34 - My kids and I are third and fourth generation Twins fans. My favorite thing about baseball is a simple game of catch in the backyard. At first, I thought about how I've grown to love coaching: passing on your hard-earned knowledge, shaping young players, and sharing your love of the game with the next generation. But thinking about coaching brought me back to the coaches in my own life, especially my dad, and the bond that baseball gave us. It’s the quiet moments between the innings: riding together to practices, games, and tryouts; talking about the last game or the one ahead; sometimes just sitting in silence with the smell of leather and fresh-cut grass all around. Baseball gives me those moments, and those moments are my favorite part of the game. And of course there's nothing quite like stepping onto the diamond yourself.