Cole Freeman
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75 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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In a crude laboratory in the basement of his home.
I appreciate you working with me, too. Sorry about last week, too, having to reschedule like that.
That's what you called me. It popped up as Albany. And I was like, damn, Albany?
Yeah. Um, I really think that started happening once I got to LSU, once I was able to achieve my dream and really have that opportunity. And especially after I got drafted and looking back at those two years that, you know, I was fortunate enough to have, I think I just kind of started reminiscing on like, I always said the question, why not me? for me to get that position.
But then I started kind of asking, okay, like why me? And I was just so grateful for me to get that chance to go out there and live my dream that, you know, I started thinking, I'm like, what is it that I can do to start helping people? And one of the things I looked at was what was a separator for me? Um, and obviously it wasn't my height was the separator. And I kept leaning back on
it was kind of my mindset growing up and then getting to LSU. It was just that I can do attitude that I'm not going to listen to the outside noise. And that was one of the things I recognized after going through college and all was how many kids that I met or how many friends I had that definitely had the talent, but the circumstances weren't there. And the mental side of the game wasn't there.
The, taking care of the schoolwork, going to do extra work off the field. That really wasn't there. And when I was sitting back, you know, my last couple years of pro ball, I was thinking, you know, what is, I was so thankful for what I had. I was like, what can I do to give other kids the opportunity to feel the way I feel, to experience what I got to experience?
And, honestly, there was a broad spectrum. You know, there was financially supporting people, you know, finding mentors for them. And there's this big spectrum that we were going off of, but obviously honing down on, okay, where are we going to start? And I think being the mental health game, especially nowadays, is there's just epidemic crisis in the United States and really worldwide with it.
And once I got partnered up with my partner's old-time friend of mine in one of his schools, friends out of Nashville, we kind of honed in on, hey, if we've got one opportunity at these kids and we will never get a chance of touching them, what can we leave them with? And really, this is what we've kind of landed on, these tools that they can hopefully take for the rest of their lives.
Yeah, I mean, I think it's just perspective for me. And honestly, one of our core pieces, it's reframing. It's reframing the situation in my mind. Yeah. I'd be lying if I say I wasn't better in some aspects for sure. But I mean, I feel like that's just anything when you go, anybody going after something, they're trying to achieve it and, you know, it doesn't work out in their favor.
I think that's kind of just a natural instinct in humans. But what does it do for you? you know, what is being bitter do besides bring me down and remind me of something I didn't achieve. And really my main goal in life was to play for LSU. I knew how much that meant to me. I knew how much that meant to my family, my entire family.
And I wanted to not only give that experience to me, but I wanted to give it to them as well. And that once I got to see the reaction of my parents and of them getting to live out our dream. Uh, I mean, that was, that was everything for me.
So after I get drafted, after my junior year going into, uh, in the 18th round, I turn it down best decision of my life, uh, coming back from my senior year at LSU. And then I get drafted in the fourth round. And when you say like, okay, bitter and I didn't have a place to go play baseball after college. I mean, after high school. I didn't have any place.
So I got another four years, two at Delgado, two at LSU. And now I'm drafted in the fourth round. Okay, so I go out and I have a great first two years. I get to the fall league. Then we have this thing called COVID hit after my greatest year of baseball. Top 15, 20 in all the minor leagues. You know, I'm knocking on the door. I'm thinking I'm getting that big league invite. This and that.
Well, there's an uncontrollable. COVID ended up messing it up pretty bad for me. All right, it messed up my career a little bit, slowed it down. But how many lives did COVID actually mess up? So in the grand scheme of things, is it really that big of a deal to me? It is to me, but in the vast reality of the world, no, it is not. People lost their jobs. People lost their livelihoods.
People lost their families. People couldn't say bye to their grandparents for the last time because they're in the hospital. What, it messed up my career a little bit? Okay. Poor, pitiful me. No, it's the perspective on everything is, I think, is I think how you can navigate through life the correct way or feeling out of control.
You know, I end up coming back in 2021 and I'm not starting the first two games. And I'm thinking I just possibly won minor league player of the year, base runner of the year. in 2019. I went to the fall league, started off bad and got better. And then now I'm not starting over somebody that wasn't, didn't even play below, uh, above low A. And so I fight my way back.
I get in, start a line of them, started the rest of the year. And then next thing you know, I go into AAA, uh, the next year and I'm like rolling. I'm like, dude, I'm one step away right here. Uh, we had a new, uh, GM come in, um, which obviously just like any company, a boss comes in, you know, they're going to get their people in and, you know, they got to put food on the table.
And I just wasn't one of his guys that he wanted. So I ended up getting released August 8th of 2022. And that time was tough for sure. But when I started looking back at it, I'm like, and just to bring back the question, how can I be better? I got another job. almost nine years of playing baseball after I was told I wasn't playing after high school. I lived the dream. Yeah.
I, my last goal was to just get one day in the MLB. My biggest thing is I wanted my dad to say, my son was a big leaguer. That would hurt not being able to achieve, but why focus on that one thing that brings me so much heartache. When look at everything I did before, look at what we accomplished as a family. Um,
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