-Last time you were here, I made you tell me
all about your elaborate proposal to J.Lo.
And everyone -- it was so funny. 'Cause, dude --
I mean, he practiced it with his assistant the night before.
-Ashley -- [ Laughter ]
-You knew exactly what time the sun was setting.
It was awesome.
Now I want to know wedding planning.
Is this worse, or is it more fun or what?
I mean, are you planning it? Are you working on it?
-I would say it's stressful, but it's really not.
It's actually -- You just let Jennifer plan everything,
and you just say, "All right."
[ Laughter ] -Yeah. Exactly right.
But the tricky -- the thing that everyone's
gonna ask you is, are you gonna do
a choreographed first dance?
-Ooh. -Yeah.
It's J.Lo. -Mm, anything to do with dance,
I kind of just try to take a back seat.
She's a professional dancer.
-I know. I know. -But I told you last time,
when I have a few cocktails, I'm not awful.
-Okay. [ Laughter ]
-A little vodka, little soda, I'm okay.
-Okay. So maybe we can see you work something out.
Have you picked the venue yet? -No, not yet.
-I have a good idea. -Tell me.
-The Super Bowl. [ Laughter ]
She's doing the halftime show. -She is?
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Everyone would love it.
It'd be the first time anyone's ever done it.
It's like 100 million people watching.
No one's ever done it --
a wedding during the Super Bowl halftime show.
It would just be epic. Come on.
-100 million people?
We're trying to think a little bit smaller.
-No. -More like 100 people, maybe.
-Yeah. If you do that, then you don't have to worry
about not inviting people. -That's right.
I can probably save some money.
-Exactly. Right? -NFL, Fox, they all pay for it.
-We found a -- I found a video,
an old video of you, an interview that you gave.
And I just want to show it tonight
'cause I thought it was pretty --
This is from 1998, I believe. Here's Alex Rodriguez.
-What would a dream date with Alex Rodriguez be?
-Jennifer Lopez.
Hopefully you can find me a date with her.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Dude, not only -- [ Cheers and applause ]
-That means that dreams actually do come true in America.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
Not only did you date her, you're marrying her.
-But, Jimmy, it took me 20 years.
And by the way, the swagger with the hat backwards and the gum?
I mean, you got to be young to be...
[ Laughter ]
...that cocky and that confident.
-[ Laughs ] -You got to be young.
-No. -Young and stupid.
-No, no. Absolutely not.
That's so cool. I love that.
Not only that, you have the big wedding coming up.
But also you have a -- an anniversary.
It's been 10 years since you won the World Series
with the New York Yankees. -That's right.
-The anniversary. [ Cheers and applause ]
It was amazing.
-It was the best time of my life.
-Here's a picture of you -- you guys celebrating.
That is unbelievable.
That was so great. -That was great.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-What a great team.
You also -- There's sneakers that
they released commemorating the World Series.
-Yeah. -The 10 years.
-10-year anniversary, I got out the corps.
And I always wanted a sneaker with kind of
a little bit of a championship twist on it.
10 years. And Charles Barkley, growing up,
always had these little clicks.
So I wanted to incorporate that into my sneakers.
So, 10 years, anniversary, the corps.
Pretty cool. -Yeah, that's right.
I like those. [ Cheers and applause ]
What about this -- What about this World Series?
Do you have any stories that you remember
from the World Series, 2009?
-You know, Jimmy, I remember you coming to the games back then.
And it was -- it was such an amazing time.
Because winning a championship in New York,
there's really nothing like it.
You can't really even describe it.
But, you know, I think one of the big keys was,
when Johnny Damon came over from the Red Sox to join the Yankees,
he was, like, the perfect sauce for our team.
I remember he was begging me
to go out all year to go out to karaoke in Koreatown.
-Really? -And I said, "Well, you know,
not during the season. Maybe in the off-season."
Anyways, he finally convinced me after we beat the Angels
in the ALCS right before the World Series.
We had about four games.
Well, we went out, and we got bombed.
We got bombed. [ Light laughter ]
And we came out, and the sun was out.
We went in Koreatown.
I think we came out of Dominican town.
[ Laughter ]
And I was like, "Where are we?"
So, literally, we lose game 5.
We're going back to New York.
Now we're in the World Series a week later.
And he's like, "We just lost the game."
Press is all over us.
Game 6, we need one more for the championship."
He goes, "Hey, Rod," in the locker room.
"Let's go get bombed again in karaoke."
I said, "Are you crazy?! We play tomorrow.
We have Andy Pettitte on the mound.
We got to get our sleep."
He goes, "Oh, you're so stiff. I'm gonna go to Koreatown.
I'm gonna get drunk.
And we're gonna win the championship."
-No. Really?
-That's exactly what happened the next day.
[ Laughter ]
We won the championship. -That's --
So you were loose? -Yeah, yeah.
-So you're just, like, loose, and like, "Hey."
"What's gonna happen's gonna happen, right?"
-That's exactly right and not overthinking it.
That what's John -- Johnny Damon just brought
an element of confidence and swagger...
-I love that. -...and just not overthink it.
And he was perfect.