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good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to I

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on the Ball here on Fox Sports
fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera, He's Jagon's

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OZ. Got a guy jitsing it
today. Yeah, fifteen minutes with open

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full lines. If you'd like to
call five two o four one, six,

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seventy four forty. I'm gonna have
an eclectic type of show today.

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Different should be fun talking to um
Teresa Strass, Teresa st league mom who's

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written a book about being a little
league mom. Yeah, well we'll rival

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We'll rival that with your volleyball dad. Yeah I got stories, man,

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Yeah, I'm sure she's got stories. Look, I had three kids,

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played a lot of sports and been
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softball, baseball, soccer, um
basketball, Um, I still and I've

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been through soccer. I don't know
if anything rivals the mean girls stuff,

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but literally you can rival literally literally
too well, yeah, and you know

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you still you still see for some
reason, and maybe it's because I watched

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him. But you know, my
various social media feed like Facebook and techtok,

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I see a lot of videos of
bad Little League parents. Oh yeah,

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yeah, yeah, that's that's where
it began. That's where, yeah,

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you know, and and watching parents, you know, pushing umpires and

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yeah, there's one where an umpire
finally turns around to the parents and says,

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that's it, I'm leaving. I
remember. They're like, what the

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hell? Right, enough already,
you know, you know, fights,

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coaches punching referees and umpires and all
that stuff. Yeah, so we'll talk

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to her about that. Teresa Strasser
from California, her her son's team,

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I think, is in town for
one of the regionals and she wrote a

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book. We'll talk about that.
And then at the three three fifteen,

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in about fifteen minutes, we have
a jockey named mal Donado who's gonna be

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first. No, he is,
No, you made me switch it.

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Uh, you know, you're right, You're right, she's first, and

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he's at four fifteen fifteen. Maldonado, who's a jockey, had sent and

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Delmar who and they opened this week. Yeah in Delmar, I've never had

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a chance to talk to a jockey
about what it's like to be a job.

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Yeah, yeah, and how he
got into it. No, it

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should be fun. He's he's ridden
for some Bafford horses. So we'll talk

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about that, just to just to
see because it's a big weekend. And

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obviously two son goes to San Diego. Now, yes, if they haven't

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already, Yeah, they're there.
Yeah, they're I'm guessing a whole bunch

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of them headed out last night during
the storm we got we got you know,

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I was telling Jason's we're walking into
it. We got South America rain

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here. Uh as the show ended, Yeah, I would outside. It

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was it was like rainforest rain that
we got here. I was talking.

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We were just leaving in the cups
where they're you know, the guards.

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So when did this happens is yeah, it's it's happened about ten minutes ago.

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And my wife was texting me during
the show about how we were getting

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battered on the east side. Um, a big giant mesquite tree in the

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neighborhood went down, and um we
got blasted with hail. Our umbrella got

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knocked into the pool. Um,
all kinds of stuff. Jason, if

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this doesn't teach you be careful what
you asked for. This is what we

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want rain. We want rain.
We're dying and then you're getting rain.

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Any Fort Lole wrote was underwater,
literally under which one fort Okay, right,

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I go that way. I take
Fort Lole out east and I pulled

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out onto Fort Low. Right here, we're at four Loole and Oracle.

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And the water was so high that
it prevented my air conditioner from working.

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Wow, you know my air condition
it would keep blowing, but it's blowing

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hot air. And then i'd come
out of the water. It would come

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back on to go back into it
was underwater. I mean we're talking water,

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you know, halfway up the wheels
on cars, and you could had

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to go very slow to get out
of there. So I couldn't open the

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window. So he was just steamy
in my car because I got soaked on

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the way into the car. Well, we'll find out if your mechanic agrees

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with your No. I mean it's
working fine, it's just been working fine,

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Okay, whatever was happening, okay, Okay, so here we go.

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Uh, some news will have breaking
news about a Feway football Yeah,

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right, just news. Not surprising. I thought they I thought they I

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don't know if they missed on this
because I don't know, you know what

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you know in town. Right,
So with Temac, Temac wasn't on the

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list, right, he's on pre
mention. That's yeah, he could have

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made it. Maybe maybe they're gonna
wait, wait another year. Look,

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there's some great receivers. He may
not be around another year. Wow,

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that's true. We'll see, We'll
see some great receivers in the league.

