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Ethan Holiday, congratulations. I can't
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imagine the thoughts running through
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your mind that you were drafted by the
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organization that your father played
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years for, the Colorado Rockies. What's
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going through your mind right now?
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man. Uh, a lot. You know, this is a this
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is a really incredible opportunity. Um,
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I'm just I'm so driven by faith and I'm
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so I'm so grateful and the Lord has
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really been the centerpiece of my life
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and I really I'm just I I don't even I
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don't even know what words I can put to
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this, but the Rocky's organization, I'm
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I'm just so so thankful and obviously
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with the family and the background and
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my dad being drafted by them and um that
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just adds such a cool cool thing and
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knowing everybody in the organization um
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since I was born. So um I'm just I'm
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super thankful. Hey Ethan, it's uh Dan
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Odow. I I I mean, I'm ecstatic for you.
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I think it's a great fit for you and
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your career. I think you're going to do
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phenomenally well there. I mean, I
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really know the impact your dad has made
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on your life, but no one ever asked you
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So, like, I know your mom has played an
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incredible role in your life. Can you
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tell us how much Leslie has impacted you
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into the young man you are today?
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No, I mean she uh Oh, I mean I I think
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I'm not a crazy emotional person, but
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when you when you have your mom next to
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you telling you that this is this is
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going to be great and she's there to to
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congratulate you and just she's she's
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loved on me my whole life and she's um I
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mean for my baseball career, she doesn't
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get talked enough about enough and uh I
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love her. I mean think thinking about
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what what she's done for my life makes
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me emotional, but she's as you know
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she's a she's she's a superstar. Hey,
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Ethan. It's Harold here. We could go so
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many ways to ask you questions, but I
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want to ask you, when did you pass
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You know what? I think it was probably
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eighth grade. Eighth or ninth grade, I
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So, it's it's been quite a while. He he
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he doesn't love it. I don't think I
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don't think it's everything.
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Hey, Ethan, it's Mark D. Roza, first
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off, dude. Completely fired up for you.
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And I I talk to your dad a lot. I I want
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tell tell the people how how at home how
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hard it was to play not only under the
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microscope of your dad, but under the
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microscope of your brother and like the
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expectations you had to deal with coming
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Yeah. I mean, it hasn't I would I
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wouldn't sit here and say it's all been
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been easy. Um but also I'm so blessed to
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be able to play baseball. And if the
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hardest thing in my life is expectations
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and pressure, then um I'm going to wake
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up super grateful every single day. And
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the people that pour into my life um the
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people that are supporting me, it's uh
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that's one of the main reasons why I can
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do what I love is with with freedom in
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my mind. And um man, it's it's uh this
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whole journey like thinking sitting here
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right now just thinking everything
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that's gone down in the last three or
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four years, it's u it's crazy. So yeah,
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I mean it's there's it's had tough
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moments, but I wouldn't trade it for the
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Ethan Holiday drafted fourth overall by
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the Colorado Rockies. Congratulations,
