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James todays guest is so identified with his amazing record of playing in 2,632 consecutive games with the baltimore orioles. His other achievements are often overlooked. In the batters box and at shortstop, he sent Numerous Major League record with an opt 19 time allstar, was elected to baseballs hall of fame on the first ballot. My pleasure, i know he looks like hes a tight end, he looks like hed play forward in basketball, mr. Cal ripkin jr. Good to se see you again. Cal good to be here. James talk about what life has you doing right now, baseball has been good to you but make no mistake, youve been good to baseball as an active ambassador, cal. Cal im still connected with baseball, mostly through our youth business. They gave me sort of an insight into business. Learning about the business of baseball. I knew about the on the field product but i didnt know about the things around it, the sponsorships and selling tickets and the concessions, food and all that kind of stuff. My heart is in the kids business, the kids business is to help give back and provide some experiences that may help a kid to become the best he can be. Or maybe fulfill a dream like i was able to fill. Thats sort of in the spirit of what dads life is all about, billy and i started that business. We have teaching presence in aberdeen, we are looking to take those models which are successful and duplicate them in other parts of the country. James you mentioned your dad, clearly that is something that has been driving you nonstop. Dad had that passion and love it for kids that your modeling so well now. Cal the foundation we started in the name of my dad was capturing the spirit that data related to kids through baseball. He will go and have clinics, the kids that didnt have all the same advantages and he would get them interested. He wanted to direct them and give them a positive path to be productive citizens. Thats the spirit we captured and we now use his name and go all over the country and use baseball to get in front of kids, weve built 75 of these Youth Development parks which are essentially synthetic baseball fields to allow them a safe place to use the programs we are talking about. We mak make a lot of progress. Eddie murray was so proud and happy to name the field after him. James where was this . Cal in west baltimore, right into that area. Eddie came up there and jumped to the podium in one of the quick things he said, this is for all of you, but i will be back. Everybody said they would love to have him back, we are looking at ways we can impact the program. James the perception was standoffish, easy to get along with. He is effusive whenever it comes to cal ripkin jr. Cal i dont think its just me, in some ways i wish everybody knew eddie the way i knew eddie. Eddie is the nicest guy, hes got the biggest heart. Sometimes you may think hed be the most intimidating guy, especially if he looks at you the wrong way if youre from the media and you want to talk to him. He was very important to me, when i came up i struggled at first in big leagues. I was 3 for 5 opening day, 1982. I was fourth in my next 63. 7 for 68, heading a little over. 100. It was really important, you think of bo weaver as an empathetic soul. He was to me and most people dont see him that way. He helped me get through but eddie murray was the example and eddie murray took me under his wing and showed me the importance of playing every day. James we come back i want to find out what was instrumental in you getting over that to enjoy this stellar hall of fame career you had. More with cal ripkin jr. After this. Announcer portions of the james brown show are brought to you by geico. 15 minutes could save you 15 or more o its a small finger. A worm like, a dagger . A tiny sword . Bread. Breadstick . A matchstick a lamppost coin slot no . Uhhh. 10 seconds. A stick a Walking Stick eiffel tower, Mount Kilimanjaro ding time sorry, its a tandem bicycle. What . What . as long as sloths are slow, you can count on geico saving folks money. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. Oh theres one. A the sea cow manatees in novelty ts . Surprising. Whats come at me bro . Its something you say to a friend. Whats not surprising . How much money matt saved by switching to geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. James not that i would claim to know everything about cal ripken but i did work for his agent many years ago. One of his books for kids was titled hothead. Talk to me, cal. Cal i guess i had to overcome a temper, a temper that got in the way. If things didnt go my way, it seems like this power would build up inside of me, i could throw a helmet, a fist, that made my mom just cringe in the stands. I think the lesson im trying to show in the book is how my mom helped me get over that. Dad was away playing baseball and she didnt say i couldnt do it anymore, she asked me when i was calm, why do you do it . I dont know, this power comes over me. She helped me channel that power in a positive direction. Instead of doing something negative, why dont you go for a long run, shoot 100 baskets, take 100 swings in the cage and tap into that power. Slowly starting to apply those principles, you saw the end product in the big leagues. Ken singleton, i was still teetering when i