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Yeah, I mean I noticed that
the great quarterbacks, great receiver. I

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mean, there's the PAC twelve is
really good. And that's the narrative right

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now about the PAC twelve. It's
really really damn good this year. I

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mean, we had you know,
Ari Watserman was talking about that, we're

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gonna have Yogi Roth on Thursday.
I'm sure he's gonna come in here and

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tell us it's been a long time
since there have been this many teams this

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good. And the thing of it
is is and we're talking to Justin uh,

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Justin Spears yesterday or no, it
was it was. It was a

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big game Boomer Witker yesterday saying that
there's so many good teams that the PAC

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twelve has probably doesn't have a very
good shot to getting into ploff because all

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gonna beat the hell out of each
other. Yeah, I think it be

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hard. There's not gonna be one
team that's gonna come through unscathed, right

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right, even even you see who, he's very gonna be very good.

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I don't think he's the best team
in the league. You don't. I

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don't know who. I think it's
Washington. Okay, I'll take some of

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that, all right, we'll go. Okay, you come up with it.

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You come up with it, all
right, we'll go. You gotta

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take a team, we take Washington. No, I'll take you, okay'll

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tak you. Okay, let's say, okay, we'll bet who gets the

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better bowl game. How is that
gonna be? Uh well, you know

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it's basically the conference champion, right, Okay, Okay, one of those

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two have to be the conference champion. Okay, remember this. You're the

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one that's gonna have to remember this
because we won't really but like, let's

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say, well, no, the
conference champion is gonna go to well no

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one of those just you know,
we'll just say whoever finish is higher in

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the standard, right, let's do
let's do this. That'll be the better.

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Yeah, because because UC probably has
a better tougher schedule. I don't

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know, okay, but okay,
I'm just this week. You take Washington,

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I got u USC, I'll take
I'll take Washington. Okay, I'll

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take the Huskies. Another dinner at
Rustico. Yeah, yeah, it might

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be Jason. You'll just have to
know what day to show up. Okay.

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So there's a lot of stuff going
on with the PAC twelve and you

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mentioned this, we don't have to
wait till breaking news because it's not breaking

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news, but the TV deal it's
like, yeah, let's let's let's let's

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go through that this. So now
all the reporting is and it's reporting from

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sources, but multiple media people have
said there's no PAC twelve TVD. You're

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gonna be announced this week. Um. I reading an article by The Athletic

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and it was written by with the
Athletic, um Storemandel and Max Alson at

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the Athletic. The quote is from
a from a person. Uh, I

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guess at the PAC twelve, we've
seen folks come to the table that we're

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not at the table six months ago. The patients that the presidents and chancellors

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are showing is paying off because wading
is going to result in better deals than

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the league would have gotten three six, nine months ago. So they basically

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saying, but they said there's there's
no timetable for an announcement just other than

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it's in the near future. Is
basically saying by not having gotten a deal

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done, the deal is getting better. It's why they're trying to It's what

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they're trying to spend, right,
Sure, I'm waiting for a better looking

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girlfriend. Well, well, there's
been some good looking girlfriends showing up,

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and we think there's some better looking
ones still out there, so we're gonna

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wait for them. Yeah, but
yeah, yeah, tendant two and A

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two attend or whatever whatever, what
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and a tenant to something like that? Yeah? Yeah, in fact,

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something in uh in ESPN just PAC
twelve media rights deal expected in near future.

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This could have been written lecture this
type of yeah. Well, and

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the thing and the problem and one
of the things I was mentioned in the

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affect that a big problem with this
is you you've had a d S and

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commissioners saying the deal is imminent,
it's next month, it's in a few

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weeks, it's soon you know,
sure, and and and and none of

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this has come to fruition if they've
not said anything, and now we're luck

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when they say something. We get
mad at them for not saying anything,

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that they say something when we wrip
them for saying but now they're saying if

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you don't say anything, then people
aren't going, what the hell? But

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people have been saying stuff. Um, but uh, you know, it's

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it's uh, there's just so much
I don't know, it's like a giant

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hooboo, right, it's just been
smoking blown across the highway for months now,

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and it's hard to see through it
given that I'm going on my diet

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tomorrow. If it's not tomorrow,
will be a week. If it's not

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in a week, will be in
the month. But it's now again further

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in further into this story, it's
talking about how both you know, Colorado

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and Arizona have been the most spoken
about in terms of the Big twelve interest

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in PAC twelve teams, that that
those are the two schools that have you

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know, have have been talked about
the most. But the story says that

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both Arizona President Robert Robbins in Colorado
chance to fill the stefano I said their

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schools won't make any decisions until you
know what the pact. Of course,

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of course, did you did you
see the one from the ESPN story maybe

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an hour or two ago or ten? Schools have been ridiculous, ridiculous see

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patient. A source said, um, the patience is about to pay off.

