Joe Carter chats about the 2025 World Series | Hot Stove

Blue Jays legend Joe Carter joins Hot Stove to share his reaction and thoughts on the 2025 World Series.

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It is still and will always be one of the biggest moments in the history of our sport. Five time all star, two time World Series champ joe Carter responsible for it and joins us on the set in Vegas. Joe. Good morning, matt. Good morning harold. Good. Does that ever get old joe? It, no, it doesn’t get old. But you know what, for the first time in 32 years, I was hoping it would end like that. This past World Series, I was ready to give up my crown. I really was, I was ready to relinquish it. I’d held it, held it 32 years, man. It was this close. It was a heck of a series. It was amazing. You played with a lot of teams. Uh You know, we’re always gonna know you as a blue Jay. I think Torontonians claim you was one of their own and you were up there to throw out a ceremonial first pitch during the World Series. Uh Yes, game two, sito threw out game one. And so, you know, I get there, I get the get on the mound and everything and you know, I hadn’t thrown in a long time. But, uh, uh uh Bo said, he said , don’t worry, I got you. I got you. So it was, it was a little bit, you know, a little bit outside. We were you worried that Bo’s knee was hurting and you might have just knocked him out of the game with no, shut out. No. II, I tell you what, for that, for that young man to play in that World Series and the way he performed him and George Springer. I mean, that was, that was those , those are old school guys because a lot of these young guys, they don’t go back out there and play like we had a free agency on the line, you know, went out there and actually show what he could do. I, joe, your personality is what stands out all the time. I see you jogging around on the home run, but that’s joe Carter. You came out, throw out the first pitch, you’re throwing your arms in the air. One of our favorites. I know Matt’s all time is you’re , you’re a prankster and, and people love the, the, the bell prank, but you pull off a lot of stuff, but go ahead and take us through that one again. Oh man. Uh you know, you’re around these guys, you know, 100 and 62 balls games. You know, you got spring training back when we played. Spring training was what, two months. So you’re around Yeah, you’re around these guys, you got to have some fun. So I learned from guys like Burt Blyleven. You know, I remember the time when Burt uh in California they had the, the free giveaway, the trip and he went out there with his suitcase. But with Derek here, we had just clinched against the uh the Tigers in 92 and he has this Jeep, the Jeep probably cost about maybe 10,000, but the sound system was like 50 grand. And so, and so I had an idea and so Sito goes, hey, none of you young guys go in the clubhouse after, you know, when the game starts. So I go in there, we get this car, we wax it, shine it all up and I’m getting ready to start it up and take it onto the field. It wouldn’t start. And so I’m, I’m down in the tunnel and I’m kicking it. I’m hitting it as soon as I hit the steering wheel and turned it , it started up. And so we had Tom Cheek and Jerry Howarth. Uh they had a rap video going that, that two radio announcers for the Jays and I, me and Candy Maldonado. I’m, I’m rolling out there. We had a real ticket and the look on Derek Bell’s face is priceless. He bought it. He really thought they were giving away his Jeep. He’s like what I should have told him it was operation shutdown. Hey, Jo, so you’re, you’re here in Vegas for this golf tournament coming up this weekend, the inaugural m will be open. Uh, it’s gonna be a lot of fun. In fact, we’re gonna talk to mike Flask who’s putting it all together here in a moment. Um, you told us a great story once and you’ve been traded a few times in your career about learning of a big trade while you were either coming off of or getting on to a golf course from a caddy. Remind our audience of that one. It was during the winter meetings. Uh December 619 was in 1990 we’re playing at Grand Cypress in Orlando and I had played 27 holes with scott Sanderson and Steve psycho Lyons and I had just got done, played the nine holes and I’m coming off the course and the caddie is cleaning our clubs and everything. And, uh, he goes, uh, you guys hear about the trade. I go, no, he go, oh man, big trade. Everybody’s talking about it. I said, well, who got traded? So