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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 258 - Top 50 Baseball 50-31 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  This is Squalcom Senior Josh Creeda and you're listening to the Top fifty Baseball Countdown
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  with Tyler and Ryland beg Love, greetings, and welcome into the watcom Preps
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  podcast. This is episode at two hundred and fifty eight, the first of
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  three podcasts, as we unveil the Baseball Top fifty Countdown. I'm Royland Spencer
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  along with me as always as Tyler Anderson Love what coome prep? Tyler,
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  how we doing doing great? Getting a little sleep now, not putting a
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  lot less miles in the car, that's for sure, a lot less gas
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  in the tank, which has been great, but staying busy, so things
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  have been going good. We need to give a thank you to Josh Creeda
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  of Squalcum Senior. I mean, I think people have figured it out by
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  now, Tyler. He might get mentioned in this podcast at some point because
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  you did the intro and if they've been paying attention to the Top fifty count
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  Down, they definitely know he's gonna get mentioned. But yeah, he gave
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  us the intro tonight and we are talking Baseball Top fifty Countdown. But Kurt
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  Mayberry Farm big time sponsor here of Wadcom Preps. Kurt Mayberry Farmer is a
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  fourth generation, family owned and operated a berry farm committed to growing the highest
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  quality berries, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries. Tyler, it's that time of
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  the year where you get like fruit salads and stuff like you get these random
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  like, hey, come over, it's little Bobby's fourth birthday, and you're
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  like, I don't even care about little Bobby, but you're gonna have hamburgers
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  and you know, some fruit punch or something, and oh, what is
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  that a fruit salad? When do you got in there? You got some
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  strawberries and blueberries and raspberries probably came from Kurt Mayberry Farms. I mean,
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  yeah, I'm just saying absolutely, yeah, it's crazy. You know.
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  They they gave me a big bucket of strawberries and we've been having Miss Walker
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  PEPs and I've been having strawberry shortcake every night for holy cow, I don't
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  know how along. I mean, we froze a bunch of it, but
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  we always have like a bag of it fresh in the fridge, and then
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  when we run out of it, we just thought another bag and keep keep
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  going and and it never gets old. You know. It's so good.
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  But you're right, now's the time, right, summertime barbecues. You know,
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  Fourth of July coming up, that's always a big event for that kind
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  of stuff. So you see a lot of those cakes with like the American
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  flag on Fourth of July with the white frosting, and you get like the
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  blueberries with stars stars, and then you get like the strawberries going across or
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  raspberries for the for the stripes. So I kind of cake. Yeah,
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  yeah, good, really good stuff. Yeah. We have a thing.
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  It's a free lunch for faculty every Friday. I've been I've been doing campus
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  supervisor stuff and Inglemore High School Tyler, the rival of BOFEL. So I've
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  been over there just to resting kids left and right. You know, we
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  were playing a baseball game and I made sure to take out their starting pitcher
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  and get them suspend. And I'm just kidding. But so they do this
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  free faculty lunch and what it is is like each department has a week and
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  so they got to they got aing it in and they brought somebody brought in
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  the other day, some like some like macaroni salad and some like ham and
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  cheese sandwiches. On like Hawaiian sweet rolls, you know, oh they're delicious.
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  But then they just had like a thing of fruit. It was just
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  like sliced up fruit and it was like strawberries. There was blueberries. I
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  don't remember if there were raspberries in it, but then there was like,
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  you know, some pineapple in it. And I'll tell you what, I
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  just sat there and ate that for about a half hour. I mean I
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  could eat I could eat that stuff all stinking day. Yeah, Tyler,
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  we are talking baseball, and we do need to give a shout out to
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  j e KK Sports Cards, Bedlington Farms, SIGs Funeral and Cremation Services.
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  Those were the three main sponsors of different things having to do with with baseball
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  this year. J KK Sports Cards what did they do? They had stats
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  and scoreboards, They did his stats and scoreboards. Yep, yeah, Bedlington
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  Farms had the daily recaps, and then six Funeral Cremation Services that was the
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  weekly player of the week. Yes, yeah, absolutely so. They've been
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  just tremendous sponsors of Walk Them preps this last spring. And if people want
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  to reach out Tyler and they want to look, we got a lot of
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  stuff to sponsor in the fall. I mean we're going to gung hole on
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  different sports that maybe you know, didn't get a whole lot of attention the
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  last few years. So, Tyler, if people want to reach out,
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  how do they get a hold of you about sponsorships? Yeah, the easiest
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  way is through social media. Just look up walk them preps on on Facebook,
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  Instagram or Twitter, and just send a message to say, hey,
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  what can I do? I'm what you know, what do you have available?
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  Anything? And we could figure stuff out. There's not there's not too
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  much of hard fast rules. If things are you know, too crazy,
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  we could always figure stuff out. Maybe you're only in the budget for so
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  much, Okay, we can work around that and have at least, you
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  know, your company be noticed somehow some way. So uh yeah, just
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  reach out. It's the easiest way and we'll make something happen. I know.
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  So you might think that oh, yeah, you know football is ways
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  away, or if fall sports are ways away. I mean they're gonna be
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  putting on pads and practicing every day in just two months. So it goes
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  fast. Summer goes fast. People are on vacations, they're not thinking about
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  it, So it is something to think about coming up and and Uh yeah,
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  there's I mean, there are some sports that are spoken for different things
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  like that, but there's a lot of opening so there's a lot of opportunity
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  there. Well heck, I think what is it next weekend? Some teams
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  are headed to Eastern probably for team camp. Oh yeah, for sure,
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  I can tell you this much. I'm already kind of tired of football because
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  we've been coaching it up over here at BOFEL. But we had our spring
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  game last week. I know, Tyler, you were out of some stuff.
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  I mean, there's already stuff going on. So don't think it's too
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  far away. I mean, it's happened people, so sneaks up. Yeah,
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  so reach out to Tyler if you and and and you know what,
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  even if you have maybe even a lead, you know, like, hey,
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  you know, I think these guys might be something. You know,
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  maybe maybe you have a contact. Maybe there's a former player that is that
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  we don't know, that is at somewhere that maybe would just needs a little
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  nudge, you know what I mean something, But yeah, have them reached
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  out to Tyler or if you are doing it, reached out to Tyler.
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  He'll get you taken care of. I heard something about District Browing hosting.
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  Tyler Anderson, What is going on there, Tyler, Yeah, Well,
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  District Brewing. They started in Mount Vernon about you know, four or five
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  years ago something like that, and then they opened one up in Ferndale a
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  couple of years ago, and then now just a couple of months ago,
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  the newest one opened up in Technically it's Linden, but it's it's it's not
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  really in It's not I mean, it's a Linden address, but it's not
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  really in Linden. It's closer to like Meridian Meridian High School, so on
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  the corner of Poll and Hand again and straight south of London, right.
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  Yeah. And they have you know a lot of wings, pizza, salad,
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  that kind of stuff, and every Sunday from noon to two. I'll
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  be there that I just spent my first Sunday there earlier today as we record
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  this late on Sunday night. But uh, and it's you know, it
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  was awesome. I mean, we set it up, we watched there was
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  the nineteen ninety two Linden versus Linden Christian football game, which was the last
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  time they played each other as a league as an actual league game, followed
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  up with a ninety three Mount Baker versus Noksack Valley and I saw Teagan daughters
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  there. He came out and say I said hi, him and his dad.
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  So so yeah, it's it's it's pretty cool. So come out and
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  you know, we can watch some old games. I've got my you know,
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  I got my computer out there, got my hard drive out there.
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  I got thousands of games to choose from, and we'll just make it fun.
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  And you know, pretty soon we're going to be having guests and different
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  things and we don't really know how it's going to evolve, but but I'll
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  be there. So if you want to come out and say hi and have
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  some really good food, that's the place to be on Sundays. From You
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  to two. Yeah, I saw I saw a picture of it was almost
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  like a watcom preps spotted picture of you from District Brewing on Instagram. It
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  was like you from behind and the I believe it was the Linden Christian Linden
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  game on the big screen. Oh really Yeah, And because I noticed that
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  the two teams were wearing dark colors. Yeah, Bolt teams were wearing dark
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  and it kind of like threw me off because you just don't see that very
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  often in high school football. Yeah, that was a really funny thing because
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  it was the last time they were going to play each other and the game
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  was at l C and like ten minutes before kickoff, Linden hasn't even shown
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  up yet, and they just stormed off the bus full gear in their own
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  home uniforms on the road and it was just kind of one of those like,
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  Hey, we're coming into what the heck is going on? Yeah,
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  we're coming in to beat you guys up. Just be prepared. H And
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  Linden did win that game, which forced a three way tie for the championship,
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  so they had to do one of those you know, three way tie
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  breakers at Civic and all that stuff. So yeah, really memorable game.
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  That's funny. Uh yeah in District Brewing sixty nine to twelve Hannigan Road.
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  Like you said, Linden, not really Linden, but it's a Linden address
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  there. But yeah, you can find them online District brew District brew co
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  dot com, so uh yeah, they're doing all kinds of cool stuff over
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  there. Tyler, I assume you're just getting a lot of free pizza out
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  of this. Is that Uh yeah, I got some wings today. I
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  got some Tariokee wings and uh yeah, I might change it up. And
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  you know, they have this really really really good grape soda that I love,
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  grape straight. It's like straight out of the tap like they have this.
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  Yeah, it's really it reminds me of when I'm like when I was
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  a kid, you know. It's like one of those like whoa, Like
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  I haven't had this in a long time, but it's like a gourmet grape
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  soda almost. It's really good. I'm just going to look really quickly district
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  brew menu. I just want to see if we can just find it really
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  quickly. These are the biggest wings I've ever seen in my life, by
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  the way. Really yes, like like a lot of a lot of beef
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  there, I don't like. Yeah, Like you get like a plate of
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  wings for a really good press, like a full plate that's tough to finish
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  by yourself. Well, tough to me for me to finish by myself.
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  Yeah, probably not. Yeah, and it but it is really really good.
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  I see something here, some nachos, some meat. Wait, hold
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  on, oh, this has got to be a different. This has got
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  to be wrong. Here, this is I'm not even gonna say it because
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  I don't want to. I don't want to make fun of them. If
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  it is, Tyler, there is like, maybe maybe I make my way
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  up there at some point. Uh, maybe we have an announcement. We're
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  we're working out the details basically of how much pepperoni is going to be on
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  my pizza and how much I'm not gonna pay for it, and then we'll
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  get it off. Now we're we're talking, we're talking. We might pull
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  something off here. If we do, we'll be sure to let everybody know
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  because we expect a lot of people to come out just to you know,
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  hang out with me, and you know you too, Tyler. So yeah,
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  well we'll let everybody know. But Tyler, let's talk baseball. We
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  got we're gonna go from fifty down to thirty one is what we're gonna do
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  here. Is that actually, yes, it's exactly twenty. It sounds wrong,
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  but it's exactly twenty. So what we're gonna do here is we're gonna
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  go twenty twenty and then ten is what we're gonna end up doing here.
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  So this one is gonna be fifty down to thirty one, which means we
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  start with number fifty, senior outfielder from the Meridian Trojans. Tyler, tell
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  me about Tyson Timmer. Yeah, he's been starting out in left field the
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  last couple of years, played a little bit of center field depending on who
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  was on the mound. You know you, I mean you you went to
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  a lot of high school baseball games. I'm sure it's the same even at
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  the for a level when if you have a pitcher pitching that plays other positions,
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  you see a little movement out out in the field. So many of
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  these guys are going to be playing multiple positions, but mostly used in left
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  field. You know, batted Ryan right around like the six to seven hole
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  somewhere all year. Really really dependable player led the team with getting hit by
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  pitched twelve times. Whoa, I mean that's a lot. How many games
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  did they play, well, they played into they played deep in the postseason,
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  so I think they played you know, right around twenty six games something
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  around there. So you're basically getting plunked every other game. Yeah, that's
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  insane. Yeah, and very very typh Rance, if you will, right
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  right right. Also had five doubles and a triple, which is that's kind
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  of that's putting up a lot of numbers for not you know, not as
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  many at bats. I mean, you know, people sometimes if you're not
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  really used to it, you're not sure, like what's a what's a good
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  level of number for a certain stat you know, you're used to, you
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  know, thirty doubles or something in the majors, But five doubles is quite
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  a bit in a high school career. In a high school season, I
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  also had eighteen RBIs big time clutch guy, you know, on base percentage
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  three seventy six. So he got on base a lot, but really dependable
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  in the outfield, you know, and like I said, uh can you
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  know went over and played center but was mostly in left field. You know,
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  has a great beard, which I know you would be appreciative of.
