Turn 2 with Scott & Troy
Turn 2 with Scott & Troy is an unrivaled glimpse into the baseball world. Triple-A Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp broadcaster Scott Kornberg is joined by Miami Marlins minor league first baseman Troy Johnston to break down the biggest stories throughout baseball and welcome in the sport's players, managers, coaches and writers for behind-the-scenes stories and information. For all things MLB and MiLB, you'll get an in-depth look on Turn 2 with Scott & Troy.
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Turn 2 with Scott & Troy
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The season gets long, the days blur together, and somehow you still have to bring energy to the ballpark like it’s Opening Day. That’s where this mailbag goes first: what actually makes us want to come back every single day in the dog days of August, and how do you stay locked in when baseball keeps testing your body and your patience?
We share two different lenses on the same grind. Scott talks about broadcasting a season like narrating a long book, where every game is a new chapter and you never know when something unforgettable is about to happen. Troy comes at it from the athlete mindset: competition is the outlet, and the need to prove yourself never really fades in a league where roster spots are limited and nothing is guaranteed. Along the way, we get into the people who shaped us, from parents who demanded full effort to baseball icons like Ichiro Suzuki, Ken Griffey Jr., and more, plus why Vin Scully remains the model for delivering your best every night.
Then we go practical and behind the scenes. Troy breaks down why multi-sport athletes often move better, think clearer, and avoid burnout, and how skills from football, golf, basketball, and wrestling can translate directly to baseball performance. We also dig into offseason adjustments, what changes at Coors Field versus sea level, and the real family stress that comes with trades and waiver moves. And because it’s a mailbag, we finish with the fun stuff too: the best clubhouse food spreads, Philly cheesesteaks, the funniest fan chirps Troy has heard, plus favorite coffee roasters and go-to comfort meals on the road.
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Welcome And Mailbag Setup
SPEAKER_01Hey everybody, welcome to turn two with Scott and Troy. I'm Scott Kornberg, joined by my good friend Troy Johnston, joined by our awesome fans today. It's our our mailbag episode. So we've got some terrific questions. Thank you for all the submissions. There are a ton, and they were all really interesting to dig through. So before we start there, the turn two podcast is presented by our friends at Jack's Implants and Dentures, led by former Georgia baseball player Dr. Alex McCree and his partner, Dr. Spencer Russell. Visit jacksimplants.com to let this hometown practice make your smile a home run. So, Troy, are you ready to dig into this? There were honestly, we were we were texting back and forth the last few days. These are really good questions, and nobody asked a silly question.
SPEAKER_03I can't explain to you how excited I am because these are one of my favorite types of episodes, is actually hearing from the people. And they've got some unbelievable questions that we get to hopefully try to put a good answer to. So I'm so excited to see kind of what they they put out there. And thank goodness there wasn't too many silly questions.
SPEAKER_01And the other part about this is I do not share these with you beforehand. I look at them very minimally just because I want them to be authentic answers. So I pretty much just sort
Why We Keep Showing Up
SPEAKER_01them. And our first one, I thought this was a really cool one because it's sort of a general motivation, which we are in the dog days of August, and that is an always difficult time of the year because you're over 125 games into this thing. There is less than a month to go in the triple A season, close to a month to go in the major league season. And so uh the real W. Kane, Florida, he asked, what is the one thing you love about your job that makes you want to come back every single day? I thought that was a great question. That is a great question. I want you to start that one. How do you get how do you get through August? So the way I look at at baseball, and I I think it's unusual because I love coming here every day. To me, it's not an issue to do that. But I love the fact that as a broadcaster, the season is kind of like a long book, and there's all these twists and turns, and and I'm the narrator of that season. And so I almost look at it as today is game number 126 for the Jacksonville Jumbo trip. It's almost like chapter 126. And I am here to narrate whatever happens today, right? Like, are there going to be? I think there are some call-ups to the big leagues. Is there going to be an interesting game tonight? We don't always have that. Yesterday we we were down 14-0 at one point. So um, but it's still our job to narrate that. And I think we've talked about this with baseball. You never know what you're going to get. Sometimes you're down 14 to nothing, but oftentimes there are really close games with twists and turns and just the general course of the season of call-ups and injuries and trades. I love the fact that baseball is like life. And I love the fact that sometimes you come to a game and nothing happens. But sometimes you come to the game and there's something incredible that happens, like a walk-off home run, or in life, you meet your future spouse. So that is the reason I love coming to the ballpark every single day, is you never know what's going to happen when you get here every single day. And so that's what keeps me coming back is that today is chapter 126. We're recording this on August 26th. This is 126 out of 150. And I am very excited to see what unfolds today. That is me, my job is almost like a narrator of a book when you open it.