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Well, okay, so there you
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it's gonna be a big deal.
But the stefano said told the USA today

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in April, we're not even going
to think about going anywhere, none of

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us until we see what kind of
offer we get. And that's still being

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wor sure, which makes all the
sense. And that's why would you go

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before you know? That's the storyline, And that's yeah, we can't have

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the chicken of the eggs right before
they got They gotta they gotta know what

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the deal is before they try and
go to the big twelve where sure you

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know, because how would how would
they feel if they if they left?

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And then the rest of the school's
got a great deal, So I mean

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it makes sense that that they're at
least gonna wait for that and if it's

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not a deal, And then Roberts
said that on our show, Steve,

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he said, look, we're not
going anywhere until we know who we got.

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It makes no sense in the world. So if you got a nice

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car and there may be another nice
car out there, you're not gonna You're

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not gonna throw that nice car into
the ditch until you know you got the

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other car right and the way to
pay for it right, right. So

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you know, I'm not unhappy about
that. I'm just impatient. I continue

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to be impatient about this. Yeah, but you'll be used off on the

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more because Steve, I want,
you know, I want the focus to

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get onto the football. It will
be, it will be, it will

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be, And I think that the
this year is gonna be the fact that

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they're all gonna be a lot of
teams is gonna be very good, will,

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easier, easier pain, because it's
gonna be. We just made the

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bet. I'm taking you a ce
picking in Washington. Washington really hasn't been

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in the limelight since they went to
the title, went to the playoffs in

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twenty sixteen. I think it was
okay. I think we should add caveat

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to that. In order to win
the bet, your team has to be

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the champ okay, So that if
Oregan wins it, right, okay,

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or if Utah wins it, neither
one of us should win the beat okay

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this one. Okay. So you're
picking USC as the packelve champion. I'm

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picking Washington as the pack dwelve champ. And if neither team wins the championship,

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no blood, no no good.
Okay, that's like you like that,

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right? Who's whose team you like
better? Guess he's better? Yeah,

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okay, but you remember you may
leave the room at any time.

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But he was picking Miami, Boston, all these people, so you know,

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but I asked him, thank you. I agree different sports. USC

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is the favorite and they should Yeah, it should be. They should be.

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I'm gonna write the favorite, all
right, chalk, Yeah, they

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and they should be. I just
think Washington is No, they're gonna be

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good. They're gonna be there's a
lot of hey, what's his name?

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A big game? Boomer said he
likes Oregon State as a sleeper team.

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Come on, who who would the
right mind would have said that? A

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couple of years ago. I think
Oregon State's gonna win six games and they

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and you, if that's the case, you should bet the under one at

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eight eight and a half. I
said, that's that's a pretty good to

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big number. Nine wins is a
lot Oregon State, you better look at

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the schedule. I would look at
I will look at the schedule. But

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you know we looked at Arizona schedule
and we only really counted I like five

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five five. Well, you mentioned
what you just mentioned, what you just

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talked about with the Big Game Boomer. Big Game Boomer posted today one school

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that every team is secretly very are
scared to play this season, and so

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for ASU he put Arizona. But
for Arizona he put Washington State, which

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in our discussion the other day,
we you and I said, you know

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that Washington it's Washington State and Oregon
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that they got to win one of
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saw last year, uh with Dolora
from Washington State really laid an egg,

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right and he's got to go up
there back, got to go back to

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It's gonna be a tough situation,
right right. That that No, that

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I agree with him one hundred percent
that that game scares me more than any

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other game because it's the game.
It's one of those games that fans are

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gonna feel it's winnable, and they're
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Fans are gonna feel unless unless they
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in the first few games. I
think fans are gonna feel Arizona should go

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up and beat Washington State. And
if they don't, you know, it's

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gonna it's gonna set. It's gonna
at least that's gonna be a bad week

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after what that's like game seven something
like that. That's that's deep into the

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season. Um where where you already
know how good you are? Why are

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you good? You're gonna be yeah? Game seven, Game seven, Game

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seven, and that's after Oregon State
State. Okay, so if you lose

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that game, you use that game, have to come back and you absolutely

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have to come back and win,
right, Yeah, So that that's it.

