February 5, 2015

Segment 3 - Mike Matheny 2.5.15

Cardinals manager Mike Matheny joins the show, no surprise when he saw this show on the media tour, learning about his new book "The Matheny Manifesto", writing the letter years ago to parents about coaching youth sports, times became more about what the parents want rather than the children, story about kicking mother off the bench, sticking to the plan of being all about the kids, coaching from the stands, passion instilled at a young age by parents, have to be prepared to players' needs especially the young ones, remembers his own frustration with coaches growing up, coaching your own kids, do not deal with parents at the Major-league level, what he's looking for at Spring Training putting together a roster, excitement of learning about new players, always interesting filling the fifth spot, backup spots galore to fill, developing into a team, not aware of many other cities that obsess (positive obsession) over a specific team like the St. Louis with the Cardinals, Mike looking forward to see us at Spring Training, Doug sharing his experiences as a parent seeing his kids play sports throughout the years, The Cat has experiences with odd interactions at games, Doug harrasses his son about pulling the ball in baseball & "HERE'S YOUR REWARD!!".

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