Ryan Hanley

Like, it's very hard, especially for young players, to detach their self-worth to each individual at bat.

And, you know, people who don't understand sports may say, oh, it's because you put too much pressure on them.

But no, like...

You are on a spotlight, on an island, one against one against a pitcher.

And whether if you perform, you feel amazing.

If you don't, you're headed back to the dugout and everyone's going to watch you with your head down.

You got to walk from the thing.

Okay, so here's where I was trying to go with this was I was trying to explain to them.

So I played college baseball.

And my kids asked me like, you know, they just assumed I was always good at hitting.

They just, you know what I mean?

I'm like, guys, that's not the case.

I was like, there was somewhere around.

And I said, guys, I was 16 years old.

I was playing American Leagues baseball and I had the best coach of my life.

He smoked a cigar on third base.

He wore a freaking cowboy hat and he was a lunatic, but he was the best baseball coach I ever had.

And he taught us one thing.

you know, his, his words were a little different and slightly more offensive, but it was essentially detached from the outcome.

He's like detached from the outcome, detached from the outcome.