A baseball season can feel like a coin flip until you hear how a veteran coach prepares for the moments when the game gets weird. I sit down with Brian Harrison, the longtime head coach at Baldwin Wallace University baseball, fresh off another NCAA Division III World Series run, to talk about what actually travels in the postseason: confidence, toughness, and a team culture that holds up when the bounces stop going your way.

Brian walks me through his path from being “in the portal before it was cool” to playing independent pro ball, then jumping into coaching and grinding through the kind of early seasons that test your patience. We also dig into the college baseball landscape today, including how recruiting works when every kid has video, every inbox is flooded, and relationships still matter. If you are a player, parent, or coach trying to understand what helps a student-athlete stand out, you will get practical, real-world guidance.

We wrap with some rapid opinions and fun detours: the pitch clock (we both end up liking it), the ghost runner (we both want it gone), and Brian’s Cleveland recommendations like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, East 4th, and West Side spots. Then we hit the Fast Fitty Five, because every serious sports talk needs at least one totally unhinged question.

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