Episode 49: Dusty Baker, the Houston Astros manager, on navigating the Astros through crisis, what impressed him most about Barry Bonds, and his admiration for Mike Trout and Jacob DeGrom.

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Business, Entrepreneurship, Sports

4.4 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Dusty Baker is a legend whose trailblazing career transcends baseball, but he’s got unfinished business. The 3x National League Manager of the Year is still chasing a World Series ring to pair with the one he won as a player with the Dodgers. As one of baseball’s most-respected and beloved figures, he was probably the only manager who could’ve successfully taken over the Astros job after the organization came under fire in the wake of a sign-stealing scandal. Baker’s incredible life journey has been shaped by supportive parents, a stint in the Marines, and a close friendship with former teammate, Hank Aaron, who helped Baker, a California native, adapt to life in the segregated south. In this episode, Baker talks about his life-long love of hoops, what he learned from reading Hank Aaron’s hate mail, how he rates Mike Trout and Jacob DeGrom among baseball's all-time greats, and why America urgently needs to improve its capacity for forgiveness.

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0:00.0	What's up everybody and welcome to another boardroom out of office podcast with me as always.
0:11.8	Even though he took a week off last week, my right hand man, Gianni Horel.
0:15.5	Gianni, what up, bro?
0:16.7	Yeah, that's messed up.
0:17.6	Why are you leaving me out last week?
0:19.4	Man, podcast 49 this week. That was 47 with KD. I left you out because it was off the cuff. KD said, let's do a pod. You know, like, what am I supposed to do? I was scrambling, man. I get it. I get it. I know how it goes. But, yeah, never again, bro. I'll never do it to you again. But this week we got an incredible guest, a friend of the family, because our man Yoni,
0:43.0	our boardroom social media manager has a special relationship with Dusty Baker.
0:49.9	So we had this honor of being able to speak to him today.
0:52.7	And in speaking to him, I've realized that the one thing that is universally said about him
0:58.1	is he's one of the most well-liked and respected individuals in all of baseball, for sure,
1:03.6	all of sports, it seems like, and just in general.
1:06.8	And I'm really excited to hear about it, talk to him about some stories that he's had in his career because when you've seen and done so much in baseball especially, I'm sure he's got iconic stories.
1:18.9	So I think this will be a great convo for people listening in business because people like this always have certain insights that I think anyone in any walk of life
1:28.7	can utilize.
1:29.7	And it's always like a great manager or a great coach that always have gems like that.
1:34.0	It's like when we spoke to Doc earlier in the season.
1:36.3	So without further ado, please welcome to the show, the legend himself, Mr. Dusty Baker.
1:43.4	All right.
1:43.9	Thanks. Thanks, guys. and you know something to be number
1:47.0	49 you know i believe in omens and numbers and stuff like that and i was i was born in 1949 so
1:54.5	hey man 49's a lucky number for me i like that i like We haven't had, we haven't had a cool, like,
2:01.2	coincidence with a, with a show number. So this is a special one. So the nickname, before we start,
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