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- 0:34Welcome into the Scene Project Sports Network.
- 0:37You are here tonight for seven eight nine.
- 0:39We are thrilled to be talking ball on a Sunday night.
- 0:43I am joined as always by my cohost, Big B.
- 0:46What's shaking, B?
- 0:48Nothing Sunday.
- 0:51Had a busy day yesterday.
- 0:53Short night, early morning this morning.
- 0:56Got a little nap in before we came live, so I'm I'm doing good right now.
- 1:01Good.
- 1:01Well, we're gonna talk more about your late night last night and an exciting weekend for
- 1:05y'all.
- 1:06We'll get into that a little bit later.
- 1:08I hope I hope Podge jumps on because he's gonna be most thrilled about it all.
- 1:12But before we move on too far, let's get Shady in here.
- 1:15Shady, what's going on, brother?
- 1:17What's good, boys?
- 1:19What is good?
- 1:21How are we?
- 1:22We're good, man.
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- 3:10So, Shady, I know you got some stuff on your mind.
- 3:12I need to get a little production stuff.
- 3:13So I'm gonna leave you and beat to it here for a few minutes.
- 3:17Go ahead.
- 3:18V, you want me to lead it off?
- 3:20You
- 3:21go ahead, man.
- 3:21I I mean, the only thing that happened to me exciting in baseball was the fact that the boys
- 3:28beat the Mariners on Monday night when I went.
- 3:30But You
- 3:30you watch it.
- 3:32That did happen.
- 3:33But your boy dropped off.
- 3:35Cal Cal Rowley hit a big bomb in that game.
- 3:38I mean So
- 3:39He's coming.
- 3:39He's coming back.
- 3:40But, yeah, they I mean, the twins ain't that bad, man.
- 3:42But you with the twins catching flack on this show.
- 3:44They're they're hanging in there.
- 3:45I'll give it to them.
- 3:46Think they're It's bullpen.
- 3:47It's the bullpen that's struggling.
- 3:48And now that Joe Ryan only went two batters today to Yeah.
- 3:53Sound like elbow injury, possibly Tommy John.
- 3:56So that takes our ace out of the hole right now.
- 3:59So somebody's gonna have to step up.
- 4:02Boston's ace is down.
- 4:04Have you so you I'm guessing everybody's seen that Ronald Acuna is out.
- 4:09I did not.
- 4:10What happened to him?
- 4:12Hamstring.
- 4:14Oh, okay.
- 4:15Oh, no.
- 4:16That's not that's that's the that's the worst.
- 4:18It's a this dude is right there with Ken Griffey, Chipper.
- 4:23I mean, you were like Trout?
- 4:25Can't trout.
- 4:26You can't miss talent, bro.
- 4:28I mean, like, throw the horn on him.
- 4:31You are a unicorn, bro.
- 4:32Just come out there.
- 4:33But at this point Bucks, bro.
- 4:35Yeah.
- 4:36We've got you.
- 4:36I don't he's injured more than Buxton.
- 4:39Yeah.
- 4:39Which, I mean, I'm not complaining about Acuna being injured.
- 4:42Do not think as a Brave fan, I'm complaining.
- 4:44I'm just saying.
- 4:45When you get these, like, rare unicorn athletes
- 4:49Mhmm.
- 4:49They they blow out everything.
- 4:51The guy's still athletic.
- 4:52I don't know what to say.
- 4:53He's injured again.
- 4:54Somehow the phrase do better when everybody's injured.
- 4:58I don't know how that correlates, but the more everybody gets hurt, the better we do.
- 5:032021, he was out the whole year.
- 5:05We won the World Series.
- 5:06So I don't know.
- 5:08But
- 5:09You know, and that's the and that's the knock I have on a guy, you know, like Trout because
- 5:14they keep saying that he's the face of baseball.
- 5:16Yeah.
- 5:16He's done things, but he's not been healthy.
- 5:20I mean, I I think he'd be better right now as just maybe going to DH full time so he can get
- 5:25those iPads in there.
- 5:26But then, you know, you know, how good is he gonna be?
- 5:30But, you know you know, Acuna was the is the same way, you know, with the Braves in there.
- 5:36He's the face of the Braves, but he's gotta stay on the field.
- 5:39I mean, you know
- 5:41I give you the answer for the Mike Trout thing.
- 5:43The Mike Trout what up, Mike?
- 5:45What's up, Michigan.
- 5:47What's up, buddy?
- 5:48The Mike Trout deal.
- 5:50Right?
- 5:50And everybody like, I've I've heard this since I was in high school.
- 5:54Because, like, when Mike Trout came out, like, everybody kinda blew him up like he was better
- 5:59than Bryce, which kinda came off a little bit.
- 6:02Like, really?
- 6:04But the thing with Trout is, like, he's like the Mickey Mantle of this generation.
- 6:11He's the player's player.
- 6:13Like, even the players wanna wish he's gonna have a good season, and they get down when he
- 6:17gets injured, but I swear that's why.
- 6:19And and, you know, and I could take that, you know, kind of say philosophy to Buckton.
- 6:25Everybody, you know, for here in Minnesota, everybody's like, you know, the players are
- 6:29like, yeah, we need Buxton, we need Lewis.
- 6:30I mean, we're only gonna go as far as those guys are healthy.
- 6:33I mean, you know, so it's just, you know, it's just hard to, you know, say that Mike Trout's
- 6:43class a when, you know, he's hurt all the time.
- 6:46When he's healthy, yeah.
- 6:47I mean, you know, we talked about that on Vikings United, the Vikings first round pick.
- 6:53Yeah.
- 6:53If he's healthy, he's a beast.
- 6:55But can we count on him to be healthy?
- 6:57You know, that's the whole thing.
- 6:59I don't know if there's news been broke about how long Acuna's gonna be out.
- 7:03But I was just kinda looking at that too.
- 7:06Let's see here.
- 7:07Does that just recently happened, like, today?
- 7:09Or
- 7:10No.
- 7:10That was yesterday or the day before.
