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Daniel Best Interview · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 2: also on LinkedIn and more. Daniel Best the best of
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  Speaker 2: the best, not last, but not least coach, best baseball
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  Speaker 2: coach here at Brandon Coach. How you doing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing good?
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  Speaker 2: Man, appreciate it you having me on Man. Absolutely, It's
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  Speaker 2: always baseball, isn't.
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  Speaker 3: It always here around?
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  Speaker 2: So let's talk a little baseball. You guys had another
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  Speaker 2: really good year this year. We were talking about just
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  Speaker 2: how weird in baseball. People know this, how weird baseball is.
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  Speaker 2: Pedal comes out of you know, the region is a
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  Speaker 2: four seed. They go on to win the state championship
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  Speaker 2: Oklahoma came out of nowhere. You know, Ole Miss did
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  Speaker 2: it a few years ago. You said, you guys did.
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  Speaker 2: Baseball is just a weird game, and it's a weird
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  Speaker 2: but fun game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's all about getting hot at the right time. That's
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  Speaker 3: why I can't stress too much over the way season starts.
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  Speaker 3: It's all about how it ends. We saw that in
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  Speaker 3: twenty four and we won it with three freshmen on
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  Speaker 3: the field, and we're thinking it's more of a rebuilding
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  Speaker 3: year and start the season off the low five hundred
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  Speaker 3: and find a way to get hot at the right
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  Speaker 3: time and ended up winning state championship and again enough
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  Speaker 3: to go back the second year and Madison took that
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  Speaker 3: one and then again Pedal last year started off really slow,
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  Speaker 3: but Pedal had a really good team. Coach Douglas did
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  Speaker 3: a good job with those guys, and again they got
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  Speaker 3: hot at the right time. But they had the talent
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  Speaker 3: all year, just didn't really play real well early in
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  Speaker 3: the season, but then put it together and they were
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  Speaker 3: they were it'll be tough for anybody to handle late
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  Speaker 3: and late in the season. And they were one that
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  Speaker 3: was projected pre season in the top one or two
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  Speaker 3: in the state and both of us were up there
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  Speaker 3: and ended up being both of us left in the
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  Speaker 3: in the South. So, yeah, hats off to them, really
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  Speaker 3: good year. But yeah, they got they got really hot,
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  Speaker 3: and they were tough to handle.
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  Speaker 2: You know what's interesting about like baseball, just take Pedal
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  Speaker 2: for instance, and I don't remember because I don't have
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  Speaker 2: the stats in front of me, they didn't hit a
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  Speaker 2: ton of long balls in the regular season, and it's
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  Speaker 2: like when they got in the postseason, the ball just
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  Speaker 2: came off the bats game after game after game. What
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  Speaker 2: do you what do you attribute that to something like
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  Speaker 2: that or you know, just something in baseball that teams
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  Speaker 2: maybe were very average at, but then you get them
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  Speaker 2: in a situation and you see it. You see it
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  Speaker 2: in all levels of baseball. Then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 2: they just wow you with it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that just just like we talked about earlier,
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  Speaker 3: getting hot at the right time, the players build confidence.
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  Speaker 3: That confidence bleeds in to the rest of the team.
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  Speaker 3: A guy gets hot and hits a home run, and the
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  Speaker 3: next thing you know, everybody's hight. The next guy gets
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  Speaker 3: in there, he feels good about it because what he
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  Speaker 3: just saw, and then he runs one out of the park.
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  Speaker 3: And they just get on a run and hit multiple
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  Speaker 3: over over a few games where they may have not
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  Speaker 3: hit any in previous games. Pedal was, like you said,
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  Speaker 3: a little slow to start, but then put it together
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  Speaker 3: and swung it really well. And that's that's just where
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  Speaker 3: it goes.
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  Speaker 2: Visit with Daniel Best, he's the head baseball coach here
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  Speaker 2: at Brandon Thursday edition of your program. You guys, players
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  Speaker 2: that play football play multiple sports. I know that you are,
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  Speaker 2: but just talk. Some coaches are not an advocate of
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  Speaker 2: specialization kind of where you've kind of moved and been
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  Speaker 2: in your career as a head coach, and of course
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  Speaker 2: you played ball, played at Southern mess where you were
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  Speaker 2: on specialization or not.
