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The Lead
"jaisa" Discussed on The Lead
"So David, you wrote in your story that John jaso had docked his boat in Turks and Caicos, but then the pandemic hit. And they were suddenly travel restrictions. What did that mean for him? Yeah, he was bummed about it because if you think about the timing, right? He retired in 2017. You just started to learn to sail, he had just spent a couple of years kind of going back and forth between Florida and being on the boat. You know, it was devastating for him. He would have been looking forward to this for a long time. And as you mentioned, he had docked it on Turks and Caicos during the winter because he doesn't typically sail during the winter. And so as soon as he was able to go get it, that was in the spring of 2022 last year. He went and got and he spent three months on the boat with his girlfriend, Jaden DeVille. So I think it was fair to say that he missed it, you know, by the time he got back out there, he spent just about as long out there as he could. As you mentioned, when he finally got the boat back, he and his girlfriend Jane DeVille took a three month sale around the Caribbean. And John and Jaden actually have their own YouTube channel documenting some of these adventures that channel, by the way, is called tipsy nomads for our listeners who might want to listen to that or watch that. I'm sure tipsy refers to the boat, right? Of course, of course. How much of the time is Jaden out on the boat with him? And what's their life like these days? Yeah, Jaden still has a day job, so she's not quite able to live the retired life that John Jay so has. But they spend a lot of time there together traveling on the boat and traveling elsewhere. Welcome back tipsy nomads, a little over two months ago, we packed her essentials set our goodbyes in saint Pete, Florida, hopped on our flight and went straight to tortula be the eyes where our boat roaming rose was waiting for our arrival. Jaden said that when John's on the boat, he reaches this other level of peace. All right, so as we leave this beautiful island behind it. And move on to Martinique. Time to ask you, what is your me? Yeah. What is your favorite memory from how long do you spend here? Ten days, maybe. 13 days. Favorite memories. You know, she said he's a pretty peaceful person in general, but when he's on the boat, even when there are issues with it, when something is going wrong, he likes dealing with it. He was full of water and easy way to get the water out when you're underway. So hop in here and open up the drain plug. And it just kind of gets sucked out to sea. So that's what I'm doing back here. And she said, you know, when things are calm, he'll just grab his guitar and start playing it on the deck. And I think if, you know, the last time you saw jaisa was him with his dreadlocks, you know, swinging a bat and PNC park. You might not have that much trouble imagining him on the deck of a sailboat strumming a guitar song along the way as well. No, that's truly living the life. Definitely. And finally, David, John J so is as we've heard a pretty articulate and thoughtful guy. Former catcher's famously make good managers and coaches, so do you think there's a chance he comes back to baseball at some point as a coach or broadcaster maybe, or is he out on the sea to say? Yeah, as a reporter, I try to talk about the past more than make predictions about the future, but I would say that I do not see Jay so coming back to baseball in any kind of way. He told me he doesn't even really watch the sport anymore. When we talked originally, the rays were in the playoffs and he said he wasn't really following the push and that's the team that's in his hometown and a team that he played for and had quite a bit of success with. I think he's found a kind of contentment with his life now. And honestly, that's pretty rare for retired professional athletes. A lot of them still try to find that high, like Perez, his friend was talking about. So I hope he continues to live in that piece, but I don't think the baseball is going to be a part of the plan moving forward. We're heading off to Saint Lucia tomorrow morning. Probably leave at four. So we're going to hunker down here for tonight and probably just a couple hours and get a couple hours of sleep. Maybe a nice meal. Head out to Alicia. Boom, right over there. Well, thank you so much, David, for sharing this amazing story. I'm definitely going to somehow try to find a way to make my own millions so I can go retire. Maybe not on the sea, but you know, live that kind of life. Yeah, I'm happy to go splits these with you. Just let me know how you figure it out. And let's do it. Thank you so much. Thank you guys. You can read David Gardner's full story about John Jason on the sailboat at NY times dot com. And find him on Twitter at bye, David Gardner. Okay, that's it for today. This episode was produced by Matt strow. Production assistance by Daniel Gonzalez. Fact checking by Charlotte Edmunds sound design and mixing by Aaron may. The rest of our team includes Joe Richardson, Adrian Tapia, and Ian Hurley. Our executive producer is Anders kelto. The lead is executive produced by Dave Easton, Marshall Louis, and Jen sergeant for wondering. From wondery, I'm Tiffany osinski,
The Lead
"jaisa" Discussed on The Lead
