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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 339 - 2025 Baseball Team Previews · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Lennon Christian Senior, Austin Angles and you're listening
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  Speaker 1: to the twenty twenty five baseball preview on the Walcome
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  Speaker 1: Preps Podcast with Tyler and Ryland.
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  Speaker 2: Go links readings and welcome into the Watcome Preps podcast.
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  Speaker 2: This is episode at three hundred and thirty nine, the
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five baseball Preview. I'm Ryland Spencer along with
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  Speaker 2: me as always is Tyler Anderson of Watcome Preps.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler, how are we doing doing great? This is uh,
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  Speaker 1: this is fun because it's it's kind of a you know,
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  Speaker 1: recharge new season. The weather is supposed to be getting
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  Speaker 1: better it is and yeah and uh, and we get
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  Speaker 1: to talk about a lot of new athletes and some
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  Speaker 1: that we're pretty used to. It is funny, Tyler.
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  Speaker 2: As I read the intro here, I'm Ryland Spencer along
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  Speaker 2: with me as always is Tyler. And that's true now
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  Speaker 2: reverse it not always true because I basically had the
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  Speaker 2: last month off as I dealt with some medical things.
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  Speaker 2: But I did listen to some of your podcasts. I
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  Speaker 2: will admit I didn't listen to all of every single
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  Speaker 2: one of them, but it is great to be back.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited for baseball, we had our first game. I'm
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  Speaker 2: helping coach at BAFEL and we had our first game
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  Speaker 2: last night, and we have four games next week. We
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  Speaker 2: play Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday. Yeah, we're gonna find out
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  Speaker 2: about how much pitching we have, that's for sure. And
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  Speaker 2: actually Saturday is a nice little three hour trip over
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  Speaker 2: to Wenatchi to play eastmont Our jv and Varsity are
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  Speaker 2: both going over. So and then the very next week
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  Speaker 2: after that, Tyler Monday, Wednesday, Friday again, So we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: play a lot of baseball here really really quickly. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited. You know, it's just it's fun to be
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  Speaker 2: out at baseball fields, and you know, it's it's funny
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  Speaker 2: the difference in being a football coach and a baseball coach.
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  Speaker 2: It's like baseball in the dugout, you get to have
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  Speaker 2: a little more fun than you do on the sideline
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  Speaker 2: of a football game. Yeah right, there's a little more
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  Speaker 2: loosey goosey, and yeah.
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  Speaker 1: There's no time limit. There's you know, you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to rip and get a.
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  Speaker 2: Play in or yeah, I remember, I remember last year
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  Speaker 2: we were at a game and we were beating up
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  Speaker 2: on a on a team pretty good, and there was
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  Speaker 2: a there was a picture for the other team that
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  Speaker 2: gave up like five straight doubles something like that. Like like,
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  Speaker 2: we were just on and uh, one of the one
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  Speaker 2: of the one of the relief pictures on our team
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  Speaker 2: goes get him at L screen. And it took me
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  Speaker 2: probably three or four seconds to realize what he said.
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  Speaker 2: And then I just I couldn't stop laughing. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I bet I laughed for an inning and a half
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  Speaker 2: about that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: It's so dumb, but it is so funny. Get him
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  Speaker 2: in L screen. And here's the thing. I haven't really
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  Speaker 2: been in baseball, you know, that much for probably the
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  Speaker 2: last fifteen years, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know, I get into it. Last year
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  Speaker 1: we finished third in state, and it's like, yeah, you know, man,
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  Speaker 1: I forgot how much I love baseball so much fun,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know a lot of the chirps, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you will, I don't know some of the things.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know if that's a common one to say,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. But when he said it,
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  Speaker 2: I about lost my mind. I mean I was, I
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  Speaker 2: was laughing so hard and and there would be a
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  Speaker 2: couple of days later, I'd look over at the kid
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  Speaker 2: at practice or something, and I would just hear him
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  Speaker 2: saying it again and just start laughing. But Tyler, we
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  Speaker 2: need to give a thank you to Austin Engles of
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  Speaker 2: Lynnen Christian Senior. Well, I'm sure we'll be talking about
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  Speaker 2: him if you have him here in the intro, Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: But we're gonna talk about all ten teams in Wacom County.
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  Speaker 2: This preview, Tyler, is actually brought to you by Wacome
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  Speaker 2: Prep Baseball Association. That has nothing to do with us. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we are not Wacome Prep Baseball and Walcome Prep Baseball
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  Speaker 2: is not like a site that covers baseball. It's a team,
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's an organization. H watcom Prep baseball dot
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  Speaker 2: com is where you can find them. They are an
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  Speaker 2: association that was established to give boys Walkham County a
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  Speaker 2: chance to play baseball at a higher level of competition.
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  Speaker 2: Walcam Prep Baseball Association is committed to providing competitive baseball
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  Speaker 2: at an affordable price. I looked it up, Tyler. On
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  Speaker 2: their website, it says it says we will have I
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  Speaker 2: think that means like in the next couple of weeks
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  Speaker 2: as things start going here, you know they're gonna have
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  Speaker 2: it says nine U up to fourteen U teams. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean they've got a couple different age levels here.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what this feels like. It feels like
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  Speaker 2: a sponsorship that is very similar to North County Alliance FC.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Yes, absolutely, And they feed so many players that
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  Speaker 1: are you know, going into Walkham County to play high
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  Speaker 1: school baseball, which a lot of these kids we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about coming up went through this program. So
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a natural link. And and how about
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  Speaker 1: that that they're called Walcom Prep Baseball Association. I guess
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  Speaker 1: they just wanted to be popular as much as how
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at it, But I but it is really cool,
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  Speaker 1: and I know there's kids from so many different high schools,
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  Speaker 1: I mean from around the county. I mean Ferndale and Bellyam,
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  Speaker 1: Sealm and Meridian and Linden and a lot of them
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  Speaker 1: played in this growing up. So it's it's really cool.
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  Speaker 1: And and so I'm excited to you know that they
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  Speaker 1: reached out and they you know, it's crazy because there
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  Speaker 1: was more stuff that they were willing to do. But
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  Speaker 1: everything for baseball was kind of all locked in and ready,
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  Speaker 1: but there's always chances for more stuff. So but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a great partnership.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things I noticed here Tyler, and this
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  Speaker 2: is it speaks to me a little bit. You and
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  Speaker 2: I have talked about this before. Says here, what if
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  Speaker 2: my child plays other sports during the winter, And their
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  Speaker 2: response is, that's great. We encourage multi sport athletes. I'm
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  Speaker 2: a huge fan of multi sport athletes. I think everybody
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  Speaker 2: should be playing multi sports. Baseball is kind of one
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  Speaker 2: of those sports that over the years has become a
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  Speaker 2: little more specialized. And you know that's not something I'm
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  Speaker 2: a fan of. I just fully admit it, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So it is cool to see that they do encourage
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  Speaker 2: multi sport athletes.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler. The other thing I noticed about them, Yeah, their logo.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is the new Montreal Expos, which is a
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  Speaker 2: little bit you know what I mean, you know what I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Saying, Oh, yeah, the Nationals, the w.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, which which, by the way, I mean, is there
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  Speaker 2: a more perfect logo like for Wacom County if you're
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  Speaker 2: talking baseball, like like, that's a perfect logo to have.
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  Speaker 2: And then you've got different colors. I mean, it's it
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  Speaker 2: does work out well when when you have just a letter,
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  Speaker 2: you know which which Baseball does you know the Pirates
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  Speaker 2: are just a pe, the Dodger or the well the
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  Speaker 2: Dodgers are l a you know, yeah, Baseball have the
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  Speaker 2: C and yeah the Chicago Bears basically like.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, Watcomprep baseball dot Com is their website. Check them
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  Speaker 2: out obviously, Tyler. That is, uh, you know, we we
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  Speaker 2: love anything Wacom County and when those teams go on
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  Speaker 2: and go places, and we we may not be up
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  Speaker 2: to date on everything they're doing, but we're obviously room
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  Speaker 2: for walk them counting here. So uh that's a great
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  Speaker 2: sponsorship to have. And uh yeah, head on over walcomeprep
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  Speaker 2: baseball dot com. Check out what they got going on, Tyler.
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  Speaker 2: I said it earlier. We're gonna talk about all ten
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  Speaker 2: teams here. We've got records, we've got numbers, we've got
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  Speaker 2: coaches records, we've got I mean, there's so much information here, Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know what some of these things mean.
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  Speaker 1: I really don't.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna be completely honest, But you're the stats guy.
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  Speaker 2: You are the the psychotic stats guy that has all
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  Speaker 2: the numbers. Tyler, You got all the numbers, so we
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  Speaker 2: have plenty to talk about here. Yeah, I mean, let's
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  Speaker 2: just get right into it, and we're gonna go alphabetical
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  Speaker 2: order here, which means, Tyler, do we always go off
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  Speaker 2: a betical order in these previous pretty like we do?
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  Speaker 1: Bellingham gets the I mean they really get the get
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  Speaker 1: the prime spot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they they should be paying to have that spot.
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  Speaker 2: We need to get the BayHawks on board. Here drops
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  Speaker 2: a coin anyway, Bellingham BayHawks head coach Tom Lewis. He
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  Speaker 2: is in his third year twenty and twenty seven overall.
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  Speaker 2: Last season, the BayHawks finished with a record of ten
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  Speaker 2: and thirteen. Tyler, The way we're gonna do this is
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  Speaker 2: we're going to talk first about the top fifty returners.
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  Speaker 2: And when we say top fifty returners, we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: last year's top fifty count down here on Wakome Preps. So, Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: I see the BayHawks have two returning top fifty members.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're both underclassmen too. So these are a
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  Speaker 1: couple of guys that have been doing it for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Ky Nelson is a is an infielder pitcher shortstop can
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  Speaker 1: do a lot of good things. He went Player of
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  Speaker 1: the Week last week when he pitched and beat Lindon.
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  Speaker 1: That was a big member. That huge, a huge win
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  Speaker 1: for him, but a really good hitter as well. He'd
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  Speaker 1: batted three zero eight last year, had ten RBIs, seven
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  Speaker 1: stolen bases, had seven doubles. That's a lot of doubles
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  Speaker 1: in a high school season, and also a triple. And
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  Speaker 1: then as the as a pitcher, he went three and four.
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  Speaker 1: He did pick up a couple of saves. He threw
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  Speaker 1: thirty eight innings, struck out twenty five. I've an e
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  Speaker 1: R of five point five to three. So uh, he's
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  Speaker 1: a He's gonna be a big time major factor on
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  Speaker 1: this team this year and next year as well. The
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  Speaker 1: other top fifty returning player is Joe Harward, who we've
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  Speaker 1: been talking about in football and basketball a lot, and
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  Speaker 1: now in baseball. You know, last year was his first
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  Speaker 1: year as the full time season starter at catcher. He's
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  Speaker 1: catching again and I think he's been batting leadoff so
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  Speaker 1: far this year. So it's kind of a unique thing
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  Speaker 1: for a catcher to bat bat lead off. There's another
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  Speaker 1: team that's doing that as well. So far that I've
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  Speaker 1: I've been able to tell he also batted three oh eight,
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  Speaker 1: but he stole twenty bases. So once he gets on, uh,
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  Speaker 1: he wants to be moving and and you know, just uh,
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  Speaker 1: just a tremendous, tremendous athlete, and uh, he can pitch
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  Speaker 1: a little bit if needed. But you know, most most teams,
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  Speaker 1: if you got that good catcher, you don't want to really,
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  Speaker 1: you know, mess with that a whole lot. You just
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  Speaker 1: keep him back there and you kind of work around that.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, a lot, and in high school a lot,
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  Speaker 1: especially smaller schools, your catcher's probably got a pretty good arm,
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  Speaker 1: and you might need an inning here or there. Well,
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  Speaker 1: there you go, and that's that's where Joe Harwork could
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  Speaker 1: come in to play there. It's funny, Tyler.
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  Speaker 2: Right before you mentioned the twenty stolen bases, I was
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  Speaker 2: just looking at his stat line.
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  Speaker 1: Two things I noticed.
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  Speaker 2: First off, the two guys returning both batted three h eight,
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  Speaker 2: which is wild, right, Yeah, But I said to myself, Wow,
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  Speaker 2: twenty stolen bases. Holy crap, that's a lot of stolen bases,
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  Speaker 2: like it is, that was a lot of them. And
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  Speaker 2: then I thought to myself, that's probably the most returning
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  Speaker 2: in the county. Oh wait, no, hold on, I bet
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  Speaker 2: Hudson Nef and I scrolled down. Sure enough've had him
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  Speaker 2: by three. Hudson Nef is I mean that guy, I mean, unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the top fifty returners. Two of them they're
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  Speaker 2: thirty one and seventeen. Thirty one for Harvard, seventeen for
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  Speaker 2: Nelson Tyler. Other returning players, we got four guys listed
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  Speaker 2: here and one of them making a return. His stats
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  Speaker 2: are from twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Alden Scott probably, I mean you could make a
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  Speaker 1: case the best overall player on the team as a freshman,
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  Speaker 1: and he had a tremendous year. He batted three ZHO nine,
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  Speaker 1: had walked eleven times to twelve strikeouts. That's a pretty
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  Speaker 1: darn good ratio, especially as a freshman. Had an eight
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  Speaker 1: to ten ops, had four doubles a triple, so he
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  Speaker 1: did a lot of good things. Plus he logged forty
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  Speaker 1: six innings. Uh and in those forty six innings he
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  Speaker 1: struck out fifty four batters. You average more strikeouts, you know,
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  Speaker 1: average you have more strikeouts than innings pitched as a freshman.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty impressive. I remember he had pitched a really
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  Speaker 1: good game against Ferndale his freshman year. And this was
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  Speaker 1: the Ferndale team that had you know, Jake Mason and
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  Speaker 1: Dylan Strom and and all those guys. I mean this,
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  Speaker 1: that Ferndale team was loaded and and and alten Scott.
