00:00George isn't here anymore so I can tell the truth, right?
00:03George is right here.
00:05Well, I would have been the Yankees, but Steinbrenner got on the phone and he called us.
00:09They told me, Barry, we're going to give you the money, the highest paid player at that time.
00:15But you have to sign the contract by 2 o'clock this afternoon.
00:18And I said, excuse me, and I just hung the phone up.
00:21Wow.
00:22And I went to go get lunch and my, you know, Dennis Gilbert, my agent,
00:25they were like, what do you know you just did?
00:27I'm like, did you know what he just said?
00:29I just said, forget it.
00:30And I went to go get, by the time I walked down the street to go get lunch,
00:33I said, let me just think about this.
00:35The Giants called me and I said, I'm going home.
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