SPEAKER_03Gosh, that's so much. That's so much deeper than what I would have thought it would be. That is so deep. You literally, yes, you like, I mean, you tied it into life, you tied it into all this different. I love that answer. That's that got me fired up this morning.
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Competition As The Daily Fuel
SPEAKER_03So I don't know how I'm going to top that. You're a character in the story, though. So it's like I am a character. I am a character, but you yes, the way you said that was, you know, you're just you're good at your job. You know you do. But I would say the way that keeps me coming back to my job is I the and this is the thing, when you hang around athletes and you hang around people in sports, and you you kind of understand how how crazy our lives are and how crazy we work, you understand that we're absolutely insane people. We are not normal people. We we don't think the same, we don't, we don't breathe the same, we don't move the same. The way we go through life is so much different. I am absolutely insane. And the fact that I have to have an outlet to compete, and I have to have an outlet to say that I'm gonna compete against this person, I'm gonna be better than you, and I'm going to, you know, dominate you in whatever we do. Like that's what keeps me coming to the field. Like, baseball is just a great outlet for me. You know, it happened to be that I I'm really intrigued in the the way the body moves and and hitting and pitching and the and the little intricacies of an actual baseball game that you know if you never know baseball, you'll overlook. But for me, what comes back every day is I feel the need to compete and you know prove my worth that I am better than the person that's throwing a ball at me. And you know, that's why I show up every day.
SPEAKER_01I think we all even even in this field, I think we all have that because it is so competitive, right? Ultimately, there for you are only 26 jobs for per team times 30 for us. There's there's 30 jobs, right? Like that is it. So I always that's the one thing that I when people don't do that in this field, that to me is a personal bugaboo because you know how competitive this is. You can do everything right and still not get a shot. So, and it's just in general, why wouldn't you try to be the best possible version of yourself you could possibly be? And anything you do, absolutely, absolutely, yes, inspiration. Scott, you're killing it this morning. You are killing it, sir. You know what it is? I love it. It is that pistachio coffee that my wife bought that is amazing.
SPEAKER_03Good. For anybody that doesn't understand that inside joke, we got we got Scott on coffee here, what about three months ago?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, four months ago, something like that.
SPEAKER_03So he's he's slowly diving into his his coffee tastes and what he likes and all that kind of stuff. I love it. Pistachio coffee.
SPEAKER_01Amazing. Shout out to my wife who's who's incredible. So you talked about wanting to be the best possible player you could be. That actually segues perfectly into our next question.
Parents, Heroes, And Work Ethic
SPEAKER_01This is from Alyssa J2010. And she actually asked a couple good ones. I know the family here, so we'll we'll kind of spread it around. But her first was who inspired Troy and who is or was your favorite player? Because I think that that's like kind of who you look towards to have this attitude you have about baseball.
SPEAKER_03That's honestly, I mean, it's different for everybody, and you know, it's cliche to say that, but you know, my parents inspired me. They they instilled in me that you know, you know, they may they may never admit that they said this to us, but you know, me and my brother remember, you know, if you're gonna do something, do it right. And so, and you're gonna you're gonna finish what you start, because that's kind of the our our family motto is that's what we're gonna do. And so that inspired me every day is you know, if I'm gonna do something, I'm gonna do it the right way. I'm going to do it ethically, I'm gonna do it to the best of my ability. I'm not gonna, you know, half half do things. And then kind of the player that you know it ties into it a bit too. It was the player that did that. I mean, I was a I was a Mariners fan, and I loved watching Ichiro Suzuki and Ken Griffey Jr. and some of those early Mariners, but one of the one of the players that you know you say I modeled my swing after the way he like moved, all that kind of stuff, you know, I'll say one more Mariner. It was Robinson Canoe who I have, of course, I've talked about on the show that I got to play against. But kind of the way they go about their business and the way they move and the way the the the way they handle the game, like that's been the way that like I have been inspired and and the way I want to play. And if you notice those are three left-handed hitters, you know, I'm I'm not gonna put a right-handed hitter in there, it doesn't make sense for me. But my parents kind of, you know, they took me in a they took me to Mariner Games, they they showed me they they always had a they always had a saying too. It was, you know, when I when you're sitting on the couch on a Saturday and you know, it you want to relax, you want to do all this kind of stuff, but you know, you gotta you got a game on Sunday, you know. My dad would always say, you know, somebody's always working harder. You know, it's not just it's not just you know you versus you, it's you versus everybody else. You know, somebody's working harder, somebody's doing more. Like, how can you maximize your time on this earth to do whatever you want to do? Because without that, without actually going and putting in your full effort, you're never actually going to reach your full potential.