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  Speaker 1: I think he limited them to one or two runs
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  Speaker 1: in that game. I mean, it was just it was
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  Speaker 1: it was something to see a freshman do that against
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  Speaker 1: a senior heavy, big time hitting team. So there were
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  Speaker 1: some really good things last year. In the opener, he
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  Speaker 1: had an arm injury going run into first or it
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  Speaker 1: might have been going back to or going back to first,
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  Speaker 1: or it was something crazy. It was near first base,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, it was just freak and then that was
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  Speaker 1: it and it was just such a bummer. The good
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  Speaker 1: thing is he has two more years to go, so
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  Speaker 1: uh so, yeah, he will be heavily dependent on to
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  Speaker 1: you know, him and Ken Nelson will be the big
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  Speaker 1: one two punch on the mound. Also returning Eric Eric
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  Speaker 1: Hellfield kind of a second basement type maybe you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe play some left field as well. He batted two
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  Speaker 1: forty six, had a double. Uh he could also pitch
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  Speaker 1: a little bit if needed as well. I think he
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  Speaker 1: pitched a little bit today. Actually, Belliam is already they
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  Speaker 1: played their third game of the year today, so they're
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  Speaker 1: playing a lot of games early, and I think everyone
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  Speaker 1: not not every team has even played yet and everyone
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  Speaker 1: else has just like played one, so they've they've already
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  Speaker 1: played three. Well, I think Squalkam got their second game
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  Speaker 1: in today as well. Eli good Buffalo. He played some
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  Speaker 1: third base last year, but he will be the starting
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  Speaker 1: first baseman this year. He's about six three, six four,
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  Speaker 1: maybe two fifty five, big strong. At the jamboree he
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  Speaker 1: was pounding the ball all over the place at Joe
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  Speaker 1: Martin Field last year he hit he hit one one
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  Speaker 1: seventy one and limited action. Did have six RBIs in
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  Speaker 1: six hits. So that tells you something right there that
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  Speaker 1: you know he's he when when you know he's he
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  Speaker 1: does when he has hits, he usually does it with
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  Speaker 1: runners in scoring positions, So that's a that's a really
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  Speaker 1: good thing. And then Ben Leonard, who we saw him
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  Speaker 1: stand out at quarterback uh for a big chunk of
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  Speaker 1: the year this year. He played a little bit last
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  Speaker 1: year at the end of the year, came on to
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  Speaker 1: pitch a little bit at the at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the year, he'll be that third arm. Now, uh, you
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  Speaker 1: always have to have kind of that like that third
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  Speaker 1: starter for like those big weeks like you're talking about
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  Speaker 1: with Boffele coming up, you better have a third starter ready.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, but he'll be playing some center field and
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  Speaker 1: and getting a lot more at bats. Just had the
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  Speaker 1: two at bats last year, but he did log almost
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  Speaker 1: nine innings last year and struck out seven batters. So
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  Speaker 1: so those are the main guy for for Bellingham. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a team that's and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: be saying this probably a lot, but they're they have
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  Speaker 1: a good chunk of core guys that have varsity and
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  Speaker 1: then they'll just be it'll be a matter of how
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  Speaker 1: quick do the new guys adapt, you know, And right
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  Speaker 1: now they're they're struggling a little bit. They're ower and
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  Speaker 1: three to start the season, really really struggling offensively, just
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  Speaker 1: three runs in those three games. But you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's something that takes a little while. And early on,
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  Speaker 1: you know you're not throwing your guys many innings. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you might have them on a forty five pitch count
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  Speaker 1: something like that. To start the season, especially when it's
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  Speaker 1: really cold. I mean every game they've played it's been
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  Speaker 1: in the low forties. You know, it had just has
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  Speaker 1: not been great weather yet, and so we'll see if
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  Speaker 1: they can turn things around. I think they can. They
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of guys that can do some good things,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm I'm excited to see some of these new
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  Speaker 1: freshmen coming up and and these new faces that I
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  Speaker 1: just don't know very well. And that's that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: always the exciting thing about baseball is because it's one
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  Speaker 1: of those sports where a freshman can make an impact
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  Speaker 1: because it's you know, it's it's it's more of a skill.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you can play baseball, you can play baseball.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to be a big, huge, hulking athlete
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of other sports. So yeah, it's we'll
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  Speaker 1: see how they do. I think they are. I mean
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  Speaker 1: you look at like four, five, six, seven years ago,
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  Speaker 1: they were the team that would win one game a year.
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  Speaker 1: It was really a struggle for a while, and they
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  Speaker 1: started picking things up a couple of years ago. They
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  Speaker 1: got ten wins last year, So things are heading in
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  Speaker 1: the right direction right now for the BayHawks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that you mentioned the ability of a
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  Speaker 2: freshman to come in and be a true impact player,
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  Speaker 2: not just on the team like I mean you could
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  Speaker 2: have at times the best player on the team could
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  Speaker 2: be a freshman. In baseball, it's a little different, you know,
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  Speaker 2: trying to fill a gap and make a tackle against
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  Speaker 2: a senior as it is trying to hit an eighty
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  Speaker 2: five million on our fastball from a senior. I mean,
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: it's exactly all you got to do is stand there
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: swing a bat. I mean, I mean it might be tougher.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: You know, anybody could could bite an ankle and make
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: make a tackle, but standing there and trying to trying
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: to bat a little bit tough. But yeah, another thing
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: you mentioned there, Tyler, you mentioned that you know, they've
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: already played a few games. We should have mentioned at
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: the beginning of the podcast, and we'll do it on
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: the Fast Pitch one. No spring sports wrap up this week.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: There just has not been enough to talk about, so
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: there will be none of that. But we will get
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: around to that in the following week where we can
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: really hammer out all kinds of stuff and multiple sports too.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: So yep, I saw you were out at a tennis
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: match or you're trying to go to a tennis match.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: And it was like hailing. It was unbelievable. That's the
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: crazy thing. I came from a golf event where it
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: was sunny in Bellingham and then I but I knew
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: I had like a two hour gap. Yeah. Well, I
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: just kind of hung around Bellingham, did some things, went
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: over to the tennis and as I'm driving to tennis,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: which is in Bellingham High School, I was it started
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: kind of raining a little bit, and I was like, Oh,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know, it's gonna be tough if they can
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: get it in because tennis, I mean, you can't have
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: ye rain at all. You Yeah, you can't have a
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: wet cour a tennis py doesn't and you're not going
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: to bring in the helicopter to dry it off. I
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: don't think they do have those wheels. Have you seen
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: those wheels? They have like these weird wheels that like
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: go over a court. I don't know how expensive they are,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: and I don't know that I've seen a high school
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: with one, but you like wheel it over a court
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: and it like sucks up the water or something. I
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: don't know what.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw it on like TikTok or something. I
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: don't know what it was going on, but I was like, uh,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: that is really cool.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: But I keep I keep driving down cornwall and just
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: the rain kind of just gets a little bit more intensified,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: a little bit more. I'm starting to turn on my
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: wipers and as I pull in, I don't see any
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: players on the court. I'm I'm like six or seven
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: minutes early, so I'm like, well, maybe they're just undercover
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: and waiting it out. And all of a sudden, the
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: hail starts like crazy and I'm like, oh, I gotta
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: take video of this. This is crazy. Yeah, I guess.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: I guess. There's no tennis today, you know. And that
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: was the only tennis match I believe that was scheduled
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: for this week. Yeah, so you know, and there was
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: no track this week, so there was you know, it
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: was one golf event. It just had the It just
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: had the three city schools, so there was limited things.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: And that's, like you said, that's why we're not doing
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: a spring sports recap just yet, so we'll jump into
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: that next week once everything kind of gets underway.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: I was talking to our tennis coach at Bothel and
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: he I see him all the time at school. He's
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: funny guy and he's been there since like nineteen ninety
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: two or something, he said. But he he said they
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: had some modified scoring at their one match this week,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: and I was like, what modified scoring and he said, yeah,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: it's like when there's when you know bad weather's coming in,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: instead of playing three sets, you do you like play
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: to eight points or something or eight is it games
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: or something. I don't know exactly what it was, but
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: he was like, so the games are they're much faster,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: or the matches are much faster, so you can try
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: to get everybody in. And I was like, Oh, that's weird.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: But like, I don't know if that's like something maybe
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: we were just doing a jamboree and so they were
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: just doing something different, or if that's the way that
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: it can go sometimes. I don't know, but I know
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: they got one in and they didn't They didn't do
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: very well, but hopefully it's not a sign of the season.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: But let's talk Blaine Border Heights baseball tyler head coach
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Hunter Anderson. In his second year, he's twelve and ten
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: overall and the team last year obviously, they were twelve
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: and ten overall. Blaine a program that has had a
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: lot of success recently, I believe Tyler and this year
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: returning just one member from the top fifty countdown.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this was a team that had a lot of
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: seniors last year, but the one big time underclassman they
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: had was Evan Yates, who's their catcher, and he put
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: he put out a huge season. I mean everything you
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: looked at was fantastic. First of all, you love it
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: when you know your catch. I mean, a lot of
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: high school teams, your catcher is usually one of your
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: best players, if not the best player, And last year
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: he was. He was way up there. I mean I
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: had him at number nine last year in the top
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: fifty count He had twenty one hits. Out of those
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: twenty one, eleven of them for extra bases, eight doubles,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: three triples, sixteen rby eyes, batted three thirty three, He
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: walked twelve times and only struck out nine times on
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: base percentage of four fifty five. Anytime you have an OPS,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: it's four digits. Yeah, that's huge, you know he had,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: so all those numbers are huge, and he's a he's
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: a left handed hitting catcher, so you know there's you know, prospect,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: he's one of those kind of prospects where you look
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: at it's all those things that you really like in
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: a player, really good arm, and so he's gonna be
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: definitely one of the best players coming in and he's
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: really going to have to be a leader because there's
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: a lot of new varsity guys on this team.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: You know, Tyler, you mentioned OPS, and I think what
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: we should probably do is for most of the people
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: at home, probably explain what OPS is.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yeah, that's a great point. Well, it's it's
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: a combination of on base percentage and slugging percentage. So
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: an on base percent should probably explain that. You know,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: it's the percentage of time you get on base, and
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: that could be from a walk, a hit batsman, if
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: you get on by an air that does not count,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: that does not affect your on base percentage. But and
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: then slugging percentages basically it's your total bases divided by
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: at bat. So you know, if you're one for three
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: in a game, you're batting three thirty three, but if
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: that one hit was a double, that's two bases, so
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: you're slugging six sixty seven. So so basically, if you're
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I always look at it like if you're slugging five
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: hundred and you're on basis four hundred, that's pretty amazing,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: and you combine that for nine hundred, that's pretty amazing.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: And it's a it's kind of a barometer. If you
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: ever see an ops and it says like, you know,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: eight thirty two, you kind of look at that as
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: like almost like a grade, like eighty three point two percent,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Like you know, you can kind of look at that.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: It's a little bit slanted because I think that people
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: with ops is in the six hundreds are still they're
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: not d players, but it's it's it kind of gives
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: you something a little bit. So if you're over a thousand,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: then that's like, you know, over one hundred percent, that's
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: like over an A plus And Evan Yates was over
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: a thousand, so so that's kind of what that means.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: And it's just one of those stats that stat geeks love.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, and it's I mean, the thing that's interesting
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: about like a slugging percentage is you know, for your
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: guys that are going to drive the ball into the gaps,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: they're they're obviously going to have a higher number, but
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: that doesn't mean that they're a better or more effective
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: player than a guy that hits a lot of singles,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: you know, because that guy that's going to hit a
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: lot of singles, his slugging might not be as high,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: but he might be you.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Know, stealing second, stealing.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Third, you know whatever, like he's he might be doing more,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: you know than just that single. If if you hit
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: a double but you don't go anywhere past second, then
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: you know, it.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Is what it is.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: But so it's one of those things that, like you said,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: it's a it's a total stat geek thing, but it's
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: also one of those things with slugging percentage and on
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: base percentage and that really does make baseball unique and
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: is fun, you know, like it's yeah, you know, it's
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: it's fun to it. You know what it does more
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: than anything that like gives you the ability to kind
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: of like compare guys of like a similar ability and
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: like have something to compare. You know, it's kind of
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: what it is.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a yeah, it's a unique number. And you
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: think of like Barry Bonds or Frank Thomas, the guys
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: that the guys that had a lot of patients at
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: the plate and walked a lot and guys that you know,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: drove it all over the park and out of the park,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: and that that combination is those are your big time
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: OPS guys. Really.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a couple of stats out there about Barry
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Bonds that one season where you know he had all
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: those intentional walks. I mean, I know he had it
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: over multiple seasons, but there was one season.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: So there was one year he yeah, he walked like
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty something times and intentionally he walked
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty times intentionally. The second best year
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: of all time is half bad.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's I remember I remember at the time
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: not thinking that much of it, and then as OPS
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: kind of became a little more mainstream and and people
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: started looking at it more, and he started. Because it
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: allows you, especially with like OPS, it really does allow
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: you to compare. Hey, Bruce, Yeah, I was to say
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Barry Bonds to guys from the fifties and forties, and sure,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: you know, like obviously different game. The pitching is is
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: way more advanced now than it was back then. Shoot,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: back then, were guys were winning thirty five games a year,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: you know, stuff like crazy things. Now there a lot
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: of these guys aren't even pitching thirty five times a year.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: But you know, you look at it and you go, hey,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: this is a way to compare those guys, and you know,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: it's it's cool. It's it's kind of a nerdy thing
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: in a way, but uh yeah, yeah, I mean I
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: like it.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: It's fun.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: I'm a numbers guy and I love stats. But baseball,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: I think that's the best thing about baseball is there's
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: so many different I mean, I'm looking over your stat
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: line here, stat line, Styler, you got a b r
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: H two B three b hr RB. I mean, all
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: these different things.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Whereas and you're looking at it, you know exactly what
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: it means, right, yeah, oh absolutely I do. That's the
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: weird thing.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: And that's the thing the thing that I love. I mean, Tyler,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: this is the first spreadsheets since probably last baseball season
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: that you've sent me that got past z. Yeah you know,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: in the column or in the yeah columns no, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: you're right. What are the ones going across?
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Rose? Yeah? Rose? Yeah? Yeah.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: So we got AA and AB over here, you know,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: because there's so many different stats in baseball, whereas and
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: you know, you and I both know and like for us,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: like you know, football really does kind of run things
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: for us, like we just we fully did that. But
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: in football you've got you know, yards receptions and you
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: know yard after contact or catch or what you know,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: a couple of them, but not like baseball.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Number thing too? Is that like in baseball, like everyone's
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: doing the same thing. Everybody's hitting. Yeah, you know, it's
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: like in football, it's like not everyone gets to carry
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: the ball or throw the ball or catch the ball
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: or kick the ball. So yeah, well it's a universal
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: thing kind of Number number one player on the countdown
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: is Colton Lance, I believe, right, Yeah, and number two
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: was was it Watson? Yeah?
