Daniel Bard

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.