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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 244 - 2024 Baseball Preview · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  This is Meridian Senior ian Forbes, and you're listening to Walcom Preps Baseball Preview
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  podcast with Tyler and Ryland. Go Trojan. Greetings, and welcome into the
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  watcom Preps podcast. This is episode at two hundred and forty four, a
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  baseball preview. I'm Rodland Spencer along with me as always is Tyler Anderson love
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  watcom Preps. Tyler, how are we doing? Doing great? Doing great?
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  I was sick there for a little while, but I'm starting to get
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  past it. And it was just perfect timing to kind of beat under the
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  weather kind of in between seasons. So I didn't I didn't miss any games
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  or anything like that. And uh, but I'm feeling good. I'm excited
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  for the spring. And we've both talked about it, how it's kind of
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  that kind of that new change. The weather's changing. Everything's kind of getting
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  better and it's a it's a good time of year. Well it's supposed to
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  be changing. I was out there today, it's a baseball practice and it
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  was raining sideways at one point, and Tether, you know they got like
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  all weather baseballs now, yeah, I didn't know about that. Yeah,
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  So I mean, look, I don't know the physics on it, you
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  know what I mean, I don't know what it actually is. But we're
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  out there today. I'm out there helping out with some baseball stuff for BOFEL,
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  and I'm like, hey, how do you guys, like, like,
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  what's up with the I mean, how are we out here? It's
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  pouring down rain, Like, aren't the baseball is gonna get soggy? And
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  and he goes, no, no, no, he says, the ones
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  with the blue seams don't get don't get watered down. I was like,
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  you know what, I don't care, like's let's go ahead. What do
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  you guys need out of me? Yeah? I mean it's wild, like
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  it's it's pretty cool, but you know. And then on Saturday we had
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  our first game and at one point we were in a hail delay. And
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  when I say it was it was sideways, like it was legitimately sideways.
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  It was. It was crazy and power went out of the field at one
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  point, and I mean it was it was just mayhem, absolute mayhem.
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  But there are brighter days on the horizon. Tyler. Now that now that
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  we all lost an hour of sleep, you know, but we're into it.
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  Spring is here, Spring sports at least because technically it's still winter right
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  for another week and a half or so. Yeah. Yeah, I don't
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  know if Punk Satani Phil saw her, didn't see you, or what it
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  even means if he did or didn't, but I can tell you this much.
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  He's wrong, Tyler, a guy who's not wrong though, Ian Forbes,
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  we need to give a thank you to him. Meridian Catcher senior catcher
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  too. By the way, he did the intro and we got to thank
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  him for that. So I have a feeling we will mention his name if
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  he's the one doing the intro, So we will talk about him in a
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  little bit, and we'll talk about Meridian. We're gonna talk about all ten
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  teams of Wakame County. Lots of stuff to talk about. But first Kurt
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  Mayberry Farm. Tyler, you had just told me a little bit ago.
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  You said Ryland they re upped, and I said, beautiful, because I
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  love talking about berries, strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. It's Kurt Mayberry
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  Farm, fourth generation, family owned and operated berry farm, committed to growing
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  the highest quality berries. You can find them online. That's Kurt with A
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  C, M, A B E R R Y Farm dot Com. Yeah,
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  they're awesome. They're also committed to Walkham Preps. I tell you what,
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  it's really cool. They you know, they're all about local high school
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  sports, local youth sports, and I you know, I hear them all
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  the time on the radio during the high school broadcast. Yeah, you know,
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  just all sorts of different things. So they're really putting it out there.
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  They're really backing. And when I went to go visit them this last
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  time, they had they had some products that they handed out and they even
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  gave me a big eight pound bucket for you ryland of chopped up strawberries with
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  that are already like sugared and everything frozen and ready to go. Whoa,
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  whoa, whoa? Did you say eight pounds? Yeah? What the heck
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  am I gonna do with eight pounds? Other just stack my face in it?
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  You want to thought out first? Yeah? Well yeah, yeah,
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  I mean I don't have tiger teeth like I. I mean, eight pounds,
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  Tyler, that will make a lot of what do you strawberry shortcake?
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  Huh yeah, it could be all sorts of things. It was funny because
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  he was kind of joking and he goes, well, no, now you
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  just gotta have Mitch get you some ice cream from Edeline Dairy And yeah,
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  I put a little little vanilla ice cream with some strawberries on top. You
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  know what I'm saying? Who WOA is Italy? Are they sponsoring anything in
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  the in the spring? Here? They they will be. I'm pretty confident
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  to say they will be. I have. I was having trouble getting a
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  hold of them. They were out on the farm all week during my sponsorship
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  week. Basically they go out and get sponsors. But I did run into
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  him at a baseball game and and and he's like, is there anything left?
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  You know? And I you know, and I said absolutely, and
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  well and he goes, okay, we'll talk. So they just might be
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  a week late. But I'm pretty confident they'll be fine. Now, Tyler,
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  what I need to know is what is the ratio? Like, if
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  if I've got eight pounds of strawberries, how much ice cream do I need
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  to mix some in? I guess I don't need all of it to be
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  eight pounds of Like can you imagine that eight pounds of strawberries going at how
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  much ice cream? Like you need a whole cow'sworth? Like I don't even
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  know what that amounts to. Yeah, that's gonna be a lot. But
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  that's cool. I mean you could put you can make smoothies, You can
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  do all sorts of different things. So I don't know those are I've always
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  been told the smoothies are supposed to be that kind of healthy. And obviously
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  I'm not that guy. But I mean, is there like, okay,
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  is there like a straw Like do people make strawberry pies? I mean,
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  I know strawberry rubarb, but I'm not I'm not big on rhubarb. Yeah,
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  but like, can you just make a strawberry pie? I mean I
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  guess you could like grind it up and like maybe put some cream in it
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  or something, right, strawberries and cream? Yeah, yeah, I would
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  imagine. Did you ever have you ever had those those remember those cream savers
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  that were strawberry and cream or whatever it was. Yeah, the little like
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  worthers type, those suckers were so good. Yeah, yeah, those were.
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  Anyway, Tyler, We've got an official baseball sponsor, though, I
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  mean I guess I guess it's not like just a baseball like I mean sponsoring.
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  What the scoreboards as of right now is what else are they sponsored?
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  And they're gonna sponsor the Weekly stat Leaders as well. That's right, Yeah,
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  you told me that. So j e KK sports cards, Tyler And
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  you said that, you said the guy's name is John, Yes, and
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  so what's John's story? Who's John over here at j e KK. Well,
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  it's a really cool deal. I mean, local guy had a couple
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  of sons that played at Ferndale and you know, the whole sports card game
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  is you know, it was huge when we were kids, right, I
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  mean it was a big deal, and then it kind of you know,
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  oh, it was just kind of there for a while, and now it's
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  it's even gotten bigger than it ever was. But it's a whole different kind
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  of game of with rare things and little patches of jersey and autographs and it's
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  done or one of mine. Like memorabilia and cards. Yeah, they used
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  to be two separate things now and it's not like all cards have memorabilia in
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  them, but it's now it's like almost become like one big hobby, is
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  kind of what I'm saying. Yeah, and I would say, you know,
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  when we were kids, even though we knew that you know, they
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  were you know, they could be worth something, you still I mean,
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  at least I did. You'd line like I'd have all my maritors and I'd
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  line them up like, yeah, well I put Greg Bridley in left field
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  and Ken Griffin center field, and ja, you know, I'd put him
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  out and I you know, I would do all that kind of stuff all
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  the time, and I'd handle them all the time. I think nowadays it's
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  like you put them in a sleeve, you put them in something and you
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  lock it away kind of type things. So, uh, but yeah,
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  it's just a really really cool deal. I had heard that he was interested
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  in sponsoring and and so I just thought, you know, when I knew
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  that who it was, I was like, oh, once I know that
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  is I know who it is. That I know that they know what Walker
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  Preps is. Yeah, and I feel a lot more comfortable. I just
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  got and it's right here in Ferndale. It's a few miles away. I
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  got my car, just drove out there and walked in and we just started
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  talking and he was all about it. He was interested. He's like,
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  just tell me what I gotta do. You know, I'll send my logo
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  to you whatever I gotta do. And he was It was just great.
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  You could tell it was a top notch partnership right away and just a really
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  you know, awesome guy and and just hit it off right away. And
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  I was fun just looking around. There was like Joe Namath signed you know,
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  Jet's helmet. I just I just love that kind of stuff, stuff
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  you just don't see every day. And and I love looking at like the
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  rookie cards from like the seventies and eighties, you know, like seeing the
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  Ricky Henderson rookie or the cow RIPCN rookie or the Dawn Maddingly rookie and those
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  kinds of things. They weren't like flashy back then like they are now.
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  It's it's more like, uh, yes, you know what I mean,
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  Like it was a little more business like back then. It's it's cool to
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  see. And I was looking at their website j e kkcards dot Com.
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  The first thing I noticed is I was like, I was like, wow,
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  a box of cards is way more expensive. But then I started thinking
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  about it and I'm like, yeah, but you know what, the quality
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  and it's just like everything is so much better than it was. All something
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  that's worth exactly. I was like I was, I was like, it
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  was it was instant like why, Like, wow, Wow, that's kind
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  of crazy. And then I'm like, actually, it makes so much sense
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  as to why it's a totally different game and it's I mean, it's it's
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  totally different than it was. Like I could see myself getting back into sports
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  cards, like I could. Yeah, I probably won't because I know that
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  I would just blow all my money on it. But yeah, it's so
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  much cooler now. J e KK Sports Cards. You can find them two
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  zero six or two zero one six Main Street twenty sixteen. That's actually kind
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  of funny. Two zero one six Main Street and Ferndale phone number three six
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  zero three oh three, seventeen eighty nine. Website j e kkcards dot com.
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  Tyler. Yes, the logo actually looks a lot like the water.
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  It almost looks like a part of the Wakam preps logo. Uh but yeah,
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  the colors and stuff. Yeah, I gotta say it looks really good
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  on that scoreboard. Yeah it does. It does. I think it's gonna
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  be a good partnership. And yeah, it's so well there is there So
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  I have to ask you, because I'm sure you collected cards as a kid.
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  Yeah, was there like a single card that was like the one you
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  always wanted to have, or the one that you got that you just that's
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  the one that you'll never trade. Or was there like a certain set like
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  eighty nine Donra Space or like was there something You're like, I loved those
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  packs as a kid. Well, I was always a I was always a
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  Tops guy, like I always I always like Tops more or for whatever reason,
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  I don't really know, Like if if if I had an equivalent card
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  and it was like, oh, I'll trade this donn Us for that Top,
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  so I'm like no, I'm good, Like yeah, like even if
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  even if my card maybe was lesser, you know what i mean, Like,
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  nah, I'm good. You know, I could be trading to Henry
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  Kotto for a Caylor Ripken and I'm like, no, I'll keep to Henry
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  Kotto. I had to throw Henry Cotto out there for whatever reason, Yes
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  he did. But there was one card and I still have it. And
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  then it's I mean, you know how it is, Tyler. You move
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  around a lot, and then you know, you get all your cards and
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  all your stuff into just boxes. I'll come across it one day and I'll
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  take a picture of it, and I'll send it to you. Or I'll
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  post it and take in it or something. But I do I have a
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  Johnny Bench rookie card that is not like that is like my pride and joy
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  like it. There's no way I'm ever getting rid of that one. Like
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  that's that to me. You know my grandfather gave it to me when I
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  was a kid. Yeah, and was because he talked about Johnny Bench is
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  this And you know, obviously I never got to see Johnny Bench play,
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  but you know it was to me. That's like my that's that's my one
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  big thing. Now that being said, I was always the obscure guy,
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  you know what I mean, Like, yeah, I loved I loved guys
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  that kind of like nobody else really loved, like Tyler. If I said
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  to you, who's my favorite baseball player of all time? Do you remember
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  who it is? No? I do love Pete and Kavillia, though my
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  favorite baby Chuck Carr. Oh, Chuck Carr. Yes, I knew that.
