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Episode 035: Is it a Ken?, Golf Carts, & Road Rage · The Scrambling Dads Podcast

• Alex: Alright guys, back for another episode. Scrambling Dad's here. got Marcus, got the crew back. Today we're going to ⁓ dive into the youth sports like we kind of have in the past, but this time from a parent perspective. Want to hear all of the horror stories of, you know, parents yelling on the sideline, getting mad at refs. ⁓ Want to get y'all's opinion on, you know... What is a encouraging parent and involved and what's maybe a little too much? ⁓ What's the man version of a Karen? That's a better question. Marcus: I don't want to say Jason. I don't want to say Jason. Now, is it a Bob? It might be a Bob. Alex: Hahaha SD Podcast - Jason: It doesn't flow, it doesn't have the same context. Alex: No, I don't know. I don't know. I don't feel like a Bob is I mean, it's pretty close to Marcus, so maybe. Marcus: It's getting closer, yeah. Yeah, what's a... SD Podcast - Jason: Yeah. Are you looking at- are you literally looking it up? He's- Marcus: Let's ask chat GPT Alex: ⁓ yeah, we're asking Otis this. ⁓ I got a Ken, a Kevin, and a Kyle. Marcus: I think all those are great options to be honest. SD Podcast - Jason: It just went with the K. It didn't even like go anything different. Alex: So. ⁓ Marcus: ⁓ Well, I mean, yeah, if you want to be a Karen, yeah, I guess you can be a Kevin. That's yeah. Alex: So it's funny, ⁓ a little bit of a tangent on the use of chat GPT. ⁓ I was in a meeting yesterday and I'm always on my phone, like even in meetings, because I'm emailing, texting, I have project teams that are texting me. ⁓ So like I'm generally always on my phone even during meetings if I'm not on my computer, which I pay being on my computer because I take notes on my iPad. ⁓ So anyways, we're sitting there and we're kind of starting this new like, I'm gonna call it a playbook, this thing that how we want to build, get started off on projects properly, blah, blah, blah. And they're trying to find this acronym. They're like, we need an acronym to like call this, right? Like something, some cliche trademark type style name for this process. It's like, cool. So I'm sitting there, I get on chat, I'm like, hey, I an acronym for this. This is what we're trying to do. Anyways, I pop out. I was like, hey, how about, you know, so and so. And I read off what the words meant. They're like, ⁓ that's really good. I really like that. And this went off by 15 minutes. They're like, good job. Like, how do you come up with that? was like, yeah, I didn't chat to you. Like I, I literally just typed in what we're doing and it told me what to do from there. Marcus: I think that's a good use. I think that's a good use of chadgbt because sometimes you can't be that creative on the spot where it's like we got other stuff to worry about than to like figure out this acronym. I think that's a perfect use for it to be honest. Alex: I was like, I'm not going to take that credit. SD Podcast - Jason: Speaking of Otis Chat GPT, ⁓ my brother-in-law works like in the digital sector and he said we need to stop using it because of all the government regulations with that brand. So they said I was at Claude. I Claude is a better AI system that we need to go to. It's a little bit more private, protects you a little bit more. Alex: It's well. Hmm. So how much money is he making off Claude? Yeah, I don't. We have, well, we have Microsoft at work. I mean, Gemini is what we use too, I guess, technically. ⁓ I don't ever use Gemini though. I use Chatty P. SD Podcast - Jason: ⁓ I use Gemini. The school's got it covered. Gemini works pretty well, so I'm sticking with it. Marcus: Hehehehehe ⁓ SD Podcast - Jason: Now there's so many. platforms and it depends on what you're looking for platforms for calculations platforms for writing platforms for artistic stuff then it says use this one use this one because it's built better for these different components and algorithms so I'm like well whatever because I have noticed like what I've done in the past with Otis and Gemini I get some better images from one of the other I don't remember which one was which but the creativity side was a little bit better on one of them Alex: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Go back there. Go back to your history and let me know which one because I use chat TVT obviously quite a bit. And even when I want to get inspiration for some of the Photoshop edits that I do, I'll use chat TVT. But if you think Gemini is more creative, I might try it. SD Podcast - Jason: So food for thought. feel like some of those initial logos and designs, the ones that we liked, I think came from Gemini. I think they did. But it's a mix. it just depends on what you're asking. Alex: Did they? Okay. Yeah, let's take a look at that one. I love using it. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And I like, I'll upload like a photo to it be like, Hey, like I'm kind of stalling. don't know what to do. Like what should I do? And it'll look at the photo and be like, ⁓ well you have harsh light here. Lean into it. Do this. I'm like, ⁓ cool. Great. And you kind of learn, kind of tell I'd learn, right? It's I have it teach me all these things and how to use whatever the picture is giving. And then you slowly just stop using it and do it all yourself because you kind of already have an idea. So SD Podcast - Jason: You learn, yeah. Alex: Exactly. So, all right. Let's get into some youth sports talk here. ⁓ You have years to lean back on and you have to deal with parents and you get talked about it from the other perspective. ⁓ SD Podcast - Jason: Cool. Well, I don't know what that is anymore. Marcus: ⁓ you... SD Podcast - Jason: Well, it's a whole different story, you know. Alex: I want to get y'all's opinion because I kind of, I see the writing on the wall here. I'm keeping my mouth shut because as a company, we are trying to work with McKinney lacrosse club. Like I have a proposal in for retainer coverage. So I'm going to, I'm going to play the party line here. So the five, six team fifth and sixth grade boys. They ended up merging with Allen. So how lacrosse does it, it's kind of like hockey. So Jason will know this. It's by your address to what the city considers the home field for the team, which in this case is like two miles from our house for McKinney, even though he's prosper ISD. So he will always be on the McKinney team. The Allen team disbanded. I don't know pay of coaches and whatever the reason. Right. ⁓ So. The McKinney team got big because half of Allen is now coming to McKinney. Some of Lovejoy is also on McKinney's team now. So the fifth and sixth grade boys team has 30 plus players and they play with eight on a field at a time. I think eight or nine. ⁓ So they split it into two teams and the lesser quality team, the white team, which is one that Tripp is on, ⁓ they only have like five games and we pay like 800 bucks a season. So I see the writing on the wall that some parents are gonna get pretty frustrated here because they signed up for what should have been a 12 plus game season. Marcus: Mm-hmm. Alex: And some people have already started making comments on the group chat. Want to get y'all's opinion how you would go about handling that ⁓ in a, in your normal fashion or your Ken, Kevin, whatever fashion. Marcus: Chad Brad. SD Podcast - Jason: Chad. So Marcus, what I'm hearing is Alex wants advice so he doesn't go off the rails with this. Alex: Chad Brad. Oh no, no, no, no. Again, we are tied. We are. We are tied as a company, so I'm keeping my mouth shut. Honestly, look, here's deal. Trip is he loves the sport right now. He it's all reps for him. So whether it's game reps or practice reps, he does box across on the weekends. He's getting plenty of reps in, and honestly, I told him as far as on the white team, you don't have to be the best player on the worst team than the worst player on the best team at this stage, right? Get more reps. Get the coaches love him. Marcus: He's on a fence, yeah. Mm-hmm. Alex: He's one of the starting players on the white team. So it's like, you know what? Take it for what it is. Most of the blue team are sixth graders. Anyways, you're a year behind them. Three to four seasons behind them in lacrosse because you're all of two seasons in. So no, I