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Baseball Hate · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for our American mama. Dear mama, are fans too
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  hard on college athletes online? Well, let's ask our American mama. Mama,
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  mama, and joining us now our American mama, Terry Nettaville. Okay,
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  you have certainly seen some of this as a baseball mom. You have
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  a son playing for ls for Louisiana Tech right now, you have another son
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  who was playing for him and has graduated. Um, you're I'm assuming you're
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  watching the LSU Florida Gators College World Series. Yes, yes, oh yeah,
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  No matter who was playing, I would be watching this game, this
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  series, There's no doubt about it, because I do love the game.
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  So there's a player who's not having a great series. As I understand,
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  the short stop for LSU. LSU got beat pretty bad by Yeah, yeah,
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  Jordan Thompson is his name. And um, you know it's so interesting
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  because we were watching Slade with the Summer League yesterday and and of course lad
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  had a bad outing and it was just bad. And what floored me.
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  I was so upset. Actually, I opened up my news feed on Facebook
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  and people were dogging this child and to me, these are kids, they
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  just are and they're playing this game. Jordan Thompson is a shortstop. And
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  you know, everybody goes through a slump when they play this sport at some
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  point, at some point, this game will bring it to your knees.
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  As a mom of a player, I spent years. I have spent years
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  and years and years doing that mama thing that we do to encourage and help
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  them whenever they are going through something terrible. But when I opened up my
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  news feed and I saw these grown adults blaming this kid and basically telling him
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  he was no good. He needs to get thrown out. You know,
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  they were like, I don't you know, I'm not even gonna repeat it,
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  but they were saying some really terrible things. And I thought. My
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  first thought, and I don't know why my mind went here, was oh
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  my god, what if this kid goes home and kills himself because they are
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  basically telling him he's trash, he's no good, he's the reason they lost.
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  Yeah, And so that, Mama, the biggest event of a sporting
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  career, right, and they're they're telling him he's a yes. And you
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  know, the coach, Jay Johnson, he said, he said, look,
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  I love Jordan. We wouldn't be here without him. He said,
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  there's a lot of stories in the College World series of guy's struggling and they
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  get a big hit for you and they make a big play for you.
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  And I think that he's a good candidate for that. So after a while,
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  I think that it caught on that this was very unfair to do this
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  to this kid. And I kept praying for the mama because I was like,
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  Lord, give her the strength and the wisdom to know what to say,
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  because if he sees all of this, I don't know how you get
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  out of a slump. I mean, that just would just tear you,
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  tear your heart out, really yea. So but there's another now, something
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  that's circulating by people that are that are fans. They said, um,
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  look, we we're going to post this picture of Jordan Thompson and we are
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  we don't throw away our teammates because they're struggling. We're better than that.
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  We win together, we lose together. We're not going to band in.
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  Our players are talking about this kid. So I think that what's happening now
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  the adults who got so passionate and angry in the moment of it, now
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  are looking back and they're saying, whoa. You know what, I need
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  to take a step back. If this was my kid and I had all
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  these people jumping on him and just tearing him apart and stabbing him, and
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  you know, I don't know what I would do, honestly, don't do
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  you think that now that we allow sports betting, that that is actually going
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  to make this type of online bullying worse because it's not just that, it's
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  it's you know, you're fan of the team, you got money on the
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  line, and that kid, you know, if he makes an error,
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  could actually cost you a lot of money. Oh, I never thought about
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  that, But you're right about the cyber bullying part. That is absolutely what
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  this is right now with college baseball, and I've said this before, we're
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  in a spiral. It's going down because of the nil transportal. There has
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  to be one or the other. You've got kids that are at these top
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  schools that are now going into portal because they can make so much money with
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  the nil. So, of course the betting. You know, if you're
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  gonna have kind of like Kim Mulke, she went and got the best of
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  the best and they won the national championship. In girls basketball, So you
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  got people who bet on that. Of course, if you have TMUSA,
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  you're gonna you know, it's gonna If they lost, it's gonna get there's
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  gonna be heat everywhere. So you're right, this is gonna cause people to
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  be very angry and uh immature and degrading and terrible and vulgar online. Something's
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  got to give because this is if you want to get baseball college baseball back
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  the way it was. NCAA has to get some guidelines. You have one
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  of the other. There's got to be consequences. You can't just have both
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  because look what's Look what's happening because this kid, he's making hundreds of thousands
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  of dollars in nil deals. All of these kids are right that are at
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  these top schools, especially LSU. They've got built not billions of millions,
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  I understand that can go to these athletes. So because they're sec big name
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  school, yeah for sure. So I just see this all. I don't
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  know. I just feel like this there's this tornado of trouble and it's surrounding
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  college baseball that used to be so lucrative and there was a luster to it
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  because people were playing for their school, playing for each other. The stories
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  of Coastal Caroline or Louisiana Tech, they're almost going to disappear because of what's
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  happening in college baseball right now. You know. It's why one of my
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  favorite baseball events to watch is the Little League World Series because I think it's
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  still got some purity in it. That's just a lot of fun to watch.
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  And even when a kid has a bad day, you see the other
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  kids are picking them up, even from the other team. That's true.
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  You see that Little League World Series, Well, all I can say is
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  good luck to Florida, good luck to LSU, and my heart goes out
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  to Jordan Thompson. I actually hope he has a good game. If you
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