Ryan Ripken

It's a whole...

I mean, I'd even argue right now it's even more wild wild west than it's ever been, you know, just because I just, when I just mentioned before, it's like, there are so many different versions of media.

and how you can do it and how you can get started and what you want to do.

Truly, the Internet, it's a blessing and a curse.

The blessing is you can put yourself out there more.

The curse is, though, there is so much out there, and you can be overwhelmed by it.

Where do you start?

What could happen next?

But to answer your question about how hard it was to stop playing, when I tell people about –

you know, what you commit to and what you love in life.

Typically, when you go off to college, you're trying to find yourself.

If you go that route, and the people that don't go to college and you get right into work, I'd say your early 20s, you're still trying to find it.

And as you get older into your late 20s and then heading into the 30s, you get a little bit more of an idea of what you want to do.

But you're kind of committing to that path, that growth in life, and realizing you're going to get smacked in the face and knocked down, and you're going to

um get back up or you're gonna have to have to get back up because life is not easy so in baseball though it's like a two-fold um baseball is a beautiful game but it is a game that pisses you off tests you to no boundary and you are constantly not just playing a game against somebody else you're playing the game against yourself and so for me growing up

I started to have the game of baseball.

I'm going against some of the best.

And then I'm fighting myself.

And on top of it, I'm fighting this expectation that I have to live up to a family name that's had a lot of success.

And I didn't handle that as well as I could.