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  Great beard. Yeah, well there aren't a lot of really great beards in
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  high school. Like there's beards, but most of them are patchy at best.
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  Yeah, I know he can he can grow a beard, That's that's
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  for sure. And so yeah, I was just a player, you know,
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  a big you know, a senior too on that team that got second
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  State. So he's gonna be missed going forward. I really like their future
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  but he's gonna be one of those seniors that they're going to have to replace
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  next year. Yeah, I mean, you don't lose a guy in the
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  top fifty. And you know you're okay with it, Tyler. If I
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  said to you, what is the MLB record for getting hit by a pitch
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  in a season in a career? Oh, wan a career? I remember
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  Don Baylor had it for a long time. So well, the modern one,
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  yes, the all time Oh is a guy named Huey Jennings, but
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  he played from eighteen ninety one to nineteen oh three. But get this,
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  what is that fourteen years? It's like fourteen years, fifteen years, two
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  hundred and eighty seven times? Holy cow, I was gonna guess, mom
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  over two hundred Craig Bigio too, Yes, Craig Bigio two hundred and eighty
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  five, right, I mean that's unbelievable. Yeah, that's a lot.
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  Craig Bigio was too short of that. I mean that's in a day and
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  age where pitching became a lot more specialized and you know what I mean,
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  and probably a lot more accurate, although they did probably throw a lot harder.
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  But yeah, you know what's crazy. There was that one year when
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  Mike Zanino, Yeah, I know, I think you know what I'm going
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  to say here. Yeah, he got hit by a pitch more times than
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  he walked in the season. Yeah, I remember, I remember that.
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  That's ridiculous, and it is. But then you think about Mike Zanino and
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  it makes some sense because that guy would just swing at everything. I mean,
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  yeah, slider low and outside with the rioted pitcher, and he's toast.
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  But my dad used to just get so mad at Mike Zanino because it
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  was it was either a home run or a pop out or a strikeout.
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  I mean, it was one of the three, is what it was.
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  Yeah, or he got a hold of it. Though, I don't know
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  anybody who put more in the in the upper seats above Edgars, Like in
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  left field. There's not a Nelson Cruz. Maybe there's not a lot of
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  guys that put like, yeah, you know, five or six of them
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  a year up there. Yeah. Well, butch Husky did it a few
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  times early in the uh, early in the time they were at Safego.
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  Now, the thing about Mike'sanino too, when he hit home runs, you
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  knew they were gone right away. Sure, Yeah, like he didn't get
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  cheated on his home runs, right, The problem was they were I would
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  say few and far between, because that's all that he really did was hit
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  home runs. It was a good defensive catcher. And he did get thrown
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  out one time. You remember that time he got thrown out for he was
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  like yelling at the person. And then that was the one where I believe
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  that was the one where Lloyd mcleannany came out yelled at the first base ump,
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  then the home played up, then the third base sump, and he
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  like made rounds and then on his way back to the dugouts started chewing out
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  the second base ump from like halfway between the mound and play. I liked
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  Lloyd McLennan actually did. It was a little fiery. Yeah. That's the
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  thing that drives me nuts about Scott's service is that he doesn't have a lot
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  of He doesn't have a lot of fire to him, Like when things are
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  going bad, sometimes he just stands there and it looks like, you know
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  what am I doing? Yeah? It's like and Lloyd mcclennon is like Little
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  League World Series like icon. Yeah, you know, he hit like five
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  home runs in one game or something. In Little League World Series or something
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  crazy. He stole first base one time too, Yeah, he did,
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  that's right when he was with the Pirates. Yeah, he still he stole
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  it and uh with him in the Jason Kendall running down first base and they
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  called him out and he went over and he stole first base and then threw
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  it down the dugout and I think was it Jean Lamont, No, Gane.
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  Lamont was was with what's his name? Oh, who's the old manager
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  that used to smoking the dugout for the Pirates. Jim Leland, Yeah,
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  Jim Leland. Jeane Lamont was his bench coach. Yeah, but yeah,
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  that's Lloyd mcclennon. He stole first base as a manager. Yeah, not
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  to you guys have that stat that's tough to do. Uh. Tyler number
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  forty nine, the top fifty countdown. He's a junior first baseman from Knooksack
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  Valley. Colebauman. Yeah, I really really it loved his improvement from last
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  year to this year because, uh, you know, last year he was
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  playing first base as a sophomore, and there was you know, it seemed
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  like every time I went to a game, he'd have you know, he'd
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  have some defensive miscues and and I just thought, oh, man, like,
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  like you can't you have to catch the ball at first base. You're
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  gonna get a lot of opportunities, and it could be just on like pickoff
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  moves, you know, and it go, ball goes off his glove.
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  And I just thought, oh no, but boy, this year he was
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  awesome. And we talk about it for football too, where a guy just
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  it clicks and it turns on and things just go really well. And and
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  and even though he's a good football player, I think he's a baseball first
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  guy. Uh you know, tall, you know, probably about six'
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  four. But he has a good quick swing which you can get to you
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  know, you can get in trouble with that sometimes if you have a really
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  loopy swing or you it takes a while for you to get going. Yeah,
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  Richie, he he was like he was really tall and he had just
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  had that long swing. Yeah, and and you know that can do.
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  I mean when if you get a if you get a hold of it and
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  it's on the outside of the play, yeah, you get extension on those
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  long arms and you can really drive it. But but if you you know,
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  it's hard to get a hold of it when you're swinging like loopy like
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  that, but a really really good swing. Had three doubles, nine RBIs,
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  stole six bases too. One stat that I really really like about his
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  he only struck out twelve percent of the time, which is a really good
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  low number for high school face age. Yeah. Right, And so that
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  tells me a lot about you know, he's seeing you know, he's seeing
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  the ball well. Uh, nine walks to ten and ten strikeouts in his
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  seventy eight plate appearances. So he's he's putting the ball in play. You
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  know, one of those guys that you know we were just talking about,
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  like a Mike Zanino, you know, I mean Adam Dunns, the king
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  of it like it's a walker strikeout or a home run. Never you know,
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  if he put the ball in play, it's a it's a home run.
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  Uh. Cole Bawman was putting the ball in play a lot that did
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  you know, usually about I think like fifth or sixth in the lineup.
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  And you know, he ripped three doubles. I saw one. I saw
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  him hit one when they played out at a they play one game a year
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  out at like the little or It's not like it's like a it's a place
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  out in Sue, mass it's not their high school field, and it's it's
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  like literally day because there's a lot of lit league fields around there, and
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  all the little league players go out there and it's just tons of people.
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  And he hit went out to the fence there and got a double there and
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  and uh and he pitched a little bit too, And I think, you
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  know, going into next year, he's gonna be relied upon a lot more
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  to pitch. He only threw six and a third innings this year, struck
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  out ten in those six and a third, but he did he did walk
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  more than he struck out, which is never good at any level. But
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  h but if he can his control going a little bit, I think he's
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  going to be relied upon to be one of the main arms along with Evan
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  Brown. And yeah, just a really good baseball player. He's you know,
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  his improvement was so was just so drastic from his sophomore to his junior
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  year. If if he keeps improving, he's going to be one of the
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  better players in the league next year. Number forty eight on the Top fifty
• 20:22
  count down a senior utility player high school Thanks coach, it's Braven Nathan.
• 20:29
  Yeah. I put utility because it seemed like every game he'd be at a
• 20:33
  different place. It was usually pitcher, shortstop or center field. So that
• 20:37
  kind of tells you're right there that okay. He's definitely one of the better
• 20:41
  players on the team, and in my eyes, he was the best player
• 20:44
  on this team. He's been starting for a long time. I remember as
• 20:47
  a sophomore he was starting at shortstop. He pitched a lot too. He
• 20:51
  hurt his arm in a game against Sea Home and he was shut down the
• 20:55
  rest of the year pitching wise, and he DHD the rest of the year.
• 20:59
  And then for his junior year, I was so excited for him to
• 21:00
  pitch. He didn't pitch the entire year and played some short stop in center
• 21:04
  field. He pitched a little bit this year, but they kind of eased
• 21:07
  him into it. He pitched two winnings, you know, a game,
• 21:11
  then three innings or so, and then he was started getting into the fourth
• 21:14
  or fifth inning later on in the year. It was a really tough year
• 21:17
  for Mount Baker, didn't you know. It didn't pick up a lot of
• 21:18
  wins. He led the team with nine runs, eight hits, out of
• 21:22
  his eight hits, five of them were doubles. That's yeah, that's that
• 21:26
  mean, he's you know, he he he had a pretty good launch angle
• 21:30
  there, and he led him was stolen bases with seven three, ten slugging
• 21:33
  percentage, three ninety three on base percentage. These are all leading the team.
• 21:37
  And then pitching wise, he was he was by far the best,
• 21:41
  the best pitcher. He had the lowest r ray four point three to two.
• 21:45
  He struck out twenty seven batters and walked just nine, so a three
• 21:48
  to one ratio with a strikeout walk ratio, and you know, but only
• 21:55
  through twenty three innings, so that's I mean, that was the most innings
• 22:00
  on the team. But they did have holy cow won two, three,
• 22:03
  four, five, six, seven, eight. Nine different guys pitch at
• 22:07
  some point during the season. That's seems like a lot for high school team.
• 22:11
  But but he but you know, he but he was the one that
• 22:15
  they threw against, you know, the big time opponents, and and a
• 22:19
  really really good player over the years. His numbers were a little down this
• 22:23
  year, but but you know, it was just a really you know,
• 22:27
  it was just a really struggle. It was a real big struggle for the
• 22:30
  team as a whole. The lone player from Mount Baker on the list,
• 22:34
  but a really really good player, Braven Nason, number forty seven on the
• 22:40
  Top fifty count Down, senior second baseman from Blaine. It's great east wind
• 22:45
  Burnson. Yeah, I saw him first. I remember the first game of
• 22:49
  the year, his sophomore year. I was in the dugout. It was
• 22:53
  at Bellingham and I was in the dugout for Blaine and Blaine's dugout watching the
• 22:57
  game was really cold, like those one of those early early games the wins
• 23:00
  whipping. It's like forty two degrees out or something, and I'm probably wearing
• 23:04
  shorts and and I see that at second base was this kid who was He
• 23:12
  looked like he was in seventh grade, I mean, and I was like,
• 23:15
  who in the world is that? Like he does, Like the jersey
• 23:18
  looks huge on him, you know, And he's going out there and he's
• 23:22
  batting lead off, and I'm like and I looked in the in the scorebook
• 23:26
  and it said swim Swim Bernston, and I was like, oh man,
• 23:30
  there's been some great ones over the years, you know, back when they
• 23:33
  back when they won the state championship. You know back in nineteen ninety,
• 23:37
  I mean there was a couple of them on the team, including his dad,
• 23:41
  I believe, And and man, he's just gritty, gutty awesome player.
