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From Little League to MLB: Interviews, Highlights, and Baseball Insights · Scene Projects Sports Network

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Yeah.
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Ninja balloons and baseball TikToks.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Head to the back, and I'm stepping with a purpose.
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Grip on the back, and you know it get to work.
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V Shaq swing, got the whole field nervous.
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Pitch coming fast, but I'm turning into search.
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Crack of the bed, yeah, you heard that sound.
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Send it to the fist.
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Now they looking around.
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Coach like, damn.
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How you hitting like that?
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I just point down like Reshack.
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I mean, now I don't chase hits.
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I create that contact.
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Barrel it up.
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Let me show you the man.
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Launch ain't perfect.
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I'm sending it back.
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Out of the park, I'm stacking them stands on the cage to the game.
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I'll never fall off.
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Welcome into the scene, Project Sports Network.
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You are here tonight for seven eighty nine.
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It is our weekly baseball roundtable.
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I'm joined as always by my host, Big B.
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What's happening, B?
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Nothing much, man.
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Got some yard work done before the rain came, but now it's time to sit down and talk a little
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diamond.
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So right.
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Well, and we got all kinds of diamond talk for you.
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From the baseball to the softball, we're gonna be talking about all of it.
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Let's bring in, well, let's bring in coach first and and get a little update on the
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vacation.
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I see palm trees.
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How we doing, fellas?
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Doing good, coach.
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How about you?
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Man, no complaints.
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I'm loving this Florida weather and just trying to soak it
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all in before I gotta go back to reality.
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Alright.
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Yeah.
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I was half surprised you didn't say that you got a job down there already.
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Let's get pods in here, our Golden State correspondent.
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What's going on, pods?
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Not much, man.
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Hey, coach.
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How we doing, man?
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Long time no see.
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Know.
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Right?
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Yep.
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So I take it the weather's treating him well.
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I am surprised he hasn't gotten a job down there yet.
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You'd think he'd be like
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You know what?
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Beaches.
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Honestly, and I'm not even lying.
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Downstairs in the lobby, I was thinking about it yesterday.
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I was
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like, man, I could have gotten a job and worked, like, five days and gotten a quick
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paycheck.
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Like, I did it did go through my mind.
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Well, and special guest tonight on the show.
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Shady, what's going on, brother?
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What's up, boys?
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What's going on?
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We got a full house.
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I like do.
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I like it.
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It's good to be back home, man.
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It's good to see everybody.
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It's been a little while.
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We were
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obviously a couple of days for us there, Bob.
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Don't know if you
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Right.
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Well and we finally got to meet in person and a hell of a way to do it.
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Would say, b, meet me in the parking lot of the stadium and let's go to work.
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Pretty great time, and and I think that's probably a great place to start.
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I'm gonna pull these other hooligans off the stage.
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Me and Bea are gonna rap a
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little bit about this one.
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Bea, we just got back from Minnesota.
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We were up there covering the unreal celebrity softball game to benefit the Thielen
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Foundation.
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Your first time calling a game, getting to put some really big names, out there and to call
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something of that magnitude.
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Now granted, it's a charity.
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It's it's an exhibition game, but these are real time, you know, big time players from the
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Minnesota Vikings.
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What was it like for you in that experience?
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And then I'll follow-up with some of mine as well.
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Well, I mean, you know, you know, like you you said on Rav's podcast, well, shout out to him.
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You know, I kinda threw it out there just as jokingly.
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You know?
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Hey.
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Let's try to get here.
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And you did your magic.
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You waited the magic wand.
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You got us press passes for myself, you, Danielle, Cody, who backed out.
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But, no, the the experience was great.
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I I gotta say the night before was kinda nerve racking.
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Even though it was a charity softball game, I still wanted it to be professional.
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We got to do the press conference beforehand with Adam Thielen and CJ Ham.
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Got to ask him a couple questions based on, you know, what's retirement like now that they're
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out of it.
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What do they expect through the charity softball game?
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I asked Thielen what his thoughts were or what was going through his mind the first time he
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put on the Panthers jersey because it wasn't a Minnesota jersey that he grew up playing for
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from high or from peewees all the way up.
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So he, you know, said it was a different experience, but a good experience for him.
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And then to get to set up in the press box to call the home run derby was great.
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See, I think it was Bo Richter that had just the shot of the night that I think hit the
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warning track in the air.
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And then our guy, Van Geeko, won the home run contest.
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Then we got to the game, and it was a slut fest.
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I mean, it was good.
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It was weird calling those names, and it was also weird to hear PA do it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I got mine somewhere too.
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But
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What was it like throwing one of these on for the first time being
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It was was great.
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I I got it.
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I it's probably all hanging up still, but but, no, just to call the game.
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And and and also to call a game winning shot.
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Adam Thielo ended the game with a home run.
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I I I think that was kind of cool.
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Got to throw a Jose Kaseko reference in there because somebody in right field bounced the
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ball up the glove and then went over the fence.
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And then shout out to the little kids that were out there hustling around those balls during
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the home run practice.
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Some some of those kids made some great plays.
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And then in the game, you brought up the new defensive back, I think it was, that made some
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outlandish plays.
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Yeah.
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And then and we had a scary moment when you're up in the press box with me when JJ had a shot
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rope JJ Jefferson was pitching and had a hard draw.
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They're coming back up to him, and he went to go bare handed.
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And me and Bubba's heart Yeah.
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Yeah.
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But no.
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No.
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Yeah.
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Me and Bubba's heart stopped for the second, though, and then he pulled his hand out.
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To come back to SmackDown.
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Yeah.
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But I wanna bring the guys in, and and I want them to kind of interview you a little bit
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here, B.
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So I'm gonna bring in Pods.
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I'm gonna take myself off the stage, but I I'm here listening.
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So, Pods, any questions from you for b in his first, you know, stint as the play by play
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broadcaster of the Minnesota Vikings charity softball?
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Well, b, I got I got three simple questions for you.
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One, did you have fun?
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Oh, it it was a blast from the moment we got in, got checked in.
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Right before the press conference, me and Bubba were kinda joking.
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You know, Daniel, you know, we're all just standing there, and then no.
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It it was a great experience.
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Okay.
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And then two, like, getting to be around these guys that you have been, you know, watching on
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the Minnesota Vikings as a fan.
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Like, when you first got up in that press box and you looked at that call sheet where you,
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for a second, even just like, holy crap.
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Stop really doing this.
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Yeah.
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No.
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It it was it was, you know, when they when we got the rosters in our packet and, you know and
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I mean, even it even started, you know, sitting, you know, three, four feet away from,
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you know, Adam Thielen and in the presser.
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And then getting up there and sitting in the press box and, you know, just thinking of all
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the guys that, you know, I listened to call games from Harry Carey to, you know, Herb
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Carneel to, you know, Joe Buck, and just to be able to do what they do was just an honor.
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And then like you said, just looking at the call sheets, oh my god.
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I'm gonna be saying JJ McCarthy.
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I'm gonna be saying Ryan O'Neil.
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I'm gonna be saying Dallas Turner.
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Justin Jefferson was a surprise.
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He wasn't there, but or he was there, but it was a surprise.
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You know, all all those were just it was just moment.
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You know, I can't wait to do it again.
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And my last question to you, my friend, is at any point during the tournament or during the
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game, did you feel like, oh, man.
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I might throw up because of the nerves.
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No.
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I I didn't get that.
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I mean, I was nervous.
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I I didn't get a nauseous.
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I mean, I took it within the week.
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But what got me kind of anxious is I accidentally kicked the plug out of the wall
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for the laptop and it went down like about ten minutes later and trying to get a hold of Bubba
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and trying to get back online.
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So there's there's like a about a Tiny bit of panic.
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Yeah.
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I I was panicking.
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I'm just like, oh my god.
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I I just lost a feed and, you know, taking Bubba, he, you know, it got back on.
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I'm just like, it's not loaded.
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And I looked down and saw that I, you know, pulled a cord out with my foot adjusting my
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seating so I could see a little bit better.
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So, yeah, that that that was a panic, but outside of that, no, it was, you know, the
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nerves I I it would the nerves were gone, I would say, after the first round of home runs
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during the contest when I started calling the names and, you know, started getting on the
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groove of things.
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Well, I got to see you, and you did an incredible job in the booth.
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So I hope that you get this opportunity next year.
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And, hopefully, I can make a little trip down to Minnesota, and I can check it out for
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myself.
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Oh, yeah.
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That'll be awesome to see you.
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What I understand.
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Yeah.
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Pods, that was a big reason go out there and taking the big swing that we did.
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I mean, we've never broadcast anything live like this, but to take a big swing and and we
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got I got to meet the social media gal for the Thielen Foundation down on the field during the
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game.
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And she's like, oh, that's great.
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People were asking us how they could tune in.
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And, like, this year, we had our hiccups, cameras out of focus.
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We don't really have the equipment to do this.
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Right?
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We kinda brought what we had and, like
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This is building blocks for the future, though.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So now looking ahead that it's like, hey.
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Anytime you're doing something that you're having because I would expect them to do a
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little bit more now.
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Right?
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Now that Adam's retired and CJ's retired, and that's why I was kind of you know, I I made
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sure to go and talk to both of them after the game, shook their hands a few times like, hey.
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We're here.
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Like, here's my card.
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We would love to work with you.
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I have a foundation that I work with as well.
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We'd love to collaborate, but we'd love to support you.
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Right?
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If we can come and we can add something to it without having to bring a huge budget with us.
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Right?
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Like, we'll find the money.
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Right?
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Like, we'll figure out how to get here.
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We want to be here and be a part of it.
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So I I think that goes a long ways, especially when you start working with the foundations
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that are around these.
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And that's not to say that they wouldn't pay.
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Right?
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But if you're not coming in looking for a paycheck, it changes the relationship.
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Right?
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And it makes it something that I think is gonna be I I
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I definitely think a goal of ours going forward and doing this next year, try to get one of
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those banners hung up in the outfield.
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I don't know how much they cost, but it'd be kinda cool
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to see our outfield.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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Even if it's that and we
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Even if we bring our own, it's like, hey.
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Hang this up, you know, but no.
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I I gotta say I gotta handle a lot out to Bubba there because he's definitely the hype man,
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the, you know, brains behind the operation.
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He's the one that went out and got it.
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Like I said, I kinda threw it out there jokingly a little bit, but Bubba was 100% in
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it.
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And I
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mean, boys know.
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I don't the sarcasm doesn't fall on me when our group chat.
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So, you better make sure that you actually are available and want to do something, when you
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say it.
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I'm a pull pods out.
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Let's bring Shady in and get some questions from Shady.
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I know he's got some good ones.
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Shady, your turn.
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Uh-oh.
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Alright.
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Oh, I was watching too.
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Yeah.
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So, b, I don't know, man.
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You you were killing it.
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I loved
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Thank you.
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That was I loved when I was a kid.
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That was the only other thing I wanted to do was be an announcer.
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Oh, yeah.
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I was waiting for the, like, the b the b isms and stuff like that.
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I was like, my man could be the next Paul Hyman.
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It started auction, a softball tournament.
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We could have it all going.
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I could have a circus in the outfield.
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No.
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It looked great.
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I missed the Justin Jefferson thing.
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Walk us through that because I gotta hear that.
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So so he came in, like I said, unannounced.
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The first inning, I forgot who they had pitching and got through it.
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And then the second inning, he came out and gave up a home run right away.
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So Dylan switched him and had Jefferson pitching, which he was doing pretty good.
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And fourth or fifth inning, he had a ball hit right up the middle to him and he went to goal,
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you know, instincts is to go to glove hand or not glove hand and try to grab it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And he but he pulled back quick and me and me and Bubba were in the booth because he came up
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for a little bit and our heart stopped.
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And we're just like, no.
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It's just like, yep.
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That would have been something to get an injury and then the k l c's like, yeah, kibosh on that
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for next year.
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This is it, you know.
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But
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Yeah.
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No.
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It it was fun.
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I mean
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I'm glad y'all are doing stuff because, like, I was thinking about it while y'all were talking.
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It is.
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It's time for that next generation to come through.
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I had a a Madison Boongarner.
