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College Baseball Recruiting FAQ — Camps vs. Showcases, Academics, Metrics & Emailing Coaches - Ep. 162 · Dugout Dish Baseball Recruiting Podcast powered by EMD Baseball

• 0:02
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• 1:10
  Speaker B: welcome to this week's edition of the Dugout Dish podcast. I'm Andy Kerry Cuties joined by my Wonderful Co host, Mr. Keith Glasser. How we doing?
• 1:17
  Speaker C: Great. How are you?
• 1:19
  Speaker B: Good. Little Q A today. Had some questions float in couple more specific to the younger fellas, the 28 and 29s, but some some other questions that I think will span across all different grad classes and some some good information here. So we'll, we'll get it started Coach Glass and we're going to go, we're going to go straight to the nitty gritty here. Question is what do coaches value more metrics or in game performance takes away
• 1:56
  Speaker C: in game performance at the end of the day you got to be able to play the game right. Your metrics are great and it's a, it's a great way to get your foot in the door. From a recruiting perspective, if you have the requisite metrics, it can move the needle for coaches to be like, okay, he runs well, hits the ball hard or he throws the ball hard, whatever it might be. But you know, what else does he have? If you're a pitcher, what else does he have with it? Does he have secondary stuff? What does that look like? Is it swing and miss? Is it, you know, not as good as just being a, is he a pitcher or is he a thrower? Can he locate? Can he feel this position? Can he hold runners? All those things positionally. Same thing like yeah, it's all well and great if you have triple digit exit velos, but if you can't hit anything that spins or you can only swing in one plane and and have no adjustability within your swing, then it's going to be hard to recruit that. If you can't play defense, another one that's hard to recruit. But, you know, ultimately it's going to come down to what it looks like from an in game perspective. What can you do when the lights are on, you know, and some people play up with their metrics, some people it plays down and, you know, that's why the, that's why it's such a tough thing to be able to do, right? Like recruit. There is no real science to recruiting, which is why coaches trust their eyes and everything it is that you've seen over everything you logged over your career to, you know, what, what plays, what works, what you value, you know, but it's always going to come from in game stuff, right? Like you're going to actually sit down and watch a game and see how the kid plays, what does his motor look like, how is he defensively, what does he look like on backhand balls, how does he handle Velo, how does he handle spin, what can he do, you know, does he have a knack for the moment, those types of things, you know, so it's, you know, I think sometimes you can lull yourself to sleep with, you know. Yeah, he doesn't have the greatest metrics, but man, every time I show up, he is on the barrel. Like, he just hits and that kid usually ends up getting recruited, you know, So I think that the easiest answer and the most straightforward one is it's going to be in game performance that that's going to get you to the next level.
• 4:14
  Speaker B: Yeah, I think the metrics, for me, it's kind of a barrier to entry. Right? There's, you know, performing in high school at a high level doesn't, you know, necessarily line you up to be a guy who's going to play in the ACC or SEC if you don't have the prerequisite metrics. Right. But, you know, so that's why I think of it as a little bit of a barrier to entry. Coaches use them as a way to quantify things, as a way to compare players across the board. But all things created equal, the in game performance is what actually moves the needle. And you know, we are well past the days of strictly video recruiting. Like what happened in Covid, guys are getting out, they're seeing players. I think the data really helps with the overall evaluation, you know, but at the end of the day, you need to go out and be able to show some success. You need to be a really good high school player to perform. And you need to have the prerequisite physical talents that are required at the particular school that's recruiting you. And that needs to show up to your point. Like, it's got to show up when the lights are on and you know, that compete factor, your ability to. To have some success and play the game at a high level, be able to run the bases, be able to play defense. You know, it goes well beyond how hard can you hit it off of a te, you know, what is your 60 time, what's your velocity? You know, we got to, you know, we start with that as coaches and go, all right, well, this kid's, you know, 86 to 88 and he's 6 foot 2 and he's 185 pounds. Like that's what a kid who we usually recruit looks like. But