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I'm in agreement with that that that's
a game that Arizona fans are gonna

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be scared enough. All let's check
our first break. We're gonna come back,

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We're gonna have Teresa stratsh, we're
gonna talk Little League baseball, and

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I don't know if we're gonna go
into all the bad parents that are out

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there, but just to her take
on if she wrote a book called Making

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We'll put the work in for you. Steve Rivera and Jacob Solids they have

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their eye on the ball on Tucson
sports station Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. They

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welcome back to our invall here Fox
Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera.

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He's jakeles Awsome on the phone.
We have Teresa Stressor a Little Deed mom

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and author. How you doing Teresa
so great? Thanks for having me.

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The name of your book is Making
it Home. But you're not home right

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now. You're in Tucson. Tell
us why that's right. I'm here for

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the State All Star Tournament taking place
at Purple Heart Park, and it is

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very intense out there. I don't
know if you guys have had a chance

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to check it out, but there
is plenty of drama on the sideline.

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A little league you are perfect to
talk about. There always is, Teresa.

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We both got kids who played little
league, so we've we've got stories.

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I know you got stories. But
tell us a little bit about this

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story that that came about. Uh, it's a it's a season of baseball.

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Season of little league baseball has to
do with, you know, the

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loss of some family members, and
you're you're telling that story of that season.

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Just tell us how this came about. So in twenty nineteen, my

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dad and I became as with little
league. My nine year old was in

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the minors. Any little league parent
knows the miners is ten. You so

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nine year olds and ten year olds. And it was a couple of years

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after my brother died. He died
at age forty seven, he had a

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rare form of final cancer, and
my mom died exactly four months later.

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So when this season came about,
we just we became obsessed with our team.

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We knew every kid's statting average.
We were scouting opposing teams, and

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for whatever reason, this became our
grief group, and we were able to

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talk about losing, and to talk
about getting hit by wild pitches, and

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to sort of relive my brother's little
league days, all there on the sidelines

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and seenix Arizona. It must have
been a nice thing to hang out with

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your dad to talk about baseball.
Were you always this detailed into baseball or

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big into baseball? That's a great
question. Well, baseball was not my

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mother tongue. I learned to speak
it with my dad that season. And

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you know, we hadn't been all
that close for we were really grieving in

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different ways. But something about that
season, because as you know, when

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you're a fan of a team,
for example, I could be in an

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airport and I'm from San Francisco.
I could see another Golden State Warriors fan

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in a hat, and that immediately
we have common grounds. So my dad

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and I just became a team of
two and we got so close watching the

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game. And you know what,
I didn't know very much. I had

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grown up watching my brother play,
but I really learned sitting in my cops

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co chair next to my dad.
In fact, I remember when he said

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he got a murderers row out here. I was like, wait, are

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these kids killing people? That's funny? So okay, So what you just

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said a minute ago about how you
became obsessed with Little League and you were

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doing everybody's batting average stuff from the
outside and not knowing you at all,

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That tells that's the classic Little League
mom or dad that you go. Those

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ones are the scary ones. So
tell me how you to not be the

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scary Little League parent by having but
still having that obsession. Okay, I

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want to give a shout out to
all the Little League parents and grandparents who

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are getting way too into it,
because that was my dad and I we

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were. If you saw our text
chains on game day, we will be

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text back and forth dozens of times. But because he had lost my brother

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and we had so much grief,
baseball gave us something to focus on,

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like a sense of normalcy, a
place to be. And when you look

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out on diamond and you see all
the little kids playing like you're happy,

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you know if you played Little League. So if you guys played, it's

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going to bring back those memories.
In fact, today we're here in Tucson,

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our whole teams year. Of course, it was brained olas last night,

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so we're not playing for a couple
of days. And one of the

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little teammates he had to leave to
go back to Phoenix for a couple of

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days. You should have seen these
these nine and ten year olds were hugging

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that kid. He didn't want to
leave. They were all hugging him.

