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Welcome to Citizen.

We've got a special guest today, Gerard Michaels.

You're a baseball player.

I was, yeah.

Not anymore.

Yeah, I was.

Now I'm a comedian and a podcaster and all those other things, but I was at one point in time an athlete.

It looks, can be deceiving.

How was it?

It was the best.

If anybody has an opportunity to be a pro athlete at any level, I would highly recommend it.

Five stars.

Sounds fun. Yeah. Yeah. Um... be a pro athlete at any level i would highly recommend it five stars sounds fun yeah yeah um we're not here to talk about your failure though um i blew i was thinking about it my

blew my fucking shoulder up in like my junior year of high school in between junior or senior

year playing american legion ball it was like yeah you can this. It's just going to take a while. I'm like, yeah, it seems like a lot of work for something that probably won't. I mean, statistically, it's unlikely to pay off down the road. Like, I threw in the low 90s at that point, but it's like that doesn't mean shit you can throw a hundred in the low 90s in high

school that's pretty significant it well it was not anymore but back then it was uh but yeah i could

it's the long road and i had other plans but it's very important that you know though i would

have taken that weak shit deep um who were we playing i think we're were playing Travelers Rest high school,

and I gave up a fucking check swing home run.

And that was the point that I realized that velocity doesn't mean shit.

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