truly don't care. Yeah, it sucks. ⁓ It's a lot of money to watch five games, but I truly don't care. So this is not an Alex question. This is a I see the writing on the wall and I'm just I'm like, grab my popcorn waiting for someone to blow up because of how much they're paying. Marcus: Yeah, I mean, for me, I mean, I don't know at this age, I think you kind of said it there, you know, fifth grade. I think if they were maybe a little bit older, I'd be a little bit more vocal, I guess is a better word to say. But I mean, right now, I mean, like you said, he's getting the reps in. I mean, I would kind of sit back and watch the popcorn too. I mean, it's not the end of the day. You know what you're getting to with lacrosse, you know how much it costs to get into it. Alex: Yeah. Marcus: ⁓ I don't know. It's different for me. like ⁓ soccer. It's pretty chill. Simple. You just see the ball in some cleats. For now. Yeah. Yeah. Alex: Yeah. SD Podcast - Jason: For now, for now, just just wait. Alex: I was gonna say, you and I both play competitive soccer. think you know what that, I mean, and lacrosse is very similar. ⁓ It's you paid up. It's essentially it's a team. It's a city team, but it's essentially a club. Like we, you pay for uniforms. You pay for everything you would need. mean, even when they get into the older ranks, ⁓ they have different helmets for each team. And those helmets are like three, 400 bucks a pop, especially custom designs. So, I mean, they're Marcus: Oof. Alex: It all gets up there, baseball gets up there, it's all the same. ⁓ I think I've just, as I've gotten older, I have fallen into the camp of like, look, I can't control it, so why am gonna get mad? Marcus: Yeah. SD Podcast - Jason: Well. Marcus: Same. SD Podcast - Jason: It comes back to it's actually funny. Had similar discussions just with golf, some other players, and then obviously just soccer because I know kids who play and just years of doing it. And, you know, you get this really kind of a borderline player who could be is the best on let's say call it JV or they could get some playing time of varsity. Well, the kids, of course, high school feel the pressure and just like, oh, I want to be on varsity, varsity, but. you're not gonna play, you're not gonna get the reps. Stay on JV, you'll get more reps, you'll learn from more, you'll get the experience. And there's things that will happen in a game that you just don't get in practice. It's like we talked about, there's stuff that we're gonna get on the course way more than we are actually gonna be hitting on a mat or in a bay. So it's hard to convince. Alex: Mm-hmm. SD Podcast - Jason: players and then nowadays parents, it would be probably beneficial for your child to stay one level lower, get the reps, get the experience, get playing time. Like that's what it's all about. Like even with some of the golfers, I've got someone on the fence that are like, yeah, you could be my fourth or fifth spot based on score. But from what I'm seeing as a growth side of it, you're not ready to go up to that next level with the pressure that's added. Alex: Yeah. SD Podcast - Jason: at that higher level. So it's kind of like a both child and parent problem that exists today in sports because they want them to be the best. They want to get the scholarship. They want them to go be famous. And that's what 20 % of all players maybe like they could even get to a level of that ability. So it's like, like Alex: Mm-hmm. Not even. It's like 1%. Yeah. Marcus: Mm-hmm. SD Podcast - Jason: Be happy, get playing time, be part of a program, be part of a team, learn from that. Now, if you're a stud, you're going to be already up there. Like bottom line, if you were that good, if you got all the training in the world, you're going to be varsity freshmen or sophomore year. If you're already there and proving yourself at that level, then hats off to you. Alex: Yeah, that's a different, yeah. Yeah. You know, it's funny you say that, ⁓ because where the boys play home games is the old stadium, which is where we played when we were in high school ⁓ before they built the new stadium. So anyways, it brought back some memories. And freshman year of high school, ⁓ there were two of us ⁓ that made varsity on soccer. And when we played the inner city ⁓ game, the one that's actually played at the stadium there, They moved both of us down to JV for that game. And at 14 years old, you feel a certain way about that. You're like, what the hell? was on varsity. And now you're putting him on JV and the coach kind of sat us down and had that exact conversation. It was like, look, no, like these are two big games. They're inner city rivals. They're district rivals. Like we want to win. ⁓ and you too make the JV team better in that. but you don't really offer the varsity team that much. Like you're going to come in as a sub and play half the game or we can play most of the game on JV. And we ended up, he was a defender, I was a forward, I ended up scoring, I think two goals that game. You know, he had a great game. We ended up winning. So it's like, when you look back on it, you know what? shit 20 years ago now, 22 years ago, you're like, that actually makes a lot of sense. And it lines up with exactly what Jason was just saying of like, hey, sometimes it's sometimes it's better and you're being set up for success. If you end up playing on the worst team. Marcus: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, and I think that's also kind of, I don't know, now kind of setting the expectations because just how Jason said, you get 1 % that's actually going to be making it to that, to that extra level. When in reality, like, you know, you think back on your, your, your soccer playing days. mean, those are probably the funnest times that I could remember. It's like doing the tournaments and being with the team. And I don't know for me, like if it's being too focused on trying to get I don't know, it sometimes it feels like it's turning away from a team thing to a personal thing. Cause like I'm going to promote myself and get better when I mean, honestly, like right now I'm, I'm enjoying the kids right now because they, you can see it in the face. They enjoy playing it and it's not in their head of like, ⁓ I need to be good. I need to do this. Like, no, they want to get better on their own, which is amazing, which I hope, you know, I'm going to keep feeding them on that train. ⁓ Because who knows what will happen, but as long as they're having fun and we can look back and a couple years and say, those are really good times. ⁓ Just spending Saturdays and Sundays on the field. Alex: Well, think. Yeah, and I mean, you hit on something that Jason and I talked about last week. don't know if you listened to the episode today or not, but we talked about the NIL ⁓ era of players and you just talked about, know, it's a personal brand, not really the team. So I think unfortunately, it's the culture we live in now because it's all about the highlight. Even watching, you know, I was at my nephew's senior night last night taking pictures. Marcus: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Alex: And even the celebrations that they do after they score goals now in soccer, I mean, we would have been carted for doing half of what they did when we were in high school. Go look at the gallery that I have up on the website and you can kind of see some of the celebrations that they've done because I got some of them. it's like, yeah, it's cool and all, but that never would have flown. Just like in high school when they score touchdowns now, they celebrate a lot more than they used to. And I'm not saying they shouldn't be able to have fun. Marcus: I haven't seen those yet. What did they do? Okay. Yeah. Alex: But the world has changed and it is much more ⁓ about the personal brand and the highlights. And that's even trickled down into youth. So two seasons ago for Grayson's team, had one specific, and this gets into the Karen conversation. We had one specific dad, that man, he was a lot. ⁓ But he would make highlight reels after the game and... Marcus: Yeah. Mm-hmm. Alex: I mean, his kid was one of the worst, just absolute trash talking. Everyone thought he was the best player in the world would give the Babe Ruth point to the outfield before he hit the ball. And in the back of your head, you're