{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"What Chipper Told My Best Friend Over a Drink","description":"I saw Chipper Jones at dinner in the Bahamas and it took me back to 1999. I'm not comparing myself to a Hall of Famer, the second greatest switch hitter of all time behind Mickey Mantle, but it shows what one conversation can do. My best friend Brad Fulmer, who came to my sentencing hearing and visited me twice a month in prison, was in his second year with the Montreal Expos. He finished third or fourth in Rookie of the Year voting the year before, then got off to a bad start and felt the manager wasn't a fan and wouldn't play him against lefties. I was in Montreal watching the Braves play the Expos. Chipper hit a pop fly, Brad dropped it, and Brad had a bad game. He thought he was getting sent down to the minors. That night at dinner in Montreal, Chipper recognized Brad, called us over, and for 10 or 15 minutes told him he was there for a reason, that he was a hitter and a force, to go through the process and stick with it, that these are the ups and downs of baseball. Brad appreciated it. It was a veteran talking to a younger player. When I saw Chipper in the Bahamas with his family I didn't disturb him. He won't remember me. If you have five or ten minutes and something worth telling someone, you never know what it does for them. ","author_name":"White Collar Advice","author_url":"http:\/\/WhiteCollarAdvice.com","html":"