• 23:45
  I think I think he actually works at j e KK Sports Cards,
• 23:49
  which is a cool connection there to the kid. Yeah really yeah. So
• 23:56
  but man, I love watching him play defense. He gets after it,
• 24:02
  and he's been starting over there at second base for three straight years. You
• 24:07
  know, he's moved around the lineup a little bit here and there, but
• 24:08
  then all of a sudden, like you know, he comes up, third
• 24:12
  basement, comes way up, you know, but then he'll he'll just drive
• 24:15
  one over the third basement's head, like he's got some pop to his bat.
• 24:19
  Led the team with sixty six at batsh and you know, batted batted
• 24:26
  two twenty seven, had fifteen hits, six RBIs, seven stolen bases.
• 24:30
  But man, his his defense was was awesome. And I just his his
• 24:37
  reaction, his quick hands too, just the really quick transfer on double plays.
• 24:41
  Stuff like that. You can tell that this guy's been playing baseball a
• 24:45
  long long time. And and I just love how hard he worked and how
• 24:48
  personally he took it, like if you know, if he made a mistake
• 24:52
  or something, he was you know, he was determined to make it better
• 24:55
  the next the next time up, or the next time in the field.
• 24:56
  So just a really fun player to watch. Number forty six on the top
• 25:02
  of fifty count Down Senior. He's a center fielder and a pitcher from the
• 25:04
  Linden Lions to Austin Tolzma. There's so many good pitchers for Linden. It's
• 25:11
  it's it's you know, and that just seems like it's the way that it
• 25:12
  is all the time. You're always gonna have like your like your two main
• 25:15
  guys that you can rely on, and he was kind of that number three
• 25:19
  guy. So if he had three games in a week, then he would
• 25:23
  be the guy that would pitch against usually the third best team and he would
• 25:27
  just go out there and mow them down like he wasn't even fair. And
• 25:33
  then defensively, you know, out in center field he played. He played
• 25:36
  a little bit of right field too, bounced around in the outfield, but
• 25:37
  mostly played center field. He did really well. He had a lot of
• 25:41
  clutch hits, had three doubles on the year in a triple twelve RBIs,
• 25:45
  eight stolen bases. That's near the top of the for the team there and
• 25:52
  and then but pitching wise, I mean his numbers were just ridiculous. Now
• 25:56
  you could look at those numbers and go, how come he's not higher up
• 25:57
  on the list. Well, kind of the teams he was doing it against
• 26:00
  weren't the best, but three to zero record with he pitched in twenty two
• 26:04
  and two thirds innings and allowed one earned run, so I mean that's pretty
• 26:10
  ridiculous, and struck out twenty three and walked just ten. So yeah,
• 26:15
  zero point three to one er really good kind of unsung player. I think
• 26:22
  that, uh, you know, and Linden of course, as a team
• 26:26
  went really really far and he was a big, big reason for that.
• 26:30
  And on the one of the better bats in the bottom of the lineup there,
• 26:33
  number forty five on the top fifty count down, a senior first baseman
• 26:37
  from Squalcum. It's the young man that gave us the intro. Josh Kreta.
• 26:42
  Yeah, he's a kid that I going into the season, I was
• 26:47
  so excited for to see him be like this major ace on the team.
• 26:52
  Itch is the first game of the year, does well and or I don't
• 26:57
  know if it was the first game. It was really early on in the
• 27:00
  year, pitched five innings, didn't walk anybody, only allowed one earned run,
• 27:04
  struck out four, and he tore his UCL and had to was forced
• 27:11
  to play first base the rest of the year. And I tell you what,
• 27:15
  if he was healthy all year, this is a kid that'd be in
• 27:18
  the top twenty. So it kind of you know, and I never really
• 27:22
  get my chance to explain that on when I'm posting these or something. I'm
• 27:26
  just kind of putting them out there for the kids to see the stats and
• 27:29
  everything. But I'm glad we're able to do this podcast so I can expand
• 27:32
  about some more stuff. And he's one of those classic examples that he could
• 27:36
  have been a lot higher on the list if he wasn't injured, played the
• 27:38
  rest of the year injured, playing first base and still led the team and
• 27:42
  at bats and hits and struck out. This is unbelievable. And fifty one
• 27:48
  played appearances, struck out three times. Wow, that's crazy. When they
• 27:52
  had that game when Jonah Aussie pitched the perfect game against Squalakum, he was
• 27:57
  the only one that put the ball in play. You know, wait,
• 28:02
  everybody else struck it and was it just once or did he do it twice?
• 28:06
  He did it once. He did strike out one time, but he
• 28:07
  did put the ball in play one time. But he was the only one
• 28:11
  to put the ball in Yeah. Really really good ballplayer. He's here.
• 28:15
  He's another guy that will always put the ball in play, doesn't walk very
• 28:18
  much, doesn't strike out very much. Two walks, three strikeouts, and
• 28:22
  fifty one played appearances. That is another just crazy stats. So last year
• 28:26
  it was Tyler. That's actually amazing, it is, Yeah, say that.
• 28:30
  It was fifty one plate appearances. Yeah, and he walked twice and
• 28:34
  had three strikes so five, So forty six out of fifty one. He
• 28:37
  put the ball in play, whether he got on base or not. You're
• 28:41
  making the defense work, that's right, You're moving guys around, you're doing
• 28:45
  whatever. Yeah, that's incredible, it is. And And like like last
• 28:51
  year, you know, he was probably ranked higher on the list last year,
• 28:53
  and he was he was more of like the relief ace like he would
• 28:56
  come in, you know, like like back in the day when Goose Gossage
• 29:00
  would come in and get like a three inning save type thing. Like he
• 29:03
  was that kind of guy. He was kind of like the fireman of the
• 29:07
  of the county would come in put the fire out. And so I didn't
• 29:11
  know if he was going to be that kind of player again or if he
• 29:14
  was going to be a starter. He comes out right off the bat starts,
• 29:15
  then he hurts his arm, and it was just it just happens,
• 29:18
  you know, but a really good player, and yeah, gave us the
• 29:23
  intro and and yeah, so I'm glad he was able to actually play,
• 29:30
  albeit place play first base and probably didn't put up the numbers he would have.
• 29:34
  He could have number forty four on the top fifty count down. A
• 29:38
  junior right fielder from the Meridian Trojans, Tristan Wang. Yeah, you think
• 29:45
  of a lot of classic right fielders when you think of like big time arm,
• 29:49
  like a right handed arm, but then bats left handed. You know,
• 29:52
  like Eatro's like that, right like left handed batter, played right field,
• 29:56
  big time arm. You know, Larry, big time arm, right
• 30:02
  right handed, but batted left handed. He's this way, big time arm,
• 30:07
  big big kid, strong kid, throws right handed, but bats left
• 30:11
  handed. And you know you always see those sweet swings from the left handed
• 30:15
  side. And he's definitely one of those guys batted in, had nineteen runs
• 30:22
  batted in. That's a that's a pretty high number for high school three seventy
• 30:26
  one on bas got on base a lot, hit three doubles, stole six
• 30:29
  bags. But his defense, he you know, he he gunned out some
• 30:33
  guys at home from right field, which he just loved to have out there.
• 30:37
  And still a junior, So gonna be a big time part of that
• 30:41
  that team that's going to contend for a state title next year. And you
• 30:45
  know, he's a guy that's probably gonna move up the lineup a little bit.
• 30:48
  I mean he was I think he was batting like in the eight hole
• 30:52
  most of the year. And this is a kid that's you know, on
• 30:55
  some other teams, he'd be right in the middle of that lineup. You
• 30:59
  said he had a helm when he had nineteen RB eyes from the eight hole.
• 31:03
  Yeah, wow, Now put up a lot of runs. I mean
• 31:06
  they have still down the line up. Yeah, no, you're but you're
• 31:08
  right for it is. And and uh, I'm sure he never complained and
• 31:15
  he just went out there and played and and that's just kind of the kind
• 31:18
  of kid that he You complain you're getting nineteen RB eyes from the eight hole,
• 31:21
  Yeah, yeah, don't move me up. I'm right here. Yeah,
• 31:23
  and second on the team in steels with six stolen bases too. And
• 31:26
  he's a big, strong kid. He's not like a he's not like a
• 31:30
  small you know, speed burner base runner team right exactly exactly, So I
• 31:37
  mean really excited to see what he does next year, and and curious if
• 31:41
  he can pitch, because he does have a good arm. Meridian has a
• 31:45
  lot of good pitchers, but it always seems like when they get to be
• 31:48
  seniors, they seem to pitch a lot more. So you never know.
• 31:52
  He might end up being one of those guys. But I think, and
• 31:56
  I could be wrong, but he might have played every inning of every game
• 31:59
  in right this year. So so yeah, I think that, uh,
• 32:04
  he'll just keep improving and have a pretty big senior year next year. Was
• 32:09
  was Tony Gwinn a righty or a lefty in the field? He threw left
• 32:14
  handed? He did? Okay, yeah, yeah, it was. It
• 32:16
  almost sounds like young young Tony Gwynn in a way where like because remember Tony
• 32:21
  Gwinn used to steal a lot of bases when he was young. Oh stole
• 32:22
  a ton yeah, which is he untill like sixty one or fifty six one
• 32:27
  year or something like that. Yeah, it's wild to think about when you
• 32:29
  when you think about Tony Gwinn, because late in his career he could barely
• 32:31
  get down the line, you know what I mean, he'd have to hit
• 32:34
  a ball in the gap just to get a single. But he could hit.
• 32:37
  He could absolutely hit. Some of the some of the stats on that
• 32:40
  guy are in Oh, it's like, it's it's ridiculous. Go go google
• 32:45
  Tony Gwinn's stats. I mean, if you're used to these stats these days,
• 32:49
  just go look it up in Baseball Reference dot com. It just it
• 32:52
  is it. You don't think you're looking at it correctly, but you are.
• 32:54
  I mean, it's it's crazy. Yeah, there's a fun to hear
• 33:00
  really quickly too. Nineteen facts about the wonderful career of Tony Gwynn, and
• 33:05
  now you war number nineteen. Yeah, let's just see if there's anything crazy
• 33:07
  here. In his entire twenty year career, gwyn struck out four hundred and
• 33:10
  thirty four times, an average of twenty one point seven k's per season.
• 33:15
  Last season, one hundred and twenty nine players struck out twenty two times by
• 33:20
  the end of April. I mean, yeah, that's insane. Well there's
• 33:25
  something about like he fased like Greg Maddocks, Tom Glavin and Pedro Martinez a
• 33:30
  combined like so many times and never struck out against any of them. Yeah,
• 33:35
  there's uh some crazy win had four to twenty nine average with nine RBIs
• 33:38
  and one hundred and three played appearances against Greg Maddox. He betted four to
• 33:43
  twenty nine against Greg Maddox. I mean yeah, yeah, like there there
• 33:47
  might be a lot of people that don't understand exactly what that means, you
• 33:52
  know what I mean, Like Greg maddox is like you just didn't get good
• 33:58
  contact against him. Yeah, yeah, And it says here he faced him
• 34:00
  one hundred and three times, thirty nine hits, ten walks, zero strikeouts.
• 34:05
  Right, that is stupid. There's a great quote out there with an
• 34:09
  expletive in it of Greg maddox is talking about like how ea. Like to
• 34:14
  him, it's like, Baseball's pretty easy. You do this, you do
• 34:16
  that, like he's explaining it's this long teograph and he goes, all you
• 34:21
  have to do is pitch the contact, you throw inside, then you do
• 34:22
  this, and you do that, and at the very end it says,
• 34:25
  except for that bleeping Tony Gwinn. Yeah, it's so funny. It's like
• 34:31
  baseball's pretty easy. Just do this and this and he goes, except for
• 34:35
  when you're bleeping twenty quin, it says here. Including postseason play, Gwynn
• 34:38
  faced eighteen Hall of Fame pitchers for a total of five hundred and forty one
• 34:43
  played appearances. That's essentially a full season's worth of play appearances against exclusively Hall
• 34:49
  of famers, and Grin batted three thirty one against them. Yeah, three
• 34:53
  thirty one against just Hall of famers. I think he batted three thirty eight
• 34:57
  for his career. That's crazy. Abe Ruth hit three forty two for his
• 35:02
  career, you know, Yeah, I mean, this is it's crazy.