"Today, reporter David Gardner joins us to look at why jaisa walked away from baseball, leaving potentially millions of dollars on the table. The parallel he found between life on the diamond and life on the ocean. And some of his most harrowing adventures along the way. He saw a lightning coming across the sky, felt the winds, he felt the waves rising up, and he had one hand on the wheel and he had one hand on his life preserver and his go bag. John was attracted to something that was a little more primal. It was just survival. From wondery, I'm Tiffany osinski. It's Friday, February 24th, and this is the lead. David Gardner, welcome back to the show, thanks for being here. Oh, thanks for having me again. It's a pleasure. Always a pleasure to speak with you. And you recently wrote this great story for The New York Times about John jaso and his decision to pursue a life at sea. But before we get into Jason's really unique life after baseball, can you first just give us a quick snapshot of J so as a player? Yeah, I think it's fair to describe J so as a journeyman, both in his retirement and during his career. You know, he was drafted by the rays back then they were known as the devil rays. That's how long ago it was that he was a 12th rounder in 2003. Finally, I got a call from the devil ray scout time, create wiseman and said, hey man, we just took you in the 12th round. Congratulations. And I was like, sweet and I remember running up the driveway, my grandparents house and just being like, got drafted and that was it. He began his career as a catcher and that's the position he played when the rays called him up to the majors in 2008, a few years later he was traded to the Mariners and you mentioned in the intro, but he caught the wood is still the most recent perfect game in Major League Baseball history from Felix Hernandez in 2012. He kept making pitches the whole game through. I mean, the last that bad of the game going down too low and then still having the confidence to, I mean, I threw down slider and he went with it. I mean, he just had confidence going up there and I mean, that was great. Interestingly enough, that perfect game was against the race, his former team. He went on to play for the a's and then went back to the rays. He actually sustained a couple of concussions, which forced him to switch to the infield. I mean, just as a catcher, you're right in the action. And I mean, everything is happening so quick back there catching. And you just have to be so into the game that I figured that that switch over to first base is a little bit easier than say taking a right Fielder and making them catch. Something like that. Early in his career, he had sort of close cropped hair, but towards the end of his career, he started growing out these dreadlocks, which I think made him one of the more well-known and recognizable baseball players in the majors, and certainly he was more popular than at that point his career would lead him to be. He wasn't one of the best players in Major League Baseball, but he certainly was one of the most recognizable. So as for J so the individual, we found a clip from back in 2015 with the raised TV crew where they were talking about a topic. You don't hear too often in an Emily dugout, which was his recycling preferences. Yeah, I'm a big advocate of it. I actually have a little recycling bin in our Clubhouse in the weight room. KB lets me put it in there and I love it. On a scale of you compared to the rest of the league, are you about as green as they come in the Clubhouse? I think so. I mean, I tried to be green in the Clubhouse outside of the Clubhouse. So David, it seems like John Jay so, even going back to his playing days was a little bit of a free spirit or a free thinker, however you want to put it. Is that fair to say? Yeah, everyone I talked to for this story is Friends and family described J so as a free thinker sort of out of step with the culture of professional athletics as we tend to think about it, you know, the stereotypical professional athlete is wearing diamond encrusted jewelry and is driving a luxury car. I don't know. I keep telling myself the next car I get is going to be an electric car. Really? Yeah, yeah, definitely. With exotic pets, I know you and your wife had a few over the years. Do you still have any? No, they've kind of, we've had a kind of give them away over the years. He never seemed to be obsessed with the sport either in the way that other baseball players were. And he definitely didn't seem to be obsessed with money. You know, he told me that he always loved being outside in nature. And it was clear even from early in his career that he wasn't going to be a baseball lifer. He just wasn't wired in the same way that many other athletes are with that obsession and that drive. Of course he had it because he got to the majors, but it wasn't what made him feel alive. It wasn't what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. Well, that's a perfect segue because that takes us to where your story begins in 2017 near the tail end of John Jace's career. So can you give us a sense of what was going on with him at that time and how he ended up with a boat? So I think it's fair to say there wouldn't have been enormous interest in John Jay so after his last season, he had just finished a two year deal with the pirates. He would have been a free agent, but I think it's fair to say that he would have been able to stay in the majors for another couple of years if that's what he had wanted. But he didn't