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OneLegUpAlex Welcomes Justintime Baseball ! 7-8-25 · OneLegUpAlex Sports

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Jarren.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, Harry is the man who's been very
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  Speaker 2: kind to step alongside the one like Up network justin
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  Speaker 2: time Baseball justin Sherman. First of all, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: supporting this network. It means a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I love what you do.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a big fan. And you have the zested. You
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  Speaker 3: have a great zest and zeal. That's a great word
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  Speaker 3: that's not used a lot, but you have the zest
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  Speaker 3: and you have a great attitude. And you know, You're
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  Speaker 3: just a fan of what we do. And I'm a
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  Speaker 3: fan of what you do, so we are proud to
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  Speaker 3: do it well.
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  Speaker 2: Besides the athletes that you bring along, I mean Luke
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  Speaker 2: Weaver On's Waldo Jazz, I look at the kids having fun.
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  Speaker 2: I look at your staff that has so much fun
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  Speaker 2: of working with you. That means you've got a great
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  Speaker 2: environment going on when your staffers love working with you too,
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  Speaker 2: with these kids.
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  Speaker 3: So I really I just before this call, before this talk,
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  Speaker 3: this beautiful talk, I did a professional development for our
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  Speaker 3: staff for an onboarding right, so not one coach can
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  Speaker 3: come into this company step on the field without being
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  Speaker 3: trained right, not just about how to throw a ball,
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  Speaker 3: but how to deliver their instruction, how to manage young kids,
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  Speaker 3: how to keep them engaged, and when they're successful. Besides
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  Speaker 3: the kids being successful and parents loving it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the coaches enjoy doing their job. So that's our goal.
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  Speaker 3: It's got to be a three to sixty win. They
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  Speaker 3: got to love the process.
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  Speaker 4: And not only that.
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  Speaker 2: These are guys and I'm sure, like you said, have
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  Speaker 2: been in baseball forever. I know the game and want
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  Speaker 2: to get back to the game a little bit now
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  Speaker 2: through the camp.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, it's crazy, Alex. Some of them, yes,
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  Speaker 3: some of them are just love the game of baseball.
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  Speaker 3: They barely played high school baseball. But they're exceptional youth coaches,
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  Speaker 3: especially for ages what we're dealing with four to ten,
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  Speaker 3: exceptional delivery of instruction. So we have a very wide
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  Speaker 3: range at this company.
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  Speaker 2: All right, have you said any I'm an asked you said,
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  Speaker 2: have you seen any of these coaches go to the
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  Speaker 2: next level, like coach a minor league or a high
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  Speaker 2: school team, you know, thanks to that experience.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we have high school coaches, we have college coaches,
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  Speaker 3: we have former professional ballplayers. We have phiz ed teachers
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  Speaker 3: of the year in their district.
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  Speaker 1: So we have a very wide range, very wide range.
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  Speaker 2: All right, here's the bunch. I'm trying to asking us.
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  Speaker 2: When you're not having a high profile event, right, what's
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  Speaker 2: the camp like on a daily basis? Because it seems
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  Speaker 2: like these kids pick up where they left off. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: they show up a little bit more, show off, a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more for the athlete, But they're learning this
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  Speaker 2: every day, not just when an Oswaldo comes in or
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  Speaker 2: a loop comes in or a jazz comes in.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, this is what I say in our meetings. I say, listen,
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  Speaker 3: we're running a strong justin time clinic. The player is
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  Speaker 3: the guest at our clinic. If that makes sense, right,
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  Speaker 3: that's the mindset we got to do it. We have
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  Speaker 3: a wide range of programs. We have our summer camp,
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  Speaker 3: which is awesome, it's been booming and six hours a
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  Speaker 3: lot of baseball. We try to really making it as
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  Speaker 3: engaging as possible. We have our aftercamp programs that we
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  Speaker 3: partner with a Little League, So like tonight, we have
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  Speaker 3: our Scarsdale Rookie program where we essentially it's four to
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  Speaker 3: seven year olds where they'll bring us in as a
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  Speaker 3: Bolton solution and we'll run a clinic for their for
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  Speaker 3: their little league.
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  Speaker 4: So you're becoming a consultant. Also here just.
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  Speaker 3: One, we're with fifteen rec slash little leagues across New
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  Speaker 3: York State.
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  Speaker 2: Now for those parents, I might be worried, Oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: my kid's going to be in the heat all day.
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  Speaker 4: That's not true because you guys have the dome as well.
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  Speaker 3: Right, we have the dome. We also at our summer
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  Speaker 3: camps we bring tons of water. We have the run
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  Speaker 3: in the fountain, do a little water balloon throwing. They
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  Speaker 3: work on their throwing. They also get splashes of water.