now I gotta go find, does he do the other stuff in game? Can he locate a fastball to one side of the plate effectively? Does he have a secondary pitch? It's got a chance or is good already. Does he have a third one that looks like it has a chance to be competitive? And you start to build from there based off of, you know, some of those baseline metrics. And then you got to get into the character evaluation piece of it. But yeah, I mean, simply put, I think it's when all things metrically are created across the board, the end game performance is going to be the thing that's going to move the needle for coaches. They need guys who can, who can help them win games. And it's sometimes doesn't show up in the batting average or the ops. Some of it's going to be on the defensive side of the ball, depending on what position you play. You know, can you do some things behind the plate? Specifically, can you really defend at shortstop? And then do you have some of the other skills that can be developed? So there's a lot that goes into it. Metrics are a small piece of it, or I should say they're a big piece of it, but they're not the piece of the puzzle that coaches are ultimately hanging their head on. They're going to look at a lot of other pieces of the puzzle and in game performance is probably at the top of that list. All right, let's switch gears for a second here, Coach. We've got asked to talk about the importance of academics. And I think that, you know, the blanket answer to this is that it's important. We'll unpack that a little bit more here, but I Think this question is more focused on 28s and 29s, guys who are earlier on in their, in their academic career. So you want to kick us off with the importance of academics and what it means.
• 7:34
  Speaker C: Yeah, better grades leave more doors open to you and keep them open longer. So you want to make sure that you're taking the classes that are going to put you in a spot to be able to get really good grades. You know, obviously, if you're a B student, get B grade grades, right? You know, be the best student that you can possibly be. Don't be a B student and get all Cs. It's going to leave, it's going to close a lot of doors on you immediately just by looking at a transcript. The other part too is make sure that you're being really strong in your core courses of English, history or social studies, science, math, and your foreign language. Those are the ones that, that really do matter. Ultimately when you start, you know, thinking about going to colleges, it's. They're not really going to put a lot of weight on your electives from, you know, basket weaving and swimming and gym while they boost your gpa. Yes. They're not going to move the needle in the admissions process. They're really going to, you know, lock in on your, your, your five cores that we talked about. You know, the other side too is, you know, depending on what you want to do academically is, you know, do you need to take or should you take ap, ib, or honors courses? You know, I would always tell you that, you know, take what you can handle, right? Like, you shouldn't take seven AP classes if that's going to be a deterrent or a detriment to your overall GPA and what you're doing in school. You know, sometimes people like think that we can take nine APs and then you knock down all Cs and it's like, well, you know, but it's AP. Well, you know, it's going to ding your GPA and you're, you know, it's going to look like you can't handle the rigor. And, you know, if you just took an honors or a regular class and knocked down an A, you'd be in a far better spot. So, you know, it's making sure that you're setting yourself up for success in the long run, but also being realistic and being honest about what you can handle from an academic load to not be able to overwhelm yourself and become a detriment to what you ultimately want to do. You know, but like I said, on the front end, you want to make sure that you're giving yourself a good foundation to start moving upwards on that upwards trajectory as you go throughout high school to make sure that you have the best grades that you can. You can possibly attain. And obviously, the better grades you have, the more it leaves doors open and the more schools you're going to have the opportunity to be able to be recruited by. And additionally, the better grades you have, the more merit scholarship money you get. So mom and dad will be happy. It's not just about, you know, them hounding you about getting good grades. You know, the more money that you can command from a merit scholarship standpoint lowers the total cost of tuition, which is a good thing for everybody.
• 10:21
  Speaker B: Yeah, I think the only thing I would add to that is especially for the young guys out there, whether you're eighth grader, freshman, or even sophomores, like, you're early enough in your career, like, you don't get a.
• 10:33
  Speaker C: Re you.
