This episode is about truth, grit, and the evolution of baseball told straight from the mound and the dugout. Jack Perkins opens up about what it means to rebuild your career after Tommy John surgery and how faith and self-belief carried him through when the radar gun didn’t. Scott Brosius takes us inside two very different clubhouses — the unraveling A’s of the 1990s and the unstoppable Yankees of 1998 — showing how culture and leadership decide everything once the lights come on. And Scott Feldman pulls no punches about what’s missing from today’s game, calling out how front offices have turned players into spreadsheets and erased the idea of the ace altogether. 

Across three generations, these players reveal the same core truth — baseball still belongs to the grinders. The men who show up, compete, and carry the heartbeat of the game through every shift in era and ideology. This isn’t nostalgia; it’s an unfiltered look at how the sport has changed — and how, beneath the data and dollars, its soul still belongs to those who never stopped believing in the climb. 

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