SPEAKER_01I have a couple if you're willing to allow one broadcasting and one player, but we just please I'll I'll shout out a right-handed hitter. So we just played the Syracuse Mets a couple weeks ago, and I grew up in New York and New Jersey, a New York Mets fan, and Edgardo Alfonso was one of my all-time favorite players, and he was the third base coach for the Syracuse Mets. And so I got a chance to meet him, and you never know how these things are gonna go, right? Like, you know, sometimes they're like, oh, that's great, you know, thank you so much, and that's more than enough. Sometimes it's worse than that, and that's obviously it's like you know, I really did like that, you know, person as a player, whatever it is. We a lot of fans have that, and that's that's an unfortunate part of things. But uh the other thing I would say is you never also know what people are going through, right? Maybe you can get people on a bad day. Anyway, I I went up to Fonzi um and I said, Hey, you know, Gardo, I grew up in New York and New Jersey, huge fan of yours when I was a kid, and he talked to me for about 25 minutes, and that was so cool. You know, we talked about the teams he was on and the fan base and how much he loved New York and the um when he left the Mets, how hard that was for him, and the taxi cabs that he had advertised like a thank you to, and how that idea came about, and um, you know, how he only just moved to Florida because he was sick of the weather, but he loved New York so much. Yeah, that was so cool. So he was one of my all-time favorite players, and then to have that interaction, my dad is still an enormous Mets fan. And I brought my dad up and how much he's having a difficult season watching the Mets this year, and he was like, Would he want a baseball? Like just like that, and signed a ball for my dad. That was incredible. So Edgardo Alfonso already was one of my all-time favorite players, and then you have an interaction like that was was so cool. Um, broadcaster-wise, huge inspiration would be Vin Scully. And I think yeah, he is the best, but to me, he is the best because it's not necessarily that he he crushed every big time call, but he did. The Sandy Koufax perfect game and the Kirk Gibson home run and the uh Mets Game Six of the 86 World Series. There's so Henry Aaron's big time home run to break the record. There are so many moments where it's his voice and he absolutely nailed it. But to me, what made him so special, and I think this kind of ties into my attitude of why I come to the ballpark every day and try to be the best I could possibly be, is every time you would turn on the game, you would get his very, very, very best. And there is always something special you would get. You would get an incredible story about uh Adam Wainwright's groomsman and how he found out he was traded from the Braves to the Cardinals. These are not even Dodgers players. You would get Madison Baumgartner and and um killing a snake to save two baby rabbits in his backyard. That is what made to me him so special was yeah, he was there for every big time call and he absolutely crushed it. But you were going to get something else every single game, and you never knew where it was gonna be and what it was gonna come from. But um that's what made his broadcast so special, just turning on a random game in the month of June on a Tuesday, and it felt like it was game seven of the World Series. He was bringing it every single day, so that was super cool. Um, another question from Tony.
Multi-Sport Kids And Burnout
SPEAKER_01Tony! What other what other sports did you play? This is a great question because you talked about your parents, and obviously I know this ties into that.
SPEAKER_03What other sports did I play? I played everything I possibly could because there's a certain time, and you know, I say this to every young athlete, there's a certain time where you can't play certain sports. You you know, you reach an age, you reach a level, you're just never gonna play it again. So when I was in junior high, that was probably the most sports I played. I played every sport. So we went football in the fall, I then went into wrestling, I then went into basketball. I was never very good at basketball, couldn't figure out what hand to shoot with. I'm kind of weird. I'm kind of weird. Left hand, right-handed, I don't know. Um I I tried. I and then I tried to go right-handed. I could either one I couldn't shoot. Um, and then I ran track, and then in the summers, I did baseball and competitive golf. So I did six sports when I was before high school. And then when I was in high school, I was a nine-time, ten-time letter award winner. Um I played football, I wrestled, and I played baseball. And then, of course, as everybody knows, I you know, you can play golf for the rest of your life. So I never played golf competitively, but man, sometimes I wish I would. I would, I could, I could have been a two-sport athlete in college.
