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Michael Katz on Ole Miss and out with PTS Power Pitching and their team · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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They're new building Bill Thomas's new facility here in gluckstat today and boy, you
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got to get back here and see this if you have not right now.
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We got looks like Heartfields in here working and some others as well. It's
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well Jake women as well. So bav how in the world are you.
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I'm assuming that you haven't gotten rained out or at least fluttered away yet not
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yet. Yeah, being the key because we still have what two more days
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of this afterday it's wild, it's looking. Here's the thing, like even
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outside starts to smell like a like a wet dog. Does that make sense?
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No, you don't know what wet dog smells like. I know what
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a wet dog smells like, but I don't smell wet dog in the air.
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For me, it's starting to smell like a wet dog in the air.
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But it could be me, Like I could be smelling myself. I
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mean that that could be the deal. Here. We'll have Michael Katz coming
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in at three point thirty. Of course we'll talk with him Northeastmissippi Daily Journal
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on Ole Miss oh Miss basketball REBSI and baseball season. Of course football never
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visit with Heath Hinton coming in at five point fifteen, talking Southern miss we'll
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go round the table down in Hattisburg on football, recruiting, basketball and baseball
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with Heath Hinton. The Los Angeles Chargers, as you know, now has
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they have officially hired Jim Harball. He is the official man now, the
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head honcho for the Chargers, and that is going to move offensive coordinator Sharon
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excuse me, Sharon More, who did a great job for Michigan in the
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four games set where Jim Harball was put on the sideline, so to speaking,
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did a great job, and I think that's going to help Michigan hold
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this team together. Keep in mind, anytime ahead coach leaves now, you
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got thirty days in that transfer portal window where they can leave. So Michigan's
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transfer portal window is open. We'll see how that affects their program. Active
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coaches who have won a national title in college football now coaches now since Jim
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Harball has moved on. Mack Brown at North Care Active won national championship of
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Texas, Kirby Smart, Active obviously at Georgia, Dabos twenty at Clemson.
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Coaches with national titles that coached in twenty twenty three and that are no longer
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right now coaching jimbo Fisher, Jim Harball and Nick Saban fit that bill on
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the other side of that coin, so to speak. So a lot of
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note news out here about Jim Harball. He went eighty nine and twenty five
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in his coaching career after nine years at Michigan forty and three the last three
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years three straight Big ten titles, AP Coach of the Year, twenty twenty
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one and twenty twenty three National Champion, and beer to ask you this way
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too early, does he have a massive impact in San Diego or No.
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I don't know about immediately, but overall, yes, yes, after watching
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him with the forty nine ers, you know, extremely closely back in the
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day. Sure, yeah, Yeah, he's walking in with I mean he's
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walking into Justin Herbert, there's number one right there. It's not a bad
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quarterback to walk in with. I mean, it's really not. And of
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course I think he might be bringing his defensive coordinator from Michigan, so we'll
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see how that looks. Also, NFL News Ian Rappaport earlier today a surprise
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the Panthers are closing in on a hire Bucks offensive coordinator Dave Kanalis as their
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new as their new head coach. Sources say first time coordinator has worked in
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Tampa Bay this year, especially with Baker Mayfield stood out, and of course
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on to Bryce Young. Joel Clint explains why Jim Harball did not want to
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deal with the NCAA, and of course, Jewel Clatt with Fox Sports says,
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quote, they're getting notice of allegations for recruiting dead period. Meanwhile,
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kids are pulling up to their national pulling or is going to be pulling up
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to their Latin national letter of intent signings and Lamborghini's what are we doing?
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So you know, and again we've talked about this too, is there is
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likely some improprieties there that Michigan is probably gonna get slapped on the risk we
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know that's coming. I don't know that Jimbo excuse me that Jim Harball is
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necessarily running from that, but I think that what he is doing is like
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a lot of these coaches are saying, I'm done, I'm out. I'm
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going to go to the National Football League where I don't have to necessarily deal
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with this. Kirby Smart, Dabo Swinny mac Brown. Of course, as
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we told you, the only active head coaches who went won a national title.
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When you look at coaches best position to win their first national title,
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there are several coaches out there that could do it this year, and odds
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are that outside of Kirby Smart, I don't think mac Brown's going to win
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a national title this year in North Carolina. Kirby Smart very well could.
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But Ryan Day is going to be point number one at Ohio State. You
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look at Kaylyn de boor Alabama, he'll have that shot. Marcus Freeman at
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Notre Dame, Brian Kelly LSU, Dan Lanning at Oregon. Also Mike Norville
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Florida State. Now Lincoln Riley is on this list, but I still feel
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like USC is way down the pecking order as far as competing for the national
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title. Steve Sarkejian at Texas, and you know, it's interesting about Lincoln
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Riley. We've put a lot of attention over the last several days on Ryan
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Day and the work that he has done and his staff has done it.
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At Ohio State. Of course, again new athletics director, a lot of
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news at Ohio State. So this is kind of a make or break here
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for Ohio State coming up, especially with Michigan winning the National Championship. They've
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beaten them three straight times, so there's a lot going on there. But
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we haven't said a whole lot about Lincoln Riley and the fact that USC is
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under kind of a rebuild. Caleb Williams is going to the NFL. The
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transfer portal has affected their roster to a you know, not serious, but
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a moderate degree, changing some coaches there on that staff. They're moving into
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the Big ten. It's going to be harder to navigate the Big ten than
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it was the Pac twelve. So keeping eye on what's going on with Lincoln
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Riley out in Los Angeles. Interesting story here that has developed. Louisiana State
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Police are investigating a fraudulent online gambling account alleged to have been used by former
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LSU wide receiver Kashawn Boutet bets bet close to nine thousand times from April of
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twenty two, twenty twenty two, to May of twenty twenty three. Seventeen
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of those bets were on NCAA football games, with at least six on LSU
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football BB Have you seen this story? Nine thousand times? That is a
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lot We'll get Beaver's thoughts on that as we move along. We're gonna come
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back to that. Colorado football has self imposed minor NCAA violations from year one
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under Dion Sanders. The violation that includes dealing with the transfer portal, social
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media posts including coach Pride's Instagram, and a little bit more. That's probably
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much to do about nothing, a nothing burger, and if you want it,
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it's out there. Maction schedules are out. Maction schedules are out,
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and I'm not gonna bore you with the Maction schedules, but I I love
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to watch MAC football during the week. It's a fun brand of football.
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So those schedules are out and I'm looking to see this looks like the actual
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conference schedule that I'm looking at and not their full schedules. So if you
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want to get a little Joe moorehead and Bowling Green and some of these others
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out there, you can do that as well. Houston Rice extend their series
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and we'll play in twenty twenty four at Houston, twenty twenty five at Rice,
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and again. Michigan offensive coordinator Shan Moore expected to be named or will
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be is going to be the new head football coach at Michigan ninety nine percent
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chance. He's did a great job. Again, when you look at the
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job he did under so much pressure, and Michigan was under the scrutiny they
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were under, he did a great job also amid legal suits, threats of
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NCAA succession. We told you yesterday about the Project D one and congressional delays.
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While they're on Capitol Hill today and Ross Stellinger's starting to report on this.
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Senator Dick Durbin confirms in a statement that he met with the NCAA President
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Charlie Baker today. As they reported yesterday on Yahoo Sports. It's important,
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he said, quote the Senate Judiciary media, which controls legislation related to the
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Anti Trust protection is hearing the case. And again when you look at this
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Keyshaw Butte deal, this sports gaming deal, it's of course garnering a lot
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of attention. As Pete Naco says that part, let's see, he would
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score touchdown and rack up in one of his bets. He would score touchdown
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and rack up eighty two point five yards against Florida State on September fourth,
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twenty twenty two, and that was part of an eight leg barlay. He
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didn't hit on it either, so he didn't hit on the parlay. And
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Steve Sarkisian is the only College Football Playoff head coach returning to his team this
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year. Think about that, of the four teams that played in the College
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Football Playoff, Jim harbaughll Michigan National Champions off to San Diego, Nick Saban
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retires, Kaitlyn de Borer takes the Alabama job, and then Steve Sarkisian is
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back, so he is the only returning head football coach out of the final
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four in the playoffs. Also, five star plus wide receiver Ryan Williams has
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recommitted to Alabama, So we haven't seen a lot of that, but they
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get the recommit. Uh Ryan ree, excuse me, Ryan Williams. The
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Ktz will join us in the next segment, we'll talk all miss sports right
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now. Kind enough to give us some time. The owner and he is
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the man here at PTS Physical Therapy Sports before us. We're at their new
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location here in Gluckstat three sixteen old Jackson, Bill Thomas, Doc. Welcome
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in. How are you? Thank you? Congratulations right, thank you so
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much. This is fantastic. Yeah, I mean, you know, I
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know you had shown me a lot of the videos as you guys were,
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you know, building out the structure and everything was coming along, and have
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any had chance to see everything, But right now, got a group of
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guys in here working and I would say, I mean, I don't know
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what was in your head and how you envisioned it, but it's got to
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be pretty close to this. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. We want
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we want to see the local guys in here, local high schools, get
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them over here, you know, teach them kind of you know, arm
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care, how to take care of their arm, how to avoid injury.
