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The. 2 00:00:06,589 --> 00:00:07,340 All right. 3 00:00:07,340 --> 00:00:10,343 Hey, Joyce, we back on again here. 4 00:00:10,343 --> 00:00:13,513 Well, hey, welcome to another edition of What's Good with John and Joyce. 5 00:00:13,513 --> 00:00:15,557 We'd like to thank all of our sponsors, too. 6 00:00:15,557 --> 00:00:16,391 And, we'll get to them in 7 00:00:16,391 --> 00:00:20,061 just a few, I'd like to say a big thank you to all of our sponsors. 8 00:00:20,061 --> 00:00:22,897 Woodwinds, wedding and special events, venue and Sylvio. 9 00:00:22,897 --> 00:00:26,568 Sources the woodwinds.com ascend bank. 10 00:00:26,901 --> 00:00:28,695 They don't just see your accounts. 11 00:00:28,695 --> 00:00:31,322 They see your vision and ambitions. 12 00:00:31,322 --> 00:00:35,577 Ascend dot bank Moonshots, a vegan based company 13 00:00:35,577 --> 00:00:40,665 that delivers the highest quality organic juices, coffee bowls and so much more. 14 00:00:40,999 --> 00:00:43,418 Drink moonshots.com. 15 00:00:43,418 --> 00:00:46,963 And to your health, nutrition and health coaching. 16 00:00:47,213 --> 00:00:50,925 Creating a lifestyle tailored just for you to your health. 17 00:00:51,092 --> 00:00:53,094 Three 60.com. 18 00:00:53,094 --> 00:00:56,347 We're deeply grateful to all of our sponsors for their support 19 00:00:56,347 --> 00:00:57,223 and for partnering 20 00:00:57,223 --> 00:01:01,352 with us to uplift and enrich the lives of our listeners and viewers. 21 00:01:01,603 --> 00:01:03,605 it's just so much fun hanging out with you. Joyce, too. 22 00:01:03,605 --> 00:01:06,816 I'm John Cadillac Seville from iHeart radio and John Seville, entertainer. 23 00:01:06,816 --> 00:01:08,109 And who are you again? 24 00:01:08,109 --> 00:01:10,236 I am your co-host. 25 00:01:10,236 --> 00:01:15,283 Oh, Joyce Logan, whose work with people like Michael Bolton and Carly Simon 26 00:01:15,283 --> 00:01:17,410 and John Mellencamp, she used to do a lot of, 27 00:01:17,410 --> 00:01:20,163 you know, promotional work for a whole bunch of venues around the area. 28 00:01:20,163 --> 00:01:22,916 And she is really, really, you know, love musicians. 29 00:01:22,916 --> 00:01:23,500 Yep, yep. 30 00:01:24,542 --> 00:01:26,127 Well, I love the guy who was here with us today. 31 00:01:26,127 --> 00:01:28,296 Got a chance to get to know him working out, 32 00:01:28,296 --> 00:01:31,216 you know, about ten, 15 years ago, he and his wonderful family. 33 00:01:31,216 --> 00:01:31,716 I love them. 34 00:01:31,716 --> 00:01:35,011 They're upstanding citizens and in Connecticut and beyond. 35 00:01:35,303 --> 00:01:38,348 But a gentleman who followed his dream, you know what? 36 00:01:38,348 --> 00:01:41,893 The Guilford High School and, of course, he played, in college at North Carolina, 37 00:01:42,268 --> 00:01:45,146 you know, part of the Bridgeport Bluefish at one point down the line, 38 00:01:45,146 --> 00:01:48,274 you know, and and had a dream of getting to the major leagues. 39 00:01:48,274 --> 00:01:50,110 And he did. 40 00:01:50,110 --> 00:01:53,530 But his very first pitch going up, he's going to explain his story 41 00:01:53,530 --> 00:01:54,030 a little bit more. 42 00:01:54,030 --> 00:01:56,908 But think about this. Your first pitch, you finally made it. 43 00:01:56,908 --> 00:02:00,954 Fastball hit you right between the eyes, knocked to the ground. 44 00:02:01,246 --> 00:02:05,125 He has a book called Get Up, which he did the Art of perseverance. 45 00:02:05,500 --> 00:02:08,128 But I admire this man so much. 46 00:02:08,128 --> 00:02:09,879 And you will too, if you don't know him already. 47 00:02:09,879 --> 00:02:11,840 By the end of the episode, I can promise you that. 48 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:13,925 Welcome to What's Good with John and Joyce. 49 00:02:13,925 --> 00:02:16,928 Adam Greenberg. Good to see you, my friend. 50 00:02:17,137 --> 00:02:18,555 Adam, you are truly. 51 00:02:18,555 --> 00:02:21,474 What's good about our show today? 52 00:02:21,474 --> 00:02:21,933 Well, thank you. 53 00:02:21,933 --> 00:02:25,186 So I can't wait to hear your story and share it with everyone else. 54 00:02:26,146 --> 00:02:28,690 So. So, Adam, we're here today chatting with you. 55 00:02:28,690 --> 00:02:30,150 And people have heard that intro. 56 00:02:30,150 --> 00:02:32,277 And a lot of people out there probably know who you are. 57 00:02:32,277 --> 00:02:33,695 Some people don't. 58 00:02:33,695 --> 00:02:37,407 But tell us a little bit about you and how you got from here to there, there 59 00:02:37,407 --> 00:02:37,824 to here. 60 00:02:37,824 --> 00:02:40,994 But, it must have been really tough when you were playing. 61 00:02:40,994 --> 00:02:42,996 You got your dream of playing professional baseball. 62 00:02:42,996 --> 00:02:44,956 One pitch and you're done. 63 00:02:44,956 --> 00:02:47,792 At least, at least temporarily. Temporarily. 64 00:02:47,792 --> 00:02:50,003 I think anything in life, 65 00:02:50,003 --> 00:02:53,464 when you look at it, what it is, it's only what you're going to do next. 66 00:02:53,631 --> 00:02:54,757 Yeah. 67 00:02:54,757 --> 00:02:56,926 The goal was never just to get to the major leagues. 68 00:02:56,926 --> 00:03:01,389 It was always to play in the meet and try to win, World Series. 69 00:03:01,389 --> 00:03:02,515 I mean, it was. 70 00:03:02,515 --> 00:03:05,351 I had that dream since I was five years old. 71 00:03:06,895 --> 00:03:09,898 What was that seven years ago, 72 00:03:11,232 --> 00:03:15,153 I just I just was drawn to sports. 73 00:03:15,236 --> 00:03:16,654 I was drawn to all sports. 74 00:03:16,654 --> 00:03:18,364 Baseball, basketball, soccer, football. 75 00:03:18,364 --> 00:03:20,700 Didn't matter. I just I wanted to play ping pong. 76 00:03:20,700 --> 00:03:21,576 Right? 77 00:03:21,576 --> 00:03:23,411 And I wanted to be the best, right? 78 00:03:23,411 --> 00:03:25,288 It was just what I wanted to do. 79 00:03:25,288 --> 00:03:26,206 I wanted to compete. 80 00:03:26,206 --> 00:03:29,209 But baseball was on TV. 81 00:03:29,792 --> 00:03:33,546 So I got to really watch, listen to it on radio, wake up in the morning 82 00:03:33,546 --> 00:03:36,674 to do a register and check whatever and just and check statistics. 83 00:03:36,674 --> 00:03:38,968 I mean, I was all in. Yeah. 84 00:03:38,968 --> 00:03:39,844 When I was young. 85 00:03:39,844 --> 00:03:43,598 But growing up to go for Connecticut and playing baseball. 86 00:03:43,973 --> 00:03:48,144 Chances of being a major League Baseball player is slim to none. 87 00:03:48,269 --> 00:03:52,065 And the math is actually .000. Wow. 88 00:03:52,565 --> 00:03:53,524 Percent. 