• 35:08
  Tony Gwin career stats. Let's see if it pops up real quick. Three
• 35:12
  thirty eight, Yeah, three thirty eight, one hundred and thirty five home
• 35:15
  runs, one thousand, one hundred and thirty eight RBIs and an ops of
• 35:20
  eight forty seven. Yeah, I mean, and yeah, he's still thirty
• 35:27
  three thirty seven fifty six forty all before the age of like thirty, and
• 35:32
  then later in his career he was one zero seven three twelve, I mean
• 35:37
  still twelve, Like, that's how many times did he strike out in nineteen
• 35:40
  ninety four. For some reason, that stands out to me. That wasn't
• 35:44
  nineteen ninty four, the year that he batted almost four hundred. Yeah,
• 35:47
  nineteen ninety forty batted three ninety four and he struck out nineteen times in four
• 35:53
  hundred and nineteen at bats. Struck out nineteen times, That's it's like,
• 36:00
  actually, Tyler, the year before in ninety three, he struck out nineteen
• 36:04
  times in four hundred and eighty nine at bats. The year before that,
• 36:07
  he struck out sixteen times in five hundred and twenty at bats. That's like
• 36:12
  a week for like some All star players. Yeah, I mean week that
• 36:16
  did that. It's a whole year for him. That's four games for most
• 36:20
  Mariners. I mean, well, I wasn't gonna go there. Yeah.
• 36:23
  Did you see the thing the other day, Tyler? We're getting off topic
• 36:25
  here, but do you see the thing the other day that said the Mariners
• 36:29
  have like the It's like they have like the largest lead or something of any
• 36:34
  team in a division right now, and as a team, they're batting like
• 36:37
  two twenty one. Yeah, it's crazy when they with their with their win
• 36:42
  again today spoiler alert, when they score at least three runs three which is
• 36:47
  not very many. Yeah, they're they're thirty nine and ten. So that's
• 36:52
  how good they're pitching has been. Is basically what they're saying. You know,
• 36:55
  Yeah, here it is. It's June fifteenth. The Mariners have a
• 36:59
  seven and a half game lead in the American League West. They are betting
• 37:02
  two twenty one as a team. Yeah, it's crazy. That is just
• 37:07
  I mean, it's just wild, like it just really is. But but
• 37:12
  you know what, that's also something I've talked about many times with some of
• 37:15
  the coaches at Bothel and stuff, is we didn't have a huge, a
• 37:19
  real high team batting average, but we hit at the right times. Yeah,
• 37:22
  runners in scoring positions, ye like that, or or like we would
• 37:25
  get we might only get six hits in a game, but four of them
• 37:30
  would come in one inning and we'd also have a walk and we'd score five
• 37:32
  runs, you know what I mean, and like and then we would win
• 37:36
  the game five to four. Yep, you know that's and that's just that's
• 37:38
  just how it worked. I mean, we we would play a seven inning
• 37:42
  game, we might only get hits in two innings total, and the other
• 37:46
  five innings we might just go one, two, three, But in those
• 37:51
  two innings we would do damage. You know, yeah, yeah, which
• 37:53
  is huge. I mean, as long as you can get hits at the
• 37:55
  right time, that two twenty one doesn't really matter, sure, you know,
• 37:59
  I mean yeah. I mean they didn't have any runs today in the
• 38:01
  first like four innings, and they made the they made the pitcher. I
• 38:06
  want to say, after three innings he'd already thrown like almost seventy pitches,
• 38:09
  but they hadn't scored a run yet. Right, It's just crazy. But
• 38:14
  let's see here from number forty three Tyler on the top fifty countdown Senior.
• 38:19
  He's an infielder and a pitcher from Squalalum. It's Dylan Johnson. Yeah.
• 38:22
  I had him rated as the highest player for Squalicum. Squalgumb really struggled,
• 38:28
  did not get a win this year, but but he was he did all.
• 38:32
  He did almost everything that he could, played all over the infield and
• 38:37
  pitched. So it was kind of like, you know, if Colby Lewis
• 38:40
  is going into pitch, Dylan Johnson go play third base. You know,
• 38:44
  if Ben Hebert was pitching, Dylan Johnson go play shortstop. And if neither
• 38:49
  of those guys pitching, Dylan Johnson would be playing second base or Dylan Johnson
• 38:52
  would be pitching. And uh, he you know, he had a really
• 38:58
  big start to the year and then kind of fell off a little bit.
• 39:01
  Still led the team with eleven hits, four doubles, a two fifty six
• 39:06
  average, ten walks, three forty nine slugging seven times hit by pitch,
• 39:09
  a four to sixty seven on base percentage led it. So he led the
• 39:13
  team in all of those categories. He was He was basically the main guy
• 39:16
  offensively that you could depend on over and over again. And then and pitching
• 39:22
  wise, he didn't pitch a ton through through almost twenty innings, struck out
• 39:27
  fifteen batters, but uh, you know, the era was a little high,
• 39:30
  seven point four to six. Can't have that. But but yeah,
• 39:35
  just was overall the best, did the most for his team. And too
• 39:42
  bad he's a senior though, because they could really use him next year.
• 39:45
  But a good, a good overall year for him. And and like I
• 39:50
  said, I had him rate as the best player on this storm, number
• 39:52
  forty two on the top fifty countdown. A senior second baseman from the Meridian
• 39:58
  Trojans, Jacob Aminsen. Yeah, had more played appearances than anybody on the
• 40:04
  team. I don't know if it was the second most in the entire county.
• 40:07
  Batted second the entire year, and they played a lot of games.
• 40:12
  Had over one hundred, one hundred and nine played appearances. So really dependable
• 40:16
  top of the lineup, second in the lineup actually, but you know,
• 40:20
  near the top of the lineup it day in and day out. And with
• 40:22
  Meridian Trojans, if you're batting second in the lineup, ub Bunton and uh
• 40:29
  and he could do that. He could get base hits. Had nineteen hits
• 40:32
  on the year of four doubles. Did hit a home run as well,
• 40:36
  sixteen RBI's. Uh, so really good numbers there. Really super steady at
• 40:42
  second base, which is you know, which is huge. And that's the
• 40:46
  good teams, the Meridians, the Lindens, the teams like that. Boy
• 40:51
  they had like half the airs that other teams did. So it really really
• 40:54
  stood out. Pitched a little bit only through five and a third innings of
• 41:00
  just too many walks, uh, you know, struck out five but walked
• 41:04
  fourteen, can't have that. But you know, mostly just played second base
• 41:08
  most of the time. Another big time senior leader on that team that got
• 41:12
  second in state. So he'll be he'll be missed. I'm really curious to
• 41:15
  see, uh kind of where they'll place or who they'll put in that spot
• 41:20
  if if you know, if Trey Alexander goes over there, I'm sure he'll
• 41:24
  be in the infield. I'm not quite sure where. Uh, you know,
• 41:28
  maybe Kelly Gray will play some second base. I just I'm just not
• 41:31
  one hundred positive who will be there. But uh, but I yeah,
• 41:36
  I really really liked his game, tough at heck, scored twenty seven runs
• 41:40
  on the season. That's a lot of runs, which is second on the
• 41:45
  team and you know, top three or four in the entire county. So
• 41:51
  he got on base, he scored, you know, did did good things
• 41:55
  when he was on base, and uh and made things happen. Number forty
• 42:00
  one in the top fifty countdown, the first sophomore on the list, the
• 42:05
  shortstop from the seahomeup Mariners. It's gonna tweet. Yeah. When he played
• 42:10
  as a freshman, you know, he played some second base, you know,
• 42:14
  batted ninth really really you know, thin player, really small player,
• 42:19
  and I thought, you know, they just they just needed players. You
• 42:22
  know, the tweets over the years have just there's been a ton of them,
• 42:27
  going back to Murray Tweight and then Grady Tweight and then you get into
• 42:30
  this next generation now and they're just great baseball players. And his jump from
• 42:35
  freshman to sophomore here was awesome. Moves over from second place to play shortstop,
• 42:39
  mostly shortstop the entire year. Played a little bit around the infield,
• 42:44
  but mostly the shortstop. Really really, you know, it makes it kind
• 42:50
  of makes it look easy at shortstop, doesn't really rush anything. You could
• 42:52
  tell he's a natural baseball player infield or stuff like that. Batted over three
• 42:58
  hundred, batted three zero three on the year, you know, on base
• 43:01
  of over four hundred four to ten eight RBIs, stole four bases, so
• 43:07
  you know, put up some really good numbers. So really liked the offense
• 43:12
  and the defense. Also pitched eleven innings. I could see him kind of
• 43:16
  doing the same next year. You know, see home it basically returns the
• 43:22
  entire team next year, you know, it didn't have a ton of wins,
• 43:25
  but had some really tough luck losses. I think there was that one
• 43:29
  week where they had like three one run losses in a row, like it
• 43:32
  was just boom, boom boom. Two of them were walkoffs, you know
• 43:36
  against them, and and it's they're always just so close, but they're always
• 43:39
  really young. And next year the entire team comes back and and he'll be
• 43:44
  a big, big part of that, you know, batting second in the
• 43:46
  lineup, doing those kinds of things, moving runners over. But you know,
• 43:52
  but he can, you know, he can get on base. He
• 43:53
  can he can hit the ball around too. He's got that baseball in his
• 43:58
  blood. So I expect big things in the future for him. Number forty
• 44:02
  in the top fifty countdown the Senior. He's a center, I mean a
• 44:06
  catcher from Nukxack Valley. It's our guy, Damian Perez. Yeah, this
• 44:12
  man, he is. He's all business. It's so funny because I've been
• 44:15
  in the dugout a few times with Nuzack Valley and and catchers are usually like
• 44:19
  this. You know, they're kind of in their own spot. They're getting
• 44:21
  their gear on, they're doing their stuff. But man, the team is
• 44:24
  up and vocal and do all the you know, a little bingo little bingo
• 44:29
  and all that stuff, and he's just he's like a car and driver.
• 44:31
  Yeah yeah, and he's just sitting there. He's just sitting there relaxed.
• 44:37
  It's almost like he's like the grandfather of the team. You know, he's
• 44:39
  like, okay, guys, yeah yeah, and uh boy, really really
• 44:45
  good defensively, always always has been really strong, strong kid back there.
• 44:51
  Obviously we've seen him on the football field, and but I thought his hitting
• 44:54
  was really really good this year, and he was pretty selective. Led the
• 44:58
  team with eleven walks. This is a really aggressive swinging team, a team
• 45:01
  that in the past didn't have a lot of walks but had a lot of
• 45:07
  strikeouts. Well, this year didn't have a lot of walks and the strikers
• 45:09
  went way down, so the contact went way up, and he was one
• 45:14
  of those players did lead the team, like I said, with eleven walks,
• 45:17
  but he hit two ninety four, had a couple doubles, five rbies,
• 45:22
  got hit by pitch six times. You know what, That wouldn't phase
• 45:24
  him. Pretty strong kid. And I don't have his defensive stats for throwing
• 45:29
  guys out at second base, but I witnessed a handful of him and and
• 45:34
  He's the guy that, you know, there's some catchers that you kind of
• 45:37
  know that you can run on. There's some that you kind of take your
• 45:39
  chances with, and there's some that you just you don't even try it,
• 45:43
  you know, And and when he's on, he's the guy you don't you
• 45:45
  don't want to try it. So, you know, really really good career
• 45:50
  for him and a good, good senior year. Number thirty nine on the
• 45:53
  Top fifty count Down Senior listed as a utility man. Our first Bellingham Bayhawk
• 45:59
  its Owen eras Mesen. Yeah, one of my favorites. Uh, true
• 46:05
  true utility guy. I'm trying to think of what position he didn't play this
• 46:09
  year, and it yeah, it was. It was literally a he was
• 46:16
  the utility guy. Like I said, if they kind of had their set
• 46:20
  spots of guys and then they and then whoever was pitching, Owen played that
• 46:27
  spot, including catcher, infield, outfield, it did not matter. I
• 46:30
  remember him playing first base as a freshman. You know, they just needed
• 46:35
  to get him on the field because he was that valuable and he loved the
• 46:38
  game and he was he could do so many things, and every single year
• 46:43
  he just got bigger and stronger and he could throw harder. And then this
• 46:46
  year as a senior, his pitching just was awesome. I mean, I
• 46:52
  mean he led the team in wins with four wins. Let him an innings
• 46:53
  pitch with forty two and forty two innings he only gave up twenty two hits
• 46:59
  and struck out four seven, had a two point zero zero e r A.
