A.J. Pierzynski to Pete Crow-Armstrong: 'You're like me, you swing at everything'
Spiegel & Holmes Show
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We do a poll right here. |
| 0:02.0 | Who wins the Enal Central? |
| 0:03.0 | Watch you, I'm going to pick. |
| 0:04.1 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:04.5 | And you know how much that pains me, right? |
| 0:20.7 | So that, like, so you saw it live, all right? So there it is. Yes, everyone out there, I hit the Cubs, and the Cubs are winning the poll. So PCA saw it, and everyone knows how much that hurts me deep down in my heart. But I did get some beers from the Cubs fans earlier. |
| 0:22.7 | So they're trying to, they're trying to convert me. |
| 0:20.8 | He's just, he's a Chicago fan, man. You don't have to be. They're winning a Y'Ox fan. Yes, you do. Yes, I do. Yes, I do. Yes, I do. AJ is not a Chicago baseball fan. Yeah. Yeah. That man. That's a KYP situation there for PCA. Yeah, it's okay. He's not like a regular Chicago win. He's A.J. Piersonsk. He's a freaking White Sox meatball who gives me crap every time. Remember when he interrupted me? At the award show. At the award show. And then also when I was interviewing, |
| 0:58.0 | who was it? It was Lucas Gialito. When the Red Sox were playing the Cubs, |
| 1:01.3 | and I was in the visiting locker room at Wrigley talking to Gialito and asking him White Sox stuff from the history. And AJ like totally bum rushed me, middle of the |
| 1:06.2 | interview and screamed, he's a Cub fan, Lucas. Don't tell him stuff. Yeah, AJ is known for starting the biggest brawl in Cubs White Sox history. |
| 1:16.4 | It's hard for him to kind of see things as equitably as one would hope. |
| 1:22.5 | But even still, like, I follow AJ on Instagram. |
| 1:25.1 | He's like, you know, I've been hanging out at Sloan Park, and they know how to feed you over here. Dude, it's a very nice facility. It is? It is a very nice facility, a nice place, et cetera. And AJ and his foul territory crew are there talking to everybody. They talked to Bregman and Dansby and Michael Bush had some interesting things to say. Our guy, Sean Sears, has been listening to it all and cutting it up, and he grabs some of PCA. Here's AJ asking PCA about swing decisions. To me, it's interesting because you like me, you swing at everything, right? And I've talked to counts before. It's like, man, we just wish we could get them to swing less. Yeah. |
| 2:04.3 | And then, but then you take away your aggressiveness, and that's probably the hitter you've always been. |
| 2:05.0 | Yeah, I know I was told that, and I was like, I can't really hit like that because that's never how I've done it. So is that possible? It is. It is. I'm starting to see it now. And Breggie's been huge for that because he's such like a, he's so disciplined up there to to what works for him and what |
| 2:20.7 | he does well uh and so we just been trying some things in live at bats having like real purpose |
| 2:25.9 | in live at bats instead of just getting in and making it about getting your timing down again |
| 2:30.1 | and all this stuff um it is possible for sure i believe it is i mean I know I'm going to still swing at bad balls and be able to produce and hit them out the ball part for doubles, whatever it is. And I know I'm going to swing at bad balls and miss. Like, I'm going to still have that element to my game, but there is definitely a focus on, like, you know, toning it down a little bit this show i don't need to swing |
| 2:52.6 | at everything that looks good like if it's a you know if it's that hanging oh oh breaking ball and |
| 2:58.1 | it's not exactly what i'm looking for i can give that away sometimes you know that's kind of like |
| 3:02.8 | one way i've looked at it man it's. It's exactly what we were talking about yesterday. |
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