SPEAKER_01Here's the follow-up question to that. There, there are a lot of kids who they feel, or maybe their parents feel from a very young age that they should specialize in a sport maybe because they're really good or whatever. You were the opposite, it sounds like. And yet, here you are playing Major League Baseball. So I'm curious, did you feel that playing other sports helped you in baseball in whatever way? Or or maybe not?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I absolutely. I'm a I'm a guy that suffers from from burnout, suffers from, you know, over over mental use, whatever you want to call it. Like if it's baseball all the time, like somehow, sometimes when my life is, like I get really like down in the dumps. I need to like get outside of my my comfort zone. I need to go do something else. I need to go on a walk. I need to go, you know, to do something crazy, like go to a museum or or you know, play a different sport or do something. Like that helps me quite a bit. But for the kids that are told they need to specialize or think they need to specialize, you got to realize how many movements are really in baseball. Like, you know, we we use the swing. I, you know, I'm I'm me and my my hitting coach, we use the swing, a golf swing. We use that we use that to talk about our baseball swing. We use a hockey swing, like a hot, like shooting a hockey puck sometimes using for the baseball swing. Um, you talk about being an outfielder. That's like being a safety or a DB. Go get the ball, you know, flip your hips, go go be athletic. You know, you talk about fielding a ground ball, that's playing defense on in basketball. You know, it it's the same kind of movements, it's the same kind of pattern, it's the same feet, it's the same all that. You know, if you're if if you're height challenged like I am at 5'11, like I'm probably not gonna play basketball for very long. So like maybe then get specialized into something else, you know, if you're not a if you're not 6'4 or 6'5, but like realistically, every sport ties into baseball. You know, everybody says, you know, if you you play a different sport, you're if you play baseball, you can play a different sport. That's 100% true. If you play baseball, you already have the movements and you already know your body's already patterned to play different sports. Um, wrestling was probably the only one that did it specifically or like linearly translate to baseball, but mentally that was the one that translated the most. I, you know, you can say golf, you can say you're one-on-one, but when you're when some other human being is trying to put that, put you on your back and trying to beat the crap out of you, and you have to mentally figure out, hey, I'm not willing to give in. I'm not, I'm going to survive this match, I'm going to, I'm going to beat you, I'm going to pin you. That's where that really ties into baseball. Is like, you know, you're getting beat down, you're 0 for 4, you're 0 for 4 again, you're 0 for 4 again. How are you going to get off your back? And how are you going to like get up and and and you know make this other guy work, make this other, you know, the the pitcher work, make all this kind of stuff. And so when you really think about other sports, it all ties together and each other. And you know, playing more sports, you get more, more out of it in life. You get so many different kinds of people. You get, you know, a basketball player is going to be significantly different than a wrestler. A wrestler is going to be different than a golfer. Um, a golfer is going to be different than a football player. A football player is going to be different than a than a baseball player. It's just like life. You deal with so many different people, so many different, you know, thoughts, so many different actions, so many different families. Like it's it's very opening when you do that. When you have just a small collective group, that's that's all you have. And when you're in baseball, that's kind of all you have. It's all or nothing. You're putting all your eggs in one basket. And if that doesn't work out, what's your identity? What are you? Who are you? And that's what a lot of kids struggle with. It's like, oh, you know, I miss playing baseball so much. And it was like, well, you did you do anything else? And they're like, no, I just played baseball year round. And it was like, okay, well, that's now your identity. But for me, I my identity was like, how can I be the best athlete? Not the best baseball player, not the best football player. How can I be the best athlete? Because all of a sudden that translates, and I can go do other stuff if that doesn't work out.
SPEAKER_01Not even to mention, in my opinion, the injury stuff is increased exponentially if you're doing, in particular, baseball year-round. Um, I think we got a lot of questions from Rockies fans. And so we're just fans of yours, we know we got questions of fans of yours in general. These are more kind of baseball performance breakdown.
Offseason Adjustments For Next Year
SPEAKER_01And so the first one from Devin Davilos. Um, he asked last month of the season, what adjustments do you feel like you need to make this offseason for 2027?
SPEAKER_03That's a great, that's a great question. That's a great question. Um, one of the big things that I want to change is I want the kind of my my speed and my running ability to kind of impact my game a little bit more. I feel like the major league lifestyle made me a little heavy. I've been eating a lot. You know, there's food constantly, there's all this kind of stuff. And so I I would say kind of my diet and my impact on actual like speed and different stuff like that. I think that is going to be like the biggest thing for me. Um other than that, I really want to, you know, it's it's hard when you get to this level because you know, there you you're on a team for a reason and you want to impact, you know, everybody would love to hit 40 home runs and you know drive in 100 RBIs and do stuff like that. But I just don't know if I'll ever be that guy. I could be, I don't know, but I could ever thank you very much. I might be that guy, but I want to do what I do well and make sure that my consistency is still there. I I want to, I want, you know, I'm not I don't really want to try to be somebody else if I don't have to, but I do understand that hitting home runs is a big part of this game, and I don't have a lot of those right now, not a lot of doubles, but trying to hit the ball in the air and trying to set myself up for success in that sense, I think is going to be a huge impact for me in 2027.
