ギャビン・ニューサム、野球がいかに彼を「救った」かを語る

ギャビン・ニューサム、野球がいかに彼を「救った」かを語る

Let’s go back to Young Y. Young Gaff Y. Y’all hear this? It started here. It started him. Y gaff. Uh, what was I into? Yeah. Baseball. I heard you were a baseball guy. When I was I was star baseball player. So obsessed with basketball and baseball. Divorced classic divorce family. My dad was great. Later uh reconnected. Better late than never. Yeah, that was fact. He was never terrible, but he just wasn’t, you know, he didn’t raise us. My mom was 19, pregnant, and u divorced a few years later with two kids, came from no money, and just hustled, just, you know, worked hard, grinding every single day. Two two and a half jobs, no Literally two two and a half jobs. She just taught me hard work and grit. I struggled, couldn’t really read or write, bounced around bunch of different schools. And she said, “We got to get out of San Francisco. You’re falling behind.” Pretty severe dyslexia. And we end up in Marine County every day in the backyard just bouncing the basketball, throwing the ball against the wall until the ball is just like fraying, man. And you’re that’s it. Whole thing. Started throwing the baseball a little faster than everyone else. And started, you know, make a few free throws cuz I was sitting there practicing 500 of them every damn night. And in high school, I look up in the stands, my dad’s back up there. Okay. So, and it’s like, man, and then he’s bringing his friends and and you’re captain of the team and you’re like, geez. you know, and it just saved me and it got me into college baseball. I was a I got a zero scholarship, but it was the ticket, man. I was going to College of Marin. I was going to JC, man. You I was 960 or 980 on my SAT and that was cool. Like my mom’s like, “It’s okay. It’s okay to be average.” Mhm. Not sure that was the best thing to say. I thought that was good. Yeah. No, I thought you aced it to me. I think if you sign it, you get like four times for me.