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He got into his car like they
weren't going to see him for a decade,

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even so they're seeing him on Yeah, that's funny. So so tell

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us a little bit thin about how, you know, how this this loss,

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in this grief that that you're you
and your dad were going through,

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how that became part of the picture
of what was going on with the little

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league season, You know what I'm
saying. How did how did they tie

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together? That's a great question.
So making it Home is about that one

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season. And my brother was a
lefty. He played first base. My

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son, who we were watching,
islet he placed first base. They were

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both born on September twenty fourth,
and my brother. I remember my dad

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looking out and he was watching my
son's place first and I think he was

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remembering my brother and if you've lost
somebody to a disease like cancer. When

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you lose that person, the visual
that you have of them is from when

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they were weak, when they were
when they were scared. And Little League

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help us to remember a version of
my brother, who was tough, who

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was a great player, who could
hit any fastball. I remember my dad

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looking out at first and he said, Morgan always knew how to play the

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bounce. He never let the bounce
play him. How um, how cathartic

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was it? Oh my gosh,
you I know you guys both have kids

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who played. At the end of
the game, we would be so wrung

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out from a hit that my dad
would have to go to his trailer park

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and hit that Kirkland to Quilla just
a little too ane for him. Bro

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So so during during the course of
the season, then there had to be

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some moments that kind of stick out
for you. A play that happened,

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or something that was said, or
a game or something that your son said

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or did some of those moments that
that that were in there? What what

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were some of some of those Well, I suffered from disease called EMS pictures

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mom syndrome. I don't know if
you've heard of it. But if you

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are a picture's mom or dad and
you're just you're you're wired a little bit

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nervous. Like there was one game
my son Nate was mom's sound and again

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he was nine. He still plays
now, he's almost fourteen. He's five

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foot ten, big lefty. He
throws hard, he's got a slurve.

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But at nine he was very raw. And I remember one game he hit

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three batters in one inning and he
had to be pulled because the Little League

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of America deems you too dangerous to
be on the mount if he hit three

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kids and one thing. So he's
told, But I remember during that I

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was hiding behind the super bar.
I was so nervous I could fairly watch.

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And I feel like Making It Home
is a memoir in many ways about

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parenting, because there was nothing I
could do to make my sons grow strong

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and help him. He was all
alone up there, and that's a lonely

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place for a nine year old.
But you know what, he just had

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to go through guilty way. The
only way through it was through it and

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his mom. I could do nothing. I couldn't run out there and throw

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straight for him. So you know
what, now, she's a really great

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picture. He's playing travel ball now
and you know he worked out some of

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the kinks that has wind up.
But I'll never forget when the um had

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to pull him and my husband was
coaching that slow walk up to the mound

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and he told Nate Son, you
gotta go like the Little League of America

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thinks you're two dangerous. And then
this handing over the ball to his dad

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and walking back like the out with
his head down. It was just such

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a hard, sad moment for me. And then there was, you know,

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a moment that another moment that I
loved every kid. You know,

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his drat right is d and the
last kid on our team to be drafted.

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This kid just wasn't born to be
an athlete. He cad didn't have

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a good glove, he couldn't throw, he couldn't catch the slow he couldn't

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hit. But at one point a
ball came. He just put in an

407
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important moment. He caught a pop
and the teams just went nut a smile

408
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on that its face. Something I'll
ever forget. Well, it's good that

409
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you're your son controlled the slurve.
We didn't want him to be part of

410
00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:33.039
murderer's role. And you know lost
in this is you know the dads.

411
00:28:33.079 --> 00:28:36.559
The dads you did the book.
Obviously you're the mom, but how did

412
00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:38.559
the dad deal with you? And
you're and his father in law? I

413
00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:44.880
guess through all this because I'm sure
it wasn't easy. Okay. My husband

414
00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:49.160
is the most analytical person you've ever
met. He's basically the Little League equivalent

415
00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:55.559
of Moneyball. When he went to
his draft, he had algorithms, he

416
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had calculations, he had fred Steeds. So he leaves nothing to dance.

417
00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:03.759
And he's not emotional like he drafted
the team. It's not your friends,

418
00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:08.440
it's the next best kid who's good. And he approached every game like how

419
00:29:08.799 --> 00:29:11.920
I put these kids in a position
to win. So he was a very

420
00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:15.880
good counterpoint to my dad and I
because we were deep in our feelings and

421
00:29:17.000 --> 00:29:19.680
he never well. Tell us a
little bit because you say your dad was

422
00:29:19.720 --> 00:29:26.079
such a big part of this,
and read reading the press scot that you

423
00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:29.920
sent us that you feel like your
dad was the hero of this whole thing.

