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Hamilton Big Blue VS Badin 2000 · WDYM What Do You Mean?

• 0:10
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  SPEAKER_00: Now everyone gather around and listen to one of Hamilton's best podcasts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your host, Michael Gillespie.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_05: Garbage Time at Virgil Swarm Stadium, 1999.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_05: Hamilton high is up big 45 to 7 on their interstate rival, the Baden Rams.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_05: Hamilton securing their first ever win against Baden.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_05: And they still have one more game to play in 2000.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_05: You may ask yourself, well, why am I covering this again?
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_05: Because we've already talked about the 1999 game.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_05: I just want to let you know there's this guy out there named Tommy Poomer who is still throwing touchdown passes.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_05: The PAT no good.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_05: The final score, Hamilton 45.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_05: Baton 13.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_05: So the recipe on how to beat a Terry Malone-led Baton Rams team has been etched in stone by the 1999 Big Blue team.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_05: If you have the athleticism and a bend don't break defense, you can beat a Terry Malone Bayton Rams team.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_05: This 1999 squad has put up the most points ever in this rivalry, 45 points, and put up the biggest margin of victory of 32 points.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_05: The tide has maybe turned in Hamilton's favor, so as the fourth and final game of the series is approaching, I take a visit to the 1980s and do a quick a quick recap of the Hamilton Baton series.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_05: The first game, the 1980 game, was won by Bayton 28-14 with a young man named Tony Farkas who scored three touchdowns in the second half to cement the win, beating Hamilton 28-14.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_05: The 1981 game was a defensive battle that was won by a field goal kicked by Rick Cassano for Baton.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_05: And the 1981 game concluded with a 3-0 victory for Baton.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_05: Which gave them a quick serious lead 2-0.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_05: Now let's fast forward time, 20 years later, more specifically 1999, and Hamilton and Baton hooks up again.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_05: This time, the athleticism of a Ryan King, two touchdowns, 227 yards on the ground, and David Huff scoring three touchdowns, one pass, one run, one interception.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_05: And the athleticism of the modern day players proved to be too much for Terry Malone, and it was a whooping 45-13.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_05: What did the 2,000 teams have coming into this game?
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_05: Let's start off with Baton first.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_05: Baton's team is not like any other Terry Malone-led Baiton team.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_05: The team is coming in struggling 4-5.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_05: Now, last year's team came in 7-2 and hot.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_05: This Baton squad was coming in 4-5 or a hot streak winning their last two games before they come into Hamilton.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_05: Now, this is uncharacteristic of a Terry Malone Baton team because they're coming in with a losing record.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_05: Still, the talk of Coach Malone was playoffs.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_02: Playoffs.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_05: A four and five team getting in to the playoffs.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_05: Now, I'm not knocking Terry Malone for that.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, he's a winner.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_05: It's already been proven he's a winner.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_05: He's one of the top coaches of all time in Ohio.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_05: So his four and five team was talking about playoffs if they beat Hamilton.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_05: And it's it's crazy that that's a winning mindset for Terry Malone and the Baton Rams.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_05: Hamilton, on the other hand, was coming in five and four.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_05: That five-four is a little conscrewed because Hamilton plays in the arguably the greatest conference in Ohio, the greater Miami Conference, the GMC.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_05: The GMC has the likes of a Col Rain, Lakota East, Lakota West, Princeton, Middletown Fairfield.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_05: All tough competition every week.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_05: A 5-4 coming into the game is no laughing matter.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_05: As the game approaches, we're all getting ready to play, and as you know, the journal is getting ready for the game, doing the interviews.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_05: First starting with Joe Clamo.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_05: Joe Clamo played on the game last year, but he was injured.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_05: Coming into the game, Coach Malone was high on the belief that they have to beat Hamilton.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_05: We definitely want to beat the Big Blue, Coach Malone says.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_05: But my biggest thing right now is I want to be want to get into the playoffs.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_05: We have a chance to win a state title at 4-5.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_05: If we're going to make the playoffs, it's more important we go in there physically sound.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_05: Baton wasn't physically or mentally sound after last year's beating from Big Blue.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_05: The following week later, they got pummeled 30-7 at Wheelersburg.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_05: At 4-5, the Rams can clinch a playoff berth and most likely a first-round home game with a win over Hamilton.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_05: Baton will probably qualify even if it loses to Hamilton, but the Rams will have to go on the road the following week.