Rob Radford

Brett Phillips said to me, said, hey, I know how to grow the game 50% right away, have everybody sign autographs for 10 minutes.

And there's something to that because even if you get an autograph from somebody that you would never hear from, you follow that person forever, forever, right?

Do you remember your first autograph?

autographs are a powerful thing and Adam Jones said this too he said I forget who told him an older guy told him make sure when you do an autograph

that it's legible because otherwise they're not going to know who they got the autograph from.

And I am a hypocrite because I could not do cursive to save my life.

We all practice our autograph.

No, not good, not good.

See that, but that's a good one.

And that's why, honestly, I'm not just saying this because he's a co-owner, co-author, whatever, but that's why I love hanging around with Joe.

It's just because he doesn't give a shit about perception, you know?

It's like when he talks about the other day about

retirement like like hey dude like why do why are we retiring what's retirement for old people so 65 people have earned the retirement and i get the other side of it you want to thank everybody but what he's saying has merit and he doesn't he's not measuring it yeah but that's but it's funny and i could talk about that netflix thing for a day but i won't um

but I think you're absolutely right.

And it was actually, we're simpatico because the last thing I wanted to ask you was along those lines, you would mention what baseball has to do.

And I don't disagree with you, but also it's the players.

And I do feel like players and you, you have a good sense of this because you see it on social media.

I do sense players are protective of their brand, probably in baseball more than any other sport.

And it used to be, and now it's,

That's why you had the Players' Tribune, right?