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Those guys don't do almost anything the same, right, you
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: know on defense.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: They play different positions, completely different positions. Yeah.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: On offense, you know, Colton Leentz had how many catches
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Tyler compared to how many catches did he have? Compared
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: to how many rushing attempts did Andre Watson have? You
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like, it's totally different. So it's yeah,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: I mean it's I'll tell you what. It probably makes
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: the top fifty countdown a little bit easier than it
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: does making the top one hundred countdown of football.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Huh a little bit.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Then you get guys with no stats in football, I
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: mean yeah, offensive liney Yeah, we get no stats and
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: get no credit either.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I just want to throw that out there. Yeah.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Anyway, Evan Yates there at number nine, Tyler, and you
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: mentioned it over one thousand ops is wild. I mean,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: it's it's crazy. So it's gonna be fun to watch
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: him this year. Other returning players, Tyler, I'm seeing four
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: guys here, you know, not a lot of experience returning,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: but a couple of guys that if they take that
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: next step, could really help blame the you know, advance
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: this season. Yeah, there's there are players that I really like.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: They were just behind well, you know, one of them
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: was a starter, but the other ones were behind guys
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: that were just had been there a long time. Yeah.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Aaron Garza is a really fun player that was a
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: freshman last year that started at third base from day one,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: and he was there was a lot of times he
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: was batting cleanup. He he is the real deal. He
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: was probably like player number fifty one on last year's list, Like,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: he's probably the best player last year that didn't make
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: the top the top fifty list. I would expect him
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: to have a huge jump this year. A lot of
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: players do from freshman to sophomore year, and and and
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: he's a guy that's probably gonna help pitch a little
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: bit as well. He'd got a two zero three last year.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: He got off to a really hot start and started
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: to slow down near the end. He was a little
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: swing happy at times, only only walked three times, struck
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: out seventeen times. But I think that there's a lot
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: of talent there. He hit four doubles out of his
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: fourteen hits. Defensively, he's pretty darn good. So I think,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: you know, if he's gonna play third base again, maybe
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: he'll move to shortstop. I'm not quite sure yet. Blaine
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: has not played yet. Their game today was rained out,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: so I don't have a great feel for them just yet.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: But I remember watching him play last year. He did
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: pitch three innings. I would imagine him being, you know,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: getting on the mound a little bit more. Josh Cochran
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: was a player last year that he was a freshman
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: last year as well, and I believe, I believe he
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: was a left handed pitcher, and so I think he
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: might be kind of their main guy this year. What
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I really liked about him was twenty seven strikeouts only
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: seven walks. It's the best thing in the world when
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: you have a high school pitcher that throws strikes, absolutely
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: and that is just the biggest bugaboo. You know, errors
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: and walks. I mean it just it just mount up
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: in high school baseball, it seems like, and that's that's
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: the biggest thing. And so he throws strikes. And in
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: his seventeen and two thirds innings last year, he only
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: gave up sixteen hits and he struck out twenty seven
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: as a freshman. That's really impressive. He also hit two
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: hundred and limited at bats, four RBIs, two stolen bases.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: I think he's gonna take that big jump and he
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: might be another big time player. Brady Donor last year
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: didn't play it as much offensively, but he did pitch.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: He did get into some games and pitch a little bit.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Was a little bit wild, walked ten guys and ten
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: and two thirds innings, but he only allowed two earned runs.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: So that's an era of one point three one. So
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: he might be a guy too that they'll lean upon.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: So I would say, you know, Cochrane Donor and maybe
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Garz that could be their pitchers. Again, I couldn't tell
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: you anything about the new guys coming up, the JV guys.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Maybe they have a star freshman. I'm not going to
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: talk about any star freshman on this unless I've been
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: hearing about him for years and and so I don't
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: want to, you know, I don't want to put too
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: much pressure on it anybody just yet. And to be honest,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: I just haven't seen a lot of these teams yet.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Kay Kerwin's another player that played a little bit last
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: year with a unique stat line that you're probably looking
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: at and going huh. But he was a courtesy runner.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: You know, he was a pitch runner type guy. So
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: we've seen him football basketball. He's fast as fast can be,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: so he will get on he will steal bases, he
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: will score runs, he'll be disruptive. I think he'll be
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: more of a I think he'll play a lot more
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: this year. You know, whether that'll be in the outfield
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: or in field, I'm not quite sure. You know, he
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: could maybe he'll be the center fielder. I'm not I
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: just I don't haven't seen him enough yet at the
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: varsity level to make that opinion. But there are some
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: nice pieces here. I really like Hunter Anderson as a coach.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: He's super level headed. I've really enjoyed talking with him
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: last year, getting to know him a little bit. And
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: and it is a pretty rich tradition Blaine baseball. As
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: you know, they've won a state title, they've done some
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: they always just seem to be really darn good. You know.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: It's just one of those things where a lot of
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: the other sports that blame you know, has been struggling lately.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: But you can always count on them for wrestling, you know,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: always count on them for baseball. There's certain things that
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: you could be like, yeah, they're they're always in the mix.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: And and and last year it was a huge senior class.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: There were some injuries that kind of took their toll.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Hunter Vizetti was probably their best overall player. He gets hurt.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: That was a that was a tough one. And and
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: they got you know, they got I think they got
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: into districts and it just it just didn't work there.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: And they there was a really really close game and
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: one of the teams that got out of districts, well,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: two of the teams that got out or no, I'm sorry,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: three out of the four that came out of the
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: by district ternam or whoever played in the final four.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: So you know, and you know over Lake and Meridian
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: and Cedar Park Christian well, I should say over Lake
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Bear Creek combined. So and they all played in that
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: you know that that by district or whatever it is
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: that you know played at Seahome and and Joe Martin
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: were running back and forth and like Blaine was like
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: really close. You know, they went extra innings with the
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: eventual state champs, so you know, I mean, and that's
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: how they got eliminated. So it's you know, they're they're
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: gonna be pretty good, I think. I And we'll just
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: have to see again. Like I'm gonna say over and
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: over again, it's it's how do the new guys adapt?
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: How quickly did they adapt? Tyler?
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: You mentioned that, you know, you some of the other
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: sports have been struggling. I do want to mention that
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: football had themselves a really nice year this year. Don't worry,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Coach Olson.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: I got you. I got you, Tyler over and I didn't.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: I didn't say that the football was struggling.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: No, but you said the other sports were, And then
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: you mentioned wrestling and baseball. I said, wrestling baseball you
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: can always catch. Oh, I know, but I just want
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: to make sure coach Olson knows that I'm thinking of him.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: He needs that extra extra pat on the back. Oh yeah, absolutely.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: I mean the guy just the text. He's good to us,
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: so we gotta be good to him.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Tyler.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, Ferndale, Let's talk about the Golden Eagles here, Tyler,
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: And speaking of football, guy Donnie Hennick, the head coach.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Thirteenth year one forty five and ninety one overall. Last season,
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: they went in even ten and ten on the year. Tyler,
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: I see a couple of top fifty returners and guys
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: that this year go from thirty four and twenty. As
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: far as the numbers for the top fifty guys, that
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: could probably make a little bit of a jump.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Huh. Yeah, definitely. They are a fun team. I went
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: and watched them on Friday, and I was getting into
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: the game so much, and then I looked at my
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: phone and realized, holy crap, I have to leave right
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: now because I was coaching in that All Star game,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: and like I had to be in Linden in like
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: thirty five minutes and I had to go pick up
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: joke and senses at his house first. So I was like, oh,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: I gotta go, I gotta go. So I you know,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I only caught the first three or three three and
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: a half innings. But Ferndale baseball again is always one
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: of those two that's really really good. They're very young
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: this year. Those two players that you mentioned. One of
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: them Braylan O'Brien. He's a kid that he came in
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: as a freshman and was their catcher just right right away.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: And he's not a catcher. They just needed somebody. And
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: that was that team that was very senior heavy. You know,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: you got you know, Jake Mason pitching, Dylan Strong pitching.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Both those guys were around ninety miles an hour. And
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: you have a freshman catcher that's not really a catcher. Yeah,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: I mean it was. It was a unique year. You know,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: you looked around that that that infield, it was Jordan Mason,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Jake Mason, Camden Raymond, and Talon bung Gard. Them these
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: guys are gigantic. Yeah, you know, it looks like a
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: It looked like a slow pitch softball team, like a
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: prison team. You know. It was Yeah, and entire where'd
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: you play California Penal Yeah, California Penal League. Never heard
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, we won't go at the rest of
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: the lines there. But uh but Braylan O'Brien finally now
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: is can you know, go back and play some middle infield,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: some shortstop, second base, and that's that's more of his
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: natural position. Really really patient left handed hitter. That was
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: the one thing that really stood out to me. Nineteen
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: walks last year, and it's very, very very patient and
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: hit two ninety six, had three doubles and a triple,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: drove in six runs. Probably gonna bat lead off purely
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: because of his patients. We'll we'll get on and let
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: the boppers do their thing. One of those guys being
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Fenton Vasic. He is a guy that I didn't know
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: anything about last year, and he came on and was amazing.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: He a center fielder, really really snappy bat, good arm
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: in the outfield, pitches, so he just kind of does
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: all those things a really good high school baseball player does.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: He patted three point fifty three last year, and a
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: lot of that was near the tail end when some
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: guys were starting to kind of fade off. He started
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: getting better and better. He had three doubles, knocked in
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: fourteen runs, slugged six point twenty seven. That is or
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, eight doubles and three triples. That's that is incredible.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: We talked about that with Evan Yates, where more than
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: half of his hits went for extra bases. It's the
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: same deal here with Fent and Vassic. His ops is
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: almost eleven hundred. So there you go. Plus you throw
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: in the pitching. He went five and two last year
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: on the mound, had pitched in thirty He had thirty
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: four innings pitched, struck out twenty eight, did walk twenty four,
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: So that's one thing that might need to get cleaned
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: up a little bit. Had an ERA of three point
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: five zero, so that's basically a run every other inning.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: That's not too bad. At high school baseball, Hey, I
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: think he had a one hitter last year. That was
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: I sent that play to ten different people I knew
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: that were knowledgeable the video of it, like was this
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: a hit or not? I think I was one of them. Yes, definitely,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: because I you know, I was like, am I Because
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: it depends if I'm calling this a no hitter or not.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: It's a big deal. So he's very, very talented, just
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: a junior, so I'm really excited for his future and
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: and this whole you know, it's so is Obrien. He's
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: a junior as well. So this is a very young
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: team and I'm and I'm really really excited. And they
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: got some good young players too.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: It's funny that we sat there and we explained with
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Ops was and then we get a guy that's eight
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: seventy five, a guy that's ten ninety five, and then
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: another guy here, Tyler you're going to talk about in
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: a second, it's eight forty three, I mean less at bats.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: But yeah, you know, as I look over this this team,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: I mean they got some pitching returning too, because Tyler,
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: you're going to talk about two of them here. That
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: two guys here that threw over twenty innings, one of
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: them over thirty innings. And so we've got six guys
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: that you've got here as other returning players.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Tyler, Yeah, there's there's that's that's the thing. It was
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: a really young team last year and the big the
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: big problem last year was airs. I mean the defense.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: I think there was like eighty three airs on the season,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: and that is just as tough I mean it was,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: and it was a team that had a lot of
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: first year varsity guys. Because of that loaded team the
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: year before, a lot of those guys started as sophomores
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: and kept going. They would have started as freshman, but
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: that was the that was when COVID hit so uh So,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: a lot of these guys were first year varsity guys
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: and some guys might have been playing out of position.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: It just it just didn't gel. But but this year,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: if the defense can get cleaned up, you're gonna see
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: a lot better numbers here. Nolan Boliak, we saw him
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: at quarterback. He's probably their their number one pitcher. Uh
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: He went one and two last year, did have a
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: save as well, thirty one and two thirds innings. He's
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: a workhorse. Struck out nineteen batters, only walked twelve in
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: those thirty one and two thirds innings, which is huge
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: four point two zero ERA. Also pitching was Bryce man Abusen.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: He went two and one last year, he had to save,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: He had a three point six two ERA. So those
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: are two guys that are coming back. They didn't they
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: didn't bat a whole lot, but they just pitched at
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: the varsity level. I think they're gonna bat a little
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: bit more this year. You might see Bolliac play some shortstop,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Bryce man Abuse to play some third base, so they'll
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: they'll be in the lineup more every day. But they
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: were gonna be two big time arms. They're gonna rely
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: on a lot along with fassk Ran Dobbins. He got
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: quite a bit of playing time last year. He probably
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: he's probably gonna start in left field this year. Like
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: you mentioned earlier, his ops was eight forty three. That
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: is really really high. What I love about his game
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: two very patient, doesn't strike out seven walks to just
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: five strikeouts, batt at three fifty seven, and he's fast,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: stole twelve bases, So a lot of those things you
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: put put together and you and you really really like that.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: And he usually usually bats in the nine hole, which
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: you know a lot of high school kids probably go,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: oh man, I'm bating ninth. Oh man, I loved it
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: when I batted ninth. First of all, you're starting the game,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: you get to play in the field, and then if
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: you get on, you got all these dudes behind you.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: You're you're gonna score. And they want a guy that
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: has wheels. And then nine hole because of that. So
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: it's it's I have wore it as a badge of
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: honor and and I hope he does too, because that
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: this offense has the ability to have guys run around
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: the bases. Cooper Vincent is another guy super fast. Was
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: more of a pinch runner last year. Uh stole four bases.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: But he's gonna probably be in the mix now playing
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: right field. I saw him get in there a little
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: bit at defensive back for football. Uh he was starting
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: on the basketball team. So really good athlete and so
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: excited to see kind of him with some more at
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: bats on the baseball team. Carson Brown's gonna start at
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: first base. Uh, got got some really good playing time
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: last year bat batt had one sixty seven, but is
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: on base percentage is three seventy five. So I knew
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: how to you know, how to take some pitches. He
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: can pitch a little bit if needed. But I don't
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's his first You know that he's
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: the first guy you're gonna go to. You got a
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: lot of other arms there, and uh, he's gonna fill
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: that spot that Camden Raymond had at first base last year.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Brayden Ebison is a really good middle infielder as well.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Younger guy, and I you know, he he kind of
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: you know, is kind of some eyes wide open moments.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Last year, first year varsity player. I think he's gonna
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: really settle down and do some good things. And then
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: there's a player that he's probably the only freshman I'm
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: going to be talking about, Joe Bensi. He's a catcher
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: and he is awesome. I watched him play and I
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: was I was in awe like when he would throw
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: the ball down to second base. He's batt and clean up.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: He's built really well, and he's a guy that I
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: am really really excited about his his future. And I've
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: heard about him and so he's probably like like like
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: I said, he's the only freshman I'm going to bring
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: up in this whole thing, and he is going to
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: be the real deal. So it's a very young Golden
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Eagle team, but there's there's a lot of talent. They
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: put up thirteen runs in that in that first game.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: They were going against another very young team as well
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: that we're going to talk about. So but they did
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: what they were supposed to do and and that that
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: was good. And they got a lot of guys into
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: pitch and and different things like that. So, uh, yeah,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Donnie's got another pretty good team here, Tyler, this freshman catcher.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Any windmill dunks coming out of him? Or what do
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: we got here? The Nolan Wright of baseball?