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_05: They'll become the second team in Ohio history to make the playoffs with a losing record.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_05: Joe Klama would say if we make it in at 4-6 and people look at us and take us lightly, that's okay.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_05: In our minds, we think we're a 7-2 team.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_05: He'd be going to say we lost a couple games that we should have won.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_05: Hamilton, on the other hand, 5-4, figures to provide a stern test as the series comes to an end, possibly forever.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_05: Coach Minory says his team is taking taking Baton very seriously, and he scuffs at the idea of Division I Hamilton should route a Baton team because of this difference in school size.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_05: Coach would be going to say Rivalry games change everything because of such great passion.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_05: He made his players off limits to the media this this week like he did last year.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_05: You still gotta put 11 guys out there, but I don't think the big school versus little school argument carries much weight.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_05: Baton couldn't play our schedule all year long, but they can sure get up for one game.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_05: Speed and athleticism burned Baton last year.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_05: They suffered their first loss in three meetings in Hamilton, as speed remains Malone's primary concern.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_05: It's our job as coaches to get our kids in the right place, and then they have to tackle, and we haven't been the best tackling team this season.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_05: If we don't control their speed, it is over.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_05: The Rams will present Big Blue with some new challenges tonight.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_05: Like always, Baton will have this 50 defense and a full house backfield.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_05: Baton is much quicker this year as opposed to last year with the additions of uh Drew Teken and Andy Fearman.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_05: And then and then a twist in the game, quarterback Nick Mahan is a transfer from Baton.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_05: Hmm.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_05: You don't think that good old Coach Malone would uh sabotage Hamilton by sending old Nick Mahan over to play quarterback, right?
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_04: You don't find that suspicious.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_05: Not a bit, right?
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_04: You don't find that suspicious.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_04: You don't find that suspicious.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_05: Now I I do a little bit.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_05: I'm not gonna lie to you.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_05: You you would figure that there's a systematic person to play quarterback for Hamilton, but we accept a transfer from Baton to play this game?
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_05: Maybe, maybe not.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_05: We'll see.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_05: I don't think Coach Malone would do that, but this is a rivalry game where all bets are off.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_05: So as our local paper put in stats for the county, there's not a Baton football player in the top five, not in rushing, passing, receiving, punt returns.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_05: The only person, the only the only stat that is a Baton person in is kick scoring by a guy named Tommy Puma.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_05: So you would think that Baton doesn't have a star on the team.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_05: On the other hand, Hamilton does have a couple top people in the county.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_05: For example, Derek Wilkerson is the number two rusher in the county, counting over eleven hundred yards rushing.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_05: Also, Ken Harper has the most points, extra points, and field goals in the county.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_05: And oh yeah, Tez Morris, top five in tackling.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_05: So the stars would line up to think that Hamilton has enough athleticism to beat Baton.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_05: Now, I watched the game live in person.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_05: The story of the game tells a different story than re-watching the game now.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_05: And you may ask yourself, like, well, how can you rewatch a high school game?
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_05: Well, thankfully, a local TV station, TV Hamilton, recorded the game.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_05: Again, this is a rivalry that's not been touched in over 20 years.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_05: And the grand scheme of it, we've played four games in an inner city rivalry.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_05: With the beauty of social media, I decided to reach out to TV Hamilton.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_05: And I was like, Do you have any recordings of the Hamilton baiting games?
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_05: And they they respond with a sort of we currently have the 2000 game on DVD.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_05: The 1990 game, aka the game that is forgotten, is on tape, which means we may or may not play.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_05: So like, okay, so if you want, and I was like, all right, I'm interested in getting any footage possible because again, this is a rivalry that's gone untouched for too long.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_05: And anything will help.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, I've already started I've already talked about the 80, 81, 1999 games without any footage.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_05: At least, at least I get the 2000 game.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_05: So I send my money away, lo and behold, I get the game.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_05: And again, watching the game in person and watching it in retrospect, there's a different spin on the game.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_05: I s all I see is number 12 doing something or number 24 doing something.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_05: That who is doing something.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_05: Remember that guy I mentioned earlier named Tommy Puma?