- 7:12Actually, I missed it two days ago.
- 7:14But Okay.
- 7:16He's injured.
- 7:17A couple other guys, Garrett Crochet for the Red Sox has gone down.
- 7:21He's injured.
- 7:22That's the start of pitcher.
- 7:24Trying to think.
- 7:25There's some other people.
- 7:25Miserowski had to come out.
- 7:28He was injured.
- 7:29Actually, no.
- 7:30He didn't.
- 7:30He finished.
- 7:31Miserowski finished his game.
- 7:32But Chris Sale went the full distance.
- 7:36That man's still out there at the ripe age of, like, 38, hurling 96.
- 7:39Don't know how that correlates either.
- 7:41That's some bogus crazy stuff right there, bro.
- 7:45Oh, it's a it's a different different league.
- 7:50Just taking a look at the standings here, kinda grinding through everything.
- 7:54We talked at length last week about the the Red Sox and the coaching changes over there.
- 8:00The line change on the coaching staff hasn't helped their record at all.
- 8:04They're still losing games.
- 8:06Yankees continue to stay hot.
- 8:08Those rays are hanging in there all the way through the month of April.
- 8:12So they won in their last 10.
- 8:14Good luck.
- 8:15Who did Maddenley take over for?
- 8:17He took over for
- 8:20The Guardians?
- 8:23No.
- 8:25It was here, wasn't it?
- 8:26No?
- 8:27Blue Jays?
- 8:28Maybe?
- 8:29No.
- 8:32He won five in a row.
- 8:34I know that.
- 8:36After he took over, they they wouldn't wanna tear.
- 8:38Twins back where everybody likes them.
- 8:40The Oh,
- 8:41the Phillies.
- 8:41That's why.
- 8:42He went
- 8:42he's at the Phillies.
- 8:43Right now.
- 8:44Sorry.
- 8:45Which they're still, you know, they're they're scraping down there.
- 8:48Watch out.
- 8:49Way to go, Philly.
- 8:52The Kensington Phillies.
- 8:53Dude, and that's an you know, we were just talking about Trout McCooley.
- 8:56And there's another guy, Bryce Harper, you know, who everybody popped as the next big
- 9:02thing when he's healthy.
- 9:04Yeah.
- 9:05I mean, he was untouchable, but now it's just like, you know, injuries and stuff like that,
- 9:10you know.
- 9:11Mean, we're, like, 34, man.
- 9:13I I mean, I'm going to a chiropractor three times next week, B.
- 9:16And, I mean, I don't I'm not proud of myself.
- 9:19I'm happy I'm going.
- 9:20I'm proud that I asked for help.
- 9:22You know?
- 9:22Look at that there, Bubba.
- 9:24Cubbies are first.
- 9:25Man, I've been playing good ball.
- 9:27They rode that 10 game winning streak, dropped two against the Dodgers on their West Coast
- 9:33swing, and then I think they lost one to the Padres, but then, won their last two in San
- 9:38Diego.
- 9:39And then
- 9:39Five in the row.
- 9:40Came home and beat the crap out of the Arizona Diamondbacks, swept them in the series today.
- 9:46I watched the rest of
- 9:46the And that's one thing, you know, that teams need to take care of.
- 9:51Not that, you know, we wanna have an easy matchup every so often, but, you know, the
- 9:57teams like the twins have to take care of business in their division, and they gotta take
- 10:02beat up on those teams are below them.
- 10:05Speaking of divisions, look at this division.
- 10:08Like, that's just crazy.
- 10:10That's just crap.
- 10:11I mean, it's just gonna be a dogfight.
- 10:13And and Pirates are last with 19 wins because of one game difference.
- 10:18Yeah.
- 10:18Well and that's to me that all these these are all this entire division is gonna have 20 wins
- 10:25by the end of the week.
- 10:26Right?
- 10:27And the Mets might see not see 20 wins until July.
- 10:32Yeah.
- 10:33If they're lucky.
- 10:34But but, again, too, that just show
- 10:36Braves are doing
- 10:37That just shows that
- 10:38The Braves are doing
- 10:39know, having a big payroll doesn't pay off.
- 10:42I mean, I'll assure the Dodgers, but, you know, the Mets won't pay.
- 10:47Keep keep that back up.
- 10:48Put that back up there.
- 10:50Oh, you
- 10:50like that guy?
- 10:51You like that guy?
- 10:52That's what's just what's happening to yeah.
- 10:54It's just a it's all day.
- 11:01Left hand with a
- 11:02left hand.
- 11:02That's impressive.
- 11:03Oh.
- 11:03Oh god.
- 11:05Alright.
- 11:05I'm a put you back.
- 11:06Not not a lot of guys that can go off handed like that that hard.
- 11:09Yeah.
- 11:10It's a good skill.
- 11:11Dodgers got back in their winning ways after dropping four in a row, I do believe.
- 11:16They were riding a little bit, but I think they got on the back on the winning side.
- 11:20Three run differential.
- 11:22That team is just a machine.
- 11:23Crazy.
- 11:24Right?
- 11:24That's bananas.
- 11:26So when they win, they beat you by 20, and when they lose, it's close.
- 11:30Yeah.
- 11:30That's pretty crazy.
- 11:32We're a month into the season too.
- 11:35Yeah.
- 11:35Some teams don't fit.
- 11:36Well, I mean, lot of teams finish.
- 11:37Might be, like, good teams don't finish with a a 63 run.
- 11:41Look at the braves.
- 11:4281.
- 11:45That's wild.
- 11:47Wild.
- 11:48Well, Drake Baldwin is tearing the cover.
- 11:50Like, speaking of catchers, Drake Baldwin is going off.
- 11:53Like, dude's backside, runs here and there.
- 11:57Like, he's tearing it up.
- 12:00Thanks to mlb.com for, the standings and allowing us to use them or Yeah.
- 12:05Just, you know, putting it out there on the Internet.
- 12:07We appreciate you.
- 12:08Yeah.
- 12:08Thank you.