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  Speaker 1: It's fun.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: What I noticed with these kids too is sometimes you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're a young age. This kid might grow into something
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  Speaker 2: of a ballplayer. I mean you can see it already.
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  Speaker 1: Right Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I also see their attitude right there to do That's
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  Speaker 3: a big indicator. Like if they love it and grind,
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  Speaker 3: those are the kids that make it further.
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  Speaker 2: Right, I find a lot of these kids because they
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  Speaker 2: did what what people don't understand that you guys, your
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  Speaker 2: team plays, So I'm sure you could see these kids
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  Speaker 2: become a leader in their own group. Hey, you know,
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  Speaker 2: get with.
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  Speaker 1: It now, you know one hundred percent, one hundred now.
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  Speaker 2: What I have wondering since we've started, you know, talking
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  Speaker 2: to each other and meet each other and all that
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  Speaker 2: is how you ended up in the MLB world. Because
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  Speaker 2: now you're partnering with Playball and all that. That's pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so, uh it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was an awesome It's an awesome Uh honor, it's
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  Speaker 3: an awesome honor. Essentially, two years ago I joined. I'm
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  Speaker 3: a youth ambassador with Playball. That's Major League Baseball's youth initiative,
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  Speaker 3: and uh yeah, it's all over like I'm going all
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  Speaker 3: over the country and essentially the whole goal is to
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  Speaker 3: get kids to love to play the game. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: as simple as that sounds, that get them to love
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  Speaker 3: the play, to grow the game, to cultivate that foundation,
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  Speaker 3: and introduced the introduced the game as well.
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  Speaker 2: You feel like you bring a New York got into
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  Speaker 2: to it, like to a California to a Tampa. I
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  Speaker 2: mean there's gotta be some kind of New York guys
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  Speaker 2: who you bring to the program as well.
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  Speaker 3: Funny you say that we have a bunch of different ambassadors,
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  Speaker 3: I would say, who were all spectacular And it's an honor. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'd mean everyone has their own panach pro style for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Justin how did you get involved in all of this?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think I've asked you before if you played,
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  Speaker 2: but how did you get involved.
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  Speaker 1: In all of this? Started?
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  Speaker 3: Right after college I found myself not you know, I
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  Speaker 3: knew I was going to be was not going to
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  Speaker 3: be a major leaguer after that point, or a college
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  Speaker 3: or even you know, pro minor leagues.
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  Speaker 1: I probably would have if I didn't get hurt.
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  Speaker 3: I got a lot of injuries, concussions, and my head
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  Speaker 3: was like a magnet to the wall.
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  Speaker 1: I would always run into walls, catch and fly balls.
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  Speaker 3: So I basically said, you know what, I got to
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  Speaker 3: make money and I love working with young kids. I
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  Speaker 3: started doing some lessons in the neighborhood eleven years ago
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  Speaker 3: and during COVID with our private lesson base we started
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  Speaker 3: doing classes. I created a daily class online word of
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  Speaker 3: the day during COVID during March April June word of
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  Speaker 3: every day, five days a week.
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  Speaker 1: Word of the day. I would teach bowling.
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  Speaker 3: With a rolled up pair of socks, baseball with a
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  Speaker 3: whiffletball bat I got created. I brought in other instructors
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  Speaker 3: across the country to teach almost like a phized baseball class,
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  Speaker 3: and cohorts started to grow. Like parents wanted to go outside,
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  Speaker 3: they were sick of zoom. One cohort pod became two
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  Speaker 3: to three to thirty a week. They started hiring coaches
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  Speaker 3: and it really just warphed, it morphed into what it
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  Speaker 3: is now.
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  Speaker 4: How many coaches would you say you have on staff
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  Speaker 4: justin I get count? About fifteen or so? Or is
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  Speaker 4: it more?
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  Speaker 1: We have twenty seven coaches?
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  Speaker 4: Amazing?
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  Speaker 2: And are they all of these events or do they
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  Speaker 2: all come at different shifts? How does that work for
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  Speaker 2: the coaches?
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  Speaker 3: So we have certain coaches that come for certain programs.
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  Speaker 3: They have X y Z days reserves and we basically
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  Speaker 3: go off of their availability, so like hey, I could
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  Speaker 3: do this day x y Z day, So we book
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  Speaker 3: accordingly to their schedule. Try to get everyone as busy
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  Speaker 3: as possible.
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  Speaker 2: All right, you're doing all these camps all that. How
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  Speaker 2: do you keep up with the baseball and world? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: are you still as big of a Major League baseball
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  Speaker 2: fan as you were?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, you know years ago, now that you're engulfed in it, basically.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred percent.
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  Speaker 3: I will tell you the statistics and the stats I
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  Speaker 3: definitely fell off on.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's tough.
