Speaker 1: Cap it, Am I being illogical? Just wanting logic. When
Speaker 1: it comes to the Champions League, it's like an either
Speaker 1: or you get a fit. You get fifteen of the eighteen,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna play either the one or the two.
Speaker 1: It's either you're gonna eat the mashed potatoes or you're
Speaker 1: gonna eat the green beans. It's not like, look, you're
Speaker 1: going right at the meat loaf. Am I wrong here?
Speaker 1: I don't know, John, I'm getting I'm getting one of
Speaker 1: those scanners headaches, just trying to figure out what the
Speaker 1: Champions League is trying to figure out.
Speaker 2: Man, Yeah, it seems like, you know, sometimes you just
Speaker 2: got to keep it simple.
Speaker 1: Just keep it simple, kiss, keep it simple, stupid exactly.
Speaker 2: I mean, then you go back to the basics a
Speaker 2: little bit here.
Speaker 1: This is this is what I'm saying, all right, So
Speaker 1: and speaking of back to basics, uh, you know, the
Speaker 1: the Beatles had a lyric get back to where you
Speaker 1: once belong, you know, talking heads, same as it ever was.
Speaker 1: Dude came into the airport last night. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know this, but a dude came to the
Speaker 1: Atlanta airport last night, and there were a lot of
Speaker 1: folks that were there to meet him. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know this gentleman, but his first name is
Speaker 1: Miguel and he's here in Atlanta. Have you had interactions
Speaker 1: with this gentleman in the past on any level? What
Speaker 1: can he bring to Atlanta United? Do you know this gentleman?
Speaker 2: I think we all do. Yeah, I'm excited. It's gonna
Speaker 2: be Uh, it's gonna be exciting. It's exciting for the
Speaker 2: team obviously on the field, you know, bringing what he
Speaker 2: brings to the team. But I think just as important,
Speaker 2: it's going to energize the fan base. And you know,
Speaker 2: I know that there's been moments the past few years
Speaker 2: where things have you know, peaked up and the crowds
Speaker 2: have been good and stuff. But you know, I want
Speaker 2: to get back to that normal sellout crowds, you know,
Speaker 2: crazy atmosphere, even if it's a Wednesday night game. Hey,
Speaker 2: and Miguel is going to help bring that back.
Speaker 1: Uh. Now, I have a question to you, sir, and
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can, uh, if you can
Speaker 1: put any light on this. Uh. There was a picture
Speaker 1: posted to social media and the gentleman looked a lot
Speaker 1: like you, and uh, you know this could have been you.
Speaker 1: It could have been a doppelganger. It could have been
Speaker 1: someone masquerading. I don't know, someone may be doing a
Speaker 1: late Halloween thing. And it was someone who looked a
Speaker 1: lot like you looking into a mirror. And you had
Speaker 1: a jersey that had a name on the back of
Speaker 1: this particular gentleman, How long did it take you to
Speaker 1: get that jersey? How how did were you allowed to
Speaker 1: order that from an MLS shop dot com like three
Speaker 1: weeks ago and you were being just prescient? Or did
Speaker 1: you hit the FedEx button on this one? How did
Speaker 1: how did you? How did you get your intel?
Speaker 2: Sir man? I'm old, but I'm not that old where
Speaker 2: I still have a hook up here and there. And so,
Speaker 2: you know, a package arrived in the mail and had
Speaker 2: a little special gift and I thought, you know what,
Speaker 2: I should probably share this with the world.
Speaker 1: A package just showed up on your doorstep. It's like,
Speaker 1: oh wow, look at this. I think, I think maybe
Speaker 1: this will this this might be cool to wear. Okay,
Speaker 1: so the man got the hookup is basically what happened.
Speaker 2: Exactly, Okay, exactly, And to be honest, Sean, I'm not
Speaker 2: like on a jersey, you know, snob and when I
Speaker 2: put it on, I didn't even know it was in
Speaker 2: New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Oh, because yeah, because it has like the it's the
Speaker 1: the black stripes go all the way up to the shoulder,
Speaker 1: the shoulder blade and everything like that. This not just
Speaker 1: cut off. It goes all the way up into the
Speaker 1: shoulder blade and the stripes.
