Adam Macko: From Slovakia to Ireland to Alberta to Vancouver to the Blue Jays - What a ride!
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This is Carson Price from the historic Wall Center. This next guest is brought to you by the Vancouver Canadiens, who start a six-game set against the Everett Aqua Sox tonight at Nat Bailey Stadium, the rare two-week home stretch for the Seas. The Nat's been absolutely packed here of late with all these fantastic giveaways celebrating 75 years of the stadium, the new Canadian Club patio section that opened last week. And we are absolutely delighted to be joined by a former Vancouver Canadian. And a Vancouver, too. It's the Adam Macko series. He's a Vancouver resident as well. And we are proud to also call him Toronto Blue Jays relief pitcher. Mr. Adam Macko joins us here on Securison Price. Adam, great to have you on the show.
Thanks so much for the time.
Yeah, how's it going, guys? Thanks so much for having me.
We're delighted. We've been wanting to have you on for years because we've been following your progress and particularly over the last couple of months as you got the call to the show and have pitched to a 363 ERA in 17 games. Congratulations. It's been quite a baseball journey. How's it feel to be a big leaguer?
It's unbelievable. Sometimes I still can't quite fathom that I'm a big leaguer, that I am here and hanging out with the guys and getting to contribute and winning baseball games at the big league level. It's quite a different feeling, not feeling like you're wanting to go somewhere else other than where you're at right now. There's always, throughout the minor leagues, you kind of climb up the ladder. And now you can just embrace fully where you're here. You're trying to do that in the minor leagues too, but it's a lot easier to embrace where you're at when you're in a big league. So it's amazing. I'm living the dream and grateful for everything.
We're going to rewind on your whole life in a second here. But this year, the World Baseball Classic, too, was your first taste of facing that level of competition, too. And I was worried about you. The first time you went out there on the mound, I'm like, oh, is he ready? And you showed you were ready then, too. I mean, you have belief in yourself throughout the minors, I'm sure. But was that the first time you're like, no, no, I'm ready now, that kind of ready?
Yeah, you have to have that mindset, especially when the lights turn on and it gets down to the wire. There's no room for second-guessing in this game. Whether it's true confidence or false confidence, you've got to go out there and just trust in yourself. I've always had confidence in myself, and I knew... what I could do even if I wasn't doing it at that point. And I feel like those times in the minor leagues where things aren't necessarily going the way you want to teach you how to still have confidence in yourself. And I came to spring training as ready as I could be for the World Baseball Classic and to compete for a job at the big league level. So a little bit of preparation, a little bit of just self-confidence in general and good things happen.
Adam, there have been thousands of Major League Baseball players, but I feel pretty secure in saying that your journey was unique. Through three countries, two of them not exactly traditional baseball powerhouses with little assistance from YouTube. Tell us about how a guy goes from Slovakia to Ireland to Alberta to the big leagues.
Yeah, it was my parents' vision to go overseas before I was born. But once I was born, they settled down. They built a beautiful house in Slovakia. And we kind of just stayed there for the time being, obviously. And then when we heard of friends and some family that left Slovakia, My brother went to Ireland, he said it's beautiful there and we kinda just wanted to go and visit, see what that's all about. My parents loved it, we stayed there for a year and a half and then we got our visa to Canada. And once we got to Canada, I really didn't expect to be at any competitive level of baseball. I had no idea what that would be like because Slovakia and Ireland are, like you said, not very big powerhouses for baseball.
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