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Jimmy Scott's High & Tight: The Brent Mayne Interview

By Jimmy Scott - Posted on 29 June 2009

Brent Mayne isn't your ordinary average guy. He's not just the guy next door who's 41 years old and works from home. He's more your ordinary average retired Major League Baseball player, who played 15 years in a game most guys - the ordinary average kind - would kill to play for 1 day. And he doesn't just work from home. He's now an accomplished author and public speaker. His book The Art of Catching (read a superior review HERE) is just the beginning of a business venture Brent hopes will lead him into new directions in a life already fulfilled with travel, riches, family and surprises. He may not look like it, but he's far from your ordinary average guy.

He's funny. There. I said it. No. Actually, I wrote it but you get the idea. Brent is a great voice. As a former catcher, the on field general during a baseball game, Brent knows a little bit about everything. In the Jimmy Scott's High & Tight: Brent Mayne Interview, you're going to absorb quite a bit of that Brent Mayne knowledge. But it won't be boring. Because he's funny. He's got good stories and he tells them well. He's candid and not afraid to speak his mind. Here's the stuff we talked about:

Part I

We get right into The Art of Catching, why he wrote it and how he wrote it. The segues into why he became a catcher (he didn't start as a 6 year old, if that's what you're thinking). He describes what goes on in those famous "pitchers & catchers meetings" and also describes the daily life of a catcher. Finally, he tells The Story of the Stolen Signs. Ohh, it's neat.

Part II 18:00

Brent played a lotta years with the Kansas City Royals, who haven't been good in a while, like when Brent was there. He talks about playing for teams that aren't built to win and how that compares with his 2004 season with the Los Angeles Dodgers, which resulted in the only post-season appearance of his career. Then he left the game. He talks about why he chose post-2004 and how he figured out his financial situation, which has to pretty much last the rest of his life. Then we danced. No we didn't. There was another musical interlude.

Part III 37:00

This is the section full of pump and circumstancial evidence. That's my fancy way of saying we get into steroids, big time. What did Brent do to keep up with the dudes who were shooting up? What's going to happen to those guys, to current steroid users, to The Game going forward? His response isn't your typical one. Then we get into some of Your questions that were asked on Facebook. Finally, he gets into the feeling of a play at the plate and we jointly come up with a new term, RANKENSTEIN, in which you take body parts from different catchers to make the perfect one. Yes, even at Jimmy Scott's High & Tight the creativity flows on and on and on.

Part IV 57:00

We're almost done. Almost. Brent talks about an All-Freak Team he and some guys made up one summer day in a bullpen somewhere in America. He talks about bullpen chatter during the games, playing winter ball, and even gives his review of the movie Sugar. Finally, we get into the always famous Meetings On The Mound. What're those guys talking about? Is it as funny as Bull Durham? Brent, let us know. Please. It's important.