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Well, I didn't see him.
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Somebody was talking about Madison Boomeruner.
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You know, everybody knows his story.
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He, like, created his own fake name and stuff.
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He's apparently doing fishing tournaments now.
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So that's what he's into.
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He's not doing tournaments.
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I guess Hunter Harvey, he's my age.
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He's coming around, but we gotta get more tournaments down in the South.
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So I'm glad people are doing charity stuff out where you're at.
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No.
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It's definitely he's been doing it since 2018.
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I think the fundraiser started and maybe the year after he did the charity softball game.
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And it was a good crowd.
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I would say, Bubba, you might be able to be more accurate, but I would say there's probably
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about a good 2,000 people there.
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Yeah.
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The stadium holds about eight.
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I'd say between fifteen and two thousand probably spread out.
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Because you have the upper deck, the sponsor deck.
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Right?
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The people who paid big money to be there Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Had the the section.
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So there were some up there.
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The biggest thing, man, there are ton of kids there, man.
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Ton of
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kids, ton of families.
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And and
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you could tell you could tell and you could tell I mean, from where I used to could tell
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tell a little bit, but I know Bubba was down on the on the field level more.
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The the players were having a blast, you know, signing stuff and then getting up there in that
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bad.
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They were probably joking around in the dugout.
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Couple of guys were just sitting out in the outfield on the fence just waiting for
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something because it wasn't a typical lineup for softball.
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They pretty much had, I think, five or six outfielders, five midfielders, a pitcher, the
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catcher.
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So they just let everybody go out there and play.
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So it's kinda like a little league type thing or t ball.
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Oh, yeah.
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Just let everybody go out there and play.
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So That's okay.
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But no.
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It was definitely I honestly can't wait for my next opportunity.
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I was gonna say, coach, what's the third question?
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I know you got a football question.
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I don't have any football questions.
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Hold on, coaches.
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Mean, there we go.
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My first my first question would be, how many times did you catch yourself being like, oh,
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shit.
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Like, I'm I'm right here.
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I'm in the thick of it.
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Like, I just
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I know.
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That that I I would say after, you know, once I it was weird getting set up.
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Bubba's helping me set up stuff and see the players start getting onto the field and, you
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know, getting the home run-in contest in there.
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And then actually, I I think what it really got me was I wasn't a fan when the national anthem
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was in.
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I was up in the press box.
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And it's just like, oh my god, I'm up here instead of down there.
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And, you know, and then just calling the names, was just like, how unreal is this and, you
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know, I mean, you know, it it was a good time.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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No.
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And shout out to Bubba.
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Honestly, like we've said it multiple times and even in our group chat, but I mean, dude can
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work magic.
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Right.
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So, you know, shout out
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to him about that.
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Right now, if we're doing awards, he's the promoter of the year.
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Mean 100%.
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100%.
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With I'll take that one, boys.
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Thank
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you.
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Absolutely.
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Absolutely.
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How like, was it the Justin Jefferson scare?
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Was it, like, like, everybody went silent real quick, or like
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I mean, I don't know what the fans did.
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I mean, there there was no air in the press box for me.
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And and you could kinda see, he kinda laughed.
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So somebody said something to him.
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I I guess it's Thielen kinda did because he had a big smile on his face.
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But yeah.
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It'll I mean, who I mean, he probably wouldn't have got hurt, but I'll get real.
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I take that chance with our prized possession there.
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You know?
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Yeah.
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It it was a one third.
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For multimillions.
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Right?
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Like
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You're you're right.
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And and the guy I mean, he catches freaking fastballs off of these quarterbacks.
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Right?
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JJ can whip the ball around.
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So it's not like he couldn't handle it.
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Oh, he had a cannon on him too from third.
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Right.
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It it wasn't that hot of a shot.
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You know?
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I there's
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wanna take that chance.
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No.
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You're like, that is,
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like, the one thing during the game that you did not wanna see besides somebody else, like,
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pulling up with a hammy something.
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Right?
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Which No.
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They didn't.
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Aaron Jones' triple.
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Nobody was really running hard.
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But Aaron Jones dug it out for a triple.
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Oh, yeah.
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Aaron Jones dug it out for a triple.
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The game actually was
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crazy, man.
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The the game There's
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a lot of celebration coming down third baseline after the home runs.
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A couple people try to do the gritty and some other dances.
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You know, they will walk I I I think for me to top it off just outside the experience was
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being able to call a game winning home run-in my first game.
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I mean, it it was set up too.
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Dealer came up.
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I think it was, like, the first or second pitch and set the yard.
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I actually thought the guy caught the ball because it was that close, and Dealer started
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running.
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I'm like, wait a minute.
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I I was just like, wait a minute.
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Did you just catch the ball?
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And the guy just started jogging in.
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I'm just like, oh my god.
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He did catch the ball.
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Could've Oh, yeah.
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He could caught it, and he just kinda, like, watching it, watching it, watching it.
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He had his glove up there.
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Clear.
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A fairly
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clear defense, man.
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But, you know, these guys understand what it is too.
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To have the man, you know, the the start of the night, the man who put it all together, get to
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hit that walk off.
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They know the moment too.
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Yeah.
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And that was a really cool a really cool thing to watch them, everybody understanding what
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what it meant, what were there
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And and I think another surprising part of it, Bubba, we talked about a little bit is how not
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tall and big these guys were.
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Like like, Dallas Turner, you know, looked like a bigger version of Cody.
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I mean, you know, he I will say
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that you were watching the game from 40 feet in the air.
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Yeah.
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I was.
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Right down next to these dudes.
20:28
They're bit as big.
20:30
That was that was for
20:31
a little skinnier than, like, a Jadavian Clowney.
20:34
Right?
20:34
Like, he's a different defensive end, but Brian O'Neil is a massive human
20:39
Oh, yeah.
20:40
Right on.
20:40
And there and there were some people that you thought had a woulda had a good swing and
20:48
looked like a t ball swing.
20:50
I mean, I'm not gonna name people because I can't remember.
20:52
But I got a little
20:53
bit that track on that too.
20:55
So there was somebody that was talking, that played.
20:58
So it was Paul.
20:59
Our my friend, Tal Paul.
21:00
Shout out to Paul Schottfelt who
21:02
came Hey, Paul.
21:03
Paul Paul played a bunch of softball.
21:06
Right?
21:06
He was
21:06
a baseball player and then in the men's softball.
21:09
He was like, no.
21:10
That other pitcher for the defense, he was throwing junk.
21:13
He knew what he
21:14
was doing.
21:14
He had
21:15
played some in softball.
21:16
He was throwing some crazy, you know, change ups and curve, like, you know, he was throwing
21:20
some drop balls and stuff at him, and these guys were just way out in front on everything.
21:24
And when they finally started selling it in fourth, fifth inning, I think the offense
21:28
because the defense was up big.
21:30
The defense was
21:30
up big.
21:31
Was up, but I think it was five one going into the fourth, I think.
21:36
And then Jefferson had a three run shot, and then I think maybe feeling followed it up with
21:43
a back to back shot.
21:45
And then the offense took over after that, then the defense came back later, and that was yeah.
21:51
It was fifteen fifty going to the bottom of the six.
21:53
And, yeah, it was it was I think all but two runners scored on home runs.
21:58
Oh, wow.
21:59
Cody is slowly losing his light.
22:01
We are just getting this is a beautiful sunset, though.
22:03
I really I think that's close.
22:05
You can't see Cody, but that's not bad.
22:07
Who Who cares?
22:08
That's not bad.
22:09
Let's But I mean I mean, yo yo, Bubba Danielle, I mean, she been out with the heart, you know,
22:15
some souvenirs with the Alethia jersey and the CJ ham.
22:20
They had the silent auction.
22:21
The one thing I wanted.
22:23
I went
22:23
to, like, I went to promote it.
22:24
She's like, shut up.
22:26
Shut up.
22:26
She's like, I I got I got bids on two things.
22:28
So she ended up getting a
22:29
signed a
22:30
signed Thielen jersey and a signed Van Ginkle
22:34
Oh, Van Ginkle.
22:35
That's cool.
22:35
Thielen was a Vikings jersey.
22:37
Yep.
22:37
Though Van Ginkle was one of the actual, like, the event jersey signed.
22:42
And she got both of them for under $500.
22:45
And then
22:45
And then and then you follow-up apparel.
22:49
Batting gloves they were wearing during the home run derby, we got those too.
22:52
They were sitting on the fence after the game and just sitting there.
22:55
And I was like, hey.
22:56
You know, Adam, are are these yours?
22:58
And he's like, no, man.
22:59
They're yours now.
23:00
I was like, cool.
23:01
And I was like, I shoulda had you sign them, but I didn't have a pen or anything.
23:03
I'm like, whatever.
23:04
We'll we'll throw them in a case with the jersey, and we know where they came from, but
23:08
all the players wore those.
23:10
Everybody does a home run derby had those gloves on.
23:12
Right?
23:12
So, yeah, we're gonna be swabbing that thing.
23:15
Yeah.
23:16
No.
23:16
Definitely definitely, I can't wait.
23:18
I hope we have big plans over the year to be better prepared for next year's softball game
23:25
and whatever other charity events they got coming up.
23:28
Oh, the week through that entire thing together in ten days.
23:31
Oh, days
23:32
from conception of, like, oh, and even shorter than that because I didn't play it on
23:37
broadcasting until Rap said something, like, two days later.
23:40
So a week a week from, like, we're gonna do this to walking in and getting it done and
23:46
having very little communication with them.
23:48
Like, we got permission, and then it was like, okay.
23:51
Well, we're gonna show up and do this thing.
23:52
And now being able to communicate with these people afterwards and to be able to reach out
23:57
and to form those relationships next year, being the official broadcast on SPSN for this
24:03
charity game and others out there, that was really the goal.
24:06
I definitely would be on it.
24:08
TJ Hockinson.
24:09
Oh, yeah.
24:10
You had Hock on there after there.
24:12
You know, we got that at our back pocket now.
24:15
Like, SPSN has done interviews with TJ.
24:17
Got to meet Aaron Jones who does a lot of veteran charity work as well and has a
24:22
foundation of his own.
24:24
Got I mean, I got to shake hands with all these guys, and I didn't really I probably could've
24:28
reached out to Jets and JJ and could've done it all, but I really wasn't I don't know.
24:33
I wasn't there for that.
24:33
Right?
24:34
I was there to connect with people that I knew.
24:36
Yeah.
24:36
We
24:36
could connect with on that level.
24:38
We have the connection with Showtime because of Marcus or Picasso Yeah.
24:42
And the Vikings United show.
24:44
So kinda wanna made sure we wanted to talk to him.
24:46
I didn't wanna waste that opportunity.
24:48
And just to go get a picture with Jetta's, it's like, man, we got all the time in the world to
24:51
do that.
24:51
Right?
24:52
Like, he ain't going nowhere on this team, hopefully.
24:55
Viking just got a new GM.
24:56
We don't know what's gonna happen yet, but then I'll let you but it's not.
25:00
But you definitely were out there.
25:02
I I I like I said, I gotta give you props.
25:04
You're out there.
25:05
You weren't you weren't starstruck.
25:07
You weren't shy.
25:09
You know?
25:09
And that's one thing that, you know, CJ and Dylan both said is, you know, if you wanna make
25:16
it, don't take no for an answer.
25:17
Just keep going.
25:19
Keep asking questions and you know?
25:22
So that that I did have to
25:24
give be a little encouragement in the press conference.
25:26
There was two guys, two reporters that were asking the majority of our Well,
25:30
I really and you were kind of asking the same question I was trying to ask.
25:34
Yeah.
25:35
And my first question I forgot what my first question was.
25:40
But then Bubba talked about retirement, and then I piggybacked off of that is when I asked
25:44
Dylan about how He dominated
25:46
the back half of that press conference.
25:48
Yeah.
25:49
Oh, my my first my first question to multiple was, what do you tell your what do you tell
25:55
young kids or people that are trying to become something like and I said, like us in the
26:01
podcast, you know, trying to make it.
26:04
They just, like, keep doing what you're doing, Keep reaching out.