want that. He was ready to move on to the next phase of his life. So in 2017, during that season, he started shopping for boats so that he could spend part of the year in it, and the funny thing is that he didn't know how to sail at this time. He just knew that's what he wanted to do. I guess, you know, the sea was calling. But without knowing how to sail, he knew what he wanted to do was to buy a boat. So he found a boat actually before a game. He was in Baltimore and he was playing a road game for the pirates and he had been kind of looking on the Internet for boats and he found one that it was at a Marina near the park. He took an Uber over there. He went and looked at it. He loved it. He had an inspector. He sent it to St. Petersburg, where he was living at the time. So the first pitch, I believe, was at 7 o'clock that night in Baltimore. And so he went back home to the hotel and then he went back to the stadium in time to go two for four with an RBI at that 7 ten first pitch against the Orioles. So he gets the boat, and then at the end of the season, seemingly without a lot of fanfare, he retired. What did he say about his plans at that time? Yeah, so this was at the end of the 2017 season, a beat reporter for the Pittsburgh post gazette was making his rounds in the locker room for people who aren't familiar. This is a very standard move that a good beat reporter will do, which is every single free agent in the locker room at the end of a season, you'll walk over to them and you'll ask them, hey, what are your plans? Are you going to resign? Are you going to look and see if there's greener pastures elsewhere? And Jesus said that he was done. He was going to retire. He asked Jason what his plans were, which is a great follow-up question and J so just kind of casually said that he was going to retire and travel. He told me that he wasn't planning on saying he was going to retire in that moment, but he just decided somebody asked him and he was going to tell the truth, so he said, you know, I've got a sailboat and I'm going to sail away. So he was 34 when he walked away from baseball, and he hit ten home runs his final season to match his career high. So as you mentioned before, it seems like he still had maybe a couple or a few years left in the majors, potentially. So what did he tell you about why
WTOP
"jaisa" Discussed on WTOP
"Blake is speaking out now about her son's death. She is the mother of 13 year old Iran Blake, who was shot and killed early last month. The D.C. northeast homeowner who pulled the trigger is now charged officially this week with second degree murder in the case. Karon Blake's mom demands justice in the death of her son, and she says the suspended D.C. parks employee Jason Lewis charged with killing him should be convicted to the highest. But jaisa Lewis, he had no right. He had no right. London Blake describes the 13 year old as the man of her house. She has three other younger children. Caron came from a good home. And I tried my best with her. The family legal team praised the work of the grand jury and said Quran's last words, I'm a kid, prove that Jason Lewis knew he was shooting a child. Particularly on WTO news. And family and friends of Tyree Nichols gathered this week wins the afternoon at a Memphis church to celebrate his life, Nichols died three weeks ago, just days after a brutal beating from Memphis police officers. Vice president Kamala Harris gave an unexpected and impassioned speech Wednesday to the crowd. Nichols loved ones actually spoke lovingly of their son, father, brother, and friend. They promised to continue the fight for justice for him and other victims of police brutality. We're looking forward to passing some bills. We're looking forward to getting justice for all the families over there. Not just ours. This is a continuous fight that we have to fight for. That's nickel stepfather, Rodney wells, the 5 police officers who beat Nichols have been fired and charged with murder. The FBI searched President Biden's home again in Rehoboth beach Delaware for more classified documents this week. They did not find what they were looking for, but they also were told did not leave empty handed. The president's personal lawyer says the search in Rehoboth lasted three and a half hours and ended with agents not finding any papers with classified markings. But is also happened in Wilmington last month, we're told the FBI removed from the president's vacation home handwritten notes and other papers for further review. Those papers appear to date to Joe Biden's time as vice president. CBS News White House correspondent Steven portnoy Thursday morning on WTO P, the latest now on the war between Russia and Ukraine, Ukraine is starting to receive some of the latest weapons promised to them by Western countries. They should be receiving tanks, other ground fighting vehicles, as well as ammunition, and others word from Ukraine this week that the U.S. is about to send another key weapon to them as we hear from WTO P national security correspondent JJ green this morning. These are precision guided ground launched small diameter bombs. They have a range of about 95 miles, and that's further than any other weapon in the U.S. has transferred to Ukraine so far. This is according to The Wall Street Journal which first reported this weapon can be fired from rocket launchers like hi Mars and this is something Ukraine already has. It's equipped with wings