like, I hope you strike out. Like, I know you're on our team, but I kind of hope you strike out here. Like just to humble pie you a little bit. ⁓ but man, he. He was just vocal like he would yell where to throw the ball and this is the kids first season with live ball. So they're throwing it. They're missing it and the player that hit a single or should have only been a single because the second baseman should have just held onto the ball ends up getting the third base or even home because they miss for throws all because he's yelling second base third base. It's like dude. At what point as a parent one do you realize you're detrimental to the team to as another parent? Marcus: Yeah. Alex: At like, what point do you go, dude, shut the F up. Like you don't know what you're talking about. Just shut up. Marcus: ⁓ Alex: ⁓ what would you do in that scenario? Marcus: don't know. ⁓ now I'm getting to be that parent because I'm ⁓ probably yelling some stuff from sideline to get my kids' attention. But I think between ⁓ shit, I am that parent. SD Podcast - Jason: Hmm Marcus: I self-realization. Yeah, say, ⁓ man, it's me. SD Podcast - Jason: Okay, we got it. It's Marcus. Wait. Okay. The male version is Marcus. Alex: You You know, we were when I was when I was thinking about when I was thinking about what we were going to talk about today, I was like the first thing that came up was like the dad we thought we would be versus dad we are. And I was like, no, that's too that's too deep. We just got there with Marcus. He just realized the dad that he is. Marcus: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's cause so it's the backstory. So Marcus has done baseball, right? Which was great because I never played baseball. know, Blake's never played baseball. So we were just there quiet observing, Hey, enjoying the game. But now that he's playing soccer, something that both Blake and I really enjoy, you know, Blake was out there, you know, coach needed help. She was out there, hey, running drills before the game to help both teams get ready. Like, so the, the Addie's team and, ⁓ Marcus's team, which, you know, she needed to help the coach needed help. So it wasn't like she was overstepping her boundaries. She was like, Hey, ⁓ you look like you need help. Let me, let me help this out. But me, you know, I think that's a good example of where a parent should step up. But for me, when I was on the sideline and I saw Marcus just. Alex: you Marcus: kind of hanging around and there was a blue shirt behind him and he wasn't paying attention, then I would yell from the silence, Marguess, blue shirt behind you. And he, so to get them in the correct position. So yeah, that's just me enjoying and wanting to do better and trying to get them in a good spot. But I mean, I think my wife handled it a little bit better than I did of just trying to help where they could. SD Podcast - Jason: So. To extend on that, it wasn't anything I did, ⁓ but observing it, know, when you get parents yelling from the stands and the kid turns and listens to the parent, that's I, off the timing when I was coaching the high school team, the girls would look and actually look to the stands and raise their hands like what, or tell the parents to be quiet. And the play went on behind them. And then they had to to catch up because the parent was distracting from what they actually were trying to do. And they were doing fine. Marcus: Yeah. SD Podcast - Jason: But the parent was like wanting them to be that extra. And it's like, you're again, you're hurting the team because you want your child to stand out. And sometimes standing out is doing the right thing and taking a step back. Alex: Yeah, absolutely. Sorry, my dog's on top of me. She hates storms. ⁓ Yeah, no, I mean, and that's where it comes in. if, I think Marcus, the difference is like you're being helpful. Like you're saying, hey, guy in blue. Like you're not necessarily trying to get Marcus's attention or saying something that's gonna distract him. So I think that's a little bit different. ⁓ SD Podcast - Jason: Yeah, I know we're getting pretty hit pretty hard over here. Alex: But yeah, it's when you get those parents that are like trying to coach from the sideline and you're like, dude, like, look, you're, did this. I know you're trying to live vicariously through your child now, but maybe don't. I don't know. ⁓ let's just, let's just, let's just calm it down. ⁓ Marcus: Yeah. Yeah. SD Podcast - Jason: That's what I tried saying when I was muted. When you couldn't hear me, was saying they were living vicariously because they peaked in high school. Alex: You Marcus: Yeah. I mean, yeah, not wrong on that. Alex: Yeah, you're probably not wrong. You know, you know, it's funny though. So, but I think it's also a realization that like parents need to have like real talk, right? You need to be able to be true. If you're truthful, no one at least be truthful with yourself, right? So we went to my nephew's game two or three times ago. Um, and my brother-in-law was like, Hey, you know, Issa can come sit in the press box with me. And I was like, Marcus: Mm-hmm. Alex: Okay, cool. If you're interested in the press box, like I don't care. Um, we get there and I was like, I kind of thought he was kidding at first, like, then I was like, well, whatever, like he's, he is the assistant or sorry, the athletic director for a soccer club. So like, would make sense that he's tied in with the soccer program for the high school and maybe he helps with stats and all that. Anyways, I see him after the game and I was like, Oh, so you're, really were in the press box the whole time. And he was like, yeah, it's better for everyone. I was like, what do mean? He's like, no, it's distrust me. it's better for everyone if I'm not in the stands. I was like, okay, well at least he's auspices. Like he played professional soccer, he coaches professional clubs, he coached in college, like he knows his limitations and he knows that he won't be able to keep his mouth shut in the stands. So he just removes himself and watches from afar. Be real with yourself at least. Marcus: Yeah. SD Podcast - Jason: Well, that's good. Yeah. Understanding your place and how you behave for sure. Marcus: Yeah. think right now I will keep my place on the sideline, but I can see later on that I'm gonna have to watch by myself and away from everyone else. I don't know. SD Podcast - Jason: you Alex: Well, it's you hear those crazy stories. So we left. There's two youth baseball leagues in our town, right? Little League and then the city won. ⁓ And we left little league a while back because they didn't have OMS. Like they like one up for games. And it's because the OMS were getting accosted in the parking lot by these pissed off parents because of a call they made or this or that. And in my head, I'm like, how invested are you in this T ball game or coach pitch game that you are confronting an umpire after the game? Like I get. Marcus: Mm-hmm. Alex: I don't get it, but I can understand heat of the moment and you're like, dude, that was not an out, but whatever. Like I kind of at least understand that, but like it takes a long time for these kids to get off the field and pack their bag and get their snacks and walk to the car. Like you got a lot of cool downtime between that and parking lot. Like how are you still that upset? Marcus: Mm-hmm. you SD Podcast - Jason: Mm-hmm. man, like our district is like reaches out to people and say like, Hey, world short refs, refs are coming in. We don't want parents, but we're going to be shorthanded because they don't want to ref anymore because it is getting out of control. Even like you said, league middle school, like parents are so bad, but I think UIL and them have had, have stepped up and said, refs have a little bit more freedom of power to remove people. Marcus: It's like... SD Podcast - Jason: Just if they say one bar, they're just like, all right, you're gone. And it just takes care of it. It's really bad with basketball, like in the high school gyms. Alex: Good. Yeah, I get that. It's a lot closer quarters. I will say like last night, I was a little shocked that the ref didn't end up kicking out. There was these high schoolers that were sitting like the first two Rosa stands. And I mean, they're in like a football stadium. So I mean, you saw the track between you