26:07
Don't take no for an answer pretty much.
26:09
It just, you know, if somebody turns it out, just keep going.
26:12
And then I asked Dylan, and and and Dylan, I I think it's the right answer.
26:16
You know, it was a different feeling, but he got to make more connections.
26:19
And that's kind of, I think, what Butler's, you know, contribution is or vision is is, you
26:26
know, just get out there wherever you gotta go and make make the connections and, you know,
26:31
you just never know what's gonna happen.
26:33
Right.
26:34
You know?
26:35
Stroke.
26:37
Well, Bubba, remind me next time to sarcastically put in the group chat that I want
26:41
to interview Ricky Fowler, you know, Roy McElroy, those kind
26:47
of things.
26:47
Joe Hay.
26:49
That's funny you say that.
26:50
Dan Davidson had him at his son's wedding last weekend.
26:53
I coulda gave you a word.
26:55
I'm sorry about
26:55
that, man.
26:57
Put it in.
26:58
You know what mean?
26:59
That's the thing.
26:59
I mean, he's in the building.
27:01
I mean, we He was he
27:03
was lit.
27:03
He woulda had us.
27:04
He woulda had Bubba in a heartbeat.
27:05
His name's Bubba?
27:06
Brighamont.
27:07
My kinda guy.
27:08
I was like
27:08
I'm gonna say, like, like, I could out, JD.
27:11
If I could interview one person from the Dodgers, surprisingly, it wouldn't be Showhead.
27:17
I've If I could interview one person from the Dodgers, it'd probably be between Freddie
27:23
Freeman and Mookie Betts.
27:24
See and and, you know, you're talking about that because Freeman was the person that popped
27:28
to my mind.
27:29
If I could honestly get him to be honest about his contract going into the Dodgers
27:35
Yeah.
27:36
Then I would wanna interview.
27:37
I I wanna get his honest answer.
27:39
You know?
27:39
What did his agent pull the wool over the Braves' eyes?
27:43
Did you know, was he expected to be a Braves his whole career?
27:46
You know, stuff like that.
27:47
You know?
27:48
Well, that's interesting, Dee, because, like, that's also kind of the same thing with Mookie
27:52
is they win that World Series, and then he gets traded not even a season and a half later.
27:57
Yeah.
27:58
And he pretty much I thought Mookie Betts with the way he played for Boston was gonna be a Red
28:03
Sox for life.
28:03
And next thing you know, he's a Dodger, and then you turn around not even two seasons
28:08
later.
28:09
And then almost a similar situation with Freddie happens except it's in free agency
28:13
agency because his agent completely just, you know, duffed the deal.
28:18
But we get two players who we thought were gonna be lifetime corner pieces of other
28:23
organizations who are now corner pieces of Dodger Blue.
28:26
So I'm grateful, but I would love to interview one of those two just based on how crazy their
28:33
story has been because they both realistically, both won World Series with their teams and then
28:39
ended up on the Dodgers very shortly after.
28:42
Yeah.
28:43
I mean, if if I could interview, you know, one guy nowadays in baseball, man, there's I I I
28:53
don't know.
28:54
I mean, maybe it would be Freeman just because of that, but, I mean, now the Twins, maybe, you
28:59
know, some of the younger guys, you know, Buxton and Lewis, but they're not really a guy
29:04
I I I think most recent, maybe Poolholz would be the guy I would, you know, wanna sit down
29:10
and have a really good conversation with.
29:13
So
29:14
I a really good guy.
29:16
He's a really good conversationalist.
29:18
He's still in by my mom.
29:20
To some of the managers.
29:21
I think the managers would be an even better interview.
29:24
Guys that have been around in this league for, you know, some of them a half of a century, you
29:29
know, like Tony LaRussa or something like that, to just, like if you're gonna get to have a
29:34
conversation, right, an hour go ahead, Shady.
29:36
No.
29:36
You're right.
29:37
You're right.
29:38
Did anybody think advantages would be good.
29:40
Did anybody see how NC State's coach ended his effing career?
29:46
Thirty years down the drain for new rules.
29:49
Homie was in the batter's box and went like, clock started, stepped out, clock was going,
29:56
didn't get back in.
29:57
Strike three.
29:58
That's it.
29:59
Ball game.
30:01
Oh, I missed that.
30:03
And see the coach was, like, livid for about two seconds.
30:06
Took his hat, threw it, shook hands, was, like, hugging people for a minute.
30:09
He's like, I you see him, he's pissed.
30:10
He's like, who am I kidding?
30:11
I'm going home.
30:13
NC State's coach literally ended his whole career regionals just I think it was yesterday.
30:19
Yeah.
30:20
Time clock violation.
30:22
West Coast update, top seed UCLA got knocked out too by nobody.
30:28
Yeah.
30:28
They did.
30:29
That's the first time that's happened in the tournament, I think, a while.
30:35
Yeah.
30:36
We're better.
30:36
It's already college World Series time.
30:39
That's crazy.
30:41
Sure.
30:41
Later, it'll be, you know, what, a couple months and we got the Little League World
30:44
Series starting up.
30:45
So
30:46
B, couple months, we got the Canton game, and then a little bit after that, we got the
30:50
season.
30:51
We're like,
30:51
what?
30:52
Sir.
30:52
Four weeks away?
30:54
Five weeks away from preseason?
30:56
Yeah.
30:56
We Enjoy enjoy the next four weeks.
30:58
Cody took his vacation at a perfect time.
31:00
It's unfortunate that it came at a moment that, in the same week that we got an unreal
31:05
opportunity because Cody would've walked out with the job.
31:08
Right?
31:08
Cody.
31:09
Well, I I Cody, did you ever forward Danielle money for any drinks?
31:14
I mean
31:15
No.
31:15
I didn't.
31:16
I didn't.
31:17
I I still got her on those drinks, though, but, yeah, I that was I I'm not going I'm gonna try
31:24
my best to never miss an event again.
31:27
I'm never I'm not gonna say never, but I'm gonna try my best.
31:30
So
31:31
My Yeah.
31:32
I don't know if you guy can you guys see the comments?
31:34
They are going crazy.
31:35
No.
31:35
I can't.
31:38
What did they say?
31:39
What?
31:39
You're terrible stuff, or how bad are they?
31:42
And awesome.
31:43
Oh,
31:46
I love it.
31:46
I'm I'm leaving all of those.
31:48
Thank you.
31:48
Thank you, you two.
31:50
Go go crazy.
31:52
No.
31:52
The experience overall before we get into
31:55
some Oh, I see why you're not showing up.
31:59
But, hey.
32:00
We'll take the engagement.
32:01
We need this.
32:02
We we appreciate this.
32:04
So so, Bubba, on your hand, I mean, you gave my perspective.
32:08
I mean, you're down on the field.
32:10
I mean, what was what was your perspective?
32:13
I mean, your experience.
32:14
I know you've done it before.
32:18
So Yeah.
32:18
Cool.
32:19
Well, here,
32:19
let's do let's go around the horn again.
32:21
I'm gonna let the boys check out the comments because this is too funny.
32:25
But yeah.
32:26
So for me, you were up in the booth.
32:29
I was down on the field.
32:30
So right next to the home dugout, there's, like, a little pit there.
32:33
Yep.
32:33
It's kinda their the media pit.
32:35
So we got there.
32:36
All the other media people got out on the field.
32:38
Now they spent expressly in our thing, like, don't have field access and stuff.
32:41
So I didn't push the issue.
32:43
I had to if I would have been
32:44
alone Until the end of the game.
32:45
I come
32:46
solo, I'm out there, man.
32:48
There ain't nothing stopping me, but Danielle's with me.
32:50
She's just not like that.
32:51
I'm not gonna be there to make her uncomfortable.
32:53
So we just kinda sat in that pit, but that's where everybody was coming out.
32:57
CJ's there signing autographs for all the kids.
32:59
All the kids were right there filling up that tunnel and really just like, hey.
33:03
Will you sign this?
33:04
There was an officer from the Saint Paul and he was just he was grabbing stuff from the kids,
33:10
making it sure it got out the dugout to the players so they get it back to him.
33:13
So we were right there.
33:14
But Aaron Jones was right there.
33:17
JJ came over and signed.
33:19
I got a ton of pictures.
33:20
You guys go check out our Facebook page.
33:21
I posted a bunch of stuff over there.
33:23
We'll have a lot more rolling out.
33:24
I was too damn busy to really get anything out there in real time as far as it was.
33:28
Kind of a you had to be there moment for everyone, not just Cody.
33:32
And so for me, it was it was so massive to just be able to stand there, to talk to these guys,
33:37
to communicate, to not be starstruck and to not be scared to say something.
33:43
Being respectful, I think there's a line where where you wanna be.
33:47
I don't mind asking them to, you know, take a picture with my wife real quick or to have, you
33:51
know, a a moment and just give me some of their time to talk about our foundation and possibly
33:55
working more together.
33:57
But a a great experience, man.
33:59
I I mean, I was five feet from from Jetta's and and all these guys
34:02
right now.
34:03
You made you made a comment, I think it was on rap show.
34:08
The chemistry or the cohesiveness that you felt that the offensive side had with JJ.
34:16
Can you, you know, explain a little bit more on your feelings on that?
34:20
Right.
34:20
Well and it was, you know, notable at least, and I and I felt to to bring it up to, on rap
34:26
show at the Vocal Vikes channel.
34:28
Make sure you check out our guy.
34:29
That Kyler Murray was listed on the roster when they released it on Tuesday.
34:35
Like, Well, cool.
34:36
Was Max Bullock and Monster and so was, West.
34:40
Yeah.
34:40
And that that, you
34:41
know, some guys maybe commit or or some their agent says, yeah, he'll be there, and then they
34:46
don't know.
34:46
Like, things break down.
34:47
So I just thought it was worth mentioning, hey.
34:49
The guy the guy had said he was gonna be there.
34:50
He wasn't there, but JJ McCarthy was.
34:53
I will say that as much noise as there is in Vikings fandom right now and around the media
34:59
about the quarterback battle that's going on, that these players don't have any animosity or
35:06
anything.
35:07
Like, you can't tell.
35:07
He's still there.
35:08
JJ does all the right things, says all the right things in that locker room.
35:12
I still now command of the locker room might be a strong word.
35:15
Right?
35:16
He still has relationships with these guys.
35:18
So at an event like this, not surprised that he's there and everybody's chumming it up.
35:24
I think you'd really have to put it on some of these players to, you know, say, I every at the
35:29
end of the day, everybody wants to win.
35:30
Right?
35:30
But these team bonding things like this and other that they do, you know, Kyler hasn't been
35:37
here.
35:37
He hasn't had time to communicate with these guys.
35:40
They haven't gone through a season together.
35:41
He gets signed in the off season.
35:43
They have OTAs this week.
35:44
Sometimes some of these guys probably met him for the first time this week, right, if they
35:48
haven't played against him or they haven't.
35:50
You know?
35:50
And even if you play against the guy, doesn't mean that you met him after the game and shook
35:54
hands and everything.
35:55
So Yep.
35:55
I think there's there's a lot to it.
35:58
I think it says a lot about these players, and and Aaron came out with some with some, you
36:03
know, words this week on another podcast that that rap had featured as well that, you know,
36:08
Aaron Aaron Jones speaking very highly of the young man as well.
36:11
And so I think there's still a lot of belief in that locker room that JJ McCarthy can prove
36:16
himself Mhmm.
36:17
To be the guy.
36:18
Does that mean he's better than Kyler Murray?
36:20
I don't necessarily know that he has to be better.
36:24
He can be sufficient, and you're getting him on a rookie contract for three years.
36:30
And that's why I've always stated that, like, for the Vikings and not to make this a football
36:33
show, the best thing for the Vikings is that JJ McCarthy can give you maybe an 80% or 85% of
36:41
the player that Kyler Murray can be in athletic ability and all the things, and you're still
36:45
gonna win a lot of ballgame.
36:46
So I think that's always kinda been my standard, but there's no there was no
36:51
standoffishness from the players towards JJ McCarthy.
36:55
So as much as a lot of fans have given up, a lot of media have given up, and and a lot of
36:59
other things have given up on him, this team has not.
