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TABLE TALK: Discussions With Buck Showalter, Veronica Alvarez, And Gary "Sarge" Matthews · The Philadelphia Sports Table | Philly Sports News & Views

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Speaker 1: What's going on, everybody, It's Jeff here. I wanted to
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Speaker 1: let you know this podcast episode and these interviews that
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Speaker 1: you are about to hear were recorded on Thursday, January sixteenth,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. By the time you hear this, some
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Speaker 1: things may have changed here there, although doubtful, but we
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Speaker 1: hope you enjoy the show. Welcome to Table Talk here
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Speaker 1: at the Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show, the longest running
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Speaker 1: weekly Philly sports podcast show in the world, over eleven
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Speaker 1: and a half year strong. We've got some great interviews
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Speaker 1: coming your way here on our Table Talk show this week.
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Speaker 1: I want to thank the Redding Hot Stovers nonprofit out
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Speaker 1: in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Yes, the Redding Hot Stovers invite
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Speaker 1: the Philadelphia's Sports Table podcast show to their annual banquet
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Speaker 1: last Thursday, and it was so great. It was so
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Speaker 1: cool being able to sit down and talk to Buck
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Speaker 1: show Walter, also talk to Veronica Alvarez, also spoke to
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Speaker 1: Gary Matthews Senior, better known as Sarge. We talked to
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Speaker 1: these iconic baseball legends in so many ways and people
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Speaker 1: who have left their mark on the baseball world. It
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Speaker 1: was very humbling and again want to thank the Redding
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Speaker 1: hot Stovers for all that they do in the community
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Speaker 1: and for having the opportunity to talk to these individuals.
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Speaker 1: You're also going to hear some very brief interviews of
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Speaker 1: the high school seniors who are going to be going
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Speaker 1: off to college. They received some scholarships from the Redding
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Speaker 1: hot Stovers. That's what the Redding hot Stovers is all about, folks,
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Speaker 1: making sure that they are able to help high school
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Speaker 1: baseball and softball students get to that next level with
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Speaker 1: their higher education and giving them some financial help as well.
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Speaker 1: So we're gonna hear from some of those student. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna hear from Sarge, We're gonna hear from Veronica alvarezm
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Speaker 1: Buck Showalter. Hope you enjoy these interviews. We are in
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Speaker 1: reading at the Double Tree Hilton Hotel and we are
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Speaker 1: here with the vice president of the Redding hot Stovers,
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Speaker 1: Josh Tremble. And to pull back the curtain, Josh is
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Speaker 1: actually my cousin in law.
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Speaker 2: How are you, buddy Good Jeff, I'm really glad to
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Speaker 2: have you back again this year.
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Speaker 1: I love being here every single year. You all do
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Speaker 1: such great work in the community with baseball scholarships, softball scholarships,
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Speaker 1: and you continue to grow year after year, and in
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Speaker 1: this event, I'm looking at a ton of silent auction
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Speaker 1: merchandise right now. You've raised so much money for these
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Speaker 1: kids that are going off to college. Can you talk
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Speaker 1: about what your experience has been thus far as now
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Speaker 1: the vice president of the Redding Hot Stovers and just
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Speaker 1: the impact that you're making.
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Speaker 2: Well, I've been involved with the organization for about five
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Speaker 2: or six years now, and it really has been a great,
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Speaker 2: great amount of growth. When I started, we gave out
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Speaker 2: one thousand dollars scholarships to four kids. Now we're giving
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Speaker 2: out fifteen hundred dollars scholarships to nine kids. We've had
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Speaker 2: a lot of community involvement, a lot of community sponsors.
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Speaker 2: It has really grown and continues to grow. And where
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Speaker 2: this is our sixty second year, and we're really hoping
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Speaker 2: that with the community involvement, we can do it for
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Speaker 2: another sixty two years ago.
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Speaker 1: Do you think you're gonna be alive in sixty two years? No,
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Speaker 1: I will not either. So you and I both my friend, Well,
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Speaker 1: you talk about the growth and what the Redding Hot
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Speaker 1: Stovers means not only to the high school students who
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Speaker 1: are going off to college. But I think what's important
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Speaker 1: is that people know what this organization, this nonprofit organization
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Speaker 1: does for the community in general. You have a lot
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Speaker 1: of various fundraisers throughout the year. It's not just the
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Speaker 1: bank with that we're at right now. There's a golf
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Speaker 1: tournament fundraiser. How can folks get involved and really make
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Speaker 1: a difference, you know, in the in the Berks County
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Speaker 1: area if they really want to dive.
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Speaker 2: Into Absolutely, we have a cornhole tournament at Community Days
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Speaker 2: over fourth of July. We have a golf tournament, we
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Speaker 2: have trivia nights throughout the year. We're going to the
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Speaker 2: Writing Royals this year. So a lot of different themes
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Speaker 2: that we do with the goal of raising funds to
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Speaker 2: be able to hand out the scholarships that we do.
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Speaker 2: Certainly anybody can look us up on social Media's just
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Speaker 2: look up the Writing Hot Stovers. You can look up
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Speaker 2: our our website is Writing Hot Stovers baseball dot com.
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Speaker 2: Or just reach out to anybody you see around with
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Speaker 2: a red badge tonight and we'd be happy to talk
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Speaker 2: to you. We're always looking for people to get involved
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Speaker 2: because there are only nine of us and it's it's
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Speaker 2: amazing what the nine of us do, but certainly the
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Speaker 2: more the merrier.
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Speaker 1: Small but mighty. That's what the Writing Hot Stovers is.
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Speaker 1: My friend, thank you so much for the time. Very
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Speaker 1: much appreciate you having the PST podcast show here and
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Speaker 1: keep doing great work in the community. My friend Jeff,
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Speaker 1: thanks for coming. We really appreciate it. And now we
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Speaker 1: are here with the treasurer and banquete Chairman Lou. I've
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Speaker 1: known you now for more than a few years. You
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Speaker 1: have been here at the Redding hot Stovers for quite
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Speaker 1: some time. You have been just doing such great things
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Speaker 1: here in the community for the students who were giving
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Speaker 1: scholarships to Can you talk a little bit about the
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Speaker 1: history of the Redding hot Stovers briefly and just what
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Speaker 1: it's really meant to you and what it's meant to
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Speaker 1: the Reading Berks County community.
