>> Mitch Harris: This is Mitch Harris, and you're listening to

Chasing Birdies.

>> Jonathan: We are in the full swing here in February on

Chasing Birdies. And you guys that just tuned in

today, we are appreciative of you joining us here

on this episode today. Pep. It's good to see you,

buddy. It really is.

>> RB: It's great to see you, my man. I am so happy to be

here with you.

>> Jonathan: Hanging your face hanging, as always. A little bit

of sarcasm, but it's always good, though.

>> RB: Well, I will tell you, we started the NFL season

losing, and we ended the NFL season losing, so we

sure.

>> Jonathan: Did, you know, nothing like finishing what you

start.

>> RB: Exactly.

>> Jonathan: And that's one positive to look at it, you know,

it wasn't pretty. It really wasn't pretty. In

fact, I could tell you the whole year on Saturdays

wasn't pretty. For me, it doesn't matter what was.

>> RB: Let's just put it this way. The year was not

pretty.

>> Jonathan: No, it was. It was not. Uh, and that was a. Let's

get into that super bowl talk. You know, you guys

probably watched the Super Bowl a couple of days

ago. You probably tuned into the halftime show and

probably liked it. And, uh, the outcome of the

game was. I don't know. It wasn't a surprise, was

it? It wasn't a surprise.

>> RB: I mean, the score.

>> Mitch Harris: Surprise.

>> RB: Leading into Saturday, I. That had Seattle in my

head. My son Parker told me Seattle. And then I

started having a little doubt Saturday. Then I

confirmed my doubt with you on Sunday, and, uh,

our doubts were confirmed. So we, um, went New

England and, uh.

>> Jonathan: Good.

>> RB: Not good.

>> Jonathan: But I'm happy for Seattle.

>> RB: Drake May just looked. I'll tell you what, that

Campbell, that offensive lineman was awful.

>> Jonathan: No, he was not good.

>> RB: He was not existent him all day long.

>> Jonathan: And I don't think. I mean, Drake May really didn't

have a great playoff run anyways. But I, uh, I

definitely probably should just bet Seattle money

line. I thought Seattle's gonna win. I didn't

think they were gonna win by more than. Than four

points. I thought it was gonna be a closer game.

So I like the points in that regard, but I'm happy

for all the Seattle backers, man. I'm happy for my

boy, Golden Tate, man. He's probably stoked right

now. He definitely is stoked right now.

>> RB: Yeah.

>> Jonathan: Um, for getting. Getting the dub at his old. His

old team, so. But it was just not a good super

bowl, man. It just wasn't.

>> RB: It was just the first half was. What was it? Nine

nothing.

>> Jonathan: Nine nothing. I mean, BCATs had a prop bet. First

touchdown score. I mean, it was alive until the

fourth quarter, boys. And then the first touchdown

was not his guy, so he lost.

>> RB: That was me, too. I took, um, Cooper cup, first

touchdown. And then I took, um, oh, shoot, the

running back, um, Henderson, Kenneth Walker

Henderson, Trayvon Henderson, um, and they were

both alive until about the fourth quarter, boys.

So, yeah, those, uh, didn't win. And then I took

Cooper cup to score a touchdown, and that didn't

win. And then, um, the Patriots didn't win.

>> Jonathan: And.

>> RB: And then the coin flip didn't win. And then, uh,

only bet I hit was JSN. Under 6 and a half

catches.

>> Jonathan: Yeah, I don't mess with the prop bets.

>> RB: It was just fun. I mean, it's just a little fun to

watch.

>> Jonathan: Did you get in on the coin flip?

>> RB: Well, when Bcat said tails, I should have said I

should have went the opposite way based on his 2

cents. All year long, anytime he texted us, we

lost.

>> Jonathan: So, yeah, you know, um, now what, uh, what. What

were your thoughts on the halftime show?

>> RB: I didn't watch it.

>> Jonathan: Did you watch the other one?

>> RB: And it was not. There was no political. No

nothing. I just did not watch it. I left the house

to go to our building to salt the driveway, which

is.

>> Jonathan: Which is valid.

>> RB: I did not watch it. I came back and I. I saw. I'll

tell you this much, I saw a lot more people like

it than hate it. Um, but I. I mean, if I knew

Spanish, that probably would have helped as well.

>> Jonathan: So, yeah, I mean, I. I didn't turn it off. I let

it roll. You know, I had all my TVs fired up. I

let it roll. And, um, you know, I think people

were tuning into the other halftime show as well

on their phones, but I let it roll. And mainly

because I don't want to mess with having to change

my TVs and all that jazz with it. But the

production was great. I mean, honest to God, the

production was really cool. I mean, the way they

did it, and I try to understand everyone's

perspective where they're coming from, man. And,

um, the coolest thing about that halftime show was

when he was running with the flags, and the first

flag he ran with was the American flag, and. And

he said, God bless America. And that's all I

needed to hear. I mean, I. I didn't. I didn't

know.

>> RB: Did you know he said that, or are you just reading

reports?

>> Jonathan: No, he said that. He said that. He said he said it

in English. I was able to hear that. That's the

only thing I was able to understand for the. The

whole duration of the damn halftime show. But,

yeah, um, really cool production on it. But, you

know, I think it's really about the NFL, man,

trying to encompass all.

>> RB: Well, yeah.

>> Jonathan: Countries now with the game, you know?

>> RB: Yeah, it's. It's. It's a global. Huge right now. I

mean, their games and their games in England and

Ireland. Um, so you can't hate that. Hate them for

trying to capture another sector audience.

>> Jonathan: Right, right, right.

>> RB: Yeah.

>> Jonathan: But, man, there are some people, especially those

on the far right, man, they just like, oh, it's.

It's a test. It's so bad. And it's like, I mean, I

get it, but that far, you just got to let it go,

dude. It's just entertainment. At the end of the

day, it doesn't have to be political. You don't

got to tie it in to be political.

>> RB: Um, yeah, not everything is political, and I'm,

uh. I'm over that. So. Yeah, the PGA Tour

finished. Um, I saw Ken Tackett was. Was the

referee and the shootout in the shootout and the

playoff back in.

>> Jonathan: The mix from West Virginia, man.

>> RB: Hideki hit a little pull hook the first time on

18. Then the playoff. A police officer dropped his

chair in his backswing. Did you see him stop that

swing?

>> Jonathan: Yeah, I did. I did.

>> RB: That hurts your wrist, bud. That really hurts your

wrist when you do that. And then he proceeded to

hit another pool hook, so.

>> Jonathan: God. Or I've got it done. I'm.

>> RB: I'm glad he made it so there was no questions

like, oh, uh, like he made.

>> Jonathan: Yeah, that, um, it was fun to watch the Waste

Management just because of the. The festivities

that go on with it and. But also mainly because of

the fact that seeing the sun like that on TV

really helps with your. What we call seasonal

depression.

>> RB: Yeah, it's great.

>> Jonathan: So nothing was better than that for the weekend.

Watching Waste Management, seeing the hearing the

boy Jim Nance back on the mics. And, uh, I tell

you who else was in the sunshine this weekend

playing top 20 it down in Columbia. Mason

Williams, man. Top 20 playing well, man. So big

shout out to Mace Dub, um, for getting it done. I

know Steve Piering's trying to get him to wear

some Ida Ka Mason. Politely denied, rejected. But,

um, we'll see. Steve's gonna keep working on it.