to allow it to glide on the way to its target. And it has a rocket motor to increase the range of the flight. We asked The Pentagon about this and a spokeswoman said they wouldn't quote speculate on future security assistance packages, including what may or may not be under consideration until an announcement is made and they're not making an announcement. Ukraine says this announcement could come by Friday. So it's not clear what The Pentagon is doing, but we do know that something is afoot and Ukraine has hinted that that and other weapons may be headed their way. But the latest in the war between Russia and Ukraine national security correspondent JJ green. You are listening to 103.5 FM and WTO P dot com. 19 lane. Sports at 15 and 45 powered by maximus. Moving people and innovation forward. This early 3 a.m. hour thirst, you won't be February 2nd with Frankie. Former Washington football general manager Bobby Beth has passed away at the age of 86. He was in D.C. from 1978 to 1989 right smack dab in the middle of the heyday and he was mostly responsible for it. He hired Joe Gibbs in 1981. He drafted three future Hall of Famers in Russ Grimm, art monk and Daryl Greene, the teams he put together one, two super bowls, Bobby Beth, was 86. Tom Brady is going to be in the Hall of Fame soon. He officially retired again, but this time he says it's for good, put that post out on social media, had a 23 year NFL career after being drafted in the 6th round back in 1999 out of Michigan. Who would have thought he was going to win 7 super bowls, three MVPs, so many records, Tom Brady, arguably the greatest of all time hanging it up for good. College basketball, Georgetown loses, to create in 63 53, hoyas won and 11 in Big E's play. GW falls to LaSalle 75 64. Navy holds Lafayette to 11 points in the second half beats the leopards 53 34 wizards, no game they were supposed to play Detroit, but the pistons couldn't get out of Dallas. They were snowed in, so that game will be made up at a later date. A Frank hand ran WTO be sports. All right, thanks, Ricky, as always, three 46 on WTO feed. Is WTO news. There's a lot of history at Howard University and the school is working to preserve it by fixing up a national landmark on campus. First built in 1913, the minor building at Howard University along Georgia avenue was one of the nation's first schools for black teachers. It's been mostly vacant for decades, but the university is now pouring $50 million into a renovation. When it's done, the building will be home to the university's school of education and the Howard University middle school for mathematics and science, school of education dean dawn Williams. It was for the purpose
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"jaisa" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
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Promo code boxing make every moment more this season with FanDuel, the official sportsbook partner of the NBA. All right, Regis pro grey is the former 140 pound champion on Saturday. He will attempt to regain a junior welterweight belt when he takes on Jose zapata in Carson, California. That's a fight that you can watch on pay per view and Regis joins me here on the show. Let me ask you first. I saw that before the media workout this week. Jose zapata was in a minor car accident. When you heard he was in a car accident, what was the first thing that crossed your mind? I was like, oh, lord, please don't let this fight, not having because he got the call right. That was my first thing like bro, really? He gets in the car right on the media day like this is like, this is crazy. So, but they told me everything was fine. He's good. So I was happy about that, but yeah, that was the main thing. I was just like, oh man, I just can't believe this happened. I'm out here. I don't want to fight to be called off. You know, I had a long camp and we all out here my team. Everybody's out here and if this happens in a feige called off, that'll be that'll be a disaster. Yeah, as you said this week, you basically been training for this fight for three years, so to have it called off would have been a catastrophe. Speaking of this fight, it has been more than three years since you lost your title and that unification fight against Josh Taylor. In your mind, why is it taking this long for you to get another shot? I don't know, man. Maybe it's maybe it was my team, it was a people around me. I don't know. I really don't know. I can't say why. It took this long. It shouldn't take this long. You know, like if you look at I was a champion, I was number one in the world. I was champion and number one in the world. And then, you know, I lost the belt and it took me all this time to, you know, to get back to it. And then you have somebody like José Ramírez, which, you know, he fought Josh Taylor. He lost his belt and then he fights. I think he fought for jaisa and then he's right back in line for the belt again. Like, right after one fight, I had to wait three fights, you know? So I don't know, man. Maybe it's politics, maybe it's like I said, maybe it was my team. Maybe people just don't like me. I don't know. I don't know what it was. I mean, to me, it's got to be politics, right? Because you're a very likeable guy, you're a very entertaining fighter in the ring. I think the one missing link is that over the last few years, you have not been aligned with a top rank with a golden boy with a match room. Somebody like that that where guys play the game and put them, put people like José Ramírez in that position. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. And I guess that's what happened, you know. But I'm just glad, you know, I'm glad it happened now. You know, I sacrificed for three years. I could have went to 47 a long time ago and, you know, I said, you know, my thing is I want to be a champion to get in at one 40. This is something that I just want, you know, something I have on my vision board, something that I just, I really, really yearn to have that is to be a two time world champion. But before I even think about anything else, I want to be a two time world champion. So I sacrificed, I had nutritionists and now I'm standing one 40. So why tell me more about why that was so important to you? Because you're right, you could have moved up to one 47. There was some talk a couple of years ago about you and Terrence Crawford potentially meeting at one 47. You were talking about and have fought a catch weights over the last couple of years. Why is it so important to you to get that second title reign at one 40? Oh, honestly, I just feel like I still should be a champion. That's all. I mean, with the whole job here, the thing I still felt like, listen, it was a close fight. And I won't say that, oh, I got robbed it up like that, because I did get robbed, you know, but I felt like, you know, I should still be a champion. That's just kind of how I feel like I did lose the fight and I should still be a champion. I feel like if the fight was here, and it was that close, I probably would have got the decision. So I felt like I should still be, you know, I should still be a world champion and it just kind of my personal history to be a two Time Warner champion. How much do you think back on that Taylor fight? Because, I mean, it was a very close fight. And you did have to go overseas to take that fight as part of the world boxing super series. Taylor went on to become undisputed, and you've kind of been trying to work your way back into that mix. Do you think often about that fight? It's like, yes, it's a yes and no thing. You know, like so for me, I tell everybody that my personal life is amazing, you know? So it's like, it's two different lives, like the box of life, and then the person you're like, like my personal life is way more amazing than my boss life. I really do Boston just because I really love the fight. I really really like the train. I really love boxes, but as far as the politics, you know, I really don't like all the politics and all the stuff that goes behind boxing. I don't like that, but I love the sport. I love the fighters. I love the history of it. I'm a historian. I read about boxing all day. I just love that about the sport, but as far as the things that go on behind the scene, I don't like that stuff. So I just boxed because I just, for me, I just bought it because I just, you know, I love it. I just loved it. I loved the sport. That's all. And so, yeah, I love it, but on the personal side, I'm always great. Was there professionally speaking, was there a really frustrating point for you over the last few years where you kind of wondered where maybe you wondered if it was ever really going to happen for you? It's a yes and it's a low question. Because for me, what I did, to get to the number one spot to get to be a world champion, what I did is I just worked man. I studied. I worked. I put my head down and worked. And so for the last three years, that's what I did. I just put my head down. I worked out, I mean, for the most part, every night I might say some things on social media, but for the most part, I just I shut up. I think a plane, I just put my head down and I worked and worked and worked. And I knew, listen, if I keep working, no matter if it take three years, four years, 6 years, I'm going to get that spot again. I'm going to get a shot again. And, you know, to put a belt, and I'm going to be a two time I'm going to be a world champion again. So it was like, yeah, it was definitely frustrating. And you know, the most, I think the most frustrating thing is that, listen, I thought of all the networks, I was making them for a long time for them. Stand up for the zone I thought I'm showtime many events all the time. And then as soon as you lose, it's like, it's like, they throw you away. Like literally, in boxing, they just throw you away, they put me on the cars. I'm like, you know, and I just say that. I didn't complain about it. You know, in my head, I'm like, all right, you know, but I didn't say nothing. I said, all right, all this, you're gonna see, because I will be a world champion again. And all the frustration is gonna come out. It really is Regis the worst part about boxing how they treat a loss or how promoters and networks often treat a loss because you look at UFC and I don't even know how many losses some of their main events guys have. Like how many losses Nate Diaz have and he's still a headliner. You are, you are, you have been a really compelling guy in the ring. Your fights are entertaining. So network should want to have you on more often. It was always perplexing to me. I know some have tried. I mean, I really wish and I'm sure you did that the hooker fight happened when it was supposed to happen before the pandemic. That would have been a great showcase fight with for you and probably would have propelled you