Dive into the fascinating world of professional baseball and sports talk radio with our latest episode featuring Brad Thompson. From dreams of playing in the big leagues in Las Vegas to winning the World Series with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2006. As a former St. Louis Cardinals player turned broadcaster, Brad unfolds his inspiring transition from the baseball diamond to the airwaves. Brett and Brad talk about 2024 season predictions and some of the favorites in Major League Baseball. Tune in for an insightful conversation blending baseball, MLB insights, and the business of sports. ⚾? Don't miss this episode of The Circuit of Success!



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I've got my buddy, Brad Thompson.

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What's up, Brad? How are you doing? I'm

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doing great, man. Thanks for having me. I

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was getting bored at the house. I'm glad

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somebody called finally. Well, yeah. You're doing radio

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now, what? Part time. Is that right? Yeah.

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Filling in a little bit. It's it's been

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a change for me. It's been, as you

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know, I was doing drive time radio,

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on one of 1PM on the fast lane

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for, like, last ten years.

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This past year doing more baseball games, with

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the cardinals, which Brad a blast doing. Season

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didn't go exactly I had a lot of

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fun doing the games. I'm sure we'll get

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into that, but,

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I scaled back my work on that side.

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So now I'm not doing that every day,

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and I'm, I'm reintroducing myself of the family

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in the off season. My dog's not barking

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at me now, so that's good. Who the

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hell? I'm just gonna change. Yeah. It's a

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big change. It is a big change, man.

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Well, You are a blast, as I've told

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you a million times to watch on, the

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television. I think you do a great job

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with the games. And even despite the season

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we Brad, It was, that's gotta be tough,

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which I'm gonna ask that later. But, for

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those that don't know you, two thousand six

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world series champ ESPN Radio, as you mentioned,

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announcer for the Saint Louis cardinals.

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Just an all around great guy, but just

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give us a little bit of lay of

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the background of people that, again, that maybe

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not know who you are. What's made you

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the man you are today? Yeah. Well, look,

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I I I never

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expected

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or intended to be where I am right

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now. In o'fallon, Illinois live here.

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In the media at all that was never

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a thought. I just saw it was a

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kid who grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada,

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and, I just love playing baseball.

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And,

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it's

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you generally hear

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people's story of how they made it to

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the big leagues, and it's oftentimes the same

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story. It's like, oh, he's the best player

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on this team, the best player on his

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high school team, two way player hit home

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runs, played shortstop. That is not my story,

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like, at all. I don't think I was

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ever the best player on any team that

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I played on, and I'm not talking about

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any big league teams, like Albert Pujols and

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all these guys running around. I'm talking about,

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like, Timmy that picks his boogers wasn't even

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the best player on on that team growing

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up, but I always loved it. And I

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always, worked hard, and I was just always

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there. Like, you know, I and think that's

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one of the the biggest things whenever I

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have an opportunity to talk to kids. You

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don't have to be the best player on

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the team. You don't have to have the

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best skill set You have to care. You

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have to want to get better and you

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have to work. And if you do those

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things, opportunities might come. And that was the

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case for me. Out of high school, I

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got an opportunity

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right before school was about to start to

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go to a smaller junior college in Utah,

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at the time, Dixie State College,

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now Utah Tech d one school now, but

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a junior college back in the day. And,

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snuck on there did well,

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after my second year there ended up getting

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drafted by the cardinals, and it was just

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a kind of a a whirlwind. Spent two

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years in the minor leagues.

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And a month into my third year, a

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guy called up to the big leagues and

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made a career out of it. And it

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wasn't the easiest. I I'm well traveled, Brett.

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You know that. I know I know the

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way from Saint Louis to Memphis really well.

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Big leagues to triple a. The ups and

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downs of have been incredibly blessed though to

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be able to to play the game that

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I love and do it as a living

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and now jump into this, which again, wasn't

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unexpected. Yeah. I think I owe you a

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couple lunches still from little kids baseball. Can

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we talk about that on a podcast? Yes.

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We didn't do that. We did not bet

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on lunch and his kids We just had

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webs my kids team all the time. And

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We had hunches of gonna lie. I had

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a hunch. Yeah. You were you were betting

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with your heart. It was crazy. Like, he

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didn't even have a chance, but, hey, we,

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we tried to make happened. So I was

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gonna ask you too. Have you, have you

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seen Tiger Woods lately?

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No. Have you? No. Just in spring training.

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Just in spring. When you and I were

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creeping his restaurant. Damn. So what's that private

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party out there? Looks like an awful lot

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of security for just a normal private party,

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doesn't it? You and I are peaking. Yeah.

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Tiger was there. Tucker was there. We were

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in the same restaurant. We're having dinner, Brad

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and I. And,

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well, my gosh, that's a lot of people.

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I think I even tried to go to

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the restroom and turn right. And Sorry. You

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gotta go this way. Exactly.

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And then we found out, I think, wasn't

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it you or me? Somebody got a text

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that Tiger Woods. They didn't know we were

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there at the restaurant. They're like Tiger Woods

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is at his restaurant Jupiter, and I'm like,

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oh, crap. We missed him. Yeah. Head his,

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like, daughter, soccer, partner, some either way, I

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think that we could say we had, dinner

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with tag.

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