- 12:09Yeah.
- 12:09Cubs played well today again.
- 12:11The bats finally came alive.
- 12:12A big part of that was Michael Bush.
- 12:15Their first baseman who had a really hot year last year, really slow start to the season.
- 12:22You know, Craig Counsell gave him a day off, and then it was actually, bringing him in on
- 12:27that day off as a pinch hitter later in the game.
- 12:30I think he roped a single.
- 12:32And then it was kind of, you know, the next game, it was an opposite field home run.
- 12:36And just those little things can start to like, oh, yeah.
- 12:39I remember I can hit the ball.
- 12:41Right?
- 12:41I'm a really good ball player.
- 12:42And, you know, this game is so so much on the mental side.
- 12:47And, you know, when you ride those cold streaks early on in the season, it just takes one day
- 12:53to really get you going.
- 12:54So he's back on
- 12:55It is it's nice to see Minnesota boys doing something better in other teams than they are
- 13:00would be in Minnesota.
- 13:02So Is that where Bush came from?
- 13:04Bush is at Inver Grove Heights, born and raised.
- 13:07Nice.
- 13:08Nice.
- 13:08He's been a he's been a big turnaround.
- 13:10I mean, maybe not the sexiest name out there, but a really, really club
- 13:16He'd a good sponsor for a certain beer company.
- 13:19I mean
- 13:19Yeah.
- 13:19There you go.
- 13:21It's a
- 13:21shoe in.
- 13:22God, he'd be a good cardinal, and that hurts to say.
- 13:25But Yeah.
- 13:26They were He'd be killing it down there.
- 13:29But, yeah, good to see my Cubbies doing well this week.
- 13:32Beating good teams, really kinda stuck it to the Padres, over that series as well.
- 13:38And, you know, with a team like the Padres, making sure that you get on them early, getting
- 13:43that lead early in the game and maintaining it so you're not falling behind and facing that
- 13:50back of the, you know, bullpen, that is just absolutely lights out.
- 13:54And we've obviously touched on that a lot.
- 13:56But if you don't have to face them, you don't have to worry about it.
- 13:59So go get yourself a, you know, three to five run lead and maintain that during the game, and
- 14:05it's it's no worries.
- 14:07Yeah.
- 14:09B, let's talk about that game that you went to, man.
- 14:13It was a balmy, like,
- 14:14forty week probably.
- 14:15It was cold.
- 14:17We got there.
- 14:19The tarp was on the field.
- 14:21I would say they probably started getting the field prepped up about 06:15 for a six forty
- 14:28five start.
- 14:30The field drains nice, they said that the target field drains really well, so the grass
- 14:34actually looked dry.
- 14:38So, yeah, they got it all ready to go.
- 14:41It the storm broke right around first pitch for about twenty minutes, and then it kinda just
- 14:46sprinkled throughout the day or throughout the game.
- 14:51I thought for sure there was gonna be another heavy storm coming in late in the game, but my
- 14:57buddy that as a Seattle fan was not too happy with the turnout, eleven four that game, but he
- 15:06he made some good calls.
- 15:07He he knows that team in and out, and, you know, he he probably yelled loud enough to call
- 15:13to hear him when he hit that home run.
- 15:15Might have motivated him a little bit because there's probably only two two thousand two
- 15:20thousand almost 3,000 people there, and probably 70 or 70% of them were Seattle fans.
- 15:26So Yeah.
- 15:29Yeah.
- 15:29It was it was a good game.
- 15:30I wish they could have pulled out a couple more in that series, but the bullpen is inconsistent
- 15:37right now.
- 15:39Yeah.
- 15:40Was looking at the braves.
- 15:41They pitched seven guys today.
- 15:44Spread Strider started it, but he gave up, like, four runs and three innings.
- 15:48Yep.
- 15:49And and then proceeded to pitch Johnny Holstaff.
- 15:53So I don't know.
- 15:54I I don't know half half of who these people are, but it is.
- 15:59Yeah.
- 15:59And for the Twist today, props to I wanna get his first name right.
- 16:05Andrew Morris came up, got a early call out of the bullpen now three batters in, and got his
- 16:13first career w today.
- 16:15So props to him from Minnesota getting that w.
- 16:18Good thing the bullpen held on to it.
- 16:20And it got shaky there in the later innings.
- 16:23But big shout out to him.
- 16:26Nothing like your first w.
- 16:28Yep.
- 16:29Yep.
- 16:30So Jady, you remember your first w?
- 16:33I was about to say, what would you do after your first professional w?
- 16:38I know there's, like, some stories like Kurt Schilling.
- 16:42But his ain't about his first w.
- 16:44His is about his first paycheck.
- 16:45But I don't know.
- 16:47My first major win?
- 16:50No.
- 16:50I'd say I yeah.
- 16:51First major win, we went to a place called Club five in Hickory.
- 16:57Nice.
- 16:58That's it.
- 16:58We're gonna end it right there.
- 17:00That's how long that's where it's gonna go.
- 17:03Yeah.
- 17:03That was gonna go.
- 17:07I love it.
- 17:09My boys got his first little league game this way.
- 17:13I don't know that they're quite little league.
- 17:14They're still 10 u, I guess, but they got their first game on Thursday.
- 17:20I'll be celebrating my birthday on Wednesday, so throw that
- 17:24in.
- 17:24Birthday.
- 17:25I'll send you my address in the private chat.
- 17:27You can press the cards and the checks to my wife.
- 17:32The cards could come to me.
- 17:37The checks go to my wife for sure.
- 17:39No.
- 17:39Big week for us here.
- 17:40My wife's actually graduating college this weekend, and then we have Mother's Day,
- 17:45obviously.
- 17:46Next Sunday, we'll be making some calls on whether we are coming and going with the show.
- 17:52I don't know, b, if your wife's gonna try to stab you if you try to tell her that you have a
- 17:58show that night.
- 17:59But so next week's on the fence for us right now.
- 18:02We may be on the ten day, IL, but we will be back.
- 18:06I promise.
