The 2nd Annual Daniel Bard Thanksgiving Podcast
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Why is Daniel Bard the perfect guest for a Thanksgiving podcast?
The annual, there's not a lot of things that we do on an annual basis, but I am making this clear. Let it be said, let it be done. Every time Thanksgiving rolls around, I am going to track down Daniel Bard because you are the epitome of someone who we should say, this is why we are thankful for you. This is why you are thankful for baseball. there's just a lot of thanks going on. So, I don't know. That's my intro.
That's my intro. It's a good reminder that I need to be more thankful. So, I appreciate it. Thanks for having me.
I didn't mean it that way. I just, I meant, I think that With baseball, and baseball is just part of it, I'm thankful to know you, first of all, and for your message and just the person that you are. Earmuffs if you don't want to listen to this, but the fact is that...
How does baseball inspire gratitude in players and fans?
When I was covering you, I really love talking to people, but I love talking in this world of baseball, talking to interesting people who have a great perspective. And you did that from day one, ever since you were imitating batting stances in Fort Myers in 2009. So, yeah. You remember that. That's good. I think it's documented forever on YouTube. I hope so. I need to find that one. Batting stance. I forget who you were imitating. It's like, I remember, I vividly remember you, because batting stance guy in one of these, biting off more than I could chew, I flew batting stance guy across the country, Gar Rynas, middle seat, three-stop Spirit Airlines, put him up in the shadiest motel in Fort Myers so he could come over to the Red Sox complex to imitate batting stances for you guys.
Actually, it worked out. That guy's awesome.
I love that guy.
What life lessons has Daniel Bard learned from baseball?
I think he's still doing it. Oh, of course, yeah. I think I follow him, and yeah, he was just a good person too.
Oh, such a good person. But I remember you – I can't remember if you did it in front of him, but I remember you imitating a batting stance.
So probably a Jeff Bagwell. Yeah, that's kind of my, I think that was my go-to guy. I kind of imitated it growing up. Yeah. When I, back when I was, when I raked as a hitter, um, Yeah, it was a long time ago, man.
It was. Well, anyway, I just wanted to say that may have been the beginning, but certainly it's continued to everything that's good in the world of life in baseball. So that said, as we sit here, I've been throughout this year, since we've done this podcast, it's going on three years, and I I look at baseball in terms of how it really impacts in so many ways and the way that baseball sort of forms life. I just finished a podcast with Dominic Leon. I was just telling you this. And we were talking about retirement. And we'll get to sort of your life after retirement this year. But I'm always interested in when guys retire, right? about how they do it, what their feelings is, how you pull the cord and everything else.
And he went on for about five minutes talking about how impactful your story was. And then he went on to explain himself, like his own thing, about how he threw a pitch and he knew right then and there that was it. But... It was just like all of it, as he's talking, I'm like, yeah, you know what? That's just part of it. But really, the whole baseball world, everything about baseball, including retirement, is just so, so impactful on so many facets of life. So I know I'm ranting and raving and rambling. I don't care. But I will just say this, is that for you, if I said to you, Daniel,
How does retirement change a player's perspective on the game?
What is the part of your life that baseball's impacted the most? That's a heavy question.
That's a big question. Yeah. It's changed through the years, you know? I mean, I've grown up with baseball. It's been part of my life as long as I can remember. So, you know, I think baseball teaches you a lot of – Lessons as a kid, you know, it's a game of failure. I failed a lot. You know, I was just talking to my dad a couple of days ago because I was talking about my kids and. they have kind of varied interests. They're not that into baseball. And he was like, you know, you weren't that into baseball at eight, nine years old.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why is Daniel Bard the perfect guest for a Thanksgiving podcast?
0:00–0:59
2
How does baseball inspire gratitude in players and fans?
0:59–2:03
3
What life lessons has Daniel Bard learned from baseball?
2:03–4:17
4
How does retirement change a player's perspective on the game?
4:17–5:40
5
What challenges do players face when preparing for the World Baseball Classic?
5:40–7:42
6
How does Daniel Bard reflect on his own career and achievements?
7:42–9:30
7
What does gratitude mean to Daniel Bard in the context of his career?
9:30–11:56
8
What Thanksgiving traditions does Daniel Bard share?
11:56–40:26
Speakers
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