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All right, welcome into the Jim Day podcast every one. Thanks for hanging out with us and we've got a special treat today because we're gonna bring in a very special person and a walk down memory lane and

Certainly one of the most popular reds players that I've come across since I've been

Covering the reds and that would be the now retired. It's so weird to say that because it seems like yesterday this baby face kid in Texas came up

But he's now retired after a long career J Bruce welcome to the podcast. How are you my friend?

Jim thanks for having me man. I'm doing well. I

Told you a minute ago. I'm in Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Preparing to play a little golf here over the next couple days. So I'm I'm doing great

I bet now how nice is that because here we are in May and normally you're you know from February to

October you're pretty much spoken for of what you're gonna be doing

But in yes, you have the freedom to go on a golf trip with family or buddies or whoever you're with

Yeah, it's great man. It's great. Obviously listen. There are

so many things that

are incredible about playing baseball and

You know living that life and kind of fulfilling that drink yourself, but you know one thing that you do sacrifice and you do mortgage a little bit is the time

You know your freedom and you're you know kind of your normalcy with your family and your friends and all that throughout this throughout this ride, but um

You know, I'm appreciative of every minute of that and it allowed me to do this today. So we're

Yeah, it's all good man. It's fun. We'll look forward to it and

Retirements treating you great so far. Well, I saw your your press conference that you held the day that you announced your retirement and you were very

You were very thoughtful in that press conference. I really enjoyed listening to the things that you had to say

But for this audience and for those that didn't see that press conference. I'm a media nerd. So I get to see the full thing

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