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  Speaker 3: It's tougher now because usually when they're playing, I'm coaching
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  Speaker 3: right I'm basically on their schedule in a way. But
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  Speaker 3: I definitely check in and keep in touch. I definitely
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  Speaker 3: keep in touch with Oswaldough personally and some of the
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  Speaker 3: other players.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, yeah, I saw you saw him recently,
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  Speaker 2: So how's he doing. Give us an update for those
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  Speaker 2: that are wondering how he's doing.
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  Speaker 3: So he is as you can imagine. I know you
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  Speaker 3: met him at our camp, which was awesome. I'm glad
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  Speaker 3: you came. I'm glad that worked out.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, he's such a great person.
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  Speaker 3: He's a great phom. He's just he's just phenomenal. He's
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  Speaker 3: just phenomenal, and he's got such a great attitude. I mean, look,
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  Speaker 3: there's a chance he can come back for the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's definitely a chance. Maybe he's coming off
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  Speaker 3: the bench, but I think realistically he'll be back for
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  Speaker 3: this frame.
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  Speaker 1: But I hope I'm wrong. I hope he's back for October.
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  Speaker 1: He'd be a big spark, oh man, he would.
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  Speaker 2: He would be a spark they need right now.
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  Speaker 4: Now, you know you had an all star in your camp.
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  Speaker 2: I know you partner with Briar Clip, but the Jazz
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  Speaker 2: event just look, he just got a great vibe about
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  Speaker 2: him too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, he's got it. He he uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: marches to his own drum. I'll leave it at that.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of energy and it was a very cool experience,
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  Speaker 3: very cool.
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  Speaker 2: Now you heard the news today he's actually going back
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  Speaker 2: to second base. So that's some big breaking news here
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  Speaker 2: on the Long Network. He's going back to second apparently,
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  Speaker 2: so there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got a feeling it might be adding a
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  Speaker 3: third basement very soon.
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  Speaker 4: Well soon, Abby's forres who knows. We'll see what happens there.
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  Speaker 2: But justin I want to have about the supporters of
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  Speaker 2: your camp because you're you are the man, but you
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  Speaker 2: got so much behind you. The first guy that stands
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  Speaker 2: out is Brandon Signer. I mean, here's a guy that
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  Speaker 2: was and is a legend, you know, towards the end
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  Speaker 2: of the stadium and all that. Then he reinvented himself
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  Speaker 2: with collectible scenes. Now they're supporting you talk about that
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  Speaker 2: supportive of Brandon and Collectible.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Brandon and I go way back. I played little
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  Speaker 3: league with a son when I was eight nine ten whatever.
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  Speaker 3: He was in Scarsdale, we were New Roschelle. We play
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  Speaker 3: against each other and we just always we always kind
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  Speaker 3: of sort of stayed like near each other. And then
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  Speaker 3: I once went to a talk with him. It was awesome.
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  Speaker 3: He I don't know if he remembers this, but he
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  Speaker 3: was promoting his new book, You Gotta Have Balls. It
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  Speaker 3: was fantastic. It's a fantastic book. Sure, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if you read it, but I.
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  Speaker 4: Haven't read it. But now I got to look into this.
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  Speaker 1: You you absolutely love it. You would love it.
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  Speaker 2: And the stories he tells you man of all these
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  Speaker 2: different legendary ad met I mean, oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the stories he has about like Phil Rizzuta,
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  Speaker 3: it's phenomenal.
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  Speaker 1: So he is the he is the sports marketing goat.
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  Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 3: So we just cult we can. I continued to He
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  Speaker 3: really became a real mentor for me. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: I meet with him once a month at Steiner and
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  Speaker 3: just no agenda, right, just straight up talking to him
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  Speaker 3: about what I'm doing, what we're doing. And he really
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  Speaker 3: helped me, uh, you know, inspire me to continue to
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  Speaker 3: grow just in time, and still to this day, we
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  Speaker 3: do a lot of business together.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, I got a hand. And I
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  Speaker 2: gotta think Jake Cosack for connecting us, because he's one
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  Speaker 2: of the reasons why I'm like, oh my god, every
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  Speaker 2: touch of Justin he looks like he's got some cool events,
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  Speaker 2: and sure, here we are some things Jake Cosack as well.
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  Speaker 1: Jake's Jake's Jake's our guy, no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 2: You and me, absolutely, and then Franklin and the whole crew. Justin,
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  Speaker 2: is there anything else in the works coming up? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: isn't there any surprises you want to reveal today?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if I can reveal it today. I
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  Speaker 3: might have to keep everyone in suspense. I'm working on
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  Speaker 3: something big for September.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow.
