49: Traveling to Savannah, Residency Updates, & Moving Across the Country?

So this whole thing with the Bananas really dates back to 2024 when I was playing for the Boise Hawks.

Uh, and you know, that was the best year I've ever had on a baseball field, and so the Boise Hawks...

Excuse me.

The Savannah Bananas took notice, and they slid in my DMs.

Uh, and so, you know, a couple years back in 2024, the Bananas were, like...

They...

Ev- people knew who they were, but they weren't as nearly as big as they are now.

Um, and so they invited me to a tryout back then, and I said no, which- Honestly, the way that that kind of worked out, like I definitely did have some, like hesitations towards Banana Ball.

But the main reason I said no was because I wanted to go out for Japan.

Me playing baseball in Japan was just like a big...

It was a big thing for myself, like to get to a higher level of baseball again.

Um, and then also like for my family.

Like it's just a cool thing for my family, being that Uncle Wally played professional baseball in Japan for a long time.

So it was cool to like, kind of check that box or like, fill that circle, you know? And then as we all know, I, I don't even know if we've talked about on here, but I didn't have like the best experience in Japan.

I think you did talk about it.

Okay.

So if you haven't heard about my Japan experience, go back and listen to that episode.

Um, but anyway, ended up retiring from baseball following my Japan season, and just kind of going into coaching stuff.

So the last...

Since retiring from Japan, I've been coaching at a training facility in Washington.

It's just a private training facility for, you know, club baseball teams.

So initially, I wanted to work in a training facility because that's something we kind of like dreamt about and kind of had vision of, of like, maybe we could own our own facility one day.

Um, and just after being in it for many months, like, I kind of realized that it wasn't really what I wanted to do long term.

Um, and so we just kind of turned to like a lot of prayer, of like, "God, you know, like what's next? If this facility thing isn't where I'm supposed to be anymore, like, what's next then?" And I had no idea at the time.

And the way that the Savannah Bananas kind of re-entered our thought was like a totally, an answered prayer, in my opinion.