We're gonna see what happens with that. But, um,

yeah, so that's. That's what's cracking in the

talk to Childers last week. And, uh, we discussed

the new titleist drivers, which, you know, more

than likely I'm gonna. Gonna move into that. Well,

my mind's busted anyways. But did you see that

Koepka is using one of the old tailor made.

>> RB: Yeah.

>> Jonathan: Like M3s or M4s, whatever.

>> RB: Yeah. And he's using Nike 2 iron.

>> Jonathan: Yeah. What's that say? What is it? Is this

comfortability or just.

>> RB: I think it's a lot of it's to do with the numbers

and him being comfortable. I mean, why change if

it doesn't need to be changed?

>> Jonathan: And that's the other controversial topic between

these golfers right now is. Is this whole jazz of

this, these guys coming back, man. But, but I

mean, you know what? I just think the PGA Tour is

in a great spot. And to have more guys playing

like him, it does kind of suck for those that

didn't take the 200 million. Uh, I mean, that

sucks, but that would really kind of be sucky.

>> RB: Yeah.

>> Jonathan: Could you imagine?

>> Mitch Harris: Yeah.

>> Jonathan: You didn't want to go to live because you didn't

want to leave the PGA Tour because you loved it so

much. And then these guys got the freaking money

and they, you know, whatever, man. You gotta hang.

>> RB: Exactly. To each his own.

>> Jonathan: So our guest today on Chasing Birdies, Mitch

Harris. You know, Pep, you're like, we gotta get

Mitch on the podcast and yada, yada, yada. And I'm

like, I didn't. And I started researching this guy

and I'm like, damn. Like, you know, Navy Academy,

first professional baseball player to play in the

MLB since 1921. Didn't even. They didn't even know

how to, like, bridge the gap between his serving

duties and how he's gonna play in the, in the big

leagues.

>> RB: Yeah, that's, uh, pretty wild. My man was chasing

birdies and he didn't even know it.

>> Jonathan: What's one thing that you took away from this

interview? What's one thing that you like about

Mitch?

>> RB: I think that, that I really like is how humble he

is and how much he appreciates his upbringing and

what he went through to get to that point. It's

almost like each level was, was an achievement,

obviously for him. But I mean, it's not like, you

know, if I was drafted and I had to sit in the

military for four years, I'd be going nuts. Right.

Like, oh, my God, my dream. And it's just. He just

chipped away at it. You know, him throwing on the

flight deck is a really cool story.

>> Jonathan: Yeah.

>> RB: Um, he never gave up, so to speak. So I, I

appreciate that about Mitch.

>> Jonathan: Yeah, no, it was. It was a remarkable story,

hearing him chat and seeing his story kind of

unfold. And now giving talks, speeches on podcast.

Wrote a book, which I'll probably end up having to

get a copy of that, but I don't know, man. I just

think now is a good time to just kind of pivot

into that. Into that segment of the show. What do

you say?

>> RB: Let's roll it over to Mitch Harris right now on

Chase and Birdie's podcast.

>> Jonathan: There we go. All right, you guys tuning in today

here on Chasing Birdies, we got a really special

guest in, Mitch Harris joining us here on the

show, a former Navy lieutenant and major league

pitcher and just touching all kind of lives across

the world with his motivational speaking. So I'm

excited to hear what you got to say today, Mitch.

>> Mitch Harris: Yeah, man. Thanks for having me on Bash. Good to

see you guys. What's up? Yeah.

>> RB: What's going on? Yeah, it's good to see you. I

haven't seen you since, um, Sage Valley.

>> Mitch Harris: Was that October? Yeah, it's been a minute.

>> RB: It was about two years.

>> Mitch Harris: I think we need to tell people. We need to. At

least twice a year.

>> RB: Uh, I feel like Chris Collins. If we just make

that phone call, he'll be like, yeah, sure, come

on over.

>> Mitch Harris: Yeah, why don't you come?

>> RB: Yeah, yeah. So I noticed that you're from Ocala,

Florida.

>> Mitch Harris: Ocala, baby.

>> RB: So I. We used to play at a college golf tournament

at, um, El Diablo.

>> Jonathan: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

>> Mitch Harris: No, gala El Diablo. You got some. You got some OGs

over there.

>> RB: I have two funny stories from El Diablo.

>> Jonathan: That sounds like a taco.

>> RB: Yeah. Um, I was using the restroom in the

clubhouse, and some guy kept knocking on the door,

and I was going number two. And that's tough. He

kept knocking and kept knocking. He was being

impatient with me. And so, you know what I said?

Screw it. I left it in the toilet. And then the

second one was we had, um, our. At that time,

senior Sean Warren. We would go. We would always

rent cottages there on some, like, lake or

something. Um, and we were drinking. I think I was

19, he was obviously 20 or 21. And our coach went

to check the cottages, and there's booze all in

the freezer. Like, shocking. So he comes up and

he's like, boys, I need to talk to you. He's like,

who the hell's drinking? And Sean being. He was an

unbelievable golfer, but he was the captain. He

said, sorry, coach, I was all mine. And he was

like, all right, Sean, don't Let it happen again.

>> Mitch Harris: What a leader.

>> RB: He was like, see, boys? That was easy.

>> Mitch Harris: I love it.

>> Jonathan: Yeah, Pep's got a lot of stories in his arsenal

of, like, having to shit on a golf course. I mean,

this is the second one that comes to mind. I mean,

Mid Pines, number 15, him shitting in the middle

of the fairway, wiping his ass with the golf tail,

running back to hit the shot. And then naturally,

now this whole situation where he doesn't even

flush. That's good.

>> Mitch Harris: Yeah. I've only had a few of those. The worst,

those when you get to, like, the runs and there's

not, like, uh. You don't see the shed for, like,

three holes. You know what I'm saying?

>> RB: Yeah, that.

>> Mitch Harris: That's been the worst. And when the golf carts

have a governor and you got. You got nothing you

can do, you.

>> Jonathan: Know, you can't do anything.

>> RB: You're stuck. You got to back up for 25 yards.

>> Jonathan: Do you ever. Yeah, I'm sure you work out in some

way, but, um, I don't know if you run at all. Do

you ever run?

>> Mitch Harris: I am 260 pounds at 6 foot 4. This body ain't built

for running, brother.

>> Jonathan: Well, yeah. Okay. So you.

>> RB: Yeah, you're.

>> Jonathan: You're quite tall. Running.

>> Mitch Harris: Yeah.

>> Jonathan: Uh, has that same effect on you. And there's

actually something about it called, like, runner's

diarrhea. And you just kind of rolling through,

and next thing you know, your stomach gets hit

with it and you gotta. You can't do anything. You

gotta stop.

>> Mitch Harris: No. Yeah. No. You know what gets me is, like,

matter of fact, TMI M happened this morning. Went

to the gym. That pre workout.

>> Jonathan: Oh, yeah.

>> Mitch Harris: You know, I try to knock it out about 20, 15

minutes before I hit the gym. Just in case. No,

it's. It's, it's every time. You know, as soon as

I step foot in the gym, of course, to your point,

Jonathan, there's only one toilet. And so you walk

in and, like, every guy is, like, waiting on you,

and you're like, hey, what's up? Good morning.