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, I was gonna throw that
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: at you because people but there. But that's the explanation
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: is that, you know, we talked about Nolan and then
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: I remember was it the coach, I don't remember who
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: it was, but somebody says like, maybe want to chill
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: on the windmill dunk stuff.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but here's the thing that very it's very comparative.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: It's very comparable to him as far as you know,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: you coming in and like whoa, yea, guys, you know
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: he could do some stuff right now.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And really I bring that up, and I say
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: that just just to Ribbia a little bit with the
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: whole idea that people need to understand if if we
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: are going to talk about somebody, I mean, this is
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: a preview. So in theory, yes, you've seen him play
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: once already, but this is a before the season type
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: preview thing. Somebody that has yet to step on a
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: varsity field. Yeah, We're only going to talk about the
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: guys that are premium products here, you know what I mean.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: So that being said, in the next two weeks, it's
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: very possible we could be talking about six to seven guys,
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, six seven other freshmen. We
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: just want to make sure that we're not hyping guys
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: up that we don't need to, you know. But when
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: there is a guy to talk about, we're going to
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: talk about him. That's just the way it goes. So
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: that is the Ferndale Golden Eagles. Let's move on and
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: talk about the Linden Lions. And oddly enough, Tyler, this
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: is this is another sport that Linden seems to be
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: pretty good at. I mean, who who would have thought,
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, we're gonna talk about Linden baseball here, Tyler
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: head coach Corey White, thirty, second year, three hundred and
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: ninety two, two hundred and eighty three overall. You know, Tyler,
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: when you start having something like two hundred and eighty
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: three losses, that means you've been there really long time.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: Because if he was fifty and two eighty three, he
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: wouldn't have been there very long, you know what I mean?
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: Last season, twenty two and six, three guys in the
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: top fifty return. We've got a twenty three, a thirty seven,
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: and an eight. And I'll tell you what, they all
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: put up numbers that could scream top ten this year
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: if they take that next step, Tyler, We've got some
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: premium guys here.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, and it's it was a great senior class
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: they had last year. You know, they got to the
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: final four, so it was a big, big year for them,
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: and they do graduate a lot, but there are some
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: good guys coming back. You know. Tristan Thomas was their
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: catcher last year, and I think he just I think
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: he just signed with somebody to go play at the
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: next level. I can't remember who it is, but but
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: and he I think he might be pitching a little
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: bit too, because they don't bring a lot of varsity
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: experience back with pitching, so he might be relied upon
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: a little bit for that. But I really liked what
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: he did behind the play. Could hit the ball in
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: the gap, had four doubles, fifteen RBIs, batted two seventeen.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: Uh didn't strike out that much, which is really nice
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: to see. He had ten walks just thirteen strikeouts, batted
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: two seventy five, So I'm curious to see how that's
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: gonna go. As far as if he's gonna be pitching
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: or not, I think he probably will be. Gordy Bedlington
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: was a guy who you know, and you might see
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: this every once in a while, where a freshman is
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: just too good you have to put him on varsity.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: But you're like, well, you're a freshman, so you're gonna
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: be kind of a Willie bloom Quist type, you know,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: depending on who's pitching, you're gonna play right field this game,
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: or you're gonna play third base this game, and you're
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: gonna bat ninth. And he was just wherever he was,
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: he always made plays, and he always got on base.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, there's everyday shortstop gets injured,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: so boom, he plays shortstop and he's batten in the
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: like second in the lineup, and he stood. He was
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: there the rest of the year and they couldn't get
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: him out, and he ended up being Umber twenty three
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: on my list. Last year. Had a great, great year,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: walked twenty three times, very very patient at the plate,
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: a left handed batter, had nineteen hits, a double, a
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: triple knocked in fourteen, stole five bases, so very very
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: you know, good overall year at an ops of seven
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: ninety four. You might see him pitch a little bit.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Matthew Carroll is the dream third baseman. He is so smooth,
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: big strong, can really really hit the ball hard. Had
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: twenty four RBIs last year. That's a lot of RBIs
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: for a high school baseball season. Twenty five hits. He
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: had four doubles, one triple. He had a home run
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: as well, bat at two ninety four. And what I
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: love about him too is he had, you know, probably
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: close to one hundred plate appearances and he only struck
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: out five times. And when you're hitting with power and
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: you're only striking out five times, that is next level
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: type stuff. He does return the most innings as a pitcher,
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: but he was a relief specialist. He had five saves
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: two point twenty seven ERA, struck out fifteen batters, only
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: walked six in nearly twenty five innings pitch. So I
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: from what I've heard, they want to keep him in
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: that role. He's such a good third baseman that you know,
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: you just just put him there every game, have him
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: hit cleanup, you know, do his thing, and then if
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: you need him at the end, put him in. So
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: that's from what I've heard. Like I said, I think
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: that's where that's how that's going to go. But he
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: does return the most innings pitched, even though I don't
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: think he started a game last year, So it'll be
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: interesting to see how that all comes out. But he
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: is one of the best players returning in Walking County.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Let me go find it. Who is the young man
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: you said committed was a Thomas? Yes, Tristan Thomas looks
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: as though he has committed to Centralia College. That's right,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: that's right, Yeah.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: Centralia College and Tyler. I just I don't know anything about,
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: you know, junior college baseball in our area, so I
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: decided to.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: Just take a quick peak, you know. Yeah. Yeah.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: They have a very interesting schedule in this junior college conference.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: They play a double header on Saturday, a double header
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: on Sunday, and that's it. No games throughout the week.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: You played, just those double headers. M That is wild, and.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: By the way, is important. The team in yakamav Valley
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: they're called the Yaks. Oh yeah, what a name. I mean,
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: the Yakama Valley Yaks. But yeah, so congratulations to him.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: That's pretty cool, Tyler. We got some some guys returning here,
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: one name that I recognize from football, actually two of
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: them now that I'm looking at it. Here a couple
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: of guys that saw quite a bit, you know, quite
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: a few played appearances last year, and then a couple
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: of guys that don't have much in the way of
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: stat lines if you will, right, Yeah, Jade Noakes big time,
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: you know, speed guy outfielder. Really really like him just
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: as a person. He's a great, great kid. He about
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: a two to eleven last year, and I think that
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: he's one of those guys that's gonna take a big
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: jump up. It always seems like Lyndon has those guys
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: that that, you know, first year versity players, you might
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: be bat in ninth or you might not, you know,
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: get into every game and then once it's your turn,
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: you just have this monster year. And I could really
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: see him having one of those years. I could see
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: the same thing for Spencer Adams six foot five sharpshooter
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: on the basketball team, and he is a tremendously awesome
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: defensive first baseman. I think his hitting is gonna come
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: around as two, uh, he hit one eighty eight last
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: year and drove in nine. But I think that and
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: he could be a guy that could log some innings
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: as well on the mound just being six foot five,
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: big tall kid can throw. But like if I did
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: a and I know, your first thing you're gonna say
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: is well you should do it then. But if I did,
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: like like a gold glove walking Preps team, like all
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: the positions, you should absolutely do that. Why why would
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: you not do that? Like I know, I know I
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: have people that want to sponsor you. We got silver
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: sluggers too, keep going. But like if I was choosing that,
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: like my first basement, it would have been Spencer Adams.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: He was He made some plays that just I was
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: like WHOA, Like I you know it was. It was
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: just awesome to see And and I think the biggest
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: reason is that I because I don't watch these games
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: on NFHS or huddle or anything, I'm not out to
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: actually see them enough. And I could look at fielding percentages,
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: but sometimes that doesn't give it all away. So but
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: what I did see Spencer Adams was unbelievable. Over there.
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: Gavin Guttermson is a kid that just pitched last year
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: and did it a little bit only through six innings,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: So he might be a guy that's gonna you know,
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: jump his inning count quite a bit and be relied
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: upon there. I don't know if he'll get at bats.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: He did not get any last year. He was just used,
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: uh sparsely as a pitcher. I think he had a
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: start against Mount Baker. You know, figure if you're playing
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: three or maybe four games in a week, he'll get
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: in there and pitch. But I think that'll be up
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: quite a bit this year. And then Dane Marty, who
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: you know, you you recognize from football. He was he
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: was one of those pinch pinch runner guys, you know,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: scored a couple of runs, stole some bases. But he
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: might get into that starting lineup as well. So those
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: are your main returning guys. And Lyndon. It's a huge tradition,
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: great great team. They always do well and even when
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of new faces, they still seem to
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: just pull out wins. And Corey White has seen it all.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: I mean he he began coaching my freshman year in
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: high school. And and and it's just you know, he
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: was he was young then. I mean, he's he's still
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: a young man, you know to me, and and he is, uh,
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: he he's just so. I mean, you know you hear
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: those third base coach, you know, do the jabber and
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: the hil gusta and then you did give the signs,
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: Like nobody does it faster than Corey White, like like
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: he does it probably in his sleep, like he doesn't
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: even know it, you know, he's just he just goes
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: through all the things like if you better be you
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: better know your stuff if you're on base for Lindon,
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: because he's going through that stuff so fast. And and yeah,
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: he's uh, he's a fun one, great, great with with
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: the media, and he's been doing it forever. So he
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: gets it. And eight wins away from four hundred, that's
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: a that's pretty incredible. And I hope he does it
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: for quite a while because he's one of the best. Tyler.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to look around here and see if
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: we got a we got anywhere up there in Wakam County. Uh,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: what's this play hats off? You ever heard of it?
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: No, hats off is in Linden. It's a they do
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: varsity letterman's jackets, they do trophies. Yeah, if anybody knows
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: them and they want to sponsor some gold gloves, he said,
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: I'm doing here, maybe even some silver slugger stuff on Tyler,
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: you see what I'm doing here. Somebody's got to know
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: these hats off guys.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know, just saying might might be a might
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: be a spot for a sponsorship there, h Tyler Lyndon
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: feels like this is a maybe more of a building
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: year than they've had recently. But I got a feeling
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: Coach White's gonna find a way, right, Like, I mean,
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: this is.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I felt that There was like I don't know,
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: it was like three or four years ago. I was
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: kind of failing the same thing. I was like, man,
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of new faces coming. And then they
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: just did amazing again, and I thought, Okay, it's kind
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: of like football and basketball just just kind of know
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: they're gonna be there at the end. So it's it's
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: but again, the way they do it too is they
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: don't walk people, and they play great defense, and that's
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: they just don't beat them. They don't beat themselves, you know,
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: and you're gonna you're gonna win a lot of games,
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: you know, three to one but you're winning games and
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: and they just play base fall the right way and
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: and yeah, so I think the I think I think
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: they'll be just fine. You know. There's uh, a lot
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: of the teams down south are really good, like the Burlington.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: Burlington's loaded, you know, and Chordus is really good. Mount
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Vernon has, you know, probably the one of the best
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: high school prospects of them.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: May still the other day he's like projected to be
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: a top ten pick.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So it's you know, there's there's really good play
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: teams and players that are outside the county. So you know,
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: hopefully some of these county teams can can do some
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: good stuff and and uh and compete with those teams
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: and and I think they can, and they just have
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: to go out and prove it. And Linden's one of
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: those teams that is for sure up for the challenge
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: because they do it every year.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: I heard a guy talking about baseball and kind of
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: like his philosophy on things the other day, and he said,
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: he said something to the tune of baseball is all
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: about pressure. Either you're putting it on or they're putting
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: it on you, something along those lines. And he said,
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: the best way to put it on the other team
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: is to do the little things. Yeah, and if you
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: do the little things right, then you're doing like you're
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: doing more than your part, you know what I mean.
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: It's like yeah, and I'm like, I'm like, wow, it's
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: actually brilliant, just really quickly. Tyler Xavier Niams the eighth
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: overall prospect in this year's Major League Baseball Draft, and
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: he is the fourth high school player listed. The fifth
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: is actually from Oregon, out of Sunset High School in Oregon.
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: The other guy that I know a lot of people
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: have been talking about is Mason Pike, who I believe
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: is like kind of set on going to college. He
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: is at Pallup High School and he was the one
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he beat us in the semi finals and
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: I saw he And the reason I bring it up
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: is because the other day and Mount Vernon played at
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: Everett Memorial and they had Pike is thrown like ninety
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: seven miles an hour. Yes, just like dude, are you
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: kidding me? Like yeah, like ninety seven miles an hour
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: in high school?
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: Like that is just him and Xavier both committed to
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: go to Oregon State. But it sounds more like I
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: would imagine Nine's would.
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's what I was getting. Yeah, that's kind
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: of what I was saying there, is that from what
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: I understand is, people know that depending on where he
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: probably gets picked in terms of maybe he doesn't get
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: picked high enough, or maybe it's he doesn't want to
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: go play for a team or something, the odds are
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: everybody thinks he's going to take you know, the the
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: MLB contract instead of going to college. But yeah, which
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: is crazy, like of all places, Mount Vernon producing a guy,
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like it's been a little
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: while my thoughts that Mount Vernon produced guy like that. Like,
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: remember what's his name was from there? Well, Kyle Kendrick,
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: Kyle Kendrick, I forgot about him. Yeah, who's the lefty
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: Mark hendricks.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah Hendrickson pitch for the Marlins. Yeah yeah, yeah. So
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: those are kind of the two big one that pop
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: out to me. And yeah, yeah, it's just wild.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, baseball is one of those sports that, man,
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: you can come from anywhere, you know, like you're not
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: getting football guys from just about anywhere, you know what
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: I mean, But every now and then you could get
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: some random baseball player from Waterville. You know what I mean,
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: like guy that just rakes.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: But let's see here, Tyler, where are we at Lennon Christian? Yes,
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: and Lynn Christian's head coach, Noah Rawl's fourth year thirty
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: six thirty five overall last season fourteen and eleven. And
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: I see quite a few I mean quite a few
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: football names, Tyler. I mean this is yeah, this is like,
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm like looking at a first team All
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: Football League here. I don't know what's going on. But
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: one guy also gave us the intro tonight, Tyler. That's
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: Austin Engels who when you talk about on base percentage,
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: Holy cow, has this guy got one? My goodness, Like,
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: did anybody get him out?
