“I wasn’t in denial of anything,” he said recently, reflecting on the call. “I wasn’t mad about anything. I was just aware of the reality.”
Peretti called him “mad mature” and her favorite caller yet.
I mean, we already knew that he’d called into the podcast, but now that we have the full story and a Chelsea Peretti quote to go with it, this is pretty much my favorite against-all-odds baseball story of all-time.