• 10:34
  Speaker B: You don't get a redo on your freshman year of high school. You know, there's more that goes into the evaluation academically than just, you know, purely your marks, like some upward progression, you know, trending in the right direction with what you're doing in the classroom. But if you start off well, it's way easier to maintain a good GPA than it is to build off of, you know, a stumbled start. So, you know, trying to lock it down as a freshman and get off to a good start, get some A's on that transcript and you'll be able to build from there gives you more wiggle room on the back end. And, you know, to your point, it just sets you up to have more options. And at the end of the day, everybody wants to play college baseball, to play college baseball. And you should, because it's an amazing experience and it's something that's really important. But the reality is, is that the education that you're going to get with, that comes with it is going to most likely be the, the outcome that the vast majority of people are going to get. You know, not a lot of guys get to go on and play and, and make a bunch of money playing baseball. You know, so making sure that you do have the academics as a part of your equation, it can only help you, right? Whether it's getting more money, whether it's getting you into a different school. You know, it's a, it's an important part of the puzzle. And you, you know, you should want to do well in Whatever you're doing. So being able to, to spend the time and put in the effort to do as well as you can, I think it's kind of a necessity. Something that has to be a focus in this. All right, I think we covered that one. On to question three. College camps versus showcases, pros and cons. Maybe talk about the pluses and minuses, break these down a little bit. Where do you want to start with this one, Coach?
• 12:28
  Speaker C: I guess we can just. Let's talk about the differences first. Is it just. Well, I guess we'll just do. All college camps are obviously straightforward. They're camps that are going to be on the college campus. Big fans here. For those who listen to this podcast religiously, thank you for listening, but you know, we believe in them here. Some of them do get most of them. You know, people might say that they're a money maker. You know, some are, but the vast majority of them are not. The vast majority of college baseball programs are going to recruit out of their camps, whether as an identifier of somebody who showed up and is interested in their program that they haven't seen or don't know about, or a finisher to. Hey, we've seen a bunch of times. Let's get them to campus. Let's get them. See what we have to offer here from a facility standpoint, a school. Meet the players, see how we interact, see if it's going to be a good fit and if we really like them, we'll move type thing. But they're generally going to be less expensive than the rest of the ones out there. And for the division ones generally have more coaches in attendance as well. So, you know, a good way to be able to, you know, save some money and get in front of a bunch of coaches, showcases, you know, your, your PBRs, your, your perfect games, your. Any other organization out there that runs them. They're gonna be private. College coaches cannot work them, but obviously they'll attend. Watch them. You know, perfect gaming, PVR are the two big ones. You know, you'll, you'll get an online profile. They put your metrics up there. You know, there it's. Numbers vary. The one thing that is a little tough with those ones is it, you know, because they run a, you know, decent amount of them depending on the state and where they are, you're not necessarily guaranteed, you know, the attendance of the coaches that will be there. So it can be a little bit of a going in blind unless you absolutely know that, you know, you've had contact with Coaches that are going to say that they're going to be there and then your private showcases are going to be a little bit more expensive. Those ones are going to be attended and worked by college coaches. They're getting paid to be there and it'll be a little bit more expensive. But you're guaranteed that the 10, 15, 20, 35 coaches that are there to see you or that are there are going to be an attendance to watch you play. So you'll see a little bit more surrounding the, the academic world with those types of things. There are some other ones out there but you know, you'll see Diamond College showcases and head first things like that where you know there's going to be a lot of academic focus there towards, towards those types of showcases and they're great. Like you know, you're guaranteed those coaches are going to be in attendance to watch you play. It's a great way to be able to kind of, you know, especially if you're academic guy, to go to one spot and you know, show up and see 25 to 30 schools that you might have interest in and they can watch play and kind of see where it shakes out. So you know, those are kind of the main differences. The general gameplay, slash setup, forum are all going to kind of run along the same lines. You'll have a showcase, you'll have bp, you'll do defensive work, you know, the, you're going to have some instruction time where you're going to actually be able to learn. I think there's a little bit more of an emphasis on it on the, on the college camp side where you're actually going to be able to, you know, learn some things and get taught. And that's by design because coaches kind of want to see how you take coaching things like that. So you know, but generally speaking they're all kind of the same setup in how they run. The variation would just be how long it is. Like it might be a one day thing, it might be a two day thing, you know, so that would be the one kind of difference I would say, but that those are the differences amongst those three. If you are the parent of a high school baseball player with college aspirations, you already know the recruiting process can feel overwhelming. Endless showcases, non stop emails and big promises with very little clarity. That's why we recommend Diamond College Showcase Camps, the nation's premier academic baseball showcase. 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• 17:25
