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(drilling)
Jonathan: You filming that?
(music)
My name is Jonathan Papelbon.
I'm a Major League baseball pitcher
and I play for the Philadelphia Phillies.
As soon as I get out of bullpen and I'm on that green grass,
that first step on that green grass,
it's almost like that first step into the stadium, into the arena.
It's go time and for me I get in this like,
almost like a bubble, like a shell of myself.
Sometimes I don't even see hitters in the box.
I'm just here to like compete.
(music)
I am someone who comes in when the game is on the line
to preserve that win for the team.
(crowd cheering)
Voiceover: Papelbon trying to finish off this world series.
Jonathan: I think the closer has to have that mentality
of okay, this is all my shoulders now.
It's do or die and I kind of like this.
(crowd cheering)
Voiceover: Game over, series over and the Red Sox are world champs again.
Jonathan: The first shot I got at it at closing,
for me that was this, that was like my ultimate high
and I've been chasing it ever since.
(music)
Hey man, you just ...
You hadn't shot this yet, huh?
Voiceover: No.
Jonathan: Not yet, you're going to shoot this today?
Voiceover: Yeah.
Jonathan: It's what I used to call yellow jacket, man.
This is it right here.
Voiceover: It's loud for sure.
Jonathan: This thing will freaking sting bro.
(string snap)
(calm music)
Most people either think I'm a cop
(laughs) which is funny.
A military service member
or somebody along those lines
and they eventually get to know one of the fact, "You have tattoos?"
I'm like yeah and they'll be like, "What?
"You look like some all-American kid or whatever.
"You shouldn't have no tattoos."
I'm like, "Well, I might look like that,
"but deep down I've got a lot of things that I have a lot of passion about
and I've decided to put them on my body."
(calm music)
Parker is just my absolute angel.
She's my biggest cheerleader.
She's always said that everyday I come home.
Typically just absolute daddy's girl.
Gunner is my son who is just 100 miles an hour,
[unintelligible] shop.
You're going fast, man.
(wheels rolling)
You're going fast.
2 total polar opposites and that's the hardest thing I'm faced with, so.
Olmy: Now which side is Parker versus Gunner going to be?
I'm going to do one coming up, one coming the other way.
Jonathan: Okay, Parker was the first born.
Olmy: So, I'll put her on the
Man in black: I'll put her on this side.
(country music)
Jonathan: Once Olmy gave me the first tattoo and I saw it after that
I immediately knew there was nobody else that was going to give me a tattoo.
Olmy: I'm int he habit of traveling around the country a bit when I work.
I usually get about 2 trips in a month.
So, it's not very far out of my element to be here
trying to figure out how to pull a tattoo off here.
(paper ripping)
Jonathan: I have a cross in my upper back that I had originally got.
It was bootleg, it was amateur, it was terrible.
Added on to it, spiced it up, made it a cooler looking cross
and I'm now getting my daughter Parker Alice
and my son Gunner Robert's name in calligraphy.
Family, my career and my faith and it's all in 1 tattoo.
Olmy: You ready, sir?
Jonathan: I'm ready, Sir.
Olmy: Let's do this.
(drilling)
(calm music)
(drilling)
Ashley: Have you seen it, babe, at all?
Jonathan: No, I feel it.
Ashley: You're going to be happy.
(drilling)
Jonathan: You think so, you like it?
Ashley: Yeah.
(drilling)
It makes me proud that you love [them].
(drilling)
(calm music)
Jonathan: I mean, I love the game
but I play baseball because it's really all I know.
What does daddy do, is he a pitcher?
Parker: Thrower.
Jonathan: A thrower.
Strike them out.
Boom!
(gun shots)
3 biggest things in my life for now all incorporated into this 1 tattoo.
At the end of the day,
I think most tattoos are stories of people's lives.
(music)
(drumming)