Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Don't question it. Just accept it. Accept it. You're like, you're not supposed to say, why would that be? Because you're an interesting guy and also because it's a perfect time to talk to you because you are part of our family. And why do I say you're part of our family, Anthony? Because you have accepted to get the baseballs and boring tattoo. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah.
So, you had said, as you and Kopech both said, if you win the World Series, you get the baseball's an important tattoo. We're still working that out. You have the spot, too, I saw, right? Correct? Yeah, yeah. All right. And where is that? On the side?
Yeah, yeah. It's going to be somewhere along the rib cage or, I don't know, it might relocate it somewhere.
Chapter 2: What inspired Anthony Banda to get the 'Baseball Isn't Boring' tattoo?
Yeah. Everybody seems to be getting a butt tattoo, so I might do that.
Yeah, what is that? Wasn't that just a one-off? Yeah, yeah.
No, that was Miggy Rowe and Kirby. I personally thought it was hilarious. I think it was a great time to do it. Great memories. It stands for a really great core memory of the season.
um you know and Kirby's always he's told me he's always wanted it since the minor leagues he's always told uh you know everyone that he he would always get a Kirby character holding a trophy running so I thought that was pretty cool because uh you know big fan of the Super Smash Bros the video game yeah yeah and so that Kirby Kirby was uh Kirby was a really good uh character there so
You know, I thought it was cool. It fits. It was perfect. You know, so it obviously put a lot of thought into that.
Well, so we knew we had talked about this before. Our good friend Roger had talked to you in the club. It wasn't a clubhouse celebration, but we had talked about it before. So we knew this baseball is important thing was coming.
We knew, you know, last year when Joe and I went to cartoons and – or because I'm a good personal friend with him, just tunes and did that, which, by the way, great job of repping the mask. Yeah, yeah.
He's – you know, I've never met him personally. I think I have actually. Uh, no, I, I met a lot of his group. Um, great people, but you know, yeah, they're phenomenal people. Um, you know, they take, they take care of everything that he needs and everything that, you know, he wants to do. And I just think that, you know, they're very respectful.
You know, that's the one thing that I really, really enjoy. They're very polite. Um, you know, they're, they're friends, you know, and, and, and the Dodger community and, It was amazing just to even be able to be, you know, included in that.
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Chapter 3: How did Anthony Banda overcome his struggles before winning the World Series?
Well, speaking of the World Series, I was – where my seat was in the press box was actually overlooking your bullpen. So it was fascinating to me watching the bobbing and weaving. Even Yamamoto, like what he does, like all that stuff is fascinating.
For you, what – give me – besides the ultimate winning it, what do you – give me one moment in that bullpen in that game seven that you're going to remember.
Yeah. you know, I try not to get too emotional about it, but like, you know, I don't pray for, uh, baseball. Right. And, and, and I don't, you know, I'm not, you know, super highly into praying and all that. And I, I get it, you know, some, you know, but, um, I remember I, I put my head down and it was right before Miggy Rowe walked up and I, I'm not lying. I swear. And I looked at, I,
I asked my brother, I was like, man, show me something. Show me something. I don't ever do this, but show me something. And I look up and there it goes. He hits it. And I look at Tanner Scott and I go, there's no fucking way. I just prayed to my brother and that just happened. And we're freaking geeking out. And I remember, it's hard for me to get really emotional, right?
And I remember I was holding back tears and I was like choking up a little bit. And I was like, I cannot believe that just happened. I can't believe that just happened, you know? And, you know, regardless, it may have been a coincidence or something, but like, you know, to me, that's something that stuck out the most. The secondly thing that stuck out the most was, um,
I saw one of our trainers down there, Jonathan Erd.
Oh, yeah.
Another friend of the program.
I was so close to having him getting a tattoo as well. Instead, he just wants to show up to the party to get the tattoo. Go ahead. He's amazing.
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Chapter 4: What role did Anthony's family play in his baseball journey?
But the thing is, he's one of the most exciting, high-energy-driven person in our bullpen. In the sense of cheering, being there, being in the moment. He's all about it. He loves the game, dude. He loves it. He generally just makes me smile in the sense because I watch somebody just
genuinely just enjoy the game that is a part of us you know and he's you know he's amazing well i told him he's a meme like off of the otani third run yeah yeah which by the way him and kopec both like said they actually predicted it like the day before or something i don't know well we the funny thing is that we were actually talking about so uh it was in miami and we're set we're sitting there and you're talking about the one he caught right yeah the line drive yeah yeah okay
So we're sitting there, and it's me, him, and our bullpen coach, Josh Bard. And we have this game in the bullpen, and it's been explained where it's like we each have a call. we'll have like a random pick of us and like, you know, Shohei comes up, Hey, I'm in, you know, we're basically betting that he's going to, you know, hit a home run.
And if we get, if we, if he hits a home run, we get a little, like a little tally in it. There's no reward or anything. It's just more of like bragging rights at the end of the year, whoever wins it all.
Do you write something on the wall or something?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
In our bullpen, yeah. Yeah, because Joe was like, yeah, have the boys go bring you down there. They're not going to let you in the bullpen in the middle of the game show.
No, go ahead. But I remember the whole – it all worked out so perfectly. It's so wild where – You know, J-Bone goes in, Jonathan Erb, he goes in and he puts his glove on, right? And it's so funny because he's left-handed too. And he got, I remember the bullpen coach goes, hey, if it hits us, if it hits right at my face, I'm not moving. You got to catch it.
And, you know, we're just like, yeah, yeah, yeah, like, right? And we're just like, well, what if it hits you? And he's like, well, I get the point. And, like, they're just back and forth, right? And then all of a sudden, the ball gets hit, and it's coming. And I remember I distinctively grabbed him, and I'm like – I go, J-Bo, J-Bo, J-Bo. And I'm like, get it, get it, get it.
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Chapter 5: What lessons did Anthony learn from coaching high school baseball?
Just the...
You just wanted it so bad?
Yeah, I wanted it for everybody, man. I wanted it for the city. I wanted it for everybody. And I'm not saying that helped, but, you know, maybe I wanted that strong.
No, but you did it, but that's the point. I'm more... Yeah, okay.
So, yeah, I just wanted it, you know? I wanted it for everybody. I wanted it because, like, we worked so hard to get there, and, you know, and, you know, Kiki said it the best, but it's like, we weren't playing our best baseball, you know? It was just a back and forth, back and forth, and It was such a game where that right there is probably one of the best games I've ever watched.
Oh, unbelievable. And for guys to come and step up and be the hero and this, it was unbelievable. It was unbelievable. And so in that moment, it was just like, I felt all that, you know, the tension, the excitement and everything about it, right? And to calm myself down, I just put my head down and then I just thought about, I just thought about my brother and I was just like, man, well,
And then I said, I was like, look, I don't pray for anything. I don't pray for baseball, but show me something. Show me something. Just show me something. And then I looked up because I remember I'm sitting on this chair, on the chair. And they had two types of chairs. They had the chair that was like a barstool chair where it was higher. So you could sit down and you can see over the railing.
And the chair, if you sat down, you see straight into the railing. So I was ducked underneath there. So when I put my head down, I put my head down against the pole. I said it, and then I looked underneath, and then as soon as he hit it, I watched the ball, I watched the flight, and I was like, no way, no way.
You had just finished the prayer when you looked up and you hit it.
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