424
00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:34.480
Tell us how did your relationship change
during the course of the season from

425
00:29:34.519 --> 00:29:37.960
start to finish? I mean,
were you were you different together at the

426
00:29:38.079 --> 00:29:45.640
end of this. When it started, I resented my dad because you know,

427
00:29:45.720 --> 00:29:48.839
he was a nyre du well.
He had been a mechanic, but

428
00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:52.119
when he retired he had nothing.
I had to buy a tailor. He

429
00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:56.160
went bankrupt a couple of times.
I had an evil stepmother. He had

430
00:29:56.200 --> 00:30:00.400
separated my brother and I when we
were kids because he got full, but

431
00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:03.000
he gave me back to my mom. And then when my brother died,

432
00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:07.319
things were very, very tense between
us. At the beginning of the season,

433
00:30:07.039 --> 00:30:11.000
we started sitting together, we started
even watching practices. We were those

434
00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:15.000
weirdos who were way too into it. And I think the best way to

435
00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:19.880
answer that question is, I'm calling
you from a room at Hotel Studson,

436
00:30:21.279 --> 00:30:26.519
and four rooms down is my cat. He's also nice, and yeah that

437
00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:29.759
that's amazing that, you know what
I mean? In the end, doing

438
00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:32.720
thing, that's what sports should be, even literally, and that's what the

439
00:30:32.720 --> 00:30:37.640
book book brought him rather right.
Yeah, yeah, so I'll tell us

440
00:30:37.640 --> 00:30:41.359
you started this conversation about parents or
drama going on to the park. We

441
00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:45.960
liked that. What's happening. Okay, First of all, there was people

442
00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:49.519
behind us, and they were not
rooting for our team. They were not

443
00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:56.759
rooting for the opposing team, so
they were clearly scouting. I see they

444
00:30:56.759 --> 00:31:00.640
were trying to see what our bullpened
looks like, what our game plan is.

445
00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:04.079
But don't think that my husband hasn't
tracked down other people's game changers.

446
00:31:04.440 --> 00:31:07.240
Do you guys know what game changer
is? Yeah, that's that the scoring

447
00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:12.200
thing, right. Oh yeah,
So this is an app and they show

448
00:31:12.559 --> 00:31:18.440
video, you know, live stream, so you can actually see other kids

449
00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:22.200
on other teams what they look like. Oh yeah, there's always drama.

450
00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:29.359
My older son played on State All
Stars a few seasons and you know,

451
00:31:29.519 --> 00:31:33.200
one point, I think one family
last they didn't feel their son was getting

452
00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:37.559
enough playing times. It's crazy.
So so you've not you've not done any

453
00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:42.559
coaching or anything. You've been a
spectator the whole time. What how how

454
00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:47.720
do you how do you deal with
coaches? I guess is the way I'll

455
00:31:47.720 --> 00:31:52.000
asked that in terms of how do
you not become the parent that we all

456
00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:57.559
hear about, we see on in
videos and things like that while having this

457
00:31:57.599 --> 00:32:06.359
obsession. It's weird what comes over
you because it really is about the true

458
00:32:06.440 --> 00:32:09.519
helplessness that you feel as a parent, because the reality is there are a

459
00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:13.519
lot of things you aren't going to
be able to help your I think that's

460
00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:17.359
why I learned so much from my
dad, because I was dressed about my

461
00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:22.880
kid not throwing strikes that I helped. My father had his son having cancer

462
00:32:23.359 --> 00:32:30.000
and like slowly dying, so he
truly understood the reality that there's things you

463
00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:32.039
just can't do for your kids.
But yet, even though it's futile,

464
00:32:32.279 --> 00:32:37.440
we try. In fact, last
night, my son he pitched a couple

465
00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:40.759
innings, and you know, I
thought maybe he wasn't throwing his hardest because

466
00:32:40.759 --> 00:32:44.480
he was kind of lobbing it in
there. He wanted to make sure to

467
00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:46.759
throw strikes, and so I was
yelling from the sidelines, fire it,

468
00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:51.880
baby, come on, bring me
hate Like you can't hear me, you

469
00:32:51.920 --> 00:32:54.880
know, Like, who am I
talking to? Yeah? Well, well,

470
00:32:55.200 --> 00:32:59.319
in your book you have a famous
person involved. How did that happen?

471
00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:07.880
Well, cal Ripkins Junior, who
is possibly the greatest lifting baseball player.

472
00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:09.759
He said, a record that I
don't think can ever be broken.

