Overcoming The Odds: Jason Kubel

[John Bonnes]

[attachment=6957:4216.attach][FONT=arial]You're standing waiting to be chosen for kickball. Randy Stevens is picked first, of course, because everyone knows he's got a foot made half of lead, I swear to gawd, half-lead. Then Keith Miller is chosen, and then speedy Liz Oster, and then Tim and Chris and Pat and near the end, you.[/FONT]

[FONT=arial]A lot of us know that feeling - the sense that people are misjudging you. That you're better than they think. That YOU, at least, believe.
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Now imagine being picked 342nd.[/FONT]

[FONT=arial]Jason Kubel doesn't need to imagine. He was chosen in the 12th round by the Twins in the 2000 draft out of high school. In the video above, Kubel reflected on his bounceback year with the Twins, why he came back to Minnesota and what it took to overcome the odds and have a successful major league career. [/FONT]

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