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Speaker 3: Well, I can remember I grew up in the Berks
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Speaker 3: County area. I used to come to the banquet with
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Speaker 3: my dad and then came with my sons. Well, and
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Speaker 3: the next thing you know, I got involved with the
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Speaker 3: hot Stovers through somebody that was in here and the
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Speaker 3: rest is, you know, it is what it is. But
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Speaker 3: this is sixty four years that the hot Stovers have
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Speaker 3: been five oh one c. Three. The only year we
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Speaker 3: didn't have a banquet naturally was when COVID was here.
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Speaker 3: So this is our sixty third banquet, even though we
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Speaker 3: were in sixty four years. And it's amazing because it
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Speaker 3: originally just started at one scholarship and now we're up
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Speaker 3: to eight and we very easily, with some good luck,
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Speaker 3: could go to nine next year.
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Speaker 1: Let's hope for that luck. Let's hope that it gets
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Speaker 1: there for these students. And I think it's such an
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Speaker 1: important organization. One of the reasons why I'm very supportive
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Speaker 1: of the Redding hot Stovers is because in this day
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Speaker 1: and age, when costs increase, especially with regard to higher education,
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Speaker 1: for students who want to embark on a college career
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Speaker 1: and they want to do some good things for themselves,
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Speaker 1: it's tough sometimes from a financial standpoint. You've been able
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Speaker 1: to help in that regard with regard to scholarships, and
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Speaker 1: you know the fruits of your labor. You know what
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Speaker 1: have you seen from that in terms of these students
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Speaker 1: who end up utilizing the funds that you're able to raise,
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Speaker 1: and you know what it does for them in their lives.
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Speaker 3: Well, the thing that's pretty neat about it is we
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Speaker 3: have our application process. They fill out an application and
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Speaker 3: naturally have to qualify scholastically. They have to qualify because
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Speaker 3: they have to play three years of varsity baseball or softball.
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Speaker 3: But the other thing they have to do is write
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Speaker 3: an essay, and a lot of times in that essay
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Speaker 3: it determines because some are just you know what I mean,
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Speaker 3: and then there's some that like last year it was
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Speaker 3: a single parent for two years they were homeless. Well
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Speaker 3: you read that essay and this is a person in need.
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Speaker 3: So even though they qualify scholastically, now you're looking and
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Speaker 3: it's a thing of need. And yes, we do the scholarships,
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Speaker 3: which is phenomenal, but we also honor the teams that win,
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Speaker 3: the teams that won Berks County baseball and softball, anybody
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Speaker 3: that won District three. This year, we have a state
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Speaker 3: champion in Mifflin at won five a state Pennsylvania state championship,
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Speaker 3: So we honor that stuff too. Plus whoever is the
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Speaker 3: end boy MVP and the girl MVP of Burke's County
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Speaker 3: they also get an award too. So okay, the scholarships, yes,
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Speaker 3: but we also honor the winners and everything else as
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Speaker 3: far as baseball and softball in the area.
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Speaker 1: It's amazing how you've all touched a lot of lives
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Speaker 1: over the years. And I think when I don't think,
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Speaker 1: I know when I come to the Redding Hot Stovers banquet,
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Speaker 1: when I've been at the golf tournament, my small bit
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Speaker 1: of participation in it as a podcaster and somebody who
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Speaker 1: loves to cover what the Redding Hot Stovers has done.
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Speaker 1: At the end of the day, you're making changes in
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Speaker 1: impacting the lives of youth, and I have to say
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Speaker 1: congratulations to you and thank you for your great work.
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Speaker 1: Keep it up and hopefully hopefully the Redding Hot Stovers
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Speaker 1: will be around for at least over sixty years in
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Speaker 1: the future.
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Speaker 3: Well I hope, so, we hope, so yes.
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Speaker 1: Thank you well, folks, it is a great honor to
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Speaker 1: be sitting right next to Buck Showalter here at the
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Speaker 1: Redding Hot Stovers Banquet, and Buck, it is great to
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Speaker 1: meet you. Thank you so much for taking the time
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Speaker 1: to jump on the Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show with us.
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Speaker 4: Well, thank you for asking. It's the honor to be here.
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Speaker 4: It's an event. It's been very long standing and made
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Speaker 4: a lot of impact on the community.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. You were born in Florida in nineteen fifty six,
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Speaker 1: and I was wondering if you could go back to
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Speaker 1: that time when you first started learning about baseball and
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Speaker 1: what it meant to you as you were growing up
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Speaker 1: as a kid, the impact as a kid did it?
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Speaker 1: What did it mean to you? Because a lot of
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Speaker 1: the folks that are here today have been impacted by
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Speaker 1: baseball in some way, shape or form, and especially those
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Speaker 1: scholarship winners. What did baseball mean to you as a
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Speaker 1: kid and you were really able to hone in on
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Speaker 1: what it was and how you wanted to excel at it.
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Speaker 1: Can you tell that story?
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Speaker 5: Well?
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Speaker 4: I was getting ready to say I can't remember being born,
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Speaker 4: but I do. I was in northwest Florida. I had
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Speaker 4: a uncle country doctor got paid in pigs and chicken
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Speaker 4: and cows, and he delivered me and my three sisters
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Speaker 4: not too far from the Florida Alabama line. Dad was
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Speaker 4: a principal in high school where I went to that
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Speaker 4: to grew I think we were the smallest public school
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Speaker 4: in the state of Florida. So I say that because
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Speaker 4: basically we played football, baseball, basketball. You went season to
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Speaker 4: season and stayed out of trouble, as my mom used
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Speaker 4: to tell me, And you were expected to sit behind
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Speaker 4: the supper table at six o'clock wherever you didn't eat,
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Speaker 4: and there was a lot of discipline that came from
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Speaker 4: being a part of team sports.