and this and that. But the ref, they honestly did call a pretty bad game. It was lopsided. They weren't calling equally. It was bad. Anyways, these fans were getting kind of into that ref. I'm kind of surprised he didn't tell them to get out of the stadium. SD Podcast - Jason: Maybe some refs are just hardened. They can handle it. Alex: Yeah, he honestly just ignored it. Like the only person he engaged with was the coach and the coach was pretty, there was one call that was terrible. Coach lit into this guy. It was great. SD Podcast - Jason: What's the one that they always get called on the offside or missing the offside or tripping holding tackle? Yeah. Like not say, it's fair. Like what's the worst? Like what happens more often? ⁓ Alex: . So I think though, I think the offsides is definitely the worst, but I will say in that scenario, they only had two refs. So one on each half. So there was a handful of offside calls that were questionable one way or the other, whether it was or wasn't offsides. SD Podcast - Jason: Mm-hmm. Alex: but it's also because they're not calling it from directly down the line like a linesman typically would. So, but again, in that scenario, you put your critical thinking hat on and say, is this worth me getting upset about when it's not gonna change? Like the ref's not all of a sudden gonna be in a better position next play. Like there's only two of them. SD Podcast - Jason: Right. Mm-mm. Alex: So that's where it gets me, like, people that just get upset over things they can't control. And they get... Marcus: think that's their anger management issues. I think they just haven't found fulfillment in life to be honest, because you're pretty level-headed. mean, but really, like, if that's pissing you off, I mean, I'd hate to see it. Yeah, there's something else going on in there. Like someone did something. I'd hate to see them in traffic, to be honest. SD Podcast - Jason: There's something else. Alex: Alright, so it's really conversation of traffic so I was gonna say they're the guy that cuts you off But before I say that how many of us in this room are the ones that drive all the way to the end of the lane? Just to get over even though they know they need to get over Marcus: It's just easier that way, yeah. SD Podcast - Jason: No, no, I, that pisses me off when people cut me off. So I'm very good about mapping my path and setting back and finding it. Now, do I get aggressive to get to that point? Yes. But then I get, I exit because I know some Jack wagon is going to wait. And that's why so many of those barricades are smashed because people wait way too long to move over and merge or get off the ramp. Marcus: Do you want to hear my take, Jason? Here's my take. Here's, here's, here's, here's, here's, here's my take. All right. So before you get to the end of the exit and people are exiting it off, there's always a space that they leave behind because no one's paying attention. So if you just pretend that you're going in that next lane, you can swoop in real quick. SD Podcast - Jason: All right, here we go. Here's Marcus. Here's the Karen Marcus. Here's the rage. Here we go. Alex: Here's the rage bait. Marcus: No harm, no foul, because there was already a spot there that if you were really adamant about going through, you would have been, you know, nuts to butts behind each other. But they're not. SD Podcast - Jason: But don't you, don't you remember the rule back in driving school? You're supposed to leave three seconds space between you and the car in front of you. Marcus: I didn't go to driving school. It is way faster my way. Just so you know. SD Podcast - Jason: Check. Alex: It's you, but it impacts someone else. Marcus: If everyone got that way, well, no, you know what? I don't want to give my secret out. Let's cut this out of the podcast so no one knows that secret. Alex: You SD Podcast - Jason: So he rides the shoulder every once in a while. It's okay. You know, it's fine. Marcus: No, I don't ride the shoulder. No, no, no, you'll get a ticket for that. But there's no there's no ticket for you're not even cutting people off. You're just merging when you're supposed to because you still do it at the ⁓ at the dash line. It's not even a solid line at that point. Alex: So that's, I guess that's the topic worth debating is when should you merge? Like if you know it's going to merge, do you wait until the very last minute? Is that the right way to do it? Or is it more prudent to get over earlier? Marcus: If I want to get there sooner, I wait till like 200 to 100 yards before I'm supposed to go over. SD Podcast - Jason: All right. Well, hey, well, let me ask you this. If you're coming onto the freeway and you're trying to speed up and then there's a person next to you who you know you have an edge, you know you're trying to get on, but then they decide like, Hey, you know what, instead of slowing down because they are exiting, they cut you off just to get on the exit while you're trying to get on. Marcus: ⁓ huh. Well, usually in driving school, if you've been, you put your blinker on that you're going to go that way. Common sense, that guy slows down and you merge over. Yeah, I do that. SD Podcast - Jason: Oh, no. Yeah, I do that. I mean, I put my blinker on. I put my blinker on like, hey, I'm trying to come over. Then these guys just zip up to literally get off. And it's like, you could have gotten right behind me because there was plenty of room, but you had to get in front of me. It's like, why? Yeah, those are the ones that it's just, are you ridiculous? Like you literally zipped up when I was in front of you ready to move over just to get into my spot when I was it was it's like those exchanges. I'm like, why? Why? Alex: and Marcus: Yeah. Yeah. I haven't had that one. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Alex: ⁓ SD Podcast - Jason: I don't understand why they do. Alex: We're gonna talk about that. I'm gonna say something about that in two seconds, but Marcus, I gotta go back to your statement here. ⁓ You said he didn't go to driver school, but then you just quoted driver school. I little mixed signals here. SD Podcast - Jason: So Alex is guilty of it. Marcus: Yeah, well, yeah, no, I didn't. I mean, I didn't go, but I'm just asking someone who did because when it was. SD Podcast - Jason: Yeah, I know. I caught that too. Alex: Yeah SD Podcast - Jason: when it was required. I took it when it was required and you had to go through a driving instructor and go through the DMV to get your license. Marcus: I didn't, well now that I'm old enough, I didn't have a license until I was like, I don't know, like 19 or 20, but I was driving since I was like 16. ⁓ I'm a great driver now. Alex: Yeah. So, so remind me not to get in a car with Marcus. ⁓ No, if you are getting on or off a highway, my theory is the person coming off the highway always goes in front because you shouldn't be deceling until you hit the exit lane or ramp. Cause what pisses me off is people that slow down. SD Podcast - Jason: Yeah Alex: in the lane before they get over into the decel lane. So they're going 60 when we should be going 70. So no, you should be 70 until you. Yeah, but there should be, y'all should be going the same speed. So they should be able to slide in front of you and you slide behind. SD Podcast - Jason: Yeah, but see, I'm accelerating already up to. No, I'm going faster than them going on the freeway and I'm ahead of them. Alex: That and I get that that's that's what I'm saying is they are wrong You should no one on the ramp should be going faster than someone on the highway Because the highway the slow speed is in the right lane and that should be five miles an hour over the posted speed SD Podcast - Jason: Well, I do. ⁓ ⁓ come on, you know that's not happening. Yeah. Marcus: I think we need to ask Claude who is right Claude what how fast do you go when you're gonna merge on to the highway Alex: We need to ask Claude this. So going out to my nephew's game last night, it was like an hour and a half away from here. So my mom, yeah, it's all the way across town. It's over by Marcus. SD Podcast - Jason: ⁓ gosh. Marcus: to as far. Alex: Yeah, so my mom came and rode with us and we were driving her car since I don't have one to fit six people and I gave her I think full stress the entire time while I was driving she was like you Get so