SPEAKER_01The next question also was sort of a Rocky's take, and this is from Mia Space underscore art.
Coors Field And Pitch Movement
SPEAKER_01Um, she asked, Troy, have you adjusted your approach at Coors Field compared to playing everywhere else at sea level?
SPEAKER_03Great question. Um, that's a that's a thing that's really talked about, and yeah, you uh you understand it. When you are on the road and then you come home, like guys pitch differently. Guys, the ball moves differently. You know, you a sinker on the sinker in Miami is very different than a sinker in Coors Field because the ball just kind of hangs up there. It doesn't really like bam, like that kind of thing. Um or curve balls, they just kind of like go and then they come down. Things like that. Uh a lot of guys pitch differently, though. Like when you're at courses, you see a lot of cutters, you see not as many four seams, not as many sinkers, you see a lot of curveballs, cutters, change ups, splitters. You see all these different pitches. And then when you go on the road, all of a sudden, like guys can throw four seams, they can throw sinkers, they can do all that because the ball is going to move the same. So I wouldn't say that there's like an adjustment. I think you're just more aware of how much the ball's moving and how much more you need to like be in the zone. Because for at Coors, I feel like everything looks like it's in the zone because it's not really moving that much. But when you're on the road, everything needs to like be in the zone and you need to kind of have your tunnel set because once you have your tunnel set, then you can kind of go off that.
SPEAKER_01Really interesting.
Trades And Family Stress
SPEAKER_01We have a question about um kind of a follow up to our trades episode, which we've just did, with Weather Wonder 34. And they asked, how much does being traded affect your marriage and family life? What are the pros and cons? I think you're technically a waiver claim. I can't remember if you were traded. Either way, it's a good thing.
SPEAKER_03I was a waiver, but yeah. I mean, it's kind of it's it's kind of the same thing. I just say traded because it's easier. Trying to explain a waiver claim is very difficult for somebody that's not that doesn't understand it. And I didn't understand it. I had to look it up on Google. I had to look up what the difference between I had to look up the difference between a waiver claim and a DFA. I was like, I think they're different, but I don't know. But um tech, yeah, technically I got traded-ish. And I would say the biggest thing I got traded at a good time. I got traded in the offseason. I didn't really have to like we were already going back to Washington, so we drove down to Arizona for spring training. Like it's we're already on the West Coast. It wasn't like anything crazy. And but if the guys that get traded mid-season, you kind of feel that right around July, like the all-star break, you kind of feel it. And I know a couple guys like kind of started packing their bags, kind of started, you know, preparing, kind of had things set in stone, had different questions, had all these different kinds of stuff. Um, I would say that's the worst part. That's that's the worst part about family marriage. Like you, it's the anticipation, the anxiety. It's like, it's like nothing has happened yet, but all these thoughts in your head of what if they happen? Like it's that kind of anxiety. That's the worst part. I would say that's like the biggest con of getting traded. It's like, uh, where am I gonna go? What am I gonna do? How am I gonna get there? Is it am I gonna be able to drive there? Do I have to ship everything? Uh, how how long is this gonna pack up? Am I gonna get traded, you know, a week before the deadline? Am I gonna get traded, you know, the day of the deadline? Is it all this kind of stuff's going on? And so that's probably the worst part about it is like the anxiety, the thoughts. It's like, you know, there's so many projections. MLB Network does all these mock trades, and you know, there's all these fans that do these mock trades, and all of a sudden, you know, you're scrolling through Instagram, and because the the um the they know your name and all the kind of stuff, it pops up on your Instagram and you don't even you're not even looking for it, and you're like, oh, mock trade, uh, I don't know, the Blue Jays or something like that. And you're like, oh my goodness, I gotta move all the way across the country. I've got to move my family, I gotta do all this kind of stuff. Or, you know, is my family gonna stay here for two months and am I gonna go? You know, there's so many different like things like that. But I would say the pros of it, you know, especially in my situation, is I didn't really have a clear future with the with the Marlins when I was there last year. And they saw that and they said, Hey, we'll give you a chance somewhere else. And you know, that's where the Rockies stepped in and said, Hey, we're gonna give you an opportunity. And that was probably the biggest pro is like usually when you're traded or when you're picked up or you're you're wanted. Like it's not it's not just like, oh, you know, we're gonna trade for this guy because we're gonna trade for him. We just, you know, we we needed a guy, and it's like, no, we we like your numbers. I I don't think they and the fans understand how much research goes into scouting other players. Like they're they're fully invested in going over the the smallest little details you can think of to be like, is this guy gonna be a good fit? They're calling coaches, they're calling people that know this guy, they're like, hey, how's his character? How's you know, is he a good person? You know, you they've got pro scouts watching this guy and being like, oh, okay, how does he how does he do when he strikes out? Like, what does he act like? What does he do? All this kind of stuff. And so that's probably the biggest thing is like you're wanted when you get traded.