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You know, we'll look at them from a physical therapy standpoint as well.
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If they need to work on range of motion, strength, flexibility, and
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mobility, we're going to evaluate them there, so you know, so that's
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how they get in here, do a performance evaluation, look at them and
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really look at their physical limitations. Okay, so and take that and then
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couple that with what the mechanics look like. Put those together, come up
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with a good plan, a good program in order to you know, keep
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them healthy, keep them efficient with they're throwing. And so that's what the
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guys are doing here now. They're working doing They threw a bullpen a couple
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of days ago, so they're doing some recovery package, recovery program, uh,
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just to kind of get them to their next outing so they feel good,
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they get good range there, and so that's that's kind of what that's
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about. That's why they're here. And so we'll have another high school too
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coming in here in the next next day or so. And so we want
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to do that on going throughout the throughout the season and keep them healthy.
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Doctor Bill Thomas on whether it's PTS power pitching here new location of course in
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gluckst At that addresses three sixteen Old Jackson Road, And of course you can
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visit their website and take us through and I of course we're gonna take some
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pictures and put it out. People can't see it particularly we'll have commercials on
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that kind of stuff out. But obviously when you walk in a lot of
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open space, a lot of uh you know, racks, machines, you
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got your physical therapy off to the left, you got cages in the back,
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just a little bit of everything. You've got twelve thousand feet. There's
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a lot room here. Yeah, a lot of space, got a full
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weight floor, you know, a lot of a lot of all the freewaight
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equipment. You know. So we have a trainer that's going to train each
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athlete program at specifically for them what they're trying to accomplish. Uh So,
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so that's that's great. They need that, you know, we need we
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need to help develop their explosive mister power and the strength. That's where they're
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going to do that. And then of course the physical therapy part. We
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can see any injury, you know, any orthopedic injury, we can see
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that. And we're kind of specialized in sports, but we can do any
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neck, back, shoulder, any adult we can see those as well,
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you know, and any and if they have any sport they want to progress
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to, we can get them back to play in their sport, you know.
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So so that's what that's about in the back the cages, we have
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a Repsodo camera that's going to measure spin rate, velocity, horizonical, vercal
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movement, all the metrics associated with pitching. We have that. You can
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see it, you can see the numbers, and that's what we're encouraging to
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do. You need to know your numbers. Recruiters are looking for that.
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Now, you need to understand that. And then we have blast centers for
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the bat. We're going to measure all the metrics associated with swinging a bat.
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So that's super important as well to understand that as they're going to showcases
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and those types of things. So we have a thing called a pitch Logic
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ball where the technology is in the ball. When you throw the ball,
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it'll measure the same thing. The repsodo will spin rate, block, stee
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movement and uh so, you know, just it's kind of an education thing,
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teaching them, you know, to understand their numbers, what are they
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doing. They're practicing with a purpose. They come in here. This is
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not just to come here and get some reps in We're really going to look
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and see get reps and focus on what they're doing and what their numbers look
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like, so that's kind of purpose out. Excuse me, sorry, we
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mean stup on you there, Bill Thomas talking to you through what's going on
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here at bay US some PTSPTS power pitching, and you mentioned it too.
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I mean obviously baseball season. I mean you come in today and you guys
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are rocket and fire, which you want to be. This is that time
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of year. It's hard to believe we had a ice last week. Kind
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of we're in into it. You need a boat this week. But people
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are a rain. It's a baseball season, right, it is. That's
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the way it is. It's cold, you know, it's cold and rainy,
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you know, and so that's kind of where we can come into it's
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into worst. They can come here and train and work out and so.
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But you know, you have to learn how to play in all conditions with
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baseball. And then hopefully soon we'll be warming up and rain will kind of
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go away some we could play outside more. Now obviously we've talked about teams.
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Yeah, if a parent's listening, or maybe even high school right now,
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Scout high school says, well, I'm not on a team, but
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that sounds really cool. You do individuals as well, right, Yeah,
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just give us a call. We'll set up a performance evaluation and then we'll
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about value. I'll spit about an hour and a half with them and we'll
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set up a program, explain the packages to them, how they work,
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get them plugged in. You know, they can do one time a week,
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or they can do two or three times a week, or whatever works
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for them for their plan. And everybody's really busy right now. It's kind
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of difficult with schedules sometimes, but we'll work it out. We'll come up
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with a plan that'll work for them as specific for their needs and of course
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not to be outdone. Softball, same thing. Yep, you guys work
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for volleyball players, football players. Tell us little bit about that. Yeah,
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Overhead athletes are kind of our thing. That's kind of what we do
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really well at so volleyball, softball, tennis for a lot of high level
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tennis players. So you know, you're building armed strength, you're looking at
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mechanics, you're making sure they're efficient and there's no injuries there. So yeah,
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so we can really work with those guys as well. Football players,
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we have a thing called a proteus the measures power and acceleration. So if
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they really want to know, you know, how explosive are they, how
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powerful are they. It'll take their numbers and compare it to all other kids
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around the country and their age group, and it gives them a percentile ranking,
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which is pretty cool. The sample size could be, you know,
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twenty thousand kids around the country and it'll measure that and tell them where they
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rank in a percentile basis of you know, how strong they are, how
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explosive are they. So that's a cool thing too. It applies that machine
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will apply just about any sport and we can take that designer program specifically for
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them. Now when you say these explosiveness and such for football, is that
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how is that measured? Not necessarily like the measurement is that is that explosion
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like with with a certain lift or a certain movement or how has that done?
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Yeah, so you know they're they're push and pull ability. How powerful
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are they with their upper extremity their lower extremities? How high can they jump
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their lateral movements left and right? So it'll measure that, you know,
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the power and acceleration acceleration of meters per second. All right, So we
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also have speed gate, so we go outside. We can measure sixty time,
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forty time we have a jump pad, How explosive are they jumping from
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the ground up, what kind of ground reaction force they have to get off
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the ground and so that's super important. That's direct correlation with pitching, but
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it's super important, I know in football too, if you're trying to do
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you know, combine type stuff, you're going to look at that information so
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that you really understand, you know where they are with that, Bill Thomas'
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owner operator PTS Power Pitching. Of course, you can go to ptssports dot
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training. That is the website to get more information, and you could always
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call up here six or one eight nine eight one eight two eight. We're
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gonna be here till six o'clock three to sixteen Old Jackson Road Building nine hundred
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in gluckst At Bill, congratulations, this is fantastic and thank you for having
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us up here. And we'll catch up with you here in the second hour.
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Yes, sir, thanks so much. Thanks Bill Thomas on your radio
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as we move through the day, and of course we'll have Michael Katz coming
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up here in the next segment. We'll te talk ole miss football, O,
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miss basketball, a little bit of baseball, got to go around the
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us as well. Baseball director and operations also strength and conditioning director. Right
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now, Michael Katz northeas Mississippi Daily Journal on your radio, find him on
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x you can find him on Facebook. Katz, I know, I saw
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you were on vacation and hopefully that went well. I'm sure you're right back
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at it. How are you, sir? I'm good. Well. I
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was supposed to be back a little bit earlier, but obviously no Mageddon changed
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some plans out here, so I was in California a little longer than I
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thought. It wasn't a bad thing. But back here, you know,
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Oxford was was pretty well shut down for about a week, so it's things
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are sort of getting normal back here again. Let's kind of go around the
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horn. I must to start with basketball today. Obviously, the ReBs when
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you look at, you know, a season under the first year had had
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basketball coach doing really well. The SEC is extremely deep this year. Your
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thoughts and you know, we talked in the early ago went about this basketball
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team, and I think you know, everybody kind of perked up when they
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beat Memphis back in early December. But your thoughts on where all Miss is
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on a very deep SEC in the early going. Yeah, I mean,
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the SEC, like you said, is really really good. And in a
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couple of games against some of the upper ationalon teams in conference, it hasn't
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been great, but almost is looking really good against the teams that they are
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either I guess what you would consider equally matched with, or teams they should
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beat. And that's not necessarily it's something that's been the case over the last
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few years. They haven't always won those games. I mean, they dominated
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Arkansas yesterday, and Arkansas has got some personel stuff right now, but I
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don't think it really would have mattered that much yesterday. I mean, it
23:08
was just a total it was a dominant effort all around by All Miss,
23:14
And so I think it's you know, if there there's if there's things you're
23:18
concerned about, it it's you know, how do you how do you you've
23:22
been so good at home, how do you even that out on the road.
23:26
I don't know if there's an easy answer for that. And then two,
23:30
you know is you know, offensive rebounding or rebounding has been a bit
23:33
of an issue this year, and that was better yesterday, but you know,
23:38
those are things that probably need to be cleaned up. And who knows
23:41
if if that's you know, this is still the first team under Chris Beard.
23:47
I don't know if it all gets fixed this year, but I don't
23:49
think there's any doubts this team is in a really good place right now.