close behind people and you don't use blinkers and you weave in and out was like I got somewhere to be mom like We're on a time constraint like this this car turns into a race car and we go SD Podcast - Jason: Hehehehe Gosh, I don't want to drive with either one of you. Alex: You Marcus: You're drivin' with me on a golf cart. I think. ⁓ no, you were drivin'. ⁓ SD Podcast - Jason: Yeah, but we all can only go so fast. We only can go so fast. Yeah. Alex: You know, funny thing is you can actually do some damage. I had a buddy and we all know who it is. ⁓ I will be nice. We were playing at heritage and he decided to try to drive like kind of through some of the trees and somehow hit like a stump and completely bent the axle of the cart. It was like, dude, how did you manage to damage a cart while playing golf? Like these things go 10 miles an hour. Like how did you manage to do that? SD Podcast - Jason: If that. If that. Alex: Yeah, I think he turned it in, like at the turn and was like, Hey, this wheels all messed up. And they swish them. They never got his information. was like, y'all are idiots. This is what you deal with the card. The card staff. SD Podcast - Jason: Dude, but some of those carts, if they will tip or just like slide real easy. Alex: No, okay, no, I will debate that. I will agree. It is not hard to do, but I will debate that. I worked at golf courses since I was 15 years old and I never once flipped a cart and we did some dumb stuff. And we've gone, I've done work ⁓ scrambles, which Marcus knows work scrambles are, yeah, you know what show like everyone's just, it is. And I got thrown out of a cart. SD Podcast - Jason: It's a fret party. Alex: but I never flipped a card. So yes, it is kind of easy. I'm gonna say not hard, but I wouldn't say it's easy. Like I don't know many people that have actually flipped a card. SD Podcast - Jason: The circumstances have to be right for a flip, that's for sure. Alex: You have to be acting really stupid to flip unless you're on like a hill. That's a whole nother conversation. SD Podcast - Jason: Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Hill or you're turning hard and you hit a bump just right that propels. Alex: Yeah, well if you see these ones on Instagram or TikTok where they like do a legitimate flip and you're like, how did you do that? SD Podcast - Jason: ⁓ and some of the speed that you see them coming in in the video, you're like, what golf cart goes that fast? Unless it's personal ones. Alex: Okay. So I will say, I was just about to say that being a member up here, I knew some guys that had street legal carts and you're supposed to turn it down when you get on the golf course, but most of them would leave it. So these carts are pulling like 30, 35 miles an hour down these cart paths, Bobbin and we even, I rode with one of them one time. was like, dude, I need a seatbelt. Like this is borderline reckless. SD Podcast - Jason: You Marcus: you SD Podcast - Jason: There's a towel. Marcus: ⁓ yeah. SD Podcast - Jason: Please. Alex: We've come a long way from our conversation about youth sports, by the way. SD Podcast - Jason: Yeah Marcus: I can imagine dudes doing donuts in front of the cart girl. It's like, she's going to love this. Alex: Yeah. SD Podcast - Jason: Well, he went, went to youth sports, to parent issues, to road rage. So it all connects. So there's all a connection. That's it. carts, youth sports, golf carts, and road rage. That's the title. Alex: to golf carts, to golf carts, which connects to road rage and... Marcus: Well, we brought it back. Alex: Yeah. Well, OK. Okay, so let's, ⁓ let me pull this one here. And Jason, I guess it's been a while since you've had a kid in sports, but you're going to get there again. ⁓ I've been coaching for the better part of my kids sports. So really the crosses the first time that I'm on the sideline, not doing anything. Granted, I'm taking pictures now. ⁓ SD Podcast - Jason: I guess I didn't like his question. ⁓ Marcus: I'm just kidding, Jason. SD Podcast - Jason: Yeah, I was like, Alex, what happened? You totally blocked out. Alex: Oh, I just realized I froze. No, I was gonna ask you another question, because Jason, you're about to get back into sports. So I think the Yeti phase was prior to you having kids. I have been a coach for the better part of everything going on. And now I do picture, so I really don't ever hit, nor am I a big drinker nowadays. What are your thoughts on taking a drink to youth sports? SD Podcast - Jason: You Alex: now that you have yetis and stuff like that that you can hide liquor in pretty easily. SD Podcast - Jason: ⁓ I've never been a big drinker my whole life. So to see that I would be like, no, it's not acceptable because it's like one sip here, two sips. Next thing you know, it could be more. And then you just start, it could potentially start acting and behaving. bad or inappropriate. Alex: there. Marcus: Yeah, I'll start setting lines on the game. know, like four and a half runs over under kind of thing. A little side action, yeah. SD Podcast - Jason: you You Alex: little side action. So it's, mean, it is more and more common, ⁓ even if you're not supposed to, because the whole Yeti, especially with like night games after work, like somebody, somebody will show up with a wine and the Yetis or something. But I will say one time I'm out myself in Casey a little bit. Grayson had, I think two games in one day or picture. I can't remember what, but we had enough time to go grab food. So we ended up going to Fuzzy's, had some tacos, had a couple of margaritas. SD Podcast - Jason: ⁓ gosh, I know it's bad. Margarita. Alex: We went back to the field and I'm almost like halfway through the game, Casey and I were texting each other and being like, ⁓ like, she was like, I'm a little tipsy. was like, yeah, I'm feeling it too. Like this is, maybe the 32 ounce margarita wasn't the best idea when we knew we had to be back out here. SD Podcast - Jason: As you, as you stop drinking, your tolerance drops. So it won't take much anymore. Gosh. 32. He, got the share bowls and he drank the whole thing. He just rolled the machine onto his truck. Marcus: 42 ounce margarita. Yeah. Took the shaker with him. Alex: No, yeah, you're not wrong. So no joke there is a little hole in the wall Mexican place and the town my mom lives in and they do the beer Ritas So you get the the big whatever? schooner of margarita put the beer in it Man two of those and you're on your butt like we had to be careful like it was like if I was driving I knew okay, it was one Marcus: You SD Podcast - Jason: Mm-mm. Yeah. Alex: And then after like the whole COVID thing happened and you can get these things to go, was like before when Casey and I were on the schedule of like we could leave, we only had the two boys. So they were at their other houses on every other weekend. We'd be like, well, we'll stay at my mom's house. So we'd go there, drink. I would get one to go and take it back to my mom's house to have another one. And we'd just end up staying there. It was. That's the best thing came out of COVID was to go drinks now that I'm not even a big drinker, but. Marcus: Yeah. SD Podcast - Jason: Was this, was this one of those times where you didn't make it into the house and slept on the lawn? Alex: No, that was a different time. That only happened once. And I was being a good husband. Casey wasn't feeling good. No, okay, so, ⁓ God, very long story, very long story short, I was in the dog house because I played in a tournament. Marcus: Were you in the dog house? Was there a dog house? SD Podcast - Jason: Maybe. Alex: And then I decided to play nine holes after the tournament and then came home and was already pretty drunk. But then we had to go back because we had a dinner that night at the club. Because it was for the men's golf association. And so she played catch up when I was already gone. So it ended up just being we laughed about it the next morning. Let's just say that. SD Podcast - Jason: you Marcus: Yeah. SD Podcast - Jason: And then I remember he's like, I don't want to ever be that hungover again. And like six months later, he's on the couch hungover. Alex: This is why I don't drink anymore. It's usually how it goes. I can't tell you last time I was hungover now. Actually, that's not true. ⁓ Two years ago when we went on vacation with the in-laws