  Speaker B: yeah, and for me, I think they all serve a purpose and I think, you know, you can, you could go down a list of pros and cons if you wanted to get critical of it. But I think at the end of the day it's just understanding where you are in your recruiting process and what you're getting out of these particular camps. Like, you know, you talked about, you know, showcases like diamond or, you know, these, these showcases where they pay for schools to come and be at these events. Those can be really, really fruitful for a variety of different reasons. If you're an academic kid and you're from the west coast and you want to go to school in the northeast and you know you need to get in front of 30 plus schools that you're interested in, like it's pretty good bang for your buck when you look at it that way. So I think that they have a ton of value. You just need to know if that's going to be a fit for you and where you are in your recruitment process. The PBR stuff, the state games, you know, you're, you're a little bit more kind of at the mercy of which coaches actually show up to that. They are, you know, specifically the PBR state games. You're typically pretty heavily recruited and guys are going to be around and, and they're going to be looking at guys in state. If you recruit a specific state, you're probably going to be at the state games, a little bit of a different setup. Great way to get noticed if you go out there and play well. I think that college camps can be incredibly fruitful if you make good decisions on where you're going and understand where you fit in the grand scheme of the college baseball landscape and targeting schools that either have already shown interest in you or schools that you're interested in and you have a really good sense of, hey, like I kind of fit at this level. And the added benefit of that is the interaction with the coach and staff. It's that built in visit. So I think they all have,
• 19:04
  Speaker C: I
• 19:04
  Speaker B: think they're all, they all have their pros. Right. I think if you were going to nitpick on cons like, you probably want to look at some of the dollar amounts, but with that dollar amount that you might pay for a private showcase, you're also guaranteed that, you know, 35 or 40 coaches are going to show up at that event where, you know, you might not get that in some other instances. So, you know, there's some pluses and some minuses in a sense, but I think at the end of the day you can, they can all be really fruitful. From a recruit recruiting perspective, it's just understanding which ones are going to have the most value to you and your family at what time you choose to go to those. You know, if you're a 2029, you know, going to a big private showcase event might not be the best use of your time right now. You might need to continue to get better. You know, those guys aren't going to be able to talk to you for a long time anyway. So, you know, thinking long and hard about how you want to spend that money. Yeah, I think that's a worthwhile conversation, you know, and then, you know, you're talking about the on campus camps, being able to target the right type of school and understanding where you fit. I think that's the hard piece to unpack when it comes to that stuff.
• 20:12
  Speaker C: Yeah, I think it's also worth noting. This usually is a question that we get, but the contact rules, we'll throw it in there because we're not going to cover the question tonight, but we'll talk about it. Contact rules obviously have changed. 28, 29, you can't get, no one can talk to you until August 1st of your. Prior to your junior year. So, you know, I think some of the things that, you know, back to the money grab point and to your point about 29 say like they can't talk to you. And you know, if the only response that they can give you when you email them as a younger player is you come to camp, it's the only thing they can respond with. It's not that they want your money. That's the only way that they can actually communicate with you. So just keep that in mind. But no, I, I think that the, you know, I don't necessarily know that there are quote unquote cons to any of them. I just think that it depends on what it is that your, where you are in your, your recruiting process and what's going to serve the best. What's the word? I'm Looking for the best. What's going to serve the best possible outcome for you? Right. Like the college camps might like, going to four or five of them might be the best thing for you. You know, going to a private showcase might be what's good for you. Going to a couple, you know, showcases like PPR might be what's best for you. It depends on what, who you're trying to get recruited by, what you. Who's going to be where you like, where you're going to be looking to go to and how you can get in front of them. You know, I don't necessarily know if there's a con, but it's more so what each individual person is going to have a different track to going to it. And this is all supplemental to your gameplay stuff, where they're going to show up and watch you play in tournaments and stuff.