23:53
They've already got sixteen wins. That's more than hey, more than they had
23:57
last think they had twelve last year. It's the most wins in a couple
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of years. Crazy, given it's it's you know, only the end of
24:04
January, so uh, they've been impressive. I think the the pieces are
24:11
are really starting to jail. I'm really I'm really interested to see the Texas
24:15
A and M game looks like this week, and I think that's a really
24:18
interesting opportunity. Michael Katz on your radio Thursday edition of the program. You
24:22
can find him on x Also check him out Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. Yeah,
24:26
you talked about this weekend. Getting the win last night at Texas A
24:29
and M. Coming up this weekend and they come back home, take on
24:30
Missippi State at the Pavilion, and they'll go back to back ball games at
24:34
the Pavilion, Misissippi State, Auburn, and then back to back road games
24:37
South Carolina and Kentucky. So that covers over the next you know, week
24:41
and a half to two weeks. With the league the way it looks this
24:44
year, and you know, I'm asking you to put on your ken palm
24:48
hat and you know, put put put teams in a bracket. But this
24:52
early how many teams you anticipate the SEC will get. I mean you get
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down even to Texas A and M. That's deep down into the standings at
24:56
three and three, they're at twelve and seven. They might have some work
25:00
to do on the overall, but from Auburn to Alabama, Tennessee, I
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mean you go South Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Ole, miss Florida.
25:07
Uh, you know, you can get down to the LSUS and the States
25:10
of the world. I mean, it's it's a deep league. Yeah,
25:11
I mean there's there's really only if we're talking about teams that really seem to
25:15
be quote unquote out of it, it's it's Vanderbilt, who's obviously struggling pretty
25:19
good amount this year. But like other than that, you know, maybe
25:22
maybe Missouri, Missouri has had a little bit of a rough start to the
25:26
season, but like other than that, you can kind of make a case
25:30
if someone gets hot, that you could have you know, upwards of ten,
25:36
you know teams in there. And obviously there's a lot of basketball left
25:38
be played, but everybody seems to be at least good, and I think
25:44
that's you know, it hasn't always been the case in this league. It's
25:48
it's sometimes been top heavy, but it's just so deep. And obviously Kentucky
25:52
is great, Tennessee is great, Auburn is really good. Alabama just beat
25:56
Auburn Yestrunay in a very weird game. But then you've got a lot lot
26:00
of teams that are still like very good. And South Carolina has been on
26:03
the rise, Ole miss is on the rise. You know, State has
26:07
been a little bit up and down, but you know, that's that was
26:10
a tournament team last year. There's a lot of really good teams. I
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think it's it's I'll tell you what. The SEC tournament is going to be
26:17
fascinating because you know, you know, one get you know, in a
26:21
winner go home type situation, tournament situation. I have no idea what's going
26:27
to happen. I know we always think we know, but weird things happen
26:30
at the SEC tournament. Let's shift to baseball. About two and a half
26:37
weeks, o'll miss We'll first pitch Honolulu, Hawaii. Hey, are you
26:40
making that trip? I don't think that was probably in the budget. If
26:47
you'd like to donate to my go fund me, I was. I'll pass
26:51
that along. Very good. So four games, four game set against Hawaii,
26:56
and then of course they come back and they'll be in Oxford for a
26:59
while, taking the likes of Arkansas State High Point, A little rock is
27:02
kind of coming through here. Missouri State Iowa will make a three game set
27:06
trip to Oxford. You know, you look at it in this state.
27:10
We've talked about this, just such a weird turn of events. State wins
27:12
the Donati, Ole miss wins the NATI. Both teams now, you know,
27:15
take the downturn, LSU bounces back. What I mean expectations are always
27:21
high in the state in baseball and particularly at Ole Miss as well as Misssippi
27:23
State. But what defined success for this baseball team this year? I mean,
27:27
I think that if this team doesn't make it into the tournament, I
27:32
think that's that's probably very disappointing. And I know that it hasn't been the
27:36
standard. You know, the standard at least since I've been here, is
27:40
like they need to get the Omaha none of this, you know, losing
27:42
the super regional stuff anymore. You know, last year they didn't make it,
27:45
and they didn't even make it to the SEC, I believe. I
27:48
think the two STC teams that didn't make the SEC tournament were Stayed and Ole
27:52
Miss and so but I think that you know, if you look at the
27:56
preseason, you know, to D one Baseball and Baseball America and stuff.
28:03
You know, generally speaking, like those two teams are kind of in the
28:07
double digit area in the SEC predictions and that's you know again like that can
28:14
still probably get you in into the tournament because it's just how deep the SEC
28:18
is. Obviously, you know, almost one of the College World Series with
28:22
an under five hundred SEC record. A couple of years ago. So I
28:27
do think though that that maybe the the I don't I don't want to say
28:32
lowered expectations, but this isn't you know, this isn't a top five team,
28:34
a top ten team like it has been you know, nationally in recent
28:38
years. I think that there's a really good chance to outperform that. I
28:42
think they've got some really nice talent they've gotten through the transfer portal. Obviously,
28:47
not having Hunter Elliott is going to be tough, but you know,
28:51
they had to throw some young arms last year, and you have to think
28:53
that natural progression puts them in a better spot. So, you know,
28:56
are are they going to be you know, headliners like you know the Vanderbilts
29:02
and Tennessee and uh, you know Florida and LSU and and those teams right
29:07
now? You know, maybe not from the start, but I think that
29:11
this team can now perform expectations for sure. And if I think I'm making
29:15
it uh to the tournament, you know, that's I don't. I think
29:18
that's a pretty reasonable thing. Michael Katz talking All Miss Sports Thursday edition of
29:22
the program, Let's fish up with the REVS Football real quick. I was
29:26
just kind of cruising X yesterday and came across UH or maybe the day before
29:30
l s U, you know, two two new hires and UH on their
29:33
football staff, and Lane Kiffin had retweeted with a thumbs up. He's got
29:37
to get if there was like an award for biggest troll slash, you know,
29:41
and I know that doesn't fit necessarily the personality you guys deal with,
29:45
you know, personally with him. He's got to win that award, doesn't
29:47
he It's incredible, man, just between the like the air the air the
29:52
airport pictures. I think there was this one where he was he was like
29:56
he was, he's on LSU right now or something, and it's just like
30:00
you got that, You've got you know, the quote tweets of random things.
30:06
The one that got me the other day a couple of weeks ago,
30:07
I think it was was I guess it was like the anniversary of when he
30:12
left Tennessee and one of the news stations out there said do you remember where
30:17
you were? And Lane quote tweeted it and just said yes. I was
30:22
like, man, he's so good at this. But you know it's I
30:27
think it's it's I think it's refreshing and it can it be frustrating sometimes,
30:32
Yeah, I'm sure it's probably frustrating for I. You know, it's it's
30:36
we're we're always on, you know, we always have our phones anyway,
30:38
but you know, you're always looking to see what last tweet was in case
30:41
it's a you know, a sign of something. Sometimes it's just a trip
30:45
to BUCkies, you know. So, but I do think it's refreshing to
30:49
see a little bit of that personality that you know, people don't always see.
30:55
As you know, the second signing day comes up here, you know,
30:57
that's kind of a nothing barger for a lot of teams. What is
31:00
left on the table for all miss obviously transfer port there's still some guys out
31:04
there. You would think most teams are starting to at least button this thing
31:07
up at least until after spring practice, you would think. But then again
31:11
with you know, it's the crazy thing with college football is right now,
31:17
like like rosters are never really like that, It never seems like they're set
31:21
just with like with coaching changes, you know again, like you know,
31:25
Harbaugh left yesterday from Michigan, so that opens up the portal for thirty as
31:29
for them, like that place is going to get raided or at least attempted
31:33
to be raided, you know who who. You know, everybody assumes that
31:37
Shrion Moore's is going to get the Michigan job. But if it's somebody else,
31:41
then that opens up a job, and then that opens up another portal,
31:45
you know raid. So I think that with with with with with in
31:51
this in this era of college football, I think it's just always like like
31:55
you said, like this next signing day doesn't seem as big because most teams
31:59
get there. They're big ones out of the way in December in terms of
32:01
the high school classes. But I think they're just always looking for what talent
32:07
becomes available because you know, like in the old like I say, the
32:10
old days, my ten years ago, uh like this, like the classes
32:15
were the classes, and they you knew what they were from several years ahead,
32:20
and you were able to you know, monitor them and recruit them.
32:22
And now it's always changing who's available. And some guys are you know,
32:27
have played several years of major college bomb. I mean almost just got to
32:32
starting offensive lineman from Washington today. You know that that's a team that just
32:37
played in the national title game and lost their coach. So I think it's
32:42
all fluid. I don't. I don't think it's ever really done to an
32:47
extent. I think you have most of your roster probably filled, but you
32:51
know, if they're spots, I don't think. I don't think the portal
32:53
king is is gonna uh is going to say no to at least looking no.
32:59
I think you're probably be right here is Michael Katz. Make sure you
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find him on x che him out Northeast Missipidaily Journal. Jump in on their
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Facebook group for Ole Miss if you're no miss fan as well. Kats always
33:07
appreciate you time, brother looks stay dry out there and look we'll talk soon.
33:09
Thanks man dolculator. Talk to you later, Michael Katz on your radio.
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Why I'm fixing this. Let's go to the Malone roof and call on.