went to Mexico. I was drinking straight tequila like because this is after my whole gluten allergy stuff. So figured out. Okay. Well, I was just drinking straight tequila on the guy at the bar. It's all inclusive. So the bartender like he would see me be like amigo tequila. I'm like, yeah, absolutely. Give it to me. And man, I drank way too much one day. Marcus: at all. Alex: I didn't make it to dinner. I slept, think, for 13, 14 straight hours. I think that's the last time that I was legitimately hungover. So two years ago. SD Podcast - Jason: Jeez, Alex. So the good news, I don't like tequila that much. So that will never get me. Marcus: I love tequila. Alex: Well, I mean, did you have to say that Marcus? We know your heritage. Marcus: I did. I usually get mistaken for Arabian or Indian. So. Alex: Apparently, ⁓ now we're just on a podcast talking about alcohol. ⁓ Apparently, there's something similar to vodka from India. called Fini, F-I-N-I. I've been meaning to try it. I have a lot of Indian ⁓ project managers that work for us. So I talked to them and they told me about it. They sell it at Total Wine. I just haven't gotten to get it and need try it. SD Podcast - Jason: This is like a, this is an interesting episode. Marcus: me. SD Podcast - Jason: Mmm. Marcus: There are a lot of Indians in construction, like project management and estimators. Because I see the names when they do a little RFQs. was like, man, that is a long name. That's it. You owe the alphabet some letters. Alex: Mm-hmm. We're gonna bring this we're gonna bring this back to golf I went on I went on a golf trip a few years back and One of the guys that went his first name Kyle Which is funny Kyle Ken Kevin ⁓ First things but then his last name started I can't remember what now but it was like this really long like 20 letter last name So he was like anytime I go to a bar and they take my tab They ask, say, it starts with this and it's the longest last name in there. Like he doesn't even say it. It's like, it starts with a C and it's the longest one you'll find. Like, ⁓ that's funny. Marcus: Yeah Yeah. It's like, that's dumb. ⁓ yeah. Here you go, Mr. Alex: You SD Podcast - Jason: Yeah, ⁓ my gosh ⁓ that's crazy. ⁓ but. Alex: Yeah, I don't know how we got here from U Sports, I'm gonna be honest. SD Podcast - Jason: But okay, to bring it back a little bit to youth sports. And you asked me the question about the whole Yeti and the out. So when I did started, well, I only did the one year, the extra security that they had coaches and staff do at the football games and the clear black policy, the container policy. We had to check it and, know, the bottle of waters, all that stuff. And there were some moms that would come in and they had their fancy Yeti drinks or whatever. Like, Hey, you can't bring it in like, it's just water. Like, no, it's not. So their parents that, especially high school football. And I mean, these were full. So you imagine football game, just sipping on that thing, especially when it's hot. And it's like, Nope, you can't have it. No open containers at all. Even if it's water, if it's water, dump it out. There's refill stations in there. So, well, it's my special water. Okay. No. Marcus: Thank Special water. SD Podcast - Jason: It's filtered. So yeah, we've had to come across that. So it's it's it's really bad. Alex: It's pH balanced. You get, if you ever do that and someone says it's filtered, you gotta go, no, it's distilled. There's a difference. SD Podcast - Jason: It's distilled water. Alex: That's funny. I... I don't... Yeah, I guess I don't understand people trying to do that. Marcus: still spicy water SD Podcast - Jason: But yeah, it's, real. It is very real and it's getting worse. Alex: How do you, how do people actually think that they're gonna get away with that? Marcus: I understand if we were like in high school, but we're not. I haven't done that in a while. SD Podcast - Jason: So like you understand like high school you would want to drink, bring stuff in. Marcus: Yeah, I mean, that's like when you would want to sneak drinks in, but then it's like after you turn, I wouldn't say that. Maybe if I had kids and I was like 26, 27, I'd probably still be trying to get something. But then I think you get past 30 and it's just kind of, I'm over it. My body hurts. That's when you start sounding old. It's like, I don't want to deal with it. SD Podcast - Jason: Yeah. Well, that's just it. These parents, right? It's like it was cool back then, but you're a parent of a high school player who's on the field or cheerleader. You were coming here and watch your, your daughter or son or whatever band and you're 40, 50 years old and bring in this stuff in and acting like that. Like it's the cool thing to do. Marcus: Yeah, I don't know if it's necessary. Yeah. SD Podcast - Jason: Unless, unless their kids that bad and they just needed to help them pass the game. Marcus: I don't think I need, you know, Jack Daniels to help me watch my kid ride the bench, you know, it's not going to help me. That's like, it's going to make it worse. SD Podcast - Jason: It's gonna make it worse Actually, I had to, I'm on two sides of that because Maddie, up until her varsity, until high school varsity year, she was never one to be on the bench. She was always the one on the field. So of course, when we got to high school, we expected her to be on the field and then her junior senior year, was a little mix. And again, personal opinion, who she was being replaced with is definitely, definitely not better. Like Maddie was definitely faster. had more skill with touch with the ball, but because of the situation where they're playing, the coaches obviously played favorites and chose and it didn't work out. Then Payton on the other side of it tried soccer and she was one of those ones that coach towards the end of whatever season after a couple of years with the guy. I don't know. They were merging with another soccer club or something and They were going to like, Hey, know, Payton's good, but she's not quite to the level where I need her. I'd love to keep her, but this is the situation. And if you wanted to look elsewhere. So she was kind of on the, riding the bench, even a youth soccer for her club, but her club team was, or youth team was actually pretty good. And she was also the youngest, the baby for the age group cutoffs that they used. And she just was. Marcus: Mm-hmm. Yeah. SD Podcast - Jason: Not in the same driving driver's seat as her sister was with soccer. So that point, she just hung it up and moved on and tried some different things, but yeah, it is what it is. Marcus: Yeah, I'm still, we're still in the early stages here, so we'll see how it goes. mean, yeah. SD Podcast - Jason: What's the age groups? What are their age groups? Marcus: So my son's seven and uh-huh and my daughter's three So but she I mean She's kind of she's kind of a badass ⁓ Both of them are like at that age like I don't remember ⁓ Like having the vision that my son has like he's already passing the ball he's looking at who he should pass it to ⁓ SD Podcast - Jason: So U7. Mm-hmm. Marcus: And, you know, anticipating kind of where it's going to go, which at his age, I mean, I didn't start playing until I was like 10. So I started late. And so just to see him do that, I mean, it's, it's awesome. And, ⁓ my daughter, she's three, ⁓ and, and at that age, they're still playing with, you know, ⁓ male and female. So she, she's pretty quick. She's short, but she's got fast little legs. mean, they're just like, just kind of running. SD Podcast - Jason: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Alex: You Marcus: So she took the ball from I think the one male that was on that team took it from him and then just kind of outraced them to the goal and then kicked it as soon as she got there. SD Podcast - Jason: you you Marcus: And so it was one of those things where it was just like, man, like that's a kind of proud dad moment. Yeah, like it was, I didn't expect that. was like, I thought, I kind of had a feeling she was going to be all right, but it was great to kind of see it. My brothers were there and so it was, I turned into the loud parent. SD Podcast - Jason: ⁓ yeah. So this, so that comes back to how much of it is exposure to the sports, like seeing it, watching it technology, how much has that been helpful to