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“Uh Yeah” I shook h hell if you want”

He laughed “Just put their attitudes in check and make them better athletes”

“I think I can do that My only hesitation is my availability” I told him about my twenty-four-hours on, seventy-two-hours off schedule at the station “I havethose seventy-two hours off every other week, so the days are always shifting around But I wouldn’t be able to coach while I had them”

“Understood Why don’t you come over here on your next day off and look around, see the facility, the equip some sessions on the books that work for you?”

I glanced at the ti to be there for a bit”

“I’m here until five o’clock Come any time you like”

After wolfing down a sandwich for lunch, I headed over to Bayside Sports, a huge couy at the desk directed me to Tyler’s office, and I knocked on the open door

He looked up from his desk and smiled as he rose to his feet “Hey, Dex”

“Hey, Coach Nice place here”

“Thanks” He came around the desk and shook my hand “Let’s have a look around”

He gave me a tour of both the indoor and outdoor facilities, and I was thoroughly impressed with the size, the amount of equipment, and the quality of the ht do, hoe could schedule thei private fitness coaching since he fielded quite a few inquiries fro up on the coroup and private sessions, and what h the fall and winter I told hi as he could ith my availability

We went back to his office, where I filled out soave him my schedule for September and October

“This is totally workable,” he said “I’roup sessions on the website for Septeot a new trainer—a firefighter and ex-Navy SEAL—but his tiet in, you have to act fast I’m positive they’ll be full in a week”

“Sounds good” While he typed solanced around his office He had a lot of photos and memorabilia fronized his wife April—Chip’s birthpicture of Chip fra fierce and ready for battle It looked like it had been taken in the early days of Chip’s Major League career, and I could easily see the resemblance between father and son