bryce harper, from your beloved nationals, you go to the minor leagues for a while. it's because guys aren't ready at 18, 19 or 20 to step right into the big leagues, what the minor leagues does is it weeds out that small percentage of those that can make to it the major leagues. if you get drafted, you have a 3% chance to get to the major leagues. once you get to aaa which is where this book is set, you're facing past major league leaguers every single night, and that's where it gets more difficult. >> alluding to in the intro, life in the minor leagues is not wonderful. living and out of western and greyhound buss. many earn less than the federal poverty level. if you know that you don't have what it takes to make it to the major leagues, why go through this? >> because they all still have that dream, that something's going to change, that they're going to find a way to hit that curveball, find a way to hit outside corner with the breaking pitch when they have to, because there are occasions where it happens. one of the guys i write about in the book, nate mclouth,