Speaker 2: This year, yeah, I mean, I just saw the stripes
Speaker 2: and the name on the back and everything like that,
Speaker 2: and that's all I was focused on. And then I
Speaker 2: saw some of the comments about saying it was a
Speaker 2: jery league, and I.
Speaker 1: Was like, it is. I'm when I'm I'm the most
Speaker 1: excited to see how I mean, obviously, you know at
Speaker 1: the airport he's literally signing every single autograph that was
Speaker 1: asked of him, and that's that's normally, that's his gregarious nature.
Speaker 1: But I am intrigued to see how different a player
Speaker 1: he is six years on, what the experience in the
Speaker 1: Premier League has given him internally and externally. We know
Speaker 1: that you can still shoot him out of a cannon
Speaker 1: and good luck catching him when he slams it into
Speaker 1: fifth gear. But I'm interested in seeing how he has
Speaker 1: continued to evolve. I won't necessarily say mature because he's
Speaker 1: still you know, running around like you know what. But
Speaker 1: I'm intrigued to see how thirty year old Miguel Almeron
Speaker 1: will be here in Atlanta with the game that he
Speaker 1: has evolved over the last six years.
Speaker 2: Totally yeah, same. You know, I think that we've all
Speaker 2: seen him play a little bit over in Europe and
Speaker 2: and uh, you know, he looks he has looked the
Speaker 2: same as he did in Atlanta, you know, just rubbing
Speaker 2: and rubbing off tackles, just flying through people, running around,
Speaker 2: busy and dangerous, and you know, I think that's what
Speaker 2: we expect. And uh, you know, I don't think anybody
Speaker 2: really quite knows the formation that we're going to play.
Speaker 2: And you know, there's a lot of a lot of
Speaker 2: pieces now to the team, and you've got a lot
Speaker 2: of attacking options that it's going to be interesting to
Speaker 2: see how the gaff forgets everybody on the field and
Speaker 2: how he lines everyone up and what the responsibility is
Speaker 2: because Miguel had a lot of freedom under ta top,
Speaker 2: especially when we were playing in that three five to
Speaker 2: two esque it was like a three six to one basically,
Speaker 2: where Miguel could kind of roam and do as he
Speaker 2: pleased and go wherever he wanted. And you know that
Speaker 2: suited him obviously really good defensively. You know, he did
Speaker 2: what he needed to do. And so yeah, it'd be
Speaker 2: interesting to see how his game has evolved. And you know,
Speaker 2: does he do a little bit less running and you know,
Speaker 2: use his brain a little bit more. That's that's what
Speaker 2: tends to happen when you hit your thirties, right. But
Speaker 2: you know, I think on in counter attack situations and
Speaker 2: you know, on that turf, there's a there's nothing scarier
Speaker 2: than Miguel running at you. So I'm excited to see that.
Speaker 1: Did he What was it like having him run at you?
Speaker 1: In practice?
Speaker 2: A nightmare because not only it's like, oh God, how
Speaker 2: am I going to keep up with this guy? But
Speaker 2: at the same time, you're like, God, I don't want
Speaker 2: to follow him, follow him and hurt him.
Speaker 1: You know, So yeah, it was tough when it comes
Speaker 1: to and I want to I want to get this
Speaker 1: to to the the mentoring aspect of things. When when
Speaker 1: you have someone who comes into a situation and he's
Speaker 1: the new kid, it doesn't matter what you know about
Speaker 1: and what you might know, what you might not know
Speaker 1: do you have conversations with your with your mentees about
Speaker 1: being the new kid at school, about being the new
Speaker 1: kid and what it's like to try and integrate and
Speaker 1: be a part of the team while still trying to
Speaker 1: learn on the field what you want and be a
Speaker 1: part of the whole vibe off the field. Do you
Speaker 1: have those conversations with your mentees.