Sorry about it, you know. Good to see you. Uh,

that gets me every time I go to the gym.

>> RB: Well, the worst, too, is when you're flying and

you. You're like, oh, man, I got a board in, like,

five minutes, and I gotta. I gotta go. And you

walk in, and it never fails. Every stall is taken.

Any other time I come in here and just use the

urinal. It's all.

>> Mitch Harris: They're all wide open. No one's there. No one's

there.

>> RB: So that was fun.

>> Mitch Harris: Eight hour flight. Just. Just curious. Asking for

a friend that may have a flight to Dubai. Yeah.

>> RB: I go, no, I can't.

>> Mitch Harris: I don't fit in the. I don't fit in the. In the

bathrooms on plane.

>> Jonathan: Oh, uh, yeah, man.

>> Mitch Harris: It ain't happening.

>> RB: It looks like a monkey banging a football probably

in there.

>> Mitch Harris: Oh, it's pretty bad. It's bad. Like, I. I

physically can't get back there, if you know what

I'm saying? Not happening.

>> Jonathan: I don't know. I definitely fit. I can tell you

that. I fit comfortably, but I don't worry you,

buddy. I don't. I. I definitely don't think I've

ever had to take a dump on the airplane. This is

gross.

>> Mitch Harris: Oh, I've had to. I just. I just postponed that

thing as much as possible.

>> Jonathan: But how could you postpone it?

>> Mitch Harris: Valid point. You know, I think. I think I'm more

nervous about what could happen in the bathroom.

>> Jonathan: Yeah.

>> Mitch Harris: Than. Than me. Just Absolutely. That you asked

about running. That's when I run. I run when I get

off the airplane as fast as I can to the bathroom.

>> RB: I. I can't.

>> Jonathan: So you guys met. Um, I'm casually changing the

topic here because I feel like me talking like

this. I'm gonna have to go to the bathroom. Yeah.

>> Mitch Harris: How much long we got? I'm just.

>> Jonathan: You. You guys. You and Pep met down at Sage

Valley, I take it.

>> Mitch Harris: Uh, yes.

>> Jonathan: What I understand. And m. Have. Did you know Neil

before that, or did you meet Neil down there too?

>> Mitch Harris: So I played against Neil, um, while he was in

Pittsburgh and I was in St. Louis. Didn't like

facing him. He obviously, he's pretty good. Um,

but yeah, me and Neil played against each other.

>> Jonathan: Okay, that's cool. So you had some history.

>> RB: Well, it's crazy because, uh, Rick Ankiel was

there too. Ex Cardinal teacher. And Neil. I didn't

know who Rick was like. And Neil was like, dude,

that's Rick Ankiel. Like, okay. He's like, no.

Like, you don't know his story? And I'm like, no.

So he tells me his story, and he's like. He's

like, now this is a scaled down basis. But he's

like, Shohei Otani before Ohtani came into the

league. He's like, this guy was drafted number

one. He was the pitcher everybody wanted, and he

got the yips. And he took two years off or a year

off from baseball and bulked up and became a pure

hitter. Um, and you look at Rick because we Rode

in the cab back to the airport together. I'm like,

yeah, dude, he's pretty mass, like, he's pretty

built.

>> Mitch Harris: So full transparency. That dude can still rake. He

goes, we got a Cardinal, uh, fantasy camp, which

is like a camp where former players come back,

fans can come play and whatnot. That dude still

hits absolute tanks. Now granted, it's off of 55

year olds throwing 60 miles an hour. But maybe

even more impressive because he has to put all the

power behind it and it's still impressive to

watch.

>> RB: Well, that's what they say, that it's actually

harder for these guys to hit slower pitches than

it is faster pitches.

>> Mitch Harris: Yeah, yeah. So you gotta, you gotta produce all

that power.

>> RB: Naval Academy, what was that experience like for

you? Did you, when you went to the, the Navy, were

you being recruited by a bunch of different other

schools or was Navy like, that's where I want to

go?

>> Mitch Harris: Yeah. So definitely, first of all, I didn't know

what naval academy was, so there's your answer.

But, um, I was in high school. I was your typical

solid athlete. You know, I think my coach

described it kind of well. He's like, dude, he's

kind of running the mill. He's going to be good

wherever you put him, but he's not going to just

stand out in any particular area. So long story

short, my senior year, um, our football team was

really good. We ended up winning state that, uh,

year. And, um, there was a guy that came down to

recruit at football practice. The head baseball

coach was the assistant football coach. So this

guy comes over to the foot to the baseball field

to get the head baseball coach who was the

assistant football coach and walk over to football

practice. Well, when he came to the baseball

field, this scrawny little kid was throwing a

bullpen and he's like, hey, who's this kid? You

know, they start talking, kind of says all the

things like, hey, good kid, good grades. You know,

wherever you put him, he's going to be able to

play. And this was the, uh, defensive coordinator

for the Navy football team. He made a phone call

to, uh, the baseball coaches and said, hey, I got

a kid here that, you know, y', all, y' all

probably need to just at least take a look at. Two

weeks later, I went on a visit. I loved it. And

then, uh, the first time they ever seen me play

was when I was a freshman in like, you know, the

spring before games started. That was the first

time the coaches ever saw me play. But back then,

you know, we didn't have, you Know, we didn't have

perfect game or PBR, that stuff. They just had to

go word of mouth. And, you know, I played in state

games and American Legion and all the stuff. And

so they just called around and asked coaches like,

hey, is this kid any good? And they were just kind

of same deal. Yeah. You know, play first, third

pitch, do all the stuff. He's not going to stand

on any particular area, but he'll be solid

wherever you put him. And then, you know, things

blossom while I was there.

>> RB: So when you commit to the Naval Academy, do they

basically tell you, hey, you're going to be

enlisted, or how does that whole thing work?

>> Mitch Harris: Yeah, so when you go to the academy, you have to

give four years. It's a normal college in that

it's four years of academics. And when you

graduate, you have to give five years of active

duty and you come out as an officer. And so, um,

not only do you take normal academics, like, you

know, normal classes, your, you know, chemistry,

English, you know, all the stuff, um, but you also

have to take military classes on top of that. And

so I laugh because, you know, talking to buddies

and whatnot of how, you know, interesting college

is the first couple of years and getting used to

studying and going to class and all the stuff.

And, you know, buddy's like, man, I'm having to

take like 15, 16, uh, you know, um, credits, and

things are getting, you know, tough having to play

baseball. My first year I had 24 credits and

played baseball in the spring. And so it was like,

there was a lot of adjustments because, you know,

in high school, you know, I was fortunate in high

school. As long as I paid attention and, you know,

did the homework, I got it. Yeah, I tried that

first year so that the academy didn't go so hot.

So I had to, like, learn how to study, um, as well

as figure out time management with everything

else, because you obviously got military

commitments, you got academic commitments, you got

baseball commitments, all this stuff. But, uh,

man, it was challenging, but I wouldn't have

changed it for the world. Man, it was awesome.

Funny saying of, like, terrible place to be. Great

place to be from when you.

>> RB: Go to the Naval Academy and, like, you go to

class, you know, I went to Marshall University,

played golf there and. And I wore sweatpants boys

to class. So, like, at the Naval Academy, did. Did

you have to wear your uniform? Like, what was

that?