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah? What year he had? It was? It was fantastic.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: I mean it seemed like every single game. He just
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: had a big game every game and finished the year
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: batting five hundred eight double He had thirty four hits
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: for crying out loud, eight doubles, four home runs, thirty
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: runs batted in, only struck out four times. When you
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: talk about ops and we're talking about ooh, if you
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: get four digits, that's amazing. If you're over a thousand,
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: fourteen to twenty five ops and and he had a
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: he had an injury. He had a couple injuries last year.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: He had a leg injury and an arm injury, and
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: he still put up these numbers. And it was a
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: bummer because he didn't get to play a ton of football.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: And I think he elected to have surgery at a
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: specific time late in the football season so he could
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: be ready for baseball. So I think he's he's ready.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: This is his senior year. He's a four year starter.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: He gave us the intro he is. He is legit.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, he is an offensive weapon and he just
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: he just drives the ball every single time. And just
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: one of those guys that's even on the outs, you know,
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: they're just line drives to the outfield. It's like, well,
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: he just hit it right at him. I mean that's
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: you know, I guess that's what happens sometimes. But yeah,
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: I think he had I don't know if he had
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: two grand slams in one game last year, or if
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: he had two in one week, or it was something
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: crazy like that, but he really jumped out to a
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: huge start and he just kind of maintained the rest
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: of the rest of the year and stayed at five hundred.
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: It was unbelievable. He plays second base, and he pitched
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: a little bit as a freshman, but hasn't since then.
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: So I think it's just purely second baseman. This is
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: what you do, and they'll be just fine. And they
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: have some other guys with quite a bit of talent
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: as well. Eli Mayberry has been starting since he was
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: a freshman. He's a junior now. He's pitched, he's played shortstop,
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: he's played center field. I think that I think he
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: may have locked. He probably will play more center field now,
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: I believe, and and pitch, of course, but he's one
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: of those guys that's like I've said it over and
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: over again and now he's a junior. Ever since I
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: saw him, he's one of those guys where and I
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: know you've been to a million Mariners game, when there's
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: two strikes on each row and he just fouls off
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: like four in a row, it's like that's Eli Mayberry.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: Like he bats left handed, and if he sees a
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: pitch that's like, might get called for a strike, might not,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: but I don't like it. He just fouls it off
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: and it's like Holy cow like I That is first
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: of all, I mean there are pitch counts that are
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: regimented for high school pitchers and you're doing that, which
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: is huge. Plus you know, it's intagon I mean, it's
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: not in you know what I mean. It's like it
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: can get on you a little bit, and then he
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: finally waits for his and he drives it. That's really
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: fun to see. He had twenty seven hits last year,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: five doubles, fifteen RBIs, stole eight bases, batt at three
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: forty two and only struck out five times. Like I said,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: he's he's he's just got a great eye and he
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: knows what he's doing at the plate. He also logged
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: thirty two and a third innings last year, so he
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: might be their main go to guy for pitching as well.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: So he's gonna have a lot kind of put on him. Uh,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: they lose, you know, a couple of big time guys
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: that that that were their main pitchers last year, and
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: he might have to step into that role. He's not
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: you know, he's not blazon it at ninety miles an
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: hour or anything, but he can he can pitch. You
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: won a couple of games at an ara of five
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: point eighty five U. Sam Cock, who played at third
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: base last year, might get moved to shortstop, which can
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: enable Mayberry to play center field. He's a left handed hitter,
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: very aggressive at the play, had twenty one hits, bat
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: a two eighty eight. He's a he's a really good
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: player that kind of came on the scene last year
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: that I think can be a really good piece, like
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: a number three hitter, Like just a classic left handed
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: hitting number three hitter, kind of like that Will Clark,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: you know, just smooth. And they have a lot of
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: left handed hitters on that on that team. Uh. Trac
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: and Johnson, uh, you know, loved him as a nose
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: tackle on the football team. And then he's throwing cheerleaders
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: up in the air at the Yakamau sun Dome and
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: now he's going to be catching and pitching.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: And always throw. He was a cheerleader for basketball. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: this guy.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: And then he does this they do this awesome cheer
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: where like like three cheerleaders like do this thing and
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: then they land and they do the splits and he
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: does it too. Oh my goodness, who is this guy?
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: Like yeah, he's yeah, he's awesome. So and and and
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: he's he's a big time clutch hitter. Like that's what
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: I loved about him last year when when the moment
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: really came down to it, you know, a Tide game
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: in the fifth inning, and he's up and he hits
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: a double. It's like, you know, that's those are the
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: things that I really liked about him. He had fourteen
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: rbiyes bet at two forty six, and like I said,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: he could pitch a little bit too. He had a
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: three point three five ERA in twenty three innings. He
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: only allowed twenty hits. So you know, we talked about
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: a little bit earlier about how sometimes you don't like
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: your catcher pitching. If you have a guy, if you
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: have another guy that you that you trust to catch,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: which Jace Postma can do that, uh, then you can.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: You can. You can do it here and there, and
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: I think the Links will take advantage of that because
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: they got a real shot to make some noise here.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: So you want to, you know, use all the bullets
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: that you have when you when you have them.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: Tyler, We've got some guys here, like guys that have
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: some serious numbers that you know what multiple sports serious
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: numbers two by the way like I'm looking at these names,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, I know these guys, you know what
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: I mean? Like, yep, I mean this is a I
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: feel like this is a team that that could actually
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: be pretty stinking good. And we start looking at these
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: other returning players forty two at bats, forty eight at bats,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: twenty five at bats, I mean, these are some guys
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: that have some That's what I'm looking for, Tyler, I'm
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: missing a word here.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: Moxie experienceience, experience, That's what I'm looking at.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Maxie's death. Well, I mean maybe they do have moxie.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: I don't know these guys.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: I know, these guys from football, I don't know them,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, But some experience. When I
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: start looking at these teams that have other what am
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: I trying to say, other returning players outside of one
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: team specifically, this feels like a team that has maybe
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: the most experienced coming back here in these other returning players. Yeah.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: And that's and that's huge, you know. And and and
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: they did a pretty good job last year. They got
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: to the round of eight last year. Actually, I want
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: to say, because they did win their first game at
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: the at the regionals. Yeah, and so, and that would
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: have been crazy because if they would have I'm trying
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: to remember who they lost to. I don't know, but
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: if they would have won that one, they could have
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: been four for four, all from the same district. And
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: unless they lost to one of the teams from our district,
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: I can't remember in that second that eight, you know,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: the round of eight. But but yeah, Jade and Houliett
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: and Jackson Houliot, I mean, those guys have been doing
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: it on the football field, been doing it on the
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: baseball field. They returned a ton of experience. They're both
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: really good bunters, which is nice to have. They have speed,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: they can steal bases, they get on base Jackson Hewliot
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: can pitch a little bit. He might be that that
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: third arm that's needed through almost ten innings and struck
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: out seven had a one excuse me, he had a
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: big he had a really bad cough. No, he had
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: a one point four to four e r A. So
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: he could be that that that third guy, Jace Postma,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: who I brought up earlier, will he will catch when
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: Trason Johnson pitches. When he's not, he'll probably be in
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: the game somewhere because he brings a lot of experience
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: as well. Had a double last year. Eli Stamps was
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: a guy they brought up from the JV at the
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: end of the year, and that that that showed me
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: a lot, because I remember they were playing an elimination
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: game against Nuksack Valley. Was a really really close game,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: and I believe Eli Stamps started as a d H
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: in that game, and he was the only name I
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: didn't know, but the JV season was over and he
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: must have done so well that they put him right
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: into the starting lineup like he was about in like
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: sixth So so I think that he's one of those
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: guys that has a lot of power potential that you know,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: could be right there in the middle of the lineup.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: And so you start looking at a lot of these
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: guys and just go, this is a team that really
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: got to be leery of and they they could really
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: do some some good things and and and the links
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: you know, back when I played, they were they were great.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, they were kind of the team you know,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: John rose Boom was a coach forever was so you know,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: just been doing it for so long. And I loved
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: I I got the I got the chance to meet
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: him when I was doing those things at UH District
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: Brewing on Sunday afternoons over the summer. He came out
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: and introduced himself and we got to talk for a
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: while and and so that was really really cool. And
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: and and then they kind of had some down years,
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: They even had some winless years. And then and then
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: uh and Dan Vandercoyt came in and took over and
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: they started winning a little bit. And then and and
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: and then now Noah Rawls has taken over for him,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: and and they've been getting they got to you know,
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: State the last couple of years, and so things are
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: starting to turn around for them. And and right now
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: this this group is you know, if the pitching can
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: stay decently strong, they have a they have a real
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: chance to make make some noise. And and that's you know,
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: that's great for Walkham County. Uh.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: The team that eliminated Lindon Christian Tyler Tanino, That's who
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: it was, Oh right, okay, yeah, and they got they
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: got them pretty good, ten twelve to two.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I remember that now and and so yeah,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: so if Elsie would have won that it would have
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: been the four teams that made it to state from
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: our ya whatever it is district or Fry District or
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: whatever it is.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: By and by the way, Tanino beat Lakeside of Nine
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: Mile Falls in the game before it. I mean, is
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: that a team that just somehow almost always finds their
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: way to do have something to do with Walkam County,
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: That's true, Like Lakeside of Nine Mile Falls is about
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: as far away from Walkham County as you can get
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: in this state. And somehow, at least at the.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: One A level, like there's now somewhere. Yeah, it's unbelievable.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: How like they just keep popping up, man, although kind
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: of the same way that Royal does. Right, they're even
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: popping up in basketball now. It seems like that's true.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: That's true.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, anyway, Lyndon Christian that is a preview of the Links.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about Meridian, another team that returns. They would
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: turned a lot here. Steve Slesk eighteenth a year, a
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: record of two hundred and twenty one and one seventy
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: six overall. Another one where like one hundred and seventy
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: six losses.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, been there a long time.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you've been there quite a while. Baseball seems like
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: the sport that might have the most coaches that have
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: been around for just ever, you know what I mean, Like, yeah,
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: you look around the state. There are guys that have
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: been doing it for thirty forty years. It's crazy, right, Yea.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: Last season the Trojans nineteen and eight, they made it
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: all the way to the state championship game. Top fifty returners, Tyler,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: we've got four of them, and yeah, I mean, these
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: are some premium, premium dudes here. Then we even got
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: a couple of guys in the others returning that are
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: premium guys. I mean, this is this is gonna be
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: a lot of fun to talk about it here. But
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: let's go into the top fifty with the first four here.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean, you know, let's bring up the
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: elephant in the room. Jonah Aussi was the number one
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: player ranked on my on my list last year. Left
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: handed pitching specialist, left handed hitter specialist for that matter.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: I mean last year he scored thirty runs, he walked
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: thirty one times. I mean I think those lead walking
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: County batted four to twelve, had four doubles, three triples,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: a home run, only struck out seven times, ops one
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: thousand two to two two, and then as a pitcher,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: I mean it was he was nearly untouchable. Three and
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: zero had to save an ERA of zero point two zero.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: I had to get my micro my, you know, my
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: microscope out just to see that er zero point two
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: zero struck out seventy eight batters in less than thirty
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: six innings, So you're basically striking out more than two
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: batters an inning. I mean, you can only strike out
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: three in an inning, so he you know, he's nearly
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: striking out every batter, only walked eight batters, gave up
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: just sixteen hits, so you know less than you know,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: less than a hit every other inning. I mean, it's
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: pretty crazy numbers. He's committed to LSU. I believe he's
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: out for the year, and I don't want to speculate
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: too much, but uh, and you know that's that's tough
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: for a Meridian. But but he's he's such a he's
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: such a you know, he's gonna be in the dug guy.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: He's going to be cheering you on. He's gonna be
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: another coach in there. So, uh, that could only help
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: as far as what he's able to do. There are
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: a lot of other great players on this team. Uh
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: Nate Payne, who was a freshman last year, ended up
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: pitching in that state championship game. I want to say
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: he almost He was one of the work courses of
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: the entire county, pitching nearly sixty five innings last year,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: went six and four, had the one save as well.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: He had struck out sixty eight batters. A two point
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: two seven ERA, big, tall, strong kid, he's about six
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: three maybe six'. Four he hurt his foot in basketball Against,
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: blaine and the next TIME i saw me he was
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: he had a walking boot, on AND i just, thought oh,
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: no because the first THING i thought of was, Baseball
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: AND i, said are you Gonna are you gonna be
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: good for? Baseball and he's, like oh, Yeah i'll be
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: ready for. Baseball game one was, Today get see home
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: and he. Started so he looked good on the. Mound
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: he's throwing, hard so that's good to. See plus he can.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: Hit he batted two, fifty had three, doubles ten. RBIs you,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: know if he's not if he's not, playing if he's not,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: pitching he might be playing some first he might be
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: playing some left. Field so they'll get him in the.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: Lineup Pierce. Brozowski, man that kid just came out of
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: nowhere last year and was. Awesome and he's a great
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: three point or at three, point, well he's a pretty
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: good three point. Shooter he's a great three sport, athlete
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: just that traditional sense the, football, basketball, baseball which seems
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: to kind of be a dying breed right. Now but
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: he's one of those kind of old school, athletes you,
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: know just kind of do, it does a lot of,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: things good, receiver defensive. Back broke his collarbone in, football
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: came back and only missed one game in, basketball ended
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: up being the point guard on the team that finished
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: fourth in the. State so and he was the other four. Starters,
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: well we're all seniors on that. Team so he's going
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: to be leading that team next. Year you, know last,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: year starting shortstop on the team that makes it the
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: state championship. GAME i, mean so there's a lot of,
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: these you, know great things about. Him bat a two seventy,
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: four had nineteen walks and struck out just eleven. Times so,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: yeah AND i THOUGHT i thought he might be the
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: catcher this. Year that's the big thing is they're having
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: to replace the four year starter at. Catcher Ian forbes,
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: was you, know he was the man there behind the
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: plate for four years and that's. Tough but they did
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: play him at shortstop. Today they had Gave galberth, catching
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: so so they're able to keep him at, shortstop WHICH
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: i think is gonna benefit the team as a. Whole
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: he might pitch a little, bit BUT i would say
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: he might be kind of that third. Guy And Tristan,
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: wang who's a, big, strong left handed hitting. Outfielder you,