89 00:03:53,524 --> 00:03:55,485 Based on how many kids are playing 90 00:03:55,485 --> 00:03:58,613 and 750 spots in the major leagues at any one time. 91 00:03:59,239 --> 00:04:02,242 Then you take that and go worldwide. 92 00:04:02,283 --> 00:04:05,036 There's the world trying to play 93 00:04:05,036 --> 00:04:08,039 Major League Baseball for those 750 spots. 94 00:04:08,081 --> 00:04:09,374 And then you did break down. 95 00:04:09,374 --> 00:04:13,002 Well if I'm not going to be a pitcher now the this spots of 750 gets even smaller. 96 00:04:13,002 --> 00:04:18,758 So that when you really look at the odds you say, what do you do if you're crazy? 97 00:04:18,841 --> 00:04:21,511 And of course you get some people saying, what makes you so special? 98 00:04:21,511 --> 00:04:24,514 This, you know, guy from Gilford, Connecticut, the small town 99 00:04:24,514 --> 00:04:27,642 here, what makes you think you're going to, you know, go out there and succeed? 100 00:04:27,642 --> 00:04:30,144 And of course, that probably fueled you if you heard that. 101 00:04:30,144 --> 00:04:32,188 Yeah. I mean, in three quarters. 102 00:04:34,315 --> 00:04:35,942 Over a professional 103 00:04:35,942 --> 00:04:39,279 athlete or Major League Baseball player out of Connecticut. 104 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:40,989 What? Me? 105 00:04:40,989 --> 00:04:44,409 What made me think I could be hard on my mind? 106 00:04:45,076 --> 00:04:48,329 And my willingness and ability to understand that 107 00:04:48,579 --> 00:04:51,624 any challenge that was going to come in my way, I was going to push through it. 108 00:04:52,041 --> 00:04:55,420 And more importantly, I was going to help every single person. 109 00:04:55,420 --> 00:04:58,881 And I would when I was training, I was pretending 110 00:04:59,465 --> 00:05:03,261 like there was somebody else there and over there and over there, 111 00:05:03,261 --> 00:05:06,264 and it was just, I'm just working hard of manifestation. 112 00:05:06,514 --> 00:05:08,641 And so but, you know, so loved it though. 113 00:05:08,641 --> 00:05:10,393 Right. Obsession. 114 00:05:10,393 --> 00:05:10,893 Okay. 115 00:05:10,893 --> 00:05:11,811 Here you go. 116 00:05:11,811 --> 00:05:14,814 But, But love was the driving factor. 117 00:05:15,023 --> 00:05:16,983 You brought it up 118 00:05:16,983 --> 00:05:19,902 when people would say I couldn't eat anything. 119 00:05:19,902 --> 00:05:21,446 Yes. That's fuel. 120 00:05:21,446 --> 00:05:25,658 But when I talk about it, it's like, if you're not obsessed yourself for you, 121 00:05:25,950 --> 00:05:29,495 selfishly and oftentimes it's hard for us as people to be like, 122 00:05:29,954 --> 00:05:31,873 is it okay if I'm selfish? 123 00:05:31,873 --> 00:05:33,333 It's the only way. 124 00:05:33,333 --> 00:05:36,627 Because if you're not selfish for what makes you happy, 125 00:05:37,211 --> 00:05:40,423 then how are you going to portray and project that on other people? 126 00:05:40,757 --> 00:05:44,594 So when I was doing it, it was because I wanted to be that pushed me. 127 00:05:45,261 --> 00:05:47,764 But there was that motivator and that was like, hey, 128 00:05:47,764 --> 00:05:50,808 if you set up too small and I can't manage like good enough or whatever, 129 00:05:51,851 --> 00:05:53,186 you just lit a fire like that. 130 00:05:53,186 --> 00:05:54,354 Fire, right? 131 00:05:54,354 --> 00:05:56,522 It's making it burn even even brighter. 132 00:05:56,522 --> 00:05:57,148 It really is 133 00:05:57,148 --> 00:06:01,152 just so I admire that so much, because anybody who's done anything great, 134 00:06:01,152 --> 00:06:04,113 they really have to go out there and do what most people would not do. 135 00:06:04,364 --> 00:06:07,200 And a lot of people I want to sleep in, I want to go to this and that. 136 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:11,287 But while your friends and many of them are out there partying or doing whatever, 137 00:06:11,496 --> 00:06:14,374 you're out there getting up early in the morning, probably swinging the bat 138 00:06:14,374 --> 00:06:18,753 in your basement, or just letting baseball games and manifesting your future. 139 00:06:18,878 --> 00:06:20,421 Like, I am not. 140 00:06:20,421 --> 00:06:23,257 I'm trying, but I am. I'm going to get there. 141 00:06:23,257 --> 00:06:26,219 And you did. Yeah. Yeah, and that's it. 142 00:06:26,219 --> 00:06:29,555 You have to have a belief and you have to be willing to sacrifice. 143 00:06:29,555 --> 00:06:30,264 And it's hard. 144 00:06:30,264 --> 00:06:32,642 And and we talked about in a minute. 145 00:06:33,935 --> 00:06:36,396 Knowing that you given everything and you 146 00:06:36,396 --> 00:06:39,607 I challenge people all the times like how bad you really wanna get 147 00:06:39,607 --> 00:06:43,403 is whatever makes you happy or what you're looking to accomplish. 148 00:06:43,403 --> 00:06:46,322 Whether it's business, work, personal doesn't matter. 149 00:06:46,322 --> 00:06:49,325 Are you really willing to sacrifice everything? 150 00:06:49,409 --> 00:06:51,577 Because giving up on the negative. 151 00:06:51,577 --> 00:06:54,163 I remember after I got married, 152 00:06:54,163 --> 00:06:56,416 baseball was like, oh, I had some time. 153 00:06:56,416 --> 00:06:59,919 It was like 4th of July, Memorial Day. 154 00:07:00,253 --> 00:07:01,129 Like, what are these? 155 00:07:01,129 --> 00:07:02,171 What do you mean, holidays? 156 00:07:02,171 --> 00:07:05,049 Right? 157 00:07:05,049 --> 00:07:05,800 Yeah. 158 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:07,093 That was a hard thing for me. 159 00:07:07,093 --> 00:07:09,429 All right. I don't wrap my head around. Yeah. 160 00:07:09,429 --> 00:07:12,348 You really have that Olympic sports mind. 161 00:07:12,348 --> 00:07:13,808 I mean, it's not even a sports mind. 162 00:07:13,808 --> 00:07:15,893 It's just a different mindset. I mean, you know, 163 00:07:15,893 --> 00:07:19,480 I love watching the Olympics because I cheer for every country. 164 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:21,941 I just marvel at what they can do. 165 00:07:21,941 --> 00:07:23,276 But that's you. 166 00:07:23,276 --> 00:07:25,069 You had that with with baseball. 167 00:07:25,069 --> 00:07:27,822 And then that carries over into your whole life. 168 00:07:27,822 --> 00:07:29,657 And that's what we were just talking about earlier. 169 00:07:29,657 --> 00:07:33,119 It it really is every aspect of your life. 170 00:07:33,119 --> 00:07:36,164 If you play sports, there's nothing better sport. 