![]() Stubbs: Dude, the amount of times I said that exact quote, and this is the first interview where anybody’s asked me. If you can’t get motivated to play in the NLCS with a trip to the World Series on the line, then really what the hell are you a professional athlete for in the first place? But you give Philly fans an inch and they say, ‘oh yeah we’re gonna prove you a certain way.’ But Merrill Kelly wasn’t coming in here and saying ‘Citizens Bank Park sucks and every Phillies fan is a piece of shit.’ The concept of bulletin board material is funny to me because you’re playing in the NLCS already. And then Merrill Kelly comes out before Game 2 and says something totally innocuous, about how loud the stadium was going to be. Kinkead: It’s funny because we had a field day with the Orlando Arcia thing, and Bryce staring him down when he went around the base path. And they asked me, ‘hey if you win two games here in Arizona, will you jump in the pool?’ I brought up Paul Sewald talking about how ‘if people win in our stadium, go ahead and jump in the pool.’ So I thought, if he says it, and there’s no disrespect there, then yeah, if we win two games in Arizona, we’ll beeline it for the pool. And it said ‘Stubbs beelining it for the pool.’ Everyone was having fun with it. There was one with Forrest Gump running down the road. Then someone asked me if I had seen seen the memes about the pool, there’s a bunch of memes about LeBron staring down whoever in the playoff game, and it’s Stubbs staring down the pool. And I’m messing around with them about that. We gotta score 10 runs, maybe if we score 15 runs I’ll get an at-bat. And then, the other funny part is that the whole conversation that that quote came out of, it was me and (audio drops) reporters on a practice day, and I was trolling myself about how to get into a NLCS game, one how cool it was, that it was frickin’ awesome, but two, trolling myself about the fact that I don’t play and I got in there. We were cracking up and blown by people actually taking the ‘if we win two wins in Arizona, we’ll beeline it for the pool,’ like get out of here with that. They even tweet it with ‘this is bad vibes from the chief vibes officer,’ yadda yadda yadda. Stubbs: What a joke dude! I was like, the Philadelphia Inquirer, they write the article and they do it with a negative connotation. Kinkead: Were you surprised at how the quote about the Arizona pool was received? This conversation went on for a couple of minutes on the podcast, but it was a really good one, and it drifted into the territory of motivation and how athletes use it, so I transcribed a longer portion of it for some added context: We asked Stubbs about this and he clarified:ĭoes regret his quote about the DBacks pool?Ībsolutely not. “We wouldn’t do it if it was a disrespectful thing.” “We’re a respectful bunch of guys,” Stubbs said. “If we take two here against Arizona, we’ll be bee-lining it for the water.” “I’ve seen that pool before, so I know exactly where it is,” backup catcher/team DJ Garrett Stubbs said Wednesday, referring to the famous natatorium beyond the right field fence at Chase Field. ![]() PHOENIX – If the Phillies do what they came here to do - win two of three games and clinch a second straight National League pennant - they’re planning to add a wrinkle to their customary celebration. ![]() Here’s a portion of the Scott Lauber writeup at the Philadelphia Inquirer:
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