Speaker 2: Oh, definitely on both sides of it, right, Because you've
Speaker 2: got the players that are a part of the team
Speaker 2: that are welcoming in a new player, and then you've
Speaker 2: got the new player who's joining a new team, and
Speaker 2: so we talk about both of those aspects because they're
Speaker 2: both important, and everyone that plays any sport for a
Speaker 2: while will be in that situation on both ends at
Speaker 2: some point, you know, And only then do you realize
Speaker 2: how difficult sometimes it can be to be the new person,
Speaker 2: depending on the environment that you're walking into and depending
Speaker 2: on who you are as a person.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: It's for some guys it's so easy because they're loud
Speaker 2: and open and so confident, and they just walk into
Speaker 2: any locker room and you feel like, Wow, this guy's
Speaker 2: been here forever, you know. But then there's other people
Speaker 2: who are much more shy and quiet, and you know,
Speaker 2: how do they find their way? So yeah, we absolutely do.
Speaker 2: And to those types of you know, to the first type,
Speaker 2: that's pretty easy, right, we have to have to tell
Speaker 2: them like, hey, you know, know your role. You know,
Speaker 2: don't go stepping on anybody's toes in the first couple
Speaker 2: of days, even though you want to play with that confidence.
Speaker 2: But it's more the other players of like, okay, how
Speaker 2: can you find one player or two players that you
Speaker 2: can you can bond with and get to know and
Speaker 2: then slowly integrate yourself more into the team, not feeling
Speaker 2: like you have to be best friends with everyone on
Speaker 2: the team on day one, because that's that's daunting and
Speaker 2: it's challenging, you know. And then on the reverse side, right,
Speaker 2: how can you be a welcoming teammate because it makes
Speaker 2: a huge difference. It makes a huge difference. And you know,
Speaker 2: if you've got the confidence that you're going to be
Speaker 2: able to keep your place in the team and that
Speaker 2: this new player isn't going to kick you out of
Speaker 2: the starting lineup or anything, there's no reason why you
Speaker 2: shouldn't be welcoming to a new player.
Speaker 1: But then for the for the player who's coming into
Speaker 1: the situation. You don't want them to overcorrect. You don't
Speaker 1: want them to lose what got them into that situation
Speaker 1: that they're stepping into, because I would imagine at times
Speaker 1: there there is the player who's coming in. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to make the right first impression. I want
Speaker 1: to be the player, but at the same time, I
Speaker 1: don't want to step on any toes and you know,
Speaker 1: I don't want to upset the chemistry that's already here.
Speaker 1: So I would anticipate that that's a that that's a
Speaker 1: delicate balance in trying to figure out figure out your plays,
Speaker 1: not not mess up what's there, and continued development. It's
Speaker 1: like three things working at the same time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And to that, I would say, don't worry about
Speaker 2: stepping on toes out on the field. Right, You go
Speaker 2: out on the field and you do everything that's got
Speaker 2: you this opportunity and got you there, and you don't
Speaker 2: worry about anything else other than going out there and
Speaker 2: being you and playing as best as you can and
Speaker 2: as hard as you can and working as hard as
Speaker 2: you can. Right, it's more off the field of like,
Speaker 2: you know, being cognizant that you're the new player and
Speaker 2: helping out and having a good attitude and you know,
Speaker 2: not being so brash in the locker room and things
Speaker 2: like that, you know, settling in a little bit. But
Speaker 2: on the field, we definitely try and tell the players, know, hey,
Speaker 2: have that confidence, go ahead, get in. There's other players
Speaker 2: need to figure out who you are as a player,
Speaker 2: and you need to show them from the get go
Speaker 2: this is who you are, so you know, don't be timid,
Speaker 2: don't be shy, don't be afraid of like, oh, if
Speaker 2: I'm going to go take somebody one on one, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm going to do it. And if they look silly,
Speaker 2: then that's on them and they need to get better,
Speaker 2: right But you know, I'm going to go out there
Speaker 2: and I'm going to do me and that's okay. It's
Speaker 2: more off the field. I feel like where you can
Speaker 2: you can make more of an impact.