SPEAKER_01Next
Best Clubhouse Food On The Road
SPEAKER_01question. Also, kind of inside baseball from Drew underscore D E K 26. I I read an article, let me preface this, about um the All-Star game in Philadelphia that the cheesesteaks in the visiting clubhouse are supposedly amazing and that teams will go crazy just eating cheesesteaks. The Mets apparently ate 120 cheesesteaks or something like that during a series in three days. So he asked, What is the best spread that you have witnessed thus far in Major League Baseball? Best spread.
SPEAKER_03Well, yes, to say that I have had my fair share of cheesesteaks in Philly, but you can only have for my for my sake, I can only have about one and a half. And it's funny because on the getaway day, people will order cheesesteak to go, and they'll just be like wrapped in tinfoil with names on them, like on our getaway day, like right before we're about to hop on a plane. But I can only have one or two. I'm I like a cheesesteak, and the home clubhouse does a fan, or the visiting clubhouse does a unbelievable cheesesteak. It's truly, it is so, so good. They do the peppers, the cheese, they do everything. Um, but my favorite spread so far has probably been Atlanta. I've also heard really good things about New York, uh, the Yankees, but I think Atlanta's been my favorite so far. You know, just the way that the kitchen is set up, the way that they present the food, the way that, you know, and sometimes they have the options. So there's like made-to-order stuff, and then they have um like an actual spread that they do. Like sometimes, you know, like yesterday we had Greek food. So two days ago we had Greek. And then you could also order, you know, K C D or burger or you know, chicken burger or whatever it is, and they'll like make that. The chefs will make that for you too. So there's two different options that you can have. Um, the Atlanta, though, they actually have like a touch screen by their kitchen, and you can like scroll, and there's like a menu of a bunch of different stuff, and you can just put it in, put your name, put what time you want it, and then you just go. Wow. Yeah, that's that's probably yes, that's probably my favorite visiting one. I again, like I said, I haven't been in New York yet. I remember hearing stories though about players when I was uh when I was coming up, and they were like, oh yeah, you can get if you really want, you can get a ribeye every single day and all this kind of stuff. I haven't seen that quite yet. Um maybe I've been told I just don't know the right people, or I don't know. I haven't I haven't asked about it. You don't have the service time for that yet. Yeah. I don't have the service time yet. Um, but maybe that's maybe that's my thing. Because if I could get a ribeyeye every night, I would be in heaven. But um maybe I have to provide the ribeye and then they kick it, then they get it ready, that kind of stuff. That maybe it's that that's how it works. But I would say as of right now, Atlanta is my top tier like visiting clubhouse like meals spread.
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Funniest Fan Chirps Yet
SPEAKER_01right. Next question we have from Preston Smith. I know Preston. Um, what is the funniest chirp you've heard from an opposing fan so far?
SPEAKER_04God, that's a good question.
SPEAKER_01Good question.
SPEAKER_04Oh my goodness, that's a good question.
