1/15/2024 0 Comments Buster posey rookie yearNow that you’ve been an investor and board member for a few months, how would you describe the experience in general? So we’ll look forward to enjoying some of that nice weather. My wife has great memories of spring training. Arizona was such a fun time for all of us. We’ll base it around our kids’ spring break. I do want to come out and say hello to some of the guys I played with and some of the new guys. But we’ll be out towards the end of March. At this point I prefer not to be in a uniform, to be honest with you. I haven’t spoken with anybody about being in uniform. When are we going to see you in Scottsdale and in what capacity? I’m not sure whether to expect you in spring training with a uniform and a fungo bat as a special instructor or whether you’ll be in town for investors weekend. And Sandy kept going out and playing in the sand pit. But the story there is we let our oldest daughter name her when we got her five years ago. It’s funny she’s named Sandy because she’s a black lab. We have a black lab and her name is Sandy. Do you have a dog, and if so, what is its name? As you know, there are a lot of dogs in the Bay Area named Buster. And I only feel compelled to ask it because you wouldn’t believe how often I get it from fans. You get some good intel on those rides.Įspecially if you’re riding in a nice, dependable Toyota vehicle.īefore we get into the serious stuff, I have to ask you one more random question. As a lot of parents can relate, there can be some special times on the ride there and back. So he can go out and play with a little more freedom. And for him to not have the pressure, too. It’s nice to sit back and watch and listen and have him taught and go hit balls with him. It’s been nice for me because I’ve loved tennis since I was a kid but I don’t pretend to know much about it. We’re hot and heavy into tennis with my son right now. Not surprisingly, they’ve handled it as well if not better than anyone else. I think anybody that moves will have an adjustment period, good and bad. We made some really good friends and miss seeing them. But we definitely miss where we were living in the Bay Area. It’s been great to have a weekend when my brothers come up with their wives and kids. How has relocating back to Georgia been for you? What’s the latest with the family and the twins? How close is your new home to those guys? Is it “can I borrow a cup of sugar” close? We don’t get too serious, believe it or not, even with Vogey and his intensity in the mix. It’s nice to have golf buddies nearby that you know really well. I play with (Javier Lopez and Ryan Vogelsong) a lot. A good round for me might be mid-70s but the next day I’ll be in the mid-80s. My index is a 4.1 but my average score is more like an 81. So at least you’ve got some experience playing the wind. You’ve caught your share of foul pops in San Francisco. But I’d prefer that would be the only time. But I’ve watched a lot of that weather on TV over the years, so it was kind of cool to play in it. So I think that means my golf game has improved. I do think this time I was less worried about hurting people. (laughs) There’s some nerves involved playing in front of people. It was my second time playing in that tournament and I will say that playing in front of a crowd does not translate to golf for me. I played better the second and third rounds. (laughs) Well, first round was not very good. How’d you play in the AT&T Pro-Am at Pebble Beach? Let’s start out with the hard-hitting stuff. So we connected on the phone for another of those wide-ranging discussions. Even though he doesn’t have a locker at Scottsdale Stadium, it’s still spring training and he’s still Buster Posey and some unofficial traditions are worth preserving. He was planning out his post-baseball life long before he sensed it was coming to an end. But as he enters his second year of retirement, and his first as a Giants investor and executive board member, he’s still firmly in control of his life and his legacy. Posey is no longer putting down the signs from behind the plate. We’d even wade ever so lightly into societal or political topics. But we also touched on broader themes within the industry. We’d touch on who looks good in the rotation and how his hip/ankle/back was feeling and who would be surrounding him in the lineup. Because Posey was such a big-picture thinker even in the earliest stages of his playing career, I always tried to make these spring interviews as wide-ranging as possible.
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