171 00:07:36,205 --> 00:07:39,792 I mean, especially a team sport because your individual 172 00:07:39,792 --> 00:07:43,504 work, your individual training, your individual selfish behavior 173 00:07:43,504 --> 00:07:49,177 of giving up on everything else, and dedicating yourself helps the team. 174 00:07:50,219 --> 00:07:50,678 And it's 175 00:07:50,678 --> 00:07:55,266 really when you can learn how your efforts and your individualized 176 00:07:55,266 --> 00:07:58,853 happiness and, and energy can affect other people. 177 00:07:58,853 --> 00:08:00,938 That's what it's like man. That's powerful. 178 00:08:00,938 --> 00:08:04,609 And then that transcends into whatever else that you do, 179 00:08:04,609 --> 00:08:07,612 whether it's parenting or business or what have you. 180 00:08:07,612 --> 00:08:10,615 It's just an ability to put everything aside. 181 00:08:10,615 --> 00:08:12,617 Stay focused and given everything. 182 00:08:12,617 --> 00:08:15,453 And the thing is motivation is easy in the beginning so to speak. 183 00:08:15,453 --> 00:08:16,746 But after a while. Right. 184 00:08:16,746 --> 00:08:17,288 And there going to be 185 00:08:17,288 --> 00:08:21,083 some days you're lying in bed said, do I really want to do this? 186 00:08:21,083 --> 00:08:24,420 But if we wait for motivation to happen, it ain't going to happen. 187 00:08:25,129 --> 00:08:28,382 And, you know, you you you have to have a goal. 188 00:08:29,217 --> 00:08:30,301 Everything starts with a goal. 189 00:08:30,301 --> 00:08:32,887 Because if you don't well where does motivation start. Right. 190 00:08:32,887 --> 00:08:36,224 Are we going to by doing the little things like you do in the Army with makeup. 191 00:08:36,307 --> 00:08:39,310 Wake up and make your bed right so you can look and say 192 00:08:39,435 --> 00:08:42,438 oh I did something I accomplished something. 193 00:08:42,813 --> 00:08:43,606 Today. 194 00:08:43,606 --> 00:08:45,733 And that gets you off to a, to a start. 195 00:08:45,733 --> 00:08:49,862 But yeah you can't, you can't just say well what, what am I going to do today. 196 00:08:49,904 --> 00:08:51,572 You're already lost. Yes. 197 00:08:51,572 --> 00:08:53,199 Figuring out what makes you happy. 198 00:08:53,199 --> 00:08:56,202 Listening to podcasts, reading motivational books, 199 00:08:56,202 --> 00:09:00,039 finding out what triggers you inside to be happy gives you something 200 00:09:00,039 --> 00:09:01,374 to look forward to and gives you a goal. 201 00:09:01,374 --> 00:09:04,210 And a goal is also if you're sick, if you're injured, right? 202 00:09:04,210 --> 00:09:06,754 Your goal is to get better, get healthy, and have it. 203 00:09:06,754 --> 00:09:08,923 So when you're healthy is when where am I striving to? 204 00:09:08,923 --> 00:09:09,966 What do I want? 205 00:09:09,966 --> 00:09:14,303 So never get stuck in that illness or stuck for depression. 206 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:16,847 You know, sometimes you may need medication. 207 00:09:16,847 --> 00:09:17,974 I, I don't want to get into those 208 00:09:17,974 --> 00:09:21,727 depression, but if you have a goal, goals are important. 209 00:09:22,144 --> 00:09:25,815 And you'll wake up and just say that, you know, what do I get to do today? 210 00:09:25,815 --> 00:09:28,150 Well, I could do this. Something so small 211 00:09:29,193 --> 00:09:31,988 1% a little bit every day. 212 00:09:31,988 --> 00:09:37,243 And I my first injury ever I actually like real injury. 213 00:09:37,243 --> 00:09:39,620 I crashed my fingers in between two. 214 00:09:39,620 --> 00:09:41,747 Oh oh. 215 00:09:41,747 --> 00:09:44,625 I know the feeling was dangling from my head. 216 00:09:44,625 --> 00:09:46,544 Oh gosh. 217 00:09:46,544 --> 00:09:48,921 Do we have a picture of that that we can hold up? 218 00:09:48,921 --> 00:09:51,924 No, no. 219 00:09:51,966 --> 00:09:52,425 Well, yeah. 220 00:09:52,425 --> 00:09:56,679 So I was in college, you know, I was, I went to I mean, 221 00:09:56,679 --> 00:10:00,099 Guilford High three sports was an amazing all state by the way. 222 00:10:00,641 --> 00:10:02,852 Also of course, 223 00:10:02,852 --> 00:10:06,606 but lettered in varsity all three sports all four years. 224 00:10:06,606 --> 00:10:09,734 And I was All-State from my freshman year all the way to my senior year. 225 00:10:09,817 --> 00:10:11,444 That's that's amazing. 226 00:10:11,444 --> 00:10:13,863 Made All-American in soccer and baseball. 227 00:10:13,863 --> 00:10:17,742 And you know, it was I had a very I'll call it cushy like 228 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:21,787 upbringing from a standpoint of success happened. 229 00:10:21,787 --> 00:10:23,289 I mean I was around success. 230 00:10:23,289 --> 00:10:26,083 I was very successful at the, at a young age, 231 00:10:26,083 --> 00:10:28,210 but not cushy in the form where you're kind of lazy. 232 00:10:28,210 --> 00:10:30,087 But no, you had to work for everything. 233 00:10:30,087 --> 00:10:32,923 You got, like, everything, right? Yeah. 234 00:10:32,923 --> 00:10:33,924 Where? 235 00:10:33,924 --> 00:10:35,760 I didn't really have any major setbacks. 236 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:37,303 I didn't have major injuries, 237 00:10:37,303 --> 00:10:42,183 but it was a it was a success where team sports, we got a lot. 238 00:10:42,308 --> 00:10:44,143 It was state championship. Yeah. 239 00:10:44,143 --> 00:10:47,104 That there was a certain anointment of ease. 240 00:10:48,147 --> 00:10:51,150 Yes. Through hard work. 241 00:10:51,233 --> 00:10:54,236 Yes. And and passion into that. 242 00:10:54,487 --> 00:10:58,366 But when I went to college, my life in the fall of my freshman year. 243 00:10:58,449 --> 00:11:01,786 Yeah, I'm around some real, real talent. 244 00:11:01,869 --> 00:11:02,495 Yeah. 245 00:11:02,495 --> 00:11:03,162 Motivated. 246 00:11:03,162 --> 00:11:05,665 I'm going to be center fielder and lead off. 247 00:11:05,665 --> 00:11:09,585 And I ended up winning the job from the guy who turned down $2 million 248 00:11:09,585 --> 00:11:14,048 from the Yankees, was the USA center fielder, and wow, like it was. 249 00:11:14,048 --> 00:11:16,133 So it was an awesome start. 250 00:11:16,133 --> 00:11:17,593 But now you have to perform. Yeah. 251 00:11:17,593 --> 00:11:20,346 That year I ended up an SEC rookie of the year. 252 00:11:20,346 --> 00:11:21,555 I almost batted 400. 253 00:11:21,555 --> 00:11:24,475 I was second team All-American. 254 00:11:24,475 --> 00:11:27,436 I mean, it was like and and and so I was like, I'm going to the major leagues. 255 00:11:27,436 --> 00:11:29,355 This is I'm I'm good. 256 00:11:29,355 --> 00:11:31,107 And came back in the fall. 257 00:11:31,107 --> 00:11:32,983 And that's when I crushed my fingers in between. 258 00:11:32,983 --> 00:11:36,445 Oh, and it was the first time in my life 259 00:11:36,445 --> 00:11:39,615 where it was like, wait, I, I can't go play. 260 00:11:39,907 --> 00:11:41,534 I have to watch. 