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Speaker 1: And it was just kind of a part of your
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Speaker 1: life in a way. I enjoyed it.
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Speaker 4: My dad played football and in college and had an
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Speaker 4: opportunity to play with the Steelers, but something called World
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Speaker 4: War two happened and he was in the big red
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Speaker 4: one over there. But I think the example that that
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Speaker 4: they set in baseball was a way for me to
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Speaker 4: basically stay out of trouble. And now as I look
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Speaker 4: back on talking to old classmates and stuff, I didn't
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Speaker 4: realize a lot of stuff that was going on out there.
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Speaker 1: I think it's really interesting to hear old stories and
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Speaker 1: where folks have actually come from within the game of baseball.
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Speaker 1: But moving along, wanted to talk about as a manager
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Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball, you made it to the postseason
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Speaker 1: six times, if I am not mistaken, and of those
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Speaker 1: six times being in the postseason, I'm wondering which one
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Speaker 1: really meant the most to you. And I know that
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Speaker 1: may be a tough question to answer. You got you
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Speaker 1: make it to the postseason major League Baseball, it means
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Speaker 1: something to you on a grand scale. But I'm wondering,
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Speaker 1: when you look at your managerial career, was there one
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Speaker 1: that really stood out to you? Maybe the first one,
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Speaker 1: perhaps maybe the last one? Like, what are your thoughts
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Speaker 1: on what really stood out to you with those postseason appearances?
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Speaker 4: Well, you know that they're all relevant, and you realize
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Speaker 4: each job had a different description. I always would say,
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Speaker 4: what do you need me to bring? What are we
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Speaker 4: missing here? You know, obviously you know, the Yankees return
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Speaker 4: to playoffs in ninety five would have been ninety four
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Speaker 4: without the strike, you know, meant a lot to a
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Speaker 4: lot of people. I spent nineteen years with the Yankees,
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Speaker 4: and that meant a lot to me growing up with them. Basically,
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Speaker 4: you know, getting back competitive in Texas Arizona. Making the
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Speaker 4: playoffs in the second year Baltimore was a very special
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Speaker 4: time in my life because I kind of got the city,
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Speaker 4: they got me, and we were there, you know, almost
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Speaker 4: nine ten years, which you know, take a picture that
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Speaker 4: won't happen anymore in today's world, where you know, the
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Speaker 4: shelf life of coaches and managers are such and of
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Speaker 4: course a mess. But you know, I look back at it,
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Speaker 4: it's all relevant. I look back at the high school
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Speaker 4: state championship we won, and now people look at you know,
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Speaker 4: we were, like I said, the smallest public school in
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Speaker 4: the state, graduated about forty to fifty people sixty. I
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Speaker 4: don't know. You had to hustle for prom date, I'm
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Speaker 4: telling you, and I can still remember the last out
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Speaker 4: and the players on that team, and coming over the hill,
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Speaker 4: driving back six hours to the hometown, everybody waiting on
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Speaker 4: us coming over the hill, and how much it meant
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Speaker 4: to the community. So those those things I tell people
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Speaker 4: all the time. Whether it's a legion or Little league
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Speaker 4: or high school state champion, it's all relevant. It means
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Speaker 4: that the same, It's just on a different stage with
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Speaker 4: a lot more people critique and every little thing that
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Speaker 4: goes on.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know, before we finish up the conversation here,
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Speaker 1: you mentioned being in Baltimore, and I wanted to go
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Speaker 1: back time, go back to that time when you were
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Speaker 1: the manager of the Orioles. You and your wife were
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Speaker 1: very active in a charity that helped foster children, and
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Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for that. As someone whose
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Speaker 1: full time job it is I work for a nonprofit
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Speaker 1: that helps foster youth, and I was wondering, how were
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Speaker 1: you and your wife Angela able to really make an
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Speaker 1: impact in the lives of foster youth within the community
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Speaker 1: as you were learning more about foster children, the ins
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Speaker 1: and outs of what the foster care world was. What
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Speaker 1: was your impact?
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Speaker 4: Well, you know, first of all, you know, when we
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Speaker 4: went into communities, especially when like Baltimore, we wanted to
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Speaker 4: do something like that, and my wife gets all the credit.
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Speaker 4: She picked it and that was good enough for me. Basically,
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Speaker 4: a kid's Piece is what it was called and is called.
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Speaker 4: It's basically people think about kids up for adoption and stuff. Well,
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Speaker 4: some of them don't get adopted, and then what happens,
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Speaker 4: you know at thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, and
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Speaker 4: they're not a cute baby that everybody wants, you know,
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Speaker 4: It's like you know, and it was a way to
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Speaker 4: give them some direction and give them some aid and
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Speaker 4: help them out. And it was very moving for me
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Speaker 4: and it kept me grounded. And you know, instead of
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Speaker 4: always take take take from something, you know, you got
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Speaker 4: to get back to some of the communities that you're
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Speaker 4: in there. We bought a house in every job I took,
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Speaker 4: you know, became a part of the community, realizing that
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Speaker 4: it probably wasn't a great investment in the way sports
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Speaker 4: works today, but it's a commitment you make to an
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Speaker 4: organization when you take the jobs.
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Speaker 1: Buck, I want to thank you very much for your
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Speaker 1: time here. It was great talking to you. Thanks for
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Speaker 1: what you do for the community as well. Greatly appreciate
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Speaker 1: your time, my friend. Okay, thank you. Stay warm. We're
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Speaker 1: here with Veronica Alvarez and she is a staple within
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Speaker 1: the baseball community and somebody who we've been following at
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Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show as it relates to
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Speaker 1: her coaching with the Oakland A's and Veronica, thank you
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Speaker 1: so much for taking the time to jump on the
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Speaker 1: PST podcast show.