37:02
And I think that was that was noteworthy for me.
37:05
Yeah.
37:08
No.
37:08
I'll you know, you know, you're down there.
37:11
You got I I can see there's moments where I think Bubba really wish he did, like, jump on
37:18
the field quick and get some better pictures.
37:20
I mean, you know, just the way he was looking around and
37:23
That ain't our content anyway, man.
37:24
I got Hawk on the show.
37:26
Right?
37:26
It was all about building relationships to the future.
37:29
So when I reach out to these guys on Instagram, they recognize the faces that that they saw and
37:34
and the the logo and stuff.
37:36
And shout out to Dean for getting us some fancy SPSN shirts to wear, so we look pretty official
37:42
down there.
37:43
It was about them getting to know them and having that name in their heads and the name of
37:49
the show so that when we reach out, maybe we can get them on an interview sometime.
37:53
Right?
37:54
And we can bring them into this and get to talk about me, I'm always leading with the
37:57
foundations, man.
37:58
The the weight of these players is through the work that they do off the field.
38:02
Right?
38:02
And that's where you can get them in.
38:05
Yeah.
38:05
You can pop a few football questions into that.
38:07
But when you wanna get to know them as a man and you wanna get to know what they're doing in
38:12
the community, I think that's a a much better conversation to go to go around to and to get
38:19
them in and to bring them in as human beings first and as football players second.
38:25
Yeah.
38:26
No.
38:26
It was it was dumb.
38:28
I mean, yes, it was hard at the media not to, you know, give a lot of, you know, football
38:34
questions to both of them.
38:35
But, I mean, I think they handled it good, the questions they got asked, even the football
38:39
questions.
38:40
You know, Bubba, you had the one about, you know, what's retirement like?
38:43
And I think CJ had the best comment on he didn't know how much information was all in his
38:48
brain that's not there no more or something like that, you know, because, you know, now he
38:52
can focus on his kids and, you know, I I think they both said that, you know, now they can
38:57
focus on their kids.
38:58
They can focus on what their kids are doing and not have to rush out to practice and, you know,
39:04
stuff like that.
39:05
Thiela said that he was Thiela said he wasn't gonna play because he didn't wanna mess up his
39:11
golf stroke.
39:12
So and then he ended up playing.
39:14
So
39:14
And ended up hitting the game winner.
39:16
Walk it off.
39:17
Yeah.
39:17
He had a couple of them, you know, saw.
39:19
It was an incredible experience top to bottom.
39:22
I look forward to being involved with them next year, and that's how a lot of these things
39:25
work.
39:26
I mean, some of the events that we've done two years in a row now, like, you get on that list.
39:31
Right?
39:31
And then you don't have to necessarily reach out again.
39:34
They reach out to you.
39:35
Sometimes it's a little late like the Cinch playoffs last year.
39:38
I think I got a call, like, maybe ten days before the event, and they're like, oh, you're
39:42
in as approved media.
39:43
And I was like, oh, I had other plans.
39:45
I quickly canceled.
39:46
Those it was like, I
39:48
don't know.
39:48
Yeah.
39:49
You cancel plans, Cody, when you got something that came up like this.
39:53
You cancel plans.
39:54
She dipped out.
39:55
He was tired of getting a hard time, I think.
39:57
The lady's probably ready to go to sleep.
40:00
I know that they gotta travel and everything.
40:02
We can talk a little bit of baseball tonight.
40:04
My cousin's been sucking.
40:05
They finally ended their losing streak, but they're back in there.
40:09
We'll check some standings and at least get a little baseball talk in there.
40:11
They're actually on tonight, and I we got a a subscription of Peacock.
40:16
So I'm gonna go watch Sunday night baseball and and get that.
40:20
So just a quick overview.
40:21
You don't you don't wanna go watch them right now.
40:23
I won't tell you the score, but
40:25
I saw they were down five nothing, but I don't
40:27
wanna watch them.
40:28
So I
40:28
ain't I ain't worried.
40:29
I still get
40:30
to You know, and and that's the thing.
40:31
For the for the one with more cubs, I mean, you know
40:34
I'm excited to be at home on my own couch with my cats, watching my own TV.
40:41
Like, the the hotel accommodations we had over the weekend were fine, you know, but there's
40:46
something to be we we were running.
40:48
You know?
40:48
It did we just didn't do the softball game.
40:50
We shot 18 holes of golf on Friday, and then we went out and we covered the Minnesota Monsters
40:54
game and another veteran charity event on Saturday morning.
40:58
So, like, we were we were slamming and running eighteen hours a day.
41:02
I came home.
41:03
We got home at midnight last night.
41:04
I literally brushed my teeth, and I was out.
41:06
Gone, man.
41:07
I gotta ask, though.
41:08
How was the lasagna?
41:09
The lasagna was freaking incredible.
41:11
Gotta call my wife, Laura.
41:13
Always takes good care of me when I come up to town.
41:16
I'm very appreciative of her.
41:17
So let me let me share the screen here, get the standings up on the board so we can pretend
41:23
we're a baseball show for five minutes.
41:26
Yeah.
41:26
Bubba, you were gone so long, I grew a beard.
41:29
You did grow you did grow a beard.
41:32
So I noticed that.
41:33
I was like, hey.
41:34
Pods is coming.
41:35
Look at
41:35
Pods.
41:36
I I thought know, I I was thinking too.
41:39
Was like, yeah.
41:40
He Yeah.
41:41
Either just got that midnight shadow going or it's coming in pretty
41:45
I left.
41:46
Pods was the boy.
41:47
I come back, and he's a man.
41:48
Yeah.
41:48
Pods is like, yeah.
41:51
He's like, I got a tattoo, a misdemeanor, and I smoke cigarettes now.
41:54
What's up, man?
41:55
Well, I got tattoos, but you know?
41:58
Tattoos are Pokemon and shit.
42:00
You got a real tattoo?
42:02
Where's the teardrop?
42:03
Yeah.
42:04
Oh, come on, man.
42:05
Yeah.
42:07
Only in game.
42:08
Alright.
42:09
Rays is still atop the AL East, but the Yankees now, of course, nipping out their heels, which
42:14
you knew was gonna happen.
42:15
Look at that freaking seven and a half game.
42:19
A lead on the wildcard.
42:21
I mean Yeah.
42:22
That's wild.
42:23
The AL is just kind of a mess this year.
42:26
I I don't know.
42:27
Now and I wonder if this isn't a lot to do with the with the NL now having the the DH as well,
42:35
right, kinda evening things out in that league.
42:38
I don't know if we're seeing kind of effects of that or, you know, it's hard
42:42
to say.
42:42
Effects are over.
42:44
I think everybody's just used to it now that the NL has to use the DH all the time.
42:49
I mean, you know Well,
42:51
it just the it it used to be that the best hitters towards the back end of their careers
42:56
would go over to the AL.
42:57
They could go to one of those 16 teams or, you know, and they could just live there or or 15
43:02
teams rather.
43:03
Right?
43:03
And they could just live there.
43:04
And now you have 30 teams that can do that with some of the best hitters.
43:08
So I don't know.
43:08
It, like, dilutes that pool of just It
43:11
it it it does.
43:12
I mean
43:13
Well, Gianni is a great example of that.
43:15
Right?
43:16
You know, towards the end.
43:17
And I mean, he always played in the AL, but it it was something that the Yankees, you know,
43:21
always went out and found that guy that's like, look, buddy.
43:23
You know, you don't have to go
43:24
out in the field.
43:25
Right?
43:25
Like, you're not doing that.
43:26
And now that both leagues have
43:27
Well, and that's the thing with, when the twins signed, Tome, he made a comment that, he didn't
43:34
have a glove anymore.
43:35
He's like, yeah.
43:36
You're not coming to play the field.
43:37
You're coming to DH, and that's all you're doing.
43:40
You know?
43:41
So and if we do need to play, we'll find you a glove, but, yeah, you're in the lineup.
43:47
The Chicago White Sox are in a wildcard spot right now.
43:50
That's as wild.
43:51
We're about to start June tomorrow.
43:53
Look at look at that.
43:54
Okay.
43:54
The Indians lost two in a row.
43:56
White Sox won five in a row.
43:57
Everybody else is on a nice little losing streak there.
44:01
There you go.
44:02
That's okay.
44:02
We're getting back.
44:03
Yeah.
44:03
Royals and Tigers, the season's done.
44:07
They're folding it up.
44:08
Oh, the Tigers are yeah.
44:10
They're strong.
44:12
And they were supposed to be one of the good teams.
44:14
And they
44:15
disrespected they disrespected Schubel, what they did with Framber Valdez this last
44:21
offseason.
44:22
We already saw how that happened.
44:23
So Schubel's gone.
44:25
He's either gonna be a Yankee, a Dodger, a freaking Astro, maybe a Met.
44:30
I don't know.
44:31
They they could Brady.
44:32
Brady could use some help.
44:33
Right?
44:34
I mean, they're
44:34
I don't like him, but
44:35
yeah.
44:35
But can they afford him?
44:37
20?
44:38
Like, that's wild.
44:39
We are, what, two and a half months into the season?
44:42
Yeah.
44:42
Right?
44:43
Two and a half full months in, you've lost 20 games.
44:45
Nope.
44:46
That's wild.
44:47
That's wild.
44:48
You're
44:48
you're nine up on the nationals, nine and a half up on Philly.
44:51
I mean, the Mets are the Mets and the Marlins are definitely the
44:55
bottom at El Central.
44:56
This is Yeah.
44:57
The Central is crazy.
44:58
That's what
44:58
I I mean, we've been talking about it all season, but and it's gonna be a slugfest in
45:02
there.
45:03
Really disappointed in the Cubs dropping the three Not
45:05
a single team with a losing record.
45:07
That's crazy.
45:08
Nope.
45:09
They just got there's demons there that need to be exercised with with these cubbies against
45:15
the brewers.
45:16
And I don't know if it's the curse of counsel kinda coming over and this brewers team just
45:22
now having his number.
45:24
But this is you know, and we've talked about their two ten game win streaks.
45:28
Right?
45:29
And I don't know how long that losing streak was.
45:32
It must have been in that seven or eight game range, I'm guessing, in there.
45:38
But it was and it might have been an all a full 10 game losing streak as well.
45:42
Maybe they popped a game in there in between.
45:45
But when you are a streaky hitting team, which the Cubs are kind of becoming known for, PCA
45:51
can be a streaky hitter, Dansby the same way.
45:54
A lot of these other guys Nico's probably your one guy who's really consistent out there, Nico
45:58
Horner.
45:58
But a lot of these other guys say a Suzuki can be extremely streaky.
46:02
When they're on, they're freaking on, man, and everything's leaving the park.
46:05
But when they're off, their at bats are embarrassing.
46:08
Right.
46:08
Right.
46:09
And you just don't know, like, how do you balance that a little bit?
46:12
The 10 game winning streaks are awesome, but to be in the tank and to lose 10 in a row is
46:17
demoralizing.
46:17
And when you have a pitching staff that's having some injury issues, right, that can
46:22
really hurt you.
46:23
And it wasn't it wasn't the pitching that was losing in those games.
46:27
It was late.
46:27
Some of the I think three or four of the games in that losing streak, they got shut out.
46:32
Like, how does a team with this much salary and this many guys out there, like, get shut out
46:38
four out of 10?
46:38
That's crazy.
46:40
The Mets,
46:41
Ian.
46:41
Fair
46:42
enough.
46:43
But I wonder if a little bit of that is the, you know, the era of launch angle and everybody
46:48
just kinda going for broke on the home runs where PCA went four for five last night, you
46:55
know, missed the cycle, but just barreled everything up.
46:57
And it was, you know, two singles, a double, and a long home run.
47:02
And it's like, look.
47:03
You don't always have to just go out there and swing for the fences.
47:07
And I know it can probably be tempting when the wind is howling out at Wrigley Field.
47:12
Right?
47:12
That you're like, man, all I gotta do is put one in the air here, but it just it becomes a
47:17
different plate approach.
47:18
I would like to see them be a little bit more, let's just get on base, not necessarily having
47:23
to play small ball.
