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Baseball Over · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mama's. Dear mama's, what
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  Speaker 1: are you going to do now that baseball is over
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  Speaker 1: for your boys?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask our American mamas.
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  Speaker 3: And joining us now.
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  Speaker 1: Our American mama is Terry Edville and Kimberly Burlison. So, Terry,
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  Speaker 1: your sons played baseball at Louisiana Tech University. Steele went first,
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  Speaker 1: you're at your eldest and they went to They won their.
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  Speaker 3: Division, right, won the conference tournament.
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  Speaker 1: And went to the World Series there and very cool
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  Speaker 1: and of course a big story with his college years
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  Speaker 1: and the tornado that took down the stadium. You're working
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  Speaker 1: on a book on that, which we will be promoting
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  Speaker 1: on air at a later time. Uh. And your youngest
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  Speaker 1: child just graduated, just graduated, Well how about them to go? Right?
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  Speaker 3: Well? Jo?
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  Speaker 1: And so he's now done playing collegiate baseball. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: assuming he's not is he's falling in the medical field with.
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  Speaker 3: You, he's law school. He's law school. Yeah, he's going
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  Speaker 3: to do another NBA, but he's already been accepted LSU lost.
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  Speaker 1: So he's not going to play.
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  Speaker 3: He's done with baseball. So what are we going to do?
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  Speaker 3: We are going to save a lot of money. Kevin
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  Speaker 3: said that the other day because we had we had
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  Speaker 3: to get airbnb in Lynchburg, Virginia for the conference tournament,
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  Speaker 3: and I was saying, I was like, what are we
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  Speaker 3: going to do after and what are we going to
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  Speaker 3: do in the spring. He's like, going to save a
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  Speaker 3: lot of money. So of course that's where his brain went.
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  Speaker 3: You feel sad at all? I do? I feel? You know,
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  Speaker 3: eight years there was I would say eight of the
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  Speaker 3: sweetest years of my life as a baseball mom because
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  Speaker 3: we were allowed to you know, we had a coach
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  Speaker 3: that gave us a green light to do whatever we
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  Speaker 3: wanted to do. Kimberly designed and created the first pitch
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  Speaker 3: banquet as it is now, it's the most phenomenal can't
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  Speaker 3: missing of the year at Tech and so and then
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  Speaker 3: you know, of course the moms and I got to
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  Speaker 3: do the travel bags for the boys. We got to
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  Speaker 3: be we were invested in all these boys, and so
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  Speaker 3: it is one of those things that it's is a bittersweet,
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  Speaker 3: like I'm going to miss it so much, but it's also, uh,
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  Speaker 3: what a sweet time that we all had.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think that both of your boys got
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  Speaker 1: from playing collegiate athletics.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, two different things, I think. Okay, So Steele just briefly,
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  Speaker 3: he had a dream scenario. This is before the portal.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, these guys they grew up with each
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  Speaker 3: other each year, you know, so they started they all
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  Speaker 3: started as freshman.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: There was just a whole different ball game before the portal,
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  Speaker 3: and so he had a dream career, broke records. He
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  Speaker 3: and his best friend, his best friend, Taylor's is in the.
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  Speaker 1: For the Marlins, right, yes, yeah, and.
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  Speaker 3: So is that in Tulsa? No, no, no, oh that's Kate.
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  Speaker 3: That's another one, that's but anyway, yeah, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: them in that group. They did make big things for Slade.
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  Speaker 3: Slade had four years and he came in at a
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  Speaker 3: time when the culture was set, you know, by those
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  Speaker 3: guys before him. He did not have the same experience
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  Speaker 3: as Steel, I think, you know, without without going into detail,
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  Speaker 3: with the portal and everything, it changed everything, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just a different group you know, each year. And but
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  Speaker 3: so I asked him, I said, do you feel how
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  Speaker 3: do you feel after four years? I said, you can
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  Speaker 3: tell me. I would get it if you would feel better,
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  Speaker 3: and like you didn't get a fair chance, and he said,
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  Speaker 3: oh my god, no, Mom, I'm not bitter at all.
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  Speaker 3: He said, you know, yeah, I definitely feel like that
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  Speaker 3: I could have done something. You know, he's naturally gifted athletically,
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  Speaker 3: even more so than Steel. He's just not as big
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  Speaker 3: as Steal. So he said, I didn't feel like I
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  Speaker 3: got to prove myself, you know, to the fans. And
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  Speaker 3: although anytime he went out there, he said he could
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  Speaker 3: feel the love because they would just he could just
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  Speaker 3: they would veer. Ugh, they were so so kind to
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  Speaker 3: my baby. But he said, you know, what I learned
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  Speaker 3: is so valuable. He said, it's really incredible. I never
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  Speaker 3: dreamed that I would go through four years and not
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  Speaker 3: really get a fair chance, not really get to play,
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  Speaker 3: and come out of it and feel like that I'm
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  Speaker 3: a better person. I'm a better human being, he said.
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  Speaker 3: Being a leader on the team and not really playing.
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  Speaker 3: He said, that's saying something. And I will tell y'all.
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  Speaker 3: Just because I have our Amazon on our credit card,
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  Speaker 3: he ordered self motivating books constantly throughout the especially the
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  Speaker 3: last two years, and I think that that did something
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  Speaker 3: to his soul because he feels like that there is
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  Speaker 3: a higher purpose for him. To be there with those guys.
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  Speaker 3: Every parent just about came up to me and said,
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  Speaker 3: I got to thank you for what your son did
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  Speaker 3: for my son. My son had the yips, your son
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  Speaker 3: helped him through it. My son was going through this time.
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  Speaker 3: He sent him a book and said, you got to
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  Speaker 3: read this, my son. All of these families, all of
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  Speaker 3: these moms were saying things to me, And I told Sladest,
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  Speaker 3: let me tell you something, Slade, that matters to me
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  Speaker 3: more than playtime, more than broken records, more than home runs.
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  Speaker 3: You your character was strengthened throughout this process, and you
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  Speaker 3: are beloved and respected and revered by your coaches and
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  Speaker 3: the players. That is invaluable. Yeah, and to say that
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  Speaker 3: your dad and I are overwhelmed with pride, I said,
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  Speaker 3: And he said, well that makes me happy, he said.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want you all to worry.
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  Speaker 2: Hease.
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  Speaker 3: I know you've worried about me, he said, Mom, there's
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  Speaker 3: a reason that this was my four years and I
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  Speaker 3: think I'm a better person. I'm going to use this
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  Speaker 3: to go forward, he said, because I'll be arguing in
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  Speaker 3: courts for the rest of my life, right, and so
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  Speaker 3: I will be able to see all sides and I
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  Speaker 3: will be able to just get the right touch of
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  Speaker 3: an argument.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting because I played college soccer, and
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  Speaker 1: so I never got my last game. I was injured
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  Speaker 1: right before the Texas A and M game, last game
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  Speaker 1: of the season heading into the playoffs, and I didn't
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  Speaker 1: get to play, and I was done. But I can
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  Speaker 1: draw a direct line from my missing that game to
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  Speaker 1: my being on this radio show. And so you never
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  Speaker 1: know what it is that those experiences that shape you
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  Speaker 1: in that moment where they lead you down a lot.
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  Speaker 3: For him to recognize this already, that's impressive, remarkable.
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  Speaker 1: If you like to ask our American Mama is a question,
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  Speaker 1: Turn out of Kimberly Brothers and thank you so much