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Ricky, Wild Thing, Vaughn, one of the greatest sports movie characters ever. Thank you. Can we talk about The Wild Thing, please? Yeah. How How was it playing Wild Thing and how did you get into character to play him? I mean, with with the baseball background. Yeah. Well, I I um the script was amazing. I mean, the script was it was just you just shoot everything that’s on the page, you know. It was it was David Ward directed it, wrote it. Um he won the Oscar for The Sting when he was like 22. Uh really smart, really really funny, really good dude, huge baseball fan. You can always tell how much someone knows about the game they’re writing about on the page, you know. And um yeah, I I had one meeting with him and um and he was like, “Well, you you you pitched in high school.” I’m like, “Yeah.” And that was only, you know, four years ago, right? Five years still, right? Yeah. And um he said uh can you give me something that I can because we didn’t have computers back then. We had to you just use clever editing, you know. Um I said, “Well, you can film me. You can film me in a full windup.” That that that I guarantee. Um but I, you know, I can’t throw 98 or 100 or I’d be doing it for a living. Um but I can probably get you somewhere in the mid 80s. Um that’s still good, guys. Not bad, you know. Um, so I did a bunch of steroids, right? And uh because I was only throwing like 76 at the time and I had this trainer, this guy was a running back at BYU and he had a he knew a guy that could get the steroids and so we’re at Gold’s Jam and pumping iron. Yeah, man. And and put literally put 10 miles per hour on my freaking Yeah. And how long how much time? Six weeks. Holy [ __ ] Yeah, man. Wow. I mean, I was a little nutty during the the thing. you know, but it was in character though. Yeah. But I I I didn’t continue juicing throughout the movie. Okay. Um because they brought in a dude uh named Marty Cove. Do you know who that is? He’s the he’s the he’s he runs on um on Cobra Kai. You know, Karate Kid. Okay. He’s the uh he he’s the other sensei at the at the evil dojo. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They brought him in to uh audition for Dorne for Corbin Bernson, the third baseman. And uh I I was still, you know, doing the jabs. He was a little bit kind of into whatever wherever his headspace was. And in a bar one night, um he and I almost got in a fight with like 15 dudes. And I’m like, I I don’t get into a fight with one dude. Just not that’s just not my thing. But Marty kind of was leading the charge that night and then word got back to the production and then like literally later on that afternoon Corbin Bernson is just walking up. Yeah. And he’s like, “Hey, good to see you.” Um so by the way, he killed it too though. He He was terrific. He was terrific [ __ ] He killed it. Yeah. He was great. But so, um, yeah, the the the thing that was difficult, um, about major league is that I didn’t have the, um, the luxury of a, uh, like, you know, four or five days between starts and I would throw some nights 150, 160 pitches, arms jello. Oh man. Yeah. Just all the different coverage, all the different pieces. And then the next day I have to come back and throw 85 or 100 more. And I was just like, could we have the pitch is three days? Yeah. Could we have uh scheduled this? Could I get a day off? Thank you. But they they could only have the stadium for this specific amount of time. What field was that what stadium was that? That was in Milwaukee. Okay. Yeah. So, would that have been Miller or would that have been that have been county? Uh I think Miller is newer, right? So, it’s probably the older one. Probably was it county stadium? County Stadium. But there was one scene where they literally had like 32,000 people in the stands. Wow. You know, I mean, it wasn’t sold out, but the way they filmed it when when when we run out, I didn’t run out, but when the team runs out and you could you could feel it. I mean, it was like, whoa. Yeah. I love it. But when I come out of the bullpin for that, you know, that classic moment, um, it was like 3:00 in the morning. There was like 60 people left. Everybody was falling asleep. I was like, it was Yeah, there was not. They they had cutouts of people like right on the edge of frame. They like squeezing everybody in. It was a trip. I’m going to go back and watch it now and check that out just to see that. I don’t think anybody walked out any relief picture walked out to a song prior to that. Did I mean you set the tone with that? I I I think that transator trends. So, it is it it is such a it to just to see that that then becomes a part of the game. And then I’m watching I watch a lot of baseball. Banana baseball. Was it? Have you Have you heard of banana baseball? I have indeed. Yeah. Yeah. Those guys are all about it, aren’t they? Damn. Um but just if you just any game, any game, no matter who’s playing, at some point someone’s going to quote something from Major League. No, no question. some a guy throws one of the back stop and the one of the announcers going to say just a bit outside right also speak about because it went from Willie Mays Hayes to um whatchamacallit to um to Omar Goodton or excuse me the Omar eps yeah so when was that switch that was after the second one that was for the second one okay yeah everybody came back except Wesley Wesley what was do you know uh I think he was blading by then yeah he was fast he was fast um He he could hoop too, remember from White Men Can’t Jump. He could he could he could mimic things, okay? Cuz he never played. But um he did something though that is really really hard to achieve. He could hit a popup like at will because he has to pop up once in spring training and another time during a game. During the game, he does the push-ups again, right? and trying to teach somebody to hit the bottom of the baseball. That’s that’s like not easy because intuitively you want to hit the center of the baseball, right? Um but no, he was terrific. And if they brought the dude in I I just I I couldn’t get my mind around, well, no, just just pretend it’s the same guy. And I was like, but isn’t that kind of like aren’t we told all black people don’t look the same? Yeah. No, it was it was and this is 1994, but still I I I’m I wasn’t down with it. Um I thought it would have been better for the story also if he just something happened to him. Yeah. Or he, you know, got arrested in a foreign country and he couldn’t make it back or something just more creative and then they just another dude shows up and you know we we have to go out and find a new center fielder, right? rather than what they landed on. Right. Right. You know, interesting. But no, it um major league is is a career highlight for me and is just the gift that keeps giving. Um there was a time when I would go to baseball games in any state in the country and buy a shitty ticket and just get get inside the stadium and then it was just the first security guard. He’s like, “Oh, what are you doing way up here?” And then suddenly I’m down into the thing and then after the game like kind of start wandering the hallways, you know, like you see the signs to the clubhouse and then they’re like, “Hey, what are you doing here?” And then and then and then you’re in in with the players. Yeah. It was like it was a backstage pass to Major League Baseball, all access pass. And it was that was cool. That was some fantasy [ __ ] Was the haircut your idea? No, that was in the script. That was in the script. Okay. All right. Yeah, everything was on the page, which is like mind-blowing that David just saw all of that stuff, you know.
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