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  Speaker 3: For kids, yeah, I think they should play all they
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  Speaker 3: can play. Be well rounded athlete competing year round. It's
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  Speaker 3: one thing to practice part of the year and then
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  Speaker 3: compete another part of the year. It's different for guys
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  Speaker 3: that are competing year round, no matter what the sport is.
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  Speaker 3: The year that we wanted we I think we had
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  Speaker 3: ten football players on roster that year and that's the
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  Speaker 3: most we've ever had. Uh nine the next year and
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  Speaker 3: we went back this year. We're down with I think
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  Speaker 3: we only have three with football this year, a couple
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  Speaker 3: of injuries, or we may have a couple more that
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  Speaker 3: would that would be out there, but yeah, they need
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  Speaker 3: to play it as long as they can play it.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of these guys at this level are really
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  Speaker 3: good athletes, and they're they're good enough to play both
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  Speaker 3: and come over and pick up the next sport and
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  Speaker 3: be ready to roll. And if you look at your
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  Speaker 3: rosters for your your big time college programs or SEC schools,
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  Speaker 3: those guys that are that they're signing to play baseball
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  Speaker 3: or guys that were playing multiple sports in high school,
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  Speaker 3: they're not guys that are that were specialized. Yes, there
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  Speaker 3: are some of those guys, but a lot of those
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  Speaker 3: guys play both ways. And for me, I don't I
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  Speaker 3: don't think you tell a kid or try to get
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  Speaker 3: a kid to do one unless a kid is average
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  Speaker 3: and not really playing a lot at one and an
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  Speaker 3: elite at another one and he knows that right that's
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  Speaker 3: what he's gonna do and he makes that decision, then
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  Speaker 3: I'm okay in that in that instance. But for guys
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  Speaker 3: that are just wanting to compete and get after it,
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  Speaker 3: just play them all, play them as long as you can.
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  Speaker 2: Kind a couple of minutes left here with kind of coach.
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  Speaker 2: Daniel Best head baseball coach. We've seen obviously, guys from
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Goanna play at a high level, you know, college
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  Speaker 2: and even beyond. We've seen here recently in the state
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  Speaker 2: of Mississippi, from the Parkers you know, to Jackson Prepp
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  Speaker 2: players and others going to the major leagues. It seems
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  Speaker 2: like the competition is stay gets better every year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, there's a lot of good baseball and a lot
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  Speaker 3: of good players. You look at all the draft picks
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  Speaker 3: here lately with with Connor Griffin and then Booth goes
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  Speaker 3: in the first round out of Oak Grove this year,
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  Speaker 3: Kevin Roberts goes and all just really good players. And
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  Speaker 3: they're like you said, the Parker brother there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of them and a lot of them playing at a
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  Speaker 3: really high level. They're not guys that are just getting
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  Speaker 3: picked up and not really doing any They're guys that
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  Speaker 3: are going in and competing like right off the bat.
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  Speaker 3: So that just shows you the type of talent that
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  Speaker 3: they have and the type of talent coming out of Mississippi.
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  Speaker 2: He's Daniel Best head baseball coach here Brandon coach, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for jumping in. I know it's been a busy
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  Speaker 2: day and it will continue to beat to You'll got
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  Speaker 2: what I think. Meet the dogs for everybody tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah that's right. Uh, get out here in the heat
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  Speaker 3: and see the fans and go over here and do
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  Speaker 3: a little home run derby on the softball field.
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  Speaker 2: Very nice, coach, Thank you so much. Thank you Daniel
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  Speaker 2: Best on your radio. As we put a bow on
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  Speaker 2: today's program, I want to say thanks to Brandon High School.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks to Jacob Innstra, the head principal, coach and Clinton,
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  Speaker 2: Daniel Best, Justin Hunter, Michael Turner and Moore. We appreciate
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  Speaker 2: you guys today. Remember catchup is king Bacon's a delicacy.
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  Speaker 2: reached for crescendo. Tomorrow be Friday. We'll see you the end. Goodnight.
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