- 18:07Yeah.
- 18:07It might be one of those load management days so we can celebrate the moms.
- 18:12Yeah.
- 18:12You know?
- 18:13So so yeah.
- 18:16No.
- 18:16You know, happy birthday to you.
- 18:18You know, congratulations on the wife for graduating.
- 18:21Good luck to the kid on his first lovely game.
- 18:24I mean, I remember those days.
- 18:26Remember my first home run like I just hit it yesterday.
- 18:31So, no, it's it's a fun time when you get those first.
- 18:34I was gonna say finger fingers crossed for the umpires.
- 18:37Like, pray to god you get some umpires.
- 18:40I used to umpire Little League as a intoxicated younger individual that needed money, And that
- 18:47is the worst thing you could ever wanna do for your afternoon
- 18:52if you were
- 18:53a little off your kilter.
- 18:55That's coaching, I think, in a little league.
- 18:57I umpired one game, and I done it on a whim.
- 19:01It was one of my one of
- 19:03my
- 19:03nephew's games, and they didn't have anyone.
- 19:06Like, hey, man.
- 19:07Can you just, like it it doesn't have to be crazy.
- 19:09Right?
- 19:10More like a a ref and a ring.
- 19:11Like, sure.
- 19:12You know?
- 19:13No problem.
- 19:13I don't mind calling balls and strikes for you.
- 19:15I didn't realize I was gonna do a thousand lunges that day.
- 19:18Right?
- 19:19I I get to the golf course the next day.
- 19:22We had a we had a tee time, and I go to pick my ball up out of the cup on the first hole.
- 19:27And I'm like, oh, Ronald hold on Ronald Acuna.
- 19:30That's what I did.
- 19:32Miami.
- 19:33Man, brutal.
- 19:35So, yeah, a lot of respect, to the umpires out there.
- 19:38Try not to get too much on their case.
- 19:40And and with these so, yeah, this is, like, the first league that they do kids pitch.
- 19:45Right?
- 19:45But you're still talking about, like, nine and 10 year olds.
- 19:48Right?
- 19:48So the ball's going all over the place.
- 19:50It's not
- 19:50Kids are in the dirt.
- 19:52It's man, it's it's it's not great ball, to be perfectly honest.
- 19:55But it's, you know, it's good for them to learn.
- 19:58I know that beast hack is gonna make my boy a much better hitter this year.
- 20:02So looking forward to getting that pallet and setting it up, deciding whether I wanna pull it
- 20:06down to the batting cages.
- 20:07I've seen the way that the other kids in town treat everything.
- 20:10So I'm a little bit on the fence about that, but, you know, I also didn't have to spend any
- 20:16money on it.
- 20:16So I'm, like, torn.
- 20:18Right?
- 20:18Where I'm like, well, we'll see.
- 20:20At least I have the mobile unit, I don't have just, like, go sink it in the ground out there
- 20:24and concrete it in.
- 20:25And they're like, well, there's my, you know, charitable donation to you guys even though I'm
- 20:30in no position to be making charitable donations.
- 20:33But, yeah, I it's gonna be a great, great week.
- 20:37We're gonna be super busy and really looking forward to just getting into baseball season.
- 20:44I mean, it's our favorite.
- 20:45My wife and I love it.
- 20:46We can walk to the baseball field here in town, so we we spend a lot of time down there.
- 20:51We were there on Saturday.
- 20:52He had practice today, but Saturday, we were out there hitting grounders to the kids out
- 20:57there.
- 20:57My my daughter has softball too.
- 20:59So just teaching them the game.
- 21:03Right?
- 21:03And and teach them how to play the game right and being really, you know my son's, four I
- 21:10don't even know if he's four foot tall, to be perfectly honest.
- 21:12He's a small kid.
- 21:13Right?
- 21:13He's just he's small.
- 21:14He's small for his age.
- 21:15So he he's not hitting dingers anytime soon.
- 21:18He he's a heck of a little second baseman, but, you know, not there's not a lot of room for him
- 21:24out on the field to to play in these premier positions.
- 21:27They'll probably never pick him as a pitcher.
- 21:30Right?
- 21:30Just, you know, size limitations being what they are.
- 21:33But he's got a strike zone about the size of a freaking can of chew.
- 21:37So, yeah, just needs to go up there and kind of, you know, make sure that he's cutting at
- 21:43the ones that are in there, not swinging at any bad pitches, and, you know, getting in there.
- 21:48He he's heck of a little ball player, and I think he has a great time.
- 21:51Yeah.
- 21:51There's not there's not too many people that
- 21:53can So swing swing
- 21:55at ugly pitches and make them look good.
- 21:57So
- 21:58Yep.
- 21:58And he's pretty good about not.
- 22:00I mean, even today at practice where they had the kids pitching and trying to practice
- 22:03against live hitting.
- 22:04Right?
- 22:05And, you know, he's like eventually, just had to, like, swing at a couple just just to get
- 22:11cuts in.
- 22:12But, also, he's he's smart enough to know that he doesn't do it.
- 22:17But, yeah, talk about the one kid on the field that, like, kinda knows what everybody should
- 22:21be doing, and he's just just a really smart kid, cerebral.
- 22:24Great guy you'd want at at second base there, knowing where everybody should be and lining
- 22:28them up and, yeah, build up his confidence.
- 22:31Our high school team here in Tyndall doing very well.
- 22:34They advanced in the playoffs, so they play again on Wednesday for the high school season.
- 22:39And, yeah, it's just it's starting to feel like summer.
- 22:41Right?
- 22:41We kinda moved into it's been sunny here.
- 22:44Hasn't been hot yet, but in the sixties and seventies, and you feel it.
- 22:49You feel that energy coming.
- 22:50The the season's kind of starting to to shift a little bit, getting towards the back half of
- 22:56spring now, and it's been a absolute blessing to just continue to to get to spend a lot of
- 23:02time at the field with the kids.
- 23:04There's really nothing that makes us happier.
- 23:07Yeah.
- 23:09100%.