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It's got a DJ DJ Welcome in, sir. How are you Jay?
35:30
You know, I know me and Bee sometimes put you on the spot.
35:32
But are you ready to stay plane for your San Diego Charger? Ooh ooh,
35:39
ooh ooh not yet right yet? What's holding you up? You got
35:45
an award winning coach, You've been a Super Bowl, he's won a Natty.
35:50
You got at quarterback that is a franchise guy. Well, Bee've helped
35:55
me out if you can hear. But Jake, what's the delay? Well?
35:59
You kind of talking me into it all of a sudden. I want
36:00
to see the pieces he puts around that program or that team, that organization,
36:05
and you know, look at the schedule and all that stuff. But
36:07
I mean, hey, look, Jim Harball, he's he's done this before,
36:09
right, I mean, this is this is no new hat for him
36:12
in the NFL. Well, you know what, it pains It pains me
36:15
to say this, James, but he is a very good coach and we
36:21
have gotten out coached in the last few years by him, and it pains
36:27
me to say that. But it is fine, you know what I'm saying.
36:30
And yeah, and like I said, I don't know with throwing money
36:35
that the problem is going to help, but if it does, we're throwing
36:37
money at the problem. But I said, I think sooner than later,
36:43
you need to go ahead. And I'm going to tell you, Jate,
36:45
if the San Diego Chargers win the Super Bowl next year and you go ahead
36:50
and put your chat with him, I mean, look, I've already wondered
36:53
when he hackening on the ESPN TV already, you know, so I'm your
36:59
characters all listen of those people. But do you ever watch what's a guy
37:02
that wears the tank top that used to be the partner? You know what
37:05
I'm talking about Oh yeah, yeah, you're talking about Uh, why did
37:09
I just have old man brain beef who were talking about? You know,
37:13
Pat mcafi, thank you. Yeah. At times, I'll be honest,
37:19
it's sometimes I wonder how in the world you know what I'm saying, because
37:22
I listen to the best radio show in America every day with you and Bev.
37:25
I don't really mean that because I mean your boys, the way y'all
37:30
transition, the way you treat your h listeners. But man, there's just
37:34
a bunch of nuts sometimes I mean his whole panel. I mean, did
37:38
he brings Dan Rodgers and looks if somebody's green bake pant, Green Bay pant,
37:43
I pogot. But Ana Rodgers is a nut. He's out there.
37:47
He is an absolute nut. But anyway, Hey, when you're ready to
37:52
put that cant down on a charge, me and Bee want it is sooner
37:55
than lab You gotta do appreciate it. Checks in the mail, Beav.
38:00
Anything on your end we need to catch up on for the top of the
38:01
hour. Yeah, a couple of text messages, Matt Daddy. So earlier
38:07
when you were talking about the Chargers, Uh, you dropped to San Diego
38:13
and of course Matt Daddy was here to say, Hey, spoiler alert,
38:16
it's La not San Diego. But in my heart it's always been San Diego.
38:21
Is that fair? Yeah? And I'm the same way san Diego was.
38:24
It's the first thing I ever knew. Yeah, And Miko says,
38:30
Bill Thomas equals the shoulder whisperer. How about that? Yeah, how about
38:36
that, beeB you can come up here, Beebe. I promise you I'm
38:37
not lying to you. I'm'll get you up here. You said you want
38:39
to come up here and throw some throw some bullpen. Yeah, I want
38:43
him to cock my speed. We can do that. Now what speed do
38:47
you think you might come in at? Like what your fastball? Where you
38:51
think is at? Oh? Let's see. I feel like I can say
38:55
I've I've never warmed up properly in my life, but now, wow,
39:00
that's what they're there for. So I feel like if I can get in
39:02
there and warm up properly, probably you know, eighty four, wow,
39:10
eighty four to eighty nine, eighty for to eighty nine. You know what
39:16
I'd love to see you do, and I know we could do it.
39:20
I'd love to see you pitch to Chris Brooks see if you can strike him
39:23
out. I was actually no joke thinking about Chris Brooks with this, because
39:29
you know he fancies himself an excellent catcher. Baseball's a lot. Yeah,
39:37
let me get back to DJ and his Chargers because you might have heard me
39:42
scoff and that was scoffing at you because you're afraid. It sounds like you're
39:49
afraid to get in on the ground floor of the hardball Chargers transition. And
39:55
I don't understand why you wouldn't because you pumped this hardball crap all year.
40:00
You stuck up for him when all his shady business. And now now we
40:07
see Jake, he pulled a Pete Carroll. He's a disgusting liar and he
40:12
was gonna get popped, so he pulled up camp and moved to the NFL.
40:17
So now we see it. But you were defending him from all that,
40:23
downright, defending this man like he was your brother. So I don't
40:29
know why you wouldn't continue continue on with such hardboss support. So that tells
40:36
me you're just waiting for the bandwagon. Jake, Well, I'm waiting to
40:42
see how healthy Aaron Rodgers is. Remember I was in on the Aaron Rodgers
40:45
and Jets last year. But I feel like now all of a sudden,
40:47
y'all are talking me into this. I need. The Dolphins aren't gonna ever
40:52
do it because they can't play north of the Mason Dix line. Maybe I
40:54
should just change my entire allegiance to the Chargers as of today. And here's
40:59
another added bonus. You get, you get yourself the old school Chargers uniform.
41:08
Those colors were amazing and that's gonna stick. They're gonna stay with that.
41:15
Well, no, I'm saying you can you you love you love getting
41:17
gear from random teams. Oh yeah, so that's that'd be some excellent gear
41:22
because those colors are awesome, old school blue and yellow. I'm in.
41:30
I'm sold. What do we say? Bolt up? I gotta get the
41:31
slogans right, I'm in. Let's do it. Jim Harball Super Bowl twenty
41:37
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41:40
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43:19
And this is not a flight for fee but us. I'm a lot
43:22
older and Bees, but I played simi pro baseball as a pitcher. Never
43:24
could Buckstad even one, So I must say the over nunder for Bee,
43:30
the one oh five point nine. It's sixty two. Okay, so we're
43:35
getting over under for Bee. It's sixty two, sixty two miles prior.
43:37
All right, we'll see. We'll get him up here and we'll talk to
43:39
Bill and we'll get him in there. We'll get him back in the back.
43:43
Alex Beacham Strength and Conditioning Director, kind of enough to take take it
43:46
a little bit of a moment. Alex, great to meet you, Welcome
43:49
in. How are you doing? Thank you good? How about y'all?
43:51
Rememb're doing good. I figure we'll give you a little bit of a break
43:52
now that you probably need it. So Hey, like I told Bill,
43:54
congratulations to you guys. The facility is top notch. It is fantastic,
44:00
and I know this has been something that you guys have all collectively worked towards
44:02
a vision. Take us through the facility kind of the you know. Obviously,
44:07
I know we talked to Bill a lot and work with Bill on his
44:09
vision. But what you know, what you guys have here so that but
44:13
we want people to see it. Obviously you've got your website, we got
44:15
videos and stuff going out. But take us through what you guys are working
44:19
with here. Yeah. Absolutely, So when you walk in, we have
44:21
our waiting room, and we have a physical therapy clinic, fully equipped weight
44:24
room, and then also five back in cages and pitching lanes that can be
44:29
combined for either one. And then we also have a lot of technology that
44:32
we haven't really found around the area, such as a rahapsodo of proteus,
44:37
pull censors, live sensors, just all sorts of stuff. So we're really
44:40
trying to create a niche and a destination for baseball players and really other kind
44:45
of athlete that come in and not only work out in the weight room,
44:49
they can come and throw, they come and hit with all this technology,
44:52
and if need be, they can also do some physical therapy or get some
44:54
arm care at work. Take us through kind of your journey here. Obviously
44:59
you said you're from Hoover, Hoover, Alabama. I've been here since two
45:01
thousand and four. Work as a strength and conditioning director here, and of
45:05
course, you know, work with athletes. I would assumes that's your deal
45:08
right there, Yes, sir, that's correct, that's great. Yeah.
45:10
So I grew up here in Madison since thousand and four. I got my
45:15
bachelor's in extrayle science from Mississippi College. I was an intern in the weight
45:20
room under Michael Schumacher. He was a head strength coach. Graduated, kind
45:23
of was in and out running different gyms, working at different gyms, and
45:27
then I became a personal trainer about two years ago. But going into Mississippi
45:31
College, I knew I wanted to train athletes. For a while, I
45:35
was wanting to do the collegiate strength conditioning side, working with all the teams
45:37
universities kind of backed off from that. Wanted to work more on the private
45:42
side, So did that for about roughly a year, got my CSCs from
45:45
the NSCA, and then Bill approached me about this probably a little over a
45:51
year ago, and we've been talking about since then, and when it finally
45:53
became established, we got together, talked about things, and he made the
45:58
hire on me. And so so my hope here is to number one,
46:02
train all these athletes in a healthy way, not in like a bodybuilding kind
46:06
of way. We want them to be able to move well, inefficient and
46:09
that's the number one thing I preach here and that's what coach Hue at Mississippi
46:14
College taught me. So that's my main goal here, and that's kind of
46:16
how I got here today, you know what's interesting. And we had David
46:20
Murray on with Jean's page covers Misissippi State two or seven Sports Dot Comedy.