• 47:02
  I know he was injured near the end of the year, like during
• 47:06
  uh during the district playoffs, which is which was really really tough, but
• 47:09
  a whip of one point zero five, which is crazy good. And then
• 47:15
  you know, offensively he led the team and walks as well. He tied
• 47:20
  with eleven and which is just you know, he gets on base. He
• 47:24
  had four stolen bases. Man, he's the guy that you need to have
• 47:30
  on your team. He is he's like, you know, like Mark Macklamore
• 47:34
  was, you know, any Willie bloom Cust you know, any position he
• 47:38
  could you put in there. Dylan Moore this year has been having a great
• 47:43
  year. He's a lot like that. He's just a guy that gives gives
• 47:45
  everybody a day off is what Dylan Moore does right now. Absolutely, And
• 47:50
  I remember Mark Macklamore doing that, you know. I remember Macklamore used to
• 47:53
  play left field and then they would put Charles Gibson in and then they'd move
• 47:58
  him to second base or you know whatever, evn Ord or Yeah, he
• 48:01
  was all over the place and a switch hitter, which was huge. And
• 48:05
  and that's and and Owen Rasmussen is a guy that is like just a baseball
• 48:12
  if there was such a thing as a gym rat for baseball. I mean,
• 48:15
  he just wants to play, does not matter what position it is.
• 48:17
  I remember when I joined a really really, really good, well established softball
• 48:22
  slope pitch softball team when I was like in my mid twenties, and these
• 48:27
  guys were awesome, like guys would come down from Canada and play. It
• 48:29
  was a really good team, kind of a team full of ringers. And
• 48:32
  they said, well, what kind of player are you? And I said,
• 48:35
  just think of me as Willie Bloomquist, and because I took pride and
• 48:37
  be able to play any any position. And the coach goes, well,
• 48:42
  you know, he didn't start very much and he kind of batted near the
• 48:44
  bottom of the line. But I said, I'm just here to play.
• 48:46
  It does not matter to me. You guys do whatever you want, and
• 48:50
  and he seems like that kind of guy that he's just there to play.
• 48:52
  He'll do whatever you need. But boy, itching wise, he took over
• 48:55
  and was lights out and that was really cool to see. I'll give you
• 48:59
  that one. Tyler rich Amerole, Oh, I love me some rich Ameroal.
• 49:05
  Yeah. Remember, I mean they would even I remember at times,
• 49:07
  you know, they would have him playing all three outfield positions in a game,
• 49:12
  you know what I mean, because you know they were trying to do
• 49:15
  something specific or you know, whatever it was. I mean, they they
• 49:17
  always just found ways of getting him in the lineup because he was always going
• 49:22
  to do good things. And he was a guy that you know, he
• 49:24
  was thirty years old by the time he was a rookie. Yeah, he
• 49:28
  was a lifetime minor league guy that just it just worked out and he got
• 49:30
  up to the majors and he stuck around for quite a while. Yeah.
• 49:34
  I remember he used to play some second base. He would play all out
• 49:37
  every outfield position. Yeah. They would even d h him from here,
• 49:42
  you know, time to time, just finding ways to keep him in the
• 49:45
  lineup to give anybody a day off. You know, that's what it always
• 49:49
  was with him and those guys are there's no value you can you can place
• 49:52
  on that. You know, he's just huge. Yeah, number thirty eight
• 49:55
  on the top fifty count down. A senior outfielder from the Blaine border,
• 50:00
  right, it's Mason Ockry. Yeah, Mason Ockery is a stud. I
• 50:04
  mean, he's a guy that a ton of confidence, a big smile on
• 50:08
  his face, and he's a guy that I just wouldn't want to face if
• 50:13
  I was pitching. You know, he's just he looks like he's he's he
• 50:17
  you know, you'd look at him and go, oh, no, like
• 50:20
  this guy. You know, he's not afraid of me at all. And
• 50:23
  and that's the kind of the way he plays, just no fear. Is
• 50:25
  kind of how he played football, playing safety, led the team with nine
• 50:30
  stolen bases as well. Played a lot of infield last year, played a
• 50:34
  lot of third base, and got moved out to the outfield this year and
• 50:37
  did awesome. Played played played mostly left field, played some center field,
• 50:43
  but mostly left field, and I did really well. Bat bat at two
• 50:47
  fifty three forty two on base percentage, had sixteen hits, And he kind
• 50:52
  of became that guy that was a kind of like the relief ace of Walkham
• 50:58
  County this year had a couple of says, fourteen innings pitched. In those
• 51:01
  fourteen innings, he struck out twenty two, he walked one. I mean
• 51:07
  that's man, if you're a high school baseball coach, that's is what that
• 51:12
  you you're dropling over that holy cow because it just walks and hit batsman.
• 51:17
  Happened all over the place in high school baseball. And he I guess I
• 51:22
  had walked one and struck out twenty two. And his is e a was
• 51:25
  one. Like, he only allowed two earned runs in fourteen innings. So
• 51:30
  a guy that you could throw out there at the end of the game and
• 51:32
  he can shut shut the door down. And and like I said, he
• 51:36
  just had that confidence. He had something something about him that was just like,
• 51:40
  you know, he had the black taped wrists and the hair coming out
• 51:44
  the back and he just you know, the EyeBlack and everything, and you
• 51:47
  know it is he's a tough dude. And like I said, he'll steal
• 51:52
  a base on you, no problem. Uh. The picture I put up
• 51:54
  for his graphic was him stealing against the eventual state champions over Lake, which
• 51:59
  they lost to in extra innings, one to nothing. So uh, that
• 52:02
  tells you how on the cuss Blaine was, how good they were. It
• 52:07
  was just, you know, a tough one in the postseason, and he
• 52:10
  was a big time catalyst at the top, near the top of the lineup
• 52:14
  for the for Blane. You know who else was like a guy that played
• 52:16
  all over the place, Tyler? Was that a Mariner that just like name
• 52:21
  popped into my head randomly? Yeah, Darnell Coles. Yeah, he was
• 52:25
  an infielder, outfielder guy, a lot of right field and third base,
• 52:29
  but yeah, he played some first base and left right, right field and
• 52:31
  third base. Think about that for a second. Yeah, like who plays
• 52:36
  right field and third base? That's such a random you know what I mean.
• 52:39
  Gary Sheffield is kind of the main guy, or Bobby Bania, those
• 52:44
  kind of Garry Sheffield. I remember his rookie card was a shortstop. Yeah,
• 52:49
  yeah, yeah, I remember a lot of guys start out short and
• 52:51
  then they get moved around. That's true, That's very true. Yeah.
• 52:53
  Adam Jones remember that. Yeah, Adam Jones, I mean a rod obviously,
• 52:59
  I mean there was there was a lot of guys that yeah, I
• 53:00
  mean, shoot, there's guys nowadays. You know, it's crazy these guys.
• 53:04
  There's guys nowadays that'll like be shortstops coming out of high school and then
• 53:07
  they move them to like catcher. Yeah, like what but you know,
• 53:10
  they have a great arm and they're just the smartest player on the field.
• 53:14
  But they played shortstop for their high school or whatever just because they were the
• 53:16
  best athlete or you know whatever it is. But uh, let's see here
• 53:21
  tyler thirty seven on the top fifty count down. He's a junior catcher from
• 53:24
  the Linden Lions. It's Tristan Thomas. Yeah, another guy that came through
• 53:29
  in big time clutch situations, really good defensive catcher, catching a you know,
• 53:35
  all those different big time arms, and it seems like they have so
• 53:37
  many of them, and you got they kind of know all of them and
• 53:40
  know their strengths and weaknesses and what pitches they throw. All of that while
• 53:45
  leading the team or tying with the team lead with four doubles. Also had
• 53:49
  fifteen RBIs in eighty two played appearances, only struck out thirteen times. That's
• 53:53
  a that's a huge number there, and uh, just a big, strong
• 53:59
  kid. So I'm I'm kind of excited about that because I really I think
• 54:04
  he's gonna jump up to and his you know, his abilities and stuff like
• 54:08
  that. He did pitch one inning last year, and I don't know if
• 54:10
  that was just kind of a throwaway ending or not, but maybe he'll pitch
• 54:14
  a little bit more next year. They lose, you know, their three
• 54:16
  main guys that we're all seniors, so there's gonna be some guys having a
• 54:22
  step up and pitch, and he might do that. A lot of teams
• 54:23
  don't like to throw their catcher because they just, you know, kind of
• 54:27
  breaks up the rhythm and everything, and you want to have your guy behind
• 54:30
  the plate the whole game. So we'll see what happens there. But he's
• 54:32
  a guy that next year will probably be in kind of that four spot in
• 54:37
  the lineup, four or four or five, and just a big, big,
• 54:40
  strong kid that can drive the ball into the gaps and and get around
• 54:45
  the bases and and uh so, yeah, I'm excited to see what his
• 54:47
  future brings. Big strong kid from Lyndon. So are you telling me that
• 54:52
  the baseball team maybe bucks some bales too? Huh? I would imagine,
• 54:55
  So, yes, Sam, I mean, this kid doesn't play linebacker for
• 54:59
  them. I mean, what's going on here? Thirty six on the top
• 55:02
  fifty count down Tyler Senior. He's a first baseman and a pitcher from the
• 55:07
  Bellingham BayHawks. Not the only Hardward on the list, but this one,
• 55:10
  Jesse Harward. Yeah, speaking of big, strong kids and and a rarity
• 55:15
  these days. Back in the day, and we I talked to you about
• 55:19
  this a few weeks ago, there was you know, I could there were
• 55:22
  dozens of kids that would play football, basketball, and baseball. I was
• 55:27
  looking around the entire county just looking at the senior class, not underclassmen,
• 55:30
  just the senior class. I could only find four kids that played those three
• 55:35
  specific sports. And he's and he's one of them. And to do that
• 55:40
  at you know, six four, two hundred and seventy pounds. I get
• 55:45
  it with the football, but they play basketball and baseball too, and start
• 55:49
  on all three of those teams. Yeah, basketball, because usually a guy
• 55:53
  might play baseball and they're gonna play you know, first base, probably exclusively,
• 55:58
  you know, probably definitely not hitching, you know what I mean,
• 56:00
  that's just what happening. But then to play basketball too, I mean,
• 56:04
  that's just the athleticism at that size is that's it's wild. And the funny
• 56:08
  thing is too, is you see a guy that big, you know,
• 56:10
  you think of like if he's on the mound, you think of like a
• 56:14
  CC Sabbathia like because he's left handed. And but when he pitches, he's
• 56:20
  kind of a junk ball guy. He kind of throws side arm. He's
• 56:22
  a relief guy. Uh and so it kind of throws you off a little
• 56:25
  bit. Yeah. And then but then and when he hits, he's a
• 56:31
  big left handed bat, but he goes the other way. He you know,
• 56:35
  he hits it into the you know, right over the shortstop's head all
• 56:37
  the time. So he's not Matt Stairs, right he And I mean if
• 56:42
  if he got a hold of one, yeah, definitely, but he's not
• 56:45
  really looking to do that because I think he knew that if he would,
• 56:47
  the strikeouts would go up, the average would go down, and and and
• 56:52
  his average was a little lower than it's been in the rest of his career,
• 56:55
  but still had a pretty good year. He tied with the team lead
• 56:59
  and walks with eleven. Had fourteen hits or I'm sorry, seventeen hits.
