Welcome to episode number 147 of the Chris Rose rotation, a production of John Boy Media, and

presented to you by our friends over at Seekkeek, and I am super excited, kind of geeking out,

if you will, today for today's guest. He is the executive director of the MLBPA, a former

all-star of 15-year major league veteran himself, Tony Clark.

Tony, welcome to the show.

And I got to start with the real important stuff, just right out of the gate.

That is a real beard, right?

I mean, that's authentic.

That's not like James Arden.

I take it off at night and hang it somewhere and then put it on in the morning.

No, it is authentic.

And for whatever reason, I bypassed gray altogether and went straight to white.

I don't know how that happened, but yeah, no, it's all that.

Okay.

And what is the decision on letting it, like, this is maybe the second time I've grown a beard.

So I keep it kind of tight here.

What made you want to go all the way like to your belly button?

I don't know that there was really a plan.

I still don't know that there's really a plan at this point.

So as much as it is where it is today, it could be gone tomorrow.

My wife would be excited about it at least being crimmed up,

if not removed altogether. But we're, we're making it work. Yeah, I mean, really, let's be

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