- We're on the road quite a bit,
probably 120, 130 days a year.
It's cool, it's part of it I actually like.
You get to see different places,
and, you know, just go places that
I probably never would go if it wasn't for baseball.
What's up, GQ?
This is Christian Yelich, and these are my essentials.
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First up, we got 5 Hour Energy.
You know, it's something that I like,
it's quick and easy, get's the day started.
This one is strawberry-watermelon,
but I got another one over here.
This is a berry one, this is the one
that I've got a big stockpile of right now.
So this'll be the flavor for the next couple weeks.
In baseball, you just, you play so many games
and there's such weird hours with travel and everything
so everybody's kinda got their thing
that they get energy from and this is just mine.
I like it just because you don't have
to drink a lot of stuff, I think it's four ounces.
You can just knock it back real quick and go,
other guys are drinking water bottles full of whatever,
I don't even wanna carry that around
or have to mix that or make it every day,
it's easier just to grab one, pop it off and get goin'.
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AirPods.
You know, these are something that I use
when I'm getting ready to go, you know, pregame routine,
everybody has their own thing that they do before the game,
and these are extremely important to me.
Let's me focus and just block out
the world for a little while.
- [Offscreen Interviewer] What's on Christian's playlist
right now to get you hyped for a game?
- I like all genres of music,
but right now it's been some of the new Drake stuff
which is, it's pretty basic
but you know he's still killing it.
Sometimes we just turn it over to your teammates
and baseball's such a melting pot of cultures
that you get exposed to all kinds of new music,
whether it be from Latin teammates, guys who like country,
hip hop, just kinda whatever throughout the day.
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Another essential to my life would be Chipotle.
We don't have it here with us,
we can CGI it on, right here, burrito.
You're in the minor leagues,
and you're in all these bizarre cities
and a lot of small towns,
and we're on a time crunch a lot of the time
trying to makes buses, be places at certain times,
and something you can get quick,
fairly healthy for you, if you do it the right way,
and I got on that routine when I was really young
and I've kinda carried it.
I don't see it changing any time soon.
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All right, now I got some Converse.
I grew up in Southern California
so that's what I grew up wearing.
And so I was comfortable with it,
and I'm comfort over anything so
whenever I get the chance I'm tryna rock tennis shoes,
and these have been the ones.
They're a little dirty right now,
they're taking a little bit of a beating,
but once I get a good pair of shoes
it's hard for me to let them go so
try to ride them out as long as possible.
And I'm just always, always wearing these.
I get a hard time from it sometimes,
from my teammates they don't,
you know, they're all wearing super fancy shoes,
which I'll do sometimes but on a day-to-day,
it's always the Converse.
I like the old school look of the high tops,
with a little bit of the throwback design.
You know, it's a big part of my life
and I'm stickin' to it.
- [Offscreen Interviewer] Do you have all of the colorways?
- I don't have them all with me, like,
some are in Arizona, some are in Milwaukee,
some are here on the road, they get dirty
and you have to replace them.
I don't always keep up with keeping all the colors.
I usually go with the whites, or just the beige,
something that'll kinda just go with everything,
but, you know, the whites, you gotta keep replacing them,
cause they get dirty so fast.
Converse, comfortable and stylish.
[shoes thud on floor]
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We got our Beats headphones.
Sometimes when AirPods don't block everything out,
or you're on the airplane
and you really just wanna shut the world off,
go with the Beats.
They, you know, keep it a little bit quieter.
So you got em with, without the cord,
kinda just put em on and either knock out on the plane
or just completely chill and relax.
I actually sometimes look forward to it,
when I can just put em on and check out,
you kinda live a life of, a lot of craziness sometimes,
and the moments when you get to just relax
and be just in your own world
are becoming more few and far between,
so you learn to value that time
and this is a big part of that.
Why the color?
You know, I think when I was picking them out,
it was just a choice between a couple of them
and, you know, I like, the not black or not gray,
but just a little bit of the gold in it,
and I just wanted to be different,
and get a new look and I just liked the flat color
and kept it simple.
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Next up we got the Tom Ford sunglasses.
So, the story behind these actually
was I got my other paid of sunglasses stolen,
which, you know, don't steal, come on people.
I shipped my car somewhere, and I left them in the car.
I got the car back and when I went to go drive it again,
I was like, "Oh, where are my sunglasses at?"
Gone.
So there's a truck driver somewhere riding,
rocking some Gucci sunglasses.
Had to go back to the, sunglass shopping,
and we found these, I really like them.
Something that, not too flashy, just keep it simple,
but, at the same time, I like them,
it's something I felt comfortable in,
and that's why I went with these.
You can wear them inside, yeah.
Like this, chillin'.
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So next up, we got Rolex Daytona.
This goes with me everywhere all the time I'm on the road.
I actually got it, I bought it in Hawaii.
In the off-season, on vacation.
The reason I bought it was I won
my first career "Silver Slugger."
It came with a bonus and I wanted to do something
I was gonna remember it forever by.
And I didn't have a watch at the time,
I needed a nice watch and something
that I could wear on the road if I had somewhere nice to be.
I like this one, once again cause it was simple.
I like the black leather band,
and when I was looking at it,
this one really stood out to me.
I thought about it for a day or two
before we pulled the trigger on it,
and I really thought it was gonna be a great decision,
and I'm happy I made it, it goes with me everywhere.
I don't have a huge watch collection yet,
I do like watches though so it might be something
that I get into here in the near future.
It's a great place to start.
Next up, we got passport.
It seems basic, seems like something
that wouldn't be essential to your life,
but I have it for multiple reasons.
Sometimes, we need it to get to games,
get to, get out of the country, even we need passports.
If we're going to, to Canada or wherever,
maybe we play a game, we just did one in London.
And then when the off-season comes around,
if you wanna do some traveling,
just get away from the grind
and go somewhere you can just completely decompress,
relax, it doesn't want to be in the States,
you definitely need this.
So it's become an essential part of my life,
and I try not to lose it at all times.
It's a small package, can get lost easily,
but so far I've been able to keep track of it.
Next up, Tumi backpack.
I couldn't live life without it,
because I live my life out of it,
and it has everything that I need,
everything that we've gone over, mostly, so far,
comes from out of here.
If I lost this, I don't know what I would do.
I got it a few years ago,
just wanted something that could hold a lot of things,
also semi-stylish but not too flashy.
It goes with me everywhere.
I keep my AirPods in here, headphones, passport,
just all kind of things.
Something that I just grab when I'm really on the go,
and need to go in a hurry
because chances are anything that I'm going to need
is gonna be in this thing,
and it's become essential to my life.
Last up, we got Major League Baseball.
It wouldn't be right to talk
about essential things without this.
I spend more days out of the year doing this
than anything else in my life, you know.
If you count the season, the off-season,
getting ready, spring training,
I think we're probably close to 300 days
that are involved with a baseball.
It's given me things and taken me places
I would never imagined.
It seems simple, it's a small white ball,
but the things that it's brought me in my life
and the people that are close to me in my life
is incredible and I'm super thankful for it
and you get a reminder of it every night
when you look down and say "Official Major League Baseball"
and they got the logo, and you can look up
and find 40-50,000 people and take a deep breath,
take it all in sometimes.
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These are my essentials.
Hope you liked em.
If you're ever in Milwaukee, come check out a Brewers game.
And I'll see you there.