them? And then, because I mean, some of it, it's got to be instinct, instincts. Yeah, just, it just happens naturally for some of these kids, or people, and others have to work a little bit more at it. But maybe that extra leverage Marcus: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Mm-hmm. SD Podcast - Jason: You know, when we were growing, we didn't have, look at this film, look at the study, look at this, ⁓ as kids today have, you know, they can always replay, look back. Like even now, you know, golfers like us, like they always go back and we have the access to look at Tiger Woods growing up, playing swing, look at his swing, look at his mechanics. You know, when I was growing up, that didn't exist. Like we had no tools to figure this out. And then. Marcus: Mm-hmm, yeah. SD Podcast - Jason: It's funny. It's like the coaching that I got years ago, even just a handful of years ago for the golf swing is so different than the coaching I'm getting now. And the coaching I'm getting now makes way more sense because they've learned so much more through the use of technology and the body mechanics and things like that. was like, all right, technology can be useful, just used appropriately. Marcus: Yeah. Yeah, it certainly can. Yeah. Yeah, like my son, he's he's big into like Ronaldo. He's over and all those that go and blah, blah. I was like, no, you need to you need to see some Ronaldinho because that's when I was growing up. Like he was, you know, with the footwork and all that. And so I showed him some videos and he's like, that's pretty cool. It's like I don't I don't see Ronaldo move like that. Yeah, you don't. SD Podcast - Jason: ⁓ yeah. Mm-hmm. Hmm Yeah. I mean, kids these days, they, they understand a little bit of Kobe, but obviously he was, he's been, mean, he obviously situation, but he was out before a lot of these high school kids got to really watch him. But then I go, have you, know, magic Johnson, Larry bird, like. Well Chamberlain Michael Jordan, like you guys have to go back and try to find old footage of them. But even when you just watch him play. Marcus: Yeah. Yeah. SD Podcast - Jason: There was that element, but there was just an animalistic approach that those guys took to the game that you just don't see it. Even in the pros, you don't see it in the same way. Marcus: Nah. Yeah, they have that, I don't know, it's a kind of win by any means necessary kind of mentality. There was a book that I had read and it was the coach or the trainer that was for Michael Jordan and Kobe. And he was talking about ⁓ what made them different is the edge that they had on everyone was Kobe was, he would outwork anybody. And it was just like, SD Podcast - Jason: Mm-hmm. Marcus: Hey, and then Kobe said in an interview is like, Hey, we'll party. go to the club at, you know, come back to in the morning. It's like, but four in the morning, I'll see you in the gym. It's like, if you want to keep doing that, you have to match me over here and I'll go with you. ⁓ and it's, it is different. They don't, they don't, they don't make them like that anymore. SD Podcast - Jason: Yeah, it's, it's just different. I don't know. Even, even the high school athletes and stuff like that. see now I'm like, you're just a different breed. Like, I don't know how else to say it. It's just, you guys are a different breed and I don't know if it's our area. Like you go to different areas of the state or country. They're raised differently. I don't know. I don't, it just, it's kind of sad. Alex: I you Marcus: Yeah. Alex: Thank Marcus: Mm-hmm. SD Podcast - Jason: in a way that you just don't have guys that go out flat out dominate like those guys did that could change the balance of the game. Marcus: Yeah, I think the last one that did that was ⁓ probably LeBron from what I remember. ⁓ Maybe. SD Podcast - Jason: I mean, shoot, relate it back to golf. mean, until Scotty's going on this tear, no one approached it like they didn't like Tiger. And he had a certain mentality about it that just destroyed. Just cut throat, just destroyed him. mean, Nicholas Arnold and all them, they were all solid, but he just took it to a different level. Marcus: ⁓ yeah. Yeah, it's like that killer instinct that he wasn't gonna let up. SD Podcast - Jason: Yeah, there you go. That's Yeah. Alex is like, can you hear me? No, can't hear you. Can't see you. Don't know what happened to you. Marcus: I SD Podcast - Jason: see, else? Did he text you? Marcus: No, I was going to text the group there. SD Podcast - Jason: It's like, I don't want to end it, but I mean, well, let's see. We're about to take a siesta. Okay. Marcus: ⁓ he's here, he's here! Alex: ⁓ I've been here. I've been listening to y'all. My aught, my aught. Yeah, I was listening to that whole thing. LeBron and Kobe and my, no, my audio. I can hear y'all, but you couldn't hear me. I was letting y'all talk anyways. Marcus: ⁓ really? Ugh. Yeah. SD Podcast - Jason: But where your camera went out and totally dropped from the screen. it. Yeah. No. Marcus: Yeah. Alex: that whole time. Like you couldn't, when you were talking about LeBron and everything, you couldn't even see me. ⁓ that's funny. I was listening to that whole thing. Marcus: No? Yeah. No. Is it? Okay, well you got a preview for next week. SD Podcast - Jason: Mm-mm. Yeah. Alex: That's funny. Yeah, I was just I was just kicking back over here. It's listening. I was like, oh cool. Whatever I Didn't know well, I got a notification that it said y'all couldn't hear me. I was like, whatever SD Podcast - Jason: Yeah. Marcus: Yeah. ⁓ SD Podcast - Jason: Mm hmm. Yeah, it said your mic dropped on my end and then then your camera screen just disappeared. Alex: Yeah, whatever. Marcus: think we made it full circle though back to sports so we're back. Alex: Yeah, and so what's the overall philosophy on ⁓ parenting youth sports? SD Podcast - Jason: on the. Marcus: Don't mix alcohol with it? I don't know. That's probably the biggest one. SD Podcast - Jason: I hope that it okay, even in the classroom, there's, there's been a little bit of a shift in the good way with parents overstepping with their kids and letting the kids learn through this process a little bit more, instead of being the helicopter parent, ⁓ just trying to do everything for them. And I think with the youth sports is kind of like the same back where these kids parents are just trying to do everything for their kid to make them play better, do better, do all the stuff instead of just let it happen. So I hope it's gonna take, it's gonna take some time, but I hope it is gonna move in the right direction that parents will eventually just let it happen and then be more accepting of where the skill of their child is. And if they really want to move forward, then it's just like anybody, the kid has to show the interest. Like we've talked about youth sports, the kid has to be interested. Don't force it on them because then, then you're going to lose them and they're going to go off and to do something else, which could be great. But again, I think parents need to let things just happen naturally and just see where it goes and then encourage it instead of trying to run it. Marcus: I don't know, for me, just because you guys have been shedding the light on it, is bringing that team aspect back to sports, youth sports. mean, that's the fun part about it. It's like, that's your buddies who you're playing with. And I think just from hearing what we've kind of been talking about, mean, it feels like we're getting away from that a little bit. mean, yeah. SD Podcast - Jason: Yeah, it's always about the me. I want to be the guy who's going to get the recognition to be the big D1 signing or get the big scholarship or get the first picture of the draft. But hopefully it seems like in college, the the teams kind of get better. But for high school and even younger sports, it's, it really is like who is the one person instead of being a team. Alex: Mm-hmm. Marcus: Mm-hmm. Alex: think it depends on what sport too. Cause if you look at college, college football, they, it's, there are some teams I don't want to take away. I think Indiana has much as I hate them. Someone Purdue guy and the beat Miami in the championship. I think they are a team and they, made that a big deal during that whole week lead up was they don't have any five star recruits, blah, blah, blah. So