“My wife and kids are at home, so that’s basically it right there,” laughed White. “I got nothing to do. My golf clubs are at home too. That’s really what it is. I removed all possible distractions and just feels like I’m in college again, just come to the facility here, get done with the day, go back to the (hotel), and just basically study; I study and order some food.”
And he watches the World Series while doing so.
It’s a love he just can’t quit.
“I still feel like I’m a baseball player facading as a football player,” he joked. “It’s what I grew up loving, like that was my dream was to play in the MLB. Granted, I love the NFL. I’m really glad I picked it, but there’s still that little kid inside me that just wants to go shag fly balls.”
Maybe for his next career?
Once committed to Stanford to play baseball for the iconic program, White entered his senior year of high school and began crunching numbers. Baseball scholarships don’t offer full rides. Football scholarships do. Not wanting to cost his parents even more money than what they’d already poured into his sports, he switched sports, playing his first football game as a senior in high school. And even when scouts called him in the 14th round of the MLB draft that year, he stuck with his new sport.
The skills were transferable—”At least I tell my parents that. They spent so much time and money on baseball for a sport that I didn’t end up playing.”—and he feels comfortable throwing off platform when the game dictates.