46:23
He's been doing this for several decades and we were talking Missippi State baseball and
46:27
we were talking pitching, and of course he was talking about, well,
46:30
you know, Tommy John's here, Tommy John's area's actually all over college baseball.
46:34
And I know when you talked to Bill, like his eyeslight up.
46:37
He's like, Yep, that's what we're trying to stop here, which is
46:39
you know, it's it's different in what Bill and you guys do here is
46:43
absolutely different for pitchers, yes, absolutely, and we try to take that
46:46
approach to all of our athletes. You know, there's there's a different way
46:50
that you approached football players versus baseball players, and even more specific than that,
46:54
pitchers and position players. So pitchers, I'll just give everybody a click.
46:59
Example, pitchers, I don't typically like the barbo bench press with or
47:02
overhead barbel pressville just because I'm kind of worried about some of those shoulder impingements.
47:07
So and then with the football player versus a baseball player, obviously,
47:10
baseball is a very rotational, dominant sport, especially with hitters, so we
47:15
try to bring that aspect and make it more specific to baseball so that way
47:19
we're keeping them healthy and powerful. And of course we have you know,
47:22
the quote unquote prehab aspect to it, where when they go on that field,
47:27
not only do they look good and play good, but they also feel
47:30
good. Because if you're walking up to the plate and you look like Bo
47:34
Jackson, but you can only play half the games of the year because you're
47:37
unhealthy, with who really cares? So that's what we're really trying to go
47:39
for as well. Here. Much different than Deon Sanders not taking a shot
47:43
here. He said, if you look good, you feel good. If
47:44
you feel good, you play good. Yeah, a little bit different.
47:46
Sure set up here, take us through some of the stuff. Obviously,
47:50
you know you guys have the programs for baseball players. You have programs for
47:53
football players. Bill was talking about your all your ventch sports, volleyball,
47:57
baseball. Obviously extremely hot. We got here a little over about an hour
48:00
and a half ago. A lot of baseball players already here. Y'all are
48:02
gonna be bringing them in and out a lot of band work. Like Bills
48:07
was talking about, Hey, this is kind of their rehab day, So
48:09
I would you know you're talking about And we used to not say this like,
48:13
I mean, I'm older in forty seven rehab. What are you talking
48:15
about? Now? You just got to get out there and play now.
48:17
Now though the rehab is just as important as as us playing, isn't it.
48:21
Oh? Absolutely one hundred percent. And that's another thing too. And
48:23
I think Austin Overly would be on here in a minute. He's in charge
48:27
of the arm care and it's working a lot of those little muscles with bands,
48:31
stabilization. We have title tanks here that really challenge all stability throughout your
48:37
core and the whole body. And you know, being explosive is great,
48:42
being strong is great. But over time, if that's all you focus on
48:45
and you don't do these little arm care exercises and things like that, you're
48:50
gonna feel it eventually. Eventually. And I think Bill may already said it
48:53
or not, but Nolan Ryan, I mean, he's one of the more
48:55
famous ones for doing all these band exercises every day. He did several hundred
49:00
reps a day. And you know, anybody keeps up a baseball knows how
49:04
long he played and kind of a you know, obviously the talent way before
49:07
me unbelievable talent, but sure all of that kind of way before his time.
49:12
Right, Yeah, absolutely nobody else is doing it. Nobody else,
49:15
and even to a degree strength and conditioning. You know, I can remember
49:19
a time when which I'm only twenty eight years old, but in high school
49:22
I remember basketball players baseball players they did not want to lift to get bulky.
49:25
And that's the kind of thing that I also tell parents in here is
49:29
I don't want them to be bulky. I don't want them for the like
49:30
a bodybuilder out on the field, nor why I trained them as such.
49:34
I'm training them to move well and effishent. You know, it's funny to
49:37
hear you say that, because I can remember exactly people talking like that depending
49:40
on what you did. If you were martial artists, you don't want to
49:43
squats, your legs would get too big and try you couldn't kick, or
49:45
you couldn't do this if you were this baseball player, where you don't want
49:49
to get too big. Now so, but that whole mindset has absolutely changed
49:52
it. And I don't know necessarily that you would call him, you know,
49:57
a revolutionary on this, but he kind of is Tiger Woods when you
49:59
look at the way he kind of transformed his body to play golf, and
50:01
he was the first one to do that. Sure absolutely. I mean you
50:05
watched him on the golf course and he's a big dude. Yeah, I
50:07
mean he's tall and stocky, but I guarantee he's not going in and doing
50:10
bodybuilding type exercises. He's doing all that to create more power and efficiency throughout
50:15
his swing, and that is why he's the greatest of all time, arguably.
50:19
Having a conversation with Alex Alex Beacham excuse me PTS physical therapy, a
50:22
sports performance He is a strength and conditioning director. Here for Bill Thomas,
50:29
so real quickly, I got a few minutes here left. Here's what's your
50:31
message to a parent or to maybe a youngster that may be listening baseball player.
50:37
Maybe they're getting ready or they're already often running and practice for tournament ball,
50:40
and maybe they're thinking, hey, well, you know this, this
50:42
sounds a little different than what we're normally doing, and it is different.
50:45
What would bed that message to them? Yeah, I would say, you
50:49
know, Number one, keep the main thing, the main thing. You
50:51
know, during the end season, you know, we're trying to keep all
50:52
the guys healthy. We're not trying to chase velocity on pitches. We're not
50:55
trying to be able to jump two inches higher. So that's number one.
51:00
Number two, during your off season, you know, anytime you have the
51:02
opportunity, come in here and see us, Come get some workouts, some
51:06
lifting with us, Come seem the arm care, and I just guarantee you're
51:10
gonna have a much prolonged career throughout baseball football. It doesn't matter what you're
51:15
playing, especially if you're an overhead athlete. But always just take care of
51:19
your body, eat right, get enough sleep. That's one thing I see
51:22
a lot, and I was a teenager once. You know you want to
51:24
stay up all night. But if you're serious about your craft, you're gonna
51:28
want to do everything possible that you can to prolong and improve your career.
51:32
Alex, I appreciate your time. Look love what you guys are doing here
51:36
again. Congratulations on the launch of the new facility. Yeah, sir,
51:38
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52:50
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52:52
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for more information be he or anything on your end, we need to get
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to while we got a minute. Okay, so let's see DJ has he
53:16
was talking about my pitching speed at sixty two pt for MSU says forty eight.
53:22
Whoa man, see you came in here mid to high nineties and this
53:29
crew has done brought you back down into the forties. Yeah, there's quite
53:36
a discrepancy here. Let's see possumneck Joe says, yesterday you all were surprised
53:40
at my thoughts about JJ McCarthy. I'll tell you who. He reminds me
53:45
of his coach Harball. He scrambles around and throws the ball just like Carball
53:50
in college and the NFL. And who sent that possomneck Joe? Possum neck
53:59
Joe? Possibly think Joe? Anything else over there? That's it for now,
54:05
all right, right now, we're gonna shift gears sign bring in Austin
54:07
overly. He is, of course part of pts Pirate Pitching Baseball director Austin.
54:13
It is great to have you, man. I know that you guys
54:14
are running a gun and so thanks for taking some time. Oh yeah,
54:16
no problem, glad to be here. If you would pull that a little
54:19
bit closer there were there you go right there? All right? So we
54:22
were talking early with Bill and we're talking with Alex. Take us through and
54:24
by the way, congratulations and this place is fantastic. What'd you guys have
54:28
going on here? Tell us a little bit about yourself obviously now up here
54:30
with Bill and in pts Pirate Pitching. Prior to being here, right so,
54:35
I was at as old clinic and I was doing the arm care classes
54:37
over there. I'm also a PTA. So a lot of the guys that
54:42
we have coming in right now used to be our old patients, you know,
54:44
guys like younger guys that had growth plate fractures, laborl tears, rotator
54:49
cuff issues, lots of Tom and john in the past year, honestly,
54:53
and they've come in, we've rehabbed them, and they see they see how
54:58
the rehab went, their arms feeling great afterwards, and they stick around for
55:00
extra training, you know, working on velocity and mobility, pitch command and
55:06
all that stuff. So I'm doing PET in the morning with my patients and
55:09
then in the afternoons we should kind of switch gears and it's more of a
55:14
armcare slash like strength and conditioning kind of focus with the guys that come in.
