Hi everyone and welcome to episode 168 of the Holding Court podcast. Today I'm joined by Kara Bieber,

mom, business owner and wife of Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Shane Bieber. We'll ask about her experience in Canada,

why she started her business kinlike, and I'll even ask about her rodeo days, all coming up right now

on Holding Court.

Boom, bum, bum, bum bum bum, bum. days, all coming up right now on Holding Court.

Hello. Hi. How are you? I am great. Thanks for having me. I'm glad this finally worked out.

We had to wrangle our babies,

our dogs, all the things, get the house quiet. I know. And it's never quiet. Justin's in the other room trying to handle baby and two dogs. So is Shane. He's like sneaking out here. He's like,

are you on? I'm like, yeah, we're starting.

I know. I always have to like text everyone. Like, do not disturb for an hour. It's fine. And we actually have never met in real life. So it's, which is crazy in baseball. It actually is crazy. I feel like we have a lot of mutuals and, I mean, everyone in baseball, but I feel like especially us.

Yeah. Well, you recently flew up to Toronto for opening day. So I need to hear about that because we were in Toronto two years ago and it's such a special place. and opening day is magical there, but especially after

the run that you guys had last year.

Yeah, I always tell everyone, I'm like, it's really true what they say about Canadians.

Like, they're just so nice and such a good fan base.

And from the second we got traded there last year, everyone was just so welcoming.

I think we had a really good group of girls as well, which as you know always helps.

The guys meshed as well. I mean, I think that that was a huge part of why we went to the World Series.

It's just everyone's bond. And I think that translates so much on the field.

So yeah, I wasn't going to go to opening day because we're still in Florida. Shane like builds up and ramps up. But my mom was visiting and that's a reason why I wasn't going to go. I'm like, I never get to see my mom. She lives in California. I'm staying here. Like, but as I was talking to the girls are like, come on, you're going to regret it like, once in a, you know, lifetime, especially because they're bringing us on the field to, like, celebrate and kind of watch all the things that happened last year. So my mom took care of cab for, like, 24 hours, and I flew there, and I'm so glad I did just to see everybody. And it was just, like you said, day at rogers center is something special for sure

it was emotional we were all like i feel like we never left from last season but yeah it was a lot

yeah it is such a special place and justin said that right away you really feel like you're playing

for an entire country and the fans there are so nice. And even the

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