• 22:07
  Speaker B: Right.
• 22:07
  Speaker C: Like, these are all supplements to what you can additionally do in order to get in front of coaches that you're interested in getting in front of. Right. Like, it's not going to be something like your whole recruiting theory shouldn't be. I'm just going to go to every showcase in the world and try to get seen by him and not play baseball. Like, no, you should play baseball because they're going to show up and watch you play. This is supplemental to it where, like, they can get to know you a little bit more. They can meet you on the field, they can talk to you, they can see how you react to certain things and get a little bit more of a feel for you. But, you know, I don't know. I. I don't know. I guess in my mind, I don't know if there's a con to any of them other than just, you know, what you want to. You want to go to the ones that are going to be more fruitful for you than not and do your research on the front end for what those are.
• 22:56
  Speaker B: Yeah, I think a lot of it has to do with timing, too. Right. And, you know, one of the other questions we had is like, when is the right time to attend camps? And, you know, if you're at 27, the time is, you know, probably now, you know, maybe not right during your high school season, but this summer, you know, having a plan, how you're going to get exposed, you know, get exposure and get in front of the right schools, you know, there's certainly a piece of that puzzle that you can take advantage, whether it's the college camps or, you know, the other mechanisms that we spoke about. But you know, if you're a 28 or a 29, you know, from, from a 29 perspective, unless you're kind of top of the food chain, I, I would say that the earliest that you would probably go and attend anything would be like this fall maybe. Like if you're a guy who's trending towards the absolute top level of, of Division 1 baseball. I could probably be talked into, you know, if you're up throwing or you're still playing in October, you know, maybe going to an on campus camp at a school that you, you know, is really high on your list, you, I could, you could probably talk me into that. I think it takes a unique kid and the timing needs to be right. But for 28s more specifically, I think, you know, this summer is where I think a lot of people will start to spend money on exposure. And I think you just need to be thoughtful about where you fit relative to the timelines for recruitment. And you know, if you're, you want to make sure that when you go and you showcase yourself that you're going to be putting up numbers and doing some things that are going to catch the eye of guys who are currently looking at the 28 class. And you know, for the most part that's going to be Division 1 schools. So not just throwing money at the exposure problem because you're thinking that's going to solve it. I think you really need to think about what is worth your time, what is worth your effort, what is worth your money. And is there a better way to spend that money? And for some guys, going to showcases this summer is going to absolutely be the right thing. And going to an on campus camp is absolutely going to be the right thing. And there's going to be other kids out there who the best thing that they can do is put the ball down in August and get after in the weight room for six months and pop up next spring and be recruitable. And every one of those conversations is going to be a little bit different. But I think the tricky part about it is really being honest about where you fit in, where the value is going to come and making good decisions of how you're spending your time and your money.
• 25:27
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 25:29
  Speaker B: Last question.
• 25:30
  Speaker C: Sorry for the pause.
• 25:33
  Speaker B: Last question here. What should be included in emails for outreach? Specifically focus on the content of the email as well as video and what the video should look like. I think that's what we're driving at with this question here. So what are your thoughts on this? You've opened like myself, you've opened thousands and thousands of emails from kids. What's. What are you looking for? What's important?