- 23:13About you, but you got any games on the schedule?
- 23:15I got a chance to go to the braves on the
- 23:18Nothing upcoming.
- 23:19Actually, in August, I got for the lottery for the Banana Ball.
- 23:27So me and the family will be going in August to the banana Savannah Banana games.
- 23:32So
- 23:33Let's go.
- 23:34Yeah.
- 23:35I just can't wait for that.
- 23:36That'll be a fun time.
- 23:37Hey.
- 23:37Didn't
- 23:37you say you had where
- 23:39do they play at, b?
- 23:40Are they playing in Target Field?
- 23:41Yeah.
- 23:42They're gonna play at Target Field this year.
- 23:43Last year, the other two teams came up and they played at CHS Field where the Saints play.
- 23:50So that was still packed crowd, but a three game series at Target Field would be the
- 23:55biggest crowd the Twins have seen.
- 23:57That's what they've seen in probably years.
- 24:01But it'll be fun.
- 24:02Probably my luck, I'll probably be up high, nosebleeds, and
- 24:07you know.
- 24:09It's a show.
- 24:10Yeah.
- 24:10Exactly.
- 24:11It's a show.
- 24:11My wife's actually excited about going, you know, and and seeing that.
- 24:16And for her not to be a sports fan, you know, like your wife there, Bubba, you know, you
- 24:24know, she definitely likes the people watching, definitely enjoying the show.
- 24:28So but, yeah, when we we kinda do last minute games, we'll be like, oh, you know, it's a nice
- 24:35day out.
- 24:35You know, let's go to the sage game.
- 24:36I mean, there's a few games we'll plan to go to, but, you know, I typically just look at the
- 24:41schedule and be like, hey, you know, let's go let's go to the game, especially the sage games
- 24:46and, you know, try to nab a couple autos there for up and comers.
- 24:51You love the autographs, don't you?
- 24:54Hey.
- 24:55You know, the kid loves them, but, you know, when he when he first started getting them, he
- 24:58was hyped up and psyched and you know, now he just is like, no if I get one, I get one.
- 25:04It's like, no dude, you gotta get them, you just never know, you know, that next big guy
- 25:10you know, is gonna come up, you know.
- 25:12And again, down the road, it might be your college tuition right there.
- 25:17So True story.
- 25:19Otherwise, you ain't going to school, son.
- 25:22Sorry.
- 25:22Yeah.
- 25:23Get it.
- 25:26I b, you got some other autographs this weekend.
- 25:29I I think now is a great time that we can talk about.
- 25:33I mean, I know we're not a wrestling show, but, you know, definitely was went to a wrestling
- 25:39event.
- 25:41The biggest one got Mick Foley to sign this picture.
- 25:46I already had it signed by the Al Snow.
- 25:50Also got Mick Foley to sign each one of his character cards that he had.
- 25:58Really nice guy to meet.
- 26:01Was happy to do them.
- 26:06You all met Heath Slater, if you guys are wrestling fans.
- 26:10His big thing was I got kids, so got to meet him.
- 26:15Late nineties, early two thousands, there's a guy, Chris Masters, the master lock.
- 26:21Got him signed a poker chip that I had found online.
- 26:24So he was actually kinda stoked about that.
- 26:28You know, then, of course, gotta give a shout out to the ladies here.
- 26:31Got Micky James, got Minnesota's own ODB.
- 26:38They're they're wrestling.
- 26:40And then I'm actually proud of this, and actually the guys are proud of it.
- 26:43I created this picture for some local wrestlers.
- 26:48They call themselves the dynasty.
- 26:51JDX is the guy in the middle.
- 26:52He's the heavyweight champ.
- 26:54Royal Flame is on each side of them.
- 26:55They're the tag champs.
- 26:56Really cool dudes.
- 26:58JDX, I would say sooner than later is gonna be on the big show someday.
- 27:03So that was our wrestling event.
- 27:07Yeah.
- 27:07We definitely like going to these.
- 27:08I like going and, you know, I grew up a big wrestling fan, so I I definitely enjoy seeing
- 27:15some of the legends and and, you know, getting out there and watching some, you know, action.
- 27:20And the and the son gets a kick out of it too.
- 27:23So he trash talks more than I do, and it's funny.
- 27:26So
- 27:28I I had mentioned it on some of one of our previous shows, but there was a a kid trash
- 27:36talking at it it was one of the big ones for the WWE, and it was one of my friend's kids
- 27:43from South Dakota.
- 27:45And we I just love it.
- 27:48And I really when I went to b z w's event in Sturgis and and kinda hanging out with a couple
- 27:54of our friends that were just big fans of wrestling, and it kind of I realized that being
- 27:59in that live setting that, like, you have this license to talk smack.
- 28:03Like, you're expected to talk smack to the guys you don't like, and it really gives you an
- 28:08outlet to that and probably exposes some kids the language that they probably didn't need to
- 28:12hear that early, but you know?
- 28:15And that and that's a funny thing too, you know, when my son would talk trash, he doesn't
- 28:19do it so much anymore, but when he did, of course, the wrestlers and the wrestler, you
- 28:24know, or the announcer would get involved and say some things, and then they come up after
- 28:28and go, dude, hope I didn't offend your kid.
- 28:30I'm like, no, I told him if he's gonna dish it out, he's gotta take it, you know, and Yeah.
- 28:35You know, so but no, it's definitely fun going to these indie shows and, you know, sitting up
- 28:40close and, you know, mingling with them afterwards or at their meet and greets and
- 28:45stuff.
- 28:45And, you know, just, you know, it's it's just a fun time.
- 28:49It's the way sports should be, you know.
- 28:51Yeah.
- 28:51You know, when they're out in public, especially the pro athletes, you don't wanna
- 28:54bother them, but again, the kids idolize them.
- 28:58You know, I know Charles Barkley always said he's not a role model.
- 29:01He's out you know, that's his job.
- 29:03You know, again, you just gotta be you gotta know when to approach them in public.
- 29:08I mean, some guys you just know not to approach them, You know?