Speaker 1: How were you as the new kid in school?
Speaker 2: Quiet? Yeah, shy and quiet. So for me it was
Speaker 2: it's easy to talk to those players because I was
Speaker 2: one of them. You know, I saw the other people
Speaker 2: that were the other way and how they could integrate
Speaker 2: really easily. But for me, it was like, no, I'm
Speaker 2: going to chill out here on the side. I'm going
Speaker 2: to take everything in, you know, learn kind of the
Speaker 2: ropes a little bit, figure out who I want to
Speaker 2: buddy up with and who's a little bit more you know,
Speaker 2: like me and like minded, and you know, we'll go
Speaker 2: from there.
Speaker 1: Are your mentees more like you? Or are they more
Speaker 1: gregarious going into their new situations? From what you can
Speaker 1: remember off the top of your head.
Speaker 2: I'd say it's sixty forty, more more open, more willing
Speaker 2: to put themselves out there and you know, not care
Speaker 2: or just have that confidence to go out there and
Speaker 2: you know, be them in any situation, which is good.
Speaker 1: Is that generationally different or is that just you know,
Speaker 1: part of what goes on on the field where you're
Speaker 1: going to have one of two personalities come out there.
Speaker 1: I didn't know if this particular generation or the mentees
Speaker 1: that you're dealing with are geared toward one direction over another.
Speaker 1: Whether they are more gregarious just naturally, or they're more
Speaker 1: quiet naturally in the sixty to forty mix, or is
Speaker 1: it just something that is more game state more than
Speaker 1: anything else.
Speaker 2: You know, Well, I think that I think athletes in
Speaker 2: general tend to be a little bit more confident than
Speaker 2: non athletes as far as like in a school, and
Speaker 2: that's what I was kind of talking about. So obviously
Speaker 2: the mentees are of athletes, and so you know, I
Speaker 2: think maybe that tends to lead towards them being more
Speaker 2: confident going into certain situations. So it's kind of swayed
Speaker 2: a little bit based off of who we work with.
Speaker 1: What did you think of training camp when training camp
Speaker 1: came up? In general? Were you excited about new seasons
Speaker 1: where you're like, oh man, it's training camp and we're
Speaker 1: going to go south or going to tour, We're going
Speaker 1: What did you think of training camp when training camp
Speaker 1: popped up every year?
Speaker 2: Mostly excited. The only thing I wasn't excited about was
Speaker 2: h fitness and uh fitness tests. Yeah, but no excited
Speaker 2: just to get going again and to get to know
Speaker 2: we know, the new group, you know, and a fresh start.
Speaker 2: And I think that going away for training camp is
Speaker 2: really nice because you get to you get to bond
Speaker 2: with guys, and when you're in a hotel and you're
Speaker 2: away from home, you just bond with guys more differently
Speaker 2: than you do when you're just around them, you know,
Speaker 2: for five six hours at the training ground and then
Speaker 2: go home. So it's just different. When you're having your
Speaker 2: meals together and you're doing other things off the field together,
Speaker 2: you get to know each other a little bit better,
Speaker 2: and you know, I think that's important bonding for any team.
Speaker 2: Uh So, I always look forward to those things. And
Speaker 2: I liked getting away with the guys, you know, getting
Speaker 2: into nicer weather.
Speaker 1: So your mentees, I don't think they have training camps
Speaker 1: where they go to like IMG or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Most of the time, it might be ninety nine percent
Speaker 1: of your mentees are staying at home and they're with
Speaker 1: their teams, with their clubs, what have you. When they're
Speaker 1: going into these new environments, it's the first day of school,
Speaker 1: you know, first day of club. Do you have conversations
Speaker 1: with your mentees about pre season, about new environments, about
Speaker 1: new seasons and how to respond or do they or
Speaker 1: do you just let them do their thing and get
Speaker 1: more feedback coming back it's like, well, yeah, I've started
Speaker 1: with this new club and ABC D and E. Do
Speaker 1: you have information going in or do you get more
Speaker 1: information from them coming out when they're once they're in itself.
