This is The Playbook.

Hey, this is Dave Meltzer with Entrepreneurs The Playbook.

I have Ryan Pineda here and I was thinking of Sapeta because you are an X baseball player.

I am, yeah.

And, you know, it's interesting because I found that competitive athletes, a professional

baseball player for the Oakland A's, make the best entrepreneurs.

And so I wanted kind of to start there because the mindset, the hard set and the handset

that's required to be a professional athlete is the same, in my opinion, that of which

to be a successful entrepreneur.

And how do you feel about my proposition that those skills, those knowledge in that desire

is necessary to be successful as an entrepreneur to make it as far as you did as playing the

most popular sport in America, that baseball?

Yeah, you know, I never realized that we kind of think differently as athletes compared

to most other business people and entrepreneurs, you know, for me, everything has always been

very scheduled and routine-based, discipline-based, and so it was pretty natural when I went

entrepreneurship of like, hey, this is what we got to do.

I get in at this time, we're going to knock this out, it doesn't really matter how I feel,

you know, we're going to just do whatever it takes.

And I soon realized that not everyone's really like that, you know, people kind of do

when they feel good or when things are going well, when the market's good.

That's when they're good.

And I'm like, man, in sports, it just doesn't matter how you feel, someone's coming after

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