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Speaker 6: Thank you so much for having me. I'm really happy
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Speaker 6: to be here.
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Speaker 1: It's great to have you here at the Redding Hot Stovers.
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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm part of this family. I come
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Speaker 1: here just about every year and get a chance to
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Speaker 1: talk to some really amazing individuals who've had a great
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Speaker 1: impact on the game of baseball. But my first question
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Speaker 1: to you Veronica is you know, you began playing the
15:36
Speaker 1: game of baseball around the age of five when you
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Speaker 1: were growing up in Florida, And I'm wondering if you
15:42
Speaker 1: can kind of go back to that time and really
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Speaker 1: talk about what the game of baseball meant to you
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Speaker 1: as a kid as somebody who you know, again growing
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Speaker 1: up your your parents were from Cuba. I think correct
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Speaker 1: if I'm remembering correctly and trying to find your place
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Speaker 1: in the world as a kid, what did the game
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Speaker 1: of baseball really mean to you?
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Speaker 7: I mean, I say I came out loving it, right.
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Speaker 7: I wanted to play it. Nobody pushed me to do it.
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Speaker 7: I was lucky to have really supportive parents that supported
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Speaker 7: a little Latin girl that wanted to play baseball with
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Speaker 7: the boys on top of it, you know, but it
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Speaker 7: was something that I really just wanted to do and
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Speaker 7: just loved. And maybe it is due to my Cuban roots.
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Speaker 7: You know, baseball is a really big deal in Cuba.
16:21
Speaker 7: But it's just I loved throwing a ball, right, and
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Speaker 7: I think maybe when I realized that I could do that, well,
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Speaker 7: I just wanted to do it all the time, right,
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Speaker 7: And baseball was a great outlet for that. So I
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Speaker 7: threw a lot of balls, and it really helped me
16:35
Speaker 7: because when people would see my arm, which was my strength,
16:37
Speaker 7: they immediately were drawn to me and wanted me on
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Speaker 7: their team, whether it was a boys team or not.
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Speaker 7: And so I had a good, you know, run at
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Speaker 7: it at the beginning of my life, and it was
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Speaker 7: something that I had carried with me throughout even when
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Speaker 7: I eventually switched to softball. It was just something that
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Speaker 7: the love of baseball was always within me.
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Speaker 1: Did you ever get to a point where you said
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Speaker 1: yourself like I am identified because of baseball, like I
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Speaker 1: identify with baseball. Baseball identifies with me in a way.
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Speaker 1: And to kind of sit back and say I'm glad
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Speaker 1: that I took this route or this route I should
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Speaker 1: say in life, I'm glad that I took this avenue
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Speaker 1: of baseball because it's what I've loved so much. I
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Speaker 1: would imagine you don't necessarily have any regrets with regard
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Speaker 1: to it. But is there there that sense of, Okay,
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Speaker 1: this is what people are thinking of me as for
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Speaker 1: the rest of my life, and I'm okay with it.
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Speaker 7: Well, when I was a little kid, I would say
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Speaker 7: I one thousand percent identified with being a baseball player
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Speaker 7: so much so that when I had to, you know,
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Speaker 7: eventually transition to softball, I didn't want to do it
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Speaker 7: because I was a baseball player.
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Speaker 6: I wasn't a softball player, right.
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Speaker 7: And I find that a lot in our young girls
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Speaker 7: I play baseball, that everyone wants them to switch to softball.
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Speaker 7: They identify so much with the game of baseball, right,
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Speaker 7: and why not.
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Speaker 6: It's a great sport.
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Speaker 7: So I think, now, you know that I've come back
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Speaker 7: to baseball and now have an extensive career in it,
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Speaker 7: and as a player and now as a coach, you know,
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Speaker 7: I don't necessarily think that that all I'm identified by, right.
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Speaker 7: I think that I've been able to guess a good
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Speaker 7: amount of my job is to do baseball stuff, but
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Speaker 7: I've done a lot of the human development side as
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Speaker 7: well as a coach on the U side with the
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Speaker 7: girls and as a women's.
18:12
Speaker 6: National team coach.
18:13
Speaker 7: I think I've been able to kind of it's not
18:15
Speaker 7: strictly baseball. It's just human development and like, you know,
18:18
Speaker 7: people relations kind of thing, you know, And so I
18:21
Speaker 7: think that people associate me with other things. And plus
18:23
Speaker 7: I make really good coffee, So I think people associate
18:25
Speaker 7: me with being a coffee maker too, but you know,
18:28
Speaker 7: it's definitely a part of me. It's definitely something that
18:30
Speaker 7: makes me feel accomplished and a lot of gratification from
18:33
Speaker 7: being able to contribute.
18:35
Speaker 1: To somebody's career.
18:37
Speaker 7: But I don't feel fully identified like that's the only
18:39
Speaker 7: thing I am.
18:41
Speaker 1: I am very glad to hear that too, because you know,
18:43
Speaker 1: as I tell my friends or I tell my wife,
18:45
Speaker 1: with their professions and what they do for a living,
18:48
Speaker 1: you're more than that, you know, and that's really great
18:51
Speaker 1: to hear. But you were part of the women's baseball
18:54
Speaker 1: World Cup for a number of years, as well as
18:57
Speaker 1: the Pan American Games where you won gold, and I
19:00
Speaker 1: was wondering if you could talk about the pressure, the
19:04
Speaker 1: pressure that is upon your shoulders when you get to
19:06
Speaker 1: that level and how that's impacted other aspects of your
19:10
Speaker 1: life as you continue to move forward with the human
19:13
Speaker 1: development of what you were just talking about.
19:14
Speaker 7: For sure, I mean there is a level of pressure
19:17
Speaker 7: of just playing at the highest age for us on
19:19
Speaker 7: the women's baseball side. It is the World Cup, right,
19:21
Speaker 7: it was the Pan American Games. It definitely added to
19:25
Speaker 7: my career going forward. I was also a firefighter paramedic
19:30
Speaker 7: for eight years, and those two things seem very different.