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_05: Well, he is very vital to Baiting's success.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_05: But never nevertheless, watching the game, getting ready to watch this game on DVD, the actual presentation done by TV Hamilton is outstanding.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_05: So, uh, first and foremost, let me applaud TV Hamilton for providing me the game.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_05: I really appreciate it.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_05: Nevertheless, let's get to the game.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_05: Old inner city rivalry is about to get renewed here in 2000 as Hamilton takes on Baton for the last time.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_05: Coach Ed Minory, Coach Terry Malone, with the rematch on 1999, the game could not be the height, couldn't be any better than this.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_05: So what happens?
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_05: What happens?
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_05: The first possession, Baton has it.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_05: And within the third play from scrimmage, that man again, that man again, I keep mentioning for at least the third time, Tommy Puma is doing his thing.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_03: This time the triple back backfield behind the quarterback Puma.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_03: Andy Fairman in the game.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_03: He lines up back there along with Playboy and TikTok.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_03: And on the option to the nearest side is receiver by Puma.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_03: He's got the first one on the lower.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_03: To the tow.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_03: And Payton breaks out in front by a score of six to nothing.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_05: So the third play from scrimmage, Tommy Puma is doing his thing again.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_05: Now, let's quick recap.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_05: Back in 1999, he's the last person to score in that game.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_05: And now he's the first person to score in the 2000 game.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_05: I think that Tommy Puma was very serious about this game.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_05: I guarantee he looked at those Hamilton High players and said this.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_05: You know why how I know that?
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_05: Because yeah, he scored six points.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_05: Guess who's kicking the PAT?
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_03: 73 yards on the run by Puma, and he's got to catch his breath in a hurry because he's going to attempt the point after.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_05: Are you kidding me?
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_05: This man ran 73 yards, scores the first touchdown, comes back and kicks the P.A.T.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_05: which is good.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_05: 7-0 that quickly, Batons up.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_05: It's ridiculous to see this.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_05: And the set the feeling that I got is like, uh oh, we're in trouble because Baton's come out and gave me a quick hit, quick 7-0.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_05: And it's like this this cannot be good.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_05: This cannot be good at all.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_05: So okay.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_05: Tommy Puma scored a touchdown.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_05: Tommy Puma has put the PAT.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_05: Who's kicking the ball for the kickoff?
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_05: Lo and behold, it's that man again.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_03: Well, kick the ball away for the main round.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_05: So a little quick recap in the first quarter, it's Tommy Puma seven.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_05: Hamilton Big Blue zero.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_05: Tommy Puma is doing it all.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_05: He is the one-man gang out here because he's doing it all.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_05: Now, what was Big Blue's response?