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  Yeah, Chuck Car. Why no idea? I mean, honestly,
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  I think it's just because he used to like run through walls, you know
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  what I mean, Like that guy would if that if the ball was in
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  the air, he was catching it like he just was. And I don't
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  know why I loved him. That was just like my favorite player as a
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  kid. Now granted Edgar Martinez, like Ken Griffy Junior. Yeah yeah,
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  yeah yeah, Like I love all of those guys. Why did you trade
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  j Bune? I love Jay Buner, you know what I mean. I
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  love those guys. I love the Mariners. But Chuck Carr was like my
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  guy. And if I when I was a kid, if I had a
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  chance to get a Chuck car Card, I was getting it. The other
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  one that I loved was Gary Carter. Oh yeah, and it's for one
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  reason only, Tyler. Did you ever see like pictures of that guy where
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  he wasn't wearing a batting helmet or you know, like the catcher's helmet,
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  right, and it was always turned around forward right like yes, a huge
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  smile on his face. Yeah, always, And so like I don't know
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  what it was, but like I always like somebody, if they wanted to
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  sucker me in, they could just throw a Gary Carter out there, and
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  I was probably going for it, you know what I mean, Like I
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  just was it was just you know, like, what's that a griffy rookie
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  card. You got a Gary Carter, like you know what I mean,
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  Like I mean, I probably wouldn't have fallen for that one, but you
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  know what I mean, like Gary Carter those cards like I don't know,
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  it just was you know what I mean? What about you do you have
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  like a this is my card, I'm never giving it up or oh you
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  got one of those, let me have it like that's that's uh. Well
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  the card I always wanted to try to get was that eighty nine upper deck
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  Kangarford Junior Rookie. Yeah, the first ever upper deck card, you know,
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  number one, first upper deck class. And never had that one,
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  which was okay. I had friends that had it stuff like that. Cal
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  Ripken was my guy. I collected a ton of cal Ripken cards and I
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  had his eighty eight Fleer autographed, which was really cool. Wow. And
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  but uh but the card that I never got rid of and still have today
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  is the Jerry Rice rookie card. Oh and I got that in a pack
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  out of my stocking Christmas in nineteen eighty six. Until you lost your mind?
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  Well yeah, I mean I it was crazy because it was it's his
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  rookie card. But it came out like you know it would come out the
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  second year because I had like his first year seats on it. Yeah,
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  and his first year wasn't great. He had like forty nine catches, he
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  had a lot of drops actually, but his second year he blew up.
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  He had like fifteen hundred yards receiving. And so when I kind of started
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  realizing, and I was, you know, I was seven years old,
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  I was like, this is really cool. This is his first ever card.
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  And then you start and then like Beckett start coming out a few years
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  later. Yeah, and then you realize that, you know, the whole
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  like the complete Like at that time, the complete set was worth like ninety
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  bucks, and you're like, why is that ninety bucks? But that because
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  that one card was like worth sixty Yeah, and you're just like, oh
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  wow, and I have it, you know. So that was always a
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  cool deal. And and since then, i've i've i've I loved the late
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  eighties cards just because that's what I grew up with. And I've bought complete
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  sets of everything for baseball and football of you know, fleer Don Russ Tops
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  everything and uh. But when I tried to find eighty six tops complete sets,
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  I found one that was selling him all except for Jerry Rice, Reggie
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  White, and Steve Young because those were all rookie cards and so but I
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  had those three, so I was able to buy that out of much lowers,
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  you know, a mountain. Yeah, I just I love all that
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  stuff, but that was the card for me. You know, bait,
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  do you know what this card goes for nowadays? Which one? Did Jerry
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  Rice one? The Jerry Rice eighty six tops? Yeah? So PSA Mint
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  nine, you know what I mean, Like like this is a this is
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  about as good as it gets in terms of quality and press, you know,
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  like it's still nine thousand dollars is what it's online for. Yeah,
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  mine's definitely not a PSA nine. No, yeah, I mean I'm sure
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  it's not. I mean, how many cards? How many cards do you
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  have from like your childhood that you think would even be like A seven?
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  You know what I mean? Like it's right, probably not very many of
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  them. But like it was totally different. We didn't we didn't think about
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  stuff like that, you know what I mean. Like actually, here's here's
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  one here that's a a PSA seven and it's one hundred and thirty dollars.
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  Like the drop off is on believable. But yeah, yeah, I mean
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  that's that's pretty cool. Yeah yeah, I just it's it's cool to have
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  a sponsor like that because you and I are both still kids in a way,
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  you know what I mean, Like, yeah, well we don't feel
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  like when we get off the couch or out of bed, but uh,
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  but we still we still think like that, you know, like baseball cards
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  and it's it's still so. I mean, I have so many. It's
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  it's nostalgia. Yeah, it just is. And there's certain things that will
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  just never go away from. Like there's certain things that I do that are
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  very kid that will never go away. And that's something I mean, it
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  just is. I love cards. I mean, when I'm looking at j
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  e KK cards dot Com, I'm like, oh, they sell single packs
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  Ryland. You don't need the you don't need one of those? What are
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  you thinking right now? But here I am considering it, you know what
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  I mean. So yeah, uh, maybe we'd have to do sometime Tyler's
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  come up and you know, pick up those strawberries and just swing by and
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  grab a couple of cards. Ye see, And it's it's it's it's funny
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  too because I think about it now, and like I see this stuff on
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  like TikTok and like these different places where I see people that are like going
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  to these card shows and they're like buying a ton of cards and stuff,
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  and I'm like, I didn't, Like, we used to go to card
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  shows, but I never really went and bought like individual cards, Like I
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  would go and buy packs from guys because sometimes it was easier to get more
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  obscure packs by going to a card show. You know, it'd be like,
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  oh wow, this guy's got a set of those packs or like whatever.
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  And it's like, yeah, you know, nowadays, I'm sure you
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  can go online and find whatever you want, you know what I mean,
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  maybe go to j ekk Cards there you go what I do. But yeah,
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  I mean, it's a totally different game from what you and I remember
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  as a kid. But it's definitely made of resurgence, that's for sure.
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  Huge it is. It's crazy how many of these shops I've seen pop up
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  around me. And it was like I couldn't I couldn't think of it,
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  like where is the nearest one by my house? And I hadn't seen one
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  in probably ten or fifteen years. And now there's like three of them in
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  the area. You know what I mean. It's like wow, like that,
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  which is cool to me because that's a great hobby and hey, it's
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  better than being on the streets, right right, Tyler. Lots of other
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  sponsorships are still still available, though, if somebody wants to get on it
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  easiest way to get a hold of you other than social media. We've told
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  that. We've told people over and over go to walk them preps on any
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  of social media's direct message Tyler to take care of you. What other ways
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  can they get a hold of you. They can email me at mister mohawk
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  at hotmail dot com. That's mister spelled out m I S T E R
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  underscore mohawk m O h A w k at hotmail dot com. Or what
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  the heck? You could text me three six zero six eight four four three
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  zero six and uh, we'll get the ball rolling. There's still things available,
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  but they're going they're getting nabbed up fast because I think anytime Fitness might
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  be back on board. They showed some interest, so yeah, we'll see.
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  But it's it's bringing me a lot of happiness because as it's showing that
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  every time there's a turn of the season, there's new people that are coming
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  on board. And I think that I think it's a screaming good deal from
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  most people I've talked to you. That people are that's why they're jumping on
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  board right away. And I told you that, Yeah, and it's and
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  and if they if they just keep doing it year after year and I can
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  keep building these things, uh, it'll it'll keep Walking Preps alive. And
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  that's what everybody wants. Yeah. And and look if if you know,
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  what we talk about is the Baseball round up, the Basketball round up,
• 20:36
  the the graphics, you know, like different stuff like that. But if
• 20:38
  somebody just wants to be hey, you know, we don't maybe we don't
• 20:41
  have the budget for that. I'm looking right here again, We've talked about
• 20:44
  it before. Eagle Rock Lodge, they reached out to you and said,
• 20:47
  hey, we want to get on board. You know, what do we
• 20:49
  gotta do? And you said, well, here's something, here's an idea.
• 20:52
  Boom there it is their logos right here on your website. Yeah,
• 20:55
  I mean there is Ego Rock dot Fish. I still don't understand how that
• 20:57
  works dot fish, but Ego Rock dot Fish, I mean, these guys
• 21:02
  here. They just wanted to be a sponsor and and that's what they did.
• 21:06
  And so that's the thing. Tyler's got different types of packages. If
• 21:08
  you just say, hey, all I've got is, you know, one
• 21:11
  hundred dollars for a month, what can you do for me, We'll make
• 21:15
  it work. Like yeah, exactly. You know, we wanted to try
• 21:18
  to keep this going, and you know, any money helps all of that.
• 21:22
  I mean, look, gas ain't free. I mean, come out.
• 21:26
  How's Tyler's supposed to go to all these games? Exactly? But yeah,
• 21:30
  anyway, watcommepreps dot com is a website and if you would like to
• 21:33
  get on board, reach out to Tyler. He'll take care of you.
• 21:37
  We've got ten teams to talk about Tyler. And we're just gonna go in
• 21:41
  alphabetical order. And I mean, if we're being completely honest, we're gonna
• 21:45
  do the best job we can. We We we've got rosters for pretty much
• 21:52
  everybody. The only one we don't have is Mount Baker. We'll get to
• 21:56
  that one when we get to it. We're just gonna go in alphabetical order
• 21:57
  here, which means we are going to start with the Bellingham BayHawks last year,
• 22:03
  Bellingham went eight and fourteen. Head coach Tom Lewis in his second year,
• 22:08
  meaning he's got a career record of eight and fourteen key returners. Tyler,
• 22:14
  I'm seeing you got eight key returners listed here. A couple of names
• 22:17
  I recognize, but yeah, eight of them some definitely good athletes that I
• 22:23
  see here on this list. Yeah, it's a really good group. And
• 22:26
  just to think about a couple of years ago, Bellingham was really struggling.
• 22:30
  I mean they would get maybe one or two wins a year, kind of
• 22:33
  right around COVID, like right before right after it just it was really starting
• 22:38
  to kind of rebuild itself a lot of young guys, and last year to
• 22:42
  jump up to eight wins was huge. I think coach Lewis did a great,
• 22:47
  great job. Coach Lewis the father of Colby Lewis that you remember from
• 22:51
  the squalic On football team, and it's you know, coach Leonard is an
• 22:56
  assistant there. He works with the pitchers and you know or as he went
• 23:00
  and was a college baseball player, and so he knows that he knows all
• 23:03
  that stuff, and it's it's a really good groove. Yeah. Uh.
