Winning the 2017 World Series Would've Made Retiring Easier For Rich Hill

Dugout Discussions with Chris Rose

Jomboy Media

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Chris Rose sits down with Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Rich Hill to talk about why he's still pitching at 41, being on the mound during AJ Pierzynski/Michael Barrett fight, helping young pitchers, still being mad at the 2017 Astros and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody and welcome to episode number 31 of the Chris Rose Rotation, a production of
0:05.1	John Boy Media. And today's guest is Tampa left-hander Rich Hill. Now you'll notice I'm flying
0:11.5	solo. We were supposed to have a co-host, but at the last minute, schedules change. That's what
0:17.4	happens. They're big leaguers. And the guys are buying in. Really, they haven't missed many turns in the rotation, which is great. They've been there for us. But on this particular day, a schedule changed right before Rich was supposed to join us. So I did a one-on-one interview, which I think you will enjoy with the oldest pitcher in baseball. Rich Hill, it is good to see you. Can you hear me, old man?
0:39.5	Is everything working?
0:40.3	Yeah, exactly, yeah.
0:43.2	I mid-2000s, early 2000s headset in, so yeah, we're good.
0:48.2	All right.
0:49.0	Can you believe this year 17 and you are still getting it done and having a fantastic month of May. It's like,
0:55.6	it's like you're 26 again, dude. Yeah, yeah, it's been, it's been great. It's been a lot of fun.
1:01.6	The Tampa Bay raise organization has been great. And, you know, that was from the outset of
1:08.0	where we were trying to pick a place to go play was a winner and a contender.
1:14.0	And certainly, you know, talking with Eric Neander and the front office and Kevin Cash and everybody throughout the Tampa Bay Ray's organization.
1:25.1	That was their mindset going into spring training and their
1:28.5	predictions for the season, what they had told me prior to signing. It didn't seem lofty at all
1:35.7	to me. I mean, but, you know, when you look at the team and you look at the parts and how
1:40.0	everybody works together, it's been great. Okay, but when you got to spring training and there
1:45.9	are guys who maybe knew your name, but didn't know who you were or your story, and you told
1:51.1	them, yeah, I'm 41 years old. Were there guys that were like, that's my dad's age? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, there's,
1:58.4	yeah, yeah, I mean, I haven't,'t yeah there's some guys that uh i'm definitely
2:02.7	thinking about it too because they're coming up to the you know 21 22 years old 20 uh so it's
2:10.6	it's been it's been fun uh some of the guys joey wendell uh likes to likes to have a little
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