told you i was 7 for 68. I threw a helmet down after striking out for the second or third time in the game, Ken Singleton came up to me in the next day and said let me show you something. He took me into the video room and showed me me doing that and he says what do you think about that . I said that doesnt look too good and he said we dont do that here. He took me into a room and said if you want to go in there and get some frustration out, go in there and hea beat the heck outf this thing and come join us. It was a good lesson. The channeling and experience really guided me in the right direction and i was able to keep my composure which allowed me to be more consistent. James these are the kind of stories folks dont often hear about teamwork, the roles they play. That he, Ken Singleton, would take you to the side and help point this out to you. Is that not a typical in terms of ballplayers, to really take the car time to show you the ropes from experiences theyve gone through . Cal thats how its supposed to work. When theyre talking about a chemistry of your team, you are pulling people from different backgrounds based on their talent and assembling them and saying okay, play together. Chemistry, when you get the right mixture of that chemistry you get the veteran pulling a rookie under his wing and saying okay, this is what you need to do and how you need to handle that situation. Then you have Something Special because we are all able to execute on a certain level by our talents. If you can take that execution a step further and get to know somebody, trust somebody in certain ways, you can really win those close games and take it to the next level. It is about gathering that team, not only in talent but whats your character and i was very blessed to be on teams that had those kind of guys. James any standard of measurement, you have quite the successful career. We will find out about more about it. All of that when we talk to cal ripken jr. Coming up after this. 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All right lets teach these freaks some manners good luck out there, captain thanks but i dont need luck, i have skills. I dont have my keys. on intercom all hands. We are looking for the captains keys again. They are on a silver carabiner. Oh, this is bad. As long as people misplace their keys, you can count on geico saving folks money. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. Announcer portions of the james brown show are brought to you by geico. 15 minutes could save you 15 or more on car insurance. Visit us at geico. Com to see how much you could save. James the 1983 cal ripken junior concluded the mvp season with a world series ring. You said, to this day, nothing compares to that feeling. You still think of that with a sense of pride and how blessed you were . You earned it but how blessed you were. Cal it was a great feeling, youre running around the bases, that was a great feeling. When youre breaking lou gehrigs record, to run around and take that lap. Thats a different type of feeling. When you catch the last out of the world series, its part of your dream as a kid. You want to be the star of the world series, i wasnt the star of the world series but when i caught that line drive, the defense of play came right to me, squeeze the ball and there was a sense of fulfillment and satisfaction that nothing else on the baseball field i was in my second year when that happened. I thought it was going to happen all the time but that was the only time i had a chance to be world champions. I wish i wouldve had a chance to play in the playoffs more because thats meaningful baseball and it makes you feel like you really accomplished something. When i think about that, that alone, all these other feelings are tied for second, this is way up there. James you came to speak at my Old High School and you greeted everybody in your typical, engaging style. Then you asked, i need a halfhour to myself. You went off to prepare and most people would say wait a minute, youve done this a bunch of times but you did not even take that for granted. Cal in baseball the clubhouse is cleared 45 minutes before the game starts from the media, to get everybody ready for the game. I got really accustomed to that. Different players deal with different things. If they have nerves they like the noise around them, if they dont they just want to focus, i need a bit more quiet to get my head together so you can prepare. What you witnessed was me coming in i remember our appearance there as you carried me like crazy. Taking that few minutes to calm yourself down and get your mind thinking about what you want to accomplish as part of the preparation and it makes me feel like i can do a better job. James your longevity in the game, they characterized that, in the early days, where there barriers or humps you had to overcome to acquire that, to do what you did . You were truly a bionic man in that regard. Cal id love to tell any young player thats starting to breakin, your confidence, getting over the hump that you believe in yourself. I know when dad said it, wherever they send you in the Minor Leagues, know that you belong, youve earned it and you deserve that. To me, when you get to the big leagues, theres a question of whether i did it doublea, triplea, now im not doing so well to start. Is