Working in Baseball, Pt. 2: Kyle Boddy & Lance Brozdowski
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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This episode is part two of a two-show series called “Working in Baseball”.
At this year’s Winter Meetings in Nashville, we had an opportunity to discuss jobs in baseball with several people in different positions around the game. Whether you’re a long-time fan interested in knowing more about the inner workings of the sport, or someone who hopes to build a career in baseball, we think you’ll enjoy these conversations.
On this episode, Eno sits down with Driveline Baseball founder Kyle Boddy, and Lance Brozdowski of Marquee Sports Network.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is part two of a two-part series that we're calling Working in Baseball. |
| 0:19.6 | In our first conversation of this episode, Eno sat down with Kyle Bodie, founder of're calling Working in Baseball. In our first conversation of this episode, |
| 0:22.1 | Eno sat down with Kyle Boady, founder of DriveLine Baseball, |
| 0:25.2 | to discuss how he turned a hobby into a career. |
| 0:28.3 | Kyle and Eno also discussed the growth of Drive Line, |
| 0:31.1 | the potential impact of AI in baseball, |
| 0:33.6 | and the surprising amount of untapped opportunity in player development |
| 0:37.3 | around Major League Baseball. I'm here with Kyle Bodie of Drive-Line, co-founder, and, you know, player development expert extraordinaire. Wow. Soul founder, by the way. Soul founder? Yeah, yeah. Mike doesn't get credit, no. I'm the only friend of it.. I like that you point that out. I'm going to tell Mike later. |
| 0:56.9 | He doesn't credit you, Mike. All right. So I've visited Drive Line from when it was just a baby to the sort of behemoth it is today. And I just wanted you to share with listeners a little bit of that story of, |
| 1:15.2 | you know, |
| 1:15.8 | what you were up to when you got into baseball. |
| 1:19.0 | Do I remember correctly? |
| 1:20.3 | Was there some like online poker situation and some of that? |
| 1:24.2 | I want to hear some of that, |
| 1:25.2 | like that transition from when you were made it from |
| 1:28.6 | a hobby into into into a job wow yeah um yeah was there was an online poker situation yeah |
| 1:34.3 | it was a blackjack card counter as well yeah yeah i was recently on jeff ma's podcast bringing |
| 1:39.3 | down the house 21 yeah so it was my hero so it was very cool so you ever get thrown out of anywhere |
| 1:43.5 | yeah oh yeah i'm banned from all m life casinos and so yeah and a bunch of places one. Yeah. So he was very cool. Do you ever get thrown out of anywhere? Oh, yeah. |
| 1:44.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:44.7 | I'm banned from all M-Life casinos. And a bunch of places in Seattle. Oh, yeah, 100%. But yeah, when I was always coaching baseball at the same time, it's what I love to do. And I just felt there's got to be a better way to do this than how we're doing things. And when I read a lot of research, it was like, oh, I'm a nerd. |
| 1:42.8 | I'll read research papers. |
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