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🗓️ 7 October 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Recorded: 9/13/2020: I sat down (over Skype) with Ballengee Group baseball agent, Scott Barber. We talked about, among other things, rejection, starting an agency from scratch, and how he added Matchmaker to his resume.
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome back to the 12th century |
0:14.8 | River I was leaving on the 12th, 6th podcast. |
0:19.8 | I'm your host, Colin McHugh. This episode is part two in our three-part series about agents and baseball. |
0:26.4 | If you haven't heard the first episode with my agent, Mike Moy of the Moy Sports Agency in Atlanta, feel free to go back and listen to that great conversation when you're done here. |
0:36.1 | In this episode, however, we get to talk to one of |
0:38.5 | my favorite people in the agency world, Scott Barber of the Ballengee group in Dallas, Texas. |
0:44.3 | I've known Scott for years and played with and against basically all of his clients, and there are a few |
0:49.9 | guys in the game who have such a stellar reputation as he does, and pretty much nobody who out-hustles him. |
0:56.7 | Compared to my two other agent guests, he's relatively new to the game, but by no means is he a |
1:01.6 | rookie. He's got nearly 20 years of experience under his belt in the agency world, from his days out in |
1:07.3 | Hollywood to his legal work at the arbitration table. We talk about recruiting players and the rejection that goes along with it, |
1:14.6 | starting an agency from scratch, |
1:16.5 | and how he's added matchmaker to his list of agent attributes. |
1:20.9 | As always, if you're not subscribed to the show, go ahead and do that |
1:24.3 | so that you're always up to date when new episodes air. |
1:27.1 | And without further ado, I hope you enjoy today's conversation with Scott Barber. |
1:31.8 | Let it ride. |
1:33.2 | Let it ride easy down the road. |
1:37.8 | Let it take away on the darkness. |
1:41.3 | Let it ride. |
1:42.2 | How has this been for you guys? |
1:44.1 | Do you guys get to like travel at all anymore or like go meet people or what's the deal? |
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