>> Mitch Harris: Every day.

>> RB: Every day.

>> Mitch Harris: Every day you wore uniform. And it wasn't like, m,

I'm just going to throw this on. It was like you

had to Use. Every day you had a. You mustered up,

meaning you. You. You up in formation in the

morning, everybody goes down to eat breakfast

together. I mean, all 4,000 of you eat breakfast,

lunch, and dinner together.

>> RB: Wow.

>> Mitch Harris: Um, every day. So you'd form up information in the

morning, they'd make sure everybody's up,

everybody's ready to go. You get breakfast, head

to class, come back, eat lunch, go back to class

in the afternoon. Everybody does their afternoon

intramural sports stuff. It's required that you do

some type of activities, uh, in the afternoons,

um, if that's your sports or, uh, intramurals,

whatever that might be. And then everybody comes

back, um, at dinner time, uh, and eats. Eats

together, uh, all family style in King Hall. Uh,

really cool sight to see, but, uh, yeah, man,

it's. It's a very regimented, uh, uh, ordeal. And,

uh, every day you wear a uniform, and there you're

expected to kind of, you know, look the part.

>> RB: So many life lessons, though, for you. I mean,

even if you didn't play baseball, that's so

valuable to your future. Oh, yeah, yeah.

>> Mitch Harris: I mean, there was a ton of. I mean, your freshman

year, you know, you're called a plebe for a

reason. Uh, you're given a number. Mine was, uh,

082850. Uh, and I'll never forget it because, you

know, you were a number your freshman year. You're

not a person. You're a number. You're a plebe. You

got to earn your way through, uh, into the

academy, essentially.

>> RB: So would they approach you with 02885?

>> Mitch Harris: They just call you Harris, and then they would

just tell you to hit a bulkhead. What that meant

was you. You literally walk over to the wall,

pound your fist on the wall. You would say your

number, you know, and then turn around, and then

you just stand at attention against the wall.

That's. That's kind of how you. You mustered up in

the morning as.

>> RB: A. Sprinkling in with my son.

>> Mitch Harris: You know, I think it works. Um, you know, here we

try to do that, and I make them chop in the

hallway. I'm just kidding.

>> Jonathan: They want to know what to do now. Man, these kids.

Um, no, I. I had a buddy, a really good friend in

high school, and. And we still keep in touch. Um,

and he was kind of a little bit of a knucklehead

in high school, but he was smart, and he was very

good at baseball, and he played at vmi. Yeah. And

I remember when he first went there, he explained

to me the, uh, the requirements and the discipline

that was needed in order to comply with

everything. I mean, he had a shave every day.

>> Mitch Harris: Yep.

>> Jonathan: And wear the uniforms. And, uh, he had a good

baseball career. He got drafted by. By the A's,

and then kind of played around in their minor

systems, what have you, and then fizzled out and

now is very successful in Scottsdale. But, you

know, it's kind of funny to see how that cook

shape of his life with all that discipline and how

that carried over, as Pep said, into, uh, in the

real world.

>> Mitch Harris: Yeah. I mean, there's. There's. There's small

things. Like, every day you had to make your bed,

you know, and it wasn't just like, hey, your bed's

made. It was like, hey, you got 12 inches of sheet

showing. You had 6 inches of turn down. And then

the COVID sheet had these, like, pinstripe type,

uh, in the, uh, in the. In the fabric. And those

had to be straight on the bed. Like, the corner

had to have a line on it. And so they would come

in and measure that. They'd come in, quite

frankly, during your pleb year, and they would

just tear it out. Now you need to redo it. M. They

would come in and do inspections with a white

glove, take it over your window seal. Um, by the

way, that's impossible not to get some dirt on a

white glove on a window seal, even though you knew

it was coming. But they would do that. They had a

fun thing that they would say is, oh, a tornado

hit your room. And they literally would take stuff

off your bed, your shelves, and just throw it in

the floor and be like, you probably need to clean

your room so it's a mess. So you'd have to go back

and do that. Um, they have belay races of, uh, how

quickly you could change clothes from your PT

Clothes to your uniform. It was a constant just,

uh, mind game. They could go do rack races where

it was basically, hey, take your rack, meaning

your sheets, put them all in your pillowcase. You

come out, hit a bulkhead, and then you stand out

with your sheets just with your arms straight out.

And I don't know if you've done that, uh, uh,

ever, but I've done.

>> RB: It with the beer.

>> Mitch Harris: Yeah. Well, hold it out there for 30 seconds, and

it gets pretty heavy. You do that with some

pillowcases. It sucks. And then they said, okay,

well, how you go back and make yours, you got five

minutes. So it was just constant mind games that

they just want to put you through. Uh, of just

kind of. They want to see who was mentally tough.

Um, but it was attention to detail stuff that you

think about later. Like, for instance, we had to

have, um, a little water bottle or canteen that we

kept on the back of our. Our little belt. And, um,

if it was loose, every now and then they come

around and check and kind of tap on it. Well, if.

If they hit it off and it went and hit the floor,

it just was a thing that you did is. Is you would

yell grenade, and everybody would just go and jump

on. It was kind of a funny thing that we did. But

looking back on, I realized, like, that wasn't

joking. That was actually legit preparing for what

we could potentially see down the road. And you

think about some of these guys that. Friends of

mine that I know who've done some really

incredible things, um, you wonder if some of

that's just instinctive to the way that they came

through, not only their upbringing and life, but

through things they did at the academy. Just kind

of second nature, um, to, you know, look out for

your classmates, your teammates.

>> Jonathan: Yeah, that's. That's incredible, man. And. And

hats off to you, man. Thank you for. I. I don't

know in what capacity you served, but obviously

being through that and representing our country

and going through the Naval Academy and putting

yourself on the line, man. You know, I think it

goes without saying to express that gratitude.

>> Mitch Harris: I appreciate it. You know, I tell people all the

time, it's like, I was fortunate that I didn't

see, you know, any combat. You know, I drove ships

for a living, so to speak, and, uh, um, you know,

taxied around Marines and, you know, on four

deployments in three years, got to see the world

30 countries before I was 26, um, and got to see a

lot of things. But it was. It was the leadership

things that I saw that impacted me and that I got

to do. It was the men that I got to lead, um, that

impacted me. Um, you know, and again, there's

times where I wish I could have seen that and been

able to participate in some of the, quote,

unquote, tougher things that some of my buddies

have been able to do. Because you kind of have

that, um, I don't want to say guilt, but you have

that. Like, I want to say that I was part of that,

too, because, you know, you hear some of your

buddies that, quite frankly, are still struggling

from the things that they went through and they

suffered through, and you want to be able to

relate to kind of help, um, but you can't unless

you've been there and done it. And so you have

that feeling sometimes of, man, I wish I could

have been there with you or been a part of it just

to kind of help say that I know what you're going

through. Um, but at the end of the day, we all had

our roles. We all had our reasons for what we were

doing. And so each one of those was vitally

important. Um, but my heart goes out to the guys

who really had to go through some really difficult

things and see some things that none of us really

want to see. Um, and those are the guys that are

my heroes and the guys that I look up to that come

back and just get right back to the real world.