19:33
Speaker 7: Baseball on firefighting, but there's so many common features to it,
19:36
Speaker 7: but also things that helped each other. So I think,
19:39
Speaker 7: you know, being a baseball player helped me be a
19:41
Speaker 7: better firefighter because in baseball, as a catcher, I was
19:44
Speaker 7: managing chaos, right, different chaos.
19:46
Speaker 1: You were the general. You're basically the general, the captain
19:49
Speaker 1: basically exactly.
19:50
Speaker 7: So it's you know, in firefighting, it's different chaos because
19:53
Speaker 7: it's literally life or death, not the life or death
19:55
Speaker 7: that some coaches think, right, But so it allowed me
19:58
Speaker 7: to be able to manage that stress of the city situation,
20:01
Speaker 7: control the chaos within me, control the situation, and be
20:04
Speaker 7: able to perform my best. So it definitely helped me
20:06
Speaker 7: be able to perform at the highest level, or have
20:08
Speaker 7: to compete at the highest level in the rest of
20:10
Speaker 7: my career. And then now moving forward into a role
20:13
Speaker 7: within baseball, being in charge of a program, you know,
20:16
Speaker 7: being a voice that speaks up in conversations and things
20:19
Speaker 7: like that or is expected to you know, there is
20:22
Speaker 7: pressure behind that. But I think that my experiences in
20:24
Speaker 7: my life have really helped me manage that.
20:26
Speaker 1: Because you have a certain level of expertise when it
20:28
Speaker 1: comes to leadership too. I mean you get that from
20:31
Speaker 1: the firefighter standpoint, and that certainly helped you within your
20:34
Speaker 1: baseball career, I would imagine as well.
20:36
Speaker 6: For sure, definitely one thousand percent.
20:38
Speaker 7: And I say, like, you know, the baseball helped me
20:40
Speaker 7: be a better firefighter, but firefighting may help me be
20:42
Speaker 7: a better manager. In firefighting, I was, it was a
20:44
Speaker 7: boot camp of being around leadership right abound.
20:48
Speaker 6: I was constantly put in leadership situations.
20:50
Speaker 7: Or being able to witness or or you know, analyze
20:53
Speaker 7: leadership because it was sometimes twenty four calls a day,
20:56
Speaker 7: you know, so every one of those calls did need
21:00
Speaker 7: a leader within it, right, and so it allowed me
21:02
Speaker 7: to be able to assess what went well, when I
21:04
Speaker 7: went wrong, and what we could do better next time.
21:06
Speaker 7: And so I take that into my role in coaching,
21:09
Speaker 7: not just managing, but also you know, being a coordinator
21:11
Speaker 7: of a program and things like that is like being
21:13
Speaker 7: able to you know, learn from each situation and get
21:16
Speaker 7: better each different time.
21:18
Speaker 1: I love the humanistic growth approach that you really take
21:21
Speaker 1: to life. I think it's absolutely phenomenal. But before I
21:24
Speaker 1: get out of your hair, here and you could talk
21:26
Speaker 1: to some other folks when when when you decide to
21:31
Speaker 1: hang it up someday perhaps retire. I'm wondering, like, what
21:35
Speaker 1: are your hopes in terms of how the baseball world
21:38
Speaker 1: will view your contributions to the game over so many years.
21:43
Speaker 7: I think it's less of like what I did with
21:45
Speaker 7: like my name behind it, but more the effects of it. Right,
21:48
Speaker 7: as long as the effects are being felt, then it
21:51
Speaker 7: doesn't really matter if they remembered who made those effects happen, right,
21:55
Speaker 7: or what will cause the ripple in the water. So
21:58
Speaker 7: I think that I just want to be able to
22:00
Speaker 7: continue to contribute to not only your professional baseball, but
22:04
Speaker 7: to the girls development as well, continue to create opportunities
22:07
Speaker 7: for them, which is something that's really important to me.
22:10
Speaker 6: I have three titles right now. I not only work
22:12
Speaker 6: for the A's, I'm.
22:13
Speaker 7: The women's national team manager, and I'm MLB's Girls Baseball Ambassador.
22:16
Speaker 7: So my role with the A's and the support I
22:18
Speaker 7: have within the system really allows me to contribute to
22:21
Speaker 7: the girls and the women's game. But as long as
22:24
Speaker 7: I can continue to be a factor in affecting change
22:29
Speaker 7: for the future generation, and that's all that matters.
22:31
Speaker 6: To me.
22:32
Speaker 1: It was so wonderful talking to you, Ronica. Thank you
22:34
Speaker 1: so very much for your time. Very much appreciate it.
22:36
Speaker 6: Thank you very much, I really appreciate it.
22:38
Speaker 1: Well, we are here now with Sarge. Yes, Gary Matthews Sr.
22:43
Speaker 1: It is great to have you on the podcast. Thanks
22:46
Speaker 1: so much for taking the time.
22:47
Speaker 5: Well, thanks for having me in ready, even though its cold.
22:51
Speaker 1: As you know what, every year it seems like the
22:54
Speaker 1: weather stinks with the banquet It seems like it stinks
22:57
Speaker 1: every year, Sarge. You think they can change it at
22:59
Speaker 1: some point.
23:00
Speaker 5: I have no clue on that. You know, at least
23:03
Speaker 5: it's not snowing hard. But the good thing about the banquets,
23:09
Speaker 5: you know that baseball's right around the corner.
23:11
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and that's most important. Look really quick, a couple
23:15
Speaker 1: questions that I wanted to bounce off of you here. Sarge.
23:20
Speaker 1: You were born back in nineteen fifty California, and I'm
23:23
Speaker 1: hoping we can go back to that time when you
23:25
Speaker 1: were a kid growing up, when you first started learning
23:28
Speaker 1: about the game of baseball, understanding the game of baseball
23:32
Speaker 1: and what it meant to you in your life then,
23:35
Speaker 1: and really how this game would define a larger part
23:39
Speaker 1: of your life. I know it's a general question, and
23:41
Speaker 1: I've been asking the other folks too about what it
23:44
Speaker 1: meant to them as a kid too.