55:19
Take us through this a little bit, because I was really shocked with
55:21
Bill and I started meeting last year, you know, and you always hear
55:24
and we talked about this with Alex earlier, you know, Tommy Johns that's
55:29
always out there, right, and it seems like there's a little bit more
55:30
of that, a little bit more of that, and now before I met
55:32
Bill, and I was scratching my head because you go, you know,
55:36
we've got a middle son who plays tournament baseball. The tournament team did everything
55:40
right. Everybody seems to be doing right. You go to the tournament's perfect
55:44
game wherever you go, they got pitch counts for kids, and you still
55:46
see kids with arms and it's not like you see them trying to throw a
55:51
curveball or doing this. Until Bill got told me about well, rehab this
55:54
that you know, characteristics to it. Take us through that because it feels
55:59
like that message and you guys are doing a fantastic job, and I know
56:00
that's why you're here, but that message is not out there enough. Does
56:05
that make sense right? Yeah? Yeah. So there's this thought process that
56:09
I know a lot of parents have. I know they pay a lot of
56:12
money to have their kids go out there and play tournaments. But there should
56:16
be a period of play and there should be a period of training, right
56:20
because they think, oh, the more you play, the more reps you
56:22
get, the better you'll be. Right. Well not really, especially when
56:24
you're at a younger age. You're if you're doing something wrong and all you're
56:28
doing is just playing games every weekend, you're probably reinforcing bad habits, right,
56:30
So there should be a season where you play, and then it should
56:34
also be an off season where your arm's allowed to rest. You have time
56:37
to get better, faster, stronger, and you can recover, especially at
56:39
a younger age when you've got immature joints, immature ligaments. You got to
56:43
take a break. Can't play year round, And even though there's pitch counts
56:46
and things like that, kids aren't being taught how to throw correctly or safely.
56:52
It's just, oh, hey, this kid's a little bit bigger,
56:53
he throws a little bit harder, so he must be doing it right,
56:55
you know what I mean. And he'll play all year, he'll go to
56:58
showcases to all the different states and cities, and then all of a sudden,
57:02
it all catches up to him. He might he might grow a couple
57:05
of inches over that year, arms get a little bit longer. Growth plates
57:08
are wide open. All of a sudden's elbows started hurting. They haven't changed
57:10
anything, and that's kind of the problem. They haven't changed anything. They
57:15
haven't focused on strengthening elbow stabilities, shoulder stability. And they come here and
57:20
usually a growth plate fracture. We can knock out in six weeks. Right,
57:22
six weeks you shut down, we rehab, you get your thrown again.
57:25
All of a sudden, my arm feels great, you know what I
57:28
mean. And we try to get we try to get them to carry that
57:31
forward after they leave us and continue with their armcare because as they continue to
57:36
grow, it's you're gonna run into the same issues, right, And some
57:38
of that comes from a lack of strength, and you know, like I
57:42
said, immature joints and instability. But you know, the mechanics play a
57:45
big role in that too. So it's and as you get taller, as
57:49
you get older, every kid goes through a period of being awkward. Right.
57:53
They don't really know how long their arms are anymore, and the mechanics
57:57
are going to change over time. So it's good to have somebody keep an
57:59
eye on that and make sure they're staying safe. Right. Let me ask
58:01
you this because you know, I know you guys are on the move here
58:05
this afternoon, headed to Birmingham. Bill's got other people he works for in
58:07
Florida. It feels like, you know, because when you start talking about
58:12
tournament teams, I mean a lot of the tournament teams. Those are really
58:14
sharp people, you know, sharp people that run those teams. You get
58:15
to college, I mean, like you think LSU, OL, Miss Missippi
58:20
State. I mean just to hear in this region, Alabama, Auburn,
58:22
those are really sharp pitching coaches, pitching staffs. But you still see,
58:25
you know, well, this this guy is going to be your Friday night.
58:28
Oh he has an art, he's got Tommy Johns, he's out.
58:30
And that goes on a lot. Is it? Is it? Because maybe
58:34
and I know it's probably a ten thousand foot view question or you know's a
58:37
lot of answers here that that kid or that young man it isn't anything going
58:42
on at that location. It's just he had not prepared the right way up
58:46
until that point and it catches him at that point. Does that make sense
58:49
whath I'm outing? So? Not necessarily so you can there are some places
58:52
that I you know, I won't you know, call anybody out there.
58:54
There are some places that I've heard of just this questionable training things and things
58:59
that they're doing. But most of the time, like what do you think
59:02
the greatest risk factor is for elbow injuries? The greatest risk factory? Yeah,
59:07
so like Tom and John, Like, what's the greatest risk factor at
59:10
a college collect at any age? Oh? Wow, yeah, I'd be
59:15
scared to guess, uh, throwing hard. Right, So you look at
59:19
Shoheo Tani can hit one hundred miles an hour. Right, He's on his
59:22
second Tom of John surgery, right, so he you know, he's doing
59:24
everything right. You know, he's got the best guys in the world that
59:28
are trying to train him and brush him through the league and make through one
59:30
hundred and sixty plus games a season. Right. Obviously it's not pitching all
59:32
those games, but he's a two way player. So the biggest risk factor
59:37
to Tom and John surgery is just throwing hard. We've had some guys in
59:39
here that were very young and they threw hard, right, And we try
59:45
to you know, we try to say, you know, that's great that
59:46
you're you can throw hard, but let's your whole pitching career should not be
59:51
about chasing velocity, especially when you're in those young teenager ages. Right.
59:55
So when you get higher up to like eighteen plus and going in your college
1:00:00
years, it's a little different. You can chase velocity a little bit,
1:00:02
you know, but not every day has to be a pr day. But
1:00:06
those kids that throw hard at a young age, those are gonna be the
1:00:08
kids that are gonna be the most susceptible to Tommy John injuries. And I
1:00:13
think the average age for Tommy John, you know, don't quote me on
1:00:15
this, but I think it's seventeen years old right now. And that comes
1:00:20
from just throwing hard early on. Having a conversation with Austin Oberly Baseball director
1:00:23
here at PTS Power Pitching Thursday edition of the program. I've got a few
1:00:27
more minutes here. Obviously a lot about pitching here. You guys have cages.
1:00:30
Tell everybody else obviously maybe listening that's a baseball dad, baseball coach,
1:00:34
baseball player. What at you guys off here for baseball? Right? So
1:00:37
we offer our arm care and strength and conditioning classes. You'll either come in
1:00:39
and work work out with me or Alex. And the strength and conditioning is
1:00:44
very sports specific, even if you don't play baseball. It can be geared
1:00:46
towards like jumping and explosiveness and speeding agility for a basketball football track. And
1:00:53
then the arm care with me is focused on making sure our shoulders, elbows,
1:00:59
wrists, our scaps, all that are strong enough to make it through
1:01:00
a season, and we're gonna build velocity in the long run, right,
1:01:05
And we do some throw and drills, work on mechanics, make sure we're
1:01:07
staying safe, make sure we still have good mobility and range of motion.
1:01:13
And then we also offer things like our raap soda machine that rapsodo camera right
1:01:16
there. It really helps us, especially with our older guys when we're working
1:01:20
on pitch design, being able to see the velocity where the ball's coming out,
1:01:23
how it's spinning, what your spin efficiency is, what your gyro rate
1:01:28
is, and that really helps us really fine tune pitches like sliders and changeups
1:01:31
and things like that. And then on top of that, we've got our
1:01:35
blast sensors where you just stick it on the bottom of a bat and we'll
1:01:38
throw it up on a screen for you and every time you take a swing,
1:01:40
it'll tell you your power output, your bat angle, everything like that.
1:01:44
So it's good to know your numbers. But also I try not to
1:01:47
get kids that come in here and just get lost in the numbers at the
1:01:50
same time, right, Like, so you know, if you can throw
1:01:52
eighty seven and you've got twenty two hundred RPMs on your fastball. That's fine,
1:01:57
but can you throw for a strike you know? S Yeah, absolutely
1:02:00
absolutely Austin overly baseball director here at PTS Physical Training, Bill Thomas, their
1:02:06
new facility. Man, thanks so much for tanks some time with you with
1:02:07
us today and congratulations on everything you guys have going on here, sir,
1:02:10
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you can get in and play Big Weekend in the NFL and a lot of
1:03:55
other stuff going on as spar as. How are you pretty good? How
1:03:59
about yourself? You know, I'm not bad. I don't know if you're
1:04:01
down in the Deep South, but if you are, you're going to need
1:04:02
a boat to move around over the next week. It feels like last week
1:04:05
was yeah, I'm here. I was supposed to be helping the wife with
1:04:12
Mariti gras her and her job and stuff like that. But unless you want
1:04:16
to get a boat to a or I mean, yeah, it's it's pretty
1:04:18
much rained all day to day. Hey, before we get into boats and
1:04:23
oars and this weekend and all the games. Your thoughts on Jim Harball moving
1:04:27
now we thought that he would. Everybody kind of said, hey, look
1:04:30
he's going to get back to the NFL now with the Chargers. What does
1:04:33
that do for you? Not much. I mean I think it was I
1:04:38
think it was a foreseen scene that they were going to take him, and
1:04:42
I mean Michigan area I think already has their head coach as well, So
1:04:45
that's no big I guess. I'm really shocked at Belichi, verbal and what's
1:04:49
his name from Seattle are all going to be out of a job. I'm
1:04:54
just totally blown away that those three coaches will be not coaching in the NFL.
1:05:00
No, I agree with you one hundred percent. And conversely, when
1:05:02
you look at what's going on in Atlanta, is it gonna be Bill Belichick
1:05:06
or is it going to be somebody different? No, they hired Raheem Morris.
1:05:11
Oh I missed that. See I've been on the road. I've been
1:05:12
on the road. Yeah. See that's why I got you Morris about an
1:05:15
hour ago. Raheem Morris is the new head coach of the Atlanta Falcons.