• 23:07
  Jet Jesse Harward bat at three forty nine. Last year, he returns at
• 23:11
  first base. He can also first base. Yeah, yeah, he can,
• 23:17
  you know, left handed bat left handed on the mound as well.
• 23:21
  So and it's weird too. You see a big guy at six four,
• 23:23
  two hundred and seventy pounds in the batter's box left handed. But I but
• 23:29
  he he goes the other way a lot like he is. He's like a
• 23:33
  singles hitter. He he looks intimidating up there, but he can. He
• 23:36
  can shoot it in the gap. It's like he stands up there looking like
• 23:40
  Adam Dunn and then he hits like Tony Gwyn. You know, I was
• 23:41
  gonna say, it's got like a little bit of like, uh like Matt
• 23:45
  stares or something to him, the professional hitter right right right, So uh
• 23:49
  yeah, a really good season last year, five doubles, he had twelve
• 23:52
  RBIs and on base percentage of four eighty one. So really good player there.
• 23:59
  All. Scott is unbelievably talented, just a sophomore. Played third base
• 24:03
  last year, moved over to second base this year. He's also probably their
• 24:07
  best pitcher coming back. Unfortunately, I was at the game on Saturday and
• 24:11
  he had a just a nasty injury covering first base on a bunt. The
• 24:18
  throw was a little wide, ranner, the runner ran into his arm and
• 24:22
  it was bad enough to where the to where the the what am I trying
• 24:29
  to say? Uh, the emergency vehicle, the ambulance, thank you had
• 24:33
  to come onto the field and and uh, just just really bad news there.
• 24:38
  Because Alden Scott, I've said it before, I think he's a future
• 24:44
  like League Player of the Year. He's that kind of talent. Just just
• 24:48
  a sophomore. But this this that this season looks like it might be done.
• 24:53
  Owen Rasmussen, the utility player. I love everything about his game.
• 24:57
  He can catch you, play the infield, play in the outfield, he
• 25:00
  pitches, he can legitimately play all nine positions. Uh yeah, I love
• 25:06
  guys like that. Seems like he's been on varsity forever. He bet at
• 25:08
  two sixty six last year. In his career, I mean in his career,
• 25:14
  he has one hundred and sixty three played appearances. That's that's a that's
• 25:18
  a that's a varsity baseball player right there. He's just he's been doing it
• 25:21
  for a long time. Hi. Nelson is one of the best defensive shortstops
• 25:25
  in the league. He's just a sophomore. He's probably gonna be relied upon
• 25:27
  to pitch a lot more than he than he has. Joe toof as a
• 25:32
  left handed hitting slugger center fielder. One of the more aggressive swings. Like
• 25:37
  you see a guy that when they swing and then all of a sudden,
• 25:40
  like every time I see a picture of him swinging like like like his front
• 25:45
  foot, like he's on like the outside of it, you know, like
• 25:47
  he's completely torqued his whole body, and man, when he gets a hold
• 25:51
  of it, it can really go. So really good player there. Jake
• 25:55
  Trust pitcher infielder. Uh, he's been. He's he was kind of there
• 26:00
  ace last year as far as just innings. Uh, he started game one
• 26:03
  this year. Joe Harward Jesse, his little brother is the catcher. You
• 26:07
  don't see a lot of six three catchers, especially at the high school level.
• 26:11
  But he's he's a he's a pretty good one. Just a sophomore,
• 26:15
  so he's got a pretty bright future. And Hunter Bryant Pearson. We saw
• 26:19
  him play football full back and a special teams guy. But he's gonna be
• 26:22
  out there in left field. So a lot of a lot of varsity guys
• 26:26
  returning. I think it's gonna be a pretty good year. The setback of
• 26:30
  losing Alden Scott is huge, but but you know, you just gotta you
• 26:36
  just gotta roll with it after that. And and uh, you know,
• 26:40
  I think because the second base was the spot. You know, Wyatt Harris
• 26:42
  played it last year, didn't really know who was gonna do it this year.
• 26:45
  They moved alden Scott from third to second, put Eli good Buffalo at
• 26:51
  third, and now second base is open again. I don't know if Owen
• 26:55
  Rasmussen will just find a spot there as a utility guy. It's tough to
• 26:59
  see what they're gonna do. But but there's a lot of talent on that
• 27:02
  team and we'll see how they go. Let's talk about the blame border rights
• 27:07
  Tyler thirteen and eight last year new head coach Hunter Anderson. They got a
• 27:14
  lot of key returners. As a matter of fact, they have the most
• 27:18
  of anybody we're gonna talk about today. They probably do. Yeah, they
• 27:21
  do. And actually the next closest is I think eight, which is Bellingham,
• 27:27
  and then another team we'll talk about here in a little bit. But
• 27:30
  they got ten guys coming back. This year, Tyler and a few names
• 27:33
  I recognize, but a lot of names that are new to me here.
• 27:37
  So who are these? Who are these? Blame border rights? I love
• 27:41
  this team. You know, last year they were scary good. They beat
• 27:44
  a lot of really good teams. They just kind of did some bad things
• 27:48
  in the playoffs, you know, they just some things didn't didn't go their
• 27:52
  way, and all of a sudden they were out in the districts and they
• 27:55
  were kind of thought of as a team that could make some noise at State
• 27:57
  and it just didn't happen. New coach this year, Hunter Anderson, coming
• 28:00
  over from Burlington. There's been that wave of guys from Burlington. You know
• 28:07
  Andy Olsen now Hunter Anderson. He's an assistant. Yeah, he's a he's
• 28:11
  an assistant on the football team. And uh. But what I really like
• 28:17
  about them is, yeah, all these guys that are returning. I mean
• 28:19
  I went out and saw them today, uh, and it was just like
• 28:22
  watching them from last year pretty much. Kieran Marcusson is their ace. He
• 28:26
  went four and two last year. He pitched fifty one in a third innings
• 28:30
  and he only walked eleven batters. Wow, that at the high school level
• 28:34
  is just, oh man, hard to find. You know, you see
• 28:41
  a lot of high school games. The big difference between high school games and
• 28:44
  the pros is there's a lot more walks, a lot more airs, and
• 28:47
  a lot less home runs. But the walks is just one of those things
• 28:51
  where, man, it just seems to be a ton of them in high
• 28:53
  school baseball. But if you've got a guy that can throw strikes, like
• 28:57
  I said, eleven walks and fifty one in a third innings, he struck
• 29:00
  out sixty three. His ERA was one point zero nine. So that's that's
• 29:06
  a good guy to have right there at the top of your you know,
• 29:08
  your rotation. Uh, And then you know Owen Wanger is a is a
• 29:12
  really good hitters. Batted three ninety four last year in the outfield, Aleejandra
• 29:17
  Morser Hernandez has got a lot of pop. He had a home run last
• 29:19
  year, batted two eighty one. Big six' five two dred and thirty
• 29:22
  pound guy at first base, Hunter Bazzetti is a you know, just a
• 29:29
  it seems like he's been on the varsity team forever, playing center field.
• 29:32
  He is a like a tototypical like baseball type guy. Like you see those
• 29:37
  guys come out of the dugout and you go, you could spot him like
• 29:40
  that's the guy, like he's he's him, you know, and that's and
• 29:44
  his left handed, left handed bat a lot of fun to watch. He
• 29:48
  did get taken out of the game today. You know, he had that
• 29:52
  knee injury from football. I don't know if he's fully recovered, and you
• 29:55
  know, on his way to first he was safe at first, but then
• 29:57
  he had to get taken out of the game, which was just crushing to
• 30:00
  see. I hope he'll be okay. Mason Ockery at third base was was
• 30:06
  dynamic last year as a leadoff guy. Fifteen RBIs and thirteen steals. Bat
• 30:11
  At two fifty Dion Bowman is a really athletic shortstop. Bigger kid too.
• 30:17
  I did have a triple last year a beat at two fifty six. Evan
• 30:19
  Yates is a junior at catcher, another really good player. Left handed hitter,
• 30:25
  can kind of batten that number two hole, which a lot of catchers
• 30:27
  don't do. Grady Swinbernson is a three year starter at second base. I
• 30:33
  mean, you have so many guys that are you know, just have so
• 30:37
  much varsity experience. He stole thirteen bases last year and he works at j
• 30:41
  e KK Sports Cards, so that's kind of a cool deal. Jesse Deming
• 30:47
  another outfielder playing left field and he can swing over and play center field.
• 30:51
  And Diego Gutierrez is a He's just a bulldog on the mound. He's a
• 30:55
  great number two. He's a guy that you know, if you're up by
• 30:57
  ten or down by ten, you can't tell by looking at his face,
• 31:00
  which I love that in the pitcher. You know, it's hard to find
• 31:03
  guys that, especially at the high school level, that don't really wear their
• 31:07
  emotion on their sleeves so much. And you know, if they needed a
• 31:11
  key out or something, they could put him in and he's not phased by
• 31:14
  it at all. He's got a really good curve ball, doesn't throw super
• 31:18
  hard, but he throws. He's another guy that just throws strikes. He
• 31:22
  went four and o last year with an ERA of two point one point five,
• 31:26
  So yeah, you're definitely talking about another guy that another arm that they
• 31:30
  could use it. He just pitches, same with Kieran Marcuson. He can
• 31:33
  play a little bit third base, but he's mostly just a pitcher as well,
• 31:37
  and at the one A level. You got a couple of arms like
• 31:40
  that. Yeah, that's a huge deal. Alejandro Moser Hernandez who probably he'll
• 31:45
  probably come in and pitch a little bit too. He threw thirty one innings
• 31:48
  last year four point twenty five e RA, so he can definitely give you
• 31:52
  some stuff like that, some some innings. But he might be kind of
• 31:56
  like that big dominating closer guy if they need somebody for the last inning.
• 32:00
  But this is a team that I expect to do some damage and you know,
• 32:05
  get into do well at districts, and get get a state birth.
• 32:10
  Their first two games so far this year, they put up fifteen runs in
• 32:14
  both games, so they you know, they're ready, a lot of varsity
• 32:19
  experience and we'll just kind of see if it all comes together. You know.
• 32:22
  It's it's it's strange in high school baseball, it's such a it seems
• 32:27
  like such a short season because you know, in the majors they play so
• 32:30
  many games, so it seems like it goes fast, and a lot of
• 32:34
  times in the majors they say, well, it takes about thirty or forty
• 32:36
  games to get to kind of get to where you're gonna be you know,
• 32:39
  you don't have that high school baseball. You've got to be good right off
• 32:42
  the bat. You know, if you get in a slump, that could
• 32:45
  be the whole year. So it's it's tricky, but but Blaine has the
• 32:49
  talent to do some damage in the postseason. Yeah, it's it's funny you
• 32:52
  say that. I mean I thought it was hilarious when I was looking over
• 32:58
  there. You know, I've always loved high school baseball, but I've never
• 33:00
  paid attention to it like I have so far in the last few weeks.
• 33:05
  Yeah, you play a couple of games and you're right in the league play.