23:46
Speaker 8: Well.
23:46
Speaker 5: A little different from the other ones because they haven't
23:48
Speaker 5: played Major League Baseball and that makes a big, big difference.
23:52
Speaker 5: But in playing and especially growing up in California having
23:56
Speaker 5: the Dodgers that are there, seeing the players come, man,
24:00
Speaker 5: it was relatively easy. Honestly. When you start, and I
24:05
Speaker 5: did at seven years old, you always dreamed of it.
24:09
Speaker 5: But the older you got and the better you got,
24:13
Speaker 5: the more that dream come to fruition. So again, it
24:17
Speaker 5: wasn't a you know, long road, sad story any of that.
24:24
Speaker 5: I've had a relatively easy, easy life for sure.
24:31
Speaker 1: Was there a moment, though, when you were a kid
24:32
Speaker 1: where you are throwing the ball or you're doing some
24:35
Speaker 1: batting where you were like, oh, my gosh, I am
24:37
Speaker 1: really good at this. This is something that I need
24:40
Speaker 1: to really hold on to and grasp onto. Is there
24:43
Speaker 1: a kind of that light switch moment for you.
24:45
Speaker 5: I grew up with a mom that always always would say, hey,
24:52
Speaker 5: it's a team effort. So I never got to the
24:55
Speaker 5: point where I was going, oh, you're the best or
24:58
Speaker 5: you're this or that, even though I hit third in
24:59
Speaker 5: the line up, just about my whole life, the most
25:04
Speaker 5: important thing was to win the game. And if you
25:08
Speaker 5: won the game, whether or not you got any hits
25:11
Speaker 5: or not, you're a fine. So I learned that early
25:15
Speaker 5: on hitting was the easiest part of the game. Never
25:18
Speaker 5: had a problem, you know, with that, And I've always
25:23
Speaker 5: been the intimidator going up to the plate. Although facing Jr.
25:29
Speaker 5: Richard and Nolan Ryan, I think it was a tie.
25:33
Speaker 1: It definitely sounds like a tie for sure. Well, Sarge,
25:36
Speaker 1: I was hoping we could maybe go back in time
25:38
Speaker 1: to when you were with the San Francisco Giants, and look,
25:43
Speaker 1: this is somebody who hasn't made a ton of money
25:46
Speaker 1: in their life. But I've always wondered what it was
25:48
Speaker 1: like when a professional athlete gets that very first large paycheck.
25:54
Speaker 1: Do you remember that moment, what you did with that
25:56
Speaker 1: very first paycheck? I know, maybe bizarre, but I think
25:58
Speaker 1: these are interesting stories from time to time.
26:01
Speaker 5: Part of it, I went to Culver City and picked
26:05
Speaker 5: out a car in the showroom, a sixty nine Buick Riviera,
26:10
Speaker 5: and I drove it all the way through until I
26:13
Speaker 5: got to the major leagues. So that was the first
26:16
Speaker 5: thing I ended up getting, and obviously taking care of
26:23
Speaker 5: my mom as well, and you know, the rest is history.
26:29
Speaker 5: The fact is, even before I signed, and I'll get
26:32
Speaker 5: into it with the banquet, I did a commercial for
26:36
Speaker 5: Hunts and High School and got residuals on it throughout,
26:39
Speaker 5: and then I was a number one draft choice. So
26:41
Speaker 5: how hard could that be.
26:43
Speaker 1: That's a great story. It's a great story, for sure.
26:46
Speaker 1: But as we're moving along with the conversation, you played
26:50
Speaker 1: for the Giants, played for the Braves, of course, the Phillies,
26:53
Speaker 1: the Cubs, the Mariners. When you look back on your
26:56
Speaker 1: baseball career, serget which city were you really attached to
27:02
Speaker 1: to the most and why not? Like not favorite city
27:05
Speaker 1: by any stretch, but what you were attached to.
27:07
Speaker 5: To your first team period And when May's McCovey and
27:11
Speaker 5: those guys Mayorchelle, you were proud to be a part
27:16
Speaker 5: of the Giants. They had a certain way of playing,
27:19
Speaker 5: and they also had guys on the team that you knew,
27:23
Speaker 5: if you're on it, that you were a damn pretty
27:25
Speaker 5: good hitter, because the Giants had hitters all throughout their
27:31
Speaker 5: history in the minor leagues. Right after me, coming up
27:35
Speaker 5: was a gentleman by the name of Jack Clark, so
27:41
Speaker 5: you know, we called him Jack the Ripper. But those
27:45
Speaker 5: were the kind of players that we had in our
27:48
Speaker 5: minor leagues. Because of George Genovie's who was a scout.
27:53
Speaker 5: You know, I'm really surprised that when we have all
27:56
Speaker 5: the different podcasts of different interviews and so on, not
28:01
Speaker 5: one time has anyone ever brought up why isn't a
28:05
Speaker 5: scout in the Hall of Fame. It starts at the
28:09
Speaker 5: embryo stages.
28:11
Speaker 1: That's a great question.
28:12
Speaker 5: Well, and you put in sports writers. To me, scouts
28:18
Speaker 5: have a lot more to do with it than sports writers.
28:21
Speaker 5: So why aren't there sports writers in the Hall of Fame.
28:25
Speaker 5: Why aren't they being recognized. Yes, they do all the
28:30
Speaker 5: traveling and going to a city to city to find
28:34
Speaker 5: different players, like a George Genoviez and a lot of
28:38
Speaker 5: other scouts. So you know, I'm really appalled at that
28:42
Speaker 5: that not one is in. And if they start with anyone,
28:46
Speaker 5: it should be George Genovis. Check his resume out on guys,
28:50
Speaker 5: not only that we're in the major leagues that impact
28:54
Speaker 5: players in the major leagues. I think you'll be astonished
28:59
Speaker 5: with Georgie Geneviez, this.