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: know played played right, field really strong. ARM i think
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: he might get moved to center. Field this. Year he
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: had nineteen RBIs and sixteen. Hits he's one of those
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: clutch guys when the, moment you, know is, there he
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: comes through really strong through the zone with his. BAT
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: i love watching the, big strong left handed hitters just
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: hit line. Drives and he's one of those. Guys about
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: a two sixty four last. Year so all four of
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: those guys were in the top fifty last. Year one
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: of them JONAH ossi don't think we're gonna see this,
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: year but they bring some other talented players as.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, Definitely and one of them did not play last,
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: year but he's back and it's a name we've talked
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: about in two sports already this, Year. Tyler we've talked
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: about him a lot in two. Sports as a matter of,
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: fact we picked him a lot in the fantasy in
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: the one.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: Sport. Yeah. Yeah and then we've.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: Got two other guys along with, it guys that have
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: some serious experience.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: Here. YEAH i, mean it's it's LIKE i, said it
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: was a really young team last. Year they they they
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: started four freshmen a lot last year on a team
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: that you, know went to the state championship. Game, so you,
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: KNOW i was talking to other players or other coaches and,
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: stuff and they were, talking, well what about this? Team
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: what about that? Team and they always, say, well And
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: meridian's probably got a bunch of freshmen that are awesome,
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: again you, know and that's just the way they. Are,
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: well the kid you were talking, About Jager, fife he's
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: coming back to play baseball for a senior, year which is.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: AWESOME i, mean he came out and he, played you,
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: know right away as a. Freshman he was batting fifth
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: in lineup and playing third base and. Pitching and he's
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: and he pitched a lot as sophomore. Year his sophomore
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: year he went six to oh as a, pitcher struck
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: out fifty batters and only walked twenty four at a
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: two point zero four, era and then he didn't play last. Year,
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: actually in his varsity, career he's never lost a game
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: on the. MOUND i think he's ten and, oh so
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: that's that's. HUGE i, mean you Lose aussie who's you,
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: know one of the best players in the, state but
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: you gain, five which is huge because he can you,
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: know he can be that guy that can that can
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: throw sixty innings if. Needed and he's gonna be in
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: the middle of that. Lineup he's probably gonna bat third
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: and he's gonna you, know he'll play third base or
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: he might play some short stop if depending If berezowski's gonna,
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: PAY i meant he could play. ANYWHERE i, mean, yeah.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: EXACTLY i mean that's just kind of the way he.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: Is and that's and that's a great thing to. Have you,
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: know his sophomore year he batted two eighty eight stoy
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: eight bases knocked in eighteen and and he doesn't like to.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: Walk he will he's aggressive and but he makes. Contact
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: so you will see what that year off does for.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: Him if he's a little, rusty but he's such a great.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: Athlete i'm not too worried about. It Trey, Alexander, UH
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: i just that. KID i love that kid. Too and
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: and uh he's a, guy you, know, smaller he's getting.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: Bigger he's about five to ten. Now he's he's starting
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: to fill out a little. Bit he just he has
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: that baby face though he just looks so. Young but
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: he'll be. That he'll be in the middle, infield second, base.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: Shortstop he might pitch a little. Bit he did throw
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: almost seventeen innings last, year struck out, twelve had a
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: four point six ONE, era had a couple of, wins
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: also a. Save but he will be that leadoff, guy
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: left handed, bat speedy on the, bass pass kind of.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: PLAYER i had ten RBIs last year and stole three,
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: bases only struck out nine times and had forty six at.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: Bats landon, rally, big, strong first. Baseman he was a
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: freshman last year as. Well so you got so many
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: of these young kids that that have so much experience
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: now with the playoffs and, everything and now you're you're
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: jumping into the season kind of almost you, know ahead
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: of everybody as far as just you're bringing back a
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: lot of at. Batch you're bringing back a lot of
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: innings on the, mound and it's just it's just a
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: nice thing to. Have and you have that great four
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: pack of, sophomores you, know With, Payne, Berezowski alexander And.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: Rally that is a incredible group to build on for the.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: Future but you have these you have these veterans with
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: With wang And fife and these guys that have been through.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: It so it's it's a nice. Mix and and and
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: Coach lesk has seen it all and his practices are pretty.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: Rigid they're gonna do things the right. Way you're gonna
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: see a lot of. Sacrifices you're gonna you, know you're
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: gonna see a lot of hit and. Run you're gonna
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: you're gonna see them take some, chances but do it
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: the right. Way and they're gonna they they play hard
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: and they and that's why they got to the state title.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: GAME i, mean they just every guy in that field
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: knows exactly what they're. Doing and and they run the
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: bases now so, smart you, know they don't They it's
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: just a lot of good things that you see from
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: That meridian program that we've seen for.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: A, While, tyler you Said Landon. RALLY i thought you
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: Said Landon downey for a second AND i was. OVER
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: i was over on another page AND i was going
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: back to click over, there going wait a, MINUTE i
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: didn't Think Landon.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: DOWNEY i thought he was a he was a soccer. Guy, yeah. Soccer.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah and then and then you said big strong first.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: Basement oh that's not, Him that's definitely not. Him but, Yeah,
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: meridian this is the, Team. TYLER i THINK i think
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: it's very possible we could be looking at some things.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: Here this is a this is a lot OF i,
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: mean this is. Exciting, bunch really. Is and, Yeah i'm
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: excited to see what they can do this. Year let's move, On,
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: tyler and we need to talk about The Mount Baker.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: Mountaineers i'm not gonna play. Lap, No i'm not gonna
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: or MAYBE i.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: Am.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: No no lap, Here Mount Baker. Mountaineers tyler head Coach David.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: Ferrell second year with the with The mountaineers eighth. Overall
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: so what does that?
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: Mean, well he, coached he coached for six years At.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: Bellingham gotcha sixty six and seventy nine. Overall last, season
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: The mountaineers struggled a bit two and. Seventeen uh No
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: top fifty, Returners. Tyler but as you look over the returning,
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: players there is quite a bit of experience here and,
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: uh you, know some definitely exciting.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: Athletes, yeah there's and that's that's gonna be the big
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: big thing that they're Gonna WHAT i really like about
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: this year's team IS i think that they're they're buying
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: in a little bit. More you saw a lot of
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: really good players that when once they became, seniors they
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: went and did another. Sport you, Know Ethan larson And
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: Davin beeson And Alex mololi and these guys were you,
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: know multiple year starters on the baseball team and then
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: once they became, seniors they went and did. Track and
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: they actually stole a guy back from track this past,
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: year so we'll talk about that a little. Bit so
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: they so a lot of the, guys you, know the
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: like the six top guys they had last year that
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: are supposed to return this year are all returning and
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: that's and that's. Huge you, Know Camden moa probably leads
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: that group as as far as an overall talent as
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: a baseball, player and you, know he can do a
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: lot of different, things and he might be end up
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: being the catcher just because you, know you want to
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: kind of put you your like your dude, there so
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: he might be doing. That Magnus mellon was a second
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: basement last year leadoff, hitter walked eleven, times stole five.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: Bases he might get moved to. Shortstop we'll just have
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: to see you, there but he'll be kind of the
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: catalyst of that. Offense he had a six point one
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: eight e. Er he might end up throwing quite a bit.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: Innings he pitched seventeen innings last, year so he logged
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: the second most innings out of all the guys. Returning
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: Gavin sternhagen played some third base last. Year we usually
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: batted second in the. Lineup he batted one ninety last,
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: year had a three forty six on base. Percentage you,
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: know all these guys had thirty forty fifty at. Bats
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: so you're bringing back a lot of experience that's going
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: to be needed because a lot of these guys it
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: was their first year of playing varsity last, year so
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: that was just kind of a eyes wide open, moment
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: and now it's gonna be hopefully things will slow down
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: for them a little. Bit. Uh Cayden, moser who we you,
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: know saw as a tight, end defensive, end he could
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: play some center, field batt one seventy nine last, year
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: pitched a little bit as. Well Uh toga you, Know
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: Toga taylor you, Guys, YEAH i mean he he logged
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: almost twenty one innings last, year so he brings back
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: the most. Innings he had a win last. Year they
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: only had two wins and he had one of. Them
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: he played some left, field some right. Field you, know
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: he's got a strong. Arm Cameron hesseck is another guy
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: who had a win last. Year he had six RBIs last.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: Year and then you bring In Dean, allred who's a
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: really good athlete we saw in the football. Field And
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: Dylan moa is coming. Back he played baseball a few
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: years ago and then he started doing. Track now he's
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: back as a baseball. Player left handed guy that played
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: in the, outfield some center, Field So i'm excited for
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: him to come back and play. Baseball they could have
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: really used him last. Year so there's some mixed here
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: with with especially With Dylan moa And dean already coming
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: out to play with these other guys that have, experienced
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: so hopefully they can pick up a few more wins
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: than than. Two and it's just, uh the you, know
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: they were all set to Play Friday, HARBOR i think
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: that was On, wednesday and then it got rained out
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: and got moved To. Monday SO i was all set
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: to go out there because the baseball and fast pitch
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: team were going to play at the exact same, time
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: and their fields are kind of across the street from each,
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: other SO i was just gonna kind of run back
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: and forth and check it out and get some pictures
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: and then stand in the middle of the, road, Right,
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: YEAH i just you, know no. Problem and uh and
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: then and THEN i you, KNOW i contacted coach left
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: BECAUSE i saw one of them got moved and didn't
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: really know what was going, on and he, said, yeah
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: they both got moved To. Monday so so, yeah and,
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: uh hopefully we'll see how they do Against Friday harbor On.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: Monday and and, uh but it's you, know Coach farrell's
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: got he's one of those guys that's seen it, all
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: so it's a hopefully you'll get him going in the right.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: Direction and and you, know it was a rough one
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: last year and and hopefully they can get things turned.
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: Around that is The I'm. Tyler i'm just really excited
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: that we get you guys. UP i, mean that's just
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: that's just another another sound bit to use as we go.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 2: Through the the weekly. SHOWS i, mean, yeah, yeah, oh it's.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: Exciting we didn't get to play that, one you, know much.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: Recently so, yeah he was injured for. Football yeah, yeah,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: yeah dog got. Dog, Okay So, tyler That's Mount. Baker
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: let's talk about the K Nooksack Valley pioneers head Coach
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: Dole joel The Wisp Layer. DOLE i know and and
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: and the guy gave me a hat at one. Point
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: THEN i go screw his name. Up by the, way
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: it's sitting on the front seat of my. Car BUT
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 2: i can't wear it right. Now i'm gotta wear the bofele, stuff.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: RIGHT i do wear it every now and. Then it's
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: a good good look at hat. Man let me tell, you,
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: uh sixth, year nineteen and fifty eight overall last, season
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: The pioneers ten and. Twelve, tyler looking up, here, though
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: we've got three guys that returning from the top fifty
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: countdown and, uh, well some names THAT i recognize from football, Again,
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: tyler here we, go but, yeah it looks like looks
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 2: like some serious guys coming back.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: Here. Yeah and coach Twist, blaire you, know he took
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: over the program and then that very first, year he's
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: all set and he's getting all ready and, everything and
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: THEN covid hit and so that was just a unique
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: way to kind of get ready for everything and then
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: all of a, sudden it's not gonna. Happen, yeah and.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: He's take a year off and come play back next.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: Spring. Yeah and it was just kind of year after
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: year it just seemed like really young teams over and
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: over again and getting a few wins here and. There
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: and last year they really broke, out getting ten, wins
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: playing extremely well in the district. TOURNAMENT i just lost
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: by one To Lennon. Christian that was a heartbreaker that knocked.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: Them that that ended their. Season and they had a
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: lot of really good seniors on that team that had
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: been playing since they were. Freshmen but there's this there's
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: a pretty good group here behind them that's that we'll
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: be ready as. Well you, Know Colby martin just one
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: of the best pure sluggers in the. League you, know
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: he's been playing third base since day one as a.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: Freshman he might get moved to shortstop this year just you,
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: know just he's their best. INFIELDER i Think Evan brown
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: will be playing shortstop there or playing probably been playing
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: some shortstop too when he's not, Pitching so that's When
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: martin might get moved a. Third But Colby martin last
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: year batted three point eighty, three had a nine to
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: ninety on base, percentage doesn't walk a, lot doesn't strike
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: out a. Lot he's gonna put the ball in, play four,
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: doubles a triple nineteen. RBIs i see him go up
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: quite a bit with a wood. Bat WHENEVER i see
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: that in high school, BASEBALL i was, Like, okay this
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: guy is, Serious like it's like you need to, challenge
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: you know. So and he's just one of those guys
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: that is just, big, strong middle of the, lineup scary
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: kind of. Guy and if he you, know if he
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: has some, protection which he does with these other two guys,
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: here you, Know evan Probably batten in front of him
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: And cole behind, him that'll help out a Lot. Cole
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: Cole bauman last year had him at number forty nine
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: on the. List really good first BASEMAN i thought his
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: defense improved immensely from the two years ago to last
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: year and this, year and also last, YEAR i thought
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: his hitting was was pretty darn. Good he had three,
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: doubles nine, RBIs stole six. Bases they might rely on
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: him as to be like probably their number two. Picture
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: he's about six four six,' five so you get that on,
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: the mound which. Is nice and and he can, throw
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: hard struck out ten batters and six and a. Third
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: inning so if he can get his controlled a little,
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: bit better that, will help because he tends to walk.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: Some guys but, you know it's just sometimes when you're,
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: six four it's tough to get the mechanics. All situated
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: so but he's a really good option too at. THE
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: plate i remember seeing him crush the, ball once but they,
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: were there they were playing that they played one game
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: a year out At The Siue mass park and It's
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: Like little, league night and and the fences are a,
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: little different and, it's, like man if they were playing
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: at home that that that would have. Been out, and,
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: so uh he's a he's a really. Good Player And Evan,
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: evan brown, you know the quarterback on the, football team
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: and and we've gotten to. Know him he really stood
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: out last year and and became kind of one of
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: their go to guys as a pitcher last year and
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: and through forty three and two, thirds inning struck out thirty,
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: seven batters had a three point three six e r
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: a a two and, four record but he was these
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: were close games and then HE really i really liked
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: what he did at the plate. As, well uh became
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: one of their bigger. Power hitters has just had a
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: really had a, you know he's a tall he's about,
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: six three but he has he has a quick stroke to.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: The ball he did have a home Run ten RBIs
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: batted two Thirty FIVE and I think i was at
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: the game when he played shortstop for the. FIRST time
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: i believe it Was at BELLINGHAM and i was in
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: the knooksack dugout and he's, out there, you know pre
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: game and taking grounders at short and he came OFF
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: and I think i said something, to, him like how
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: long has it been since you? Played shortstop and, he's
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: like this is my, first TIME and i just kind
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: of like it just it's just funny to see like
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: they just it was just in a weird situation where they,
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: needed somebody and it's a really. Important position and he
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: did really well and and he's kind of, you know
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: melding into. That position so those those three guys are
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: the main guys that they're going to lean on that
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: front from. Last.