• 33:09
  I mean it's yeah, right into it, like they don't mess around.
• 33:14
  I mean I think this year BOFEL, we've got four no three,
• 33:19
  three non league games. Yeah, three non league games, and then right
• 33:22
  in the league play. I mean yeah, I mean imagine that. Yeah,
• 33:24
  yeah, that is that is pretty quick, you know what I mean.
• 33:28
  Like, it's it's right into it, and it's like, hey,
• 33:30
  all of a sudden, you're right into it to the point that hey,
• 33:31
  better not, you better not lose many games here or else you're not going
• 33:35
  to be making the playoffs. I mean, it's really quick. But yeah,
• 33:37
  you got. I mean you're trying out some stuff in those three games.
• 33:39
  You're trying to find like can this guy laid out a bunch? Can
• 33:43
  this guy pitch us out of a you know, a something bad going on?
• 33:46
  I mean, you better know those things after three games, because here
• 33:51
  you go. Yeah, exactly, that's Blaine. Let's talk Ferndale Tyler nineteen
• 33:55
  and five. Last year they did make the state tournament under head coach Donnie
• 34:00
  hennigs one hundred and thirty five and eighty one for his career. Tyler.
• 34:05
  One thing I noticed here, you didn't give me how many years do we
• 34:08
  know the years on this? Yeah? I could find that pretty quickly Herekay,
• 34:13
  Well, let me talk a little bit further than key returners. You've
• 34:15
  got six names listed here, and these are all names pretty much that I
• 34:20
  recognize, including Dylan Moore. Nice of him to take time off from Major
• 34:23
  League Baseball to come over and play for Ferndale. Seems like a little bit
• 34:28
  of an advantage to them. But Bishop Bootzire guy who he's an Edilyne Derry
• 34:34
  guy. Right, Yeah, that's right. Yeah, there's Hamden Ramon,
• 34:37
  I mean, just all around good looking dude. Yeah, Yeah, Talon
• 34:42
  bung guard you know him, Yeah, of his nails. Yeah, so
• 34:45
  it's a lot of these guys. You definitely know Donnie Hennigs in his twelfth
• 34:47
  season now as the as the head coach. So that's counting the COVID year
• 34:52
  where there was no baseball. So was there no baseball at all? There
• 34:57
  was no base there was like yeah, like schools played like one game and
• 35:00
  then the whole season got canceled after that. Yeah, Wakham County did not
• 35:04
  have any games played. So yeah, okay, so yeah, so so
• 35:08
  yeah, he's been the head coach since the twenty thirteen season. Yeah,
• 35:13
  that's pretty cool. Yeah, And but yeah, Camden Raymond, I mean
• 35:17
  he is you know, a legit, you know, League MVP candidate,
• 35:24
  left handed bat, left handed arm, first baseman, bat at three eighty
• 35:30
  five last year, hit a couple home runs, nineteen RBIs, seven doubles.
• 35:34
  I mean, you know, slugged five eighty five, is on base
• 35:37
  was five point fifty one. It's just all those numbers are like yeah yea
• 35:40
  yeai. And then you know on the mound he went five to oher.
• 35:44
  He had two saves pitched over thirty innings, struck out twenty nine. His
• 35:49
  era was four point six two. It was a little high. I think
• 35:52
  his walks were a little higher than he wanted them to be. He walked
• 35:54
  twenty two, struck out twenty nine. But you know, if he gets
• 35:59
  the down a little bit, he'll be fine. But he'll be counted on
• 36:02
  to do a lot of things for this baseball team. They also have Graydon
• 36:07
  Radkey. He's a guy who was I just thought was really talented. Didn't
• 36:13
  play a ton last year, but every time I seems like every time I
• 36:16
  saw him, he would he was knocking somebody in. You know. He
• 36:20
  had eighteen plate appearances. He had seven Rby eyes, so and he walked
• 36:23
  five times. So really just the twelve at bats and he had seven Urby
• 36:28
  eyes. Talon Bunguard is the guy that played all over the infield, could
• 36:30
  pitch a little bit too. And you start looking those numbers, seventeen stolen
• 36:36
  bases and three triples, those are huge numbers in high school baseball. You'd
• 36:40
  think it'd be some Chuck Carr like player, you know, and talent bung
• 36:45
  Guard is like six and twenty pounds, Like he does not look like a
• 36:50
  guy that would be putting up those kind of numbers, but he's aggressive on
• 36:52
  the bass paths and you gotta love that. Braylan O'Brien was stut in at
• 36:59
  catcher lap year as a freshman on this team that had a ton of talent,
• 37:04
  and that goes all the way to the state. If you're catching as
• 37:05
  a freshman on a team that goes to state at the three A level,
• 37:08
  that is really really impressive. He's he's naturally a middle infielder, so it's
• 37:14
  gonna be tough to see kind of if he's gonna stay behind the plate or
• 37:16
  if he's gonna go play in the infield. Dylan Moore, like you said,
• 37:20
  Uh yeah, and I take some time off of Major League baseball to
• 37:22
  go play some high school baseball. Batted two twenty last year, Uh six
• 37:28
  RBIs three steals. He could play in the outfield. And then Bishop Bootsy
• 37:32
  like you said, you know what a leader. He might get some time
• 37:37
  on the mound this year. There. I think they're gonna they're gonna expect
• 37:39
  a lot of things out of some younger kids coming up that have not played
• 37:43
  at the varsity level to do some things. But but those are the six
• 37:46
  main guys that have the varsity experience, and yeah, they're probably not gonna
• 37:52
  put up as many runs as they did last year. I mean, they
• 37:53
  had so many guys that were just you know, out of this world.
• 37:57
  I mean I think they hit my goodness, I think they hit over twenty
• 38:01
  twenty five home runs as a team. I mean, this was just yeah,
• 38:05
  this was it was. It was ridiculous. Like I was talking to
• 38:07
  some coaches and three of them said the exact same thing to me. They
• 38:12
  said, it's like playing against like like a like a men's slow pitch softball
• 38:16
  team. Yeah, like they are, They're all huge, and they all
• 38:20
  just crushed the ball. And like when you look around the infield and they
• 38:23
  averaged like two hundred and forty pounds around the infield, that looks like a
• 38:30
  men's slow pitch softball team. And this is without Laymon Hatchet, you know.
• 38:35
  Uh so it's yeah, you know, they've been really too Oh my
• 38:38
  goodness. Yeah, it could have been pretty crazy for State. But tell
• 38:43
  you this much, if they ever had any bench clearing brawls, I wouldn't
• 38:45
  have wanted to be out there because those guys, Yeah, and you know
• 38:49
  the two, the two, you know, big guys that were a lot
• 38:52
  of a big part of that that are back or you know, Camden Raymond
• 38:53
  and Tallon bung Guards. So they're gonna be really relied upon heavily to do
• 38:59
  a lot of the damage both on you know, offensively and on the mound,
• 39:01
  and and they're just gonna need a lot of those other guys to fill
• 39:04
  in and and take care of some stuff and they'll be all right. You
• 39:07
  know, Donnie's been at this a long time and one hundred and thirty five
• 39:10
  wins, it's pretty good. Pretty good, I mean pretty good. That's
• 39:15
  that's putting it lightly there. I mean that is really really good. Like
• 39:20
  that's just, yeah, that's pretty incredible. Let's talk Lindon Tyler twenty two
• 39:27
  and seven. Last year finished second in state. By the way, I
• 39:30
  didn't realize they were that close to like the trifecta last year. Yes,
• 39:34
  yeah, it was crazy. I was doing so much research of if any
• 39:37
  team had won football, basketball, and baseball in the state of Washington the
• 39:40
  same year, and yeah, it was just crazy. But yeah, that's
• 39:46
  they were so close. I mean they were so close. They lost two
• 39:50
  to one bottom of the seventh, you know. The other day was a
• 39:54
  walk off that pill, Martin. Yeah, the pitch was. I woke
• 39:59
  up that morning covering softball in Richland. I covered Blaine playing softball that morning.
• 40:07
  They lost, which meant it was a semi final. So they lost,
• 40:10
  so they were gonna play later that day in the third fourth place game.
• 40:14
  So then I flew home so I could catch the state championship baseball.
• 40:19
  You drove home really fast? Well I didn't. I probably didn't even drive
• 40:22
  home really fast. I just drove home. But oh yes, I was
• 40:25
  always flew home though there might be people out there going, wait, this
• 40:29
  guy took a flight from me, like what it? Yeah, no,
• 40:31
  no, no, I was crawling over the cascades. You can bet on
• 40:35
  that. But I but I got there and I was able to cover that.
• 40:37
  And but I mean the pitch was. It would have bounced ahead of
• 40:42
  the plate, and he reached out. I have a great picture of it.
• 40:45
  He reached out, got hit it on the tip of the bat.
• 40:49
  It lands on the third baseline about twenty feet behind third base in the left
• 40:52
  field, and that scored the winning run. And oh man, it was
• 40:57
  just that's how close Lyndon was. Yeah, and you know, Tyler,
• 41:00
  the crazy thing is I'm just looking at the state tournament here. They gave
• 41:06
  up three total runs in four games. Yeah, I mean it was two
• 41:10
  to one, three to nothing, eleven to nothing, and two to one.
• 41:15
  Yeah. Yeah, and the last one is a bad two to one.
• 41:21
  Yeah. I mean that's that's truly incredible, it I mean, that's
• 41:23
  just yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, head coach Corey White. Three hundred
• 41:29
  and sixty nine and two hundred and seventy four Tyler. Yeah, that is
• 41:35
  a lot of baseball. I mean, so do you know how many years
• 41:39
  Corey White has been there? Yeah, this is thirty years. Yeah.
• 41:45
  He took over as a young man. I mean he took over my freshman
• 41:47
  year in high school and he was probably in his mid twenties. Wow.
• 41:54
  And and had some rough years, and then in his fifth year they got
• 42:00
  a third and state they went twenty three and seven. Then that was a
• 42:04
  team that those guys were a year behind me and I remember playing them,
• 42:08
  you know, when we were younger, and that was a loaded team,
• 42:13
  and I always thought that was his best team he'd ever had. He had
• 42:15
  a couple more years though, the Josh Kraft zach Vist class, Uh,
• 42:20
  they had a chance for the three peat there as well. Uh didn't didn't
• 42:23
  get it finished twenty two and five, then twenty two and three, then
• 42:28
  last year with another twenty two wins season. But yeah, Corey White has
• 42:31
  seen it all, man, and uh, it's it's it's just fun listening
• 42:37
  nobody flashes signs faster from the third base box, you know what I mean,
• 42:42
  Like it like that guy has been doing this for every time, Like
• 42:45
  touch the nose, touch the chin, touch the ear, like brushed.