47:24
Right?
47:24
Like, you don't have to be bunting everybody around, but go hit some singles.
47:27
Go put one in a gap once a
47:29
on base.
47:30
But
47:30
but that's the thing that, though, is is that that all the whole mindset is you need strong
47:38
pitching to go up against these strong hitters.
47:40
And the strong hitters, all they wanna do is just smack it out as far as they can and, you
47:45
know, I mean, I like I've said before, and I think I've said this, I will take a roster of
47:51
25 guys from the eighties and nineties against any team nowadays.
47:55
Oh, absolutely, b.
47:57
Because if you take a roster from the eighties and nineties, maybe the newer team will hit
48:02
more you know, the modern team will hit more home runs.
48:04
But guess what?
48:06
The nineties team is gonna beat them, like, nine to three.
48:10
Nope.
48:12
Like,
48:12
if you were to play a seven game series.
48:15
What's that?
48:16
Phillies, after firing their manager and naming Mattingly the interim GM are now a game and a
48:23
half out of the wild card after being at the racing the Mets to the bottom of the NLEs.
48:29
And now, looking like they're gonna be fighting for a wildcard spot, for the next three months.
48:35
Like, that's a
48:35
crazy interview right there, Bubba, that I'd love to do as Don Mattingly.
48:39
That would be massive.
48:40
Right?
48:41
Love to.
48:42
You know, we have a little bit of a relationship with the baseball hall of fame
48:45
too.
48:45
I I know some people that work with the hall.
48:47
We're trying to figure out what the content looks like and everything.
48:50
So I'm gonna get a pitch together here in the next month to have to bring to them and, you
48:56
know, maybe we could get included into a, you know, into some
49:01
Let's see here.
49:02
Maybe a all star game action.
49:04
Right?
49:04
Where's the all star game this year?
49:05
Anybody know?
49:07
Texas.
49:08
Idea.
49:09
I'm a look in Texas?
49:11
Could be.
49:12
Man, Texas in July.
49:14
Is Atlanta? It
49:15
It They think it's in their stadium this year?
49:18
No.
49:18
It it was in Atlanta last year.
49:21
It's in
49:21
Cal Rally.
49:22
Yeah.
49:23
In Philly?
49:24
Yep.
49:24
Some of them.
49:25
I'm good.
49:25
So since Don Alley has taken over as interim manager, April 28, so a month into it, he's
49:32
twenty one and ten.
49:34
That's a pretty damn good record.
49:36
Yeah.
49:37
Yeah.
49:37
That's about right.
49:38
Yeah.
49:38
The a six sixty six win percentage, man.
49:41
Yep.
49:42
What was he doing before he became the interim manager?
49:47
Wasn't he liked on the bench?
49:48
Bad coach?
49:49
He was one of the coaches, defense hit or something.
49:53
Yeah.
49:55
Yeah, man.
49:56
I mean, that Ron Washington was the assistant for the braves for No?
49:59
Ten years after Texas and then went back and coached again here recently.
50:05
This is pretty wild for me.
50:06
And I know that they aren't the teams of the, you know, the odds that were just dominant with
50:12
the Giants, but that's a real wow for me, an under 400 win percentage for the San Francisco
50:18
Giants.
50:19
What pods and maybe you'll know.
50:22
I know you're out there on the coast.
50:24
You know, what has been the implosion of this Giants team?
50:28
I mean, did they just not you know, was it going for it so many years in a row and keeping
50:34
some of these long contracts that they had in place that has just kind of because they've not
50:41
been the same, you know, and, you know, since
50:44
You want my honest opinion?
50:45
Yeah.
50:46
I do.
50:47
Because it's kinda brutal.
50:49
Give it to me.
50:50
My so my father-in-law is actually a Giants fan.
50:53
You guys know I'm a Dodger fan, but I'm objectively looking at this.
50:58
When the Giants were at their best, because you guys remember I like the Royals too, is when
51:03
they were the scheme fit team.
51:06
They had the guys who did the right things at the right times.
51:10
They had a lot of people on their team that you didn't know about.
51:13
Like, the most note of you know, notable people that you knew about on the San Francisco Giants
51:18
during those World Series runs was, like, Pablo Sandoval, Madison Baumgartner, and Shane.
51:24
Bozzi.
51:26
You know?
51:26
And maybe Linzicum.
51:28
Sergio Romero.
51:29
Nobody Or
51:29
Linzicum.
51:30
But Tim, you know, with his hip.
51:33
The thing that I'm seeing right now with the Giants is they have really gone heavy after
51:39
getting some big names, and these big names don't really fit into their system.
51:44
And, you know, they've gotten away from their farm, and that's, like, used to be one of the
51:51
big reasons that they were really successful was how well they produce prospects out of
51:56
their farm.
51:57
Right now, they have the worst run differential in the entire major league.
52:02
Like, they are the worst offense in baseball by a very, very, I I think it's a slim margin
52:11
right now because there's another team
52:12
that's competing with Rockies are awful.
52:14
Minus 83 for the Rockies, but the Giants are right there at minus 48 run differential.
52:20
Yeah.
52:20
So we don't count the Rockies because they're not a real team, and we don't beat up on
52:24
poverty franchises.
52:25
So
52:27
Oh, why?
52:28
Everybody different than Clint since '91.
52:31
So Right.
52:32
But
52:33
the thing with the Giants is
52:35
just Look at now you got me looking at stats, brother.
52:37
Look at look at this differential here to the number one team.
52:42
Right?
52:42
Like, that's that's a wild stat.
52:45
Wait.
52:45
You talking about the Rays?
52:46
Well The Rays are done team.
52:48
The Rays The Yankees are almost a 100.
52:51
And then, yeah, the Yankees are almost a 100.
52:54
And and some of these teams are you know, these first place teams like, I think, you know, this
52:58
isn't a crazy number.
52:59
30 the one zero nine is crazy.
53:02
The one thirty of that.
53:03
Like, when they beat teams, they beat them into submission with your, you know, the Dodgers and
53:09
the and the Braves and the Yankees, obviously.
53:13
But that doesn't it's it's it's crazy to look at like this one because it's not necessarily
53:19
turning into first place in the division.
53:21
Now they're right there nipping at their heels.
53:23
Right?
53:24
Same amount of wins.
53:25
But it's it's kind of a just a wild stat to look at.
53:29
You know, in that case too, these some of these baseball teams are kinda like football teams.
53:33
They have heavy loaded offenses They do.
53:35
But they
53:35
struggle in the field.
53:36
Yep.
53:37
Like, great.
53:37
You put up four or five runs, but you gave up seven.
53:41
Yeah.
53:41
So, Shady, you you're the arm of our staff here.
53:47
You're you're you're you're you're set to face like the Dodgers lineup now.
53:52
I mean, what's going through your mind?
53:53
I mean, I I know you believe in your stuff, but, I mean, you're just like, man, I made one
53:58
mistake.
54:00
Any one of these guys could take the yard nine times out of 10.
54:03
I mean, what are you what are do for your mind?
54:06
Yeah.
54:06
Okay.
54:07
So they give you the scouting report usually on the bus.
54:11
So you get your scouting report.
54:14
I will you know, you'll have a detailed thing of if they're a pull hitter, spray hitter, this
54:20
and that, what their tendency's been.
54:21
These are the last 25 at bats.
54:23
These are last the 50 at bats.
54:25
You're a righty.
54:26
This is his last 50 against a righty.
54:28
Blah blah blah blah blah.
54:31
I was I don't know.
54:32
There's no good answer.
54:34
I would I would weigh on the side of being Trevor Bauer, Trevor Scubaugh, who's some other
54:39
people who just don't listen.
54:40
Like, I've seen that guy.
54:42
Just go I'd look, coach.
54:44
You got five innings.
54:45
I'm not coming off the gas.
54:46
Okay?
54:47
Like, everyone else is gonna be right here.
54:49
It's gonna be is it gonna hit me?
54:51
It's like either my stuff is working or it's not.
54:54
That's kinda how you have
54:55
to approach those juggernaut teams is, like, if my stuff's going, then it's going.
55:01
But if I get peppered, I get peppered.
55:04
Let me fix you on that one.
55:05
If they can kill me with a line, like, a line drive that comes back, it becomes a
55:11
misdemeanor.
55:11
Either you're getting hit or it's a strike.
55:13
Either you swing and your finger goes or it's a strike.
55:16
I don't care.
55:17
That's the only two options.
55:18
If I can't hit the spot, it's over.
55:20
Because, I mean, seriously, it does.
55:21
It becomes like, you're gonna you're gonna let the change up hang out against Shohei on 82?
55:28
He's killing that.
55:30
Don't do it, buddy.
55:31
Is it as easy as just to go out and to just attack the strike zone and to throw strikes and
55:38
then not walk guys.
55:39
Like, the these guys are gonna get theirs and mistakes happen.
55:42
You're gonna leave a pitch in the zone.
55:44
Right?
55:44
You're gonna have those mistakes, but making those mistakes not cost you a a three run home
55:50
run can make a massive difference that you're maintaining them to to solo shots.
55:54
Because I think, you know, we have Shota Imenaga on the Cubs, and and he's kind of
55:59
famous at this point.
56:00
Early home runs are, like, the bane of his existence.
56:03
Right?
56:04
But it's usually a solo shot early in the game, and then he locks it in for the next five
56:10
innings.
56:11
And it's like, you're you're gonna get tagged at some point.
56:14
Is it just a matter of, like, limiting the damage that you do and then just go and pepper
56:19
the strike zone as much as you can and and keep the ball low and not giving up something in in,
56:25
you know, upper in the strike zone that has that chance of getting lifted out of the
56:29
ballpark.
56:30
Yeah.
56:30
That's Yamamoto for us.
56:32
He'll give up, like, a solo shot in the early stages of the game, and then it's just Lockdown
56:37
City after that.
56:38
Yeah.
56:38
100%.
56:40
That's that's where the surgical mindset takes place.
56:43
Like, if you can do that because by the third inning, they're gonna have their second chance
56:47
to come around.
56:47
If they have a second chance to see you and you're messing up and then your mistakes start
56:52
happening, it's gonna unravel.
56:53
If you let a mistake happen early and then you got your scouting report back here and start
56:58
playing a little mind game, you're a puppet master, bro.
57:00
Like, I don't like those guys.
57:01
You know?
57:02
Shut the yeah.
57:03
Yamamoto, Scooby.
57:07
Shohei.
57:09
Shohei.
57:11
Yeah.
57:11
Wait.
57:12
I mean
57:12
about him as bitch or enough.
57:15
Shohei still has a sub one VRA going into the third I'm sorry.
57:24
Going into the third month of play.
57:26
Like, that is insane.
57:28
Oh, hell show.
57:29
I I I think he is a point eight two right now.
57:32
Oh, hell show.
57:34
Hey.
57:34
Hey.
57:34
I I I'm just I mean, he's still not on the leaderboard because he hasn't qualified yet,
57:39
but I'm telling you right now, man, if Joe Hayward stays healthy for his whole career, I
57:47
don't think I've ever seen a baseball player do this stuff.
57:51
Are you saying in innings pitch wise, he hasn't qualified?
57:54
Yeah.
57:54
He hasn't qualified yet.
57:55
No.
57:55
He's not even on the
57:58
He's he's
57:59
close.
57:59
How many starts has he had?
58:01
Oh, I'm looking.
58:02
They don't tax him.
58:03
It's go out, give us three good innings, and and we're happy with that.
58:07
We usually try to keep him, like, at five, six at most if he's really dealing.
58:13
Speak about him like he's a horse.
58:17
I mean,
58:18
as far as I'm concerned
58:19
on the wait days.
58:21
As far
58:21
as I'm concerned, he is he's Farrow, and he's bringing us some Kentucky Derby, alright, in
58:27
the form of Oh, yeah.
58:29
There's no doubt that the Braves are gonna go as far as Ohatani takes them.
58:35
I mean
58:35
You mean the Dodgers?
58:36
Dodgers.
58:36
Yeah.
58:37
Dodgers.
58:37
I'm sorry.
58:37
Yeah.
58:38
It's all good.