- 29:12So
- 29:13Yeah.
- 29:14I agree with that.
- 29:19Shady, anything exciting this weekend?
- 29:23Let's see.
- 29:26This weekend or this coming weekend?
- 29:27Because this weekend yeah.
- 29:28Weekend.
- 29:30Shit.
- 29:31Yeah.
- 29:31Yeah.
- 29:32So, you know, Shady had to move on to selling selling fast cars and chasing fast women.
- 29:38Had to move on, boys.
- 29:39I had to call that live quits.
- 29:40Alright?
- 29:40So first and foremost, gotta gotta get a higher gotta get a higher call in here.
- 29:46So we're chasing sports again, you know, not gambling.
- 29:49No.
- 29:50This weekend for the upcoming weekend, like I said, got a chance to go to a braves game
- 29:54coming up.
- 29:55I don't think I'm gonna be able to make that because on the fifteenth, sixteenth, and the
- 29:59seventeenth, I gotta go to Charlotte because I'm playing at Skybrook and some other courses.
- 30:06But we're gonna play some really nice courses, gonna upload some really good content to
- 30:10YouTube.
- 30:10Pray to god I don't get sued.
- 30:12It's gonna be awesome.
- 30:13It's gonna be great.
- 30:15But, yeah, gonna gonna play some golf, do some we're on this journey of, like, chiropractic
- 30:21work right now to see if we can, like, realign my spine, which my spine is not crooked.
- 30:27But any old any guy out there is 30 years old.
- 30:30Don't tell me you don't wake up sometimes.
- 30:32It's like, Jesus Christ.
- 30:33So we're gonna fix that.
- 30:35We're gonna we're gonna fix that.
- 30:36But definitely balance and patience is the key right now.
- 30:39Nothing too fast.
- 30:41Just watching having to pay money to watch Brave's vision.
- 30:45That was what was gonna say.
- 30:46Speaking of smack talk at the wrestling events, that ain't nothing.
- 30:50I mean, compared to the Phillies bullpen, I'm pretty sure people are getting arrested for the
- 30:54things that are being screened over the balcony at the Phillies bullpen.
- 30:57Yeah.
- 30:58That's assault.
- 30:59That's assault, dude.
- 31:00What do we tell you?
- 31:01You're paying $500 to verbally assault people.
- 31:05We can't have this, man.
- 31:07That's what they're doing.
- 31:10Oh goodness.
- 31:12Yeah.
- 31:13Looking forward to a lot of golf content.
- 31:15You you sent out the in the chat today about the Internet golf tour, and I was like, oh,
- 31:21sweet.
- 31:22And then I looked up and it, like, the cutoff is tomorrow.
- 31:24I was like, well, there's always next year.
- 31:29Yeah.
- 31:29Everybody's getting their, like, invitations for the whatever the Internet invitational.
- 31:36Yeah.
- 31:36Well, you know what?
- 31:37And that's such a goal to to get ourselves up to that.
- 31:39Like, first, let's get our game right this year, you know, get better and prove ourselves.
- 31:45You know, I've I literally I've been going through, and so I started liking all the pages
- 31:52of all these different golf courses out there on on my Facebook.
- 31:56So it's doing nothing but feeding me golf clubs and courses now.
- 31:59So I was kinda reaching out and hitting all of them so I kinda keep them in that list so I can
- 32:03go back through and, hey.
- 32:05We shoot content.
- 32:06We'd love to get on your course and make it happen.
- 32:09I don't know if I've even had a chance to tell you guys, but, we've had a couple of networks,
- 32:14pick our content up.
- 32:15Most notably right now, Booms TV two point o has seen Project Sports Network episodes up on
- 32:22it now.
- 32:22So you can find our beautiful faces on your Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire Stick.
- 32:28So going global, man, taking this thing from YouTube and out onto the the fast streaming
- 32:34networks, and it's, pretty awesome.
- 32:37And we're definitely in talks with some that are even bigger and, that are gonna bring our
- 32:42content to a lot more eyeballs.
- 32:44So looking forward to getting, you know, a lot of this premium content that I've kind of been
- 32:48sitting on, just because I didn't want it to get buried out there in YouTube land and to be
- 32:53feel discouraged about it.
- 32:55So looking forward to, that.
- 32:58Looking forward to sharing a lot more of that.
- 33:00Recommend everybody go download Booms TV two point o on your Roku.
- 33:06That is Booms TV two point o.
- 33:11Alright.
- 33:12Nice.
- 33:15Yeah.
- 33:16I don't know.
- 33:17No.
- 33:17It's it's definitely nice to get out there and, you know, being, you know, being able to do
- 33:22this, you know, and and see it going somewhere that, hey, the right people catch on and the
- 33:29right people, you know, like what we do, sky's the limit, you know.
- 33:34So
- 33:35Yep.
- 33:36Well,
- 33:36and beyond that, like, it's access.
- 33:39Right?
- 33:39It's being able to get ourselves in to do these cool things, you know, without having to pay
- 33:45tickets at the door.
- 33:46And I think that's like people ask me all the time, like, oh, well, are you monetizing your
- 33:50podcast?
- 33:51Like, look.
- 33:52I've been to music festivals, PGA tour events, PRCA, you know, and not just, like, in the
- 33:59door, but backstage and talk to who you want to.
- 34:02Right?
- 34:03And that was without really ever having this platform established.
- 34:07So it's nice to see it now kinda picking up steam.
- 34:11I've been reaching out to a lot of teams and leagues in baseball.
- 34:14So more developments to that to come here soon as these lower leagues start to kinda pick up.
- 34:20I know minor league baseball is on right now, but we've been talking to a few independent
- 34:24leagues that start around Memorial Day.
- 34:27I'll be at the Sioux Falls Canary Stadium, the Birdcage, in a few weeks, checking their system
- 34:33out.
- 34:33They're very interested in extra coverage and things that we can do there.
- 34:37A lot of other teams interested too and whole leagues that are, you know, curious.
