Wall, who probably should have his own sports-talk podcast, isn’t afraid to have a laugh at the whole situation. “I look at it as the Astros, being a team that’s never won before, just being there the first time they’re gonna have a higher level of scrutiny,” he said. Because I looked at the totality from the jump.”Īs Wall recounted, the Astros weren’t the only team that was stealing signs through technology in those times. “My initial reaction was kind of the same as it is now,” he said.
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We got to watch our team win the World Series, like that’s such a memorable moment.”Ībout that World Series … when I asked him what he thought about the cheating scandal, he gave an impassioned, five-minute-long defense of his team. “Like, man, just think, I got to be at the game with my son and my daughter at the World Series. “I still got bags of napkins that I saved from the (2017) World Series, just to save those feelings of having taken my kids to the game,” he said.
He hasn’t lost that sense of appreciation and he finally got to go to some World Series games in 20. He fondly remembers going to the Astrodome with his friends and sneaking down from the cheap seats to get a better view. He loved José Cruz and Nolan Ryan, and later Jeff Bagwell, Derek Bell and all the rest. She would take him to games in Houston and school him on the history of the game. Wall got his love of baseball from his mother Rikki Slayton, a San Francisco Giants fan.
Paul Wall throws out the first pitch at an Aug. Of course, Bregman is my boy and sometimes I go sit with his agent in these seats on the on-deck circle.”īut, he adds, you can catch a home run in the Crawford Boxes in the outfield. “Of course I like sitting in the owner’s seats and, on occasion, they do bless me. “When you sit in different places at the ballpark, they bring a different experience,” he said. Because he was friends with Hunter Pence, he said he started a “Bam Bam Boys” cheering section for him. But he also remembers being a part of “Los Caballitos,” Carlos Lee’s fan club. He was friends with Roger Clemens back in 2005 and he’s tight with Alex Bregman, with whom he teams up to do charity events. Wall, whose Twitter feed is a repository of Astros optimism, isn’t just a sit behind home plate or lounge in the owner’s luxury suite kind of fan, though don’t get him wrong, he likes the luxe baseball life. He’ll be there to yell “Play ball!” before Friday’s afternoon game. Sixteen years later, Wall is still rapping ( he has a new album out and just performed at the BET Awards) and he’s still repping the Astros. “I’m like, no, you can’t watch the game in Jamaica. “My wife was pissed, she was like, ‘We could be in Jamaica right now!’” he said. And once the Astros advanced to the World Series, Wall threw a stop sign on their honeymoon plans. 23, a day after the White Sox won Game 1 of the World Series, Wall and his wife Crystal were married. His now legendary feature on Kanye West’s hit song “Drive Slow,” appeared on both Wall’s album and West’s “Late Registration,” which dropped in late August.Īnd on Oct. His second studio album, The Peoples Champ, debuted in September at No. Who would do that?īack in 2005, Wall was on top of the world. Other people cancel life events to see their favorite team play in the World Series.īut only the truly insane cancel their honeymoon to watch their favorite team play in the World Series … on TV. HOUSTON - Some people say they’re diehard baseball fans.
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