261 00:11:41,534 --> 00:11:43,953 This is it's foreign to me. 262 00:11:43,953 --> 00:11:45,121 And it got so bad. 263 00:11:45,121 --> 00:11:47,665 And we're talking about depression. You brought it up quickly. 264 00:11:47,665 --> 00:11:50,084 I went into it. Dark depression. 265 00:11:50,084 --> 00:11:53,254 It wasn't about drinking and it was just like I was lost. 266 00:11:53,921 --> 00:11:56,924 And it was because of two fingers, and I couldn't. 267 00:11:56,924 --> 00:11:59,719 I couldn't get out of it because I'd never been to. Yeah. 268 00:11:59,719 --> 00:12:03,556 So when you when you go through struggles, I realize, number 269 00:12:03,556 --> 00:12:04,682 one has to talk about it. 270 00:12:04,682 --> 00:12:08,060 I have to bring people in that are close to me and say 271 00:12:08,060 --> 00:12:11,063 what I'm feeling instead of, yes, exactly. 272 00:12:11,230 --> 00:12:11,772 But it wasn't. 273 00:12:11,772 --> 00:12:13,774 It didn't happen overnight. 274 00:12:13,774 --> 00:12:19,655 And, and then I remember I, I was actually contemplating going home and quitting. 275 00:12:20,990 --> 00:12:21,991 So, you know, you think 276 00:12:21,991 --> 00:12:25,202 about all the success, which is something you probably never thought about before. 277 00:12:25,202 --> 00:12:26,287 Quitting 278 00:12:26,287 --> 00:12:31,083 wasn't even in your vocabulary for you because you just didn't know what to do. 279 00:12:31,208 --> 00:12:31,333 Yeah. 280 00:12:31,333 --> 00:12:34,754 And it's, and it's funny because it's a finger right. 281 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:37,423 It's it's like okay. And they're totally fine now right. 282 00:12:37,423 --> 00:12:37,673 Yeah. 283 00:12:37,673 --> 00:12:41,051 I mean it's crooked and I had multiple surgeries for sure. 284 00:12:41,051 --> 00:12:44,722 I really was like I was concerned if I would ever be anything. 285 00:12:45,181 --> 00:12:46,724 Yeah. 286 00:12:46,724 --> 00:12:50,853 But it was the point of going through it at that point was the best thing ever. 287 00:12:51,270 --> 00:12:54,607 So when I talk to people about challenges and struggles and, you know, 288 00:12:54,607 --> 00:12:56,859 you're going through this or that, it's like, look at it 289 00:12:56,859 --> 00:12:58,652 like the best challenge of your life, right? 290 00:12:58,652 --> 00:13:03,824 It's an opportunity for you to strengthen yourself as a person and 291 00:13:04,825 --> 00:13:06,869 figure out what you can do a little bit that day. 292 00:13:06,869 --> 00:13:07,411 So I was doing 293 00:13:07,411 --> 00:13:11,665 finger exercises like, yeah, that, but it was something that I couldn't do. 294 00:13:11,999 --> 00:13:14,502 It's when you're lost your mind, right. 295 00:13:14,502 --> 00:13:15,586 You don't know anything. 296 00:13:15,586 --> 00:13:18,130 And then that's that's where you really got to dig deep. 297 00:13:18,130 --> 00:13:21,550 But it was the it was the thing that propelled me 298 00:13:21,550 --> 00:13:24,553 for everything else that it was in my life. 299 00:13:24,678 --> 00:13:25,471 What do we say? Joyous. 300 00:13:25,471 --> 00:13:28,474 That every setback is really a set up for something better. 301 00:13:28,724 --> 00:13:31,769 It's all about well, and we always say you don't go through anything. 302 00:13:31,769 --> 00:13:34,188 You grow through it, right? 303 00:13:34,188 --> 00:13:34,480 Yeah. 304 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,483 Scars of life happen and they heal over. 305 00:13:37,483 --> 00:13:39,068 It really does toughen you. 306 00:13:39,068 --> 00:13:40,402 It does show itself. 307 00:13:40,402 --> 00:13:41,403 Yeah, yeah. 308 00:13:41,403 --> 00:13:44,114 So, so then 309 00:13:45,366 --> 00:13:46,116 get us to the 310 00:13:46,116 --> 00:13:49,119 point where you didn't make it. 311 00:13:49,286 --> 00:13:49,870 That was. 312 00:13:49,870 --> 00:13:51,831 What was that gap there between you? 313 00:13:51,831 --> 00:13:53,707 I mean, operations. Yeah. 314 00:13:53,707 --> 00:13:56,710 It was that operation. 315 00:13:56,710 --> 00:14:00,464 And then I got drafted in two years later, after my junior year, went to the, 316 00:14:01,507 --> 00:14:05,469 draft by the Chicago Cubs, ninth round in the 2002 amateur team. 317 00:14:05,469 --> 00:14:07,763 I always wanted to. Do you know that. There, there. 318 00:14:07,763 --> 00:14:08,806 Are they watching you? 319 00:14:08,806 --> 00:14:10,224 Yeah. 320 00:14:10,224 --> 00:14:13,227 I mean, there were there would always be scouts and all of a lot of our game. 321 00:14:13,269 --> 00:14:16,272 Yes, but you were watching the draft with your family, right? 322 00:14:16,564 --> 00:14:20,067 Well, this is back in 2002, so I'm watching. 323 00:14:20,734 --> 00:14:22,945 Oh, okay. 324 00:14:22,945 --> 00:14:23,571 Yeah. 325 00:14:23,571 --> 00:14:25,406 Not like the social media. We have it today. 326 00:14:25,406 --> 00:14:26,240 Yeah. Okay. 327 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:27,992 It was like we could find just. Right? 328 00:14:27,992 --> 00:14:31,245 Right? Right. Yeah. Billy Swope, 329 00:14:32,830 --> 00:14:33,414 yeah. 330 00:14:33,414 --> 00:14:35,291 Was actually one of the teams that I never filled anything. 331 00:14:35,291 --> 00:14:36,125 No. Never. 332 00:14:36,125 --> 00:14:36,876 Really. 333 00:14:36,876 --> 00:14:39,336 Who were you hoping to get drafted by? 334 00:14:39,336 --> 00:14:41,672 Of course. Yeah, sure. 335 00:14:41,672 --> 00:14:42,590 But then it became. 336 00:14:42,590 --> 00:14:42,840 All right. 337 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:46,427 Well, who who do I really want to get drafted by? 338 00:14:46,427 --> 00:14:49,680 Based on my style of play and the team and the organization. 339 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:53,893 So there was a couple at the time that was, the Oakland A's was the team. 340 00:14:53,893 --> 00:14:57,396 I was like, that's, they were Moneyball. Yep. 341 00:14:57,605 --> 00:14:59,815 Yeah, they were hot. Right? 342 00:14:59,815 --> 00:15:01,775 I get on base, I take pitches. 343 00:15:01,775 --> 00:15:03,235 I think it was that. 344 00:15:03,235 --> 00:15:06,405 Yeah, that fit more into your realm than the Cubs and like, 345 00:15:07,823 --> 00:15:10,993 hey, but Wrigley Field, I mean, you got your, Yeah. 346 00:15:10,993 --> 00:15:11,452 Right. 347 00:15:11,452 --> 00:15:14,788 And so I so I took the opportunity, 348 00:15:15,122 --> 00:15:19,501 so my contract went to because went to Lansing, Michigan for my first team. 349 00:15:19,501 --> 00:15:22,630 Lansing. Like, that's the Lansing lug nuts. 350 00:15:22,630 --> 00:15:23,464 You can't make that up. 351 00:15:25,382 --> 00:15:26,050 What do you play for? 352 00:15:26,050 --> 00:15:28,594 The lug nuts? 353 00:15:28,594 --> 00:15:31,597 Do you? 354 00:15:32,014 --> 00:15:34,642 Yeah, I went there, got off to a decent start. 