- 34:41You know?
- 34:42We mentioned BoomBall last week and everything that they're doing, trying to leverage
- 34:46ourselves into a position, with them and try to cover their team and and, you know, shine a
- 34:53spotlight on these other leagues.
- 34:55Right?
- 34:55Like, we all know the big ones, but there's so much good ball and entertainment happening that
- 35:01we really have a golden opportunity as a network to go out there and to just be about
- 35:06ball.
- 35:07You know?
- 35:07Seven eight five somebody in those leagues, a little exposure that, you know, maybe a team's
- 35:14looking at them, you know, rookie ball or or something like that.
- 35:16I mean, you know, coach Cody has talked about how many guys that his arena teams have have
- 35:22moved up the ranks.
- 35:24I mean, just all that little exposure helps.
- 35:28They move up and down really fast.
- 35:30And if it's not moving up and down, the conversation's being had.
- 35:33Because Yeah.
- 35:34Somebody gets injured, something happens, something something something something.
- 35:38Yes.
- 35:38They those are happening quicker than you think.
- 35:41Yeah.
- 35:42The one I'm really excited about is the Northwoods League, which we have several teams
- 35:46that are kind of around now.
- 35:47They're mostly northern league, but similar in who they are and what they do to, like, the
- 35:53Cape Cod League.
- 35:54Right?
- 35:55Probably the most famous of these amateur wooden bat leagues.
- 35:58But these guys play 72 games in three months.
- 36:01Right?
- 36:02Like, from Memorial Day to Labor Day, they have this grueling schedule and, very fortunate to
- 36:08have had some talks with a few of the teams and, you know, figuring out where it fits in,
- 36:13and they're appreciative of it.
- 36:14But then there, you know, the these GMs and and the people who are running the teams are also
- 36:20running the stadiums in a lot of of ways.
- 36:23And they're like, hey.
- 36:24Well, we do concerts and stuff too.
- 36:25Like, let's keep talking.
- 36:27Right?
- 36:28Let's let's keep talking.
- 36:29We do music.
- 36:30We do sports.
- 36:32It's it's an interesting spot that we find ourselves.
- 36:34If we don't do, we'll try it.
- 36:36Yeah.
- 36:37Exactly.
- 36:39Exactly.
- 36:40I yeah.
- 36:41And I I don't know that we brought BoomBall up on the show last Sunday, but really, really
- 36:47interesting new league starting a show baseball league.
- 36:52My friend Michael Coco, who his interview will be coming out here next week, I do believe.
- 36:57And really cool.
- 36:59So what I thought was the most awesome about it is that the teams are coed.
- 37:03So they have a softball inning that they've been doing where they let one of the girls go
- 37:09out and fast pitch to these guys.
- 37:10They are nobody's even gotten a base hit yet.
- 37:13And I don't know if that changed over the weekend, but these guys who have some of them
- 37:18have played major or not major league, but, you know, in the minors and in some of these, you
- 37:22know, have played high level ball and out there trying to swing it in and hit these fast pitch
- 37:28softballs that can't even come close.
- 37:30So I'm sure that'll change as they see more and more pitches over time, but boom ball is really
- 37:35cool because it's all about the offense.
- 37:37You're pitched to by your teammate.
- 37:40So you're getting BP in there.
- 37:43Okay.
- 37:43They have different they're doing it, like, an obstacle, inning where there's, you know, like,
- 37:48the one where you gotta, like, do jump boxes, then they have one where they actually put you,
- 37:52like, in the hamster ball.
- 37:53I forget what they call them, but you have to,
- 37:55like Yeah.
- 37:56Orb ball.
- 37:56It's just ridiculous.
- 37:58Right?
- 37:59It's so cool.
- 38:00But and then the last inning is just a home run derby.
- 38:02Right?
- 38:03So really cool stuff they're doing.
- 38:05It's show baseball.
- 38:06It's for the fans.
- 38:06They're really trying to focus on that younger group of fans from that six to 14 age range and
- 38:14and really do something for the kids that's exciting and engaging and it just changing.
- 38:19Four and a half minute half innings.
- 38:20Like, that's it.
- 38:21Yeah.
- 38:21They're
- 38:22time.
- 38:22Get up there.
- 38:23Get your cuts.
- 38:24Like, get get it moving and yeah.
- 38:26So a a lot different than some of the other leagues.
- 38:29And, honestly, right now, I think the I think the rule book is written in chalk on a
- 38:33blackboard.
- 38:34So it's, it's it's updating by the minute.
- 38:39It's gonna be really fun to, get an opportunity.
- 38:41I I know they're coming to Wichita, which is about as close as they'll get, unless we got a
- 38:45hookup at the Saint Paul Saints.
- 38:46I don't know if you know anybody over there, Bea.
- 38:48I think you mentioned that you may know somebody or maybe it was Cody mentioned it, but
- 38:54really
- 38:54I mean, there's always I mean, we can always reach out and
- 38:57Yeah.
- 38:58Well, that stadium is like I said.
- 39:00No?
- 39:00Was I trying to get them to come I was trying to get them to come through to Sioux Falls, but
- 39:04the stadium's not quite big enough.
- 39:05They're looking something more, like, close to eight.
- 39:07And that's what the Saint Paul Saint Stadium, I looked, was, like, 7,500.
- 39:11So Yeah.
- 39:12Yeah.
- 39:12I'm gonna I'm gonna float it out there.
- 39:14They got a few open weeks right now.
- 39:15So I'm floated by my buddy, Michael Coco, and see what he thinks about getting him out there.
- 39:21But, yeah, it was funny because I was having him on the show because he's been in, like,
- 39:24entertainment and music festival and stuff.
- 39:26So I'm thinking we're getting on to talk about, you know, his experience as an event, you know,
- 39:31coordinator and promoter in the music business and working with MTV back in the day and, you
- 39:37know, starting the Firefly Festival and all these super cool things on the music side.
- 39:41And he gets on.
- 39:41He's like, yeah, man.
- 39:42Sorry.