Speaker 1: When it comes to integrated.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it depends on the situation of the player,
Speaker 2: and if they are going to a new club, like
Speaker 2: you said, if if they're hanging out with their old
Speaker 2: club that they've been a part of for a long time,
Speaker 2: and what their situation is, and also how the previous
Speaker 2: fall went for them personally, or are they coming off
Speaker 2: a great fall and hey, let's keep that momentum going,
Speaker 2: or hey this is a fresh start, right new season,
Speaker 2: let's recharge, let's set our goals, and you know, go
Speaker 2: from there. So you know, definitely depending on if we've
Speaker 2: worked with them before, how they did last year, and uh,
Speaker 2: you know, what their environment is that they're going into.
Speaker 2: So we're trying to take that all into account.
Speaker 1: So when you have a mentee, say that had a
Speaker 1: that had a great last season and they're coming off
Speaker 1: a great postseason, whatever that entails. You know, my my
Speaker 1: mentee had a great postseason, we'll put that we had
Speaker 1: a great last season, put that in quotes. And then
Speaker 1: you have a mentee that didn't have a good last
Speaker 1: season and they're going into a situation this year that
Speaker 1: either could be that you hope is you know, different
Speaker 1: more optimistic. How do you steer a mente coming out
Speaker 1: of a bad out of a bad vibe toward a
Speaker 1: new season and try to flip that vibe around. What
Speaker 1: are those conversations like, yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I think the first message is the same to
Speaker 2: both players, Like what happened in the past is not
Speaker 2: guaranteed the same for the future, right, both both good
Speaker 2: and bad. Right, we've got we've got an opportunity to
Speaker 2: either continue that or to change it. And that is
Speaker 2: on us. And we have that onus on us and
Speaker 2: that power to change things that happened. Right if we
Speaker 2: create good habits and we go out there and we
Speaker 2: have a good mindset and we put the effort and
Speaker 2: we want things to change or we want them to continue,
Speaker 2: and we don't get complacent. And so you know, I
Speaker 2: think that goal setting is a big one for players
Speaker 2: that have gone through a down period and setting smaller goals, right,
Speaker 2: how do we Yeah, of course, your goal might be
Speaker 2: to start for a team. Right, maybe you came off
Speaker 2: with a terrible season, you didn't play that much, Right,
Speaker 2: I want to be a starter. Well that's great, but
Speaker 2: what are you going to do to become a starter? Right?
Speaker 2: How do we have these small little goals so that
Speaker 2: each week you're saying, hey, I did these five things
Speaker 2: this week to get myself in a better place, to
Speaker 2: become a starter. And you know, that's what we try
Speaker 2: and really focus on, is like, Okay, control what you
Speaker 2: can control, put yourself in a good situation, continue to develop,
Speaker 2: and everything else will take care of itself.
Speaker 1: How hard is it to convince a mentee about controlling
Speaker 1: the controllables? Because that has been an underlying thing with
Speaker 1: you and Greg ever since I think day one and
Speaker 1: all of our conversations here on Fridays. You know, I
Speaker 1: would think that mentees and that particular age group, in
Speaker 1: that particular demo, it's all about the instant gratification, the
Speaker 1: instant results. If something didn't happen, it's an extreme. It's
Speaker 1: either I did really great and the world is fantastic,
Speaker 1: or I had a bad day and everything stinks. How
Speaker 1: do you How difficult is it to have a mentee
Speaker 1: focus and understand the control the controllables message these days?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always a challenge, I mean, and it's not
Speaker 2: just for young mentees, right, I think for all of us.