• 57:02
  Three of them were doubles at eight RBIs hit twoin fifty on the year,
• 57:07
  had more walks than strikeouts, which is always good at the high school level.
• 57:10
  And then and pitch pitching wise, you know, he he through nineteen
• 57:15
  and two thirds innings, struck out twenty two batters. Everything was in relief,
• 57:20
  so he got thrown into some weird situations sometimes. The year was kind
• 57:23
  of high at six point zero four. Uh, but you know, you
• 57:27
  could you could put him in that spot if if you need to. And
• 57:31
  you know, it's just it was a lot of you know, in a
• 57:37
  more chatter than anybody out in the field, out at first base, and
• 57:39
  I love that. I love when they're vocal and they're they're telling where to
• 57:43
  go and what and you know, get you know, getting his team going
• 57:46
  and stuff like that. So you gotta you gotta love that. But man,
• 57:51
  I mean a three year starter baseball playing for Baker and then Bellingham over
• 57:58
  his career, I mean in his career he had a up in doubles and
• 58:00
  hit two ninety three for his entire career. A lot of really really good
• 58:05
  seasons for Jesse Harward, number thirty five on the Top fifty count Down Senior.
• 58:09
  He's a shortstop from the Linen Lions. It's a River lang Strap.
• 58:14
  Yeah, another kid that would probably would have been ranked higher, but he
• 58:17
  missed a big chunk in the middle of the season. I'm not quite sure
• 58:21
  what the injury was, but he was, you know, he was the
• 58:23
  everyday shortstop doing some good things, and then he was out for a while.
• 58:28
  I try not to poke and prod too much with what's going on with
• 58:30
  teams because it's base I mean, baseball, it's so busy. I mean,
• 58:32
  you're playing all the time, and all of a sudden, he was
• 58:36
  in the lineup for a long time, came back late in the year as
• 58:38
  a DH so I would imagine it was arm related, but and still had
• 58:44
  a really good year, hit two ninety on the year, had thirteen RBIs.
• 58:49
  Even though he was you know, he had thirty less plate appearances than
• 58:52
  the rest of the team, basically the rest of the starting lineup, it
• 58:57
  was still right up there with you know, like I said, thirteen RBI
• 59:00
  has hit two ninety in his seventy played appearances. He only struck out nine
• 59:04
  times. Uh yeah, so that's that's those are pretty good numbers as well.
• 59:10
  And like I said, I mean, he's a guy that I would
• 59:14
  have had a lot higher, but he missed a big chunk of the year.
• 59:19
  But because he did come back and participate in the playoffs and stuff like
• 59:22
  that, even though it was d h, he definitely earned a spot on
• 59:24
  this list. Always hard to rank those kinds of guys because you know,
• 59:29
  you got to weigh it, you know, differently. But he was on
• 59:30
  a really good team that you know, took third and state. But there's
• 59:35
  this list, and there's that, and and I thought this was a good,
• 59:37
  good, good spot for him. But yeah, a really good,
• 59:40
  really good career too. Hit over three hundred for his entire career, So
• 59:45
  big time, big, big time player. But you know, another one
• 59:49
  where just unfortunate injuries but he had but he was able to play through it
• 59:52
  near the end of the year. Number thirty four in the Top fifty countdown.
• 59:55
  He's a sophomore catcher. First one on list from the Ferndale Golden Eagles.
• 1:00:01
  It's brayln Obrien. Yeah. Last year the Ferndale team just looked like,
• 1:00:07
  you know, a men's slow pitch softball team. I mean, these
• 1:00:09
  were a bunch of linemen of just huge dudes just crushing the ball over the
• 1:00:14
  place. And the one thing they were missing was their catcher, because with
• 1:00:17
  Land and Hatchet going out to UUB early for spring, you know, they
• 1:00:22
  always had that group together, and they didn't. They didn't have a catcher.
• 1:00:25
  And lo and behold, they have this freshman catcher that's catching these you
• 1:00:30
  know, Jake Mason's throwing ninety miles an hour and you know Dylan Stroms throwing
• 1:00:34
  ninety. You had these big, huge horses pitching and you had a freshman
• 1:00:38
  catching who's not really a catcher, he's a he's an infielder, and he's
• 1:00:43
  able to catch that staff and and it was just such a huge thing for
• 1:00:46
  that team. Then going into this year, you know, he's a left
• 1:00:51
  handed batter, which is always great to have, and and super super patient.
• 1:00:57
  Walked nineteen times. That's a lot of walks at the high school level,
• 1:01:01
  so it's on baseball centag was up at four eighty six. And even
• 1:01:06
  with that many walks, he tied for the team lead in singles with twelve
• 1:01:09
  so and did hit three doubles and a triple. And because of his patients
• 1:01:15
  he was he was batting leadoff a lot of the season. You don't see
• 1:01:19
  a lot of catchers bat leadoff, and so, I mean it was a
• 1:01:23
  really really cool thing for that. I would imagine next year he's gonna get
• 1:01:29
  moved to maybe short or second. I think Talon bung Guard might get moved
• 1:01:32
  to third because I heard there's another Hatchet coming up that's a pretty good catcher,
• 1:01:37
  So I you know, that might be the way it goes. But
• 1:01:40
  he's this is a kid that's as a as a baseball like life or two.
• 1:01:45
  Like it's Baseball twenty four to seven for him. So I was really
• 1:01:47
  excited to see his progression. Offensively hit two ninety six on the year,
• 1:01:52
  like I said, with the four extra base hits so and the left handed
• 1:01:58
  bat, good patients, all that stuff, I think he's gonna have a
• 1:02:01
  really really good career just a sophomore, like you said, so big time
• 1:02:05
  couple of years coming up here. We're gonna have to deal with another hatchet.
• 1:02:09
  Yes, it was his birthday today. He turned fifteen years old today.
• 1:02:14
  Unbelievable, number thirty three on the top fifty countdown. The senior second
• 1:02:19
  baseman from the Knucksack Valley Pioneers. It's just from the Knucksack Value Pioneers.
• 1:02:25
  Jesse Tresselt. Yeah, this is a kid. Talk about improvement from junior
• 1:02:30
  to senior year. There might not have been a bigger improvement. You know.
• 1:02:34
  Last year he was you know, he was in the lineup most of
• 1:02:37
  the time, but when he was he was bat ninth, and you know,
• 1:02:39
  he was pretty good. You could rely on him defensively. This year,
• 1:02:44
  he just took off batting lead off. He batted lead off the entire
• 1:02:49
  year, batted three to nineteen, had fourteen RBIs from the leadoff spot.
• 1:02:54
  That's a pretty crazy number two. And that tells you a lot about you
• 1:02:58
  know, up and down the lineup, exact valley. He's getting guys on
• 1:03:00
  base, but you know he's not asked to drive in runs. But that's
• 1:03:05
  what he did. Uh led the team with the lowest strikeout percentage, so
• 1:03:09
  he hardly ever struck out. He only walked twice in seventy seven play differences,
• 1:03:15
  walked twice, so he's looking to swing the bat. Uh stole six
• 1:03:19
  bases and his defense was was fantastic. And Uh, you know, he's
• 1:03:24
  a kid that before the season started I would have probably said he's probably not
• 1:03:29
  going to make the top fifty list, but he'll be playing in every game.
• 1:03:32
  Well, he blew me away. I mean he he he got put
• 1:03:36
  on the list and got put up on the list and and was just consistent
• 1:03:40
  throughout the entire season. There was a time when he was leading the team
• 1:03:44
  in derby eyes and he was batting in the leadoff spot. So, uh,
• 1:03:49
  yeah, it is really hard to do. So an awesome season.
• 1:03:52
  And I love when the when the seniors show out like that for their final
• 1:03:57
  year and and uh and put everything out there and big, big years And
• 1:04:00
  he definitely did well. That's kind of what seniors are supposed to do,
• 1:04:03
  right, Like absolutely, yeah, but you know it's tough because you know
• 1:04:06
  you're getting close to the end of the school year and you're just kind of
• 1:04:11
  I've seen a lot of seniors in spring sports just kind of fade out or
• 1:04:15
  stop or just not play their senior year or whatever. And and so I
• 1:04:19
  love it when they actually like it's their moment to shine and they take advantage
• 1:04:24
  of it and they just go And that was really cool to see. Yeah,
• 1:04:27
  that's that's always good. Thirty two in the Top fifty Countdown. Another
• 1:04:32
  sophomore third baseman from Lynn and Christian sam Cock, And I didn't know anything
• 1:04:38
  about this player coming into this year and all like, right off the bat,
• 1:04:41
  he's batting fifth in the lineup. So that kind of told me,
• 1:04:44
  Okay, I got a who is this kid that's batting fifth? Because they've
• 1:04:47
  kind of had that same kids for a while now, it seems like,
• 1:04:50
  you know else this was kind of their year when and with a lot of
• 1:04:55
  the guys with a lot of varsity experience, but he didn't really have any.
• 1:04:58
  I think he had a little bit as a freshman, but you know,
• 1:05:00
  he wasn't starting or anything, and right off bat started at third base.
• 1:05:03
  I think he played, you know, basically the whole year at third
• 1:05:08
  base, didn't didn't relinquish, it was steady throughout the year, all the
• 1:05:12
  way through the year. He hit two eighty eight on the year. Another
• 1:05:15
  left handed bat, Elsie seemed to be loaded with left handed bats. There
• 1:05:18
  was a you know, you once you get to that five six, seven,
• 1:05:20
  eight nine spot, it was like left right, left, right,
• 1:05:24
  left right, you know it just they were able to go back and forth
• 1:05:26
  on that starting with him, and you know, he'll probably provide the protection
• 1:05:31
  for Austin Engles next year, probably back clean up next year. Big strong
• 1:05:36
  kid, twenty one hits, seven RBIs six dolen bases, so he can
• 1:05:41
  you know, he can get around on the bass paths it well or as
• 1:05:45
  well. Walked eleven times on base percentage of three eighty one. I'm not
• 1:05:49
  sure if he can pitch or not. Didn't throw any innings this year,
• 1:05:53
  but has that body that you think he could, and playing third base,
• 1:05:58
  has got a pretty good arm. So we'll see if he if he if
• 1:06:01
  they give if he gets any innings next year. But man, you put
• 1:06:04
  if you could put a really good player on the hot corner and just let
• 1:06:08
  him do his thing and you don't have to worry about it, that's such
• 1:06:11
  a huge thing. And and a really good bat too, Like I said,
• 1:06:14
  left handed bat. Awesome to have in just a sophomore. The future
• 1:06:17
  for Lindy Christian looks really really good. Uh, it's gonna be it's gonna
• 1:06:21
  be scary. They're gonna be near the top of that especially with the one
• 1:06:25
  A's in the Northwest Conference for the next couple of years. Number thirty one
• 1:06:30
  on the top fifty count down, the last one for this podcast. He's
• 1:06:33
  a sophomore. He's not a center and a punter. He's a catcher and
• 1:06:38
  a pitcher from the Bellingham BayHawks. It's another hard word, this one.
• 1:06:42
  Joe. Yeah, he was and he just kept getting better as the year
• 1:06:46
  went on. You know, as a freshman he caught a little bit there.
• 1:06:49
  Their starting senior catcher missed kind of the first chunk of the year,
• 1:06:54
  first three or four weeks of the year. So he was forced into action
• 1:06:57
  at catcher last year and my not have been ready for it, uh fully.