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  Speaker 3: If it does happen, it's going to be massive. That's
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  Speaker 3: what I will leave it at. It will be something
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  Speaker 3: different than we have never done.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll leave it at that. You'll have to follow
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  Speaker 1: us to see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: Just in time Baseball, Now, you know, I got to
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  Speaker 2: ask you this. When you see these kids in your camp,
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  Speaker 2: do you see a reflection of you, Like, were you
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  Speaker 2: that scrappy when you were a kid?
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  Speaker 1: Do you see any of that one percent.
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  Speaker 3: I was not the kid that was drafted big college ballplayer.
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  Speaker 3: I played at Purchase College, nice school, solid school, beautiful school,
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  Speaker 3: but as.
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  Speaker 1: Far as a baseball you know, solid.
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  Speaker 3: I got cut from my junior varsity baseball team in
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  Speaker 3: high school. I barely made the varsity, right, I am
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  Speaker 3: one hundred percent that player and I relate to them.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I think is a big part of our
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  Speaker 3: company's mission is to get that kid to reach their
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  Speaker 3: own potential.
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  Speaker 1: You know, That's how I was.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I gotta give you a dugout kid, little Michael,
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  Speaker 2: three years old. He gives you a lot of credit
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  Speaker 2: for taking him into the just in time world as well.
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  Speaker 1: He's adorable, he's a legend. I saw him have the
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  Speaker 1: first pitch yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome is that? God?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, for a three year old, he's got some good
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  Speaker 4: arm strength already.
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  Speaker 3: So let me tell you, like, we typically wouldn't put
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  Speaker 3: a three year old in our camp. It's probably a
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  Speaker 3: little young for our camp summer camp. But uh, he
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  Speaker 3: can handle it. If there's any kid that can handle it.
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  Speaker 3: This kid plays like he's five or six. It's pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 3: It's like he's like a little prodigy, all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, are there any times where you have to say, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: maybe this camp's not for you.
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  Speaker 4: Do you notice that a lot? Or are these kids
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  Speaker 4: always motivated?
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  Speaker 3: I look at it as a as a good challenge
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  Speaker 3: to try to get them to cultivate a to get
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  Speaker 3: inspired to play. Uh, they're one percent of been situations
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  Speaker 3: where we just make an adjustment, put them in another program,
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  Speaker 3: say hey, wait another season, let's come back, et cetera.
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  Speaker 3: But the beauty of our company is we are for
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  Speaker 3: the younger kids, so it kind of works well.
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  Speaker 2: Now you are consulting little leagues, but have you ever
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  Speaker 2: thought of starting your own, you know, league with this clinic,
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  Speaker 2: like the Dozin Time Baseball League.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, very much so I thought. You know, we do
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  Speaker 3: a winter league which I started from scratch. It's the
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  Speaker 3: Winter Rookie program where little four or five six year
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  Speaker 3: olds walk around in jerseys in a dome.
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  Speaker 1: In the dome, it's a beautiful dome.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, you know that's basically it's big.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. We we are definitely looking at other options too
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  Speaker 1: to expand.
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  Speaker 4: Now, because I don't know this, do you have a
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  Speaker 4: kid of your own yet?
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  Speaker 1: Are you no kid? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe down the road, I definitely want kids God willing.
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  Speaker 3: But now yet, by the way I look at all
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  Speaker 3: these kids like my family, I really don't.
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  Speaker 2: I love that and look at it. I mean you've
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  Speaker 2: got and I know sometimes you got to be top
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  Speaker 2: if they want a little more extra with the signings.
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  Speaker 2: I've noticed that before. So you got to really be
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  Speaker 2: a teacher as well as a as a as I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't say a dad, but I guess sort of in
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  Speaker 2: that line too. Now, parents, you know that they often
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  Speaker 2: are that they're interesting characters. So how how do you
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  Speaker 2: be able to report with the parents as well to
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  Speaker 2: make sure they're comfortable in the kid It's.
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  Speaker 3: A great question the parents in youth coaching, right, the
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  Speaker 3: biggest thing that you talk to other programs is the parents, right,
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  Speaker 3: So the parents.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to.
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  Speaker 3: Abolish the parents because as far as these we deal
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  Speaker 3: with parent coaches all day. It's how do we work
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  Speaker 3: in unison with the parent coaches to make sure that
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  Speaker 3: our company as well as parent coaches of these little
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  Speaker 3: leagues work in unison together, have the right synergy. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: It's very important and it's not an easy answer. It's
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  Speaker 3: it's a it's just I think honesty, honesty and understanding like,
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  Speaker 3: if you're honest with a kid with a parent, I
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  Speaker 3: think it's a big thing. I think a lot of
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  Speaker 3: times we sugarcoat it, be honest and understand where they're
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  Speaker 3: coming from, Like, see their point doesn't know.