SPEAKER_03Um, sometimes they get really creative. Um, I'm gonna go back. This is still one of the best ones I've ever heard. So I have two. So when people ask me, they're like, hey, are you know Philadelphia? Are the fans really that ruthless? Are they really like that that bad? And I'll be like, Yeah, yeah, they're pretty bad. And they're like, like, what do they do? What is it? And I'm like, well, I'll give you one example. So I was sitting in left field. We were it was one of the games last year. We were losing pretty bad. Uh, I think I think it was when Schwerber hit three home runs against us, two home runs, something like that. We weren't doing so great that game. And I'm I I get a little late in playing time and I'm playing left field, and you know, there's kind of some fans, so you can kind of hear them. There a lot of guys have gone home, it was raining, there's lots of different stuff. And I finally hear a fan, and I'm they're like, Troy, Troy, we love you, we love you. And I turn around and I look at them, and then they go, Just kidding, and they both flip me off. And so that's that's yeah, exactly. I was just what am I gonna do? I'm just laughing. I'm just I'm just like I'm a love feeling. I'm like, okay. Oh my gosh. That's not even creative, but it is hilarious. It is, it is, and then I got I got one more too, another good one. So oh my goodness. Yeah, that's a funny one. Um, the other one is Sean Reynolds, who if you guys remember was former Marlin uh with the with the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp for a while. And we played together my very first year in Pro Bowl in 2019, we were in short season together in Batavia, New York. And we traveled to West Virginia Black Bears, where they're we were playing at West Virginia University, and we had a I want to say it was a night game. We had a night game or a day game, I think it was a night game, and they had the West Virginia Black Bears band come to, or sorry, the West Virginia Mountaineers, like marching band, come to the game and sit right above their dugout and play music all game. And they did all the you know the normal stuff, like it was gonna be for the football game, all this kind of stuff. And their ringleader, their ringleader are pulling up stats online about players and like doing all this kind of stuff. Poor Sean Reynolds, he was already 0 for 2 with two strikeouts. Um, you know, if you if you talk to him, he'll tell you that's a story of his career. But he, you know, and he you know his humor, he's so funny, he's so witty. And one of the band members stands up and goes, Sean, you're from Redondo Beach. Redondo Beach's population is 26,421 people, but you're not there. So now it's 46,240 people, but you're not there, and they got the whole band laughing, and he's at first base, so they're right there. They're right on him. And you know, I'm sitting there and I think I'm in right field at the time, and I'm listening to this, and I'm like, dude, this is hilarious. It's just the stupidest thing I've ever heard. They're not even like, it's not even like really chirping anything, and they're just talking about his hometown, how he's just he's here and he's not there. And I was like, dude, this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard, but I it's one of the ones that stuck with me. I'm like, this is hilarious. This is you got these college kids, and you know, we were college kids at the time, like just making up stupid stuff. And that was probably the best chirp. I mean, I can't have like I can't tell you some of the other chirps. I mean, there's you know, I was at, I'll tell you one of them, I was at Wrigley Field, and you know, I'm playing left field this year, and all of a sudden I hear Hayley, Hayley, Hayley, and you know, they start chanting Haley's name, and I'm like, okay, all right, I think they're talking about me, and then they go, Lisa, Lisa, and they're talking about my mom, and I'm like, Okay, wow, well, you googled me, all right. You've you found my stuff, and so um that's that was probably the other ones, but I haven't there's been some chirps where it's like, I can't believe you just said that in public. But there's you know, there's there's the funny ones that I remember specific. I remember the funny ones, I remember the quirky ones, but you know, you try to brush off the ones that aren't so nice.
SPEAKER_01Shout out to the to the creative people out there. Uh correct. Yeah, that's all you guys are looking for.
SPEAKER_03Creativity in these creativity and and nice, kill them with kindness. Yeah, kill them with kind of that's all it is, kill them with kindness. Like, like, hey, you got ginormous biceps. You know, they probably love that.
SPEAKER_00If you get shouted out, you'll know this that uh with that, you'll know that somebody was listening to this podcast.
SPEAKER_04Troy, you have great biceps. Yes, thank you.
SPEAKER_01All right, last one from the shootover family in uh Savannah, Georgia.
Coffee Roasters And Favorite Foods
SPEAKER_01Uh question. Awesome family. They are great fans. They asked, What is your favorite coffee roaster, Troy? And then what is your favorite food that is not mmm disgusting? And they wanted me to specifically use that language.
SPEAKER_03Disgusting?
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm. Oh, that is not that is not mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_03That is not mm-disgusting. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Disgusting.
SPEAKER_03Oh, so okay, hold on.
SPEAKER_01I'm sorry, what is your favorite food? I think I think is what that question is saying. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_01What is your favorite coffee roaster and what is your favorite food?