Quite frankly, I don't know how they do it.

>> RB: It's wild.

>> Jonathan: It is.

>> RB: You and, uh, David Robinson were the two athletes

that. You tell me how it's properly worded. But,

um, you got drafted to delay it, I guess, would

you say?

>> Mitch Harris: Yeah, so, um, deployment, basically. Yeah, so. So

I got drafted my junior year by the Braves, which

kind of helped because it. It put us on the map to

kind of start a conversation of, all right, you

know, navy, Department of Defense, what do we do

here? Um, because there hadn't been anything that

had happened in a while. So, um, come senior year,

when the Cardinals drafted me, um, they said, hey,

we're going to put you on our military reserve

list so that we own your rights, and then just let

us know what you kind of figure out. And so at the

time, they had what they call an early release

policy, uh, for the Navy, in that you could do two

years of active duty and then extend your reserve

time. So instead of doing five years of active

duty, you would do two years of active duty and

then maybe five years of reserve time, which is

typically, like, throughout the year, you have to,

you know, do some service, do some commitment and

whatnot. Well, during all that, in 2008, 2009, uh,

we were right in the middle of a war. And so the

Navy and Department of Defense basically said,

hey, we're going to put pause on this and not let

people out, particularly the Navy said that, um,

the Department of Defense kind of said, hey, each

department kind of do their own thing. And, um, so

I would send in. I would send in, um, uh,

paperwork to apply for that early release. Um, and

I talk about that in the book, but there's three

or four times that I did that, um, unfortunately

got denied each time. And so I ended up doing all

five years, four years, eight months, eight days.

But who was counting? And then called The

Cardinals, uh, showed up to spring training and

uh, had uh, to laugh and grunt through 82, 83, uh,

to finally get back to what muscle, uh, memory,

um, was in there. And uh, fortunately enough, you

know, two years later was able to get to the big

leagues.

>> RB: So was there ever a time mentally, during that

time that you get drafted? The Navy says basically

we're putting a halt on that. Was there a time

mentally you're like, man, my dream is just, it's

gone. Or were you so focused on the Naval Academy

that it, it didn't even phase you?

>> Mitch Harris: Yeah, I mean, so while I was at the academy, you

know, I think it was tough because it was so

uncertain as to like, I don't know, but I just got

to focus on graduating, you know, just, just get

through to the academy. We'll figure it out after.

Once I got into the Navy, then it was, you know, I

think initially I had this hope because I knew

what the process was and so I was like, all right,

well if I just do the process, you know, here's

what I, uh, here's what I'll be able to do. I

think that made it harder because that process

wasn't successful. Um, and so it took longer to

get to play baseball than I would have liked. But

um, it made me who I am. You know, it allowed me

to develop into the leader I am, the officer that

I became. Um, and what was really neat was I

always talk to our guys. My first ship I was the

weapons officer. Um, my second ship I was the uh,

training officer. So anybody that was in my

division, I always talk to them about what's their

plan, meaning, hey, if you're in the military,

you're there for a couple reasons. One, it was

kind of your last ditch. You've either gotten in

some trouble and you're going to have to go do

something, uh, to kind of get out of the situation

you were in. Uh, you're looking for higher

education, you're just looking to have a military

career. Um, but I wanted to know what those guys

plans were because I wanted to help, you know, as

their leader. I felt like, hey, if I'm going to,

going to be their division officer or whatever, I

want to help those guys get to whatever they're

trying to achieve. And I'll never forget it. Uh,

one of the guys, uh, um, my um, first ship, after

I was a weapons officer, I became the combat

information center officer. That's the guy that in

the movies it's the dark room that has the lit up

screens and all that stuff is that. And one of the

guys, it probably two, three o' clock in the

morning. We have all kinds of, uh, you can only

imagine the types of conversations we have at that

time. But, um, he flipped it on me and he said,

you know, Mr. H, what's your plan? And I was like,

good, uh, question. I don't know, you know, and it

was really cool to kind of see, like, all right,

I've been pushing these guys to have a plan for

whatever they're wanting to achieve. And man, he

flipped it on me and was like, hey, we know your

story. We know that you play baseball. What's your

plan? And uh, from that moment on, uh, my guys

were my motivation. The people I served were my

motivation. And we threw on the flight deck. I

found out that there was a cook on board who, uh,

was from Dominican. And so, uh, I went and talked

to him. I was like, hey, uh, you know, if my dad

sends out some baseballs, would you, you know, can

you throw like you want? Would you want to go

throw on the flight deck? And he's like, come, I'm

from Dominican. And I was like, okay, valid point.

Yep. Uh, so we're good. So we go out there on the

flight deck in between flight ops. But that's what

changed it for me, was like, all right, if I'm

going to push these guys, I'm going to go where

I'm speaking, uh, into them. I'm going to do what

I say, uh, that they need to do and have a plan

and shoot for this goal and uh, special.

>> RB: So then the St. Louis Cardinals come calling.

>> Mitch Harris: Well, actually I called them because with the fact

that we were five years in and still had no plan,

uh, as to how this was going to work, um, I had

done my five years of service, um, essentially,

uh, my last, uh, package that I sent to the Navy

to say, look, I'm 27 years old, I've done four

years, eight months. I need to go to spring

training. At minimum, I'm getting out in, uh, the

early summer of 13. If I could get down to spring

training now, um, that would be huge. I mean

there's not many 27 year old rookies in the big

leagues. So, um, they allowed me to get out of

the, of my commitment about three months early.

Um, and so in January of 2013, I moved everything

I had, Virginia beach down to Florida. Um, you

know, obviously the Cardinals are there in

Jupiter. Buddy of my family lived in Boca. I moved

into their house. They were super kind and allowed

me to have A room at their house. And I would

drive up to Jupiter, uh, every day, which is about

a 45 minute drive workout, throw, do all the

stuff, drive back to their house and repeat every

day, um, during that spring training just to, just

to try to get back into, you know, that, that, you

know, shape that I was in. And the Cardinals put

me through everything. I mean we went through long

toss programs, we went through yoga programs, hot

yoga. We did everything you could think of to try

to figure out how to get that muscle memory back.

And man, we were just fortunate that, you know,

the first year they sent me to short, uh, season

and typically that's your high school college

guys. Um, the manager was, was Ollie Marmo, who is

the, the manager still to this day at the big

league club. He was my first manager. He was 26, I

was 27.

>> Jonathan: Wow.

>> Mitch Harris: Our, uh, first round draft pick, Carson Kelly, had

just turned 18. So it was, it was an 18 year old

and then the manager's office who's 26 and then my

locker who's 27. So we had an interesting year the

first year, but we had a blast. Um, you know, and

just trying to get my feet back on me, trying to

figure out how do you, how do you pitch? Having

not thrown competitively in five years. And um, I

told myself, just learn baseball, have fun again.

And so I had to relearn how to pitch at 88, 89,

um, end up having a good year. Um, and then

fortunately over the next year or so, moved up

pretty quick in 2014. Started, um, out in high A,

moved to double A about halfway through the

season. Unbeknownst to me, I, uh, knew this after

the fact because they told me about halfway

through the season in 14, they sent me to AA

essentially to release me. And um, I get up there

and the, uh, pitching coach was Randy Neiman,

former pitcher for the Mets. And we were out

throwing a bullpen and uh, man, things clicked.