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 2: Year, TYLER so i, you know as you say these
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: things about, you know some fields or, different things a
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 2: lot OF times i hop On the google maps just, so, like,
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: OH sure i look, to, see man is that a
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 2: short fence in center field Here At?
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: Knooksack valley oh at the? High?
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 2: School, YEAH yeah, i mean, my goodness like it almost
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 2: looks deeper to left field than it does.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: The. CENTER yeah i REMEMBER when i first started doing.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: Walking preps one of the first BASEBALL games i went
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: out to think It was Knooksack and squalkum And Remember
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: casey bauman, was playing and and uh there was like
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: four home runs in, that game like each team. Had
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: TWO and i was, just like you just don't see
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: that in high school baseball. Very often that was that
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: Was Atok, knooksack valley, and, uh yeah you're right. There
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: is it is one of those places where you get
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: a hold, of, it right that's kind of where where
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: you want, to be. You know.
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 2: My goodness so the other, THING, is i, YOU know
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 2: i was looking over at A At mount baker and
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 2: then for whatever, STUPID reason i just started, heading west,
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 2: AND uh i see A little i don't even know
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: what you, call it a little little icon and it
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 2: and it's the. Food One so, I'm Like rome Store.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 2: And bakery have you heard of?
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: This place, OH yeah i used to buy my baseball,
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: card there, All RIGHT so i clicked, On. It tyler
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: the FIRST picture i see of any food at this
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: place is my. Pizza Order and i'll tell you what,
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: it looks. Stinking good pepperoni. And PINEAPPLE pepper i was just, gonna, say.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: Pepperoni Pineapple and i'll tell you what, they got the
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: round ones with the, little cups. You know, oh yeah
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: the pepperoni and they're burnt on. The, Edges yeah oh,
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: my goodness this pizza. Looks. Fabulous yeah we need to
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: get a sponsorship from. These guys one pizza, a week
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: ship It. To kirkland, I'M in, i mean.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: My, Goodness, anyway tyler let's talk about some of the
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 2: returning players Here For. Niksack valley we got two guys
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 2: that both have over forty app bats from a, season
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 2: ago and then. ANOTHER bowman, i mean how many of
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: these guys they got?
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: Out? There tyler. MY goodness. I Know Well matthew blake
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: who played left field, last year and he's gonna take
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: Over For damian prez behind, the plate which is a
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: tall task because not Only could, damion hit which he
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: could have hit as, a linebacker, but yeah but he was,
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: you know he called all. THE pitches, i mean he
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: was just such a good. Defensive Catcher, matthew blake different kind.
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: Of guy you're putting possibly your fastest guy behind, the
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: plate which sometimes. Is tough. You know, it's, LIKE man
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: i could use him in. The outfield he's got. Those
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: wheels but you need a good. Catcher too and and
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: that's another thing where you got a guy that you
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: want to, batlead off but you know he's, a catcher
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: so you know you want to, have him, you know
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: if you're if you're if you're the, home team you
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: want to have him catch and then come out and
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: take all the gear off and then hit and put.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: It on, you know it's sometimes you want to bat those,
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: guys lower so don't they can sit and rest a
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: little bit before. They hit, and uh but he is
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: such a he's such a talent that they're going to,
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: try to, you know use what. They can he got
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: a two seventy nine last year, on ops a seven
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: fifty Two h that might have been the highest ops
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: of someone that didn't make the top fifty list, last
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: year to. Be honest so so that's and he could
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: pitch a little. Bit too, but again if you might
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: really need him, to catch and but if, He Does,
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: landon staffer who's the, right fielder big, strong kid he
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: would come in. And catch he's one of those GUYS
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: where i always think that just just when you just watch.
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: Him Play and i'm not Saying He's brody bauman. And
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: Broke brody bawman is one of, the best, you know
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: baseball players we've. Seen recently but for, some reason the
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: numbers weren't as as astronomical as you thought. They'd be
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: he'd have a lot of line drive outs and stuff.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: Like that that happened to land and staff for. A
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: LOT when i watched, last year it seemed like he had,
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: you know like like he would he'd hit one like
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty, feet foul like like three feet,
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: you know short of the just hooks It, into, abbotsford, right,
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, it's like, My goodness and then he would
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: line out. Or something, it's, like Man he's it's that's
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: the thing about high. School baseball it's like they talk
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: about in, the majors, you Know Like Mike mike blowers would, always,
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: say well you can't really judge a guy until he's
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: had one hundred and fifty at bats. Or, whatever well
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: you're not gonna get that in a high school game
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: or high. School season and AND so i think he's
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: got a ton, of potential uh, you, know, big big.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: Strong kid and Then kru bauman like, you, said man.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: THAT kid, I mean i swear like a year and
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: a half ago he was shorter than me and now
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: he's just foot taller. Than me and and so he's
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: gonna grow into do something where they're a't he's gonna play, you,
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: know uh maybe some first base when his, brother's pitching
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: or play some outfield. Or wherever but he can hit a.
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: Little bit he had three RBI's and just, two hits
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: and he might be relied upon to pitch a. Little
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: bit so we'll just have to see kind of. What
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: happens they were supposed to play the second game of
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: the year Today Against. Friday harbor that one got. Got
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: canceled they did start The year friday Night Against bellevue
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: christian and took the. Loss there but we'll have to
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: see what. They DO like, i said they made a
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: big jump, last year but they had a lot of
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: seniors and we'll just have, to see, you, know again
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: how these other young guys are gonna. Step up, you
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: know there's there's some guys that that suited up last
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: year quite a BIT that i didn't mention here just because,
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: you know they may have had an at bat maybe here,
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: or there, You Know finn ross and, and uh, you
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: know there's there's there's a few guys like That in
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: trevick McMillan that i, you know we'll just have to
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: see how they do before we start giving them a
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: little bit pub and they might they might do some.
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: Great THINGS and i hope, they do because, right Now
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: Uh noksack valley baseball is trending in the. Right direction That.
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 2: Is nuoksack Valley. The pioneers we now move on to
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 2: talk About The. Seahome mariners they're Head Coach, dane sigfried
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 2: the fifth year twenty two and fifty six overall five
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 2: and fourteen. Last Year, but tyler when you talk about returning, some,
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 2: guy yeah they returned, some guys and three of them
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 2: in the, top fifty, number twelve, number fifteen and number.
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 2: Forty ONE so, i mean if you average, it out
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 2: they might have the, best average you KNOW what i
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 2: mean of. Anybody returning it's pretty cool to See, the
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 2: mariners a TEAM that i always remember being very good.
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 2: In baseball so it's cool to. See that and when
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 2: we talk about the guys that, Are, returning tyler not
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 2: only do they have a lot of, at bats but
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 2: they got quite a few innings returning here.
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: As, well absolutely that's, the big. BIG thing, i mean
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: it's basically the same team as. Last YEAR and i
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: went out to their game Today against MERIDIAN and i
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: was talking To coach sigfried, about this and what's really
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: unique about them, is, they're yeah they kind of had
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: the same team from, last year but then they got
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: a huge infusion of talent of a freshman class. As well,
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: YOU know i think he said something about like last
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: year in the whole high, school program they had eighteen kids,
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: come out which is just Crazy For Sea. Home. Baseball
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: yeah that and this blows. Me, away yeah and this
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: year it was like. Forty, Something whoa so just a one,
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: year difference and they're really things are starting to kind
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: of click, and EVERYTHING and i think everyone's getting excited about.
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: It now and and, you're right the top end talent
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: on this team too, Is huge. Gunner tweet shortstop bat
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: is three zero three. Last year that perfect like number,
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: two hitter can hit it to the, right side could
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: bend a, guy over, you know can steal, a base all.
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: Those things that's that's. That's huge and he's going to
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: be a guy that it probably won't rely on on
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: the mound, too much but if they, have to. He
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: can he had twenty hits. Last year hudson nef is
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: going to be moved back out to. Center field, you
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: know played in the middle infield, last year but he'll
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: be back out in center field because. Of guys they
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: have the new guys coming in and he'll be a.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: Leadoff hitter and it's such a tough out you mentioned.
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: It earlier twenty three. Stolen bases he batted three, ninety
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: four only struck out six times. All year ops of
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: nine Eighty, two uh he's toughest nails. As well hit a,
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: home run went one and two on, the season had
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: a couple, of saves had a two point zero THREE.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: E ra so you look at all those things that
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: he did as a sophomore and, you think, my goodness
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: like what's, you know how is this gonna? Keep going and,
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: and uh he's probably gonna have another. Breakout year BUT
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: then i also saw a writer McGrath on the mound
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: today and he's About he's EVERY year i, SEE him
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: i swear he grows an their two or. Three inches
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: he's about six, foot six six foot seven now and finally.
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: A senior seems like he's been doing. This forever but
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: he's just and he's just such A power he's just a,
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: power guy, power pitcher. Power hitter and you know led
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: them with fifteen RBIs, last year had, three doubles, two
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: triples bat at two. Sixty, Nine uh and you know
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: the three and six record is a little bit deceiving
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: because he was. Their ace, you know you're Pitching Against,
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: mount vernon you're Pitching, against linden you're Pitching, against burlington
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: you KNOW what. I, mean like so you're throwing there,
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: you're guy and and he in fifty eight and two,
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: thirds innings he struck out seventy, one batters had a
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 1: three point four TO, six ERA and i tell, YOU
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: what i would not be surprised if he touches ninety
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: at some point. This year he was really bringing. It
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: today so that's those are those are three guys that are,
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: you know when you start talking about your top three
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: coming back for, any team that's, a big big three
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: For coach siegfried And the mariners and and kind of
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: seeing what they can do.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 2: This year let's talk about returning, Players, here tyler and
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 2: you've got six, of them and we're talking six guys,
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 2: with well. Excuse me five of those six had forty
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 2: five or more at bats, last season and the one
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 2: that had the most also through almost. Forty innings so
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 2: we've got some serious talent coming back that did not
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 2: make the.
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: Top, fifty yeah it's crazy too because a lot of,
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: these guys, You Know grady bernard had a really, Good
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: Season keegan lennon had a really. GOOD season i don't
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: know if they're gonna be able to play. This Year
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: grady bernard had a. Knee brace he was, out there
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: he was not in his unit in. His uniform, you,
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: know really, you know usually a really good guy in
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: the middle of the lineup hit two fifty nine, last
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: year had, fourteen hits and he might he might be
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: back by the end of. The year, but uh that
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: that's a. Tough One And keegan glennon who you who,
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: you mentioned who threw almost forty innings last year with
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: a three point three EIGHT. E r he's he's got
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: an arm injury and so he might be out for.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: The year and that's that's really. Really tough, but boy
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: they've been really helped with this freshman class that's that's.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: Coming in but there's a lot of these. Other Guys,
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: gunner anderson, you know he's gonna, back back probably back.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: Clean up he's, a big, strong kid. Left. Fielder uh
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: and it was cool to see him out on the
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: football field do. SOME things i didn't know he was a,
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: football PLAYER so i saw him last year as a.
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: Baseball Player so i'm excited to see kind of that.
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: Whole thing They Got tyson goodman. Coming out he's gonna
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: probably play in. Right field he hasn't played in a,
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: little while but we. Saw him he made the top
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: one hundred list. For Football jackson evans is back behind.
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: The plate uh doesn't give you a ton, of OFFENSE
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: but i swear he gets hit by pitch. Every game
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: it's just one of those Guys. Like, france, yeah yeah
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: He's type. France exactly but he's a really good receiver
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: back there behind. The plate, you Know, Ben rix Brendan,
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: The plant like these guys have been doing it for,
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: a while and so they have they just have so
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: much barsty experience and, you know it's just it's it's
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: it's it's really really COOL because i could see the
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: Excitement in, dane's eyes like he was he was pumped
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: about this year because, you know they were great for
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: so long and it just kind of died off and
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: it was, kind of, you know it was kind of
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: when he, TOOK over i mean twenty two and. Fifty.
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: Six uh but he he's really. GOOD coach i mean really.
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: Good COACH so I am i'm excited to see what
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: they can do. THIS year i think they're going to
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: be the most improved team and and out of everyone
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: From From walkam county, that is and, and uh, they
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: yeah they just bring back a ton of talent and
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: they got the win Today, over meridian which says a
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: Lot because meridian brought back a lot and it was
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: just a. Weird game, i mean, you know you got
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: to stop it for fifteen minutes because of rain and,
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: you know but it was cold, out there but it
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: was they're doing some cool stuff to the stadium where they're,
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: you know putting up things with the old state championship
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: years and they're kind of bringing a lot of that
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: tradition back because they redid the, whole field, you know
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: a few, years ago and so they're kind of rebringing
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: all the. Tradition back, and, it's uh that's what's really
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: cool because it is such a. Rich tradition, they've won
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: they won three state titles over the years and, And
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah i'm i'm excited for.
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 2: Their, future yeah and this is this is a team
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 2: that it's it's almost one of those ones That like
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 2: i'm trying, to, think, Like well i'll shoot to say
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 2: this because it breaks.
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: My heart but.
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 2: There's teams in college Football, like nebraska right that we
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 2: all remember. Being great right when they start to make
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 2: like like all of, A sudden nebraska has a couple
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 2: of good years, or something it almost like fires fires
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 2: you up a, little bit you KNOW what, i mean
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 2: because it's like It's, this yeah it's like it's like
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 2: what it's what? You remember, you know, yeah yeah and
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 2: it's like it's it's like the sport. Is, better yeah,
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 2: they're great. You, know yeah That's what i'm trying. To
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 2: say and So Seeing see home kind of, you know
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 2: they're they're five, and fourteen but you look at what
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 2: they they, bring back and, it's, like man they actually
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 2: bring back some some really good. Numbers here, you know
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 2: it's and if you can get, some pitching and, you
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 2: know they returned, some pitching and it's it's all one
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 2: of those things where if those guys take that.