1:05:18
Well, I mean he was, he was an interim coach there before.
1:05:21
He's got a lot of ties there. Good for him because he was a
1:05:26
head coach well how many years ago and got fired quickly because he was just
1:05:30
one of those head coaches in a bad situation that we're going to see the
1:05:33
Carolina So I'm glad he got a second chance. People like him. I
1:05:36
think the defense of the Falcons and I think he just could a quarterback.
1:05:41
There could be someone to look out for. Ray fealosparsa my BOOKI dot ag
1:05:45
geinn and play today. All right, let's look at the two games this
1:05:47
weekend and then there were four. Let's start with a two pm matchup Kansas
1:05:51
City at Baltimore. I'm looking at a line that is minus four. Now
1:05:57
move from three and a half to four. And what I'm looking at Baltimore
1:06:00
minus four that totals at forty four and a half. What are you?
1:06:01
What are you thinking here? Well, my heart is telling me when shock
1:06:06
me. If Casey wins, my hand and my brain do not want to
1:06:12
Chiefs the Wings. I don't feel like doing a thousand Taylor Swift betting prop
1:06:15
bets for the Super Bowl. So I'm going to be the biggest Baltimore Ravens
1:06:19
fan. I have a Ray Lewis signed Super Bowl football jersey. I might
1:06:24
have to bust it out and wear it during the game because I do not
1:06:26
want to do a thousand Taylor Swift super Bowl prop bets for Super Bowl So
1:06:30
give me Baltimore. I'll lay minus. I'll layst all the way up to
1:06:32
minus one hundred. Wow, minus one hundred, Okay, very good?
1:06:38
All right? What about the second game? We got Detroit San Francisco.
1:06:41
That lines more to seven and a half? Fifty one and a half is
1:06:44
the total? Any path? I try to believe you'd say this like in
1:06:46
a conference championship game. But is there a path to victory for Detroit?
1:06:51
Yes, I mean if they played like it did last week, even though
1:06:54
they're an on the road, but they've covered their last six road games.
1:06:58
They're No, there's not like a stink on the road. San Francisco did
1:07:02
not play well, and I think the rain was probably the bigger factor for
1:07:05
the home team last week than it was for the Packers. The Packer's always
1:07:09
playing bad weather. Sam Stisco doesn't play in bad weather a lot, so
1:07:13
I think a ragin of it. I like Stamptisco to win. But give
1:07:15
me the plus points on Detroit and I'll go back to Baltimore. I do
1:07:18
like Baltimore. I think the running game is gonna be too much for Kansas
1:07:21
City. Now just moves to four and a half or higher, then he
1:07:25
may may maybe take a look at the chefs. But I think it's gonna
1:07:29
be a Baltimore or Stanford super Bowl. But no, I mean if Kansas
1:07:32
City with still I think the best quarterback in football. Most people probably age
1:07:35
that. You probably do too, I guess, and Patrick Mahomes if they
1:07:39
win, You're not gonna be surprised, correct, No, I won't be
1:07:42
surpri I won't be surprised at all. But I just like I said,
1:07:45
I think the biggest surprise for me over the weekend, it will be if
1:07:48
Detroit beat Sampancisco and there in the super Bowl. That'd be a fun story
1:07:53
to see them play any either case He or Baltimore. That'd be a really
1:07:57
really good story. Rapelo sparsam a on a Thursday, get in and play,
1:08:01
all right, let me ask you about this a couple of other things.
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NFL wise, when you look at the New Orleans Saints, you know,
1:08:09
obviously looks like that that head coach is coming back, that quarterbacks coming
1:08:12
back, A lot of guys are coming back. Is is that a good
1:08:15
move for them in your estimation? Or is this kind of prolonging the inevitable,
1:08:17
which will be next year? There will be a full full you know,
1:08:20
sale change next year. I'd probably be a full change next year.
1:08:25
I just think it's gonna be another put right in the pack middle of the
1:08:29
conference. There are one hundred to one to win the Super Bowl. I
1:08:31
can't imagine. I can't remember last time they were that high to win a
1:08:34
Super Bowl. And I was trying to go back all the way through my
1:08:38
futures and seven was the last time someone or fifty to one or hire won
1:08:43
the Super Bowl and I couldn't find it. So it's not a if you're
1:08:46
a Seams fan, don't buy your Super Bowls future tickets because you're just wasting
1:08:50
money. And they just need to rip the band aid off and get out
1:08:54
of Champagne era. Let me switch gears here and now that we're into basketball
1:08:59
season as far as conference basketball, college basketball, and it'll be March Madis
1:09:02
before you know it. And you know, when you look at at Vegas
1:09:05
and what you guys have as far as you know projections for the national Championship
1:09:10
in college basketball, you know Purdue and what I'm looking at right now,
1:09:13
still number one at eight to one to win the whole thing, still a
1:09:15
long way Togo. And then you get Arizona and Houston along with Kentucky and
1:09:19
Yukonnell sitting there at eleven to one, So we got a kind of a
1:09:23
you know, a full field there North Carolina at fourteen to one, but
1:09:26
then we get to drop down at eighteens and twenty two's and thirties? Is
1:09:30
the field in college basketball in your estimation? And we know upsets happen?
1:09:32
Is it really only four, five, six, seven deep this year?
1:09:35
As far as the best teams, yeamp. I think every one of those
1:09:40
four teams can be beaten. I would not be shocked if we see,
1:09:44
like maybe an Alabama team goes far, Wisconsin, Marquette's, Creighton, Iowa
1:09:49
State, some of these teams I can make it to the final four.
1:09:53
That you can get really really good betting as if you can get a forty
1:09:56
to one to make it to the final four year hedging nicely. It would
1:10:00
not shock me if we don't see Purdue, Yukon, or Houston cut the
1:10:05
nets down. Maybe Kentucky. I think Kentucky will get better as the season
1:10:10
prolongs. They're so fast team. It takes them like three dribbles and they're
1:10:14
already scoring a point from the other side, they're a very very fast team.
1:10:17
I would be scared to play Kentucky, but I think it's wide,
1:10:20
wide open this year. Yeah, can you find me a Florida Atlantic or
1:10:25
somebody at seventy to one to make the final four and let me just put
1:10:28
one hundred bucks on it. I'll find there's Like I said, there's really
1:10:30
good ones. You tossed it. Look for some of the Mountain West teams.
1:10:33
They're really good in New Mexico, Colorado State, Utass State. They
1:10:38
can surprise a lot of people and make it to the final four. The
1:10:41
Dayton Flyers, you can probably get a good price on them. So there's
1:10:45
a lot of good teams that's out to me that maybe sportsbooks are not are
1:10:49
not keeping an eye out for, but I would keep an eye out for
1:10:53
it like some of like I said, the Mountain West, I think it's
1:10:55
a really really good conference. Will not shock me if they make some noise
1:10:59
in the conference in the conference. What else you're looking at this weekend?
1:11:01
What else you got going on? Oh, we got we got your favorite.
1:11:05
The Royal Rumble is Saturday for wrestling, so I can't wait to watch
1:11:09
that. And tonight South Carolina Ladies playing the LSU Tiger Ladies in bet Rue,
1:11:15
South Carolina minus seven in bed Rue to face the Ladies of totals one
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fifty one and a half. So it's given me very It should be very,
1:11:23
very interesting games. I'm excited to watch dad a bunch of college basketball
1:11:27
this weekend and the the NFL Conference Championships of course. Prophila Sparsa, MyBookie
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and his team got to get out of here on the road a little early
1:12:45
today and of course, uh Bill Thomas, owner of PTS Power Pitching,
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on with us again. Bill, thanks for taking some time with us again.
1:12:51
I know you guys are getting ready to hit the road. Try to
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beat the rain too, right, that's right, trying to get to Birmingham,
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going to the UH Sports it's a sports mata in conference there just just
1:13:01
get the latest on injuries with baseball in particular. So they do that every
1:13:04
year. So it gives you a lot of good information to kind of start
1:13:08
the year out, right, you know, so, I absolutely think so.
1:13:11
I mean, when you're talking about trying to gauge, you know,
1:13:13
it's it's one thing to gauge here, but it's gauging you know, regionally,
1:13:16
nationally. Hearing from other colleagues and people that you work with, that's
1:13:19
right. Yeah. And those doctors over there, they do they do all
1:13:23
the you know, big lea guys surgeries and rehabs, and there's a couple
1:13:28
of therapists that are kind of the you know, guru physical therapists around the
1:13:30
country and they're doing the latest techniques and so we're learning from them, just
1:13:33
trying to understand, you know, how to be very effective with our treatment
1:13:38
here, bring that back home and use that in this population that we have
1:13:42
around here. So we had a chance, and I appreciate you sending your
1:13:45
team over when you talk to We talked to Austin overly earlier baseball director.
