![]() ![]() Living in Merced, California we always got your connect. Wanted u to know how much our family enjoyed your career. If you watched it, you know I shared my tears when I honored my wife, too. It was such a great experience for me to be able to do that. So yeah, I cried, talking about how much I would miss the guys I got to play with, and telling my children that I was coming home. And I know that a couple of guys on the team knew too. Probably right then, only me and my family knew just how much it really meant. It meant a lot to my children, and it meant a lot to my family. This time, I was saying, “I’m going to be home a lot more now. To say it then was to let them know that I always said that, but this time, it wasn’t temporary. That’s why, during my speech at my retirement ceremony, I told my children, “Daddy’s coming home.” That was the biggest thing, for them and for me. I just had so many times on the road where it was, “Are you home yet?” “How many days left till you get back?” “When are you coming home?” On the road, I’d call home every night, and they would say, “When are you coming home?” Or they’d ask, “When are you going to be done?” My oldest son was asking me when the road trip would end and the team would play at home. And Buster and Cain, specifically, I will really miss.īut nothing meant more to me than being able to tell my children that I’m coming home. I’m going to miss lunches, breakfasts, dinners on the road, just being with the guys on the team. I’m going to miss all that stuff that I got to do in the clubhouse and on the flights. But seeing those guys all the time? I’m going to miss that a lot. I have some of them in my home town, too. Will there be other times and other relationships that are just as powerful? Yes, of course. I’m very relational in how I do things, and so I’m really going to miss the relationships that I developed on the field. Those friendships, those relationships, that’s what I’m going to miss the most. I’d take a bullet for either one of those guys. Those two guys specifically are friends that are so close to me. So I got teary-eyed talking about a couple of close friends like that, Buster Posey and Matt Cain. We’re lucky to know that, and I already knew it from experience. One thing ballplayers know is that there will be friends on their team that will be closer than brothers. It was my relationships with some of my friends on the team. I knew what I was going to miss the most. The day of the press conference, when I announced my retirement to the media, they asked me what I was going to miss most about the field. There was so much on Twitter about how heartfelt and emotional it was, and a lot of fans said they were crying along with me. I got emotional in the press conference when I announced my retirement, and I got emotional on the field. ![]()
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