Speaker 2: It's right. We all stress some times about things that
Speaker 2: we can't control, you know, stressed about what the weather
Speaker 2: is going to be like and how that's going to
Speaker 2: affect plans or you know this, that or the other thing. Right,
Speaker 2: we all do it. So it's challenging, and you know,
Speaker 2: I think that's the more that we're able to help
Speaker 2: them just focus on one or two things and slowly
Speaker 2: change that habit and the mindset of what are we
Speaker 2: thinking about on the way to a game and what
Speaker 2: aren't we thinking about or on the way to training. Right,
Speaker 2: I think that that can help, and so then we
Speaker 2: start to get the buy in a little bit. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's tough. It's not a hey, this is what you
Speaker 2: should do, so go out there and do it, and great, Right,
Speaker 2: it's a constant challenge.
Speaker 1: How much how do you know you look at the
Speaker 1: adjustments that you have to make with mentees on a
Speaker 1: year and year a basis, how many adults do you
Speaker 1: have to have conversations with about controlling the controllables? Because
Speaker 1: I'm to your point you're like, yeah, the weather impacted
Speaker 1: our plans and we couldn't do this, or we're snowed in,
Speaker 1: and what do we do with the kids in the backyard,
Speaker 1: or you know, what do we do to keep them busy? Oh? No,
Speaker 1: the power is out. We're really in trouble. Now, how
Speaker 1: are we going to navigate these kind of things. Do
Speaker 1: you have conversations with parents or adults in general about
Speaker 1: controlling the controllables?
Speaker 2: Yeah, my wife really appreciates those conversations.
Speaker 1: Can you please control the controllables here? Fifteen minutes? Is
Speaker 1: that a controllable? What are we controlling here with?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: But everybody's running around, everybody's in the backyard dinners in
Speaker 1: fifteen But we're halfway through fifteen minutes. It's control the controllables. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I could. I could see those conversations with.
Speaker 2: Them, Yeah, but probably not as many as we should
Speaker 2: with some parents, you know, some of them here the
Speaker 2: things that we talk about with the mentees. So hopefully
Speaker 2: it gets through a little bit, but you know, not
Speaker 2: as much. And honestly, I found John that the more
Speaker 2: we've we've done things, the more parents are not involved
Speaker 2: in the sessions. And I think that's mostly a benefit,
Speaker 2: which I'm pleased about. Even younger players we'll work with
Speaker 2: like a ten or eleven year old and parent is like,
Speaker 2: you know, get some set up in front of the
Speaker 2: screen and okay, I'll let you guys do your thing.
Speaker 2: So it's it's actually rare more rare that the parent
Speaker 2: sits there and listens and is part of the conversation.
Speaker 2: Oh you just had a hat fall behind you. Wow.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, we can't have that.
Speaker 2: Yeah on the left side.
Speaker 1: Oh there it is, Okay, I'll pick it up on
Speaker 1: the shows.
Speaker 2: Over So yeah, I mean, not as many conversations as
Speaker 2: we probably could and should with the adults.
Speaker 1: So, I mean, I get the idea of having an adult,
Speaker 1: you know, let the kid you know, have the session
Speaker 1: with you and the parent, thinking that it's about on
Speaker 1: the field stuff or whatever, you know, it's like mentoring,
Speaker 1: and that it's only part of the equation. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm trying. Have you ever thought about just saying, hey, okay,
Speaker 1: I need to have it. That's like, you're cool this week,
Speaker 1: I want to talk to your parents, or having separate
Speaker 1: and mentoring sessions, but not necessarily call it that I
Speaker 1: want to mentor a parent. No. I mean, but have
Speaker 1: you thought about having separate conversations just as a sides
Speaker 1: with parents or anything like that, just kind of pull
Speaker 1: them off and sit there and go, Okay, hey, here's
Speaker 1: what's going on. Here's what I think I'm seeing from you.