1:13:49
Also Alex beat them the strength and conditioning coordinator. Yes, really really knowledgeable,
1:13:55
knowledgeable guys. The staff that you guys have here is really really top
1:13:58
notch, right, thank you. Yeah. Yeah, I've known those guys
1:14:00
for a while and they've got lots of great experience, worked a lot of
1:14:03
baseball players over the years, and of course Austin was a baseball player,
1:14:08
was a pictuer, so he has a lot of intimate knowledge there with pitchers
1:14:11
and teaching mechanics. And then Alex was a Mississippi college was a trainer there,
1:14:15
so he worked with a baseball team as well. So we're very fortunate
1:14:19
to have them and bring that knowledge base to what we're doing here and really
1:14:24
just apply it to all ages. So Bill Thomas on your radio Thursday edition
1:14:29
of the program, and of course you can go over to the website.
1:14:31
Bill, I want to talk a little bit more about just while we got
1:14:34
people here and you've got just a few minutes your first of we'll stick with
1:14:38
the baseball again. Want to write people as they move in and out.
1:14:41
If you got a baseball team, and it could be you know, you
1:14:43
may be a high school coach, you could be a tournament ball coach,
1:14:45
you could be a city league coach, or even an individual player. If
1:14:49
people have interest and want to learn more, how can they do that?
1:14:53
Yeah, so they can give us a call and just you know, with
1:14:56
a team, we can talk about how we can do that, talk about
1:14:59
a schedule, bring those guys in as a as a group, and and
1:15:02
really sit down and discuss the best thing for them. Uh. Like I
1:15:06
said, we had we had two high schools in here, and so we're
1:15:09
talking about their you know, what they're doing at school, what kind of
1:15:12
workouts are doing. We don't want to double up and do too much,
1:15:14
you know, stuff they're already doing and just compliment the things that they're doing
1:15:18
from school. So bring them in and evaluate that with each team. Each
1:15:21
team may be a little bit different with their schedule. We can we can
1:15:25
be very flexible with that. And then just individuals, if they want to
1:15:28
learn, they could come in. We can do that performance eval like I
1:15:30
was telling you about, and design a very specific plan for that player and
1:15:34
uh and then help move them, you know to another level you know of
1:15:40
throwing and pitching and playing baseball. Let's talk about some of these other sports
1:15:43
real quick. I want to go to volleyball because you talk, I mean
1:15:45
look twenty years ago, fifteen years ago in the state. I mean,
1:15:49
yeah, you watched volleyball on ESPN right now it's everywhere. Yeah, amazing
1:15:55
the growth in that sport. Yeah, it's huge. Job. They have,
1:15:57
you know, a couple of centers that are popping up. That's all
1:16:00
it is is volleyball. So you know, with that, they're playing more.
1:16:03
They have a heavy tournament scheduled throughout the year, and so they're you
1:16:08
know, we can help them with their performance we can do a lot of
1:16:10
arm care with them, that overhead, the power they got to produce when
1:16:14
they hit the ball, you know, and any of course any injuries that
1:16:17
they have as well. But it can help increase their performance, make them
1:16:21
better at what they do. So so we can do that. And of
1:16:25
course we've talked some football are you you know when when when is the best?
1:16:28
I mean you I guess for football players. I mean, obviously it's
1:16:30
an all season now their live spring practice, they'll have seven on seven for
1:16:34
them to get in here and work with you. Yeah, they can.
1:16:36
We have some coming now. Actually they come in and we can work with
1:16:41
in the weight room a little bit and the same thing kind of compliment what
1:16:44
a lot of them are doing their workouts. Uh, they'll be doing spring
1:16:46
training pretty soon, so we're focusing on, you know, really a lot
1:16:50
of weight training explosiveness, testing them on that Preteus machine which will measure their
1:16:56
power and their acceleration. So that stuff's super important of value. Now they
1:17:00
got time to do that, you know, leading into the spring training and
1:17:02
move it into the to the summer. So we want we want to get
1:17:06
them set up for a good a good season and that's a good time to
1:17:11
do that. They're very busy in the summer too, they do let them
1:17:13
do seven on seven. They do a lot of different activities through the summer,
1:17:16
traveling around. But we can compliment what they do as well tennis,
1:17:20
you know, I mean, you know, and now that you start thinking
1:17:23
about overhead, you know, strain on on an arm, baseball, you
1:17:27
know, now volleyball, right, I can't imagine the strain on a on
1:17:30
an arm over time for a tennis player. Male. Yeah, of course,
1:17:33
you got the racket, the weight of the racket, and so you've
1:17:35
got to have good strength, get stability through the shoulder to do that.
1:17:40
When a tennis player comes through, they also have to pronate kind of like
1:17:43
a picture, you know that the rackets kind of pronate at the end,
1:17:45
which helps produce their spin on the ball. Uh. But yeah, they
1:17:48
can begin to have arm issues as well. So it's good to evaluate them.
1:17:54
We can get them on the proteus. We can test maine and muscle
1:17:58
testing on them. Look at their strength with their scap, their stability.
1:18:00
They got to have all that produce the power you know, through that through
1:18:04
the backside and out their hands. So so you've got to you've got to
1:18:09
be able to understand what they have, to understand where they are and how
1:18:13
they can get stronger, hit the ball harder. You know, those are
1:18:15
those are things that are important evaluating tennis. Bill Thomas on your radio PTS
1:18:19
power pitching or physical therapy as well. Here in Gluckstat New Location three sixteen
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Old Jackson Road in Gluckstat six or A one eight nine eight one eight two
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eight. We'll finish it with softball because it's the at least visually, it's
1:18:31
the inverse. Yeah, as overhead it's right, right, Yeah, So
1:18:36
the pitching mechanics with softball a completely different and we don't really uh I don't
1:18:41
teach that particular technique, but but still it's that overhead throwing, it's the
1:18:45
same thing. And actually their ball is heavier than a baseball, you know,
1:18:49
so we got to work on strength with that. We got to work
1:18:51
on throwing something that's heavier than a baseball, you know. And so with
1:18:55
hitting, it's that reaction time, the mount the you know, it's it's
1:18:59
close shirt when their ball's coming at them and they're throwing fifty sixty miles an
1:19:02
hour softball, that's closer to the plate. You know, that's that that
1:19:05
extrapolates into like a baseball coming at you at eighty five ninety miles an hour.
1:19:11
Sure, you know, so it's getting up on them. Quicks have
1:19:13
to learn good reaction time, you know, good swinging mechanics, so we
1:19:16
can evaluate that, you know, their swinging mechanics with hitting, and work
1:19:20
on their arm care and their their strength and throwing and their mechanics throwing the
1:19:26
softball Austin was talking about earlier, you know, and I don't want to
1:19:30
put words about the paraphrase the quickly sway Tommy John's is throwing hard, Like
1:19:33
he said, Hey, throwing hard all the time is bad? Is that
1:19:38
the same for softball? Yeah, not a little different injury there, but
1:19:43
yeah, you know, like if you've got a kid that can throw,
1:19:45
you know, ninety five. You know you can throw ninety five, but
1:19:47
you don't throw ninety five all the time. You need to, you need
1:19:50
to use that in it like part of their arsenal, you know, sit
1:19:55
at ninety ninety one because you can't maintain that, you can't sustain that on
1:20:00
a velocity. Every time something's going to break down when that happens, you
1:20:03
know, so so you know what you got, you know, but you
1:20:06
don't use it all the time. And so that's kind of the same type
1:20:10
philosophy there with the softball players too. Sure, so so you know what
1:20:14
you're talking about, So softball would be basically as far as that that method
1:20:18
or methodology is the same. Yeah, it's the same. Yeah, it's
1:20:20
the same. Yeah. So the girls that throw super hard, you know,
1:20:25
I know in the you know colleges, you know they're throwing. Some
1:20:28
of them get up all to seventy you know, but but you know they
1:20:31
have to be it's the same thing. It's that closeness to the plate.
1:20:34
It's coming at them fast. But they don't always use that seventy mine hour
1:20:39
throw to get what they want done. You know, if they have to
1:20:42
blow it past them, they're going to throw that, or they'll reserve and
1:20:44
sit back at a lower speed to work on their control and their mechanics a
1:20:47
little bit more. And it's still it's still effective, but you don't want
1:20:49
to do that every time because you're gonna end up having an injury. Sure,
1:20:53
Bill, one more time before we get out of here today, tell
1:20:56
everybody again. PTS PTS Sports Dot Training six one eight nine eight one eight
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two eight. You guys are never two full, always taking teams, individuals
1:21:04
and more. That's right, all all the above. We can see all
1:21:08
of them. Just get us a call if they have questions. We have
1:21:11
that PTS Sports app that can download. They have questions about that, call
1:21:15
us and we'll help them through that, will help them get that set up,
1:21:17
or we can actually just schedule it for them. They come here and
1:21:20
we'll help them set the app up. Very good, very good. Bill,
1:21:23
congratulations on the new facility. Thank you fantastic, fantastic, Thanks for
1:21:27
having us out today. Yeah, thank you good. We're going to get
1:21:30
out of here at five o'clock here in just a bit. I want to
1:21:31
say thanks to Michael Katz also Rappulosparza jumping in today. Tomorrow will be at
1:21:38
Burgers Blues Barbecue in Flowood. We'll bring Heath Hitton and then also Keith Hardy
1:21:43
and more. Thanks to Beav and thanks to you guys. Remember catch up
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1:21:48
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