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Humility exists over seas on sports - where we have lost some of that here in the states · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  All right, So how's thing's been for you guys. You know, obviously
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  we're headed at a high level, you know, ten thousand foot Connor continues
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  to saw a lot of stuff that you put out on social media. He
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  looks like he is in rare form early. I mean, just crushing the
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  baseball playing well. But I know this has been a very not chaotic but
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  maybe little chaotic, but hectic time for you guys. Yeah, it's We
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  thought when he made his decision last not this past December, but over a
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  year ago to go to LSU, that things would slow down, and it
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  did with the colleges, but then it picked up a lot with the professional
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  side of things and all the scouts that show up. We had almost sixty
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  scouts at a high school baseball game last week, and they're pretty respectful.
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  They come in, they speak before the game to Connor, and Connor speaks
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  to them. And then he just learned to take it in stride and not
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  worry about who's there to watch, just keep it a kid's game and just
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  play the game that he loves. And so yeah, it's been a whirlwind
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  from that regard. And you know, he got a chance to go to
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  Taiwan. I was able to make that trip with him. How was that
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  last year? Man? Is awesome Just to see how passionate other countries are
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  about baseball. I'm not sure that we're the best baseball country in the world
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  here in the United States, I'll just be honest. I mean Japan and
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  Chinese, Taipei and over in Taiwan. Those players they are dedicated, passionate
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  about it. They have their rituals that they go through on a daily basis.
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  You don't see bat flips and not hustling out ground balls and stuff like
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  that. Here they just appreciate the game a little bit more and I think
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  we could learn a lot from them. That's interesting to hear you. Now.
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  Obviously we know baseball is a world wide sport to some degree, especially
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  when you start looking at the Major League rosters and where guys are coming from
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  around the world. But to hear you say that, so, I didn't
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  know that it was that discipline over there. Do you you know if they
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  have, for instance, here we have tournament teams, we have you know,
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  places you can go play as a young do they have those type of
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  what is their setup? Like they have academies in those places where they go
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  train more than they play. And I think that's a lost thing here in
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  the United States is every weekend it seems like everybody's jumping in a car and
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  they're driving two states away to play tournaments. Well, I'll be honest with
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  you, tournament tournament baseball, that travel baseball. There's no development in travel
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  baseball. Once you get to the fourteen, fifteen, sixteen year old ages.
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  You just show up on the weekend and you meet your teammates. Sometimes
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  you don't even know who they are. You meet them and they roll the
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  ball out and you play. There's not any development going on. All the
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  development happens at eight, nine, ten, eleven, and twelve with your
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  local teams and coaches who take the time to develop those players at a young
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  age. That's where they get developed. So they have academies that they basically
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  they may play some games, but it's more like you come in and you're
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  just developing on reps, developing on technique. Yeah, they may come in
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  in the summer when school's out and then stay there for a week and it
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  might be an all day thing where they just get repetitions and reps and coaching
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  and they're regimented, every one of them. Basically, they'll stand the same
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  way in the box, they have their same stance, and it's taught,
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  and you can tell that it's a developed skill over there. In Japan and
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  in Taiwan where they're here, everybody does everything differently and there's no rhyme or
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  reasons sometimes for the way that we do things over here, but you can
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  tell it's very regimented over there. Speaking of no rhyme or reason, let's
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  go to more Bully, More Bully, welcome in. I have a rhyme
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  and a reason right now. What's going on? I have a question,
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  Kevin. You said that the bats are hotter now, when did like ten
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  years ago, where they were trying to to make them not as hot in
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  college baseball? Yeah, I think they've I think they've toned them down in
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  college, but at the at the youth levels, they're still making them hot.
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  And the unfortunate part about it is the fact that people cheat and they'll
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  roll the bats and and they get away with it, and then they brag
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  about it. You hear it every time you go to a tournament on the
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  weekend, about well I rolled this bat, or I did this to a
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  bat end it out. And I think that's why I say that bats are
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  hotter now, because the technology is out there to make them hotter and it's
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  illegal. But yeah, that's right, that's right, And it's unfortunate because
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  people are trying to make the game safer, especially when kids are throwing from
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  forty and forty five feet. That's close for a baseball to come back off
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  of a trampoline basically. And I just think that that's why I say that
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  they're hotter now than they were ten years ago. Gotcha? Well, is
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  bb core still a thing? It is? It is. You have to
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  use bb core in high school and college, Okay, gotcha? And just
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  to say about Beaver pitching softball, softball, look anywhere near Beaver, he's
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  scared off, trust me. Just look at his calves, man, right,
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  tell you no, I think you're right. This calves are the best
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  I've seen combined. Well, so he likes your calves better than Chris Brooks's
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  calves. That's impressive. You should take that as a compliment.