#47 MLB Outfielder Sam Fuld has Type 1 Diabetes
Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes
Scott Benner
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2016
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Major league outfielder Sam Fuld is on the podcast to talk about playing professional baseball, managing his type 1 diabetes and much more. Sam grew up playing high school ball in New Hampshire, he went to college at Stanford and 2016 will be his ninth season in the big leagues. This interview is for anyone who has worried that type 1 diabetes could hold them back from following a dream.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Juice Box Podcast is sponsored by OmniPOD, the world's only tubulous insulin pump. |
| 0:06.4 | There's no doubt diabetes is difficult. It's difficult to understand and to manage and to live with some days. |
| 0:17.1 | But I don't accept when I hear people say I can't do this because I have diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is keeping me from this. It's keeping me |
| 0:22.3 | from that. It's difficult to do that. It's difficult to do this. It's |
| 0:24.0 | difficult to do that. Well, from a baseball field in New Hampshire, where not a lot of |
| 0:29.8 | major league baseball players come from, all the way out to the West Coast to |
| 0:33.6 | Stanford University a university that not many people can get into today's |
| 0:38.0 | gas that for episode 47 of the juice box podcast he to Stanford. He left with an economics degree. He was drafted by the |
| 0:46.0 | Chicago Cubs and he currently plays for the Oakland A's. And he does all that with type |
| 0:51.2 | one diabetes. And... and he does all that with type 1 diabetes and just an insulin pen. |
| 0:56.6 | Not a CGM, not an insulin pump. |
| 0:59.6 | Although Sam talks a little later about wanting to get some things like that when he's done |
| 1:03.2 | playing. Sam Fold plays center field for the Oakland Athletics with an insulin pen, a |
| 1:09.7 | glucose meter, and a back pocket full of bubblegum in case he gets low. |
| 1:14.8 | If Sam can play Major League Baseball with nothing but an insulin pen and bubble gum, |
| 1:21.2 | there is nothing you cannot do. |
| 1:26.0 | A swing and a fly ball to left, shallow, racing in folds still coming, dives and he makes a sensational catch. |
| 1:34.0 | What an effort by Super Sam Fold |
| 1:37.0 | as he dies for that baseball |
| 1:39.0 | after playing extremely deep and left. |
| 1:41.0 | He has very good speed, was able to get there and was able to make that diving highlight real catch to rob |
| 1:48.0 | Van Slyke there of a hit. The There we are Sam sets contact. |
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