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  Speaker 2: What I noticed is though a lot of parents do
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: sort of just sit in the sideline and let you
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: do your thing, which is a good thing as well.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: Definitely a good thing. But when we partner with these
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: little leagues, we need the parent coaches. And I say
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: this to every parent when I speak to a little league.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: They are the underbelly of youth baseball.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, and they're also the reason why it keeps
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: going because the more kids are involved, the more the
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: sport's going to grow. You know that there's that.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Tip you hit it out of the park right there, And.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: Of course, I mean I could go into the whole
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: umping shortage and all that, but I don't want to
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: get too negative here.
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: But you know, there's just there's a lot of facets
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: to all of us.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: I feel like when it comes.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: To youth of sports, Uh, it's a problem.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: It's problem, and I think it's up to us as
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: youth coaches to maintain a high standard and if we
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: can get again. I always say our metric is not
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: money and revenue. Our metric is kids signing up, kids
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: joining Little League again. Right, our biggest flex is we
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: have a Little League in bed for We started with
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: them three years ago. Four years ago they had fifty
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: kids in their te baw program. They now have one
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: hundred and ten kids.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: So your growing programs, look at this, look.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: At what my point, my point being is, that's the metric.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: That's the metric right there. That's clearly something's working in
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: the formula.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Hopefully absolutely. You know, I'm just saying a Ricken Wolf.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: He was the son of Bob Wolf. And also he
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: did a lot of youth sports coverage on WFA, and
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: we don't have that much anymore when talking about youth sports.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: We got to bring that back justin Hey, maybe we
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: partner on the fan on that they connections. Maybe we'll
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: see what happens because it's a vital thing. And I
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: look at other sports too, because football, they don't want
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: to put their kids in the sport. We need these
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: kids to keep being active. Now, you do baseball, but
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you encourage multi sports. That's the thing about
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: you sports that driving to be crazy. Specialists are not
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: the angel. They got to learn all the sports.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: By the way we promote playing other sports, you know,
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Like one of our terms that we use in Just
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: in Time is UAP. I'm sure you've heard it universal
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: athletic position. That position applies to all sports, right we
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: always go back to basketball, football, Maybe a well rounded
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: athlete very important, you know.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: And Aaron Judge not for an of them, played a
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: bunch of sports growing up, and that's kind of how
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: he's become the athlete he is today.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: So he's a unicorn. He's a unicorn.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: It doesn't I don't want to go here, but it's
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: very public that your dad passed, and I'm very sorry
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: for your loss on that.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: But he was your first coach. Why don't you get
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: because I conserned my dad my.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Very first coach, you know, Yeah, no doubt about it.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: He was an amazing father. He's with me forever. He
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: one was my first coach, and not necessarily for the
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: extras and o's, but the big picture in tangibles, hustle,
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: hard work, have a great attitude. From the very second
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: only he would constantly say to me, hustle on and
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: off the field. Right, not only not necessarily even the
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: x's and o's of the skill, but the intangibles.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Character of it exactly. So on that note, when do
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: you know like you've done a great job at the camp,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: because I feel like this camp's probably a different vibe
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: every day or different killer.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: When you know, Okay, I did my job today.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Kid's got a smile on his face. I asked them.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: I asked the kids all the time, and I tell
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: our coaches to do it. Who had a great time today,
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: who learned something today, raise their hand, raise their hand.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: We did our job.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: That's awesome. And it's so cool that you've gotten all
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: this growth.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I mean we just managed to learn August and all
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: of a sudden you're around the world with MLB Playball.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: I mean your growth is growing faster.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: You know, I noticed this Well can't do without great coaches,
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: great people, great support.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: And there's a lot more to go.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: And it's all it's all about the kids, and you know,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: making people love the game and continue to play.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: By the way, You've been hit on the word company
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: and people may think, oh, this is a fun thing
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: for kids. It's like a fun but you're running a company.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: How do you differentiate the fund from the business, if
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: you will.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: It's a great question.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: People think it's just oh, you roll out some balls,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: you send some coaches. No, it's like we have a
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: whole operation team. We have two operation people that are
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: phenomenal behind the scenes. Do it scheduling, help them with payroll,
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: help them with the HR with contracts. I mean, we're
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: we're we have over three thousand kids in our program
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: and fifteen little leagues.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: It's constant, constant things to do.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: And do they all have to sign waivers before they start?
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: How does the whole legal process go with all of that.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: So they join and we have a waiver on our
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: website that they accept the liability, and obviously it's on
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: us to put them in the best position to succeed,
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: for sure.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: But yeah, this is a he gotta be very buttoned up,
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: I'm sure, And it sounds like you are.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: You're that kind of guy.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: And what I also love is you're very selective against
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: you who covers the camp, who's there?