58:39
Let's see.
58:40
So he's got nine starts, nine or eight quality starts jacket.
58:49
Point eight two Yes.
58:51
DRA, a five two record.
58:55
And innings wise, he's at 55 innings.
58:58
So Oh.
59:01
So let me see.
59:02
Where who's the top here in innings?
59:04
He's starting at the of day.
59:05
Too far off.
59:07
I mean
59:08
I think he takes
59:08
What are is he not a part of the regular rotation and then just comes in and starts,
59:13
like start him right away.
59:15
I don't think.
59:16
Pods, you could question me out.
59:17
Or They do.
59:18
They start him right away.
59:19
But, again because they start when we yeah.
59:22
He always starts.
59:23
Like, he's either first or second.
59:26
It's either him than y'all Mamoto.
59:27
Where they're like, look.
59:29
We have other horses in the stable that we could lean on, but
59:32
we You got Robleski who's having a season.
59:35
Right.
59:36
You've got Yamamoto who's having another season.
59:40
Glasnow when he's healthy, but, you've got Klein who's been really good for us.
59:44
Yes.
59:45
Where are
59:45
y'all hiding Glasnow?
59:47
Speak.
59:48
Where are y'all hiding Glasnow?
59:50
We're putting him back together with splints and paper mache and tape.
59:54
This is what I'm talking That's what happens when you move
59:57
Yeah.
59:57
So he, I mean, you know, Yonamoto has 69 in his and Ohatani has 55.
1:00:03
So he can't be too far off of getting in because
1:00:08
But I will say this, though.
1:00:09
We talk about horses.
1:00:11
Roki Sasaki in his last three games has been incredible.
1:00:16
Yeah.
1:00:17
Yeah.
1:00:17
Roki are these looking like what we
1:00:19
by the end of the decade?
1:00:22
Probably won't the World Series.
1:00:23
Are are
1:00:24
the Dodgers gonna be all Asian by the end of the decade?
1:00:27
They might be the all star Japan team by the end of the decade.
1:00:30
Don't be surprised if in, like, the next four seasons, we get Murakami or someone at third
1:00:35
base to replace Muncy.
1:00:38
So Yeah.
1:00:39
They got I'm looking at the staff right now, and, I mean, some guys have only pitched.
1:00:47
So who's pitched the most here?
1:00:49
Maybe.
1:00:51
Well, Olaf Connie has the the low CRA point eight two, and then hurt at point one as a
1:00:57
reliever.
1:00:59
Look at Tanner Scott's numbers.
1:01:00
I know he just blew a save, but he's been incredible this
1:01:03
year.
1:01:03
He's got 2.9 or 2.19.
1:01:07
So, I mean, everybody that's pitched decently is other than, you know, three ERA.
1:01:15
They got, like, a handful of guys that What's that?
1:01:20
What what?
1:01:20
Shady, what was your career ERA?
1:01:23
I was I don't know.
1:01:24
That's a good question.
1:01:27
STPL, that would probably end it pretty badly.
1:01:30
I don't know.
1:01:31
That's probably
1:01:31
about a six.
1:01:33
That that was probably about a six on that one.
1:01:35
I don't know.
1:01:36
Other than that, though, respectable.
1:01:39
Now I'm sitting here looking at the run differential.
1:01:42
A 121.
1:01:43
Ahead.
1:01:43
Go ahead.
1:01:43
Yeah.
1:01:44
How you gonna of course, all their e a or ERAs are good.
1:01:47
They come
1:01:47
in with a seven run lead.
1:01:49
Everybody Yeah.
1:01:49
No kidding.
1:01:50
Yeah, man.
1:01:51
Well, and that and that's gonna take some some, you know, comfort or get some of the comfort
1:01:57
zone because, yeah, they come in with a lead or they know they're gonna get a lead, so they
1:02:02
don't have to stress out about that.
1:02:03
I mean, you know.
1:02:06
Shady, we mentioned the Little League World Series earlier, and I don't know a lot of our
1:02:10
listeners probably don't know, but you played in that, you know, in that tournament.
1:02:15
And in that game did not know that.
1:02:16
Did you
1:02:16
pitch for your team in the tournament?
1:02:20
Yeah.
1:02:20
Yeah.
1:02:20
Along the way actually, okay.
1:02:22
Fun fact about us.
1:02:23
We're one of the only teams that, like, played together from t ball all the way through high
1:02:29
school.
1:02:29
Like, we played together all the way.
1:02:31
Most of
1:02:31
these teams that a little bit, Shady, because I don't think a lot of people understand that.
1:02:35
Most of these teams that make it to the Little League World Series and in that, they are all
1:02:40
star teams.
1:02:40
Right?
1:02:41
They are a city that said, hey.
1:02:42
We are putting together a team from all the different Little League team that are going to
1:02:47
play the best of the best than to go out and to make it into the little league world series
1:02:52
pool of play.
1:02:53
Yeah.
1:02:53
The numbers we heard was, like, usually, the the groups in Texas and California, Florida
1:02:58
will pull from about 20,000, 30,000 kids.
1:03:02
And then they'll
1:03:03
build It's bigger than that now.
1:03:05
So yeah.
1:03:05
And I'm talking 2,004.
1:03:07
So the Internet was still cool, man.
1:03:08
Kelly Clarkson had just won.
1:03:09
We were on we were on good times.
1:03:11
But, anyways, yeah, it it's coming in the
1:03:15
you bang on.
1:03:16
Oh, sorry.
1:03:16
It was such a killer, man.
1:03:18
It was such a banging time, bro.
1:03:20
But we were actually picked from only 50 kids, and we'd all played together the entire time.
1:03:26
And the only reason we picked the kids we picked is because everybody else was going on
1:03:29
vacation.
1:03:29
They didn't cut.
1:03:30
One of them didn't even play.
1:03:32
He went to South Carolina with his grandfather.
1:03:34
Oh, was Cody on the team?
1:03:35
No.
1:03:36
Cody wasn't.
1:03:38
Yeah.
1:03:38
They all went on vacation, so nobody was there.
1:03:40
But, yeah, it was that's coming up.
1:03:42
It'll be August 20 to the twenty eighth, and, that's just a hell of an experience.
1:03:48
Everything is free, guys.
1:03:49
So if you're looking for something to do in the summer, it don't cost any money.
1:03:52
Little League Baseball, nonprofit.
1:03:53
Oh, you you bet.
1:03:55
I am all looking it up as soon as we're off tonight and seeing if we can get media
1:03:59
credentials to come out there
1:04:00
and help out.
1:04:01
Jan, we love you.
1:04:03
Just if you see this anytime soon, vice president, thank you very much for everything I
1:04:08
wanted to see again.
1:04:09
Been a long time.
1:04:10
Well, I think that's a cool angle.
1:04:11
Right?
1:04:12
And we talked about a little bit of a relationship we have with the hall of fame and
1:04:15
stuff too that a lot of those guys are gonna be around during that weekend.
1:04:18
So maybe this is our angle.
1:04:19
We have a player who played in it.
1:04:21
I actually have one of my wife's cousins.
1:04:22
A lot of them played in it too.
1:04:24
Yeah.
1:04:24
They won't ever say it.
1:04:25
My wife's little cousin played in it last year.
1:04:28
He's an
1:04:28
representative with the the Midwest team, man.
1:04:31
Good for you, buddy.
1:04:32
T's.
1:04:32
So so, Chaney, I gotta since you did play in the in the World Series and
1:04:38
Yeah.
1:04:38
You know, now you see the little kids have their little, you know, introductions to
1:04:43
themselves.
1:04:43
Wait.
1:04:44
Wait.
1:04:44
Hold on.
1:04:44
Before you ask a question, I lived with jerks and Profar.
1:04:47
Old buddy can't can't pass his PEDs right now for the breaks.
1:04:51
He me and him, he lived in the next room all month.
1:04:56
Great guy.
1:04:56
So so what would have your, like, little model been when, you know, we got the kid that says,
1:05:03
I'm so and so, and I love Hitting Diggers.
1:05:05
So what would have yours been?
1:05:07
Oh, straight
1:05:08
again.
1:05:09
I make a move.
1:05:10
Yeah.
1:05:10
My name's
1:05:11
Ryan my name's Ryan Grady.
1:05:13
My nickname is they call me Charlie Murphy.
1:05:15
Spell show is real popular.
1:05:17
And then I'm
1:05:17
Charlie Murphy.
1:05:19
I'm dead serious.
1:05:20
So they had they cut that one after the first game.
1:05:23
So we go, my name is Ryan Grady.
1:05:25
My favorite player is Andrew Jones.
1:05:29
And I guess I don't know.
1:05:30
It's a hobby or something.
1:05:31
Oh, my favorite food is pizza.
1:05:32
I think that
1:05:32
was what it was.
1:05:33
I think that was what it was.
1:05:35
I'll see
1:05:36
if I can get that for us.
1:05:37
I'll see if I can I I I'll see if I can get that
1:05:39
for us?
1:05:39
Oh, No.
1:05:40
It's gonna be on YouTube somewhere.
1:05:41
Charlie Murphy.
1:05:43
It's pretty hard, man.
1:05:44
Yeah.
1:05:45
Yeah.
1:05:45
Yeah.
1:05:46
Yeah.
1:05:46
We got the questionnaire.
1:05:47
Yeah.
1:05:48
Nice.
1:05:49
Which Charlie Murphy, who's your man?
1:05:50
Rick Young.
1:05:51
Talk about playing talk about pitching in one of these games, man.
1:05:55
The the stadium is packed, right, for all the games.
1:05:58
They're absolutely No.
1:05:59
To capacity.
1:06:00
Now it's a lot bigger now, I than think, even it was back then.
1:06:03
It was a big deal
1:06:04
back bigger every year.
1:06:05
Right.
1:06:05
It it it gets a lot of media attention now.
1:06:08
Talk about pitching in that game as a, you know, 12 year old.
1:06:12
Right?
1:06:13
From a small town, in North Carolina.
1:06:16
Right?
1:06:16
You're in a mountain town.
1:06:17
And talk about, you know, stepping out there onto the field in front of I mean, I'm assuming
1:06:22
the stadium holds as many people as are live in your small town.
1:06:26
So everyone that you know is in one building essentially and watching and cheering you on.
1:06:32
Who did you guys who'd you pitch against?
1:06:33
Do you remember?
1:06:35
So I didn't pitch at the World Series.
1:06:37
I pitched before we got there, but I pitched against, like I think it was Virginia or
1:06:42
something like that.
1:06:43
And then we did our consolation game, and we all got to pitch against Japan.
1:06:47
So I got I got to pitch, like, an out against Japan, which was cool.
1:06:50
I yeah.
1:06:51
We won that game, by the way, too.
1:06:52
Even though it was a consolation game, we won that.
1:06:53
But, like, playing out there so, like, yeah, of course, we all talked about it.
1:06:57
So, like, state started talking a little bigger than papers and stuff, and media started
1:07:02
showing up, and that's where I would have met somebody like us.
1:07:04
This is, you know, like, the beginning of media.
1:07:06
We were so freaking out at this.
1:07:08
We're like, people are talking about us.
1:07:10
We started, you know, changing the way we acted.
1:07:13
We stopped listening to rap music as much because it's cussing too much.
1:07:16
We thought the cameras were always on us and stuff.
1:07:19
It was cool.
1:07:20
Then the regional happened, then ESPN happened, and then the World Series happened.
1:07:25
And by the time we got to the World Series, it it I'll I'll say this, and I don't know how
1:07:30
many people would go on record to say this.
1:07:33
It wasn't a bad thing.
1:07:34
It was it was an amazing thing, but it changed everything for people who had never seen
1:07:39
anything like that, especially people from a small town who really had never seen a radio
1:07:44
station, much less a TV station.
1:07:46
And here we are looking at the ESPN bus, and we're getting interviewed by Harold Reynolds
1:07:50
and stuff like that.
1:07:52
It was a different thing when we were about to go out onto the field to take infield, and the
1:07:56
lady with the headset said, hold up.
1:07:58
Wait.
1:07:58
Wait.
1:07:58
Stop.
