In Episode 10

I chat with Canadian baseball player Jordan Procyshen about his path to being drafted to the Boston Red Sox, playing for team Canada and life as a Canadian ball player.

IN THE GAME Episode 9 with Warstic founder Ben Jenkins. 

Warstic is a baseball bat company co-owned by Ben Jenkins, Jack White, formally of the band The White Stripes, and Ian Kinsler, an American professional baseball player.  Ben and I talk about his sports and art upbringing that led him to college graphic design and NCAA sports.   We dive into where Warstic came from, the meaning behind it and where the product is now. 

Designing a surf board for rock icon Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) and what Native Americans and their history and culture influenced Ben's designs within Warstic.   The company started as a baseball bat company and turned into a full fledge hard goods company creating its own line of surf boards, skate boards and baseball gear with the soon to be released fly fishing rods.  

They are headquartered in Dallas, Texas. In 2016 Warstic bats were approved for use in the MLB league.  www.warstic.com  Warstic on instagram  @warstic  Ben Jenkins on Instagram @onefastbuffalo  Warstic on Twitter @warstic  #Warstic #MLB #baseball #eddievedder #benjenkins #jackwhite #battle

Tyson Gillies and I connect with each other about our youth as deaf athletes growing up in Canada. Tyson explains his upbringing as a Canadian deaf child getting into sports, advancing into baseball having been drafted into the MLB. He spent time with the Seattle Mariners and Philadelphia Phillies organizations and won a Gold medal with the Canadian National Baseball team. His goals are now to advance his hockey skills enough to represent Canada at the Deaflympics. 

In Part two Shane I discuss his pre game  routine and his subway commercial he did in Calgary. We shifted to talking about his future goals, his All-star selection and some of the best players he has seen on both sides of the ball. We close things out with talking about hunting and offseason things as well family and how important time is with them. 

Shane and I talk about growing up in Teeterville, Ontario and attending Waterford District Highchool / Western University. We dip into some farm life talk and his draft into the CFL in 2013 to the Calgary stampeders. 

We discuss people that Elmo has met on the road while the band toured while growing up, we discuss his favourite cities and venues to play at. shifting to an area nobody like as we talk a little bit of politics and the difference between Canada and the United States.

In Episode 2 we talk about "big pharma" the drug and opioid crisis people face and chat more about his equipment / gear he uses on tour. We discuss his playing and improvs on Meat Puppets 2019 Album "Dusty Notes"  ending the episode chatting about Nirvana/Meat Puppets tour and MTV unplugged, Elmo gets the last laugh in on me missing a concert with both those bands. 

Elmo and I talk growing up in Arizona, his childhood and his musical beginning and influences. We discuss sports and music how they go together with the connection at sporting events. Covering the onstage connection with creativity between Elmo and his father and the Meat Puppets. We close out part 1 with Elmo asking about marijuana laws in Canada. 

We talk about the mount fight between Lilly vs Gibby, Sign stealing, rules changes in baseball and steroid/PED use in baseball. We close it out with Greggs baseball academy in Toronto, Ontario. 

In part two Gregg and I discuss the young prospects of todays game at the MLB level, what they are doing wrong with analyzing, developing and mentoring of these top prospects. Moving on to the late 90's we get into the Florida Marlins and the 97' World Series and winning it all, covering a little bit about his years in Toronto and his relationship with Jays players and Roy (Doc) Halladay.