Hey what's up guys before we get into this video I just want to let you know
that tomorrow Wednesday 5/15/19 is the last day to sign up for our New Jersey
try out for the USSSA all-american games if you're a baseball
player 8 to 14 years old or you have a baseball player 8 to 14 years old who's
interested and lives in the northeast part of America your you will be representing
the northeast region tomorrow Wednesday again 5/15 is the last time to
pre-register which you'll get a discount for signing up and the tryout is this
Friday and I'll be there we're flying out Friday morning will hold the
showcase Friday afternoon and we'll select some guys to represent the region
as all-americans if you don't know what it is or what I'm talking about click
the first link down below but please be sure to sign up before tomorrow at
midnight because you're gonna want to check it out and take advantage of that
and now I'm gonna play a short video a little promo video of that event right
here after this and then we'll get into the video that you came here to watch
thanks so much let's go
you guys up there in New Jersey if you're in that area 8 to 14 years old
check the link down below and I'll see you there but let's talk about what you
guys came here for the question that I got today is from Nye and he says I want
to play professional baseball and I feel as if I have what it takes with hard
work but it's challenging because when I told them I'm going to be an MLB
shortstop they just laughed and said that it won't happen but I now use my
haters as motivation thank you so much for that comment and I just want to
share a story of mine that I think some of you may find helpful or motivational
and it's very similar to what you're talking about
and when I was in middle school I went on a family cruise and all my fat had a
big family and I remember some of the grown-ups saying let's have all the kids
write down what they want to be when they grow up and so I said that I wanted
to be a professional baseball player or a professional basketball player and I
remember some of the adults saying why don't you put down something more
realistic you know something that you can look back on in the future and say
look you know I wanted to be a firefighter or a cop or whatever was so
that when you get older you can say look I really did it and I was super confused
at the time not that there's anything wrong with a firefighter or a cop
probably I probably would have been one of the two but I didn't play baseball if
you don't know I ended up playing professional baseball but I was really
confused at the time because they were saying this was unrealistic they were
that's what they were basically telling me but in my mind that was very that was
that was the only thing that I wanted to do
unfortunately basketball didn't work out I only scored two points per game in
high school so obviously you don't get a college scholarship for that but
baseball did work out and the reason why I'm telling you this story is because it
all starts with belief you have to have that belief you know you got to believe
that you can make it right and for like I said it was very confusing for me
because I did believe it but then I had adults who were you know smart telling
me that it's not it wasn't possible you know and you said that you used your
haters for motivation now I don't think they were hating on me but I did use it
as motivation like I wanted to show them still it was still all love I'm you know
was my family but I used that as motivation like I'm
gonna show you right and then I have the other side my immediate family my mother
my father and my two sisters they were very supportive so I used that as fuel
to to to make me want to get there you know like a positive movement of trying
to get there what are you doing buddy and then also that that motivation of
the negative of I wanted to show them what I could do right so I had both of
these driving forces like I wanted to do it for my immediate family and show them
and take care of them and use the millions of dollars that I was planning
on getting to help take care of them and then also to show the other ones that
you know what I did do this is really what I wanted to do but to come back
into what I'm what I'm trying to get at is there's you can't tell nobody knows
who's gonna be a professional baseball player of course I would like this guy
to be a professional baseball player one day but who knows I don't know I
won't know for a long time he might not even like baseball as a matter of fact
he's so young and I don't know how old you are watching this video I don't know
what your skills are and even if you are very very good at the young age I see
these young kids across the country I travel the country like I showed you
this New Jersey try out this week we do this 24 events across the country and I
see players eight to 14 years old studs and we don't know if any of those are
gonna those guys even the best of the best are gonna make it to that Mobe
there's so much time in between there's so many different things so many factors
so many variables that come into play but let me tell you this there is one
thing that you must have if you do want to play at that level and the first
thing is belief you have to have the belief no matter how good you or bad or
where you are you have to believe every person that was in the major leagues at
some point had some belief that you know what I can play here I can do this I'm
as good as these guys or I want to do this right so having that belief is
number one then finding your motivation whether it's to to prove it prove
someone wrong or to to help somebody out whatever or a combination of both in my
case whatever it is you gotta find that as well and of course you have to have
the skills you have to be good enough that's obviously that's the easy part
you either are your aren't or you work hard enough or you don't right so that's
that's pretty that's that's the the easy part of it
I don't want to say easy it's all hard but you get what I'm saying right if it
was easy if it was easy everybody would play an MMO right it was an easy thing
to do you say oh I wanna play an MMO be ok you can blame a movie no it doesn't
work that way right so I just want to share that story with you because it
kind of hit home close to home for me so if you if any of you guys are watching
and someone said you know what you can't play you you can't let them you can't
let them tell you or dictate what you believe because for me it was a struggle
because there was no doubt in my mind that I was gonna be a professional
baseball player and when they said that I started to kind of doubt myself and
had to rebuild myself and have that and and build that belief up again because
that is one thing that you must have if you want to make it so keep believing
keep dreaming keep working hard to achieve those
dreams because if you don't work hard to achieve your dreams you're never gonna
get there but thank you so much for watching let me know down below what's
your goals what are your dreams what are you trying to accomplish in this game or
outside of this game whatever it is drop a comment down below let me know what
struggles you're going through anything any struggles that you've overcome and
comment down below I want to talk to you guys down there thank you so much for
watching I hope to see you guys in New Jersey if you can't make the New Jersey
try out check out some of the other try outs across the country that we got
coming up for the USSSA all-american games again links down
below and I'll talk to you guys there thanks