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Major League Teammate · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mama's. Dear mama, have
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  Speaker 1: I I saw a teammate of your son is now
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  Speaker 1: playing in the majors.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask our American mama's mama.
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  Speaker 1: And joining us now our American mama's turn out ofville.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being here, and you know what,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much for sharing your family with us.
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  Speaker 1: Because one of the things that's so cool about your family.
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  Speaker 1: You've had two sons now that have been playing college
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  Speaker 1: ball at Louisiana Tech.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And of course you your daughter went to Louisiana Tech too.
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  Speaker 1: She she played soccer in high school.
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  Speaker 3: And all that one of their teammates.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, she married one of their teammates. And and
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  Speaker 1: there is Louisiana Tech baseball throughout your face. You're wearing
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  Speaker 1: an LA Tech baseball shirt right now.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Allian.
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  Speaker 1: But one of Steele's teammates, Kate Gibson, apparently made his
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  Speaker 1: major league debut this week.
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  Speaker 3: Was the rilling. Yeah, we had everybody over, you know,
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  Speaker 3: all of our family. It was Easter Sunday, it was
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  Speaker 3: Easter sun. But before I tell you about that, I
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  Speaker 3: need to tell you this. A lot of people don't
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  Speaker 3: know this. He's a rusting boy that losing Tech.
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  Speaker 1: In North central Louis.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. At ten years old, he wanted nothing more
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  Speaker 3: than to throw out the first pitch for his tenth birthday.
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  Speaker 3: Oh so he went out that his mom made it
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  Speaker 3: happen as the mom's duke exactly, he threw out the
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  Speaker 3: first pitch. Well, that's little did he know that the
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  Speaker 3: journey would lead him back to Tech after being rejected
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  Speaker 3: by you know what. He was rust in high school,
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  Speaker 3: did great, but got overlooked by Tech at the time.
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  Speaker 3: He went to U school. Here's report ls us uh huh.
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  Speaker 3: And then he when coach Burrows came on board. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: Kate was like, I really want to be in front
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  Speaker 3: of my hometown. So he talked to coach Burroughs and
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  Speaker 3: Burroughs was like, hey, you know what, you don't walk
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  Speaker 3: on give it a shot. Fine walked on, freaking dominated.
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  Speaker 3: He was so good. And the thing that I love,
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  Speaker 3: he's so he you know, he had his little high
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  Speaker 3: school sweetheart with him all the way, but he was
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  Speaker 3: he's so down to earth. His mom is, you know,
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  Speaker 3: resting all the way. She owns a little boutique, you know,
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  Speaker 3: downtown Resting. But this is a kid who refused to
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  Speaker 3: give up on his dream.
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  Speaker 1: So he's turned down by school. After the school, after
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  Speaker 1: school goes to uh L s U S Streetport. What
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  Speaker 1: is that a.
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  Speaker 3: Division A something like that. I mean it's it's it's
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  Speaker 3: a good school.
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  Speaker 1: They've got and they're they're a growing school. They're they're
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  Speaker 1: getting bigger graduation classes every year. They've had a baseball
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  Speaker 1: team for a while. But it's not like this is
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  Speaker 1: you know, Louisiana l s U. This isn't ut, this
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  Speaker 1: isn't you know Florida. Uh it's a small school. And
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  Speaker 1: then he's able to he leaves that school to go
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  Speaker 1: to Louisiana Tech NCAA Division one and walks on.
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  Speaker 3: He walks on. He not only does he come you know,
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  Speaker 3: he comes over and has a conversation. I know that
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  Speaker 3: you don't know me. I know that you know you've
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  Speaker 3: got other guys here. But I'm telling you I can
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  Speaker 3: do this and couldn't get a scholarship. They were like, well,
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  Speaker 3: we've got a out of money, right, I'll walk on. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: you want to walk on? Walk on? He did it.
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  Speaker 3: We won the conference championship. Him pitching and but what.
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  Speaker 1: Sir Kaid Gibson was on the team that was oh yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that won. That won two years and that's that's.
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  Speaker 1: The same team that went through the tornado and lasts.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. Their stadium in stadium had to rebuild, so
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  Speaker 3: their locker room for two years was their trucks that
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  Speaker 3: played at the high school. It's the greatest story in
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  Speaker 3: the world. And he remained so down to earth and
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  Speaker 3: he's a killer on the mound. But here's something else
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  Speaker 3: that I loved. This is something I hope every parent
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  Speaker 3: impresses upon their child. It was impressed upon me. I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure you we did with our children. When somebody that
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  Speaker 3: you love has a great success, there's no jealousy. You
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  Speaker 3: celebrate in their success. Not only do you celebrate their success,
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  Speaker 3: but you feel like that's part of your success because
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  Speaker 3: you're a part of their journey. So it was Easter Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: We had the kids over for a meal and after
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  Speaker 3: church and we were watching you know, we got it
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  Speaker 3: on the big TV. We were all sitting there. I
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  Speaker 3: captured it on video because I wanted his mom. You know,
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  Speaker 3: the moms are very much sisters, because you got to
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  Speaker 3: be strong because baseball will bring you to your knees,
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  Speaker 3: and we got to be there for each other. But
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  Speaker 3: I wanted I wanted Jenny, his mom, to see that
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  Speaker 3: my children represent everybody else in Rustin and North Louisiana
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  Speaker 3: that watched him through the ranks right. And it was
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  Speaker 3: so sweet because my boys and phill Up, my son
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  Speaker 3: in law, they all three played with Cade. They were
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  Speaker 3: jumping with they were just living and dying on every
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  Speaker 3: single pitch and they were going bananas. When he would
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  Speaker 3: throw a strike, he was able to, you know, get
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  Speaker 3: Bryce Harper, and it was I was so proud. I
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  Speaker 3: was elated. I kept giggling. I could when I rewatched it, it
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  Speaker 3: was kind of cringey because I could hear myself giggling
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  Speaker 3: the whole time. But I was so excited, and I
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  Speaker 3: would love the fact that my children were representing everybody
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  Speaker 3: that loves Cade like and then it showed on the
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  Speaker 3: video they panned to his best friend Kyle Krieger, who
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  Speaker 3: was another picture at Tech, who's there in the stands
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  Speaker 3: with the coaches, and he was wiping away tears.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's great.
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  Speaker 3: Like when you celebrate in someone else's success, just know
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  Speaker 3: that when you have a success in your life, They'll
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  Speaker 3: be just as elated. That's why we need our friends
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  Speaker 3: during the low times and during the high times. I'm
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  Speaker 3: so thrilled for.
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  Speaker 1: This kid, So congratulations to Caid Gibson going from looked over, yeah, overlooked,
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  Speaker 1: I guess yeah, to walk on to Major.
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  Speaker 1: turn out of well, thank you so much, Thank you