• 42:50
  I mean, it is so crazy fast, like he got like seven arms,
• 42:53
  like he's just like, man, you can and it's wacky waving inflatable
• 42:58
  arm flailing two men, like it's unbelievable. It's so cool. And it's
• 43:01
  just you know, all these guys, I love just talking baseball with them
• 43:06
  because it's you could just oh man, it's just so fun. Baseball is
• 43:09
  one of those sports where you could just for me anyways, I could just
• 43:13
  sit there and just talk forever. It's so much fun. But Corey has
• 43:15
  seen it all, you know, Like I said, he kind of had
• 43:19
  some down years early, the up years. He's been through everything, but
• 43:22
  he hasn't had a losing season since twenty fifteen. That was the last time
• 43:28
  he actually had a season where he had double digit losses. He only had
• 43:30
  eleven losses. So really really good career for him. That being said,
• 43:36
  Tyler, this year's team, I see five key returning players and I've heard
• 43:40
  some good things about this lame guy. So what do we got here,
• 43:44
  Tyler? He's pretty good. Last year went ten to one pitch seventy one
• 43:51
  innings, struck out one hundred and fourteen batters, walked only fifteen as e
• 43:54
  Rara was zero point five to nine. His strikeout to show seven point six.
• 44:01
  And that's you said, zero point five. Yeah, that's his that
• 44:07
  was his era last year. That is inane. His his career, his
• 44:10
  high school career is zero point seven to three. Oh my goodness. In
• 44:15
  his high school career. He's eighteen and two and he's struck out two hundred
• 44:20
  and twenty seven batters in one hundred and forty four innings. So you kind
• 44:23
  of start out with him and you know when he's on the mound, it's
• 44:29
  it's must see. The one loss he had last year was against Jake Mason.
• 44:34
  Uh, that was so cool just to be at that game to see
• 44:38
  that. Just a couple of major stars pitching against each other with a great
• 44:45
  lineups as well. But you know, River Langstrat is a really really good
• 44:50
  player too that I'm excited about. Uh. You know, last year he
• 44:53
  his ARA was three point twenty five. He went to and one and then
• 44:59
  and Kale Stapleton also he had a one point nine to eight ERA. Last
• 45:02
  year he went four and oh so struck out twenty one batters in twenty eight
• 45:07
  innings. Neither of these guys are guys that are gonna blow it by you,
• 45:09
  but they just know how to pitch, and they're very good offensively as
• 45:14
  well. So I think that I think those are gonna be kind of the
• 45:16
  main guys. Kele Stapleton hit two ninety one, River lank straight I hit
• 45:21
  three fifteen. I really really like this Matthew Carroll kid. He was a
• 45:27
  freshman last year that got limited playing time. They just had so they were
• 45:30
  so senior heavy last year, but they had to find ways to get him
• 45:34
  into the lineup. Sometimes he's a he's probably he's a natural third baseman,
• 45:37
  but you know, he could be moved around the infield. He hit three
• 45:40
  forty eight last year and limited time. What I really liked him, what
• 45:45
  I really liked about him is that he had twenty four played appearances only struck
• 45:49
  out four times, and to do that as a freshman really really shows me
• 45:53
  a lot. And then just watching him take infield like before games, I
• 45:57
  was like, that kid's a freshman. That's incredible. And then and and
• 46:01
  Cooper Moore, who we know from football. Yeah, uh, he's He's
• 46:05
  a guy that didn't play a ton last year, but he had and one
• 46:08
  of the best catches I've ever seen at second base last year. Uh.
• 46:14
  And he'll get a lot more a lot more playing time, and and yeah,
• 46:17
  and they got a ton of kids that I've never seen play, but
• 46:21
  I guarantee you will be awesome. Every single year. There's there's guys that
• 46:25
  like that just show up for that Linden program that I don't know because I
• 46:30
  don't follow the JP. I'm not watching the Linden Lightning Summer League teams.
• 46:34
  I'm not I don't know those things. And then all of a sudden,
• 46:36
  I go to a high school game and I'm like, WHOA, that guy's
• 46:39
  awesome. WHOA, that guy's awesome. WHOA? And I just They're just
• 46:43
  time and time again. So I'm excited to see who those guys are and
• 46:47
  uh man, yeah, Kale Stapleton was on that he was on that basketball
• 46:52
  team that just won state. So yeah, just you know, it's just
• 46:55
  a great program that does things the right way and and his lot of fun
• 47:00
  to watch. Yeah, that's uh, it's always fun whenever you go somewhere
• 47:05
  and you see somebody, like you see a high school kid for the first
• 47:09
  time, you know, and you go whoa, whoa, and then you
• 47:13
  look and it's like wow, freshman or sophomore and you're just like whoa,
• 47:17
  Like I get to watch this dude for the next three four years. Like
• 47:22
  yeah, that's always the first thing that goes through my mind. Absolutely.
• 47:24
  Yeah. And I think I've told you before how many times I've you know,
• 47:28
  I've I've been to a game or something and I see a kid and
• 47:31
  like, wow, like this guy's unbelievable. Senior dang, Like you're like,
• 47:37
  dang, I only get five more games of this guy, you know
• 47:40
  what I mean, Like whatever it is, but uh, that's awesome.
• 47:44
  That's awesome. Well sounds like, uh, sounds like they're gonna find a
• 47:47
  way. I mean, they've got they obviously they've got good pitching, but
• 47:51
  Uh, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if we're doing a lot of talking
• 47:53
  about those guys. Uh here in the near future. Let's talk Lindon Christian
• 47:58
  Tyler twelve and thirteen last year and it says state participant. How the heck
• 48:01
  did they become a state participant at twelve and thirteen? Tyler? Well,
• 48:05
  they they went off in the districts. They won some games that they didn't
• 48:08
  probably a lot of people probably didn't think they could win. They beat some
• 48:13
  favorite teams and they just kept it rolling and it was awesome to see them
• 48:17
  get that far. It was so cool because there was there there were some
• 48:24
  there were some dudes on that team last year, but I think that it
• 48:29
  was not really expected and they came on strong. At the end of the
• 48:32
  year. They beat Meridian at Civic Stadium. That was a that was a
• 48:37
  huge game. That kind of put Meridian out and put them in state.
• 48:39
  That was not expected at all, and that was a huge win and they
• 48:46
  just kind of rode that into the next week and it was a it was
• 48:51
  a really good year for them. We've got Noah Rawls, the manager over
• 48:55
  there, twenty two and twenty four in his career so I assume this is
• 48:59
  gonna be year three for him. Yeah, he returners Tyler. I see
• 49:02
  six names here. It looks as though Brody Bauman playing another sport. This
• 49:07
  guy plays like forty five sports. And then I see the last name Turpstra.
• 49:12
  We obviously know that one. Who are these guys over there? Who
• 49:15
  are who are who are these links from Living Christian? Yeah? These are
• 49:20
  these are some really good top end players that they have. I'll start with
• 49:23
  Brody Bauman that you mentioned. I mean, yeah, we've talked about him
• 49:27
  with football, We've talked about him with baseball, but he is a bait
• 49:30
  or with football and basketball, but he is a baseball guy. Kind of
• 49:35
  known that since since he was a freshman. He is he he is,
• 49:45
  He's He's got that kind of talent where you go like, this guy is
• 49:49
  definitely gonna play college somewhere, like this is what he's meant to do.
• 49:52
  And he's just big, strong kids six' three two and twenty pounds and
• 49:59
  can really crush the ball. I hit a couple of home runs last year,
• 50:00
  had twenty two RBIs last year. I think that leads for any returning
• 50:06
  player in Walkin County. Bat in two ninety six only struck out ten times
• 50:13
  in eighty five played appearances. So when you see that kind of power with
• 50:16
  the low strikeout numbers, that tells me a lot also had a couple of
• 50:20
  triples. Austin Angeles is a kid that I think is another one of those
• 50:28
  like potential you know, league MVP either this year next year. He's just
• 50:32
  a junior. Last year as a sophomore, he hit four h three.
• 50:37
  He is just a pure hitter. Slugged five hundred last year. This year,
• 50:45
  as we're doing this podcast, Elsie has played two games and I think
• 50:49
  he's got something like seven or eight nine hits. I mean, he had
• 50:54
  a grand slam tonight at Squalaicum And and it's just he is a lot of
• 51:02
  fun to watch and he's and it's weird too because he's a he's a second
• 51:07
  baseman, only like he's not going over, he's not a shortstop, he's
• 51:10
  not gonna pitch. He's a second baseman. You just don't see that a
• 51:14
  lot from like a like like a power high school pitter, you know what
• 51:19
  I mean, which is kind of kind of cool to see. Uh.
• 51:22
  Eli Mayberry is a kid that is so much fun. Left handed batter was
• 51:28
  a freshman last year, and as a freshman last year, he had three
• 51:30
  thirty three and he only struck out five times in sixty eight played appearances.
• 51:36
  I love seeing those like those are the numbers I love to see for high
• 51:38
  school kid. And then when I got to see him in person, I
• 51:43
  found out why you can't strike him out you get two strikes on him.
• 51:45
  He just fouls everything off and he just does it like remember how each row
• 51:50
  would do that, Like he's like, no, that's not the pitch I
• 51:52
  want. Fallot off, fallot off, fallot off, fallof and it's just
• 51:55
  that's that's what Eli Mayberry can do. He's also very good in the field
• 52:00
  as far as it depends on who's pitching. He'll either play short or he'll
• 52:05
  play center field, and he'll play him both very very well, and he'll
• 52:07
  pitch a little bit too. So you get all those things combined, and
• 52:13
  just a sophomore makes a really really good player. Trace and Johnson, also
• 52:17
  a sophomore, started last year at catcher a two eighty six hitter last year
• 52:22
  as a freshman catcher. I just again, those numbers are Greatah Jonah Turpstra
• 52:27
  their leadoff hitter stole eight bases last year, had twelve RBIs. But he's
• 52:34
  kind of there, gonna be probably their workhorse. He pitched thirty four innings
• 52:37
  last year, went four and two with a four point seven to four era.
• 52:42
  Again, not gonna wisit by you? Only fifteen strikeouts and thirty four
• 52:45
  innings, but he gets the job done. He pitched the opening day at
• 52:50
  Bellingham, got the win there, pitched four innings without even giving up a
• 52:53
  hit. He did walk four batters, but he didn't. He's just he's
• 52:57
  just really steadied, knows how to throw strikes and he pitches the contact and
• 53:00
  then he's got a good defense behind him. And and Logan brink is a
• 53:06
  is a an outfielder that seems like he's been there forever. Uh, but
• 53:10
  boy, he came in clutch, especially in the playoffs last year. That's
• 53:14
  what I remember so much. Batted two twenty four last year, but a
• 53:19
  really free swinger only walked twice. He's up there to hit and uh,
• 53:23
  and he's and he can get a round on it pretty pretty well. So
• 53:28
  Uh, they got some young guys that are coming up to but those are
• 53:30
  the six main guys that I saw last year and this is this the one
• 53:35
  a's this year is loaded and uh and they you know, they kind of
• 53:40
  snuck into state last year. I don't know if it'll be so much sneaking
• 53:45
  this year. So I think they're gonna have a little bit more of a
• 53:47
  bulls eye on their back. But uh, these these kids are ready for
• 53:51
  it. They've played a couple of games this year, scored already this year
• 53:53
  thirteen runs and twelve runs against a couple of two way teams in walk Them
• 53:59
  County. So look for some big things this year from the Lenks. Yeah
• 54:02
  sounds like I mean, it's funny to say this about a team that went
• 54:07
  to the state tournament, but yeah, it was like they could have an
• 54:09
  improved season this year. Yeah, I think record wise, I think you're
• 54:13
  right. Yeah, yeah, Well, Tyler, let's talk Meridian Trojans thirteen
• 54:19
  and ten last year under head coach Steve Slesk one ninety nine and one sixty
• 54:24
  five in his career. Six key returners here, and uh, I'm being
• 54:30
  told it's another really good pitcher in Wakam County here with Meridian. Huh yeah,
• 54:37
  you know, and the cats out of the bag. Meridian did win
• 54:39
  their opening game. So that is win number two hundred for Steve Slesk.
