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Baseball Isn’t Boring
Adam Ottavino Is Living His Best Life With Underdog Team Italy

Why not?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Adam Ottavino Is Living His Best Life With Underdog Team Italy

It's such a great sport.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Adam Ottavino Is Living His Best Life With Underdog Team Italy

Let's bring it everywhere.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Adam Ottavino Is Living His Best Life With Underdog Team Italy

I mean, nothing specific stands out story-wise, but I will say it's so cool to watch the guys that are in a similar position that I was when I got to play in 2009.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Adam Ottavino Is Living His Best Life With Underdog Team Italy

Minor leaguer, prospect, getting a chance to play on the big stage for the first time, the big league stadium, flying the big league plane.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Adam Ottavino Is Living His Best Life With Underdog Team Italy

you know, experience the noise factor, the pressure factor, play with older guys, like kind of get, you know, go through all this stuff on the bus and just like, you know, bond a little bit with different generations of ballplayers.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Adam Ottavino Is Living His Best Life With Underdog Team Italy

And now that I'm on this side of it, it's just so cool to watch them and their journeys.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Adam Ottavino Is Living His Best Life With Underdog Team Italy

And we have a lot of really cool, really good young players.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Adam Ottavino Is Living His Best Life With Underdog Team Italy

And, you know, I think sometimes when you're like a 30 year old player, the younger guys piss you off.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Adam Ottavino Is Living His Best Life With Underdog Team Italy

But by the time you come around and you're like 40, like I am,

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Adam Ottavino Is Living His Best Life With Underdog Team Italy

it's just great to see their enthusiasm and like their whole, their whole careers ahead of them.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Adam Ottavino Is Living His Best Life With Underdog Team Italy

And I'm jealous of it a lot.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Adam Ottavino Is Living His Best Life With Underdog Team Italy

I wish I could relive it again, but to watch like Andrew Fisher and Sam Antonacci and you know, Nori, her left fielder, like all these guys go through it for the first time and have success.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Adam Ottavino Is Living His Best Life With Underdog Team Italy

And they're having the time of their lives.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Adam Ottavino Is Living His Best Life With Underdog Team Italy

You know, it's so cool to see.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Adam Ottavino Is Living His Best Life With Underdog Team Italy

But it's, you know, power through the exhaustion to enjoy is what I'm saying.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Adam Ottavino Is Living His Best Life With Underdog Team Italy

I'm good.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Adam Ottavino Is Living His Best Life With Underdog Team Italy

It's all good.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Adam Ottavino Is Living His Best Life With Underdog Team Italy

I mean, you know, what's today, the 12th or something?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Adam Ottavino Is Living His Best Life With Underdog Team Italy

Yeah, so it's like six more days of being a baseball player, best-case scenario, and I don't care if I'm tired.