean Dunstan, let me get my guys right.
Ryan Sandberg.
Yeah, Ryan Sandberg.