355 00:15:34,642 --> 00:15:37,519 And for those that know baseball, I care about baseball. 356 00:15:37,519 --> 00:15:39,939 You understand baseball. You play every day. 357 00:15:39,939 --> 00:15:41,357 The team is playing every day. 358 00:15:41,357 --> 00:15:45,819 And, I found myself sitting on the bench for eight consecutive days 359 00:15:45,819 --> 00:15:47,821 after I signed the professional baseball contract. 360 00:15:47,821 --> 00:15:50,783 And I'm like, what did I just do? Right? 361 00:15:51,033 --> 00:15:54,244 What did I just get myself into and and tell the story 362 00:15:54,578 --> 00:15:55,746 all the time, like, look, you. 363 00:15:55,746 --> 00:15:58,916 Yeah, I actually say, have you ever looked yourself in the mirror? 364 00:15:59,166 --> 00:16:01,126 And then, I mean, beautiful, right? 365 00:16:01,126 --> 00:16:02,544 How good do I look at that? 366 00:16:02,544 --> 00:16:05,547 Like, look yourself in the mirror and look into your soul, like, what? 367 00:16:05,756 --> 00:16:08,342 What are you doing? Or who are you? 368 00:16:08,342 --> 00:16:09,760 So I did that during the game. 369 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,221 I went down with myself in the mirror in the bathroom, 370 00:16:12,221 --> 00:16:15,224 and I was like, what the hell did I get myself into? 371 00:16:15,474 --> 00:16:19,812 And as quickly as that feeling, kind of dark came in. 372 00:16:20,437 --> 00:16:22,564 It was the reflection of I think. 373 00:16:24,191 --> 00:16:24,608 Yeah. 374 00:16:24,608 --> 00:16:24,900 Yeah. 375 00:16:24,900 --> 00:16:28,195 Did all of this, nobody forced me to be here. 376 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:31,323 Nobody forced me to sign that contract. 377 00:16:31,448 --> 00:16:34,326 I did all the work, I did all the training and it's up to me 378 00:16:34,326 --> 00:16:36,453 to see how I'm going to respond. Right. 379 00:16:36,453 --> 00:16:38,497 How what am I going to do. Yeah. 380 00:16:38,497 --> 00:16:39,790 Am I going to be mentally prepared? 381 00:16:39,790 --> 00:16:41,208 Physically prepared. 382 00:16:41,208 --> 00:16:44,586 And and just like that, the next day they call me in the office 383 00:16:44,586 --> 00:16:46,505 and they give you promotion to the higher level. 384 00:16:46,505 --> 00:16:48,382 Wow. Life is that. 385 00:16:48,382 --> 00:16:50,426 Yeah. Yeah, yeah. 386 00:16:50,426 --> 00:16:53,929 But what I say is it's that easy from a perspective of 387 00:16:53,929 --> 00:16:56,682 you can either be ready and prepare for a moment or you're not. 388 00:16:56,682 --> 00:16:57,224 Right. 389 00:16:57,224 --> 00:17:01,770 And my moment was because I had that mindset, I picked it. 390 00:17:01,770 --> 00:17:03,397 It's my decision. 391 00:17:03,397 --> 00:17:05,274 The opportunity came because they drained. 392 00:17:05,274 --> 00:17:06,650 They traded for a guy who was six, 393 00:17:06,650 --> 00:17:10,654 seven, six, six or whatever and $500,000 from the Pirates, 394 00:17:10,654 --> 00:17:13,407 and he's now on our team, so I had no spot. Right. 395 00:17:13,407 --> 00:17:15,492 So if you can look you look at it two ways. 396 00:17:15,492 --> 00:17:18,120 Glass half full, half empty. 397 00:17:18,120 --> 00:17:20,539 It was like with him, I'm out of here 398 00:17:20,539 --> 00:17:24,418 and I'm going, yeah, to a higher level, to the worst team in the organization. But 399 00:17:25,377 --> 00:17:26,420 the manager sat me down. 400 00:17:26,420 --> 00:17:31,091 He said, hey, Ron, when you, And you steal when you want, when you want to play 401 00:17:31,091 --> 00:17:34,094 hard, play good defense, get on base and we don't have a problem. 402 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,723 I was like, if I really said I didn't, but I 403 00:17:39,933 --> 00:17:41,101 yeah, 404 00:17:41,101 --> 00:17:44,521 everything that I write give me an opportunity. 405 00:17:44,980 --> 00:17:47,858 So I think it was the fifth or sixth 406 00:17:47,858 --> 00:17:50,944 game, I played every game, started lead off 407 00:17:50,944 --> 00:17:53,947 playing center field for the first time in my professional career. 408 00:17:54,281 --> 00:17:57,618 And, I have for the cycle and four. Wow. 409 00:17:58,994 --> 00:18:00,954 Double, triple home run. 410 00:18:00,954 --> 00:18:03,248 Incredible. The first four innings. 411 00:18:03,248 --> 00:18:06,126 But what was unique is it was the fastest record in professional 412 00:18:06,126 --> 00:18:09,129 baseball cycle in history. 413 00:18:09,254 --> 00:18:11,507 This that's still stand really 414 00:18:11,507 --> 00:18:15,385 so so the but what was interesting about it was the 415 00:18:16,053 --> 00:18:19,056 the blessings all of the cubs, we call them brass. 416 00:18:19,264 --> 00:18:22,810 The upper management, the farm director, the field coordinator, the outfield road 417 00:18:22,851 --> 00:18:25,562 instructor, the national cross chapter. They were at that game. 418 00:18:26,563 --> 00:18:28,357 So in 2.5 hours and 419 00:18:28,357 --> 00:18:31,360 it going from a suspect to a prospect, I was a nobody. 420 00:18:31,902 --> 00:18:34,446 And 2.5 hours later, after the game with three diamond catchers 421 00:18:34,446 --> 00:18:38,200 in the outfield, a 5 or 6 performance, I was a prospect. Wow. 422 00:18:38,534 --> 00:18:42,329 And it was all because I was mentally prepared physically, of course, 423 00:18:42,329 --> 00:18:44,164 but mentally prepared for the opportunity. 424 00:18:44,164 --> 00:18:48,669 So success to me when they talk about is preparation meeting an opportunity? 425 00:18:48,877 --> 00:18:51,130 You're already successful. Yeah. 426 00:18:51,130 --> 00:18:53,966 And being prepared to even though you had those eight straight games 427 00:18:53,966 --> 00:18:56,969 you were playing, you played like you were going to start the next game. 428 00:18:57,052 --> 00:18:57,886 You're always ready to go. 429 00:18:57,886 --> 00:19:00,973 It's like a person who's in a play and they have the lead role 430 00:19:01,181 --> 00:19:05,185 and you have the stand in they they may never, ever play that lead role, 431 00:19:05,185 --> 00:19:08,480 but they have to be ready to step in if something happens. 