• 1:07:01
  And so when this year came around, I was, you know,
• 1:07:04
  talking to some coaches now, I was like, he is Jo going to
• 1:07:06
  catch? And this, Oh yeah, yeah, he's read, he's ready,
• 1:07:10
  and he's grown so much. I mean he's about six two six three
• 1:07:14
  and big strong and uh usually catchers are a little you know, shorter and
• 1:07:19
  compact, and he's kinda he's more wiry and more lanky. Uh, but
• 1:07:25
  he's he pulls it off really really well. And and you know this too
• 1:07:29
  from you know, being involved with a Bottel baseball team is you know,
• 1:07:31
  pitchers and catchers they get on base and you could have a courtesy runner,
• 1:07:35
  right, That's just you know, that's just the way that it is.
• 1:07:38
  Boy, You're never Curtis, You're never gonna have a Curtisy runner for for
• 1:07:42
  for Joe Harvard. He stole twenty bases this year. Whoa and and that's
• 1:07:45
  a that's a lot. It's a huge number of high school Yeah, so
• 1:07:49
  if he's getting on, he's going. I don't I can't remember what game
• 1:07:54
  it was, but I saw him. You know, they they threw,
• 1:07:57
  they threw over to first base like eight times in a row. And it
• 1:08:00
  almost became comical because both teams know, like, he's going right. And
• 1:08:04
  not only that, but he tied for the team lead with a three to
• 1:08:08
  oh eight batting average too. So he's getting the hits, he's getting on
• 1:08:12
  base and uh and he's and he's moving once he gets on, he's he's
• 1:08:15
  going. And so that was really really cool to see. Is not only
• 1:08:18
  did he you know a lot of times when young catchers are playing, you're
• 1:08:21
  just asked to play defense, you know, and sometimes they get dhed four.
• 1:08:26
  A lot of the time a young catcher will get DH four, which
• 1:08:28
  is fine, but not him. I mean, he was he you know,
• 1:08:31
  he had twenty hits on the year, stole twenty bases, batted three
• 1:08:34
  to zero eight and then yeah, he pitched a little bit too, and
• 1:08:38
  and and did did okay, only through a few innings, but probably gonna
• 1:08:44
  be you know, they lose you know, three pitchers, three senior pitchers
• 1:08:47
  from this year, two starters and a reliever. So he's probably gonna be
• 1:08:51
  doing a little bit more pitching. But I'm excited to see his growth.
• 1:08:56
  Uh he just especially if he just keeps on getting bigger. I mean,
• 1:08:59
  his brother's a bit kid and he's just he's getting up there as well.
• 1:09:02
  And uh, you know, spoiler alert, you're gonna see him behind center
• 1:09:06
  for the football team this year, and that was gonna be the big question
• 1:09:10
  this upcoming year about who was the quarterback going to be year They're gonna have
• 1:09:14
  to change their offense. He's a little different than than than than Leonard behind
• 1:09:18
  quarterback or behind behind center. Leonard didn't run a ton, but uh,
• 1:09:24
  I think Joe and with those twenties stolen bases, you might see a little
• 1:09:27
  bit more scrambling, a little runout. You know, he doesn't have the
• 1:09:30
  arm that that Leonard does. But you know it's gonna be a little bit
• 1:09:35
  a little a little different, almost like a wildcat back there. So it's
• 1:09:40
  a new position for him. And he will be playing defense. He'll be
• 1:09:44
  a corner on defense as well. But but we'll see. But yeah,
• 1:09:47
  awesome to see him in baseball this year. I thought, he you know,
• 1:09:51
  he he jumped off the page to me, ended up batting second in
• 1:09:55
  the lineup after starting in like the seventh hole. He just kind of kept
• 1:09:59
  moving up, and by the time they got to the playoffs, I mean,
• 1:10:00
  he was securely into that second spot of the lineup, which was which
• 1:10:04
  was huge, And and he's gonna be he's probably gonna start the year right
• 1:10:10
  off in that spot and be a big time part of that team going forward.
• 1:10:15
  Well that's it, Tyler. Yeah, it's the first twenty in the
• 1:10:17
  Top fifty countdown as far as the podcast goes. H the actual countdown is
• 1:10:23
  a little further along than that. But uh yeah, I think it went
• 1:10:28
  well, Yeah, not too bad. But for that's our first time doing
• 1:10:31
  this one for you know, for this sport, and and uh I was
• 1:10:35
  a little works. I was like, man, do I know enough about
• 1:10:38
  these kids? And I'll get it. Turns out it turns out I do.
• 1:10:41
  I it worked, It went okay, So yeah, it's so it
• 1:10:45
  was just so much I loved watching all these kids play. I mean it's
• 1:10:48
  and the weather was pretty good. There wasn't a ton of bad weather or
• 1:10:51
  anything like that. There wasn't wasn't a ton of rain outs. There was
• 1:10:55
  a one week where it got kind of bad, but but it was just
• 1:10:59
  so cool to watch these I love. I just love baseball, so uh
• 1:11:01
  and I love high school baseball because there is you know, movement and sacrifices
• 1:11:06
  and stuff like that, and you see a lot of that good stuff.
• 1:11:10
  And that's that's the kind of baseball I love to watch. The thing about
• 1:11:13
  high school baseball is even though pretty much everybody, it seems like, uses
• 1:11:17
  the d H. Now, it's it's still National League baseball, you know.
• 1:11:25
  It's yeah, it's style. Yeah, yeah, it's it's well old
• 1:11:29
  National League baseball, National League baseball that you and I grew up with,
• 1:11:31
  where there was no DH. It was you know, guy gets on base,
• 1:11:34
  you're gonna bun him over. It's you know, hit and run.
• 1:11:38
  It's it's all that stuff. It's not it's not DH comes up and you're
• 1:11:41
  looking at crank one out of the park like that's right, that wasn't it.
• 1:11:45
  No, So it's and to me, that's to me. That's what
• 1:11:48
  makes baseball exciting is all that stuff you too, and and and the triple.
• 1:11:54
  The triple is the most exciting play in all of baseball, I don't
• 1:11:57
  care. And you sense it, like once he's when they round second,
• 1:12:00
  you just kind of you kind of get closer to the TV or the field
• 1:12:04
  if you're watch I mean, it's just you kind of lean forward. I
• 1:12:08
  just if you're sitting in the chair and you have like the little like leg
• 1:12:12
  thing kicked out, Like as soon as he hits it in the gap,
• 1:12:15
  you kind of like sit up a little bit. Yeah, and then as
• 1:12:17
  soon as he's like starting to round second, you kind of bring your feet
• 1:12:21
  down off it and you're leaning forward, going he might get in there.
• 1:12:25
  Yeah, you know, the two most exciting plays well. And it's hard
• 1:12:29
  because there's different types of home runs, right, Like I mean, a
• 1:12:31
  walk off home run like cal Rawley's walk off Grand Slam a few nights ago
• 1:12:36
  was incredible. Yeah, dude, he hammered that one. Or his his
• 1:12:41
  walk off home run that you know, clinched the playoffs a couple of years
• 1:12:45
  ago, Like like okay, got it. But when you just talk like
• 1:12:47
  home runs in general, like yeah, it's exciting, But to me,
• 1:12:50
  the two most exciting plays are a triple and a guy getting hosed from from
• 1:12:57
  the outfield at home plate, Like a dude getting just absolutely gunned down from
• 1:13:02
  the outfield. Oh man, it doesn't get a whole lot better than that,
• 1:13:08
  does it. I mean, that's true. And and you know what,
• 1:13:10
  it's even crazier if they're getting done gunned down at third Yeah. I
• 1:13:13
  was gonna say, like a take up from second from right field? Yeah,
• 1:13:16
  or do you remember the one who was the who's the was it Jose
• 1:13:20
  Gian or the outfielders the Mariners had for a couple of years he was he
• 1:13:25
  was like I think it was a right fielder that had just an absolute cannon.
• 1:13:29
  Yeah. Yeah. And there was a play where I don't remember who
• 1:13:30
  he was with, but it was he threw out Nafi Perez at third base.
• 1:13:36
  I think he was with the Pirates, and it was like a play
• 1:13:39
  up against the wall where he you thought he might catch it, but he
• 1:13:42
  didn't. It like hits his glove, bounces kind of back towards the infield
• 1:13:46
  and he grabs it like on the run and just yeah, the momentum,
• 1:13:50
  yeah, just absolutely guns him out. At third and you're just like,
• 1:13:55
  good God man, Like, is that the best I've ever seen in my
• 1:13:58
  life? Yeah? I know, how about this? What is the best
• 1:14:00
  throw you've ever seen? Because I know what, I know what mine is.
• 1:14:02
  Oh, there's a few of them. I mean the e t Ro
• 1:14:06
  getting Terrence Long out, oh Star Wars, Yeah, the something out of
• 1:14:12
  Star Wars. Yeah, that was only like that was only like his fourth
• 1:14:15
  game with the Mariners. Yeah, And if I can remember, right,
• 1:14:17
  that's a throw that if David Bell doesn't catch it at third, it like
• 1:14:20
  hits the base, right. Yeah? Who was there was? There was
• 1:14:26
  a few. Dave Parker in the seventy nine All Star Game, which was
• 1:14:30
  in the Kingdome had to create had a couple of them, but there was
• 1:14:33
  one big time one over Bertil Clement had some big ones. There was Bo
• 1:14:38
  Jackson getting Harold Reynolds. Bo Jackson threw one that did not bounce from from
• 1:14:45
  left field warning track and from the warning track to home and he was taked
• 1:14:51
  out and Harold Reynolds was taked out at home and Harold Reynolds could fly.
• 1:14:55
  I remember that. That was like Harold Reynolds was like, there's no way
• 1:14:59
  that just that was one where Reynolds slid off the Reynolds like slid off to
• 1:15:04
  the side like trying to get in and and yeah, I remember that one
• 1:15:09
  was just an absolute one of those ones where you're like, wait, what
• 1:15:12
  just happened right here? Like yeah, or what hold on a second.
• 1:15:15
  Who's the guy that played for the A's. He was a left fielder,
• 1:15:21
  just like not too long ago, and he had an absolute cannon Joenna Cespedes.
• 1:15:30
  Do you remember the one where he like two times within a week he
• 1:15:34
  threw guys out And one of them was, I want to say it was
• 1:15:38
  against the Angels, and it was like it was like a line drive down
• 1:15:42
  the down the left field line and it goes into the corner and he goes
• 1:15:45
  to get it and then like just boots it and it bounces way away from
• 1:15:48
  him and he goes over and picks it up and then absolutely uncorks one where
• 1:15:54
  you're just like what the heck, Like how does somebody throw a ball like
• 1:15:59
  that? Like how does that happen? And it was just one of those
• 1:16:01
  ones that just floated all the way and then the guy catches it, makes
• 1:16:05
  the tag and you just go that is so dumb. Like, yeah,
• 1:16:10
  so dumb and stuff like that is incredibly exciting when it doesn't happen to your
• 1:16:15
  team. But if you're in a baseball game and a guy hit the triple,
• 1:16:19
  that's one that's like it almost doesn't matter what team it is. It's
• 1:16:23
  it's still exciting to see because when a guy is just busting it out of
• 1:16:27
  the box and you're like, whoa, like look at him, go like
• 1:16:30
  he thinks he can get to third, Oh my goodness, he's gonna get
• 1:16:32
  to third. You're just like, holy cow man. But I can.
• 1:16:39
  I can vividly remember, and I know you're I know exactly what you're gonna
• 1:16:42
  do. You're gonna go to Baseball Reference, find the game and send me
• 1:16:44
  the box score, which I applaud you already. Yeah, but cause I
• 1:16:46
  can, I can almost pinpoint the day it was. It was late April,
• 1:16:50
  I want to say, April twenty first or twenty second. Seattle was
• 1:16:55
  playing home against the Texas Rangers. And I remember it very very well because
• 1:17:00
  I was kidnapped by my friends on Friday, which was my birthday. I
• 1:17:05
  was so excited to stay home and watch the NFL Draft all weekend by myself
• 1:17:12
  and no my friends kidnapped me to take me to Seattle. They had this
• 1:17:15
  huge thing planned for my birthday. There was a surprise, which was okay.
