The Michael Berry show

So I told Ramone

Roger's own Roger Clemens on line one make sure we get to him first and he goes what do I do is boat music and Ramone never gets nervous, but he got nervous. And I said,

rocket man, Elton John, he's that's too obvious. I don't think that's too obvious.

Roger Clemens, is that too obvious? Do you have a better walk? What was your walk-up song? What was your your did you have a walk? What was that?

Good morning brother now that was it man rocketman out and John I when I was in Beantown

He had a concert and had me walk him out a rocket man jersey and he put it on the

set at the piano and got after it.

So that's the, we love Elton John.

Somebody said that Boston was named Beantown because you used to hit players in the head to get them off the plate. Is that true?

No, no, they got too close. We had a lot of eyes. It only stung for a minute.

Who did you hit that you most worried would come at you?

Not that you worried about many.

Well, you know, at 24 years, Michael, you know, like I said, I pitched inside to make a 17 inch plate, a 24 inch play.

I had to learn how to pitch inside coming out of University of Texas going to Fenway Park because, you know, I pitched

against guys like Don Baylor and Dave Kingman and Greg

Lusinski I mean I'm 21-22 you whatever it was and you know my heart wanted to get

it in there on them and and jam them but I'd leave it over the middle and it went a long way over that green monster.

So there was some big tough dudes.

My ultimate deal was to get, you know, I wanted to make, when I came out of Texas,

one of the National Championship, we beat Alabama. I wanted to, my, I wanted to get to the big leagues in time to face Reggie Jackson before he retired.

Reggie and I are good friends now and he loves hearing the story and I tell the story when I got the

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