Mike Scioscia
Episode 362
12 JAN 2026
He played 13 seasons with Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers, who chose him in the first round of the amateur draft. He appeared in a combined total of close to 1,500 regular season and playoff games combined, winning two World Series and being a two-time All-Star — all of this coming in a Dodger uniform. He went on to 19 seasons as manager of the Angels, winning the World Series in 2002 and twice being named American League Manager of the Year. He was also the manager for the U.S. Olympic baseball team that took home the silver medals at the Summer Games in 2021 in Tokyo. Plus, he was at the helm of the U.S. national team at the 2024 WBSC Premier12, with the Americans finishing third.
Notable guest quotes:
“I started in Catholic schools… very Catholic household… out of all the things that you talk about with your family, the thing that I took as the best gift they gave me was faith.”
“My dad was not Catholic but the only way … that my grandmother – my mom’s mom – was going to let him marry my mom is if he converted to Catholicism, and he happily did and lived the life his whole way.”
“I played football, loved football, was honored to be captain of the football team, really wanted to go play football in college.”
“In our household – we were an Italian American Catholic household – there is no room at all for you to brag. There’s no room at all for you to think you’re a victim. You took every grace with being humble and you were very gracious if you had setbacks and or defeats.”
“I’ve had so much divine guidance in my life.”
“They just started baseball chapel, which is non-denominational. That has been in Major League Baseball for a long time now.”
“Tommy Lasorda, who was very Catholic, would bring us to Mass every Sunday, both in Vero Beach and if we were on a road trip he would have us go to Mass.”
“I really believe that God gives us all these tools to use, and He’ll know how we’ll use them, and He’ll know how hard we’ll try.”
(upon becoming manager of the Angels) “The first thing I did was find a priest that could come in and say Mass Sunday mornings at the ballpark and while instituting that… it was a godsend, literally, for us and for players that had to get to the ballpark early and maybe were gonna have trouble with juggling family life and getting to Mass.”
“You know the players that have faith and you know the players that understand their talents come from a gift from God.”
“My whole baseball life has been such a blessing.”
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