We're back for another edition of the Crew Pod for Cameron
editor Carlos EP, Brad, I am Graham and Scott, Boris,
baseball's super agent, kind of one of the most consequential
people in the sport, somebody that not a lot of mainstream
folks are as familiar with, but has had one of the bigger
impacts of this generation of anybody.
If you don't know his name, you certainly know the players that
he represents. Everybody from Bryce Harper,
Barry Bonds, Garrett Cole, Juan Soto, Alex Rodriguez, like it's
a long list of very, very, very notable names.
Has changed the economics of the sport in a way that much more
favors the players than when Boris first came into the
league, around the time where players getting drafted were
making less in some cases than players a decade or two earlier.
So if there's ever going to be an agent inducted into the Hall
of Fame, it will likely be him. Carlos also had the dubious
honor of being filled in. DP on you know.
Thrilling. What do you think?
Yeah. I mean, it's just, you know,
it's a lot of stuff that you have to like, pay attention to.
I mean, like when it comes to like, you know, setting up the
cameras, lighting and also coordinating with the guests
too, to make sure the shot looks good.
So I'm stressed. Oh yeah, 100%.
I'm always stressed. Well.
One thing that was challenging with the office where we did the
sit down was trying to find the right spot because the best.
That Oh yeah, that was the thing.
The objectively best look would have been in front of this
baseball wall that he has in the lobby, which is signed by all
the players that he's represented.
But it's also right in the lobby.
It's like literally 10, five steps away from the front door.
In the interview, starting at the start of the day when
everybody would be. Well, everybody would have been
there, but it's also an open floor plan, and so people would
be listening and hearing. Now, Scott has a lot of
interesting baseball artifacts in his office, but it's a little
more cramps and the than the angles.
Yeah. I mean, that's what about the
angles? I mean, that would have been
nice to have. It's always better to have more
space rather than a cramped little office like that.
But yeah, it probably would have looked really cool out and like
outside his office like that with the background of all the
Hall of Famer, the baseball players and, you know, having
that depth. Although I do think if we had to
do it over again, I'd still pick the same place because we were
away from the noise, we didn't have to be interrupted, which
would have likely happened at least a few times.
And I also think less likely he would have been as comfortable
getting into sensitive topics out in the open.
At least my opinion. I think there's some value in
intimate settings. Yeah, no, I totally get it.
It makes sense. We tried.
For like, we thought a way to improve the look of the office
would be to raise the 2 levels of shades or blinds that he had
on his windows. We figure out how to we figure
out how to raise one of the one of them, and nobody in the
office could figure out how to raise the other.
One not even Boris. They they didn't ask.
I don't think they ever asked Scott.
And by the time we. Came in, we were set, we needed
to be set. So because he was got there late
a little bit. So we want to make sure we're
ready to go. I think 3 different people from
the office where they're trying to figure out how to open the
shades and like we've never seen these open.
So I'm not sure how to do it. So the interview ran long and
stood to disrupt what was planned for the rest of the day.
Little did I know, and I don't know if you knew this, but you
know, we were going with him to this charity baseball tournament
that he puts on with his brother at the local high school.
They had assembled media waiting there for Scott to do interviews
that he ended up missing entirely because our interview
ran so long, which I felt quite bad about, admittedly, though I
had no idea there were there was press there waiting to interview
him. I think the Boris interview
might have set an in depth record for longest interview.
Not even close. Well, anyway, it's up there top
five for Boris. He's got a, he has a lot of
knowledge in his brain and that showed because he just, any time
you ask a question, he would go on and on and on about these
players. And interestingly, I found less
interesting his knowledge of the players and just more
interesting, you know, peeling back a layer in terms of who he
is and how he got to where he is.
And you know, it is while he's a sports executive is different
than movie director or an actor or a comedian or, you know, any
of these other folks that will also profile.
There's I think a through line with all of these folks, which
is to be the elite at what you are.
There's just constant work ethic and you were on all the time.
I mean, he's on the same way. Barry Sternlich's on the the
same way that you know, Jesse Cole's on the same way that you
know, it's like all of these folks.
It's the same. When he talked about the
sacrifices too, that he's made to make that happen.
To be the best, to always be the best, to always have an on.
It's a life that I semi relate to.
But like, I can't imagine being always on in the way that those
guys do that. It's crazy because even if you
love your family and you're a great father or partner, there
is obvious sacrifice from a time investment perspective that
happens when you're at that level for professionally,
regardless who it is that we're talking to.
So the the interview went long. One of the things we were
obviously looking forward to was touring this really cool office
of his and all that's there. I would imagine the stress
increased even more for you because all of the sudden this
extensive time we thought we were going to have for this tour
got compressed and compressed. And compressed, I went for a
split second. I was like, oh, it might not
happen. Because I remember you guys were
like talking about like, oh, like Scott has to go to his
foundation because he's going to miss something.
And then you guys were like talking to each other and like,
oh, like how much time everyone squeeze to do this.
So yeah, I mean, that was another thing too.
I mean, we were trying to like do this really quick and wrap up
and head out to the foundation, which had more stress you're.
Just trying to get just enough. To make it a.
Clip to make it something and then move on, which we did.
We did. He still generously helped in
getting us Juan Soto to talk to as part of this profile.
Yeah, that was, that was really cool.
We shot that down at Busch Stadium.
They were conveniently the Mets were conveniently here in town
in Saint Louis prior to us needing to wrap up the episode
and also nervous there though because Juan was a little late
to ride a. Little I mean, he was, he was
like one hour late. Or pushing 2.
Hours. No, no, it wasn't close.
It wasn't 2 because we started the thing at 3:45 and he was
supposed. To two. 30, OK, So all right,
OK, an hour 15 is closer to 1 than it is 2.
So you're competing against the weather and you're competing
against the music for batting practice.
When is it going to start to pour?
When is the music going to start to blare?
And then I had a Zoom with a potential upcoming guest five
that would be huge for us. And we're like, Oh my God, are
we going to have to cancel? Possibly 1.
So no. Right.
And it all worked out, but I was very nervous for that hour where
we didn't know when the interview with Juan was going to
start because, you know, you can only control what you can
control. But you know, from 2:30, the
time he was supposed to do the interview, it would have been
perfect. And so when you see that and you
understand that and then think to yourself, oh, OK, now that
he's running late, if he shows up at 3:00 or 3:15 or 330,
whatever it is, and then 2 seconds later BP starts and the
music just goes off, you can't help but think this could have
been so much better. Like, that's what I only would
have thought that. So thank goodness the skies
held, the music held off, and we were able to get the interview
with minimal background noise right, Right.
And our final interview of the 15th year of the show.
Another one in the books. Any final thoughts?
No, I was just going to say how like inspirational, like not
inspirational, but like, a lot of people respect Scott.
I can see that. Like when we went through the
Angel Stadium and just seeing all the players going up to him,
like, oh, like, like your resources and all the stuff that
you do has really helped us and stuff like that.
And so I don't know, I was just shocked by like the amount of
respect this guy has. I did love the player too that
found out he made the opening day roster too.
That was a cool moment for us to capture and you see Scott's
excitement for his guys, but once again, that's that passion
that he pours into it day in, day out.
And for somebody who has been on the receiving end of a lot of
criticism over the years, it seems like he has done a lot of
good for players in general, not just his clients.
In terms of the game and from our interactions with him, he
seemed to be a really good man. Yeah, and it shows that he
really cares. I mean, you can.
I can just tell by just how he interacts with all these players
and stuff. Like he really does care.
Lives and breathes the game, that is for sure.
For Carlos and Brad. I am Graham, we'll see you next
time.