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Welcome back to, I think I heard you was episode 60 last time, right? Episode 61 of the Compound Podcast presented by Parsay Rum. We have no Dakota. Dakota is in Iowa with no Wi-Fi in his apartment, correct?

Correct. I don't know how that happened. Is he getting it set up? It's just not there yet? Yeah. The place he has is just unfurnished and everything and I think it's coming within the next two days or so. Tough. Yeah.

Yeah. One of the hardest parts about any, whether you're moving into a new city, but the minor league lifestyle especially is you're trying to look for the cheapest place because you don't know how long you're going to be there. You don't want to sign a six month lease and then get stuck with it. And you have no furniture like 90% of the time you're there with no furniture. You're putting a mattress on the floor having to get Wi-Fi for six months.

That's such a slept on thing when people talk about baseball in general, I'm assuming, you know, based on other sports are like this, but definitely minor league baseball. It's like they give you three days in a hotel. I mean, you kind of have an idea of what team you're going to be ongoing to spring training for the most part.

But like when you get to the city, you have three days, they'll give you three days in a team hotel and it's like, all right, find a spot.

And you're supposed to have something like you have three days to have a lease signed get Wi-Fi set up some sort of whether you're renting furniture, which nobody does because it's too expensive for minor league salary.

And so basically you're just like finding a mattress, amazining in a mattress pad. So you're not sleeping on a rock.

I remember in Myrtle, I had a mattress on the floor mattress pad. I bought I went to Walmart and bought a lawn chair. And it's funny. Somebody walk in your apartment and be like, wow, like this is all like, what are you doing? And I'm like, that is plenty. That is all I need for how little you are in your apartment. Yeah, it's funny. I got this apartment furnished. I got a pretty good deal on it. I feel like I'm living like royalty right now.

Yeah, the furnished apartment in the minor leagues is like you you really do you feel like you're that was so in 17 my first year on the I guess I wasn't on the 40 man yet until I got called up. But like I was kind of assuming at some point I get called up was making a little bit more and I was like, all right.

I went in with two older guys who were on the 40 man. They were making enough money to get a furnished apartment. They were like, Hey, do you want to be a third? I was like, I'll splurge. This is worth it. So we had the furnished three story apartment. I felt like a pimp. I was like, this is unbelievable.

And believe me, I've done my fair share of the couch living the mattress on the floor living and you're never too good to live on the floor on a mattress.

That's exactly right. You can you can get by with it. Remember that when I got called to the big leagues in 17 my first apartment.

I had a projector when I look back on it now is hilarious. I had like basically a cardboard box and I bought a projector and I just didn't have a TV. I just projected from my computer onto the wall.

Yeah. It's kind of smart question though. So like you're young and you're the year you debuted. How do you go? I mean, you can't you raise, you know, like you.

I'm assuming it took you a little while or like, you know, a few weeks. Okay. I'm here to stay, you know.

But like, how do you go about just like if you're young, how do you go about?

Like shit. Am I going to sign a long term lease and.

Well, the nice part about when you get called to the big leagues is first of all, you get seven and seven. So you get seven days in the hotel and seven days of meal money.

But then if you sign a lease and get sent down, the team has to pay that lease. So like there's no downside. So once you once you're up there for a week and you get a place.

Get sent down doesn't come out of your paycheck. No, it's on the team really. I didn't know you have to give them the key.

So that if somebody else gets called up, they can put them in there or like they can use it for something.

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