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I want you to know what this is.

This isn't a marketing email.

This isn't a highlight reel.

👉 This is me — holding myself accountable — every week.

I've spent 25+ years in this game.

Five continents.

Countless locker rooms.

And here's the honest truth:

The more time I spend in baseball —

👉 The more I realize how much I still don't know.

That used to bother me.

Now it drives me.

Because I'd rather be a coach who's still hungry than a coach who thinks he's arrived.

So every week — or every other week — I sit down and I answer four questions:

What am I reading? What am I watching? What am I learning? What am I writing?

And I share it with you. Free.

No complaints. No excuses.

Because I don't believe change comes TO me.

👉 I believe it comes FROM me.

My goal is simple and I'll say it out loud so you can hold me to it:

👉 This is going to be the best free newsletter in international baseball.

Alright.

Let's get into this week.

Chapter 6 of Legacy stopped me cold.

Kerr writes about the Māori concept of Whānau.

It means family.

But not the kind you're born into.

👉 The kind you build.

The All Blacks have a policy most teams won't touch.

They call it No Dickheads.

Sounds simple.

It's actually everything.

Because what they're really saying is:

👉 Character gets selected. Ego gets cut.

Doesn't matter how talented you are.

If you can't follow the spearhead —

If you can't put the team above yourself —

You don't wear the jersey.

And you know what that creates?

A room full of people who show up for each other.

Every single day.

Win or lose.

That's Whānau.

👉 That's The Unit.

The 2026 World Baseball Classic just wrapped.

Venezuela. 3-2. Over Team USA.

Think about that.

No superstar system.

No guaranteed names.

👉 Just a group of men playing for 40 million people back home.

Eugenio Suárez said it best after the final out:

"Nobody believed in Venezuela. But now we win the championship."

That's not talent talking.

👉 That's identity.

That's The Unit.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10.

"Two are better than one… if either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up."

That's not poetry.

👉 That's a performance principle.

Isolation is a losing strategy.

It always has been.

Solomon knew it.

Venezuela just proved it.

And this week?

👉 I watched it happen in my own backyard.

👉 Two days.

Our young catching corps.

His secrets.

No contract. No obligation.

He just showed up.

And for two days he poured everything he had into our guys.

The mindset. The preparation. The details the best in the world live by.

That's what I've been writing about in Weapon 5 of the War Room.

👉 The Unit.

Kerr writes in Chapter 6 of Legacy that the All Blacks have one non-negotiable when it comes to building their unit.

They call it the No Dickheads policy.

Sounds blunt.

👉 That's the point.

It means character gets selected.

Ego gets cut.

Because a room full of talented individuals protecting their own turf?

👉 That's not a unit. That's a waiting room.

But a room full of people who show up for each other —

Who invest without keeping score —

Who pour in before they can get anything back?

That's unbeatable.

Alex Derhak walked into our program this week with zero ego and everything to give.

👉 That's the No Dickheads policy in real life.

And that's exactly the kind of people I want in our unit.

Three thousand years.

Five continents.

One truth.

👉 You cannot build a legacy alone.

Solomon said it.

The All Blacks live it.

Venezuela just proved it on the biggest stage in baseball.

And Alex Derhak — fresh from Tokyo — walked into a small facility in Wien Neustadt and showed it to our young catchers face to face.

No contract.

No cameras.

No reason to come — except the right one.

That's what Weapon 5 is about.

Not just your roster.

Not just your dugout.

👉 The full network of people who show up for your mission before you can pay them back.

Build that network.

Be that network.

Because the day you fall —

And that day is coming for all of us —

👉 You're going to need someone there to help you back up.

Solomon said so.

Stay with it. ⚾