Jamie, thanks so much for joining us here today.

It's a pleasure to have you on our show here and to hear your story.

Let's go back to the beginning for you because you're a guy that grew up just outside of Philadelphia.

And I would think that being the case and the Philly sports scene, how did that impact you, your early days, sports, and what would be your major league baseball career?

Right. Well, it's very interesting. The times we live in now, everything is instant and you can get on a train or you drive anywhere you want to go, right?

When I was a young kid, we didn't really leave the area that I grew up in very much.

And so, yeah, I saw what was going on in Philadelphia from afar,

but I felt like it was so far away because we very rarely would go to Philadelphia.

And if we did, it was one of us several places, either the Jersey Shore in the summer.

Every no and then we'd go to Veterans Stadium to a Phillies game.

Once in a blue moon, my dad would take me to an Eagles game.

And I watched ice hockey,

played a lot of street hockey as a kid, because that's back when the Broad Street bullies were the Broad Street bullies, right? And the Eagles, they had some real good teams at that time. But

like you said, it was almost like watching it. It was almost

like a team teams that were halfway across the country because we didn't really go to field.

That wasn't really the thing to do, right? You were, you were really wrapped up in your life

and you know, I grew up in a very small community in souderton

pennsylvania so seeing that from afar but playing a lot of sports that's where the connection was to

me watching it on tv and trying to correlate it in my backyard or at the little league field or playing midget football,

whatever, biddy basketball in the wintertime.

And then I grew up, get out of high school, and end up going to St. Joe's University, right,

in Philadelphia.

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