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_05: Their first drive, they punted it back to Baton.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_05: But this is where the defense kicked in.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_05: The defense was a Ben Don't Break style defense.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_05: Again, they got Wortez on the sideline.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_05: Wartez on that side with Jermaine Wells, EJ Underware.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_05: They're all playing both sides.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_05: So their defense held.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_05: So on the Hamilton Big Blues side, after Tommy Puma did his thing and Hamilton got a chance to respond, they responded Connie with a 7-3-yard run of Rome by Derek Wilkerson.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_03: We do have a flag at the 43 yard line.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_05: So Derek was in the mindset of anything you could do, I could do better.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_05: He goes 73 yards himself and evens the score.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_05: At the end of one quarter, it was 7-7.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_05: Anybody's game.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_05: Both defenses were playing hard, uh hitting hard and everything, but not giving a lot.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_05: So as the first half goes, nothing really goes on, nothing really goes on major.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_05: Tommy Puma kicks another field goal for Baden.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_05: It's 10 to 7 at halftime.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_05: So watching the replay now, one of the things that I do question that was the play calling done by Coach Minory.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_05: Athleticism is what Hamilton had on the offensive side with the likes of Derek Wilkerson, Rubio Marshall, and EJ Underwood.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_05: You had all these options to give the ball to your receivers, but it was not built into the system.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_05: The only thing that was built for both teams was a stern defense.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_05: The only thing Benton can do was kick field goals.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_05: Power Poole would go on to kick two more, a 21-yard field goal and a 40-yarder in the late in the fourth quarter to give Bayton 16-7 lead.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_05: Big Blue respond with a kick with a field goal of their own, 38-yarder by Ken Harper, to make it 16-10.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_05: So at this juncture, Baton controls every aspect of the game.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_05: Field possession, they had the lead, they had the lead, they had field possession, and they have stifled the Hamilton offense.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_05: The one thing that could give Hamilton a spark much needed was their special teams.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_05: And again, Tommy Puma was the one kicking the ball, kicking it to a EJ Underwood.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_05: So in the late in the fourth quarter, Hamilton finally gets that spark.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_03: Hamilton puts ten men on the line of scrimmage.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_03: The big blue going after the punch.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_03: Puma takes the slot.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_05: Finally, Hamilton gets that shot in the arm to do something.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_05: With two minutes, 35 seconds left.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_05: Hamilton has a opportunity.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_05: What does the transfer quarterback from Baden?
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_05: Nick Mahan, what did you do?
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_05: Well, let's check first down.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_03: Nick Mahan lines up with quarterback.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_03: Lost to the near side.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_03: Marshall to the far side.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_03: On the option.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_03: Now backs the throw.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_03: Looking downfield and throws it.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_03: Near interception.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_03: Justin Fourney had it in his hands.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_04: You don't find that suspicious?
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_04: You don't find that suspicious.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_04: You don't find that suspicious.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, okay.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_05: The first play, he almost threw an interception.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_05: That's it's not no, it's not, it's not he wouldn't, he wouldn't do that.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_05: Really?
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_05: He wouldn't do that.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_05: So that's that's first down.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_05: So, so what about second down?
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_05: Nick Mahan completes the pass, or so we think.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_05: Again, we don't have the replay and all that stuff, but it looks like Nick Mahan completes the pass.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_03: The official coming in from the near side line, and you can hear me.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_03: About twenty-five yards away itself incomplete.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_03: I'm about fifty, sixty yards away, and it looked like he caught the ball from here.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_04: You don't find that suspicious.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_04: You don't find that suspicious.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_04: You don't find that suspicious.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_05: Wait, wait, wait.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_05: The announcer who is in the booth way up in the sky thinks I was a complete pass.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_05: Coach is saying he caught that, he caught that.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_05: So it comes from the far side of the field.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_05: In order to rule that incomplete.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_05: I'm not saying the referees are in on it, but I mean call a spade a spade.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_05: It just looks kind of suspicious that the referees are now calling incomplete passes when it looked complete.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_05: But you get again, where I'm at in the stadium, it I couldn't tell.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_05: So, you know, the referees have been fit been 50-50 all game, so I don't is is it conspiracy theory?
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_05: Uh these are these baiting alum referees?
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_05: The world may never know.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_05: Third down.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_03: So it is third down and ten for Hamilton.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_03: A field goal does nothing for them.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_03: Nobody won as Joe Holmes running beautifully for Baby.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_05: So third down was a a halfback screen to Derek Wilkerson, and it just it wasn't built right now.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_05: Again, it's third down, less than two minutes probably to play now, and we're doing a halfback screen.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_05: Again, hindsight is the greatest vision of all.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_05: If it's third and ten, you're calling a halfback screen.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_05: Again, I ain't coach.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_05: I I just I just know I just know that wouldn't be the play call I would have done.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_05: But neither either way, I you know, this is what they're paid to do.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_05: Four so it's fourth down.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_05: This is Big Blue's last opportunity to do something.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_05: All hopes, the stadium.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_05: We're all hoping for a miracle.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_05: What happens?
