Where Are They Now? Baseball Legend Mo Vaughn still an MVP

What’s up everybody, Fred Richani of TSC. We have right here on the line a very special guest is a true baseball legend. He is also an entrepreneur and he is a man looking to make a major impact like he did on the baseball field now in the world of fashion we’re talking to former Boston Red Sox, New York Met Mo Vaughn Moe. How’s it going. Now, before we get to everything. You’ve been doing in life after baseball, I know a lot of fans all fond memories of you with the Red Sox. Hit those homers with the Mets. You’ve got a new collection coming out one that I think a lot of people, especially people your size and Frank Thomas’s size might be interested can tell us a little bit about that mobile MVP collisions by mobile productions.

It’s a big and tall brand kind of third year I started this because always be the MVP customer looking for calling looking for style looking for fashion. We are exactly that, you know, big and tall usually, you know, gets the worst fenders, the worst cuts, the worst patterns and this fan is it’s all fashion for the bigger tall guy you’re mainly math, which is script for our growth and what we’re doing we saw sorry. Like I said, what made in America. So, we source our product, you know, I love LA with that were able to change our styles and capsules as trends come. So you’re on trend big and tall fashion brand services the big guy and what we’ve seen, you know, we started this brand is that, you know through through organically in social media that its customer is very much wanting fashion and we’re paying it to that customer as we speak.

And what kind of market research, did you do. I mean, obviously, you know, you’re somebody you’ll Frank somebody there it what bigger than the usual guy you’re both great athletes and everything. And you have the, you know, tensions of being a big strong powerful athletes. I mean was just one of those things where you noticed like some of your colleagues you in the locker room Ragman like we could really use some some fashion here or did you have to do kind of a deep dive and explore and really find like, hey, okay, there’s a niche here I should start out this MVP brand for me being the customer you’re walking around and you know, there’s nothing bigger than a 2x letter Laura to install.

So, you know, you’re able to access. So I kinda like had half the wardrobe, I had like jeans and no shirts or, you know, really I had to get my suits bader or things made. So I knew there was something there to be done and think, you know, model. I have a partner Diane Cthulhu’s been in the business, you know, 25 plus years. She really is good deep dive and figure out, you know, just a constants that this is a completely white space at all. I have great ideas and great things that happen, you know without a partner that can execute these things this thing doesn’t really, you know, come to fruition.

So that’s a big part of it is my partner her and what she does and her knowledge, but for me this started basically because I knew there were there was nothing out there. Oh god talking fashion. I mean, you’re working with Frank Thomas and both you guys, you know, iconic players, especially in the 90s and you look on ebay these days or any store any source in the mall and whatnot. I mean, vintage is back right as far as like the 90s and the old school jerseys. I mean, right, I told my friend. I was interviewing Mo Vaughn he got super high send me a bunch these screenshots.

He’s like you gotta talk to him about some of these shirts in the past that say movin on them. They’re still selling. I mean, even the read the original Red Sox hat, you know that of course you rocked? I mean, when you were playing back in a day. Did you realize kind of a cultural impact that you were kind of having on fashion with Major League Baseball, I probably didn’t know. But I probably didn’t I would lie to say if I did, but I think you know, his brain is exploding and exploring and I appreciate that 90 degree look into that, but bringing on a guy like Frank Thomas.

We’ve been friends since we’ve been in college. This is not news we’ve been great supporters of each other throughout our careers, it’s been allowing me friends friendship has never been, you know, ego driven or no competitive driven. You know, in that way. We’ve always pushed each other do well and he’s, you know, the type of guy who knows better Greenwich, you know, the Hall of Fame status genex, you know, Fox Fox Sports World Series coverage. He’s the president of partner that can really help us enhance the spread. So, it’s basically, you know, we’re glad he’s here, you know, it’s our coming out, you know, today, you know, this week was, you know, press about him coming aboard.

So between all those things. It’s a lot of great things happening and yes, we, you know, we wanted wherever’s vintage happened in 1999 is that what we want to bring that stuff back. So, we’re glad you layer your multi time all-star former MVP had a very successful career, but I’ll imagine right? After he retired there was definitely a void to be filled, you know, not being able to play baseball anymore initially, you know, before he got into fashion, you know, how did you find a way to fill that void. It was tough. It wasn’t easy, you know, I would say to anybody that tries to evaluate it.

You know, it athlete after life give that actually he or she some space because it’s it takes a little while to evolved. Luckily when I retired I jumped right into the affordable housing game out of New York City. It got me get it ever take away, you know, did it ever relieve all of the things that I wanted to know it never did, but it got me on track to going in the right direction and gave me the ability to do some other things. So, it’s not easy. You have to have, you know, a Mike Ford realize that nothing will ever match it, but you got to try to get your body and your brain and your heart moving forward in the next job in the yeah.

Collection. Yeah, a great career you. But you did have some tough times on the teams with the Red Sox with the Mets looking back though. When you see how fondly you’re remembered. I mean, you know, I see you these days on the radio every now and then or making media appearances and everybody here the name move on their face just lights up, how does it feel after all these years to still have the respect the fans. It’s nice. You know, I had some great Red Sox days. We saw somebody yesterday, you know, does anybody think in the tri-state area that I wanted to come back to New York and not perform, you know, I’m 60 miles from my home town hall walk.