Uh, everything just was flowing, everything felt

good. Balls coming out easy. It was one of those

bullpens where I didn't say anything, he didn't

say anything. Catcher didn't say anything. It was

just, everything was just right there. And um, you

know, and we get done and he goes in and tells the

skipper, hey, you got to get him in the game

tonight. And uh, the rest is history. Ended up

throwing a really good second, uh, half of the

year. By the end of that season, guys, uh, getting

called up from AAA in September, I went and filled

the spots in AAA. So by 2014, I finished the

season in AAA and then went to big league spring

training in 15. And the rest is. Rest is history.

>> RB: So is. Was Ankyo on your team then?

>> Mitch Harris: I wish. No, he was before me. I, um, would love to

have seen that live. Um, but no, I just missed

him.

>> Jonathan: Did. Has anyone ever brought up the fact that your

name rhymes with pitch?

>> Mitch Harris: Yeah, a couple of times.

>> Jonathan: Uh, that's pretty cool. So you got this book, My

Private War, and I'm not trying to sway away from

your career in the M. MLB's, but I think this all

ties it together a little bit. But through your

career in baseball and what you went through in

the Navy, what was the driving factor between you

coming up with this title of the book, My Private

War? Relentlessly, relentlessly chasing a dream.

Um, what kind of was the motivation behind that?

>> Mitch Harris: The motivation is. And was the fact that we're now

living in a world where we see only the

positiveness, only the, um. I hate to say fake,

but the fakeness of what is social media. And I

think too often people live through what. What

they see, either in person, online, and they just

feel like, man, if I just had it, like that

person, or man, if I could just do this, or, man,

if I could just do that. And so for me, it was a

punch in the gut to realize, like, because I was

kind of living that too. Like, man, I've got this

going for me and this. And. But I was so broken

and, um, just beat up inside. And man, uh, truly,

I just felt like God was kind of saying, like,

man, you got a cool story. You could really use it

to impact people. Um, and, you know, the longer

story is, you know, some people asked about doing

film, and I wanted to tell the story from my

perspective. And so I told, um, you know, the

literary attorney that I was working with that I

wanted to find a writer that understood that my

goal here was to make an impact on a life. Uh, as

long as I impacted one life, the book's worth it.

And so I wanted to tell people that, quite

frankly, life's not fair and life isn't easy, but

if you set your own goals and you strive to

achieve the things you want to achieve, you can do

anything you want. And I think I'll never forget I

met with a guy one time, kind of counseling me

through some things that I had gone through. And

he just simply laid it out there. He's like,

Mitch, I think your whole life people have said to

you that things are impossible. But you as well as

I know that that's just not true. The definition

of impossible means it can't be done, and you've

proven them wrong over and over and over again. I

think it's cool that you can speak to the fact

that things aren't necessarily impossible, but

they might be improbable. And if people could

understand the massive difference in those two

things, man, the things that people could achieve

are endless. Because I think too many times we

allow others to set our bars for us as opposed to

saying, you know what? You don't know what I have

inside of me. You don't know what I've gone

through, and I can overcome this, and I have more

strength than you're allowing me to have. Um, and

so I think that's my challenge in the book is

like, man, I messed up. I did a lot of things I

wish I didn't do. Um, I don't like to say that I

have regrets because, again, those things I

learned from, and it made me who I am. Um, and I

think that's the thing that I wanted people to get

out of the books. Like, man, he got to get through

this. He had to get through this rut, man, the

things he was able to achieve. Post that. Um, if

he can do that, then I can do xyz, right? I can

do. You fill in the blank. And so for me, that's

what it's about, man. If someone picks up the book

and they're inspired to go achieve things that

they maybe set up that they thought they couldn't

achieve, that's what it's all about for me.

>> Jonathan: That's powerful. And that's certainly the world

we're in right now with that, with social media,

because people do. I mean, it happened. Look at

the depression rates for the teens and suicide

rates, all that jazz. I mean, it's terrible. But

that book called the Gap in the Gain, it's a

really powerful little book. And what it talks

about is you individually measuring your success,

where you are now from where you started. Measure

it backwards, because everyone's always looking

ahead at someone else and saying, like you just

said, if I had that, blah, blah, blah. But when

you start framing it under the perspective of

where am I now? And where did I start? And that

really speaks volumes as to how you can kind of

wrap your head around this whole world now,

essentially, and keeping you afloat.

>> Mitch Harris: Yeah. I mean, and I think the. The thing for me,

too, is like, uh. And I steal this from John

Maxwell. He spoke to us. Training one year is. Is.

It's. It's one of those Things where, like,

success is great, don't get me wrong, but success

is a me thing and an impact and, and, uh, uh,

achieving things and motivating other. Other

people is a we thing. And so I always try to

challenge people. Like, man, like, having success

is great, don't get me wrong. But if you, if you

have success and it's just for you, what have you

done? Like, what's the purpose? Right? I think

about it all the time when I talk to people who

are, you know, struggling through something. I

can't do this, I can't do that. I'm trying to

achieve this. And I always go back to like, what's

the why? What's in your gut? What are you trying

to do? And my thing is always trying to challenge

people. Like, man, if you're trying to do that,

figure out how it's going to make an impact. If

it's going to impact you and your family, great.

That's a we thing, right? If it's going to impact

you and your friends, great. That's a we thing. If

you're impacting other people, great. That's a we

thing. But if it's just about, man, if I can

achieve this and get my name on that, that's a me

thing. What does that do when you're gone?

Somebody's going to forget you at some point. But

if you make a lasting impact on other people,

that's when you've left a legacy.

>> Jonathan: That's exactly right. I mean, and that's when you

have or, uh, you're involved in the team

component. You can't have that bit of selfishness,

you know, and as a leader specifically, you gotta

be able to kind of hit home on that we and build

everyone up and really see how you can make

everyone achieve better results collectively as

opposed to just what's in it for yourself? Um, my

real estate company.

>> Mitch Harris: Yeah. I mean, it's. Don't get me wrong, it's

tough. I mean, when you're. Especially as a

pitcher, I mean, it's you out there staying on the

mound, you know, and all you think about is like,

all right, what. What do I need to do here? And it

is A. It's 100, uh, uh, a me thing in that moment.

But at the end of the day, like, I gotta do a job,

right? And so I'm thankful that I was able to come

back as a reliever because you. You feel that even

more, you know, because you're coming in after the

starter, you're coming in to help out the

situation. For the overall team. So for me, it was

really cool to kind of see that second

perspective. I got to the big leagues as a

reliever to see like, okay, I got to come in and

just do my job, um, for the betterment of the

team, you know? Um, so, yeah, it's a mindset.

Change that, man. It definitely hit me while I was

in the military to really get an understanding and

a over that.

>> Jonathan: Yeah, that's awesome. So you kind of taken your

career and your experience in the navy and have

used it to try and help other people, which is the

bottom line, is what I'm gathering.

>> Mitch Harris: Yeah, I mean, and my thing is like, this isn't

what I set out to do. I mean, full transparency.

It, uh, wasn't like five, six years ago. I'm like,

I'm going to do this and then I'm going to go

speak, you know, like, that was not. It was by far

the last thing that I was like thinking. Right.