I think NFL or sorry, I think college football is still very much individual cause it's all about. Marcus: Mm-hmm. Alex: How do I get enough stats to transfer to one of the big schools in a year? And we talked about this a little bit in golf. All these players are starting off at smaller schools and then transferring to finish up at one of the big schools. I think golf is a little bit easier to be an individual because at the end of the day, you're not playing as a team. You contribute to a team, but you're not playing as a team. You're still your own individual person playing against someone else. Marcus: It's not a team, yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Alex: So think that one has a little bit more latitude to be individualistic in mindset. But I think a lot of the sports, it's all about the personal brand. I don't know how you go back from that with NIS. Marcus: Yeah. SD Podcast - Jason: No, at point, it's all trashed. Marcus: It's like one of those things where you know people were saying ⁓ yeah I've got to pay the players but then now we're kind of seeing that backlash on that going down to use sports on that mindset which didn't anticipate I guess. Alex: Mm. Yeah, probably should have. SD Podcast - Jason: Well, mean, Amy goes all the way up to the top. Like, I mean, look at these guys, the NFL getting thrown this kind of money that, and they're not even achieving or performing. That's like, someone's got to control it. And at that point it's the owners had to control it. I mean, you Kirk cousins. They said he's like, if genius, like he got paid more than like Aaron Rogers and he's done nothing. ⁓ know, Kyler Murray got paid out a chunk and now he's potentially going to be released. ⁓ to I think he will be released from Cardinals to a got a big payout. He's probably gonna be released by Miami or traded. Alex: Yeah, it's even, baseball's even worse. They sign big contracts and that's guaranteed money. That's not even a structured deal. Like it's just, like how many times do you have the Rangers organization playing for a player that they traded and they're still paying for them because it's guaranteed money. SD Podcast - Jason: Yeah, and basketball. Yeah. Marcus: Mm-hmm. SD Podcast - Jason: Yeah. ⁓ yeah. A-Rod that whole issue with A-Rod years ago. Albert Puhlholtz when he took that big money from St. Louis to the Cal Angels, he crapped on it. Alex: Ahem. Mm-hmm. Marcus: I think Shohei is going to get paid for the next 50 years or something with his contract. ⁓ SD Podcast - Jason: ⁓ something ridiculous. Alex: Yeah, it's insane, these contracts. SD Podcast - Jason: ⁓ the Bobby Bonilla day he's going to get paid a million dollars every year on that specific day from the Mets because the way they did his contract. It's like something dumb. Marcus: Yeah. Alex: That'd be great to know exactly what day every year you get a million dollars. Just be like, you can't wait for that day. You can't wait for that day right there. SD Podcast - Jason: Yeah, either he was a genius or they were so blinded and dumb that he's just totally like Marcus: I mean that's gonna be sho-hey. Alex: I'm in a year's deal counting that you have quarterbacks making 40 a year or 50 year or whatever they're making SD Podcast - Jason: Gosh. Alex: So all goes back to our kids aren't making this kind of money. So maybe we just chill out a little bit. Marcus: Yeah. Yeah, keep sipping your Tito's and just don't yell at the ref. I don't know. SD Podcast - Jason: Mm-hmm. ⁓ god. ⁓ Alex: We are we are not advocating for sideline drinking on this podcast ⁓ You know you do you but ⁓ You know Marcus: No. SD Podcast - Jason: Yes. Marcus: I won't unless you do. SD Podcast - Jason: You Alex: Marcus is the worst kind of friend to have around. He's not the one that's gonna talk reason to you. He's the one that's like, yeah, whatever, it sounds fun. SD Podcast - Jason: Luckily most people... Marcus: I'm very reasonable. mean, I think it through like quick. SD Podcast - Jason: Yeah. Yeah, he- Alex: This is why I struggle. I shouldn't say I struggle. Maybe I actually play better with you. Because half the time when I'm debating and he's always encouraging me to do the stupid thing and it's like, all right, whatever. Marcus: It's like, what's the worst thing that's gonna happen? You're gonna get back in the cart and we're gonna sip another sip of the drink. ⁓ Alex: Dude, okay, but this has become a problem. I legit have not played golf since maybe a week after you and I played. Marcus: ⁓ Well, we're about to get to scramble season here. So I'm gonna start hitting it hard here pretty soon Alex: I think the next time I will be playing outside is at the Scramble with Jason. Which is what, week from Friday? No, it's next Friday. Marcus: ⁓ two weeks. I thought it was Thursday. SD Podcast - Jason: Next Thursday? Yeah. Yeah. Did you sign up? Alex: Next Thursday? Next Thursday? I thought you signed us up. SD Podcast - Jason: ⁓ no, I did. did myself. I didn't know you were because you were still give me the question mark, but I can add you in. Alex: I thought you were signing up the team. SD Podcast - Jason: Okay, easy enough. I mean, I know the guy. Alex: Yeah, I need to ask off work still, but I'm not. That's not going to be a problem. All right. So that was fun, long, random, random podcast there. Anything else? Any last thoughts about what we originally came on youth sports and the overbearing parents? We found out Marcus is an overbearing parent. Marcus: He is the guy. SD Podcast - Jason: Okay. Alright, sometimes you need these. Well... I've grown. I've grown in my wisdom and I still got a few more years before I go back to youth sports. So I think I'm okay. So it's a matter of what you two are doing is set the trend moving forward. Marcus: ⁓ we found out together, fellas. Alex: you See, I took my brother-in-law's path of remove yourself, so I found photography and now I just sit behind a lens and watch my kids and it keeps them outshud. Marcus: Now look at me. SD Podcast - Jason: You Marcus: need to find something. Alex: So you can be Marcus and talk, or you could be me and just keep your mind occupied. SD Podcast - Jason: So what is it gonna be, Marcus? Marcus: What? No, I he was talking to you. I know what I'm gonna be. I'm gonna run my mouth. ⁓ I'm self-aware here. I'll do it until they... Yeah, hey. I'm okay. I'm okay with it. SD Podcast - Jason: You I knew that I knew I wanted to hear it. I knew you were gonna say it. I just wanted to hear it. you Alex: Alright guys, you got anything else? Anything of ⁓ semi-worth for our listeners here? SD Podcast - Jason: No, I'm good. Enjoy. Marcus: Enjoy, be self-aware. Alex: self-aware I like it we're gonna finish we're gonna finish this off with a life lesson just be self-aware we we just redeemed wasting we just redeemed wasting an hour of everyone's time with the last 30 seconds SD Podcast - Jason: sip some Tito's and listen. Marcus: self-aware and own it. SD Podcast - Jason: That's actually very words to the wise. Marcus: Yeah. SD Podcast - Jason: This podcast could have been wrapped up in 30 seconds. Marcus: free. Alex: Just put this part at the front end of the podcast and everyone will think that we actually had a really deep conversation and then just come to find out it was an hour of us completely wasting everyone's time. SD Podcast - Jason: Yeah. Marcus: Yeah. SD Podcast - Jason: It makes it entertaining. The drive will be fun. Alex: great. My drive next Wednesday will be fun. Maybe we'll listen to it while we're playing golf. Let's put it on instead of music. We're gonna listen to our podcast. SD Podcast - Jason: Yeah. Like who's that? are you guys listening to? Us. You guys love each other that much? Yeah, we do. Alex: Duh. Marcus: Yeah. ⁓ You don't love your own scent? Yeah, I love it. Alex: I don't love your accent. All right, gents, well, if that's all, ⁓ as always, everyone, like, listen, follow YouTube, Amazon, Spotify, and Apple, ⁓ and I'm gonna stop saying what next week is gonna be, because I don't know what next week is gonna hold. We might talk to IGP, it might be another hour of the three of us just being idiots. So tune in and you'll find out. SD Podcast - Jason: you I have no idea. Marcus: Can't wait. SD Podcast - Jason: There you go. All right. See you next week. Alex: Alright boys, see you next week. Marcus: See ya.