Speaker 1: Tell me if I'm wrong. Kind of a thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good show, John, because I don't think
Speaker 2: that we do that enough. I think every now and then,
Speaker 2: and it's usually only if it's something big or if
Speaker 2: the parent asks, you know, in an email or something, hey,
Speaker 2: what's going on? How's it going type thing? But we
Speaker 2: probably should honestly do it more often. You know. I
Speaker 2: guess it's a time factor and it's a we don't
Speaker 2: want to use up a session, you know that could
Speaker 2: be with the kid with the parent, but we need
Speaker 2: to figure that out. That's a good show because I
Speaker 2: do think that we could provide more information back to
Speaker 2: the parents so that they're getting it as well and
Speaker 2: can stay on top of some of the things that
Speaker 2: we we do at the airport. At the airport, I
Speaker 2: just was reading what Barbo, what we do in the sessions.
Speaker 1: You had sessions at the airport. I mean, well, but
Speaker 1: to your but to your point, and I wasn't even
Speaker 1: necessarily thinking like during session time in general, because there
Speaker 1: are parents and we've had these talks in the past,
Speaker 1: you and Greg and I have had these talks where
Speaker 1: the parent is adding to the issues and not contributing
Speaker 1: to the solutions. And that's kind of where I was like, well,
Speaker 1: how do you how do you pull a parent aside,
Speaker 1: be diplomatic about it and have them and have them
Speaker 1: understand Okay, I'm seeing this from the outside. I'd like
Speaker 1: for you to look at this from the inside and
Speaker 1: see if we to get other can help move everything
Speaker 1: forward into a positive and then try not to sound
Speaker 1: like a jerk about it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I did have one interaction with the family recently,
Speaker 2: and because the dad wrote an email saying like, oh,
Speaker 2: I sent you these videos and my son said, you
Speaker 2: guys didn't watch them. Well, the dad had prefaced it
Speaker 2: that the kid didn't play well. I watched some of
Speaker 2: the videos. The kid didn't play terrible, we didn't play great.
Speaker 2: So we talked about some of it a little bit,
Speaker 2: and I didn't feel like it was necessary to, like,
Speaker 2: you know, show them all the bad clips and you know,
Speaker 2: go from that, especially when we're dealing with confidence issues. Yeah,
Speaker 2: to which the dad wasn't thrilled about and let me
Speaker 2: know about it. So, yeah, I had a email exchange
Speaker 2: with him letting him know about, Hey, this is how
Speaker 2: I work and this is what I see, and you know,
Speaker 2: I didn't say, the kid was asking. The kid asked me, yeah,
Speaker 2: what video? What game were you talking about? And the
Speaker 2: mom from the background was like, the game you in?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 2: So wow, geez, poor kid. The kid laughed so well
Speaker 2: that obviously talked about it, and.
Speaker 1: That's a defense. I think that's a defense mechanism, or
Speaker 1: at least it was for me in the past when someone,
Speaker 1: you know, when your parent, yeah, jams on you a
Speaker 1: little bit, you laughed, you laugh it off as a
Speaker 1: bit of a defense mechanism. But that's got a sting man.
Speaker 2: So I definitely wasn't going to show the video after
Speaker 2: that and talk about it and kind of pound it in.
Speaker 2: So we talked about it, you know, just in general,
Speaker 2: when you're playing well, when you're not playing well, and
Speaker 2: things like that. So yeah, that's definitely a situation where
Speaker 2: it's like, Okay, you know, there's there's things going on
Speaker 2: here that you know, hopefully can change in the broader
Speaker 2: picture and not just with the athlete.
Speaker 1: Another couple of minutes there with Michael Parker is that MF.
Speaker 1: Parkers on the two hundred and eighty character app at
Speaker 1: BG mentoring Beyond Goals, Mintring and Beyond Goalsminnering dot Com
Speaker 1: where they're getting into video and they're doing all kinds
Speaker 1: of different things here as we get into twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to seeing how things can continue
Speaker 1: to evolve as how old is How old is BGM now? Three?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's over three? Yeah. Two. We started two and
Speaker 2: a half years, okay, two and a half years, and
Speaker 2: we got we got a brand new challenge coming out
Speaker 2: maybe today, maybe tomorrow, I don't even know. It might
Speaker 2: be today. So we were talking about, you know, goals
Speaker 2: for the new year and resolutions and things, and then
Speaker 2: that's hard seventy five thing became really popular online enough
Speaker 2: you're aware of it. But it's a challenge. Basically. We've
Speaker 2: got different categories and you know, within each category you
Speaker 2: need to like drink a certain amount of get a
Speaker 2: certain amount of you need to do Yeah, good luck
Speaker 2: on that. I'd fail work out for X amount of
Speaker 2: time whatever. So we're putting together one for youth athletes
Speaker 2: where it's like, okay, here are some different categories and
Speaker 2: here's some options within each category. So you make the
Speaker 2: challenge about you, right, do you drink zero water right now?
