 I fell in love with the game of baseball when I found out that my dad played baseball you know and at that point I wanted to be just like my dad you know at that time I wanted to do what he did and you know I had just given up golf so at that time I wanted to be better than than he ever was and you know make it to the big leagues and and live out a dream that he wasn't able to do when it when he played I remember playing baseball my porch with my grandpa we were just playing catch and I remember anytime I dropped the ball he would say I'm on the bench so that's where I kind of came into the mentality of you touch it you catch it just because from a young age if I dropped a football if I dropped you know a basketball pass a baseball I was on the bench so I think I just was brought into that competitive nature and I fell in love with that well I'm lucky enough to grow up with the twin brother so I think being able to always have to play catch with somebody I would I would say when I was probably five or six that really really fell in love with the game first professional baseball game I went to was out in San Francisco I went with a buddy of mine who had his uh his grandparents had season tickets to Giants games and they asked me one weekend if I wanted to make the trip out there and you know I was I was a kid I had nothing to do I you know I did my homework I was ready to roll so I went out with my buddy Peter and we went and watched it caught a couple uh couple Giants games out in the Bay Area it was pretty fun it was actually when I was in I was living in Minnesota um and I I my parents caught a foul ball um from Hal McCray and my middle name's McCray so my mom thought it was like the coolest thing in the world I was only two or three years old but I still have that ball at my uh my parents house in my room um so I thought that was a cool experience