John Smoltz is a busy guy, but he took some time to speak to donnovanbennett about the BlueJays and getting a taste of professional golf.
– Your off-season is not really an off-season as you’re going to be competing again as an athlete but in a different sport. What about the Century Championship is appealing to you?– It’s the best we have and what I mean by that is celebrities. We get together in what is one of the greatest venues, the best time of the year, temperatures that are usually phenomenal and we’re in one of those fields where you know, it’s electric.
I do my All-Star game for Fox. Jumping on a flight cross-country, get over there, try to squeeze in golf real fast and then try to compete at the highest level on a three-day tournament. It’s been a good result for me to this point.
It’s daunting. It’s a great challenge and what you really tried to do in my opinion, I can’t speak for everybody else. I want to see how great I could get. It’s not that I’m going to compete on a yearly basis. That’s not even in question. It’s what level can I get to and how far can I take it.JS Naturally, in the position of the commissioner’s office, they’ll want to look at that, and with information coming in the game at an alarming amount, where players are processing the game a little bit slower because of the information, because of the technology and sophistication. Sign stealing and, you know, trying to decode your sign.
But because we don’t know that it’s all speculation. Certainly, from a player’s standpoint what you’re used to is things that used to happen from outlier owners. Different people that would stray from the pack. From an information standpoint that may not be the case moving forward. I understand the fan standpoint, but I certainly think when the players have an opportunity to address it they either have that as a priority or not to find ways to fix that part of it moving forward.opened up spring training with comments about wanting to be a Blue Jay long-term and the organization not looking to compete because they’re not bringing up Vladdy and not bringing veterans into the clubhouse.
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