• 1:17:18
  But we went to the game either I must have been Sunday afternoons.
• 1:17:21
  It was probably April twenty second, two thousand and two. And each E
• 1:17:25
  ro hit two two triples in that game, hit two of them in right
• 1:17:30
  center field. And what I remember about that is we were sitting kind of
• 1:17:34
  up in the third deck, like where he's running from second to thirty.
• 1:17:38
  He's running right towards us, right, So that was really really cool play.
• 1:17:42
  And it happened twice. And that was also you know, a Rods.
• 1:17:46
  It was his you know, second year with Texas, and I think
• 1:17:50
  it was the first trip in for that year. And every time he came
• 1:17:54
  up, there was a ton of Monopoly money that came down from the stands
• 1:17:58
  all over that and I and this was my first time, you know,
• 1:18:00
  you know, I this was maybe my fifth time ever to a Mariner's game
• 1:18:05
  a Pril twenty first, two thousand and two. Uh huh, and Dan
• 1:18:10
  Wilson hit a home run and uh, each Row did hit two triples.
• 1:18:15
  Do you remember who the pitcher was off. It was like Doug Davis.
• 1:18:21
  It was Doug Davis. It was Doug Davis. Yeah, because he just
• 1:18:26
  through nothing. He was left handed, junk thrower. Yeah, here you
• 1:18:30
  go. Here here's the starting You know, you know who hit a home
• 1:18:31
  run off of Doug Davis, Damn Rady Johnson. Well not not not that
• 1:18:38
  day, but Randy Johnson's one home run came up with Doug Davis. That's
• 1:18:41
  awesome, you know, it's funny Tyler. Earlier we were talking about Mark
• 1:18:44
  mcklamore and I mentioned Charles Gibson. Yeah, Charles Gibson started the game in
• 1:18:47
  left field, and Mark mcklamore came in to pinch hit for him. Here
• 1:18:51
  you go, here's the Mariner's lineup from that day. Yeah, leading off,
• 1:18:55
  Each Row right field, second, second hitter, Jeff Cirillo third base,
• 1:19:00
  Brett Boone second base, Mike Cameron center field, Ruben Sierra, d
• 1:19:05
  h John Oldarude first base, Carlos Gien shortstop, Dan Wilson catcher, Charles
• 1:19:12
  Gibson left field, and then Freddy Garcia pitched, Arthur Rhodes came in,
• 1:19:17
  Joel Pinero came in, and Kazehiro Sasaki closed it out. That might have
• 1:19:23
  been the game Joel was it Joel Piniro? So, I think it was
• 1:19:28
  Joel Paniro gave me a hot molly and he was and he was in the
• 1:19:32
  bullpen. It was either Pinero or there was another guy. Oh man,
• 1:19:38
  I thought it was Panero though. So here's here's kind of interesting. In
• 1:19:41
  that game, the Mariners won five to three, had eight hits one air,
• 1:19:45
  the Rangers three runs, nine hits one air. The Rangers did not
• 1:19:49
  have a single a single pinch hitter, pinch runner anything. Right then,
• 1:19:59
  Yeah, they had nine and they the Mariners only had Mark macklmore. That's
• 1:20:04
  it. So of the two, that's it. Think about that American League
• 1:20:10
  Baseball though, Yeah, I mean you just but you just think about that
• 1:20:12
  like that doesn't happen nowadays, you know, like it just doesn't happen nowadays.
• 1:20:15
  But uh, starting land up for the Rangers, left field Frank Catalonado
• 1:20:20
  right here, had Rusty Greer, shortstop a Rod d h Paul Merrow,
• 1:20:25
  centerfielder, Carl Everett. First baseman Mike Lamb catcher This is great catcher,
• 1:20:30
  Bill Hasselman, Yes, yeah, Third baseman Hank Blaylock, second baseman,
• 1:20:38
  Michael Young and Doug Davis on the mound, and Todd Van Poppol came in.
• 1:20:43
  Oh, Todd Van Popple, he was supposed to be some huge thing.
• 1:20:45
  Yeah, I will never forget. Remember, so I we've talked about
• 1:20:50
  it before. We had tickets as a kid, and so I went to
• 1:20:54
  a ton of Mariner games. Yeah. There would be times where we would
• 1:21:00
  go as a family or whatever, right, and so we would just buy
• 1:21:01
  a couple extra tickets wherever and me and my sister would pretty much just roam
• 1:21:04
  around do whatever we wanted. Well, one time we decided to actually sit
• 1:21:09
  in our seats. It was a big crowd and it was like Little League
• 1:21:12
  Day or something, right, so we decided to actually sit in our seats
• 1:21:15
  where our seats were triple deck. I mean we were way up there.
• 1:21:19
  And when I say this, this isn't a joke. We were above the
• 1:21:23
  fireworks. Like that's how high up we were in the Kingdome, right,
• 1:21:27
  And I'll never forget. There was all these teams sitting around us, and
• 1:21:31
  for whatever reason, there was like these four guys sitting by us, and
• 1:21:35
  I think they were like coaches of one of the teams, and they hated
• 1:21:39
  Bill Hasselman, just absolutely hat and he was a maren right, Yeah,
• 1:21:45
  but they hated him. And I remember one guy would just stand up and
• 1:21:48
  yell, what's the matter with Hasselman, and the rest of them would go,
• 1:21:53
  he's a bum. And it was just the most random, like of
• 1:21:58
  all the guys to hate, like what's your plum with the backup catcher?
• 1:22:00
  Like, yeah, the guy plays like twenty five games a year like you.
• 1:22:05
  And if you if you look up, if you YouTube Bill Hasslman,
• 1:22:09
  you know what it would bring you to. Oh, probably when he charged
• 1:22:12
  the mound, yeah, against Baltimore, was it? Yeah, it was
• 1:22:15
  Baltimore. It was it was Lou Panella's first ejection. Oh man, he
• 1:22:19
  charged the mountain on Mike Mussina. Yeah, and it started a full on
• 1:22:23
  brawl and then they threw out I remember they were mad. Panela was mad
• 1:22:28
  because like they threw out more Mariners than they did or And he's just standing
• 1:22:33
  there and he puts his hands out to the side and then he just takes
• 1:22:36
  his hat off nice and slow and just goes womn and throws it on the
• 1:22:41
  ground and you know, it gets kicked out and he's screaming and yelling and
• 1:22:45
  oh, man, did you did you see the other day or I think
• 1:22:46
  it might have been today or yesterday, the manager for the Phillies got thrown
• 1:22:51
  out. Yeah, I missed it and he got right. What it was
• 1:22:56
  was it was a it was a hit by pitch. But I think what
• 1:23:00
  the ruling was and I don't know for sure because I didn't follow it up
• 1:23:02
  because I just saw that. I saw it, and then I just kind
• 1:23:05
  of like assumed that's what it was. The batter squared around a bunt and
• 1:23:11
  in the process he stepped out of the box with his back foot and then
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  it hit him and I think that's what they called was. Yes, it
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  did hit him, but he was out of the box with his foot,
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  so it's like it's you know, I think that's what the ruling was.
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  I don't know, but regardless, it was ruled a hit by pitch and
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  then they flipped it. Yeah, and that's when the manager came out and
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  just went absolutely nuts. And you don't see this very often anymore. When
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  he started screaming, he gets thrown out and then the umpire actually got back
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  in his face. Yeah, because you know, nowadays, typically the crew
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  chief steps in and they you know, they break it up real early.
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  Oh no, the crew chief was last Diaz, who that guy is not
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  afraid to get in somebody's face. And he stood there and let him go.
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  They went for probably five or six seconds of good chewing. I mean,
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  they really hammered each other. It was great. I love it.
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  I love that. Okay, you talk about another exciting part of baseball,
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  Tyler. I would rather have a guy get thrown out than a three run
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  home run. I'd rather have the the I'd rather have Panella come out and
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  scream and yell and kick some dirt and go nuts than a three run home
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  run. I just would That's just me. I mean, that's one record
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  we'll never see broken. Bobby Cox's is managerial you know, ejections, Oh
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  yeah, that'll that'll never happen. I mean, Aaron Boone has probably more
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  than anybody in the last five or six years, and I bet he's not
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  even anywhere, you know, ever going to be remotely close. And that's
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  even if he coaches another fifteen or twenty years. Like, he won't even
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  get close. I mean, Bobby Cox used to get kicked out like twice
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  a week, just for fun, you know. It was it was like
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  it was like he just wanted to go back and get an early start on
• 1:24:50
  the spread. He just wanted to go back and get some cheeseburgers or something
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  like. There's a couple of good ones with Bobby Cox who are getting thrown
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  out, or there's one where he he walk out and it's I want to
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  say it's Bill Hahn was the umpire and he walks down it I think it
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  was against the Marlins, and Cox is like holding his hands up and Han
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  looked at the at the lineup card and he says something and Bobby Cox points
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  at it, and then Han looks at him and you can see him say
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  like, oh, you just want to go home, and Cox was just
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  puts his hands up and he goes, okay, fine throws him out.
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  Oh yeah, I love that. I wish they would make up every umpire
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  and then you know, bleep it out obviously, like I don't care about
• 1:25:29
  that, but I want to hear what is being said in some of that
• 1:25:30
  stuff. Sure, yeah, because that one of Terry Collins and Tom Hallian
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  is hilarious. I mean, yes, just great. I mean, which
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  it shows you what is actually being said, because I bet it's pretty similar
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  and pretty much all of them. Yeah, right, But all right,
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  Tyler, that's twenty of them. He still got thirty more to go,
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  like I said before, And this was the first of three, so we've
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  still got two more to go. It's going to be a twenty and then
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  another ten, Tyler before we get out of here. I don't know when
• 1:26:05
  the next one we're gonna do here is. But next Sunday, this coming
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  Sunday, are you gonna be a back out at District Brewing. Yeah,
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  I'll be out there. I'll be out there. You know, there's only
• 1:26:15
  one Sunday this summer that I know for sure I'm gonna miss. It's the
• 1:26:18
  final Sunday of July. I'll be in Wyoming for a wedding. But other
• 1:26:24
  than that, I will be there every Sunday noon to two, all right,
• 1:26:28
  noon to two, sixty nine to twelve Hannigan Road in Linden or the
• 1:26:32
  addresses Linden. But yeah, you can find Tyler out there this coming Sunday,
• 1:26:39
  so be you know, go stop in, go stop in by the
• 1:26:42
  guy a couple of wings or something, you know what I mean, or
• 1:26:44
  bye bye. They got dessert Tyler, I'm not sure. I don't think
• 1:26:47
  so. Well, we might have to come up with a walk On Preps
• 1:26:51
  dessert then, huh oh, maybe maybe or maybe we can get some Maybe
• 1:26:56
  they need to just strike up a little, you know, a little relationship
• 1:27:00
  with our guys over at the dairy. What's the dairy. Uh oh yeah,
• 1:27:04
  the Edelin Dairy. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean we get get
• 1:27:08
  some birthday cake ice cream or something over there, you know what I'm saying.
• 1:27:11
  Yeah, totally all right, let's wrap it up there, Tyler.
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  Yeah. Again. Thank you to j e KK Sports Cards, Edlington Farm
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  six Funeral Commission Services for their sponsorship throughout the baseball season and as always,
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  Kurt Mayberry Farm. Be sure to check them out Kurt Maayberry Farm dot com.
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  That's Kurt with A C, M A B E r R y Farm
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  dot com. He's Tyler Anderson from Wakom Preps walkompreps dot com. I'm Rolan
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  Spencer. You'll be listening to episode at two hundred and fifty eight, the
• 1:27:39
  first of three podcasts in the Top fifty Countdown for Baseball here on the Walkom
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  Preps podcast. We will talk to you soon. What that