- 39:43You know, lost your email, got a new job.
- 39:45I was like, oh, what's what's the new gig?
- 39:47Oh, I'm doing this show baseball thing and, like, I'm I'm changing the background of the
- 39:52studio.
- 39:52Like, okay.
- 39:53This just became an SPSN interview, and let's get this out here.
- 39:58Who are you broadcasting with?
- 39:59You know?
- 40:00Same thing when I talked to the assistant GM, Ben, up with the Minnesota Monsters.
- 40:04As some of our our fans and people will know around us, Duluth Harbor Monsters kicking butt
- 40:10in the Arena Football League.
- 40:12They eventually so they started a new company.
- 40:17Right?
- 40:17They moved up into the a f one, I do believe, is the one that they're in now.
- 40:23And Jeff Fisher's part of that.
- 40:25So the game, May 30, is actually gonna be broadcast on Vice.
- 40:30It's one of their game of the week.
- 40:31So I am trying to get myself up into the building there to bring a little bit of
- 40:36experience in what we do, do some pregame, do some postgame action around it, and kinda
- 40:41getting that out there.
- 40:43Show them what we who knows?
- 40:44Right?
- 40:45So for us, it's just a matter of, like, getting in the building, showing what we can do.
- 40:50You know, I have a lot more professional looking equipment now than I did a year ago,
- 40:56even six months ago, right, where this has all been relatively new building it out.
- 41:00And, yeah, the same thing with the wrestling, man.
- 41:02We'd love to do more with, you know, MAW and VZW and, you know, it just it's supporting the
- 41:07people who are around us in every way that we can, and and that comes down to the golf
- 41:12courses and stuff too.
- 41:13Look.
- 41:14All these courses could use some promo.
- 41:16Right?
- 41:16They could use a new video shot for them like the one that's by, you know, Shady's Place,
- 41:20and, you know, there's just they could do more than what they're doing, and we like to be the
- 41:26ones who can kinda provide that.
- 41:28So really, really grateful to have all the opportunities coming at us this year.
- 41:33It's gonna be an absolutely incredible year.
- 41:36You know, Skunk Golf got their packages out to everybody this week.
- 41:41Know, b, you stoked about your new gear?
- 41:44Yeah.
- 41:44No.
- 41:44It's sitting in the car right now, opened it up, and got a couple new hats.
- 41:49I think I got that one that Shady's wearing.
- 41:52I think I got a gray version of that, and then a nice windbreaker out there that I will have
- 41:58to try on.
- 41:58It might be a little snug, might be a little fat guy or a big guy to little coat type of
- 42:04business, but, you know, hey.
- 42:06Know what I'm gonna do.
- 42:07Good excuse to lose a few pounds and slim down, b.
- 42:10Get out there and
- 42:12Like, get through Yep.
- 42:14Just Pick it up.
- 42:16No.
- 42:16That that is definitely a a good incentive there, but definitely can't wait to get out on
- 42:21the court.
- 42:21I know of course, I know me and Cody kinda talked about maybe trying to pick a time this
- 42:26week or next week to get out and, you know, we got a couple nice courses here in Canaan Falls,
- 42:31a couple in Hastings that aren't too far.
- 42:35So, yeah, just gotta pick a time.
- 42:38I know I know it's a baseball show, but, you know, ball is ball to me.
- 42:42So
- 42:42Yeah.
- 42:43Hey.
- 42:43It's on the network, man.
- 42:44We'll talk about whatever we want to.
- 42:46Oh, yeah.
- 42:48Well, boys, unless there's anything else that is pressing that you need to get off your chest
- 42:54right now, I think we are gonna take a little bit of a break and, you know, come back
- 42:59probably, what would it be, the seventeenth and come back on with you guys.
- 43:05So we'll take a week off next week for Mother's Day, Make sure that we honor the women in our
- 43:10lives as you should be as well.
- 43:12But, Shady, you got anything?
- 43:15No.
- 43:15Keep it real, y'all.
- 43:16Hey.
- 43:17Make sure to buy your mother something.
- 43:18Don't skimp out.
- 43:19Take some time.
- 43:21Go walk through an actual store.
- 43:23Don't try to make something.
- 43:24That's it.
- 43:25That's all I got.
- 43:26Okay.
- 43:29Bee?
- 43:30Yeah.
- 43:31Just, you know, definitely reach out to all the moms out there and, you know, single dads that
- 43:37are doing it on their own too.
- 43:38I mean, you know, just, you know, keep in touch and, you know, and if something big happens in
- 43:45baseball or sports, we might pop on and, you know, definitely break it down.
- 43:50But everybody have a good, safe couple weeks here.
- 43:55Definitely.
- 43:56Appreciate y'all.
- 43:57Thanks for tuning in tonight for seven eight nine here on the scene.
- 44:00Project sports network.
- 44:02We will be back here two weeks from now, but you can catch us on the network Tuesday night
- 44:06for Vikings United 8PM on Tuesday.
- 44:09Gonna be talking some more, you know, draft fallout and getting ready for a rookie
- 44:14minicamp, I think, is in, like, ten days or something coming up quick too.
- 44:18So That is okay.
- 44:19I think it's soon.
- 44:20So lot of action coming here on the sports network.
- 44:23We appreciate y'all tuning in, and we will see you on Tuesday night.
- 44:29See you, guys.
- 44:31So the beast tech is an incredible tool no matter what age kid that you have, but just to
- 44:35be able to work and making sure that their hands are getting to the right position as they
- 44:39hit the ball.
- 44:40It is something that you don't have to go chase balls any of those things, but this beast hack
- 44:45is incredible because when you get that twelve six rotation, it's really easy to tell that
- 44:49you're putting a good swing on that.
- 44:52And my kids is after I teach them what they're looking for and they
- 44:55can work on it on their own if they
- 44:56want to.
- 44:57So a great training tool for a team, great training tool for individuals.
- 45:00So I highly highly recommend you purchasing a Beast Tack so that your player can be the best
- 45:07that they can be on the baseball field.