Best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so, it was all wrapped up,

it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing's shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so

a guest. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so, for that one change me a little.

Enjoy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

Mel bag nothing personal word of the day is Mel bag episode today is Friday May.

20th. Alright I'll tell you a secret. Here's the secret. I'm not recording this on Friday May 20th but we're releasing it on Friday May 20th because today in the middle of a winter storm in Denver and its

environs I'm trying to climb a 14 or in order to train for a much crazier thing that I'm doing but I don't know if I'm going to be able to do it but we're not doing a regular show Friday which

you're going to hear yesterday or tomorrow depending on when you're listening whatever man it's Mel bag. I like the male bag episodes I like when we have a chance to do them.

That's when you ask me questions. Here's how to do it. Several ways. The way that means the most to coca as you go into Apple podcasts and you write a review you

rated five stars writer review and then within the review ask a question. The other way is on Twitter David P. Samson you can ask a question in my DMs but if you're going to do it that way

also go to Apple because we only have like 2300 ratings and we're supposed to have more and I don't know how to get them so just take the time if you don't mind and if you don't have Apple podcasts of course you do it's on your iPhone and if you don't have an iPhone then go to spot a fine hit follow.

So male bag episodes is where I spend an entire episode answering your questions and tell some stories and hope that you still have a retention rate of 98.6%.

I've got the fever. Do you know 98.6 is not the fever anymore coca they change that that used to be like if you're like 99.1 means you have a fever and 98.6 used to be normal now the normal fever is lower all of a sudden like 97.3 is what a normal fever is and the oldest if you had 97.3 like you were at the doctor.

Anyway, hi David we got to start. I listen to show every day after work while I take a 45 minute walk that is a huge great coincidence because the show is 45 minutes.

Your conversation about life and dealing with grief have really helped me sorry if you have talked about this before but can you talk about how you were feeling when D Gordon hit a home run after Jose's passing thanks.

So I wasn't going to take this question because not that I've talked about it before which I may have but there's always so many of you who are new to the show and may not have heard that episode and don't remember when that episode could have been.

But thinking back to that day in September on September 26th 2016 is something I happen to do every single day.

So just to set the stage on September 25th of 2016 which is a different question altogether that you're not asking at about 6 o'clock in the morning I got a phone call from Mike Hill and we then were on the phone with Fish and Wildlife in Miami identifying a dead body that turned out to be Jose Fernandez identifying him from a tattoo that he had of a bicycle crank he loved to bike.

And I the rest of the day became quite a blur and there are some episodes where we've discussed how that day went but suffice it to say we ended up at Jose's mother's house with his mother and his grandmother and his girlfriend who is pregnant at the time now has a five year old daughter because it's been five years she was born on February 24th

her name is Penelope of 2000 and 17 just turned five and I was forced to deal with something that they don't teach you in nepotism school they don't teach you in president school I was putting charges the face of trying to deal with a community and morning deal with the team and morning deal with a organization that did not know how to move forward we had to do a press conference we had to have different planning meetings to talk about.

The funeral to talk about what we were doing on the field off the field everything was going on all at once one of the decisions that was made and if you go back somewhere on Google I bet it exists coke is when I met the media in the dugout the next morning before the game that we were going to play because we delayed we cancelled one game against the braves but we have the next day on September 26th and I met the media while sitting in the dugout I was wearing a pink and blue t-shirt.

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