I, I, I give a lot of effort
for the red carpet show and so does Hall of
Famer Ken Griffey Junior apparently, you poor guy,
you've been working, man. You've been working way
too much. I, I thought I was retired
. I did think I was retired, but obviously
not. You're our special guest because you're the new
CEO of H2O for Deer Park Spring Water. So
you're here today checking out the red carpet. Explain
this new CEO gig, Ken. Well, it's
very simple. It's hot here in Atlanta and you
gotta stay hydrated. Uh, you know, during
my playing days I didn't really drink enough water and
, and, and as I've gotten older, you
know, things start to ache and, uh,
you know, you gotta clean out your system and
, and hydrate. I mean now. Drinking like
4 or 5 of these a day. Well,
I'd hate to see what you did if you had
to drink some water. I mean, you only
hit 600 some home runs. Well, I would
say something, but you know I had a big
brother named Harold who was all over me on everything
, but he didn't take me out to eat like
most people. What? Yeah. Now, now
he got more glasses of water if he did that
. Now, now, you know, he got
a little wardrobe budget and now, now he wanna
be stingy. So next year when I'm here.
I'm getting dinner. I was thinking back to last
night. Cal said Cal Riley won the home run
derby. He said, I just want to make
Ken Griffiy Junior proud. What was your conversation with
him before he went to the plate? Just to
go out and have fun, um, you know
what he's done this, the first half has been
unbelievable. It's fun to watch. Um, it
, it, it's mind boggling, but for him
, you know, he would probably take. 15
home runs away to have a 10 game lead at
the end of the year. I mean, that's
just who he is. I mean for him to
juggle the pitching staff and go out and hit it's
pretty impressive. Ken, you had 35 home runs
at All-Star break when you was a Mariner record.
He's got 38. I mean, go back to
that 35 home runs. Was it easy? Was
it just flying out? Was it one of those
years? No, I don't even remember. You
know, what you end up with 55 that year
60, excuse me, do you remember that top
of his head. Well, that's, that's the
only number that really counts. Yeah, yeah,
I guess. I mean, imagine squatting and hitting
38 by the break. The guy's a catcher.
It's clear he's in a dirt area that really don't
count, you know, like, like, like
we have this argument that he doesn't count, yeah
, you. Unless you have grass underneath your feet
. Grown, you ain't a grown man. You
know, like I'm taking foul balls to the face
mask though. He's not stopping and starting all day
either. He's sitting there. You see him on
one knee half the time, you know, all
the catchers now on one knee hanging out. He's
changed my, my opinion on this. No,
no, we, we laugh because, uh,
um, I do it to all my friends,
you know, guys who play football. I'm like
that you call them weekend warriors. I see,
I see the, the, the scouting report on
, uh, uh, you know, questionable on
Thursday, you know, inactive on Thursday, questionable
on Friday, and then all of a sudden they're
playing on Sunday. So it's a, a bunch
of bans. Going on, but you know,
like I said, what he's done has been pretty
impressive throughout and hopefully we can continue. Ken,
thank you so much for hopping on the red carpet
with us. We really appreciate it. We know
you've been all over the place right now, but
you're one of the great ambassadors of our thank you
Harold. Next year I better get a wardrobe budget
. MLB. I need my wardrobe budget. He
needs it. I can't be the whole I'm not
even saying anything. I can't be the worst dressed
on the on the thing. I'm I'm appalled.
Day Junior makes me smile.