this all i can do . By getting yourself over the hump, once you gain that confidence it opens up the door for all you can do. I hadnt played shortstop much in the Minor Leagues, i was developed as a third baseman. Once i got my feet on the ground, there was confidence to move me to shortstop. I wanted to say okay, you handle this and he goes no, you handle that, thats their job. He gave me the confidence to start to take control and make decisions from steals and run plays. Once you have success it starts to build. I dont know the secret of saying how do you get over the hump from a confidence standpoint, the most important factor as you realize you can play at this level, i can be even better. The to james the game of baseball is different today from just a few years ago, we will get cals thoughts after ok, so with the awardwinning geico mobile app, our customers have 24 7 access, digital id cards, they can even pay their bill beep bill has joined the call. Hey bill, were just phone hi guys, bill here. Do we have julia on the line too . k, well well just phone hey sorry. I had you muted. Well yea lets just phone so what i was thinking ok well well phone yeah lets just go ahead phone oh alright the awardwinning geico app. Download it today. Hey gus, meet tucker. awwww. Whoaaaa . And axle, angie, frank, charlie, millie, ralph, henry, audrey and duke. Yep. Ten times the fun. Sorta like this. Ahhh, ten times the bucks. Its one of the new times the bucks games from the pennsylvania lottery. With millions in prizes hot diggity dog keep on scratchin james cal ripken junior took a lap around the park, shaking hands with fans who wanted to congratulate him for breaking lou gehrigs consecutive games streak. That occurred september 6, 1995. You said later this is the greatest Human Experience of my life. Emphasis on Human Experience, meaning . Cal i made the comparison between the greatest feeling, catching the last out of the world series, thats a baseball experience for me. The outpouring of love that happened from the breaking of the record and sort of the embarrassment, halfway through the game people are clapping for 22 minutes. Saying thank you, come on, lets get the game going. Six or seven times and it wasnt until they push me down the line and said you were going to have to take and i didnt want to do that, why is that the answer. You start shaking hands and looking people in the eye, the celebration went from macro to very personal. I was really worried about getting the game started, but halfway around the stadium i thought this is the coolest thing ever. I dont care if the game comes back or not. James 95 games without an error. Cal we are talking about another streak now. James even better is what im saying. Because the media continues to talk about those things, do you either try to block it out, do you focus on it, doesnt cause any tightness and you . Talk about how that played out. Cal it was pretty magical. Youre talking about handling i went 95 straight games without in error. You try not to think about those things, you just want to play the game. I think a minor disappointment was the year that i made three errors, i was not aware of the golden glove. Defensively, and maybe it was my offense that overshadowed the position and people took for granted some of the defensive things, i was always proud of the ability to turn double play in crunch time, to help your team stay in the ball game or win. That particular year was pretty magical. I had this glove that seems to be no matter where in the glove it seemed to stick. It was almost like there was velcro all over the club. It would get caught in between, somehow it would catch it. James things you like about the game, things youd like to improve . Cal i like that everybody is talking about the game. Im not a big advocate of speeding up the game, lets try to get it in a certain package so its nice and neat. I think theres a lot of thinking and beauty about the game that should be preserved. I think if youre teaching a rhythm, it should be taught in the Minor Leagues where you are starting to say maybe at a clock so you got to throw the ball in this amount of time, get your signs right, get into a rhythm of knowing how to play the game. That will translate into having that happen at the big league level. James a lot of emphasis on power right now, maybe its a shift in the game right now versus some of the more tactical things like getting somebody on base to be able to advance with speed, the whole 9 yards. Cal if you really take a look and examine the success of teams in the playoffs, its usually the teams that can execute at a finer point. During the regular season, if you dont bunt and you dont hitandrun and you dont do some of those things, when you get to the playoffs you are not going to score the runs like you normally do. I remember cleveland executed the smaller ball, joe maddons team really executes during the course of the season. You need to do those things because theres times when its going to be called for. You need to figure out a way to put a little pressure, get a little lead. Some of the smaller points of the game, the bunting and even baserunning have been lost but the teams that do those the best still have the best chance to win those games in the playoffs. 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