29:01
Speaker 1: Is a fantastic topic. I can guarantee you we're going
29:03
Speaker 1: to be talking about it on the PSD podcast show
29:05
Speaker 1: for sure. It's a fantastic topic.
29:07
Speaker 5: Well, it is, and I think anybody involved with baseball
29:11
Speaker 5: would agree with that, and especially some of the older guys.
29:14
Speaker 5: So I threw that out on purpose just because of that,
29:18
Speaker 5: so that they could start to talk about it. Because
29:21
Speaker 5: you don't talk about it, they just go right with
29:24
Speaker 5: the dust, you know, So it's it's it's past due.
29:33
Speaker 1: I would absolutely agree with you. And before I get
29:36
Speaker 1: out of your hair here, Sarge, I one last topic.
29:40
Speaker 1: The game of baseball, as we all know, has changed
29:43
Speaker 1: in various ways since you have played the game, and
29:46
Speaker 1: I'm wondering where do you hope the game of baseball
29:50
Speaker 1: goes in the future, say ten years from now, maybe
29:52
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty years from now, Like, where do you hope
29:55
Speaker 1: the game goes in terms of any potential changes to it?
29:58
Speaker 5: Well, the changes a bit made, I mean for me
30:03
Speaker 5: or players that aren't in the game now you just
30:06
Speaker 5: look at them and so wonder whether or not you
30:09
Speaker 5: know that guy could play on your team. See when
30:12
Speaker 5: we judge we're judging on what you can do, not
30:16
Speaker 5: on money. These guys judge on money whether or not
30:19
Speaker 5: that they could play. And the guys that strike out
30:22
Speaker 5: a lot, guess what, you wouldn't have time to hit
30:25
Speaker 5: forty something because you're going to be on the bench.
30:27
Speaker 5: You couldn't strike out that much. With May's and McCovey
30:31
Speaker 5: and those guys there, we would talk to two strikes,
30:35
Speaker 5: shorten it up. These guys are longer, so the game
30:39
Speaker 5: has changed in that way. Obviously, with the money, they
30:42
Speaker 5: are better athletes. I'd like to mention that they all
30:47
Speaker 5: just about have the tools. But guess what, most of
30:51
Speaker 5: them have no two box. Okay, so there's your difference. Yep.
30:57
Speaker 1: Sargeant was great talking to you, my man. Thank you
30:59
Speaker 1: so much much for taking the time. I appreciate it.
31:01
Speaker 5: Well, anytime. That was good. That was fun.
31:04
Speaker 1: And we are here with one of the scholarship winners
31:06
Speaker 1: at the Reading Hot Stovers banquet, Dana Messner. Thanks so
31:10
Speaker 1: much for joining us here and congratulations on the scholarship.
31:13
Speaker 6: Win Thank you so much.
31:14
Speaker 8: I'm really happy to be here.
31:15
Speaker 1: It's great to it's great that you are here. Just
31:18
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to be a part not only of
31:22
Speaker 1: this banquet, but being able to get this scholarship. And
31:24
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering. I know it's a general question, what
31:26
Speaker 1: does it mean to you to actually get this scholarship
31:29
Speaker 1: and what it means for your future?
31:30
Speaker 8: For sure, it definitely means a lot. This is a
31:33
Speaker 8: very competitive county when it comes to softball and baseball.
31:36
Speaker 8: So actually, when I first opened that email, I was like.
31:39
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, I'm so excited.
31:41
Speaker 8: But really it does mean a lot to be chosen
31:42
Speaker 8: out of everyone, especially to kind of represent those small
31:45
Speaker 8: schools because Olie's not always recognized for softball. So to
31:48
Speaker 8: be able to like represent my high school and continue
31:51
Speaker 8: on my softball career is a big opportunity. I'm really
31:53
Speaker 8: thankful for it.
31:54
Speaker 1: Which school is it again? You gotta give them a
31:56
Speaker 1: shout out.
31:56
Speaker 6: I go to Wilkes University.
31:57
Speaker 1: There you go? All right? Sounds good? And last question
32:01
Speaker 1: for you before I let you go. I've been asking
32:04
Speaker 1: a lot of the guests that are here what baseball
32:06
Speaker 1: really means to them. You are a scholarship winner. You've
32:10
Speaker 1: been playing softball, you know, for a very long time.
32:14
Speaker 1: I would imagine you just didn't pick it up last week.
32:16
Speaker 1: Of course, what has softball? What does it meant to you?
32:19
Speaker 1: What does it meant to you in your life in
32:20
Speaker 1: terms of providing any foundational, foundational purposes within your life
32:27
Speaker 1: since you've been playing what does it mean to you?
32:29
Speaker 8: Softball is probably one of the biggest things in my life.
32:31
Speaker 8: I've played it for about thirteen years and it's brought
32:35
Speaker 8: me some of my best friends. It's taught me some
32:37
Speaker 8: good and hard lessons, but stuff I needed to know,
32:40
Speaker 8: like throughout my lifetime. Is definitely moments I'm going to
32:43
Speaker 8: cherish with my teammates and my coaches, some of the
32:45
Speaker 8: most influential people I've met on the field or through softball.
32:48
Speaker 8: So it's really just the biggest opportunity I was able
32:50
Speaker 8: to take from being such a young girl playing softball
32:52
Speaker 8: and now growing up throughout it. It's really exciting and
32:55
Speaker 8: I really love it so much. It's my favorite thing ever.
32:58
Speaker 1: I'm the dad of two teenage daughters who are athletes.
33:01
Speaker 1: The best of luck to you. You know, there are
33:03
Speaker 1: certainly challenges that you have been through. You're gonna have
33:05
Speaker 1: challenges on the horizon, Dana. Best of luck to you
33:08
Speaker 1: in the future. Thank you so much, and we're with
33:11
Speaker 1: Maggie Steber, one of the scholarship winners here at the
33:14
Speaker 1: Redding Hot Stovers banquet. Maggie, how are you.
