Daniel Bard
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I was like, tell, tell him I want to play for him.
Tell him I want to pitch.
And I think I just said it to enough people.
And, and, uh, Mike, my agent did a good job of making the right phone calls and I was coming off a really good year.
So that helped.
Um,
I felt like I deserved to be on it.
We pushed hard and made some calls.
I think by mid-December, they let me know.
I can't remember if it was him or a guy named Eric Campbell who kind of runs USA Baseball.
I think they both called me in a short period.
Yeah, I mean, I never made an all-star team, so I felt like I maybe deserved a couple, but it's tough as a reliever.
So that was really my all-star moment.
That was my, hey, you belong on the select group with the big boys.
And it took me until I was 37 years old to do it, but...
Yeah, I mean, I still have one of the jerseys that we wore.
I think it was the white jersey I got signed by.
So the USA on the chest is just filled with 35 signatures.
That's pretty cool.
It's an impressive lineup.