SPEAKER_03Well, of course, I'm gonna go with my Jacksonville favorite. Um, yeah, because of course I had a family actually come out to Colorado when we were playing the Marlins and give me a bag of my favorite roasted beans. It's it's Mara Madero, and it's from Mechanism Coffee Roasters, who, if you know anything about mechanism, they just opened up a new location. So go see them. They're awesome, they're fantastic. And our team housing actually was like relatively close to a mechanism. So everybody would go there. We'd always buy coffee beans. It's all, and so that was that's my favorite coffee roaster. Um, I also have a favorite one uh that you know, now that I'm in Denver, it's a little bit closer. Um, but insignia is one of the other ones, a black cat insignia. They do a good coffee roast, they do a good espresso, good house blend. But the Mara Madeira, it's like a pink label. Um, with my coffee. I I I mean, I've spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars on coffee beans just from mechanism, you know. They they didn't quite give me a they didn't give me like a loyalty discount, but maybe I gotta buy some more beans after that.
SPEAKER_01But uh that's they know you by the way. They they know you, but Sarah, she's she she's like, I brought up Troy Johnson. Oh my gosh. So yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yep. I know I I can't I can't say enough good things about them because their coffee they make, it's it you you taste it and you see the bag that's made, and you're like, wow, this was made with care. And that's really the biggest thing for me. Like it's yes, the taste is fantastic, but like you're like, oh wow, this was like made with care. Um, my favorite food, I'm gonna go off the wall a little bit. So, like I said, my favorite food is probably a a ribeye steak done where I like it. I like it crusty on the outside and then medium rare on the inside, which is very tough to get. I'm trying to perfect it best I can. My pan doesn't quite get hot enough, so I need to my pan needs to get hot enough for that. Um, but other than that, I'm gonna go with a my favorite travel food. So this is like I'm getting in late, I'm gonna do dash something, and I go with curry. So I do like either an Indian curry, like a chicken tiki masala, or like a Thai, um, like a pyongyang curry, and then I'll do usually garlic naan with it as well. Wow, I didn't think you was that. I know, and that's why I said that's why I said it's a little weird. I'm from the Northwest, so like we have a lot of Asian influence. Yeah, and I do understand when you think Asian influence, you think of you know, Japanese food, you think of Chinese food, yeah, which we really do. We have a lot of that, but we also have a lot of really good Indian, we have a really good Thai. Like it's very popular up there.
SPEAKER_01I I'm gonna go with uh my favorite food that is not disgusting, would be amazing. I I love pizza, as you know. I make pizza from scratch several times. Um I'm really like once a week in the offseason because my kids love it. And I love Detroit pizza, I love Chicago pizza, but to me, just like a really thin crust, it's hard to do. It's hard to get that thin and for it to cook the way you want it. But when you get it right and you get the nice, like little sweet tomato sauce, um just not not too much cheese. I'm I think that too much cheese really kills it because I think you've got to have that good crispness to a pizza. Um that to me is as good as it gets. I love all food, but I just think that I'm not even talking about toppings. If you do a plain pizza, and it is plain, not cheese, if you do it perfectly, you don't need toppings.
SPEAKER_03When you say a plain pizza, when you say a plain pizza, you are talking about a pizza with just a sauce, no cheese?
SPEAKER_01No, no, no. In in New York and New Jersey, Connecticut, it is it's it's literally just plain, is what you would call cheese.
SPEAKER_03It's like a it's like a Mediterranean pizza. Yes, like a Mediterranean, where it's like maybe you got basil on it, maybe you got no.
SPEAKER_01No, it's literally just a cheese pizza. What you would call a cheese pizza is what we would call a plain pizza. Ah, I see. So it's literally just like your basic, your basic pie. Yes, but if you do it right, if you do it right, correct.
SPEAKER_03And I there is one place that I will forever dream about, and I will never not go there, even though the line is just disgustingly long. But I love Joe's pizza in New York. I love it. It is un and but but I made the mistake one time. I brought up tried to bring it back to my hotel room and it was cold. It got cold and it got hard, and it just wasn't the same. It was like you have to eat it right when you get it, and it is just unbelievable. But I do understand what you're saying.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's that's bleaker in West Forth. There's several great pizza places in that area. Um to me, I think uh DiLorenzo, like actually John's pizza is right there, and that place I think is the best in the city that I've had so far. My brother has done a great tour of New York pizza, and he has a few that I need to try. But DiLorenzo's in New Jersey in Robinsville, that to me that's pizza might be the best mess, could be the best slice in the world. Yeah. So, okay, so if you don't have a favorite coffee roaster, yeah. I gotta go to mechanism. It's on my own. I'm actually meeting with somebody, and we were planning on going to mechanism later this week, but he had something pop up, so he couldn't do it. So coming up, coming up, right? Coming up, mechanism. Mechanism. Mechanism, I
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