Speaker 2: And your goals to literally drink one glass of water
Speaker 2: each day? Or are you pretty good with hydration and
Speaker 2: you want to drink you know, half your body weight announces,
Speaker 2: which I guess is what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: So we've got different little categories and selections within each one,
Speaker 2: and it's just something to do for thirty days, so
Speaker 2: that we are setting a small little goal, a challenge
Speaker 2: each week that hey, can we do it? Can you
Speaker 2: do it together? And so something for them to hopefully
Speaker 2: challenge themselves with, push themselves a little bit and just
Speaker 2: get used to having a small goal that we feel like, Okay,
Speaker 2: we're getting better each week.
Speaker 1: So basically, what you're telling me is that I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to drink somewhere in the neighborhood of three leaders of
Speaker 1: water a day.
Speaker 2: That's what science says, John, not.
Speaker 1: Me, you know, just I mean, hey, just checking man.
Speaker 1: You just like half your body weight, you know, half
Speaker 1: your bodyweight announces. And so I'm sitting here going, okay,
Speaker 1: this morning, I wait in at this So that means damn,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of water.
Speaker 2: I know. That's what I think too, because I'm like, how.
Speaker 1: Many just grab just grab like the big two leader
Speaker 1: at the Wild wire or something and just bring it
Speaker 1: to the house. Uh, Bart, I think the reason that
Speaker 1: Cap wasn't at the airport last night is because he's
Speaker 1: in Columbus, Ohio. That might be a little counterintuitive unless
Speaker 1: you know it has a private jet, unless you're unless
Speaker 1: you're a PJ flyer and you can just hop into
Speaker 1: the airport. That'd be nice and hop on a PJ
Speaker 1: and come down to see somebody signing things at Hartsfield.
Speaker 1: So obviously, Uh, my guess is you were probably invited
Speaker 1: to the the housewarming party when they get settled here
Speaker 1: in town. I know that there's a thing at three
Speaker 1: o'clock this afternoon, and it's going to be in a
Speaker 1: press conference setting. Are you gonna PJ fly down for
Speaker 1: that at three o'clock? You're gonna welcoming back. We're in
Speaker 1: your jersey.
Speaker 2: No PJ in for me. The only PJ and I'm
Speaker 2: doing is.
Speaker 1: The clothing smart smart man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that starts early on a Friday around here, Parker
Speaker 2: sweatpant time and uh, you know on a Friday that's
Speaker 2: definitely around Actually, we're speaking to a high school Greg
Speaker 2: and I later today at three thirty. I think, so
Speaker 2: PJ time is going to start a little bit later.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well, as always, my friend, it's great
Speaker 1: to catch up with you, find out the latest about
Speaker 1: what's going on beyond goals mennering and the Friday free
Speaker 1: kick and the signing of some dude that you've got
Speaker 1: his jersey and you you but you kit leaked and
Speaker 1: you sign you got to you got him, got to
Speaker 1: get him to sign the jersey.
Speaker 2: Now I'm going to give it away soon.
Speaker 1: Oh, breaking news.
Speaker 2: I'm going to give that away here probably nice yeah,
Speaker 2: within the next week or two.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we'll figure that out. As always, my friend,
Speaker 1: great to see you, and uh, just be safe, have
Speaker 1: fun and enjoy the the the PPJ T Parker's PJ
Speaker 1: time after the minute later this afternoon. Be good, my friend.
Speaker 1: We'll see you soon a weekd