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: Next, step, yeah boy you know you.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 2: Said it you said that you think they're they're the
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 2: team that's maybe going to make the biggest jump. This
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 2: Year and i'll tell you what they if you just
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 2: look at what, THEY have, i mean there's no reason
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 2: not to think that we, you know we aren't going
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 2: to see more than three guys on the top fifty,
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 2: from that, from That From sea home and and maybe
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 2: even you know some guys that we don't even know,
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 2: about yet, you know which is which is even more,
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 2: you know. Just awesome it's it's just it's really cool.
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 2: To see so that Is The. Seahome mariners let's talk
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 2: About The squalkum storm Head Coach. Hayden knight his, first
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 2: Year the storm ohen nineteen. Last year, you know real
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 2: rough Go no top. Fifty returners BUT as i look
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 2: over the, Returning, players tyler there are some nice pieces
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 2: to work with here For, Coach.
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: Knight yeah they got they got a lot of guys that.
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: Have experience, you know when you return, your catcher. That's
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: Huge henry ingersoll was their catcher. Last year he had
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: ten hits and, you know kind of aggressive at. The
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: play doesn't walk, a ton but but, you know has.
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: Some power El eljas lara had three doubles last year
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: out of his. FIVE hits i saw him Play on
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: friday and he's left handed hitter and smacked it triple
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: to the right. Field wall that was really promising. To
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: see they did score four Runs against ferndale On, on
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: friday which was which was good. TO see i know
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: you're thinking only, four runs but there was there were
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: times when you just didn't know where the runs were
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: gonna come from, last year and so You Know, Davis Miller,
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 1: max wright those guys at the top of, The Lineup.
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: Hudson johnson, you know he pitched twenty innings. Last year
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: he also had thirty seven, at bats so he brings
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: a lot. Of. Experience uh they do have a Transfer
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: from oklahoma left. HANDED kid i can't remember his, first
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: name last Name. WAS york i saw him Pitch. Against
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: ferndale so there are some pieces to. Work with there's
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: some guys coming up, As Well braid nortiz and, you
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: know guys that didn't get playing time last year on
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: the varsity but probably suited up for a handful. Of
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 1: games and, and YEAH and i think there's Like another scammel,
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: coming up. You know so it's it's a lot of
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: these some of these names that that were are. Used
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: to but it's gonna be a, tough one, you know brand.
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: New coach and sometimes when you bring in a young
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: guy that's, you know kind of the players can relate
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: to a, Little bit like you can get excited about
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: the game and you want to have fun with it
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: again and you start picking up wins and that's how
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: the momentum starts going. After that so, you know we'll
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 1: see how how. It goes it was a tough one
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: for them, last year AND and I think i only
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: saw him twice. LAST year I think i saw Them
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 1: Against anti CHORTUS and i saw Them Against. Mount baker
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: and and when you just talk about like atmosphere and
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: like the, baseball field THAT'S like i love going to.
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: That one just the way it's set next to the. High,
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: school yes like it goes like, it goes, you step
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: you go way down. Into, it yeah the sunset is
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: awesome place to watch. A, game oh. It's unbelievable it's
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: like it's like basically the schools where the hit it here,
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: cafe is, you know at the whatever it's called NOW
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: So T. Mobile park so it's is it's a. Great
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: place and and when and when they, get going it's
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: it's it's really fun just because the atmosphere and stuff.
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: Like that BUT like, i said last year was a.
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: Tough one two years ago they were, you know they
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: were in that district tournament Down In. Anti chordus and
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 1: so it's how fast it did, drop off it can jump.
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: Up again so we'll just have to hope that For.
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: The storm and they are a very young team, once
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: again so we'll just have to see how. That goes
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: and you know a lot of schools have gone through
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: this where they play a lot of freshmen. And sophomores,
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 1: You know kniksack went through This and bellingham went through
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: this and they both had double digit wins. Last year
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: so it does come around once that experience, comes around
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: and that's what, the night that's what the storm is
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: gonna have to hope.
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 2: For, Here, yep tyler. THAT'S it, i mean that's. That's
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 2: everybody but, You, know tyler just a couple of things.
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: Really quickly if if you, you know we Talked about
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: seaholme really making a jump, This, year yeah is there
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: another team out there that you see that you, just
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: go that's Maybe The if seahome isn't the team with the,
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: biggest improvement it's gonna be who. OH Improvement, i well
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: if you're just talking from wins like last year's total
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 1: wins to this upcoming year's, total wins that's really hard
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: to SAY because i think a lot of teams had
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: big years, last Year like lynden had a big year
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: and You know meridian had, a big, Big year so
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: it'll be really HARD and i think they're you know
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: some of the. Better, teams again so hard to. Improve,
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: THERE boy I. THINK lc i, think that, You Know
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: linden christian is a TEAM that i think they can
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: improve on their. Win TOTAL but I what i Guess
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: what i'm SAYING is i think they can get to that. Final,
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: four yeah, you know as far as how how long
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: the season can go for them as an as. AN
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: improvement i there's just not a lot of holes to.
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: Their game. Last year going into, THE year, i, thought
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: boy they're, pretty talented but they didn't have a lot
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: of varsity. Pitching experience, but boy that came. Around fast
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: they only had like four or five guys pitched, all
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: year like only four or. Five. Total, yeah wow that's hard.
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: To do it is really hard. To Do jonah turpestro
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: was a guy that eight up innings and he was
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: so he was, Super efficient like he would, you know
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: he could pitch a complete game and, YOU know i
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: know it's only, seven innings but it'd be like sixty
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: seven pitches, or something and you're, just like.
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 2: My goodness that's like who used to? Do that who's
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 2: the guy For the yankees that used to? Do that in,
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 2: the nineties it, was oh what's? His name he pitched Against.
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 2: THE mariners i Think in game five of the Of
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 2: The division series in. Ninety five That was Jack m
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 2: jack McDow came in.
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 1: And, Relieve yeah jack mcdal came in. And relief it was,
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: the guy Was It? David? Cone Yeah? David, cone yeah he.
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  Speaker 2: Used to he used to throw some like just crazy
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 2: numbers where he'd throw a, you know nine innings and
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 2: it would be like eighty six pitches and, you're like what?
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 2: The heck and it was like a two, hour game,
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 2: like no no pitch clock needed here to stick around?
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: Two, Hours Well mark burley was the master at. That,
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: Too Yes mark Burley was, my goodness those were. Fast, games.
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 2: YES yeah I remember i went to a baseball game.
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 2: One time it was the aar In The Colorado Rockies,
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 2: jamie MOYER and i don't remember who the pitcher was
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 2: off the top of my head For, the rockies but
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 2: when the, game ended it was Like still. Sonny out
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 2: and this was like a, seven pm you know Game
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 2: in july, or SOMETHING and i remember looking at my, buddy,
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 2: going well what do we? Do now it WAS like
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 2: i think it was like an hour fifty seven. Or something,
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 2: Like that oh. It's, crazy yeah it was just one
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 2: of those ones where, you're like how did what? Happened
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 2: here it was like Was It jason jennings or it
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 2: was like one of those guys that pitched For the
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 2: rockies that was like really good For the rockies and
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 2: then probably went somewhere else and was like you know
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 2: five and fifteen. Type thing, you know like there used
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 2: to be so many guys, like that and baseball's like notorious,
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 2: for that guys that are just unbelievable for one team
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 2: and then they get traded and signed some. Big contract
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 2: and then who's the guy he didn't even, Get, traded
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 2: uh the Guy Like scott Spizio.
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: And Richarilia And jep cirillo And Uh.
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 2: SEAN figgins, i mean the list. Goes on who's the
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 2: guy who's the third basement for the For the angels?
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 2: Right now the guy it's signed that huge contract from, The,
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 2: now yeah From The rendon Anthony, Ren Brown.
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: Anthony rendon it's like he's it looks like he's sitting
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 1: in a lazy boy chair when, he's batting like he's leaned.
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 2: Way back he's just like that has got to be
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 2: one of the worst signings in the history. OF baseball
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 2: i mean the amount of money they gave him that.
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: He just he's. Done nothing he's done, absolutely nothing JUST
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: so i mean he doesn't even, play like he. Doesn't,
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: heed yeah he's. Always HURT he's, i mean you Look
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 1: Up john wall FOR. The nba, you know he was
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: the number one. Overall, pick yeah good athlete, and everything
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: but like there was he sounded like a, four year
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: like one hundred and sixty million dollar deal and he
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: played like thirty five games or something like, that total
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 1: and that in those. Four, YEARS yeah, i think and
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: like there was one whole year where like he was
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: like a he was at like A d np coach's
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: decision the. Entire, Year yeah like it was Just Man,
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 1: John's yeah i'm Looking At john wall. Right now he's
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: made two hundred and seventy six million in. HIS career,
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: i mean that's just and the majority of it was
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: those like four year stretch when he. Didn't, play yeah.
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 2: It was like, twenty nineteen twenty twenty nineteen he played,
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 2: zero games twenty twenty one he played, zero games twenty
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 2: twenty he, played FORTY which i would assume was the.
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 2: SHORTENED season. I guess but then like thirty, two before
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 2: like he. Hasn't played it's been since twenty sixteen for
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 2: him to even get to seventy games in. THE season
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 2: i mean that's almost.
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: A second still he's not still in.
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 2: The league, well no but he hasn't played since twenty. Twenty,
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 2: two okay but still like that was played what well,
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 2: you know, oh yeah we're sitting here talking about him
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 2: not playing and, then yeah that's actually, Pretty, Funny tyler isn't?
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 2: It funny how like baseball is the sport that we
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 2: could sit here and just name off like old random
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 2: mariners that, we had, you know like high hopes for
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 2: then just, did nothing you KNOW what, I, mean, like
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 2: oh He's Said, sean figgins like this could. Work out he,
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 2: can run he can, do this he can.
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: Do that and, then yeah him and each road at
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 1: the top of the lineup, like yeah we're gonna we're
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 1: just gonna just run all. Over. Everybody yeah the biggest
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: ONE that i had the most hoped, for was Seriously Was.
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: Jeff cirillo, oh yeah, HE thought i thought because he
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: was like a, you know he was a Guy at
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: milwaukee that would hit. Three ten, you know he's not
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 1: going to hit the ball of, the ballpark but that
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: guy would just he was like he was like The
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: Next Paul. Malder like he would just, short, swing boom get.
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: On base he's coming To. THE mariners i stood in
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: line forever At the mariners fan fest to get his
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: autograph on the. LITTLE pennant i still. HAVE it i
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 1: was so excited and what the? Heck happened and, you Know,
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: RICH aurelia i was pretty. Excited about, You Know scott
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 1: spiezio didn't have, great numbers but he had A Great. World,
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: series yeah, you know and then that he, WAS like
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: i mean his batting average at one point was below
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: one hundred and we're still playing him, every DAY and i,
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: just like oh. My goodness but like, people Bashed Like,
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 1: richie sexon but he had some good years.
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 2: With, us yeah and he still hit home runs while He, was.
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah he had like over forty home runs a couple.
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: Of TIMES so i mean that's, you know by, the
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: way lit little side.
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 2: Note Here, jeff cirillo His Son, Cole Cirillo, all league
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 2: all kinds. Of stuff Punter at bellevue back in. The,
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 2: day yeah, twenty fifteen, Twenty sixteen area like.
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 1: He was he was a. Great punter he must have
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: retired and, STUCK around, I, Guess yeah i'm pretty sure.
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: He didn't he. CAME back i don't think do you
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 1: Go to Colorado after seattle or something. Like, that no
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: we got Him. From, COLORADO oh i thought he'd got Him. From,
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: milwaukee no he Was. In milwaukee then he Went to
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: colorado for a couple. Of YEARS.
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 2: If i can, remember CORRECTLY and i could be wrong
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 2: here some when he might want to fact, Check me
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 2: i'm pretty sure it was an actual like bad trade
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 2: For the. MARINERS too I Believe brian fuentes was in
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 2: that trade that sent Him. To colorado and Then remember
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 2: fuentes was a phenomenal Closer. For, colorado yes he had
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 2: forty saves maybe like, he was he was very very Good.
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 2: For COLORADO actually i. THINK he i think he might
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 2: have led the league in saves for one that.
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 1: Can at a. Couple.
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 2: Times, yeah yeah and lefty closer that you know had
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 2: like like he was a guy that we had a.
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 2: Lot OF like i don't think he pitched much for
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 2: the marriage before we, traded him but it Was Like Jose. Cruz,
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 2: junior yeah remember like when he when he. GOT traded
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 2: i remember everybody, was, like wait why did we?
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: Trade him like like it's a, Young Guy, adam jones
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: you KNOW what, I mean guys like that where you're
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: like what why don't why don't we got to? Trade
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: him like like we're giving up one of our best
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 1: guys For. For cirillo it's, like okay, well yeah but
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: you know that we could use a, their basement like maybe,
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 1: you Know Although ADAM jones i was pretty Pumped For,
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: Eric badard oh SO.
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 2: Was i, you know a lot of people Forget. BA
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 2: dard i believe led the majors and strikeouts the year
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 2: before he Came.
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: To.
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 2: Seattle, Yeah yeah AND if i can, remember correctly he.
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: And maybe I'm maybe i'm. WRONG here I.
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 2: Believe Badard Remember felix ornandez pitched like ten straight, opening
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 2: days Right. And badard there's Something like badard pitch One
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 2: and felix would have had like the most ever if
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 2: he wouldn't have had that one broken up or something,
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 2: like that or, most Consecutive if badard wouldn't have broken
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 2: him up. OR something i can't remember what, it was
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 2: but there was something about it that that was goofy
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 2: that badard came in and, everybody's, like well he's the
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 2: big guy we got we gotta. Play it, you know
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 2: he's got to pitch number one because, you know this
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 2: year was With. THE mariners i don't know if you.
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 2: Saw It logan gilbert is gonna be the the opening,
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 2: day starter and you, know what he, deserves it, you
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 2: know like he really does. Deserve it and, you know,
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 2: but hey You Know luis castillo's he started the last couple,
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 2: of years, you know whatever, it is and he, you
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 2: know he's supposedly your ace and IT'S like.
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know that he.
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 2: Is, FOUR yeah i mean it's it's pretty. Pretty, good yeah,
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 2: oh yeah don't get, Me wrong he's. Very good, but yeah.
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: Change, up yeah.
• 1:55:47
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  Speaker 1: Two hours. Holy cow yeah how?
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  Speaker 2: ABOUT that, i mean but you, know what then we're
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 2: fired up for some. Spring sports not just because of
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 2: the weather that isn't, here yet but, UH yeah, I,
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 2: Mean tyler. I'M excited i think it's gonna be a
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 2: great baseball season Up In. Walkam county, you know this
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• 1:56:13
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