432 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:11,483 That's what you did, and a lot of other people would slack off. 433 00:19:11,483 --> 00:19:14,194 Probably. It's easy. It's easy to do that. 434 00:19:14,194 --> 00:19:16,363 I'm not going to play. I can just take this time off. 435 00:19:16,363 --> 00:19:17,656 So I like to hear of it. 436 00:19:17,656 --> 00:19:22,744 And I just think you need to jump to frog with, what could be a catastrophic 437 00:19:23,120 --> 00:19:26,290 incident that happened to you that has turned you into 438 00:19:27,124 --> 00:19:30,627 what's happening with you today and getting ready to step up to the plate 439 00:19:30,627 --> 00:19:31,503 right now. 440 00:19:31,503 --> 00:19:34,923 Adam Greenberg for the Chicago Cubs. Yeah. 441 00:19:34,923 --> 00:19:37,759 And you're getting they're taking your practice swings. 442 00:19:37,759 --> 00:19:38,093 All right. 443 00:19:38,093 --> 00:19:39,428 Pitcher looks at you. 444 00:19:39,428 --> 00:19:42,222 Look at him. Pitch comes. Bam! 445 00:19:42,222 --> 00:19:43,599 Right between your eyes. 446 00:19:43,599 --> 00:19:46,393 Yeah, well, dream come true. 447 00:19:46,393 --> 00:19:47,769 Opportunity of a lifetime. 448 00:19:47,769 --> 00:19:51,815 Here I am, overcome a lot more than what I've even talked about. 449 00:19:51,815 --> 00:19:52,691 As we know. 450 00:19:52,691 --> 00:19:55,569 But the percentages were so stacked against me that here 451 00:19:55,569 --> 00:19:58,113 I was getting my first major league at bat. 452 00:19:58,113 --> 00:20:01,533 ESPN nationally televised Sunday night game, a pinch hitting 453 00:20:01,617 --> 00:20:04,870 the butterflies are no excite. 454 00:20:04,870 --> 00:20:05,829 Just okay. 455 00:20:06,914 --> 00:20:08,123 Yeah that was I 456 00:20:08,123 --> 00:20:11,168 didn't have that like real nervous. 457 00:20:11,168 --> 00:20:15,422 I felt that was you were prepared and it was just like, okay, I got it. 458 00:20:15,464 --> 00:20:16,840 I got my job to do. 459 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:20,469 Butterflies were in spring training when it's like right now. 460 00:20:21,094 --> 00:20:26,225 So, like, wow, that was Greg Maddux, Yeah. 461 00:20:26,350 --> 00:20:28,018 Wow. And then. 462 00:20:28,018 --> 00:20:31,480 And then then that became. Okay. 463 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:34,983 Well, now, after the butterflies of should I Be Here 464 00:20:35,275 --> 00:20:38,403 and playing with them, being becoming a teammate. 465 00:20:38,654 --> 00:20:41,281 Yeah. When I got that call, it was like, these are my teammates. 466 00:20:41,281 --> 00:20:43,617 And they were excited for me to be there. 467 00:20:43,617 --> 00:20:46,578 So Dusty Baker called me to pinch hit and they walked out. 468 00:20:46,578 --> 00:20:50,791 He said, go get em, kid and walked up to the plate just as you announced. 469 00:20:51,541 --> 00:20:55,087 And I looked at the pitcher, didn't know who he was, didn't care. 470 00:20:55,087 --> 00:20:56,296 I knew he threw left handed 471 00:20:56,296 --> 00:21:00,384 and he's got a white ball and I've got around bat like, let's go. 472 00:21:00,425 --> 00:21:00,759 Yeah. 473 00:21:00,759 --> 00:21:03,428 In in baseball, you have 3/10 of a second. 474 00:21:03,428 --> 00:21:06,056 By the time that pitch leaves pitcher's hair. 475 00:21:06,056 --> 00:21:07,849 You just think about that, Joyce. 476 00:21:07,849 --> 00:21:09,393 How fast that is. 477 00:21:09,393 --> 00:21:10,978 It's going very fast. Yeah. 478 00:21:10,978 --> 00:21:16,483 So it was, the first I break it up into the third, the first 10th of a second 479 00:21:16,483 --> 00:21:19,778 of standing in there looking at the pitch and I'm like, okay, stay in there. 480 00:21:20,070 --> 00:21:21,571 It's coming from behind me, 481 00:21:21,571 --> 00:21:24,241 but stay in there, because if it's a curveball, 482 00:21:24,241 --> 00:21:28,120 I bail out and it curves over for strike one, my first pitch in the big leagues, 483 00:21:30,747 --> 00:21:32,916 That's all in the eye, that's all. 484 00:21:32,916 --> 00:21:34,751 As fast as our minds can process. 485 00:21:34,751 --> 00:21:37,754 That was actually what I thought. Ten, two. 486 00:21:37,838 --> 00:21:38,964 That's not breaking. 487 00:21:38,964 --> 00:21:40,382 There's no no. 488 00:21:40,382 --> 00:21:42,718 Yeah, that's coming right here. 489 00:21:42,718 --> 00:21:44,511 And you were close. 490 00:21:44,511 --> 00:21:47,514 It didn't hit me right between my my eyes, 491 00:21:48,181 --> 00:21:50,892 I did, yeah, I know why I came between. 492 00:21:50,892 --> 00:21:55,689 I was right between the eyes turned, I turned and it hit me under the right 493 00:21:56,064 --> 00:21:59,985 on my head, and my eyes rolled back like I grabbed my head. 494 00:21:59,985 --> 00:22:02,529 I thought I was dying, 495 00:22:02,529 --> 00:22:03,071 because it was. 496 00:22:03,071 --> 00:22:06,366 This is such a loud explosion and all. 497 00:22:06,366 --> 00:22:08,201 I remember saying, you stay alive. 498 00:22:08,201 --> 00:22:10,454 Stay alive so you don't pass out like that. 499 00:22:10,454 --> 00:22:14,916 No, I really said those words three times to make sure you know 500 00:22:14,916 --> 00:22:18,003 the things you hear on TV or watching movies and you're. 501 00:22:18,003 --> 00:22:21,423 I'm like, okay, stay alive, stay alive, stay alive. 502 00:22:21,673 --> 00:22:23,467 Yeah, I think I thought Between the eyes 503 00:22:23,467 --> 00:22:25,677 because I remember it affected your vision. Well, yeah. 504 00:22:25,677 --> 00:22:30,057 So I right up there, the whole nerve area you have, you have all the, 505 00:22:31,391 --> 00:22:33,393 it's your inner ear. 506 00:22:33,393 --> 00:22:35,437 You got the ocular and all that stuff. 507 00:22:35,437 --> 00:22:35,687 Yeah. 508 00:22:35,687 --> 00:22:39,524 So for those who are just listening, you know, you're pointing to, like, 509 00:22:39,524 --> 00:22:40,233 right underneath. 510 00:22:40,233 --> 00:22:41,151 Oh, yeah. Sorry, sorry. 511 00:22:41,151 --> 00:22:42,110 Right. Yeah. 512 00:22:42,110 --> 00:22:44,946 Right up under my ear, square on my head. 513 00:22:44,946 --> 00:22:47,741 And is 514 00:22:47,741 --> 00:22:49,534 in all these crystals. 515 00:22:49,534 --> 00:22:50,619 Yeah. 516 00:22:50,619 --> 00:22:53,622 I can make you so dizzy. Just, 517 00:22:53,663 --> 00:22:57,834 it was called benign proximal position of, all the crystals. 518 00:22:57,834 --> 00:22:59,378 So they went everywhere. 519 00:22:59,378 --> 00:23:02,631 So any one crystal, they just slide, just goes into a canal. 520 00:23:02,672 --> 00:23:04,591 Your eyes would shut. 521 00:23:04,591 --> 00:23:04,925 Yeah. 522 00:23:04,925 --> 00:23:08,053 So I ended up having positional vertigo for two and a half years. 523 00:23:08,303 --> 00:23:10,263 Vision issue was affected because my 524 00:23:10,263 --> 00:23:13,266 my convergence and divergence of your eyes working together. 525 00:23:14,017 --> 00:23:14,851 Non-visual. 