Podcast Appearances
I'm doing good battling a little bit of a late May cold.
But other than that, life is good.
Sun is shining and baseball season is somehow what almost a third of the way through, I think.
Wow, that's way back.
I guess I actually would have talked to Nathan in the middle of March when I was in Dunedin for a few days.
Man, what did I have for breakfast this morning?
Can I remember March?
Omelet, I think I made myself an omelet.
Yeah, Nathan Lucas is somebody I've been meaning to talk to for a few years because I've been told that he's a really great dude, and he certainly seems to be.
I talked to him a lot and wrote about how he almost called it quits in the minors because
you know, the path just seemed like it wasn't going to necessarily bring him to the big leagues.
He had a young family, and the money he was making, you know, in the low minors before, you know, things improved condition-wise, pay-wise in the minors, he was making peanuts.
So, yeah, he fortunately for himself and the Jays kept at it and turned into a very good major league baseball player.
Yeah, well over, I think, Blake, is an understatement.
I think some of the, I mean, you certainly know, and I'm sure a lot of listeners, you know, maybe know that salaries in the minors, especially the low minors, were, you know, you couldn't live on them.
I mean, you know, we're talking maybe $1,000 a month and not getting paid over the offseason, you know, back when he was a young minor league player.
Well, something that I will certainly do with Argen, you know, a few years down the road, because I do this with players a lot when I talk to them in the minors, you know, I sort of get a feel for how they see themselves, what they're trying to develop, what the org wants.
And then when I will get them up in a few years later, I say, you know, hey, man, what's different?