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: So I love that about you too.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: You're very select your VIP your VIP listen a lot
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: of people that ask there's a lot of people that
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: asked to do the program to come to the program,
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: and I turned most mostly everyone down. I hate I wish,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: I wish we could have a hundred people covering it.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: But it's tough. It's tough. But you're definitely VIP.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Well, I think you understand that this is like a
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: continuation of what mister Simon laid the groundwork for, which
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: is to continue to be around the Yankees involved. So
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: thank you for.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Continuing that what he built two that twenty five years ago.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: I should say, well, he was the boss. I mean
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: that's pretty high. I don't know, I don't know if
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: I'm on that level, not even close.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: But well, there have been people that opened doors along
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: the way, and you're definitely one of them that's been
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: there to open a door. So I appreciate that.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Listen, I see good people, see good people, and you
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: know what, people have been doors for me. So that's
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: how that's how the world works.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: And why I mentioned the company parties because you do
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: have sponsors alongside and collect but like Bold and Pilates
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: and all. And I don't know about our friends. I mean,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: you have so many connections. It just works, doesn't it.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm gonna quote Brandon Seiner okay, which, by
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: the way, I'd love to get him on your podcast
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: if you ever want to do.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: I would love to have him back on. It was on.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Actually I met him at the Thurman Months and Dinner
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: five years ago.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: We did a podcast.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we did a whole.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: Hour's worth the podcast.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: He's probably he's an awesome podcast. He's great. I think
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: it was great.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: You could just let him talk. You just ask one question,
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: he just goes and it's good.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: His quote was give, I'm going to screw this up,
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: but give as much as you can, as often as
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: you can, to as many people as you can, without
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: expecting anything in return.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Now, are there any days where it can get too
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: hot or do you always resort to the dome when.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: It gets that situation in.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: The We really only use the dome for the winter.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: That's typically we're really outside. Like today, we got four
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: camps going on. We're all outside. I'm bouncing around, love it.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: You know, we got stuff tonight. We're really outside. We
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: use a batting couple of batting cages.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: As well that you haven't seen yet. We do that too.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Do you find other leagues and other coaches or do
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: camps for like, you know, football world are coming to
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: you for structure and for like advice.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Uh sort of.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Yes, I've talking to other people and other industries, and
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: you know, I picked. I'm always trying to learn. I
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: learned from trying to learn from everybody. And yes, the
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: answer is yes. I actually eventually I'm saying it on
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: this podcast. Yes, but for the fall, I'm going to
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: actually start my own kind of I think it's a niche,
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: a youth coaching consulting for other coaches.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: I love that.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Speaking of niche, how about disabled athletes? I feel like
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: we got to encourage that more so. Does this does
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: some time welcome those disabilities as well?
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm glad you said that one hundred percent. We
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: actually have a partnership with the Miracle League. Oh awesome,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: so we do some stuff with them. But also yes,
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: I'd love to start a division and maybe we could
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: talk off air about it of something where it's like
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: a program once or twice a week for kids that
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: have learning differences for sure.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Now, would you be opposed to wheelchair softball because I
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: have a connection there. Who does butlcher softball in Eisenower
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Park right over here in NASA County and he does
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: it almost every week. So I got to connect you guys.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: I'm open to everything.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Because I mean somebo is a little different, but it's
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: it's a fun game. Nonetheless, you got it.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Hey, we're in softball. We're in softball. We do you know,
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: it's actually growing, We're adding more softball programs.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: So I am to talk and.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: Maybe good to know this.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: You are connected outside of baseball, and I think that's
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: important now because you've got connections beyond just.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Baseball, right, we both do.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: But you know, we're always trying to connect help as
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: many people. Just do the best you can and be nice,
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: be nice, right like you are.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: If you were coaching on the staff of the Yankees
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: right now, what would your message be, because I feel
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: like they need somebody to step in there and say, hey,
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: let's write the ship right now.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: Well, I would say offensively, I mean, you know a
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: lot more than I do.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I would say offensively, they're doing a nice job now.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: I mean they're putting up six to nine runs a
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: game that should win a ball game.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: So yeah, so I would say the pitching might be
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: a little off, and probably the defense is a little off.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: So I think, you know, I would personally, if I
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: was coaching, I would get back to the absolute fundamentals.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Can't go wrong with that. You can't go wrong with that.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Get loosen up and get back to the fund events as.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: The fundies of the game. You know, you got to
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: have the fundies, as they.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Say, beautiful voice, Keithan and ah, what a legend.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Hey, you know you mentioned pitching, and I'm thinking about
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: this kid that threw a bullpen in front of Luke Weaver.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Did he go to your room and say, man, that
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: was so cool to throw a bullet because that just
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: looked cool to throw a bullpen in front of Luke Weaver.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I actually know exactly what kid you're talking about.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: I think that the mother was beaming. The mother was beaming.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I know that the kid probably just couldn't even process it,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: which I wouldn't be able to process either.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: I don't think anyone would, you know, like, oh my god,
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: it's Luke Weaver closer.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: And for you know, it's interesting with these kids. They're
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: they're very young, but they seem very intensive. When you
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: bring these athletes around like they listened.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Intently, it's smart. And also I go around at all
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: these player clinics. I don't know if you know, I
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: know you're we're all bouncing around, but you know, I
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: go station to station with them from before he even
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: walks in the doors, or as Walda walks in the door, say, listen,
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: ask think of really good questions, Like you might not
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: ever get an opportunity to be in front of a
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: major leaguer. So instead of like, hey, what's your favorite color?