• 54:44
  This is his seventeenth year. Yeah, Jonah Assi is he's the real deal.
• 54:51
  I saw him as a freshman pitching, and you know what, You
• 54:57
  see him and you're go, oh, yeah, he looks like a Frien
• 55:00
  Beshman. I mean he was probably five seven, five eight, you know,
• 55:04
  a little guy, left handed, nothing crazy, but he just kept
• 55:07
  winning all the time, and I was like, man, he's pretty good.
• 55:09
  He was bating lead off and really selective hitter, you know, knows
• 55:15
  what he's doing. And then last year is a sophomore, I swear he
• 55:20
  put he put like twelve miles an hour onto his fastball and it was completely
• 55:23
  different. He got about six feet tall and he just looked. He just
• 55:27
  looked completely Now he's batting clean up, you know, and he's he's muscling
• 55:30
  it to the to the gaps, and it was like, holy cow.
• 55:35
  He had three twenty one last year, eight doubles, a triple, a
• 55:37
  home run, fourteen rby eyes twenty one. He walked twenty one times and
• 55:43
  struck out three times like that, Like do you see those types of numbers.
• 55:47
  You're like, okay, yeah, he definitely knows what he's doing at
• 55:51
  the plate, and then you look at his numbers on the mound and it's
• 55:53
  just it's ridiculous. Uh. He pitched sixty four innings. He struck out
• 55:59
  one hundred and twenty eight batters. You know, we went on max Preps,
• 56:05
  and I know that not every team in the United States puts their stats
• 56:07
  on max Preps. Yeah, but based on like national rankings, he's like,
• 56:13
  you know, he was in the top twenty five and strikeouts last year.
• 56:16
  Now, I would say, what would you think ten percent of teams
• 56:20
  put their stuff on max Preps, So you know it's hard to say what
• 56:22
  percentages, right, Yeah, Yeah, there's different still agents maybe they do
• 56:28
  it more. Yeah, but hard matters. If like I don't care what
• 56:31
  sport, I don't care, there's enough teams putting it in there that if
• 56:35
  you were at the top or in the top three or four, whatever,
• 56:38
  that's saying something because that means you're ahead of a lot of guys. Yeah.
• 56:43
  Yeah, pitched sixty four and the third innings last year, only gave
• 56:45
  up thirty hits. He had back to back no hitters last year. What
• 56:52
  Yeah, and at to back no hitters huh. And he was their ace.
• 56:55
  I mean he he'd go up against the big teams. And that's the
• 57:00
  thing that you see in high school baseball is if you're a good team,
• 57:02
  you're going up against the other teams. Dude. Yeah, And and what
• 57:07
  happened with him is, I mean his record was five and four. You
• 57:10
  know, you'd expect like maybe a nine to zero record, but he went
• 57:15
  up against really good teams. Maybe they would lose two to one or one
• 57:17
  nothing every once in a while. And you know, the Links got the
• 57:22
  best of him in that district playoff game in Joe Martin to send them to
• 57:25
  the state. And that's you know, that's a guy that those those Lyndy
• 57:29
  Christ and Links probably faced him since they were little, and they just they
• 57:32
  they got on him for one inning and that was all that it took.
• 57:37
  And that's you know, that's baseball. But Jonah Aussi has agreed to go
• 57:43
  to University of Washington. Uh. And you know, and he's a guy
• 57:47
  that, yeah, his pitching numbers are great, but like I said,
• 57:50
  even at the plate, he's dangerous. So we'll see how that all goes.
• 57:53
  As a center fielder, they have third basement Silas Burshower that I like
• 57:59
  a lot. I he seemed really really solid defensively. And that's the thing
• 58:04
  about a Steve Slesk team is that they're gonna be very fundamentally sound and extremely
• 58:09
  good on defense. And that is that goes a long way to the high
• 58:13
  school baseball. Like I've been posting these box scores and it's like the average
• 58:16
  amount of airs in a game for one team is probably like four and a
• 58:20
  half. And you know, I know it's early in the season and the
• 58:22
  weather's not great and all that stuff, but you know, that's the thing
• 58:27
  that Meridian usually got down pretty well as their is their defense. Tyson Timmer
• 58:32
  really good left fielder. He's back there again this year. Last year he
• 58:37
  scored seventeen runs. You know, that was I think that was the most
• 58:40
  on the team. Ian Forbes who did the intro for us, he's a
• 58:45
  this is his fourth year starting at catcher. That anytime you have a four
• 58:50
  year starter at catcher, that is huge, And I mean I remember him
• 58:53
  as a freshman and defensively it was a struggle. I mean even I could
• 58:58
  just recall so many times where you know, like on a one to zero
• 59:01
  count and you know, the pitch comes in for a strikes and he drops
• 59:05
  it. You know, it's all it is, is one and one.
• 59:07
  He did there's nothing bad. But I can hear Coach lest Bee like catch
• 59:10
  the ball. Ian, you know, I could just I could hear him
• 59:14
  like he's getting on him, like like it doesn't matter that you didn't drop,
• 59:17
  Like there's nobody on base, It doesn't matter that you dropped it.
• 59:21
  You just gotta catch them all. And then it just his defense got better
• 59:23
  and better and better, and he was always hitting like second lineup like they're
• 59:28
  gonna Meridian also is one of those teams where the first guy gets on next
• 59:30
  guy's bunting period, like they will play small ball a beyond small ball,
• 59:37
  don't They don't. It doesn't matter if the guy is an eight hundred hitter.
• 59:39
  He's bunting and they're gonna go to the next thing and they're just gonna
• 59:43
  keep that going. Fundamentals, swing a good pitches, all those things.
• 59:47
  And and Ian Forbes has kind of turned into like more of the three hole
• 59:52
  hitter now more the power guy as he's gotten bigger and stronger, and and
• 59:57
  and you've seen it like on the walk and preps website where it shows those
• 1:00:00
  background pictures and you see that catcher all excited. That's Ian Forbes right there,
• 1:00:07
  and he's He's been a fun player. He drove in twenty five last
• 1:00:10
  year. Just a really good clutch hitter. Jacob Allminson in the infield,
• 1:00:15
  he'll probably be that number two hitter. He was a great three point shooter
• 1:00:19
  for the basketball team. He had ten RBI's last year. Just a really
• 1:00:22
  good player that plays some second base. And Tristan Wang in the outfield,
• 1:00:27
  really tall, left handed hitter. I like. I like him a lot.
• 1:00:30
  I think he's got I think he's got a really really good future.
• 1:00:34
  Three seventy one on base percentage. He just, you know, he he's
• 1:00:39
  a guy that just had some tough luck. It seems like every time I'd
• 1:00:42
  see him, he would rope one for an out, you know, and
• 1:00:45
  sometimes when you don't have that many. Had thirty seven played appearances last year,
• 1:00:49
  thirty seven, that's it, you know. You you rope three or
• 1:00:52
  four of them for an out and those turn in those turn into hits,
• 1:00:54
  and your batty average jumps seventy points. So yeah, I and Meridan.
• 1:01:00
  The one thing about Meridan, these are the key returning guys. But they
• 1:01:04
  have a really really good freshman class that I've heard about, so I'm really
• 1:01:08
  excited to see what what happens there. You know coach Steve Slesk, which
• 1:01:15
  has no bones about it. He will play the best nine, and he,
• 1:01:19
  more than probably any other coach, will keep a consistent lineup throughout the
• 1:01:22
  whole year. Uh. Yes, he knows his nine. He will stay
• 1:01:27
  with it one through nine in the batting order. It's almost like it's almost
• 1:01:30
  like you know, yes, it's very much you know what's gonna happen,
• 1:01:36
  and he'll just go with it. Sad to see that Jager Fife's not playing,
• 1:01:42
  but you know that happens every once in a while. He could have
• 1:01:44
  been a huge benefit to that team. But man, they got so much
• 1:01:46
  good young talent coming up. I think, uh, I think they'll be
• 1:01:52
  okay. There's a few other guys, you know Alex Short, which he
• 1:01:53
  was I wish he was playing too, and but but there's there's something about
• 1:01:58
  that about that team and and him as a coach. He's an old school
• 1:02:01
  guy. He doesn't like me posting stats. We've gone over this with many
• 1:02:06
  players and parents and stuff. Like that. And uh, even when I
• 1:02:09
  talked to John at the sports cards at j e KK sports Cards, you
• 1:02:14
  know, he was he's sponsoring the stat leaders, and I said, yeah,
• 1:02:16
  you know, every week I'll post the stat leaders. He goes except
• 1:02:21
  except for Steve's kids, and like he even knew, like he he he
• 1:02:24
  knew it, you know. And and uh, but you know I get
• 1:02:27
  it. Coach lesk is old school and and uh doesn't want his kids thinking
• 1:02:31
  about that stuff. Just wants him to go and play baseball. And and
• 1:02:35
  uh, you know, once the season's over, he doesn't care. Just
• 1:02:37
  throw him out there and then you can see what they are. And and
• 1:02:40
  uh, I think they are again because of the pitching. I think that
• 1:02:45
  they have a good chance as well. Jonah Assi is a great number one,
• 1:02:50
  especially at the one A level, and we'll see what kind of run
• 1:02:52
  they can make. Let's talk Mount Baker Tyler. Yeah out there in Deming
• 1:03:00
  two and sixteen last year. New head coach this year. And when I
• 1:03:05
  say new head coach, like recently new head coach probably about as late as
• 1:03:09
  we've ever really seen. But David Ferrell, I believe, is how we're
• 1:03:15
  saying his name. Yeah, sixty four and sixty two in his career his
• 1:03:20
  first year at Bellan or excuse me, Mount Baker. He has coached at
• 1:03:22
  Bellingham from twenty eleven to two and sixteen. Tyler five returning key players here.
• 1:03:32
  I've recognized one, oddly enough from wrestling, Daniel Washburn. I'm pretty
• 1:03:38
  excited to hear about this young man because it says he's also an infielder and
• 1:03:43
  a picture here. But yeah, what can you tell me about the Mountaineers.
• 1:03:46
  Well, they've struggled the last few years they had. They had a
• 1:03:50
  pretty good run in twenty nineteen. They did some good things. I remember
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  that because I was I was doing I was calling a lot of games,
• 1:03:57
  you know, audibly for the Doug Lane Network to do a big game that
• 1:04:00
  they had on my birth that was on my fortieth birthday. I remember it
• 1:04:03
  very well. It kind of it gave it shot them into the districts and
• 1:04:06
  then they did well there and they just kind of ran out of gas.
