The debate after that moment is,
did Nolan Arenado overreact?
I don't know what it's like to
have a ball coming at my head.
I do know two things.
He leads the team in every offensive
category and before that fracas he
gave us a very thoughtful interview.
Our spotlight interview
is with the All Star Nolan Arenado.
So I know you're about winning and thinking
about tonight's game, but you are 31.
You're going to have 3 homers and 900 RBIs,
but ended this season with all those
gold gloves and All Star games.
Do you ever at all think about Cooper staff?
No, not at all, actually.
I think I'm a long ways away from that.
I think I've done some great things this far,
but to be a Hall of Famer,
you got to do some crazy stuff
and do some amazing stuff.
And that's a sacred place.
And I definitely don't think
I'm Hall of Fame worthy yet,
that's for sure.
But hopefully by the end of my career.
I'd be considered and that'd be great with
me. You've been a part of some opening days.
You see, the Red Jackets.
Does the thought ever cross your mind?
Hey, maybe that could be me one day
I mean a red coat would be sweet, you know.
I think that would be awesome.
You know I see with the McGee, Albert,
you know they're gonna get there.
Yeah, he's gonna get there as we
go see Scott Rowland got his Keith
Hernandez just got in yet last year.
Those things are that's pretty special to
join a group like that because there's
a lot of great players that come through
the organization and a lot of history.
So that would be really great.
But like I said I have a long
ways to go with that one too.
You have options, but could you envision
yourself being a cardinal forever?
Yeah, absolutely. I absolutely can.
You know I could see myself
raising a family here.
I love Saint Louis and I love where I live
absolutely right.
The course field advantage.
Seemingly balls go out a little more,
but what about the advantage for you
now not being in coarse field and not
dealing with that altitude everyday?
Is there anything to that? I think
so. I think from a physical
standpoint you know.
Obviously you feel better.
From, you know, anywhere from you know,
sleeping a little bit better
because the altitude you know
you hydrate easy to hydrate.
But at the end of the day,
waking up with a little more energy for sure.
I mean altitude stuff.
And then when I was there,
there was a lot of long games
because it's just a lot of run
scoring a lot of things going down.
So yeah, I mean,
it's definitely a different
plane here than there.
The at bat experience.
Keith Hernandez wrote a book about it.
I want to have you take us
through one last week against
the Marlins 9th inning 00 game
Anthony Bender on the Mount.
It's an 01 count.
What are you thinking at that moment?
Or are you thinking what I'm thinking
is just try to hit the ball hard?
That's about it. I mean,
that's usually what I try to think
about in situations like that.
And honestly, when I think when I
feel like things are going right,
that's literally,
my mind is usually pretty simple.
It's hit the ball hard and
whatever happens happens.
So in that situation I was
just thinking behind the hard
and he throws that guy throws,
throws really hard,
he throws a heavy sinker,
and luckily enough,
I was able to borrow
it. Mike Schmidt used to say that
his hitting was really analytical
and his feeling was all instinctual.
Do you buy that or you?
Along the same lines on that,
for sure, I think you know.
I think it's there's a lot less
thinking going on in fielding
than there is in hitting,
and sometimes I wish my approach on
defense was how I approach hitting. But
what do you mean by that? As
far as not thinking so much?
Just instincts.
Your instincts take over at the
play and all those little things,
but sometimes it's tough because you
getting these little ruts or whatever
and you're trying to figure it out
and you don't want to continue to
do the same thing over and over.
But I definitely would agree with that.
You talked about the guy behind you,
Albert pool holes being your hero.
Are you hesitant to approach him with advice?
Or hey, we're teammates now
I can ask you anything.
No, absolutely.
I talked to him all the time about things.
You know, pictures, his approach,
all those little things and Alberts,
will he's really open to
talk to you about it.
He comes off a little serious and you
think he probably wouldn't be open,
but he's extremely open.
You just gotta go up to him.
Talk to him about it and
he'll share his knowledge.
All he's got a lot of knowledge
and he's obviously the greatest
right-handed hitter ever in my eyes,
so he's willing to talk to you if you go
up to him. Can you?
Raz him and give him a hard time?
I don't know if I can maybe add some of
those other guys can probably for sure.
What? What is your baseball dream
moving forward? Well, obviously
I wanna win a World Series.
I mean, that's what I really want.
I just wanna win when the when
the division win World Series
and then see how many times we
could do that and then obviously.
Just have a healthy career and you know,
hopefully by the end of
my career I'll you know,
I could look back and say I have no regrets.
And finally, what do you want
somebody to say about your career
when it's over 10 years from
now? I don't know, I guess.
That's a tough one to think about,
I guess. You know that I was
a good player, good teammate
and I did it the right way.