my name is on my cart and he turns around, he looks at the cart, he looks at me, he looks at the cardie, looks at me and he goes, you haven’t heard? And I said, no, he said, well, I hate to be the one to tell you, but you and Roberto Alamar got traded for Fred mcgriff and Tony Fernandez. And I go, no, that is no, no way that happened. I could not believe it saw Donald fear who is our our executive from the owner? I mean, the players players. And so he told me, yeah, it happened. So that was before cell phones. So that’s how I got, you are the one that got traded, sir. And at that time, where did you go to Toronto? Was that at that time going to Toronto was not like like it is today, you were going to play outside in the freezing. No, no, no. This is 91. This is, this is 1990 80 nine. So you could you imagine if you got traded to the to the lake. Did you ever get up there when it was playing out? You never see if harold had played at the X and he had played centerfield. They never would have saw Harold and centerfield because you can’t see his football. And so the center fielder, you didn’t see him. Look at these, you played at Cle put that list back up there again. Cleveland Muni, the mistake at the Lake. You got into Skydome when it was brand new and shiny. Um when you were in Baltimore more Camden yards was with us fortunately. But man, I mean, that’s quite a quite a andres wasn’t anything in nine days. That was Jack Murphy Murphy. Hey, I came from Cleveland, went to San Diego. So you know that was a, that was great. So you played, I mean, look at your numbers, Joe, you, you, you put up Hall of Fame numbers. I mean, you look at your numbers , I think during the World Series we talked about it. You averaged 29 Homers and 100 and seven RBIs for 12 straight years or 10 straight years or something crazy like that. And you played in ballpark, so the ball didn’t carry right. You know, you know, the thing is harold, you know, as we get older now, you know, being 65 years old, what are you? 70 72 75. Yeah. II I feel that when people mention the name Joe Carter, they forget about the consistency I had with the home runs. And RBIs there was a stat out, I didn’t even know and they said from 1986 to 1995 I was number one in home runs and RBIs, you know, in, in both leagues, but because of the home run, you know, it takes away from what, from what else I accomplished. And so, you know, it’s good and bad, you know, if I had to do it all over again, I would do it the same. I remember the first time I saw Joe Carter was at the, the, the NBC tournament in Wichita, Kan Kansas, Mark Langston, Tony Gwynn Joe, that the one they play, they play that into the darkness of night. They play all night long in a Alaska in Wichita all night long. They played games, mike Moore, there was a lot of big leaguers that was in that tournament. We had a great team, the Boulder Collegis. I mean, we had, I mean, dave Yobs, Kelvin Torve, uh you had Mark Langston, Tony, Tony Gwyn, uh al Newman, a lot of players. We had, we had some players and we uh I think you played with Fairbanks. That was, that was, that was where all the good players went. That’s where, that’s where the famous Harald sound comes in. I played with him up in Alaska. I did play with some guys up in Atlanta. I got some dudes on my team in Alaska, joe. We need to see more of you, man. We’d love to see more of you on the before we let you go. When did you start golfing? Because it was kind of taboo when you were a player when we were playing to golf and you’re really a pretty good player. Wait a minute, it was taboo for you guys. You were playing all the time. I was playing, you know, Billy Williams when I first signed, you know, I, I had the Louisville Slugger contract and they, at the time they were offered me $250 or a set of golf clubs. And Billy Williams said, take the golf clubs. And so that was, that was uh 1982. So I took the golf clubs. I started playing a little bit, but it wasn’t until I got, until I retired that I was able to really enhance my game. But telling you what in Toronto we go on a road trip, we had 25 bags. I played and in fact, three, let’s see, I hit five, I hit three home runs five times in the game. Three of those times. I played golf in the morning. Oh, take that management, take that with your new golf policy. You know, Joe is going to be one of the favorites at the inaugural M LB Open coming up at the end of the week at Shadow Creek. And in fact, the, oh, you’re playing with Ernie, playing with Ernie. That’s a.