526 00:23:14,851 --> 00:23:17,354 So the problem is with what I went through pre 527 00:23:18,438 --> 00:23:20,399 nowadays with, 528 00:23:20,399 --> 00:23:23,402 concussions, you know, the protocol 529 00:23:23,568 --> 00:23:25,779 mind was non-visual was wrong. 530 00:23:25,779 --> 00:23:28,782 Like are you okay? Why aren't you all right? 531 00:23:28,949 --> 00:23:31,159 We're going to have to figure out where you're going to go. 532 00:23:31,159 --> 00:23:34,913 So it was it was very it was a very tough go. 533 00:23:34,913 --> 00:23:36,706 Was it for me to not. 534 00:23:36,706 --> 00:23:38,667 You have a cast in your arms and get your arms broken. 535 00:23:38,667 --> 00:23:39,793 Exactly. 536 00:23:39,793 --> 00:23:41,169 But you couldn't see that. 537 00:23:41,169 --> 00:23:44,172 But it was all they did a lot of MRI. 538 00:23:44,172 --> 00:23:46,174 Yeah. Ended up not even that night. 539 00:23:46,174 --> 00:23:47,843 And then they sent me home. Like. Imagine that. 540 00:23:47,843 --> 00:23:49,511 Yeah. Wow. 541 00:23:49,511 --> 00:23:50,262 Just sent me home. 542 00:23:50,262 --> 00:23:50,679 Yeah. 543 00:23:50,679 --> 00:23:55,350 And I slept sitting up because every time I put my head down, it was just. 544 00:23:55,350 --> 00:23:57,477 It was just radiating pain. Yeah. 545 00:23:57,477 --> 00:23:59,729 I woke up in the morning and I tried to go outside. 546 00:23:59,729 --> 00:24:02,524 I mean, the light was blinding and then I'd. 547 00:24:02,524 --> 00:24:04,734 Environment, but it was like, unbelievable. 548 00:24:04,734 --> 00:24:08,864 So I put glasses on and that whole morning I just, 549 00:24:09,489 --> 00:24:12,492 I was in the clubhouse and I just, I wanted to fall asleep. 550 00:24:12,492 --> 00:24:16,121 And during the game, I remember being out in the dugout 551 00:24:16,788 --> 00:24:19,624 in my major league debut 552 00:24:19,624 --> 00:24:22,627 weekend or whatever, and I went back into the dugout 553 00:24:22,627 --> 00:24:25,797 or into the clubhouse, and Greg Maddux was saying, yeah, pitches. 554 00:24:26,381 --> 00:24:28,884 And I was like, I can't stay awake. 555 00:24:28,884 --> 00:24:30,260 And I was so embarrassed. 556 00:24:30,260 --> 00:24:31,678 It was so hard. 557 00:24:31,678 --> 00:24:34,681 Yeah, I couldn't explain what was going on or what. 558 00:24:34,848 --> 00:24:36,725 You should have never been there in the first place. 559 00:24:36,725 --> 00:24:38,894 In the dugout, the next day. Can't stay awake. 560 00:24:38,894 --> 00:24:42,230 You must have a concussion. Yeah, but nobody 561 00:24:43,482 --> 00:24:43,773 but you. 562 00:24:43,773 --> 00:24:45,817 You must have gone through some depression, too, 563 00:24:45,817 --> 00:24:48,111 for that two and a half years, at least somewhat. 564 00:24:48,111 --> 00:24:51,823 And again, I bring it back to like when I first had my injury. 565 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,243 It was, what can I do today to get better? 566 00:24:55,577 --> 00:24:57,871 It was frustrating not having a diagnosis. 567 00:24:57,871 --> 00:25:02,334 But what can I do to find the diagnosis to find a doctor. 568 00:25:02,334 --> 00:25:06,546 So there was always something that I was trying to do with that. 569 00:25:07,088 --> 00:25:08,465 Yeah. Healthy. 570 00:25:08,465 --> 00:25:11,801 And you know over time you know like oh we she made it 571 00:25:13,428 --> 00:25:14,095 all right. 572 00:25:14,095 --> 00:25:16,723 Oh at least you made it okay. 573 00:25:16,723 --> 00:25:18,683 It would be go to hell. Right, right. 574 00:25:18,683 --> 00:25:19,809 That was my mentality. 575 00:25:19,809 --> 00:25:20,644 Yeah. 576 00:25:20,644 --> 00:25:22,312 Don't ever say that again. 577 00:25:22,312 --> 00:25:24,022 Right. Yeah. 578 00:25:24,022 --> 00:25:26,233 Because your plan was to get back. 579 00:25:26,233 --> 00:25:29,611 Now you have that gold medal attitude. Yes. 580 00:25:31,571 --> 00:25:34,574 You were like Lindsey Vonn on the, 581 00:25:35,951 --> 00:25:37,536 you know, like back up, 582 00:25:37,536 --> 00:25:40,539 but but fast forward, you were able to come back again. 583 00:25:40,539 --> 00:25:41,081 Yeah. 584 00:25:41,081 --> 00:25:42,707 And with the Marlins. 585 00:25:42,707 --> 00:25:45,794 Yeah. So, I'll tell quickly. 586 00:25:45,794 --> 00:25:47,921 So when I was laying there and they came out to me, 587 00:25:47,921 --> 00:25:51,383 they were asking me, the training staff asked me three questions 588 00:25:51,383 --> 00:25:54,844 and you can't see it, but they held up the finger in front of my face. 589 00:25:54,844 --> 00:25:55,637 And how many fingers? 590 00:25:55,637 --> 00:25:57,639 And they hold hands and they have me follow their finger 591 00:25:57,639 --> 00:26:00,642 with their with my eyes following their finger. 592 00:26:00,684 --> 00:26:03,562 And then, this is when I challenged people to say how bad you want. 593 00:26:03,562 --> 00:26:07,148 Whatever it is you want, how bad do you want national sponsorship? 594 00:26:07,148 --> 00:26:09,401 How bad do you, you know, whatever. Whatever it is. How bad? 595 00:26:11,111 --> 00:26:11,653 And a challenge. 596 00:26:11,653 --> 00:26:15,156 I said, okay, and you'll remember this answer 597 00:26:15,574 --> 00:26:17,617 and the question for the rest of your life. 598 00:26:17,617 --> 00:26:19,995 If you really want something bad enough 599 00:26:19,995 --> 00:26:22,539 to 30s ago I was thinking 600 00:26:22,539 --> 00:26:25,917 I was dying and they asked me where was I two days ago. 601 00:26:26,084 --> 00:26:29,045 And the answer was, I was in the minor leagues, and I'm not going back 602 00:26:30,547 --> 00:26:31,006 to this. 603 00:26:31,006 --> 00:26:33,758 What that signifies is how bad luck. 604 00:26:33,758 --> 00:26:36,761 Nothing. Yeah, but, 605 00:26:37,053 --> 00:26:38,263 you're going to have, like, a horse. 606 00:26:38,263 --> 00:26:40,849 You have blinders. Blinders? Yeah. Yeah. 607 00:26:40,849 --> 00:26:42,642 And put me six feet under. 608 00:26:42,642 --> 00:26:43,101 But I'm. 609 00:26:43,101 --> 00:26:46,104 I'm getting back and, And it took seven years. 610 00:26:46,271 --> 00:26:49,274 I was seven years removed from where I said, know 611 00:26:49,316 --> 00:26:53,069 I'm not going back to the minor leagues, but I did, and I played on, 612 00:26:53,778 --> 00:26:56,698 after the Cubs, the Dodgers, the Royals, the angels, the Reds, 613 00:26:58,908 --> 00:27:02,370 Mets, team Israel, Bridgeport, Bluefish. 614 00:27:02,829 --> 00:27:06,249 And then finally got the opportunity with, with the Miami Marlins 615 00:27:06,249 --> 00:27:08,918 for my second first. And. Yeah, and that was a big deal. 616 00:27:08,918 --> 00:27:13,381 I remember everybody in our area, you know, set to their TVs watching Adam 617 00:27:13,381 --> 00:27:17,677 come back, you know, and it was it was something to watch, an inspiration. 