Andy Neary reflects on baseball and what it taught him about failure. In baseball, even the best hitters fail 70% of the time. The mental shift from freshman to senior year showed him that failure isn't personal, it's part of the game.
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The cool thing about baseball is, you know, in any given day, any given day, if your pitcher's on or your hitters are on or their pitchers off, anybody can win those games. And I think, I think what I really learned over, over the years, you know, as a freshman, you get into the batter's box against some of these guys and your knees are knocking and your, your head's, you know, in the wrong place and you're nervous and you're thinking about how many people are watching you and you're gonna strike out. By the time you're a junior or senior, you go like, I've been here before and these guys are good, but they're still playing baseball, which is a game of failure. I mean, even their best hitters are going to get out six or seven out of 10 times. So I think by junior senior year ago, you know what, I can compete any given day with these guys.