33:18
Speaker 6: I'm great, It's great to be here.
33:19
Speaker 1: It's great to you know, be able to talk with you,
33:22
Speaker 1: and first and foremost, congratulations on the scholarship win. But
33:25
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk to you about it because I
33:28
Speaker 1: would imagine as somebody who's going off to college, the
33:30
Speaker 1: scholarship obviously helps in certain ways. But I'm wondering, you know,
33:34
Speaker 1: as you are providing your essay to the to the
33:37
Speaker 1: Redding Hot Stovers and you were really reflecting on your
33:41
Speaker 1: very young career in softball, what did that process mean
33:45
Speaker 1: to you?
33:46
Speaker 9: Well, softball and baseball has always meant so much to me.
33:50
Speaker 9: Since I was little, I'd bean playing softball in like
33:53
Speaker 9: first or second grade, so it has always been.
33:56
Speaker 6: A part of my life.
33:57
Speaker 9: So, I mean, since I have been doing it for
34:00
Speaker 9: so long, it's really a big part of me. So
34:03
Speaker 9: to finally achieve my goals of playing at the collegiate
34:07
Speaker 9: level and accepting this scholarship for softball is truly an
34:12
Speaker 9: honor because I know how much hard work I've put
34:15
Speaker 9: in my family does not everyone can see it behind
34:17
Speaker 9: closed doors, but we know, and it's taken a lot
34:21
Speaker 9: to get here. But I'm really really grateful for where
34:23
Speaker 9: I am right now.
34:24
Speaker 1: Again, a lot of congratulations to you and your family
34:27
Speaker 1: on this. It is quite an achievement. But I've been
34:30
Speaker 1: asking a lot of folks that I've been talking to
34:32
Speaker 1: here with the game of baseball really has meant to
34:35
Speaker 1: them what the game of baseball has done for them foundationally.
34:39
Speaker 1: And I'm sure you've given it some thought yourself. What
34:42
Speaker 1: has the game of baseball softball? What does it meant
34:45
Speaker 1: to you from a foundational standpoint?
34:47
Speaker 9: Well, I not everyone has the best childhood. Everyone goes
34:51
Speaker 9: through trials and tribulations. So stepping on the field or
34:55
Speaker 9: going to watch a baseball game with my dad, it's
34:58
Speaker 9: a safe space for me. It feels like home when
35:00
Speaker 9: sometimes home isn't the best option and it is. It's
35:04
Speaker 9: just always a place where I can feel comfortable, feel
35:07
Speaker 9: the need to express myself truly how I am. And
35:10
Speaker 9: it is even just enjoyable to watch softball and baseball.
35:14
Speaker 9: I remember my first baseball game I ever went to
35:16
Speaker 9: caught a foul ball, and that's.
35:18
Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, folks, she caught a foul I
35:21
Speaker 1: am forty seven years old, have never caught a foul
35:25
Speaker 1: ball or a home run in all the baseball games
35:28
Speaker 1: I went to, And you caught a foul ball your
35:30
Speaker 1: very first game. What game was that?
35:31
Speaker 9: It was a Phillies game actually in Philadelphia. It was
35:35
Speaker 9: hit by Jimmy Rollins. I have it framed in my
35:40
Speaker 9: room with the date and everything on it. So just
35:42
Speaker 9: for that to happen at my first ever game is
35:45
Speaker 9: that's just a huge memory that will always stick with me.
35:47
Speaker 1: It's a fantastic story in Maggie, congratulations on the scholarship
35:51
Speaker 1: win thanks for joining us here at the PSD podcast show.
35:54
Speaker 6: Thank you so much.
35:56
Speaker 1: And now we are here with Cameron Burr here at
35:58
Speaker 1: the Redding Hot Stovers Bang quit. Cameron, thanks so much
36:01
Speaker 1: for jumping on here with us, no problem. We have
36:04
Speaker 1: been asking folks scholarship winners, even you know, asking Sarge
36:08
Speaker 1: and asking Veronica, just what the game of baseball has
36:11
Speaker 1: meant to you in your life? I mean, I would
36:13
Speaker 1: assume that it's provided so many different foundational pieces to you.
36:17
Speaker 1: Can you talk about that a little bit and what
36:19
Speaker 1: what what baseball has done for you in your life?
36:22
Speaker 10: Really everything. It's the reason I'm at college right now.
36:26
Speaker 10: It kind of it's a it's like my piece. Uh,
36:29
Speaker 10: you can just go get away and just have fun
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Speaker 10: with their buddies. Like my high school experience was so
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Speaker 10: great because I got to play baseball with my best
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Speaker 10: friends that I've been friends with since kindergarten.
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Speaker 1: I mean, what you're talking about is community right there.
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Speaker 1: You know, you're talking about an amazing community of individuals
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Speaker 1: who have helped shape who you are. I was asking
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Speaker 1: one of the other scholarship winners just now what the
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Speaker 1: essay process meant to you, you know, because you have
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Speaker 1: to do a lot of reflection in terms of the
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Speaker 1: essay process and and and what this scholarship has meant
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Speaker 1: to you. I'm wondering tell us what your feelings about that.
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Speaker 10: Well, first off, I'm really excited, and then also the
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Speaker 10: people who are giving me the scholarship I've also known
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Speaker 10: for a really long time too. The are the reasons
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Speaker 10: I'm an Oils fan right now.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: They gave us Sunday like season tickets to go, and
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Speaker 10: I've probably gone maybe eighty times.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, but yeah, it's super cool.
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Speaker 1: It is very cool. Congratulations on the scholarship win Cameron,
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Speaker 1: and best of luck to you in the future. Thank
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Speaker 1: you many thanks again to the Redding hot Stovers for
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Speaker 1: inviting us out to talk to all these awesome individuals.
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