• 26:03
  Speaker C: I want you to hit the highlights. I want you to first start with a subject line that is a little grabby. Me, myself, I'll be honest with you, I opened every single one and responded to all of them. Some people are, you know, don't do that. But I came up in this game with people that, you know, really believed in doing that. So I would respond to everyone. But that said, you know, if you do something unique, I think it's worth putting it in the subject line, right? Like hey, I'm a 102 exit velo left handed hitting shortstop. Like okay, that piques my interest. You know, I. It's probably the first email I'm going to open if I see that in my inbox, right. You know, but I want you at the highlights. Tell me where you're from, you know, where, how big you are, you're. Whether you're right or left handed, your position or positions, where you go to high school and who you play travel ball for. I want you to put your schedules in there if you have them, contact information for coaches or people you're working with so that I can reach out to them if I have interest video. You know, I would tell you that the better thing to do is to link it to YouTube just because a lot of Edu emails will send video attachments immediately to spam, right? So you don't want your video getting sent to spam. The other side of it is if 50 kids email me and they all want me to download their video, that's. That takes up a lot of time in my day to download and watch them go from there. If I can just click on a link. Makes my, makes it a lot easier on my end to be able to do that stuff. The video stuff. I would tell you I think that you want to have some clear in game footage and you can mix it with, you know, bullpens or cage work, whatever it might be. But you want to have it clear up front. You know, you don't want video from center field of you hitting. Can't see anything. You know, try to get as close as you possibly can the open side, you know, so if you're right handed hitter you're going to want it from the first base dugout. Conversely for left handed hitters and for right handed pitchers you're going to want it from the third base dugout side and conversely for left handed pitchers so that we can See the open side of the arm swing, how the arm works, what all of that looks like. If you can get behind home plate for pitchers, that's awesome too. So that we can see ball flight. You know, what does the fastball look like, what does the breaking ball look like? What does the other off speed stuff do so that we can see kind of how that plays out. If it's a bullpen setting, you can be behind as long as we can see some semblance of ball flight from arms. Defensive stuff, you know, try to get as, you know, try to get what you can. The, the. I would tell you that from a defensive standpoint, try to get, you know, you don't have to get the whole play, but do try to get the ball a little bit before it gets in the glove and then the throw. Not just the act of him already having the ball. I want to see the prep work that goes into how he prepares himself to be able to go feel the ground ball and ultimately throw it across the diamond. And they don't have to be long, right? Like your videos can be a minute to two minutes long. They don't have to be super long. The truth is most people are probably going to fast forward through them anyways and see what they need to see. So they don't have to be uber long. You don't need video, you don't need music. I actually saw a video once and I'm not making this up. Where every time the kid barreled the ball, there was an explosion. You don't need that doesn't need to be Michael Bay produced. You can just take it on your iPhone and go ahead and upload it and send it.
• 29:53
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• 30:58
  Speaker C: Who.
• 30:58
  Speaker B: Who are you? How big are you? How fast do you run? How hard do you throw? Where do you go to school? Who do you play for? I think I always enjoyed when kids were able to add a little bit of. Maybe a little bit of a personal touch to an email that showed me that they might have done a little bit of research. Right. You know, not emailing William and Mary that you want to be an engineer when we don't have engineering, or, you know, maybe a comment about, you know, that they'd clearly been on your website and they saw that you won two out of three the past weekend. You know, little things. I think that. That just that personal touch tells me, like, all right, this kid took a little bit of time. This wasn't, you know, just a straight copy and paste. You know, make no bones about it. We know that you're emailing a lot of coaches, but, you know, if you take enough time to. To reference the school in particular the location, you know, some reason that you might be interested in the program or the school as a whole, I think that that helps. But don't want to read an essay without sounding like too much of a jerk here. Like, I don't, you know, I don't need a. An explanation of how badly you want to play college baseball. That's kind of implied. And then I always like to make sure that you have some contact information to do. Some folks that. That I can reach out to so I can make a couple phone calls, high school coach, travel coach, hitting coach, you know, whatever it might be. I think that that goes. That was always something that I liked, you know, give you some points of reference. So, yeah, it's. It's. It's kind of simple. I think that taking a little bit of time, making sure that the kid is actually writing the email would probably be my last piece of advice is that, you know, we can tell often if mom and dad wrote it. You know, if there's some. Some tricky punctuation or some elaborate use of the English language in the email, it usually doesn't come from the kid. So make sure the kids write it. Make sure it's in their voice. Make sure that they have the right information, and all that stuff is in there. And before you click that Send button. Make sure you're referencing the right school and the right coach and that those emails all line up that that has happened. Some coaches will hold that against you and until the, the day you die. Other coaches will, will laugh it off and know that it's a young kid who made a mistake trying to get some emails out. But if you can, try to, try to avoid that mistake.