But I think what happened was. And hopefully when

people get into the book, they see like, there was

a lot of things that, uh, I didn't want to have

happen, you know, but like, what I realized is

because of what had happened and I didn't use the

people around me like I probably could have and

should have to kind of help get me out of some of

those situations, it made me want to realize like,

man, I wish that feeling or that that time in my

life on anybody. And we all go through crap. You

know what I mean? We all go through life. Life is

hard sometimes. So my thing was, man, if I can

just help that one person that's going through

just a small little rut, right? It could be

something as simple as, like, man, we're just. Me

and my wife are just on the same page and, you

know, it's just a little friction. We're just

trying to get through it, right? 2 Man, I've

really messed up. I've got some life changing

things that I'm going through and I don't see how

I'm going to get out of. Doesn't matter what

you're facing. It's a matter of just like, hey,

from a perspective of, okay, how can I utilize

this? Get through it and use it to better me.

That's what I want to try to help people. Like,

man, we're all going to mess up. We're all going

to go through some stuff, but at the end of the

day, use it for good. Don't let it bring you down

and just sulk in the moment. Use it for something

that's going to help you, lift you up and help

other people.

>> Jonathan: Yep, that is perfect. I love that.

>> Mitch Harris: Yeah, I was talking to someone yesterday, he's

like, again, military thing of like, you know, if

you're gonna go, if you're gonna go fight. And

this guy walks in, his uniform is just perfect. I

mean it's just like to the tee, shiny, just. I

mean everything looks just brand new. I mean,

sharp looking dude. And then another guy walks in

and he is just torn, battered, bruised, just, just

rough looking. Who are you gonna go to battle

with? You know what I mean? Like, you're gonna go

to battle with the, the guy who's just, who's been

there. The guy who's gone through it and is still

standing in the room. That's the guy I want. But

too often you got someone on your computer saying,

hey, look at me. This is how I've done it. Like,

nah, man, be real. Like, yeah, we've all gone

through stuff. Like, let me tell you, like, I

always, always reference it this way sometimes

when I speak. Like, as men, we all have scars.

Literally. Like, I've got scars all over from just

being a boy. You know what I mean? And it's like

you, at the end of the day, like, we love to tell

how tough we are because of our scars, but as soon

as I say, how'd you get that scar? When it comes

to an emotional standpoint, we're like, oh, uh,

well, you know, I don't want to talk about it. As

opposed to man, you know what? I went through some

stuff and it was tough and it was bad and

sometimes, you know what, it doesn't look good on

me personally, but I want to tell you that because

a scar is actually showing in proof of healing.

And I want to tell you this because you can get

through that too. And you can have healing from

that too. So I think that's the thing that again,

the overarching theme here is like, man, be

vulnerable, stop being this fake men. I think. And

um, I say that specifically because that's just

kind of how I felt it years ago. If we can just be

real vulnerable men and actually have some emotion

because it's okay to do that. We're going to help

more men get, uh, through some things and be

actual men as opposed to some of this fake stuff

that I think we see, uh, nowadays.

>> RB: Yeah, you are 1000% I agree.

>> Jonathan: So you're speaking. I mean, look, your story is

incredible. I, I've read about you online, you

know, talked with Pep about you. He had great

things to say about you. And naturally, you know,

anytime Pep's got a guest coming on that, I have

no idea who is. He's pretty good at vetting

people, so I kind of just go with him. I'm like,

that's cool, let's do it. But, you know, it looks

like you get. You get some engaged speaking

engagements going on a little bit, and it sounds

as if this is just a microcosm of what you preach

or what you talk about. I feel like you probably

do touch a lot of people's lives.

>> Mitch Harris: That's what I hope. You know, I think I was

telling someone the other day, I get this question

at least once a month, man, hey, how's book sales

going? How's this going? I'm like, man, I'll be

honest with you. Uh, I don't know. I think they're

going fine. As a self publisher, you kind of got

to just do all that stuff on your own. But I'll be

just quite frank, man. I've gotten some texts and

phone calls, uh, from people that I wasn't

expecting, um, that have told me stories that I

didn't know and the impact that the book had on

them. Um, I don't have to sell another book

because I know that it impacted that person, uh,

in such a way that it challenged them to kind of

get out of a spot that they were in. And like I

said, that was the goal. My goal was to make an

impact. I don't know if that's life changing, but.

But I hope it is, you know, and I hope that's.

That's what's happened. So for me, that's. That's

it, man. It's as simple as that. I mean, I love

speaking because at the end of the day, man, like,

I enjoy being vulnerable. I enjoy, uh, being just

blunt with people and real people that, man, like,

you can do anything you want. I mean, look, I'm

from a small town, North Carolina, that went to

the Naval Academy and went to the big leagues. I

never thought any, either one of those things

could happen. But I got told over and over again,

like, nah, that's impossible. And quite frankly, I

like proving people wrong. So I just like to show

that it's not impossible. It's just improbable.

And so I just want to make sure people understand

that so they can achieve the things that they want

to do.

>> RB: Yeah, it's incredible what you've done and you've

gone through. It's. It's truly a cool Story.

>> Mitch Harris: I, uh, appreciate it.

>> Jonathan: I mean, but the best part about.

>> RB: It is, and I found you at Sage Valley Boys, so.

>> Jonathan: That's a great question, Mitch. What's your

mindset after you miss that two footer that you

know, you shouldn't have missed?

>> Mitch Harris: Uh, well, on the course, because I am, uh, the

ultimate competitor. I hate losing. Uh, I don't

throw the club. It's a win. You know, I'll tap it

in and go to the next next one. Uh, and probably

absolutely, uh, duck, hook a drive to the left,

because I'll just try to absolutely murder the

drive. Uh, but at the end of the day, man, it's

just like when I looked at it when I was pitching,

it's like, man, this is just a game, uh, and we're

enjoying life out here on the course or on the

field or whatever, because it literally put things

in perspective of like, man, I remember when we

were going through the straight Hormuz over off

the coast of Iraq, Iran, and all those areas that

could get a little bit hairy. And, you know,

there's times when, when things got a little

unnerving and, and you realize, like, that's not a

game. You know, what we were doing over there and

what my buddies were doing. That's not a game.

Yeah, that's, that's real life. That's, that's,

that's the real stuff. And the, the fact that I

was fortunate to, uh, to play a game for a living,

um, I didn't take that for granted. And, and, and

you know, when I get to go out there and play,

play golf and have a good time and I just, I just,

I just love being around the boys. And so that,

that was the fun part for me. But hey, that

doesn't mean I'm not competitive and I want to be

whoever I'm playing against and, and talk while

doing it.

>> RB: You know what, though, if you really think about

it, you know, being a pitcher in golf are kind of

similar in the sense of if you throw a bad pitch,

you gotta quickly forget about it. You gotta, uh,

quickly forget about it or it's gonna affect the

next pitch, the next pitch or the next shot. So

there are some similarities there, except.

>> Mitch Harris: I was way better at, uh, making a good next pitch,

whereas I'm not near as good as hitting that next

best shot. Uh, my best club. I think it's my foot

wedge. But hey, we'll get there.

>> Jonathan: Yeah, we got some people like that. We're like,

wait a second, you weren't over.

>> Mitch Harris: I swear that was in A rough.

