MLB Network’s KEVIN MILLAR has been busy this week racking up frequent flier miles as he gears up for the MLB Postseason. Millar, co-host of “Intentional Talk,” this week hosted the broadcast with CHRIS ROSE from the net’s New Jersey studio, was on-site at Yankee Stadium for the AL Wild Card and also appeared on NBC’s “Late Night” alongside SEAN CASEY. Millar joked his main priorities right now are “trying to get this golf swing above average and not make fun” of Rose too much. Millar normally co-hosts the show from his house in Austin in a “detached garage area that we put a camera in back in the day.” Millar: “It’s taken some time to basically make it seem like we’re together in person.” However, Millar said there are pros and cons of working from home -- he has four children aged 7-12. “Sometimes you want to get out the house. I always tell them, ‘Daddy is a ghost. At 2:00 I’m not here.’”
KID ‘N PLAY: I love baseball, I’m a fan, so that’s on our TV 99% of the time in our house. I have four little kids that we homeschool. We have a conference call at 10:00am to go over the show. Once that’s over there is some free time to do whatever you’ve got to do. I try to stay active, a couple days a week. I don’t eat great because I’ve got kids. I eat like a kid. I don’t drink much at all but I’ve always had a sweet tooth, so I’m always going to have a dad bod because it goes right to the obliques. But you just stay active. You’re always riding bikes with the kids or playing with them -- that’s the biggest thing. I’m originally from L.A., so I root for the Dodgers to do well. We travel for the World Series and it’s nice to see my family out there.
ALL IN THE FAMILY: On a normal weekend I’m a hanger-outer. I’m a family man, I love being home. At the end of the day it’s all family and it keeps us real busy. There’s also a lot of golf. I didn’t play golf when I played in the Major Leagues. I picked it up after I was done. For the last seven years I’ve been self-teaching myself -- it’s one of those sports you never can master. I really love it. When I’m home I try to get out at least three days a week and I’ll do it early because I drop my daughter off at school, I’ll go to the golf course, take the conference call and then come home and start the show.
FOOTBALL IN THE FALL: I’m a huge NFL fan, love fantasy football -- I have three teams. My former teammate JOHN BURKETT has done a league for many years that a lot of baseball players have been in -- Royals hitting coach DALE SVEUM has taken over. That’s a lot of fun because of the smack-talking emails that go on weekly. My boys love to play a little DraftKings with me and help me with my team there. When the NFL season comes around on Sundays that’s where we’re at, we’re watching some football. For weekend food, I love some barbecue. When I barbecue, it’s hamburgers and steaks and chicken. We live on Lake Austin so it caters to getting the grill going while the kids are playing in the lake. I’m not a great chef but I love to barbecue. I can make a mean homemade hamburger.
WITH THE KIDS AWAY…: We’re going to go 36 holes, we’re going to drink some adult beverages right on the golf course, a lot of gambling, a lot of fun. For me and the wife, I love Las Vegas if we’re going to get away. You got the dinners and the shows and golf and gambling. But you got to get in and out. Two nights is good. I love the Bellagio and then Prime Steakhouse is awesome. We went on a boat trip with the whole family about a month ago to the Exumas Islands -- outside of Nassau on our neighbor’s 120-foot yacht. We went out there, took the kids to Atlantis. I thought I’d be bored because it’s a one week. You’re sitting there and the water’s beautiful but you’re thinking, ‘Okay, this is enough.’ It’s not. It was fun to watch them and how happy and excited they are to snorkel and just hang out. No cell phones -- you don’t get a chance to do that very often.