• 33:31
  Speaker C: Yeah, it's happened to me. I didn't care. But you coach long enough, it's going to happen. It's no big deal. But do try to do your due diligence on the front end to make sure that you're saying it to the right person.
• 33:44
  Speaker B: Coach Reyna, I'm really interested in rpi.
• 33:48
  Speaker C: That's usually the one that I got or coaching.
• 33:51
  Speaker B: Yeah, I figured that was the case.
• 33:54
  Speaker C: All right. And then he would text me and be like, did you get an email about. Because I got a Coach Glasser I'm really interested in Uvar.
• 34:03
  Speaker B: Oh, that's funny.
• 34:03
  Speaker C: You'd have a nice chuckle about it and we'd both respond.
• 34:06
  Speaker B: But you know, yeah, that kid looks pretty good, man. I'm gonna recruit him. Yeah, me too.
• 34:10
  Speaker C: Yeah, I know.
• 34:11
  Speaker B: I'll see you at his next high school game.
• 34:13
  Speaker C: It's not, it's not the end of the world if it happens, but just try to, you know, try to make sure you, you mitigate that as much as possible.
• 34:21
  Speaker B: Yeah, I think the best way to do that is don't feel like you need to send 20 emails in one sitting. Yeah. Best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time.
• 34:30
  Speaker C: Love that.
• 34:30
  Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, Peto will probably be on our asses about that one, but that's the end of the Q A today. Coach, any other, any other thoughts you have for, for the listeners today?
• 34:46
  Speaker C: No, I don't think so. You know, good questions, keep them coming. We like doing this stuff and talking about recruitment process and all that stuff. You know, I think as the high school, I guess I do have thoughts, you know, as the high school season gets underway here, you know, just do the best you can, you know, get out there and, you know, don't think everything. You know, if you're trying to get recruited, it's not the end of the world if you go over three. Right. Come back the next day, go do some extra work, come back the next day and be better. Sun's still going to rise the next day. You'll be fine. It's the best part about this game. You know, you play relatively. There's quick turnarounds and when you play, you can have a bad day on Tuesday and turn around and have a great day on Wednesday and Thursday. Short week this week too.
• 35:33
  Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Easter Sunday again. A lot of games this week.
• 35:39
  Speaker C: I know. It's going to be awesome.
• 35:40
  Speaker B: Packed in, I think, I think we have a full seven day stretch where there's a college baseball game every single day this week.
• 35:47
  Speaker A: Love it.
• 35:49
  Speaker C: I was watching Columbia Dartmouth today at noon.
• 35:52
  Speaker B: Yeah. Watch college baseball. It's one, it's awesome. And two, you can learn a lot about what, what these guys look like, how they act and how they behave. So that's, that'll be the last thing that, that I add for tonight. So. All right, we'll tune in next week. We'll have more for you then. Thanks, everybody. Talk to you soon. Thank you for listening this week. If you're watching on YouTube, go ahead and hit that subscribe button and smash that like button for us. Check us out on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts as well as Spotify. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram MD Baseball. If you want to find out what me and Keith do to help families and players navigate the recruiting process, go ahead and check us out on emdbaseball.com take a few minutes to check out our new online account academy. I promise you'll get some good information out of that. Thanks again for listening. Check in with you next week.