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Garret Anderson talks about how much he has learned from being a father and how his family gives balance to his life.

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Your family you're pretty private about it and I'm not asking to open up. Too much but opened up enough what it means to be -- father and -- your wife and your kids mean to you and how they are doing.

All -- in the world to me. You know my wife who I've been married to telephone fifteen years now and now have three children eleven and I and then he'll be seven next month and they're all you know they're my laurels you know it's I definitely guys fatherhood up with a lot of mistakes over the years. He didn't really know how to be a father you know from the standpoint of you know how to spend time with the kids and not always just maintain a B and my wife was right.

Gotta be there with -- got you down and you know talk to -- do in there and you know. You don't get on their level get on the floor and play with -- somewhere and a lot of that stuff over the years and you know I enjoy I get up in the morning I'm taking a school. You know during the season -- can't seem so I get up I'll give up after nine game and you know mass Fulham in the morning and taken school and and they enjoy that. And grown up just you and mom you understand. Probably from their perspective how great it is to have you -- to have you -- I know have them both parents in the house is huge and you are now able to you know. That kind of thing just wish to become a mother and a father being in the house you know -- gives amounts to the kids in the you know gives them -- a chance to run to this person has this person not being fair you know that old compromise thing yeah. But let us -- live our lives -- that is exactly it -- is pretty cool -- place for baseball -- my days and you know I think they're very used to it it's it's the norm for themselves I you know right at school they kind of you know sometimes I've heard the stories that come to -- in a statue Gail Anderson is daughter son and a couple times they said no specific because they just don't want to deal with owls kind of they impressed -- that's that young days that they can they understand the fact that you know what I don't want to just talking to me for that you know if you want to talk to me just talk to me so. They a day there they enjoy it because they get to come to the game plan a family room in Iraq the last few years. Before spring training before about to -- do you even and I had early on you know only Monday. -- haul -- after retired no no no local. You know this they've -- United do that's us okay what do -- you know what is it that I have to go to spring training five weeks. So you're okay okay okay so you know we're still -- so. Eventually they're gonna they're going to say you know that we're having home so.

Yeah there's got to work as good job yeah. Another official gotta you gotta ask you questions like this is I'm asking for press guide for an exact title told back here but hobbies I mean c'mon what -- you like to -- guardians. Well he did you can't hit the ball he said I still have a contract. What it is is just to challenge this is -- it's relaxing give me a chance to still do something from athletic standpoint competition and I'll be over due for a long time. So he had this big situated detached from the -- walk and you get hit it probably a thousand -- know even in the shortstop no honor I can't have a thousand miles back to back you up a little bit but -- ends up in Iraq and want so sometimes -- on the -- but again -- love the game love I -- watching it on the planet I had the equipment -- everything -- meticulous these guys yeah okay and I started taking lessons of corner work. Former golf pro and actually saw -- your printer named Rick Roscoe. He -- you -- golf lessons in nine straight and some strokes off my name's here they're trying to make him. Probably making some strides do little bit better -- it's not inside the said the equipment at him teach you it's me it's been yeah. Still it's still it's a tough thing to do -- sports yes you know music. Yes we listen to -- right now I would say Carl Thomas army. -- and -- right now so ourself within a couple different artists but he's one that's reminiscent of -- old school or be Tim Tony. Opponent prior who -- Brothers soldiers -- are definitely are grew up. I think I'm I'm I'm stuck in the seventies in the sense I would you know people so you were little at this time -- heard it. Aside their final you know that music is that music you played your play forever so I'm not really enjoy the seventies

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