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: How about which is cute and great? And I'm not
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: saying don't ask it, but like, hey, what are you thinking?
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: As like I heard a great question from a nine
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: year old he goes, hey where what where do you
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: aim in the shrike zone when you're pitching?
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: What do you aim high? Aim low? Like that's a
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: high level question from a night person.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: So like it's important to kind of coach the kids
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: how to ask questions too.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Absolutely And you could just tell, I mean, I could
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: just tell their kids that are willing to really grow
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: in this game. You could just see that. And can
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: you tell when it comes to pitching verse hitting, what
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: their strength is going to be down the road? I
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: mean when you watch these kids at bat or pitching,
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, is there is there a big difference.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Do I see it?
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: I mean you could see if the kid's got a cannon.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: You know, you can see the kids got a cannon.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: It's pretty it's pretty good. And honestly, the in tangibles
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: like is the kid coachable, because obviously some kids are
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: just blessed. A lot of kids are just blessed with
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: the arm.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: But if you're coachable, there's ways to get more out
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: of your arm. You know.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: I look at Josiah Gray, by the way, I used
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: to coach Josiah Gray. Sure, I mean I've coached him.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: I stayed coached him one summer. I mean, if you
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: were to tell me he would be a major leader tomorrow,
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: I would have said, no, right on his skill. All
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: of a sudden, he worked his tail off, froing eighty
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: to now ninety eight with bite and being an All
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Star in the Major League. So you know, he worked
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: his tail off. So you never know, you never you
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: sometimes you just never know, all right.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: My dad, to make a metaphor of the whole picture
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: of life, love to tell me whenever I felt I
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: was slacking or whatever. You know, Ted Williams just standing
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: there on the bad and cage and hit him to
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: its fingers. But do you ever tell that story to
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: the kids?
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: I talk ironically about Ted Williams The Science of Hitting?
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Did you ever read that book?
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: No? But I know he wrote that.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's exceptional. It's exceptional. It's literally his brain
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: in a book of hitting. It's it's spectacular. It's absolutely spectacular.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Now that's too summer reading list. We got to do
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: this this summer if you want to be foop on
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: the baseball knowledge. So there you go.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: It's a it's exceptional.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Do you learn from Britain about the business sid as well?
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Does he advise you on the business side, because he's
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: a very big business guy.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: All the time.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: I'd say once a week to shoot me a text,
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: Hey do this? Hey think of this? Which I'm forever
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: grateful for our relationship.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: Yes, I love how.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: This world just works and we're all interconnected. And you know,
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: I don't you know rainde grown?
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I got him.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: We have you to him.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: If you don't know him, Yeah I do, I do.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: We actually had dinner.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: We had a dinner about I went to the Have
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: you ever been to the New York State Baseball all
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: the game?
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: I've not been up to Detroy yet. But that's a
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: goal of mine because I know you were part of
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: the idea. Was the Italian American Baseball Is that?
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Yes? You did that.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: No, I've not been to that either because I the
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: invites look through the mail. But I gotta get to
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: one of those events.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's uh, I'll see what I could do,
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: See what I could do.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Joe's just seems awesome.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Joeman pros like he seems like the go to guy too.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: Grenda Lakrem, Grenda Lakrem and and that was a spectacular event.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: I'll see what I could do behind the scenes here.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Would you ever consider going to Troy?
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, I would go. And because I've been to coopercent,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: I would go to Troy also. I would check that out.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's spectacular. I think Posada is getting inducted this year.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: I think we I've had Dom skull on who just
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: recently wasn't Duck a couple of years ago. So all
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: these guys and being in the baseballorld is just gravitate
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: toward each other, you.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Know, growing up.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Any favorite story you could tell us about your playing
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: days that you sort of remember so much so that
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: you bring it to your clinic when you when you coach.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: I always saw it.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Like I said earlier, the fact that I got cut
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: from the junior varsity baseball team was a big turning
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: point in my life because I could have very easily quit.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: This is a true story, but I decided to continue
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: to play. I went up to the height, I went
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: up to the coach in the parking lot. He thought
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: I was going to punch him in the face because
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: I he cut me, and I said, you probably. I said, coach,
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: what can I do to get better? Which most kids
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: probably don't do now, which they should. And he told
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: me very generic advice like got to hit better, gotta
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: be more consistent fielding. And I did it every morning
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: before camp in the morning. If I worked at a
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: camp at six am, I'd hit in the cage I had.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: I probably had one of my best years ever in
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: the fall and made the varsity and then play college baseball.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: And now fast forward to today.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: On that note of how kids need to be more
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: active in all that, I do feel like it's everything
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: on the phone though, so hey, I know you don't
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: allow phones at the field, But mainly, what's your message
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: to parents who seem to not be able to get
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: their kid off the phone in tents like get them
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: active more.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Right, Absolutely, it's not easy. It's not easy.