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  But uh, yeah, it's it's been a struggle and the big one of
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  the big things is a lot of big time players, uh go out for
• 1:04:17
  other sports and it's been happening more and more recently. But uh, yeah,
• 1:04:24
  and this is the one team because because of the coaching turnover stuff,
• 1:04:27
  I haven't been able to get a roster yet, so I don't know exactly
• 1:04:30
  who's on the team. But I think Braven Nason is back, and he's
• 1:04:34
  a guy that you know, he's a senior now, but I remember him
• 1:04:38
  even as he's been starting since he was a freshman. He's played center field,
• 1:04:42
  he's played shortstop, he's pitched, and you know, I think even
• 1:04:45
  as a freshman he was bat and lead off there for a while. His
• 1:04:48
  sophomore year he was kind of leaned upon heavily as a pitcher. He hurt
• 1:04:53
  his arm halfway through the year, so the rest of the year he was
• 1:04:56
  dhing. And then his junior year last year he just played short stuf but
• 1:05:00
  he didn't pitch. I think they were saving it for another year. So
• 1:05:02
  I think this year he's gonna be kind of their main pitcher. You mentioned
• 1:05:04
  Daniel Washburn, the really good wrestler from Mount Baker. He is probably their
• 1:05:11
  next best pitcher. He'll play third and short as well, and he's a
• 1:05:15
  guy that he had a really big win against squal Come. I think he
• 1:05:19
  pitched a complete game beat him. Two to one last year was a huge
• 1:05:23
  win for them, so he can definitely eat up some innings. Camden Moa
• 1:05:27
  behind the plate, Braden Scott in the outfields, basketball player Tyson Raitmeyer another
• 1:05:30
  basketball player, can played first base. He can pitch a little bit as
• 1:05:33
  well. It's it's gonna be a struggle. It's such a hard league.
• 1:05:38
  You're you're going against you know, really top end one A teams and then
• 1:05:42
  a bunch of two A and three A teams and that's your league schedule.
• 1:05:45
  They dropped the opener against orchest Island twelve to two. It could be a
• 1:05:49
  rough one this year. I don't know that much about coach Ferrell. I
• 1:05:53
  know that he's been around and he's coached different leagues and stuff like that.
• 1:05:57
  So, you know, I was talking to somebody today actually out of the
• 1:06:00
  Blaine baseball game. We were discussing the new the new coaching change, and
• 1:06:04
  he's like, he's like, well, he knows that guy knows baseball.
• 1:06:08
  That's a good hire for them. So so we'll see if that things can
• 1:06:11
  get turned around for the Mountaineers. You know, it's uh, it used
• 1:06:16
  to be a big time baseball you know, a place back in the seventies
• 1:06:19
  and the eighties and nineties, but it's been a while since they've had you
• 1:06:23
  know, a strong uh you know, core group go through there for a
• 1:06:29
  while. So obviously, being a mountaineer, I'm always rooting for them.
• 1:06:33
  But it's gonna be tough. There's just really good competition right now. Let's
• 1:06:40
  move on to nook Sack Valley four and sixteen. Last season, our guy
• 1:06:44
  Joel the Wispolaire out there coaching. He returners eight Tyler. That's a that's
• 1:06:48
  always a good number to return. A couple of names I recognize here.
• 1:06:54
  So what are we looking at this year for the Pioneers. I think there's
• 1:06:58
  gonna be a huge improvement for them there. You know it was, and
• 1:07:01
  you know, coach Juist Blair and I have joked about this where you know,
• 1:07:04
  it's always been well, they're you know, they're young, and he's
• 1:07:09
  like, we're not. We can't say that anymore. We can't say we're
• 1:07:12
  young anymore. Now we've got a lot of experience. They don't have a
• 1:07:15
  ton of experience with wins, but they have a lot of varsity experience and
• 1:07:18
  if they can stay healthy and they can throw strikes, they will do some
• 1:07:23
  damage. You know, right off the bat playing against Mariner, you know
• 1:07:29
  they won fifteen to one. You know, they they show they could put
• 1:07:31
  up runs. Then they played a doubleheader against Sila, who's a really strong
• 1:07:35
  two AA team, and and you know they lost six to one and eleven
• 1:07:41
  to one. But man, they're playing some good competition there. I think
• 1:07:44
  that I think they have enough pitching. Casey Newton is has got a really
• 1:07:48
  live arm, and his big thing has just been throwing strikes. You know,
• 1:07:56
  he can he can throw hard, but Canny throws strike. I mean,
• 1:08:00
  he has over one hundred walks and one hundred strikeouts in his career and
• 1:08:03
  so that just I mean, it tells you he's been playing a lot of
• 1:08:06
  varsity baseball. You know, he's thrown seventy eight innings in his career,
• 1:08:12
  but there's been a lot of walks and a lot of strikeouts. Well,
• 1:08:15
  that game begets Mariner. He pitched five innings and only gave up one hit,
• 1:08:17
  struck out thirteen, and he only walked three. So that told me
• 1:08:21
  a lot. That told me, Okay, he's definitely got that down.
• 1:08:25
  Now he's hitting great as well. He's a really good left handed hitter playing
• 1:08:30
  center field. Colby Martin is a guy that's got some big time pop.
• 1:08:32
  Hit a home run last year. You're a big strong third baseman. Hit
• 1:08:36
  two ninety one last year, knocked in fifteen. Really excited about what he
• 1:08:41
  can do. He's been starting at third since he was a freshman. Now
• 1:08:44
  he's a junior. Eddie Sertaz, He's he's kind of got got that Julio
• 1:08:48
  Rodriguez feel like he gives off this vibe and and I just I love that
• 1:08:56
  about him, and he is he is fun to watch. He's dynamic.
• 1:09:01
  Another good outfielder and a good pitcher, Bradley. Bradley Blake will step into
• 1:09:05
  that second base role. He's mainly just been a pitcher in his in his
• 1:09:10
  high school career, but now he's gonna play more in the field. A
• 1:09:14
  good guy out of the bullpen can throw strikes, which is what they want.
• 1:09:16
  Damian Perez, Hey, we've loved him at linebacker. He's been their
• 1:09:20
  catcher now for a while. He had two fifty nine last year he had
• 1:09:24
  eleven RBI. Eyes you know he's he's steady back there. I mean he's
• 1:09:29
  a guy that you know, you want a guy that can just catch game
• 1:09:31
  after game after game after game and not get tired. He's your guy.
• 1:09:35
  I love him as a backstop. Cole Baumban really you know, good,
• 1:09:41
  good size, about six foot five, could play some first base. He
• 1:09:45
  can pitch a little bit too. Knocked in five batters last year. Healks
• 1:09:48
  and he walked nine times three twenty three on base percentage. He's started out
• 1:09:54
  the year pretty strong. Like I said, they've already played three games this
• 1:09:57
  year, and he can pitch as well. Matthew Blake is a really really
• 1:10:03
  good fast guy, leadoff guy, outfielder, and I'm excited to see what
• 1:10:09
  he does. He had he had twelve hits last year. I think he
• 1:10:13
  can improve upon that. Jesse Tressel as an infielder, really good fielding shortstop,
• 1:10:19
  seven stolen bases last year. Evan Brown, the younger brother Joey Brown,
• 1:10:25
  just a sophomore, got a really live fastball. You're talking mid upper
• 1:10:29
  eighties, you know, can really deal on the mound through through twenty three
• 1:10:33
  innings last year. Struck out twenty one. But it was just the walks.
• 1:10:38
  Like I said, there's there was a lot of walks. Actually,
• 1:10:41
  I think even as a whole the team walked more than they struck out.
• 1:10:45
  So that's something that they're gonna really want to put, you know, lower
• 1:10:49
  that a little bit and just play solid defense because the hitting will be there.
• 1:10:53
  They got a lot of guys that can really put the bat on the
• 1:10:56
  ball, Newton Martin Surta, these guys, you know, Perez Bouman.
• 1:11:00
  These guys can really knock the ball around, run around the bases, and
• 1:11:03
  it's you know, it's been a while since Knooksacks had a winner over there
• 1:11:10
  as a as a baseball program. I really like Joel as a coach.
• 1:11:14
  I mean, I've you know, heck, we played Little League All Stars
• 1:11:16
  together in third and fourth grade. You know, it's one of those things
• 1:11:19
  you and you did. I'm sure you did this too, where you played
• 1:11:21
  little league and you're playing third base or whatever you're you know, like me,
• 1:11:26
  I was a third baseball all the time. Then you make the All
• 1:11:28
  Star team. Well they're all third basement or they're all short stops. And
• 1:11:30
  so all of a sudden, I find myself playing center field and I'm looking
• 1:11:33
  at I'm like, well, who's playing third base. I'm like, I'm
• 1:11:36
  a fourth grader. I'm like, who's that third grader playing third base.
• 1:11:40
  No, he must be really good. Yeah that was That was Joel DUIs
• 1:11:42
  Flair. So, but the last time they had more wins than the last
• 1:11:46
  time Nooksack had more wins than losses had a above five hundred team was two
• 1:11:50
  thousand and seven. So it's been a while, but this could be one
• 1:11:55
  of those years where they started to turn around get closer to that five hundred
• 1:11:58
  mark. Said, they've been talking that, oh, they're they're you know,
• 1:12:01
  they're young, they're young. Well, they can't really say that anymore.
• 1:12:04
  Yeah, there are some young players, but for the most part,
• 1:12:06
  there's a lot of varsity experience on this team. Yeah, I mean I
• 1:12:11
  think that, you know, eventually you get to a point where, hey,
• 1:12:16
  either you're young or maybe you're just not very good. So now it's
• 1:12:20
  kind of like, hey, let's go boys. Now we gotta win some
• 1:12:24
  games here, and we return eight good players, so yeah, now it's
• 1:12:29
  time to it's time to do what we all know what we can do.
• 1:12:31
  So let's go out and do it. And by the way, I mean,
• 1:12:34
  could you get a better at least first game of the year. I
• 1:12:39
  mean, my goodness, I saw that scoreboard and I went what like,
• 1:12:45
  I mean, that's a thrashing. Let's talk Seaholme Tyler, the Mariners six
• 1:12:49
  and sixteen last year head coach Dane Siegfried seventeen to forty two for the career,
• 1:12:58
  five key returners here and Hudson ef a name that I feel like we
• 1:13:01
  we have talked about a lot on this podcast in the last year or so.
• 1:13:06
  Uh, what do we got here out of the Mariners this season?
• 1:13:11
  Yeah, I'm really intrigued to see what this what's gonna happen. I mean,
• 1:13:14
  Seahome has probably the richest baseball tradition as far as all the Walkham County
• 1:13:17
  schools. They've won three state titles. I think that's one even I know,
• 1:13:21
  like, yeah, I know that one. That's that's almost the extent
• 1:13:26
  of my baseball knowledge as far as Walkham County goes. Yeah, I mean
• 1:13:30
  Gary Hatch was the coach forever and he's one of those guys where you know,
• 1:13:34
  you google Gary Hatch and you start seeing things like USA Baseball and stuff
• 1:13:39
  like that, Like he's he's way up there and he's still around assistant.