1:08:00
We're in commercial thirty second commercial break.
1:08:02
Hold on.
1:08:03
It's like, what?
1:08:04
Oh, she's doing that.
1:08:05
And I'm, like, standing on the stairs, like, looking around, like, okay.
1:08:11
Thirty seconds.
1:08:12
So No.
1:08:12
You were just kidding.
1:08:14
2004.
1:08:15
Southeast team.
1:08:16
I gotta ask, though, Shady.
1:08:18
Like, all those you say from yeah.
1:08:21
Because I get it.
1:08:22
I come from a small town too.
1:08:24
And I remember and I wasn't even playing anything.
1:08:27
I was watching a Michigan State game with my grandfather, the first college game I got to go
1:08:31
to that was public, like, that was being televised, and the Fox crew was there.
1:08:36
And we got to be pretty much right next to the camera, and that was kinda surreal.
1:08:39
So Yeah.
1:08:40
How did you feel going up there to pitch?
1:08:42
Were you getting, like, clammy hands or anything?
1:08:45
Or
1:08:45
No.
1:08:46
I mean, you gotta no.
1:08:47
You gotta tone that out.
1:08:48
You gotta be the oh, what's this?
1:08:50
Yeah.
1:08:50
It's me.
1:08:51
Yeah.
1:08:51
Ryan Grady.
1:08:54
There he is.
1:08:55
That's true story.
1:08:57
Yeah.
1:08:57
That Biscuit Martin?
1:08:59
Yeah.
1:09:00
Biscuit.
1:09:01
Me and Biscuit still play golf to this day.
1:09:04
No.
1:09:05
So the two okay.
1:09:06
I'm gonna answer Bubba's question first.
1:09:09
13,000 people in the hometown.
1:09:10
Stadium's 20,000 people.
1:09:14
Dick Cheney was at our game because he was playing Texas.
1:09:17
I love those gloves.
1:09:18
See, that's what I'm talking about.
1:09:19
Right?
1:09:19
You take those gloves.
1:09:20
Those are great They
1:09:21
were sitting there the whole game.
1:09:23
They were sitting there.
1:09:24
I almost can I Danielle, sit down and talk to the guys?
1:09:27
Come on.
1:09:28
There's nobody watching.
1:09:29
There's literally
1:09:29
Come on, girl, girl.
1:09:31
I'll recap the story for you.
1:09:34
Those were his that he wore.
1:09:36
Well,
1:09:36
the guy's got questions for you.
1:09:37
You're the one who got all the autographs and got to hang out with these guys.
1:09:41
Yeah.
1:09:41
For the buyers.
1:09:42
Alright, guys.
1:09:42
He wore those.
1:09:43
Any questions for the the lady of the hour?
1:09:46
I mean, she had a way better time than I did.
1:09:48
She got to be with everybody and to hang out.
1:09:50
So any questions?
1:09:51
We'll start with be with you because I know you were there, but we didn't get to, like,
1:09:55
interact a lot.
1:09:56
Like, we were working the whole
1:09:58
and then we're out
1:09:58
of there.
1:09:59
So
1:10:00
No.
1:10:00
I mean, you know, I I I guess I don't know.
1:10:04
I mean, me and Danielle talked a little bit, you know you know, I I don't know what her
1:10:08
expectations were, but, yeah, she looked like she was I mean, what was the experience like
1:10:12
for you being down, you know, two feet away from Adam Thielen and all those guys, CJ Hamm.
1:10:18
I mean, you know.
1:10:20
My first thing was like, Bubba, can we be down here?
1:10:24
Like so I was very awkward for a long time.
1:10:30
Okay.
1:10:32
That's why I didn't go out on the field.
1:10:34
Like, I didn't wanna push it at all.
1:10:37
And without someone like, she has to be told that you're good to be there.
1:10:41
Right?
1:10:41
And I'm like, as long as nobody says
1:10:43
My wife's the same way.
1:10:44
We're here.
1:10:45
Right?
1:10:46
Yeah.
1:10:48
Yeah.
1:10:48
My wife will be like like, if we go to a game or something, we see, like, seats that have
1:10:52
been empty all night long.
1:10:53
It's like, hey.
1:10:53
Let's move on.
1:10:54
It's like, no.
1:10:54
No.
1:10:54
Those aren't our seats.
1:10:55
Those aren't our seats.
1:10:56
It's just like, whatever.
1:11:00
Yeah.
1:11:00
Cool.
1:11:01
We're gonna leave you two in the seats together from now on, love.
1:11:05
Me and B are going down to the front row where they're not occupied.
1:11:08
I don't think I've ever sat in my real seats at a game in my life.
1:11:15
Never.
1:11:19
I can't tell you how many baseball games, man, that I've just snuck to the front row.
1:11:24
The last time I was in Wrigley, I had bleacher seats, and then I was walking around the
1:11:28
concourse and my buddy had bought in seats right along the third baseline.
1:11:31
Front row, third baseline.
1:11:33
And I was so before the game started, it's pretty loose and stuff, and somebody had walked
1:11:38
away, one of the ushers.
1:11:39
So I went down and I'm kicking with him, give him a hug and everything.
1:11:41
And I was like, oh, I think I'll just stay here.
1:11:44
You know?
1:11:44
And then as the game went on, nobody ever came to claim the seats.
1:11:47
So I sat on the third baseline with a, you know, $15 bleacher seats.
1:11:51
Your seats.
1:11:52
There you go.
1:11:55
They're my seats.
1:11:55
I ended up getting
1:11:56
a ball off the field that game too.
1:11:58
Right?
1:11:58
Like, I sat.
1:11:59
I let the guy the the ball boy, you know, got the kids all hooked up.
1:12:03
And then towards the end of the game, was like, look, man.
1:12:04
I got kids at home too, brother.
1:12:06
Like, come on.
1:12:07
Help me out.
1:12:09
Yep.
1:12:10
Eventually threw one over.
1:12:12
Thank you.
1:12:12
Yeah.
1:12:13
Cool.
1:12:13
Appreciate that.
1:12:14
Had some Wrigley Field grass on it, man.
1:12:16
I made sure it stayed on there.
1:12:17
I made it back home and put it up on the mantle.
1:12:20
Yeah.
1:12:21
Dude.
1:12:22
Alright.
1:12:23
Any questions for Danielle while she's chilling?
1:12:25
This is a rarity.
1:12:27
Hey.
1:12:27
This is him.
1:12:28
Yeah.
1:12:29
Danielle, I I gotta ask.
1:12:31
Like, you know, Bee kind of touched, you know, Bee kinda touched on it and how it was being
1:12:36
around those people, and you're like, oh, man.
1:12:38
Am I allowed to be here?
1:12:40
But, like, when you got to go into the silent auction and do all these other activities and
1:12:44
get all this merch and stuff, like, how was that?
1:12:47
How did the silent auction go, and what was your experience just getting to do all the
1:12:51
other stuff around the event?
1:12:53
Well, silent auction, did without Bubba knowing.
1:12:57
It was just on
1:12:58
the phone.
1:12:59
They had an app.
1:13:00
Oh.
1:13:02
But then I'm, like, going to promote it, and she's like I got this Steelen jersey at two
1:13:08
sixty five right now, man.
1:13:10
Like, shut up.
1:13:14
Smart.
1:13:15
Jersey too.
1:13:17
Yeah.
1:13:18
I don't know.
1:13:21
I just get drunk around with Bubba, so it's I'm usually just a shadow.
1:13:25
Yeah.
1:13:26
Well, and free beer is up in the press booth too.
1:13:29
So I think she was more excited about that than anything.
1:13:31
She went to order a beer, and they're like, you're good.
1:13:34
She's like, what's the difference between draft and bottle?
1:13:36
And they're like, there isn't.
1:13:38
Yeah.
1:13:39
It doesn't matter.
1:13:39
Was the beer good?
1:13:42
It was Bush Light.
1:13:44
So, I mean, you take that as it.
1:13:47
Liquid.
1:13:47
I got you.
1:13:49
It was cold.
1:13:50
It was cold
1:13:51
when they had tomatoes.
1:13:51
At least it was cold.
1:13:54
Did did you have a Bloody Mary too?
1:13:57
What?
1:13:58
Did you have a Bloody Mary?
1:14:01
Used to I drink the Bloody Mary mix for my
1:14:04
Okay.
1:14:04
Okay.
1:14:05
I I thought I saw a Bloody Mary mix.
1:14:07
Okay.
1:14:07
The events have sophisticated drinks.
1:14:12
Shady, anything from you?
1:14:14
She got the gloves.
1:14:16
They were sitting there after the home run derby.
1:14:17
Nobody wore them.
1:14:18
So they were sitting there, like, right in front of where we were that whole time.
1:14:21
So I'm eyeing them the whole game, and I, like, almost at one point, almost snagged them.
1:14:24
Right?
1:14:25
But I was like, I'm gonna leave them.
1:14:26
I don't you know what I mean?
1:14:27
I don't wanna cause any friction.
1:14:28
And then at the end of the game, nobody ever grabbed them, and Adam Thielen standing next to
1:14:31
me.
1:14:31
I'm like, Adam, like, hey.
1:14:32
Were these yours?
1:14:33
And he's like, no, man.
1:14:34
I don't know whose they are.
1:14:35
They're yours now.
1:14:36
I'm like just like Cool.
1:14:37
Yeah.
1:14:37
It it it doesn't cause friction.
1:14:39
I mean, a lot of times, I mean, you know, you don't wanna steal somebody.
1:14:42
Well, although man, I wanted one of the gloves, one of the softball gloves or something.
1:14:45
I thought about snagging some of those up because nobody they were, like, tossing them
1:14:48
around to each other.
1:14:49
Like, guys were using them on the offense and then throwing them over the defensive side and
1:14:52
stuff.
1:14:53
So, like, they were all brand new to start the game.
1:14:55
Right?
1:14:56
Nobody scares.
1:14:57
All these guys are free shit all the time, man.
1:14:59
Yeah.
1:15:00
Alright, Danielle.
1:15:01
So while you were walking around the the complex, since you got to go places nobody was,
1:15:08
where where was one room that you peeked in and you were like, I saw some cool stuff.
1:15:12
Didn't get to go back, but I saw some cool stuff.
1:15:16
I don't know if that was really She's Yeah.
1:15:20
See, that thing that one of them display when we came up the elevator.
1:15:23
They had, a little trophy and and some a cool little display there.
1:15:28
I tell
1:15:29
you my favorite was up in the press box.
1:15:31
They have the organ player that's right there.
1:15:34
Was cool.
1:15:34
I made sure I got a few pictures and met him as a musician as well.
1:15:38
Right?
1:15:38
Mhmm.
1:15:39
We're all like, man, this is one of the coolest jobs you can get.
1:15:41
He's been doing it for
1:15:42
a how many still have the organ?
1:15:44
See, above it It's
1:15:45
gotta be rare.
1:15:46
You could I got it.
1:15:47
Wasn't it wasn't it organ or was it like a big old keyboard type thing?
1:15:51
It was just keyboards.
1:15:52
It was a nice, like, Rhodes keyboard.
1:15:54
Yeah.
1:15:54
They're nice.
1:15:55
They didn't have the full pipe organ.
1:15:56
Like, hey.
1:15:57
I was late.
1:15:58
But it's still cool, man.
1:15:59
It's still cool,
1:16:00
same guy.
1:16:00
Shout out to Andrew.
1:16:02
Been doing it for twenty six years at the Saint Paul State Stadium.
1:16:05
And, yeah, mean, me, I just go.
1:16:07
When when I take her anywhere like that.
1:16:09
She's like, can we be in here?
1:16:10
I was like, you look suspicious, and you're making me look suspicious.
1:16:13
Like, I'll just go do this shit on my own, and then I'll bring you in later.
1:16:17
Right?
1:16:17
So, yeah, our our media pass has got us in everywhere.
1:16:20
I mean, they weren't all access.
1:16:22
We could've there was little kids that walked in right to the dugout.
1:16:25
Like, these kids, they're just fine, and then they're eventually like, this, I'm walking in.
1:16:30
Nobody stopped them.
1:16:30
They walked right into the dugout.