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  Speaker 3: But I think by creating an amazing experience, it makes
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: them not want to even be on the phone.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Can we isn't a scare? Is it not fear mongering?
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: But is it sort of you're monering that that sports
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: is not you know, one hundred percent there or people
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: just making that up Like Okay, people are not playing
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: sports anymore.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: That's a lie.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: I feel like people are, they're just not finding out
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: the resources.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, I would say. Also, there's a lot of options. Now,
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: there's a lot of options. So it's a cold it's
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: a culmination of things. I think there's a lot of options.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: I do think technology is huge part of that. But ultimately,
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: you know, I look at I try to look at.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Myself like P. T.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Barnum, our Walt Disney, like we're in the experienced business.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: It's not just baseball. And that doesn't mean Savannah Bananas,
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: which they do a great job, and I know they're
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: the talk of bait, you know some of the talk, right,
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: but ultimately, uh, how can we make that experience the best.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: For their for their child.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: That's about affordability because obviously equipment is not easy to get.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: Do you guys provide the equipment or how does that
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: whole thing work?
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: So we do have parents that we do tell them
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: to bring equipment, their own equipment. We do have extra equipment,
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: no doubt about it. And also something we started recently
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: is we have a year long sponsorship with a couple
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: of different companies, and actually from those funds, I'm able
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: to provide some scholarships, a lot of scholarships the kids.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Kids from the Boys and Girls Club, they're all at
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: our Yankee clinics, if you know that. And also that
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: includes some equipment that we throw in as well.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: That's just so awesome, And I love the entrepreneurial mindset.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: I feel like people have got more of that in
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: today's world. It's always fast, but you can adapt if
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: you have that mindset.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: No doubt, you gotta be, you gotta be. The question
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: I go back to Steiner, what else? What else can
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: we provide? What else can we do better?
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Right? What else?
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: You inspired me to create the one leg Up sponsor
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: portal where we get everybody listening to one site. That way,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: it's not scrambled. So thank you for bringing organization to.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: My life as well.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: So no doubt, you know, one of last things I
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: believe even direct with the commissioner Manfred or not yet.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I did.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: I did have I went to a dinners that it
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: was the Italian Americans called dinner and uh yeah we did.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: We did meet him. I did meet he seems like
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: a great guy.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: Why does he get criticized so much.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: It's the nature of the beast, you know, it's such
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: a big responsibility. He was a very very nice gentleman.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: Gentleman and he spoke very well, well.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: We can't let you go without the big day that
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: happened in June, justin Sherman Day.
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: What was that like?
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Pretty cool? Didn't expect it.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: I basically got an honor from the Newer Shell Boys
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: and Girls Club. It was a youth service award, which
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: I'm very humbled about, very honored, and they basically said,
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: on June eighth is justin Sherman Day.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: So I guess I had a day. So it's pretty cool.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it was. It was awesome. It was awesome.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: It was cool. Feather in the cat.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: And you have such a great social media experience. Is
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: that helping you grow Justin Time baseball.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: That you're always there on that social no doubt, and
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: you got to just keep it consistent and also educate
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: parents and kids. Yes, give, give, give, yeah, no, And
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: I think when they see all those tutorials there that
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: you get more people in and say, oh, I want
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: to be part of this too.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Now, so more to go. We got a lot more
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: to go.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Justin, I know you got to run ten different camps
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: today and I appreciate you taking time today and enjoy
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: the rest of the season. We'll give us a camp
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: recap at the end of the summer and tell us
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: how things went.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: No doubt, We're going to do this again and keep
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: up the great work. You got a great attitude. You're
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: a great guy, and I'm here to.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Support and we can't forget your Just In Time. Player
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: of the Week has to be Doc Quitting because you
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: got to meet.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: Him with Chestnut hell Market, right, you guys got to
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: check out that's our year long sponsor, Chess not Market.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's awesome. Doc was great. He's a great guy.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: He's a great guy, very good human being.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: Well, thanks so much Justin for joining me and we'll.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Do this again. Thank you man, thank you, Alex thought
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: to you.