• 1:13:43
  I mean, it's still cool just to share a dugout with him and he'll
• 1:13:45
  walk by and he'll we'll talk for a little bit. He has he doesn't
• 1:13:48
  know who I am, but he's just so it's it's it's baseball Royalty,
• 1:13:54
  really and and it's just so fun to I love going to get It's probably
• 1:13:58
  my favorite place to go to go to a cover of baseball game and see
• 1:14:00
  home it's and it's just I know, there's so much history there. But
• 1:14:05
  at the same time, there's like a little there's like a little media spot
• 1:14:10
  right next to the dugout and it's just told before. Yeah, I love
• 1:14:14
  it. And I can get great pictures, I can do video, I
• 1:14:16
  could do whatever. And they they they and they treat me great. And
• 1:14:19
  it's just a fun place to go. And and uh, it's been a
• 1:14:24
  struggle the last few years. I mean, they had a big time run
• 1:14:27
  at State when they had uh, Jacob Kaepernick and those and those guys.
• 1:14:30
  But it's been a while and you know, coach Sigfrey took over after COVID
• 1:14:38
  and there just hasn't been that year. Last year they had to play that
• 1:14:41
  playing game to get the districts. They won that game, I believe,
• 1:14:45
  I want to say it was against Lakewood, and I remember I did a
• 1:14:48
  live broadcast of that game, and that was just kind of an on the
• 1:14:51
  whim thing, just a Facebook live and and it was. It was one
• 1:14:59
  of those things because I that was my last day totally chocolate and and that
• 1:15:03
  night I just thought, you know what, if I'm gonna go all in
• 1:15:06
  on walk the preps, I might as well just call the game tonight right
• 1:15:10
  now. Yeah, And I brought my brought my tripod and I literally,
• 1:15:14
  I'm dead serious. I ductap my phone to the tripod and and did a
• 1:15:19
  and I brought my headset and I just plugged it in and and just did
• 1:15:23
  a live broadcast just from the dugout. And it was. It was fun.
• 1:15:28
  It was a great it was a great game Sea Home one. And
• 1:15:31
  the one thing though, they only have seventeen guys in their entire program.
• 1:15:35
  And that's just a shame to see because when you think about old Sea Home
• 1:15:40
  Baseball, and it's like, man, you'd have tons of kid dozens of
• 1:15:43
  kids turning out and there were cuts and everything and and uh, but there
• 1:15:46
  is some high end talent here. Ryder McGrath is extremely talented shortstop picture you
• 1:15:54
  know about six three, six four, really really fun player to watch and
• 1:16:00
  and can just drive the baseball and really excited to see what he does.
• 1:16:04
  He had three doubles last year. I think he's he's one of those guys
• 1:16:10
  that's gonna improve so much every single year. Hudson Nef Yeah, Yeah,
• 1:16:16
  he's he's good. He's he's a lot of fun to watch. Hit two
• 1:16:20
  thirty five last year. But man, that's gonna he's gonna be a good
• 1:16:26
  leadoff guy center field. Was a middle infielder, you know, growing up,
• 1:16:30
  but get to the high school level sometimes and you need that stud out
• 1:16:33
  there in center field and he's gonna lock that down. Jackson Evans is gonna
• 1:16:39
  he's gonna return. He was the backup catcher last year. He's gonna take
• 1:16:42
  over the catcher this year. Gunner Tweet is another sophomore. This sophomore class
• 1:16:46
  that has is pretty durned good. Uh, he's gonna be a guy that
• 1:16:50
  can play some short or second. You know, he'll play second when Ryter
• 1:16:55
  McGrath's at short with McGrath is pitching, he'll go over and play short.
• 1:16:59
  I mean, just the tweight name at Sea Home. There's been a lot
• 1:17:02
  of great ones, Grady Murray, all these guys there's been some really good
• 1:17:06
  tweight players. Gunner Tweight's just the next one. Uh. And then third
• 1:17:12
  baseman pitcher Keegan Glennon, another sophomore. Uh, he pitched really well in
• 1:17:16
  that game where they tied forks due to darkness. He pitched five innings and
• 1:17:21
  gave up just three hits and struck out ten, didn't walk anybody. And
• 1:17:25
  that really stood out to me because I think he only pitched a couple of
• 1:17:29
  innings last year. I think only pitched five innings last year total. And
• 1:17:31
  he goes out there and does that. You know, last year he was
• 1:17:34
  dhing a lot, showed a lot of pop. This year he's taken over
• 1:17:38
  at third base. Uh, So I'm really excited to kind of see what
• 1:17:42
  he does. And then it's a lot of young guys after that, and
• 1:17:46
  it's gonna be how quickly can they develop, how quickly can they buy in?
• 1:17:50
  And right now they're going through what kind of what Knuksac was. You
• 1:17:54
  know, they're they're really young, They're really I'm just gonna keep saying that,
• 1:17:57
  but I think that the future is to look bright because of the varsity
• 1:18:00
  experience that they're building right now that is good to hear we got one more
• 1:18:06
  here. Tyler Squalum the Storm eight and thirteen last year, Kevin Fry,
• 1:18:11
  the manager fifty seven seventy four for the career, five key returners again,
• 1:18:17
  and a couple of names I recognize, including one that you already mentioned earlier
• 1:18:21
  in this podcast. Yeah, but for a completely different reason. But yeah,
• 1:18:26
  what can you tell me about the Storm? Yeah? I mean k
• 1:18:29
  Fry is awesome. I mean he is like a baseball guy. I mean,
• 1:18:31
  if you want to just sit and talk baseball, he is so much
• 1:18:34
  fun and always always smiling and and makes me feel like a million bucks every
• 1:18:42
  time I go see Squalicum Storm baseball. Love their field. Love You could
• 1:18:46
  sit there in the driveway right above right field and the sun's coming down right
• 1:18:50
  behind the trees. You look past that area and it's just it's like it's
• 1:18:56
  like heaven. Man, it's just watching baseball at that place is fantastic.
• 1:19:00
  Uh. And you know, they've always put together a really good competitive team
• 1:19:06
  and they've they but lately just been kind of hovering around five hundred, where
• 1:19:12
  they'll have really good players and then guys will transfer, guys will get injured.
• 1:19:16
  It's just they just had some some really tough luck. Did you return
• 1:19:20
  some big time guys. Brady Scammell is a speed demon out in center field.
• 1:19:25
  He played center field on the football team, playing free safety. Uh,
• 1:19:28
  really excited to see what he does. You know, he stole nine
• 1:19:31
  bases last year. He had two seventy nine last year. A guy that
• 1:19:35
  you know doesn't get out easily. I mean he's only struck out eight times
• 1:19:39
  and fifty played appearances. He can get on base three to eighty on base,
• 1:19:44
  so that that's really good. Ben Hebert has been a star since he
• 1:19:46
  was a freshman. He'll be kind of that shortstop, probably the you know,
• 1:19:50
  one of the main pitchers as well. His numbers were a little bit
• 1:19:54
  down last year as opposed to his freshman year, but but again he gets
• 1:19:59
  on base as well, four for a four to fourteen on base percentage,
• 1:20:01
  stole six bases. Expect some big things out of him. Dylan Johnson at
• 1:20:05
  first base, I think he'll be He'll be another guy that'll kind of be
• 1:20:10
  in the middle of the lineup. He hit three doubles last year. Colby
• 1:20:14
  Lewis, Yeah, we talked about him as Chad as the belling Yam coach
• 1:20:17
  and you're talking about a guy that's gonna, you know, go play offensive
• 1:20:21
  line freaking college in college, going over there, stand at third base playing,
• 1:20:27
  he's pretty intimidating. He knocked in ten runs last year. He's got
• 1:20:30
  a big time bat in the middle of the lineup as well. And then
• 1:20:33
  Josh Kreda as a really good pitcher, and he's been a but he's been
• 1:20:40
  really dynamic coming into games, like as a relief pitcher. He usually when
• 1:20:45
  you have a really good high school pitcher, he's a starter period. Yeah,
• 1:20:47
  And and he's been one of those guys that's really good coming in relief
• 1:20:51
  and and pitching three or four innings in relief. And I would imagine he's
• 1:20:57
  gonna start a little bit here and there, but he's kind of found that
• 1:21:01
  that thing that he does, you know, really well, and that's been
• 1:21:05
  coming in relief. But uh, but last year he even he hit two
• 1:21:09
  fifty five. He's pretty good. He's pretty good hitter. Uh, only
• 1:21:12
  struck out nine times and fifty three plate appearances. Again, I love I
• 1:21:15
  love those kinds of stats. Uh, you know, I mean, yeah,
• 1:21:18
  I I definitely don't want, you know, you to just watch pitches
• 1:21:21
  go by and you gotta be swinging. But he's swinging and he's making contacts.
• 1:21:26
  So those are kind of the fain the main five guys. I do
• 1:21:30
  think they have some good young players. I know they got a young catcher
• 1:21:32
  coming up. Uh you know, they have another Johnson kid that can play
• 1:21:36
  some short stop it and can pitch. So uh, you know, coach
• 1:21:41
  Frile have it have it going pretty good. I know they they lost a
• 1:21:45
  tough one at home against Lendy Christian just a few hours ago as we're recording
• 1:21:48
  this, But uh, yeah, it's it's it's gonna be interesting. I
• 1:21:53
  mean, all all these teams, they have some definite pluses to them,
• 1:21:57
  and uh, it's gonna be interesting to see who makes districts and then who
• 1:22:00
  can go onto state. It's which is great because one A and to A
• 1:22:03
  State are back at Joe Martin Stadium this year, So fingers across for some
• 1:22:08
  of these teams. Are we done? I think? So nothing else to
• 1:22:15
  talk about here, Tyler, lots of baseball coverage coming up this year.
• 1:22:20
  We are both excited for We're both baseball guys, you know what I mean.
• 1:22:25
  Like even though Watkom Preps really got started with football and and you know,
• 1:22:30
  football is is maybe the passion that we have now in life, you
• 1:22:36
  know a little bit. Baseball has always kind of been the number one though.
• 1:22:41
  I mean, we both love the stats side of it, and there's
• 1:22:44
  so many crazy stats in baseball compared to other sports. But it's gonna be
• 1:22:47
  fun. I'm excited for the spring season here. And before we get out
• 1:22:51
  of here, though, I want to make sure to give another thanks to
• 1:22:55
  j e KK Sports Cards in the website j e k Kcards dot Com is
• 1:23:00
  where you can find them. And again twenty sixteen Main Street and Ferndale three
• 1:23:05
  six zero three zero three, seventeen eighty nine. And also Kurt Mayberry Farm,
• 1:23:10
  who's back there, back again and we got enough strawberries to feed him.
• 1:23:14
  Me uh and uh so we got that Kurtayburryfarm dot com. Kurt with
• 1:23:18
  a C M A B E r R y Farm dot com. Tyler,
• 1:23:25
  Yes, let's get out of here. Sounds good. It's almost midnight,
• 1:23:29
  we're still recording. He's Tyler Anderson walkomprepswalkompreps dot com. I'm Ryland Spencer.
• 1:23:33
  Do you've listening to the episode two hundred and forty four Baseball preview. Oh,
• 1:23:38
  I guess we should mention we're gonna have a softball preview coming up here
• 1:23:41
  in a couple of days as well, so be on the lookout for that.
• 1:23:44
  But yeah, baseball preview here Walko Preps Podcast. We will talk to
• 1:23:47
  you in a couple of days.