1:16:31
I was like, we could Yeah.
1:16:33
They're they're they're they I I saw them coming off.
1:16:35
Yeah.
1:16:35
And then
1:16:36
They're hanging out come out.
1:16:37
Straight dry snitched on them, man.
1:16:38
Was like, hey.
1:16:39
Are those kids supposed to be in there?
1:16:41
No.
1:16:41
I'm not.
1:16:42
Yeah.
1:16:42
I thought I saw them walking out, hanging out like where Bubba and Danielle were, then also I
1:16:46
saw a couple of dart in there.
1:16:48
Hey.
1:16:48
Props to them.
1:16:49
I mean, you know, to take that chance.
1:16:52
Right.
1:16:52
I told them to go.
1:16:53
I was like, hey.
1:16:54
Just
1:16:54
Yeah.
1:16:55
Oh, yeah.
1:16:55
Tell them to go.
1:16:56
Take take what you can get, man.
1:16:58
If you
1:16:58
can go get Jefferson's freaking autograph in the dugout, bro, like, go do it, man.
1:17:02
You're never they're never gonna forget that moment.
1:17:04
Right?
1:17:04
No.
1:17:05
And they may never get an opportunity to do something like that again.
1:17:07
And who like, what what are they gonna hurt?
1:17:09
Right?
1:17:10
Like, what are they gonna go in there and and something bad's gonna happen?
1:17:12
Right?
1:17:13
To those kids, that's, like, the equivalent of us getting Randy.
1:17:16
See, I don't I don't need to go get Jefferson's audio.
1:17:18
I got it right there.
1:17:19
There you go.
1:17:20
And I just
1:17:20
don't care about any of that stuff, man.
1:17:22
My freaking my garage is a mess.
1:17:24
Right?
1:17:24
Like, it's just gonna get lost.
1:17:26
I don't have display cases for any of this stuff, and I don't have money to go buy them
1:17:29
either.
1:17:30
Danielle's like, oh, look.
1:17:31
They have these LED ones on Amazon.
1:17:33
You know?
1:17:33
I'm a
1:17:33
T Go to T Mobile.
1:17:35
Yeah.
1:17:36
No.
1:17:37
Because you never want what you're gonna get.
1:17:38
You're gonna get it for think it's for a full size jersey, then you get one that's for a big
1:17:41
Well, yeah.
1:17:41
I yeah.
1:17:42
I there there's some things I've got.
1:17:44
I'm just like, really?
1:17:45
But, like, cases and stuff, I've I've been pleased with the few things I've or I should
1:17:50
say a few things.
1:17:50
But Surprisingly, TIMU does good putters.
1:17:53
Really?
1:17:54
Here we go.
1:17:55
They don't look like a lab clones.
1:17:57
Yeah?
1:17:57
Good.
1:17:58
You see
1:17:58
that?
1:17:58
Mine
1:17:59
mine wasn't working when we were out on the course.
1:18:01
So but I'll save some of those shots for for Saturday.
1:18:05
Sweet.
1:18:05
Yeah.
1:18:05
I know this is the baseball show, but I just found out today that my team member golf
1:18:10
tournament at the casino is gonna be August I gotta remember the date now.
1:18:15
August 13.
1:18:16
So I'm gonna get some footage on a very nice golf course for you guys.
1:18:20
There you go.
1:18:22
And I
1:18:22
will be wearing my skunk hat at least.
1:18:25
You got it.
1:18:26
No.
1:18:26
I'm I'm gonna need to reach out for a couple more for my teammates, but we'll see.
1:18:32
What's nice about our golf content because we're not trying to be, you know, Grant Horvath
1:18:37
or Bryson DeStambeau, that all we're trying to do is get clips of us shanking it as bad as
1:18:42
possible in, like, one good shot.
1:18:43
You get one good shot a week and four bloopers.
1:18:46
That's what we need out of the content.
1:18:47
The that's achievable for where my handicap is at.
1:18:52
I got a long form video that I'm gonna be putting up and you watch the first hole.
1:18:57
Gotta get two now?
1:18:58
Fail.
1:18:59
Gotta get two now?
1:19:01
Two.
1:19:02
Crap.
1:19:03
I two.
1:19:04
I missed
1:19:04
the birdie.
1:19:05
I had a birdie putt lip out.
1:19:06
Right?
1:19:07
I had one beautiful drive, approach made it up there, like, a six, seven footer.
1:19:12
It had a nice line on it and literally just lipped out.
1:19:15
It's just like, come on.
1:19:16
That I'll be clipping that one and putting it out there.
1:19:18
Tap in for par, though.
1:19:19
I'll take it, man.
1:19:20
For I mean, that's You're
1:19:21
not satisfied with it, though?
1:19:24
I don't golf enough to be good.
1:19:26
Right?
1:19:26
I'm not out there playing, you know, 72 holes in a week like Pods is.
1:19:30
Right?
1:19:31
We're starting to expect more from Pods because he has the opportunity to go out.
1:19:36
So when you only get to go out on the course a few times a year, you can't have the
1:19:40
expectation of, like, I'm gonna be good.
1:19:42
I've never had a lesson.
1:19:43
I've never spent any time.
1:19:44
Like, we don't have a range in our local course that I can go hit balls on and perfect
1:19:48
anything.
1:19:49
So but I don't mind putting a camera on myself and looking like an idiot.
1:19:52
And
1:19:53
I will say this, though, Bubba.
1:19:55
You're you got a decent swing, man.
1:19:59
Nice swing.
1:20:00
You're
1:20:00
great.
1:20:01
Like, not Little League World Series baseball that I got to play.
1:20:05
Yeah.
1:20:05
But I'm I'm flattered that you guys would expect more from me, but don't expect a whole
1:20:11
lot from me until after June 23 because I don't get to get physical therapy on my shoulder till
1:20:16
then.
1:20:17
So some of the shots that you see are gonna be especially bad.
1:20:20
Don't hurt you.
1:20:21
Don't you worry.
1:20:22
Not worth it.
1:20:24
Worse, the better.
1:20:25
Like, I got a I got this one shot.
1:20:28
What is that?
1:20:30
Long form video that I'm gonna have to kill.
1:20:32
I don't know what this is, do you?
1:20:34
What is it?
1:20:34
Is
1:20:35
Y'all don't know what this is.
1:20:37
Oh, Sun Drop's not at all.
1:20:39
Sun Drop's delicious.
1:20:40
I've been at one of those in years.
1:20:42
I forgot we got weird stuff down here in the South, everybody.
1:20:45
Sorry.
1:20:45
Anybody on the West watching right now, don't worry.
1:20:47
This is gasoline.
1:20:48
It's 87%.
1:20:51
Hold on.
1:20:51
I gotta ask Shady this real quick.
1:20:53
Shady.
1:20:54
What's up?
1:20:54
You guys
1:20:55
are down south.
1:20:55
Do you guys you got you have a Kroger.
1:20:57
Right?
1:20:58
Yeah.
1:20:58
So
1:21:00
do you guys have, like just in the six packs in the, in, like, the alcohol section, do you have
1:21:05
just, the six pack Smirnoff screwdrivers?
1:21:08
Yeah.
1:21:09
Oh,
1:21:09
yeah.
1:21:09
Those are awesome.
1:21:11
You go down south, get
1:21:12
yourself a I
1:21:14
love them.
1:21:14
Stuff.
1:21:15
Okay.
1:21:16
Shady, in North Carolina, do you have the piggly wiggly?
1:21:20
Although oh, yeah.
1:21:21
It'll be it's currently getting robbed with a guy by with a two by four right now.
1:21:25
Jesus Christ.
1:21:26
That was my favorite part of going to Tennessee as a kid from the Chicago area.
1:21:30
We get to Tennessee and the piggly wiggly and Mount Eagle.
1:21:34
Big old pig.
1:21:35
They got a in Florida, I they've got a I think they have it in other places too.
1:21:40
They got Buc ee's.
1:21:41
That's a big one too.
1:21:42
Yeah.
1:21:42
Buc ee's are in Texas.
1:21:43
Yeah.
1:21:43
It's a Texas thing that's spread out now.
1:21:45
I left my cup in I left my Buc ee's cup in Saint Paul at Paul's house.
1:21:50
That's that's the big, like, convenience store restaurant.
1:21:54
Right?
1:21:54
Yeah.
1:21:55
That make me My wife and son are actually traveling the Father's Day weekend down with
1:22:02
her mom.
1:22:03
They're going on their weekly vacation from Father's Day, my present to their present to
1:22:08
me.
1:22:10
And they they talk about Blue to Buckeye.
1:22:11
Danielle for her birthday.
1:22:13
Yeah.
1:22:14
That and so they they talk about Buckeye's and how big this is, and it has everything in
1:22:20
there.
1:22:20
So, yeah, they know what Buckeye's is.
1:22:22
I'd be like, he's up.
1:22:24
He's so sad.
1:22:25
Got some tears over that cup.
1:22:27
I'll get it back.
1:22:27
I'll see Paul in a couple of months.
1:22:29
I'm back up in Minnesota for the three m open.
1:22:32
Word.
1:22:33
Love him, guys.
1:22:35
I you know what?
1:22:36
I'm getting hungry again.
1:22:37
I know I've eaten a few times today already, but I got a I got a meal calling
1:22:41
my second lunch?
1:22:42
It's been a long it's been a long weekend, man.
1:22:44
A lot of driving.
1:22:48
Extended show.
1:22:49
Well and we can't turn the AC on until I shut the show down.
1:22:52
So it's been nice knowing you guys.
1:22:54
Appreciate you.
1:22:55
I don't know, you know, what's gonna happen here.
1:22:58
It it could blow up.
1:22:59
We don't know.
1:23:00
We haven't run it in at least nine months, so prayers that it goes well.
1:23:06
Good to see you, fellas.
1:23:08
We'll be back Tuesday night, Vikings United.
1:23:10
We'll obviously be talking about more about the event and everything.
1:23:14
Vikings got a new GM, so we're obviously gonna talk a little bit about that.
1:23:17
But, you know, join us on Tuesday night, Vikings United.
1:23:22
We got some more football talk.
1:23:23
We're at the Minnesota Monsters game as well.
1:23:25
Kinda touched on that a little bit.
1:23:26
But, yeah, baseball season's just really starting to heat up now.
1:23:30
I hope everybody gets a chance to go and watch an MLB game, all you listeners.
1:23:34
Go take the kids.
1:23:35
Go have a blast.
1:23:36
I hope to get to a twins game maybe while I'm up in Minnesota in July and get to take one in.
1:23:42
We will be at the Canaries Sioux Falls Canaries at some point this year.
1:23:46
But yeah.
1:23:47
And I would kinda wanna go and check out a Saint Paul Saints game now that we know some
1:23:50
people at the stadium there, see if we can't
1:23:51
get Let me know when you're coming back, and I'll get some tickets.
1:23:55
Yeah.
1:23:56
Let's go.
1:23:56
We'll make it happen.
1:23:57
Pods, Shady, nice to see you.
1:23:59
Pods, thanks for holding it down on Saturday on the Scratch Project.
1:24:02
Appreciate it.
1:24:04
We'll see after
1:24:04
And maybe Tony will be off a vacation that he he'll wanna join us out
1:24:08
of Tuesday.
1:24:09
Fired, man.
1:24:09
He's lucky we let him in.
1:24:10
The only reason we let him in today is because he's still in Florida.
1:24:13
He's lucky I
1:24:14
won't know.
1:24:15
I ain't kidding.
1:24:15
Well, I'm
1:24:16
a bring Danielle in on Tuesday night and get get some shots in.
1:24:20
Oh, Shady, I was wrong.
1:24:22
I was guessing you're number 14.
1:24:25
Oh, that's Dakota.
1:24:26
That's D Train.
1:24:27
And I'm guessing two over from you is biscuits.
1:24:31
Oh god.
1:24:31
I don't know.
1:24:32
I have to go look.
1:24:33
That bitch is actually in my room.
1:24:37
It's in the other room.
1:24:39
Alright, fellas.
1:24:40
Well, until next time, everybody.
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Peace.
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Peace.
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We got some awesome hats.
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