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🗓️ 8 October 2015
⏱️ 47 minutes
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0:00.0 | I grew up with a chip on my shoulder, like as if I had to make it for my family. |
0:05.6 | I'd like you to meet Philip Buchanan. |
0:10.0 | He grew up in Fort Myers, Florida. |
0:12.0 | When I was young, I played a lot of sports, so I played based on my first sport, and when |
0:16.8 | it came to summer trips, I didn't really take summer trips with my family, because my |
0:20.4 | teammates always wanted me to stay because I was like one of the best players, so I spent |
0:24.4 | a lot of time at home and with my teammates. |
0:27.4 | And so I have always worked on the idea of me making it professionally either in baseball |
0:32.1 | or football. |
0:33.1 | And he had reason to believe that this was a real possibility. |
0:36.0 | When I turned 11 years old, I scored five tests on the one football game, and I hit my |
0:39.9 | first home run. |
0:40.9 | And so ever since then, I was like, man, I'm going to make it in football or baseball. |
0:43.8 | I knew I am. |
0:44.8 | You can't even mother was his main parent. |
0:46.9 | Like my dad was my, he was my seven great English teacher. |
0:50.6 | He was my basketball coach in middle school, which we won a championship. |
0:53.8 | But he wasn't really in my life, he was around, but he wasn't really in my life like |
0:56.8 | that. |
0:57.8 | But I don't fault him, it's just, you know, sometimes the way you're raised and when |
1:00.2 | you're brought up. |
1:01.2 | While he was still in high school, Buchanan says, the Cincinnati Reds offered him a $500,000 |
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