Ep 187 - Keep Things Simple with Jesse Winker

What's Next with Eric Wood

Eric Wood

Sports

5 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Jesse Winker is a professional baseball player for the Milwaukee Brewers. The former Cincinnati Reds and Seattle Mariner Outfielder was voted an All Star in 2021 and has played in the MLB for over five years.

Jesse was born in Buffalo, NY and is a proud member of Bills Mafia. A theme of the show today. Other topics include:

(2:00-3:40) - Eric's 1st pitch with Jesse at a game

(3:40-5:45) - Jesse's decision to skip college and play professional baseball

(5:45-8:20) - Minor league baseball's hard lessons of money management

(8:20-11:40) - All Star Selection in 2021

(11:40-14:30) - Offseason rehab. Trade to Brewers

(14:30-19:30) - How to break out of a slump. The simple side of life

(19:30-21:40) - Superstitions

(21:40-26:00) - Growing up a Bills fan

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0:00.0	Our job is to win games, right, and help the team win.
0:12.0	But, you know, 162 games season, you know, all the plays you had to make on the field.
0:17.0	It's like you're not going to win everyone.
0:19.0	You're not going to hit that home run every game. So when you come home after a bad game or bad stretch of games, it's like you get to
0:26.8	be a dad. And there's nothing better than that. Because, you know, you wake up the next morning,
0:33.5	she doesn't care. You know, she doesn't care if I struck out for a time. She just wants to go to the
0:38.2	park or she just wants to read a book. She wants to watch Paw Patrol, you know, and in those moments,
0:43.8	you realize how simple this whole thing really is. You know, sports, they get us going and we forget
0:50.8	the simple side of life and the sport at times.
0:55.0	And she's,
0:56.7	she's helped me a ton with that.
0:57.6	She doesn't even know it yet,
1:03.0	but she's helped me keep things simple and just remember like, hey, you love this.
1:04.5	This is, you, you enjoy this. So, um, yeah.
1:09.2	Welcome to What's Next with Eric Wood.
1:11.6	Our next guest is Jesse Winker.
1:13.9	Jesse's a current outfielder for the Milwaukee Brewers and previously of the Cincinnati
1:17.8	Reds in Seattle Manors.
1:19.2	He was an all-star in 2021 and got robbed from another all-star game in 2020 because of the
1:24.6	short season, which we may get into in this podcast. But Jesse is a
1:29.0	proud Bill's Mafia member. So there may be some Bill's talk mix in here today too. If you
1:35.2	haven't already, please rate review and subscribe to the podcast wherever you tune to weekly.
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