>> Jonathan: But wait, you were blocked out? No. What?

>> RB: Well, I know, I know your time's limited because

your son has some baseball tryouts today.

>> Mitch Harris: Let's go, baby. Starting up today.

>> Jonathan: Here we go.

>> RB: Fired up. So we did want to roll into our last

segment of the show, brought to you by Betonardi

Golf the tap in segment four. Quick questions and

demand, uh, your quick response.

>> Mitch Harris: All right, ready?

>> RB: Least favorite batter that you've ever faced.

>> Mitch Harris: Miguel Cabrera.

>> RB: And I was gonna say, don't say Neil Walker, just

cause.

>> Mitch Harris: Definitely Miguel Cabrera. That was, uh.

>> RB: He hit one.

>> Mitch Harris: He was insane. He was, he was, he was incredible.

He hit an absolute bomb off of m. Me. Uh, I may

have raised my glove up to catch it and it went

over the centerfield fence. I mean, just absolute

line. Yeah. Yep, he was pretty good.

>> RB: What advice would you give younger Mitch if you

could talk to him?

>> Mitch Harris: Mhm. I think I would go back and enforce the fact

that nobody can tell you what you're capable of.

I, um, think that that set in some doubt as I got

a little older, going through some relationships

and things. Things that I did and some things that

failed. Um, I would go back and say, man, you were

designed specifically the way you are for a reason

and for a purpose. And never forget the fact that

you're perfectly designed exactly how you are now.

Just live up to that.

>> Jonathan: I like that.

>> RB: All. Uh, right. Dream Force. And they can be dead

or alive.

>> Mitch Harris: Oh, well, I mean, I gotta play with Tiger. I

would. I think I would enjoy playing with, uh,

with, uh, with Jordan just to see that. I mean,

that I've heard about like him on a golf course. I

think I would love to see that, though I would

probably come back broke.

>> RB: Yeah.

>> Mitch Harris: Um, and then the fourth would be. I don't know. I

think, I think I would like to. I think the og. I

think I would. I think I would have to see Jack.

>> RB: Yeah.

>> Mitch Harris: Tiger.

>> Jonathan: Oh, that's.

>> Mitch Harris: I think that would be. Yeah. I mean, I. I would

embarrass myself, but I would have an absolute

blast.

>> RB: Yeah.

>> Jonathan: Uh, talk about hitting duck hooks off the first

team.

>> Mitch Harris: That for sure. And just pray that it got to the

ladies.

>> RB: Last question. What are you chasing?

>> Mitch Harris: Oh, man. Uh, the. The next improbable thing that I

hear people say.

>> RB: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Jonathan: Here we go.

>> RB: I love it.

>> Jonathan: Yeah. That was great, Mitch. Man, you got me. You

got me pumped up here, dude. I mean, I'm

miserable.

>> Mitch Harris: That's what it's about. And I love it. It's like,

man, I'll be honest with you, like uh, you know,

we talked about it earlier, like, this 10 years

ago. Like, I didn't have this mindset, you know?

Like, I think, yeah, I think we go through things

in life for a reason. Um, I think it's how we see

it and how we perceive it that that determines how

you move forward from it. And I think sometimes

people are like, oh, this is just my life. Here's.

This is just it. As opposed to, like, man, use

that for good, you know? And. And so for me, I

went through some crap, and it sucked. Um, I also

went through some really highs. And so for me, um,

I just want to use the things I've gone through to

hopefully, you know, make an impact and leave a

legacy. That's. That's all I'm striving to do,

man.

>> Jonathan: I love to see that, man. And we need more of that

in the world, man. So I appreciate you, uh, coming

on here and talking to us, sharing your story.

>> Mitch Harris: Thanks for having me, man. It's been a blank

class.

>> Jonathan: We'll get you on the golf course soon. Yes, sir,

we'll do that. Thanks again.

>> RB: Man. Oh, man. Mitch Harris met the. Met the guy

down at Sage Valley. I feel like Sage Valley just

is like, you just meet people, right?

>> Jonathan: Yeah, it is. It's a little. It's a little area of

good people.

>> RB: Yeah, good people.

>> Jonathan: Collins family. World class.

>> RB: Uh, M. Mitch, thank you so much for coming on the

podcast. It was a great story. I'm glad that you

got to tell your story to our. Our listeners,

because it is truly a special one. And, um, thank

you again for serving our country. We greatly

appreciate it. And, um, you know, hope to see you

on the course soon, everybody.

>> Jonathan: I'll tell you, man, it's like every time we have a

guest on, we. We say we got to try to play some

golf. And really doesn't happen too often. I mean,

we're still waiting to play with people from three

years ago.

>> RB: Right.

>> Jonathan: But we do have the tournament coming up, and I

know that it's been extra cold in these parts of

the country, and frankly, it hasn't been cold in

the snowy parts like bail Aspen.

>> RB: So skiing here, 60 degrees in Denver.

>> Jonathan: Uh, it's. It's weird, dude. I can't wait. Well, I

had shorts on today. It was 35. And I'm like, yes,

I'm wearing shorts. But if you want to get some

skiing in and some R R before the spring season,

no better place to do it than Nemecollen Resort

here in Farmington, Pennsylvania. And obviously

now with the NFL Draft being hosted here in our

backyard of Pittsburgh. Penny, they got a nice

little promotion going on. You can stay and

they'll drive you up to the draft, bring it back,

and, you know, do what you got to do. But if you

haven't been, you got to come because it's a

phenomenal spot. So check them out online@ne.com

and, uh, you won't regret it. I promise you. You

will not regret it.

>> RB: Love it. It is the best. So I might head up there

this week to hit the simulator. Get ready for

guess my first member guest is in two and a half.

>> Jonathan: I got needles, uh, in two weeks, dude. All right,

next drop, I'll be at needles. You guys aren't

going, but me and.

>> RB: I am not going.

>> Jonathan: Me and Pizzle, uh, making a trek down the pine

needles and Mid pines this year. And we're gonna

do it. We're gonna do it. That's why Hammer, if

Hammer listens, you know, he's doing the Ashworth

two Man two weeks later. Um, which you and I were

gonna not play in or gonna play in, but now we're

gonna not, so it works out, bud. Where's your

member guest?

>> RB: I'm, um, running it back at Pelican with bcats. We

gotta defend our title from last year, so I'm

really excited about that.

>> Jonathan: Well, I love it, man. I love it.

>> RB: So.

>> Jonathan: And, uh, it's a great episode today, guys. We

always appreciate you tuning in.

>> RB: Make sure you go to chase it. Underscore birdies.

Check us out and remember the details for the two

man are going to be. Are going to be emailed out

soon. Uh, so stay tuned.

>> Jonathan: Yeah, that's going to be right here before you

know it. So if you want to get in on that action,

you know, sign up. Let's go. Let's see what we can

do. But as always, guys, we appreciate you tuning

in. We hope you have a great Valentine's Day

weekend. You know, just give some extra love to

everybody. Let it just kind of.

>> RB: Yeah.

>> Jonathan: Reek from your skin. And always a big thanks to

Ally, Emily and Eva over at Simpler Media for

putting this thing together. Jacqueline Deepaterio

and Rachel London for your help. You guys have a

great weekend. And, uh, you know, we'll catch you

on, too.