Daniel Coyle

And I couldn't.

It turned out I wasn't good enough.

Shocker.

But I did write a book about how talent develops.

And so one day in 2013, I got a call from the Cleveland, they were the Indians at the time, they're the Guardians now.

And they were interested in

they can't buy talent they have one of the lowest budgets in sports dodgers i think spend 400 million dollars a year and guardians spend less than 100 so it's not a fair fight so they can't sign talent so they have to grow it so up to that time in 2013 the guardians had moneyballed their way to the to the top they had moneyball actually started in cleveland a little footnote uh the the jonah hill character from the movie was originally working for uh for cleveland so

So, but of course, like any business strategy that gets evened out pretty quickly, everybody's got the right algorithms and you can't compete with that.

So I came along at a time where they were realizing, hey, if we do things like other teams, we are definitely going to lose.

Like we've got to grow talent.

So how do we do that?

And so that's where I got kind of involved in how do we design better practice?

How do we design, how do we help coaches develop?

If we're going to have great players, we need great coaches.

So let's backward, go up the chain.

So we started out by saying we need great coaches.

So let's bring in other great coaches to help teach them how to coach according to best principles.

So

we assembled we had all these ideas that we're going to push on our coaches right better practice ideas and we assembled this all-star team it was like michael phelps's coach and the guy who led navy seal team six and an nfl coach and they were like this all-star and they're going to come in and help our coaches we're all excited for it and we had the session and like there was no the needle didn't move like none of the coaches changed

And the problem wasn't them.