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_03: Fourth down and 16.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_03: Ruby O'Marchal line to the near side of the field, E.J.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_03: Upperwood to the near side.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_03: Maha three step through looking forward to corner and is back away by Joe Roberto.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_03: And the Google Rams will take over all downs, first and ten from their own 31-yard line.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_05: So that basically ends the game.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_05: I'm sitting there disgusted.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_05: I'm sick of it.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_05: I'm sick of it.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_05: Baton's gonna win again.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_05: And and and I thought, I thought the the recipe on how to beat a Baton team was athleticism and defense.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_05: The one thing we didn't account for was Tommy Puma.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_05: Tommy Puma put the whole Baton team on his shoulders and said, guess what, guys?
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_05: I'm the last person to score against that 1999 team, and I'm gonna score all the points for the 2000 team.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_05: It's not Baiton 16 Hamilton, it's Tommy Puma 16, Hamilton 10.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_05: And I guarantee you, Tommy was like, Are you lucky I don't play defense?
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_05: Because you probably wouldn't have scored those 10 points.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_05: Tommy Puma was a a monster among monsters.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_05: He put on a performance like the likes of Tony Farkas from the 1980s, like a Rick Cassano from 1981.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_05: And yes, even a David Huff Ryan King of the 1999 Big Blue Team.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_05: He had a performance that shines today.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_05: Tommy Puma, you did a great job.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_05: Despite me being a Hamilton fan, you sir.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_05: Took on the big blue and beat him all by yourself.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_05: That, sir, you deserve a round of applause.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_03: The football tonight, the final score.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_03: Sixteen to ten.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_03: The Baton Rams winning.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_03: The great football tonight.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_03: Football game tonight here on TV Hamilton.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_03: We've been bringing it home to you.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_05: So, to recap the whole the whole series as of 2000.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_05: Baden has won three out of four games, concluding with the 2000 game, 16-10.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_05: And a hard-fought, hard-played game by both teams.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_05: Again, watching the replay provides so much more context to the game.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_05: Tommy Puma played outstanding.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_05: One of the best performances of all time.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_05: So, as recap, we get to catch up with Coach Ed Minory for his thoughts on the game.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_03: Back at Virgil Swarm Stadium, Steve Baker here, 16-10, the final score of the Baden Rams over the Hamilton Big Blue.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_03: Joined by Hamilton Big Blue coach Ed Minory.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_03: And coach, you said coming in that your offense hadn't been performing well.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_03: They really struggled tonight against the Baden Rams.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_01: Well, they have.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_01: And we were going for a winning season.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm telling you, our boys gave everything they had out there, but that it just seemed like we were lacklustering.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_01: And I was really disappointed that we just weren't as sharp as we had been.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: I think we wish we'd had a little bit easier game tonight because we've just expended so much energy here in the last four weeks just playing hardball.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_01: And I just think to ask the team do that much is awfully hard.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_01: I think our boys played hard there at the end.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_01: We had a shot there even with our offense.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_01: We had four plays to go for the end zone, and uh we weren't able to convert.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_01: So uh that's the way the ball game went.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_01: I think uh the running backs, the running backs for both teams really played hard.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_01: And uh and then naturally uh we kept them out of the end zone other than the one long play.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_01: I thought our defense struggled, and that to me is a sign of great spirit of our defense offensively in the second half.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_01: We only had uh one first down, I believe.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_01: And after that, uh you can't win many ballgames coming from behind.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_01: We were three points at a half, but we had to come from behind, and uh we needed two scores there at the end.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_01: Kenny Harper made a nice field goal, put us within reach.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_01: E.J.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_01: uh underwood almost broke.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_01: Both those kids are coming back next year.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_01: I think we'll have a very exciting team.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_03: Were you surprised?
