Swinging For the Fences with Adam Duvall—MLB Outfielder

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Who's Adam Duvall? He's a record-holding, All-Star left fielder who's suited up for the Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves, and now the Miami Marlins. But he's so much more than that. He's a humble warrior, fighting through an adult diagnosis of Type-1 Diabetes, and free agency, to stay in the game he loves.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's baseball time again.
0:07.8	Spring training kicked off this past weekend, so it felt like the perfect time to bring
0:12.6	my first major league baseball player to the podcast to get him up to bat.
0:18.3	At the time we talked near the end of 2020, Adam DeVall was a free agent looking for a
0:23.6	team despite his tremendous numbers this season before. And what you're going to hear here is a
0:29.3	humble but aggressive man working hard to overcome obstacles to keep playing the game he loves.
0:35.2	And what do you know? Aggressiveness paid off like it normally does.
0:39.5	Just a week or so ago,
0:40.7	Adam was signed to the Miami Marlins.
0:42.7	He's got something to teach us today
0:44.3	about the power of perseverance and hard work.
0:47.9	So let's get to the show.
0:58.2	Life isn't fair.
1:00.5	Not even for those of us who are aggressive,
1:03.0	who think that we can control our lives,
1:04.2	life isn't fair.
1:07.0	There's very few silver bullets to our problems.
1:13.0	Nothing is going to magically make our problems disappear or make the road any less bumpy. Even some of the best folks around us, the most aggressive people, have just awful
1:19.4	crappy seasons that go through. And we have to make the decision, am I going to keep going,
1:24.4	or we're going to sit here and be in my own little pity party? Life hits all of us in the mouth.
1:30.6	That fact is written all over Adam DeVal's story.
1:34.0	And as of right now, I think what he and I are going to talk about is actually still evolving.
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