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Spring Training Trip, Part 5: Help
You would think—or at least I did—that professional baseball players don’t really need any help. After all, aren’t they the machines we watch on television throughout the season? Don’t they show up every day needing no one and nothing? Can’t they just do on the field...
read moreSpring Training Trip, Part 4: Pinnacle
Honestly, it's hard to describe. There's just nothing like Spring Training. Over 200 young men competing for less than 200 roster spots. Seven practice fields better than anything I ever played on. One field just for taking ground balls. Another just for bunting....
read moreSpring Training Trip, Part 3: Overwhelmed
I couldn’t sleep the night we arrived in Phoenix. Still a little tense from the flight and all the logistics of rental cars and getting to the hotel, I was also just overwhelmed. By how all this came together. By getting to be there with my son. By what I was about to...
read moreSpring Training Trip, Part 2: Pain
I hadn’t flown since before 9/11. Entering the Nashville airport, my son and I had no idea what to expect. Having read everything I could about the latest security regulations, we felt as prepared as we could be. Our shuttle dropped us at the terminal entrance, where...
read moreSpring Training Trip, Part 1: Connections
It began with an email out of nowhere. Honestly, I have no idea who reads my blog and listens to my podcast. Analytics are available, I know, but I don’t check them. So the email from Steve Mintz came out of nowhere, at least to me. Each morning during Spring...
read morePodcast: Sam Marsonek
Special Guest Sam Marsonek is the Director of Baseball Operations for Baseball Country, a 50-acre complex dedicated to raising quality baseball players who know and love Jesus. A former first-round draft pick, Sam made his Major League debut in 2004. God later changed...
read morePodcast: Braden Webb
Special guest Braden Webb joins the show to talk about life as a Christian on and off the field. Now a minor league pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers, Braden has seen his share of ups and downs. If you’re a parent or coach, be sure the players in your life hear this...
read morePodcast: Special Guest Coach Brad Shelton, University of the Cumberlands
Special guest Coach Brad Shelton from the University of the Cumberlands joins the show for a conversation about coaching, leadership, and lessons learned over a lifetime in the game. Follow Coach Shelton on Twitter @UCCoachShelton. Search it on your podcast app or...
read morePodcast: Lessons from the Hot Stove
Hot Stove season is exciting, fun, and full of action...or it’s confusing, hurtful, and anxious. Life can be the same way and Brad discuses it on this episode. Search it on your podcast app or follow one of these links: Web iTunes Stitcher...
read morePodcast: Sermon Rewind–I Can’t
What do you do when you know you can’t do what God has called you to do? Grab a Bible and study Exodus 3-4 with Brad in this Sermon Rewind episode. Search it on your podcast app or follow one of these links: Web iTunes Stitcher...
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