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_03: I don't think you were surprised at the running game for the Baden Rams, but they certainly took it to you.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_01: All three of their backs, and Tom Puma really ran on you all night.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_01: No question about it.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_01: Puma's a fine quarterback, and uh we knew he would be tough.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_01: We didn't think he'd be featured as much as he was on the run.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_01: Uh his two running backs, uh Fearman and uh the uh Tekin, you know, I thought did an excellent job cutting.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_01: We had some people there at times, but other times we didn't have people there.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_01: And it just looked like at times we just were a little bit not as sharp as we have been because we've been playing some pretty darn good defense, but uh we did bend, we didn't break at the same time.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_01: Time of possession.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_01: Uh when we did get it, our field position in the second half was very bad.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_01: And uh that that to me played a big factor in the game.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_03: Coach, thanks for talking with us here.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_03: Uh tough loss, but uh congratulations on a good season.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_03: We'll be back next year.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_03: Hamilton Highhead coach N Minray joining us here at our post-game show again, 16-10, the final score of the Baden Rams over the Hamilton Big Blue.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_05: So he was talking about certain things like field position, time possession, all that stuff.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_05: All that stuff is by two men.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_05: Coach Terry Malone and Baton superstar himself, Tommy Puma.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_05: Tommy Puma did it all.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_05: Ed Minerry said he would be back, and he did come back for the 2001 season, but that would also be his last.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_05: So with the ending of the Hamilton Baton game, this also was the end of eras.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_05: Ed Minerry's last season was the following season, 2001, where he finishes seventh seven and four, but finishes with the overall record of 77 wins and 66 losses.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_05: He would part ways with Hamilton as Hamilton would enter the what I'm calling the dark ages of football, where in the span of 22 seasons since Ed Minory left, out of those 22 seasons, we've had 17 losing seasons, one, five, and five, and four winning seasons.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_05: Also, Coach Malone retired in 2003.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_05: He was the winningest coach with 360 wins, 117 losses, and eight ties.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_05: He guided Baton to 16 playoff appearances, three trips to state, finally winning one in 1990.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_05: There's nothing negative to say about Coach Malone.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_05: As a young person, not knowing the jewel he was, every time I would read an article, I always think he was just the grumpy old man with high expectations for Baton football, not knowing Baton's history.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_05: For him to retire with 360 wins, I believe 46 years of coaching at one spot, these are things that are unheard of in today's sports, especially in football.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_05: As I conclude this series, one of the things that I've been trying to do is I've been trying to talk to other like get the Baton perspective of these games and talking to players that played in the 1999-2000 games.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_05: And one of the things that is staple, one of the things that is consistent about all the players, all the Baton players that I talked to is how good of a teacher Coach Malone was.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_05: Not a coach, but a teacher.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_05: You know, looking back at the Hamilton Baton series back from the 80s and 1999-2000 game, that these games spoke nothing but who Terry Malone was.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_05: His style of play did not change at all.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_05: And that's what that's why Baton was so successful all this time.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_05: And still to this day, Baton is very successful each and every year.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_05: So in conclusion, why do we have to wait 20 years to play these games?
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_05: This is this is something that, in my opinion, is what Hamilton needs.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_05: Again, being a student in 99 and coming to watch to the game in 2000, it's very rare to have the stadium jam-packed on both sides.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_05: And that's what this game does.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_05: It brings Hamilton together to for a choice occasion.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_05: This is the game that we play with our neighbors.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_05: There's no bad blood between Hamilton and Baden.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_05: Yes, there's a like little like a little animosity, but nothing that is escalated to anything beyond what is being dis what is being played.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_05: If it's football, baseball, basketball, whatever.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_05: It's never more than that.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_05: And it's good to see the city come together to watch this game.
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_05: Now, with that being said, we need to play this game more often.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_05: I believe that if you are a freshman to a senior, you should play this game at least once every four years.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_05: Keep the draw of only playing ever so often, but not 20 years.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_05: That is ridiculous.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_05: Baiton has won three out of four.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_05: Hamilton has had that one great game that has never been talked about.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_05: I am still on a mission to get that on DVD.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_05: But guys, thank you so much for listening to the Hamilton Bayton series.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_05: I really enjoyed doing this.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_05: I always like to look back and see how things work.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_05: With that being said, I'm your host, Michael Gillespie of the WDYM.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_05: Thank you guys for tuning in.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_05: Thank you for listening to all four of the uh parts of the Hamilton Bacon series.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_05: And I'm out.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_05: Boy Scout, peace.