I went to college across the river in New Jersey. Yes at all I was a high school upstate, you know, Trinity Pauling upstate New York Paul in New York did I did anybody ever think that’s how I want to the input listen some things happen and you got to move on for. So, it’s great. Now, you know what span, you know about out uh-oh three. It’s 19, you know, it’s 13 16 years later and people are seeing me for what I am and it’s definitely nice has. I’ve got to be kind of a pillar of those Red Sox years where obviously they didn’t have the World Series success that they have now we were somebody that kind of was one of the building blocks.

Yeah, I’ve interviewed other guys like say Walter Jones from the Seahawks who played before they won the Super Bowl and we’re Legion of boom and everything like that. But he took a lot of pride and being one of the building blocks and saying the foundation when you look at what the Red Sox are today are you proud of the work you put in and do you feel like you and your teammates kind of set that foundation for today mr. Dyer. I hope we helped do anything toward them winning. And I saw this before, you know, when they won the first World Series into 2004, I saw all of the weight all of the stress all the losses all of the great games that we never won all that came off and I’m sure but any Red Sox player with any significant time of service that played for Boston.

They never got us to where we want. We were all ecstatic and now you know, we’re enjoying, you know, oh for only, you know, although although you know, the four championships and you know, the last 14, you know for so years. We are all enjoying that so however. We helped or didn’t or what we did. We are enjoying it now, and we’re happy for all the successful Sox rather besides the New York and Boston. What was your favorite city to play in, you know, my bottom wire. I love love to Camden Yards all? It’s great to go there you see micronet ballpoint with no, it’s like you’re playing in the video gamers just Bridals.

So, it was the best place to play still a beautiful park -. I mean, I know people that don’t even watch baseball they’ll drive down there just to watch a game. Yeah, it’s beautiful, you know, I wish they would, you know, play a lot better because that type of venue, but it was always a great place for me to play now if you were able to go back in time or go back to the future however. Maybe okay, go back to your prime and play in today’s game. Do you think you’d fare better or worse than you did back in your era, I’d be just as good.

I would make a lot of money because we hit for average and power we would be having the Los Angles. We would be swinging up it’d be driving everyone’s and do what we had to do. So, you know, I’d love to be playing today. Okay, if you were if you were put in charge to kind of increase the appeal of the MLB, what would you do. Listen, you don’t love baseball. It’s not gonna become a two hour and 20 minute game. I don’t care what happens. It’s just not you got to love the game there love how it’s played you got to love, you know, the change the matchups.

It’s just that’s what it is how would you say this get more baseball play people in the front office on the field man’s the team’s coaches that know the game stop reading all these analytics and get the right people on the field and involved with the game would your gonna be the fans back to the game, we got a few fan questions here are some quick hits are you ready? I’m ready. All right. Who is the best baseball player you played with and against a ball player. I played with I played with Roger Clemens there were some pretty good guys. But broadly Roger was overall the best, you know, a small player.

I would play with I played against trained Thomas and I’ve heard of guys Barry Bonds. I played in watched a Griffin you could put him real you can put them all in one, but I was lucky enough to play against those guys and you know, when I was playing funniest player you shared the locker room with Roger Clemens. He’s just comic relief, you know, it’s funny because, you know, he has this persona what he goes on games. He is all that. But the four days in between he’s the funniest, man alive. It’s unbelievable it really is to be honest with you harder place to play Boston or New York Boston one thing one set of reporters all the way around.

It’s just it’s tougher than anywhere. Thanks any sport football basketball baseball whatever. It’s the toughest place. What’s the best business advice you give anybody the best business advice, I would give an athlete is sign your own sex pay your own bills. What’s the best advice, I would give an athlete today sign there all sets you’re not I p.m you can sign your chess. You got enough time to leave me favorite sport besides baseball football, if you could have been any other type of athlete or had any other career path besides baseball and you’ve been just as successful. What would you have gone into I would have been a quarterback York Giants Jets Cowboys.

Oh, okay. Okay. It’s all right, it’s all good. All right, you know, okay, then it’s Cowboys. What do you see the future for the Cowboys being in 2019. I don’t know. I think that was, you know, they did, you know, you got to play defense man, you know, and you know, we’ve had some great years. You gotta win at home. I mean, look at this past, you know, five years comley’s have in the best team in the NFC and have gone home in the first round and you can’t be a Super Bowl team when you do that. And we need to visit that can’t leave you without having you talk about everything you’re doing with Omni you New York?

It’s a great cause. Can you tell everybody about that man. We know it’s funny. You know, yesterday was our 15-year anniversary. There’s a nice event at my office I saw everybody? This. I think armies were for one solid reason I was able to play the game of baseball put my name up in lights. And did love didn’t start star fashion I was the star. It’s when my partners and my staff we’ve done the same thing and not many people get to live two lives at a high star level and Omni is that on the real-estate entity. And I feel enabled exactly. And I just thank everybody for that because that’s exactly what it is.

We walk around, you know, as superstars in our industry and it’s all because we have great integrity and everything. I’ve learned, you know, this is flage biggest African wise. I’ve learned from my two partners being in the affordable housing space in New York City and don’t what we’ve done and obviously continuing to make a positive impact. Well, we really do appreciate the time. Where can fans find more information about you MVP and Omni online, listen, you know, we have move on every peak elections calm. We are in the basis we are king size direct. We are online DXL corner sites set out the clothes buy the clothes I’m telling you the clothes feel good.

They fit. Well, it’s a great product forget about it, you know, the name being more long realized that our product is one of the things it’s not just a name. We back it up by what we do.