618 00:27:17,927 --> 00:27:18,887 It really is. 619 00:27:18,887 --> 00:27:20,889 You need everyone to buy your blood. 620 00:27:20,889 --> 00:27:23,433 So get up, baby. 621 00:27:23,433 --> 00:27:24,309 Get up. Yeah. 622 00:27:24,309 --> 00:27:25,935 So the host the whole stories and get up. 623 00:27:25,935 --> 00:27:27,020 The art of perseverance. 624 00:27:27,020 --> 00:27:30,190 And I wrote it for, one purpose. 625 00:27:30,190 --> 00:27:34,611 And that was to motivate and inspire other people and to be able to connect 626 00:27:34,611 --> 00:27:37,947 with people on a level that's obviously much deeper than 30 minutes 627 00:27:37,947 --> 00:27:41,117 where we can we can talk about, but it's to connect on. 628 00:27:41,117 --> 00:27:43,286 I don't care for like, sports. I don't care if you like baseball. 629 00:27:43,286 --> 00:27:44,037 Doesn't matter. 630 00:27:44,037 --> 00:27:45,413 Yeah, yeah. 631 00:27:45,413 --> 00:27:48,416 We've all been through challenges and mine, actually, 632 00:27:48,416 --> 00:27:51,961 with my wife and her twin sister, she lost to cancer. 633 00:27:52,754 --> 00:27:55,799 There's probably another episode down the line, you know, different battle. 634 00:27:55,924 --> 00:27:58,385 Yeah. Yeah, I went through personal bankruptcy. 635 00:27:58,385 --> 00:28:01,179 I went through, like, I put everything out there. 636 00:28:01,179 --> 00:28:04,432 So there's so many different things that I went through, and it's like, 637 00:28:04,432 --> 00:28:07,894 if I don't share that to try to impact somebody positive. 638 00:28:07,894 --> 00:28:08,812 What the hell is that? 639 00:28:08,812 --> 00:28:09,437 Yeah, yeah. 640 00:28:09,437 --> 00:28:09,729 Like. 641 00:28:09,729 --> 00:28:13,483 Yeah, that's that's why what you guys do is so motivating and inspiring 642 00:28:13,483 --> 00:28:18,488 because other people get to experience through other people's experience. 643 00:28:18,488 --> 00:28:18,655 Yeah. 644 00:28:18,655 --> 00:28:22,075 And too many times people think successful people will pop out of a genie bottle. 645 00:28:22,409 --> 00:28:23,410 They don't realize that they've 646 00:28:23,410 --> 00:28:26,413 had so many layers of disappointments like you have. 647 00:28:26,496 --> 00:28:29,833 And just for your perseverance, you know, it took seven years to get back again, 648 00:28:29,833 --> 00:28:31,292 but you never quit on your dream. 649 00:28:31,292 --> 00:28:33,545 You know your story just right now. 650 00:28:33,545 --> 00:28:36,548 I if it touches one person that will say, 651 00:28:36,673 --> 00:28:39,926 I can do this because they heard you say it was worth it. 652 00:28:40,218 --> 00:28:42,512 Well, and actually in the book you 653 00:28:42,512 --> 00:28:46,057 if you read it, you know, there was a couple stories that I didn't 654 00:28:46,057 --> 00:28:49,853 realize everything was worth it for those two people, 655 00:28:50,103 --> 00:28:54,607 for me, everything I went through, one was threatening to commit suicide. 656 00:28:54,858 --> 00:28:56,860 Like one was actually going to commit suicide 657 00:28:56,860 --> 00:28:59,654 because he went through something similar to what I went through, 658 00:28:59,654 --> 00:29:02,198 and I ended up connecting with him somehow because they wanted 659 00:29:02,198 --> 00:29:04,159 the parents wanted me to sign an autograph. 660 00:29:04,159 --> 00:29:06,911 Well, he was he was much younger. 661 00:29:06,911 --> 00:29:10,623 He was in Little League at the time, but had to live in a dark room, 662 00:29:10,623 --> 00:29:11,875 couldn't leave right. 663 00:29:11,875 --> 00:29:14,127 And I found that out after the fact. 664 00:29:15,128 --> 00:29:17,714 And now he was a successful drummer. 665 00:29:17,714 --> 00:29:20,425 That really. Does that make you feel great? 666 00:29:20,425 --> 00:29:23,762 And at this point, and then there was that was another kid that was, 667 00:29:25,764 --> 00:29:27,307 he had some, like, 668 00:29:27,307 --> 00:29:31,186 metal rod and pelvis, playing bass, whatever it was. 669 00:29:31,478 --> 00:29:32,854 But he had a motivation. 670 00:29:32,854 --> 00:29:34,189 He was in the hospital 671 00:29:34,189 --> 00:29:37,317 when my story was being played on the today show and what have you. 672 00:29:37,692 --> 00:29:39,444 And he had that. 673 00:29:39,444 --> 00:29:41,529 Well, if he can do it and I can't, 674 00:29:41,529 --> 00:29:44,157 he ends up getting a basketball scholarship amazing. 675 00:29:44,157 --> 00:29:45,116 Years later. 676 00:29:45,116 --> 00:29:48,286 So, like, those are things that you're like, it was worth it. 677 00:29:48,286 --> 00:29:50,288 So yeah, to your point that even being here. 678 00:29:50,288 --> 00:29:52,332 What why do we all do this? 679 00:29:52,332 --> 00:29:54,292 Because it's that one person. 680 00:29:54,292 --> 00:29:55,001 Yeah. 681 00:29:55,001 --> 00:29:57,337 It makes it all worth you never know. 682 00:29:57,337 --> 00:29:59,714 So it's sometimes things like this happened to us 683 00:29:59,714 --> 00:30:02,842 because it needed to happen so we can inspire other people. 684 00:30:03,134 --> 00:30:06,137 It may not make sense when we're going through it, but or going through it. 685 00:30:06,262 --> 00:30:07,806 But Adam, you've been absolutely 686 00:30:07,806 --> 00:30:09,724 wonderful as a guest, and I know that you've inspired 687 00:30:09,724 --> 00:30:13,186 a whole bunch of people that are either watching and or listening to our podcast. 688 00:30:13,186 --> 00:30:15,522 But please share this with everybody you know. 689 00:30:15,522 --> 00:30:17,106 You know, subscribe on YouTube. 690 00:30:17,106 --> 00:30:17,649 It's free. 691 00:30:17,649 --> 00:30:20,193 Share it with people that that need inspiration. 692 00:30:20,193 --> 00:30:23,696 No negativity, no politics on this show is a safe place to land. 693 00:30:23,947 --> 00:30:24,823 Let's go with John. 694 00:30:24,823 --> 00:30:25,990 Enjoy some John Cadillac 695 00:30:25,990 --> 00:30:29,035 Seville from iHeartRadio and John Seville entertainment choice. 696 00:30:29,035 --> 00:30:30,370 Logan. She's from the world. 697 00:30:31,830 --> 00:30:32,831 She owns it all. 698 00:30:32,831 --> 00:30:33,706 And Adam Greenberg. 699 00:30:33,706 --> 00:30:36,668 Lots of love to you and Lindsay and your amazing family. 700 00:30:36,668 --> 00:30:38,253 And thank you for stopping by, too. What's good? 701 00:30:38,253 --> 00:30:40,713 We may have to bring you back at some point. 702 00:30:40,713 --> 00:30:42,173 You're all right. 703 00:30:42,173 --> 00:30:43,424 Here's what's good here. 704 00:30:43,424 --> 00:30:45,260 Here is an illustration of what's good. 705 00:30:45,260 --> 00:30:46,886 Till next time. 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