473
00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:15.680
He's such a hero and an icon. And after I wrote my book,

474
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:20.160
my publisher Penguin said, you have
to reach out to famous people to see

475
00:33:20.279 --> 00:33:22.039
they'll renew the book and say a
few words we could put it on the

476
00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:25.400
back cover. So I sat at
my table, kitchen table, and I

477
00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:34.240
thought, what one name would any
baseball parents, or really anyone who's experienced

478
00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:37.720
grief and would read this book,
like, what name would they immediately recognize?

479
00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:42.759
And I knew Cal ripkin Jo.
And even if you've never watched an

480
00:33:42.759 --> 00:33:47.519
inning of baseball, you will know
the name Ca. So I literally google

481
00:33:49.119 --> 00:33:52.680
how to reach Cal ripken j.
And that is how I got an email.

482
00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:57.319
I got about ten different emails.
I wrote a two page letter,

483
00:33:57.839 --> 00:34:00.559
and one of somebody got back to
me. His publicist, I guess,

484
00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:05.480
determined that I was saying I don't
know how, and then he passed the

485
00:34:05.480 --> 00:34:09.599
book along to Cal and he wrote
the most beautiful review. Nice, Well,

486
00:34:10.599 --> 00:34:14.199
it's awesome. We'll read it after
we after we get because we don't

487
00:34:14.199 --> 00:34:17.239
want to lose our time with you. But what did you get out of

488
00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:21.639
this? You know, in the
end, the book's written. You've had

489
00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:24.199
other successful you know, you've been
a successful writer. You have another book

490
00:34:24.239 --> 00:34:28.800
that you've written. But what did
you get from this At the end of

491
00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:35.159
the day, when you think about
this book. I learned so many things

492
00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:42.519
watching those ten year olds play,
and in particular that you cannot step in

493
00:34:42.559 --> 00:34:45.199
the bucket. That's the thing every
Little League parent knows, and that applies

494
00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:49.039
to grief because all of us are
going to get hit by a wild pick.

495
00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:52.519
There isn't any human being who's going
to get off this rock without experiencing

496
00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:57.480
grief of some kind, without losing
somebody or something we love. And what

497
00:34:57.599 --> 00:35:00.360
I learned watching these little tips play. If you want to hit that ball,

498
00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:04.760
if you want to barrel it up, you can't step in the bucket.

499
00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:07.199
You have to risk getting hit by
a pitch. It might hurt,

500
00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:10.920
it might bruise, but there's no
way you're ever going to hit that ball

501
00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:15.039
square unless you risk it. And
that is the same way with grief.

502
00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:19.920
It might hurt, it might staying
in my bruise. You have to feel

503
00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:22.920
it in order to you know,
in order to go on with your life,

504
00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:27.920
in order to experience joy. And
that's another thing I learned just sitting

505
00:35:27.960 --> 00:35:30.199
side by side with my dad.
You can be happy and sad at the

506
00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:34.039
same time. You can fear,
and you can grieve, and you can

507
00:35:34.079 --> 00:35:37.599
cry, and you can scream and
you can yell. You can be happy,

508
00:35:37.679 --> 00:35:40.039
you can be sad. We all
contain multitudes and all of that can

509
00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:45.320
happen within one single inning of baseball. So how can they find? How

510
00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:50.599
can people find the book Making It
at Home Life Lessons from a Season of

511
00:35:50.639 --> 00:35:53.679
Little League by me Teresa Strasser.
It's available now. You can order it

512
00:35:53.719 --> 00:35:58.320
wherever you buy books. You can
hop on Amazon. In fact, Making

513
00:35:58.320 --> 00:36:01.280
It at Home has been one of
the number one baseball books in America since

514
00:36:01.320 --> 00:36:06.599
it's been out, which is crazy
because it's not about Aaron Judge or Ron

515
00:36:06.679 --> 00:36:09.360
Say or all the other big baseball
books out right now. It's about kids

516
00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:13.559
should be cool. And hey,
I see that you used to co host

517
00:36:13.840 --> 00:36:17.639
the Adam Carolla Show, Yeah for
five years on the radio, just like

518
00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:22.320
y'all. Wow, nice, nice, Okay, well, Teresa, did

519
00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:24.440
we thank you for for coming on
the show and talking about this. This

520
00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:29.119
is a This is awesome and I
will have this available on podcast. Can

521
00:36:29.159 --> 00:36:31.360
share? Yeah, you can share
this on a We'll post the podcast tonight

522
00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:35.880
and we'll tag you on it and
hopefully you can share that as well.

523
00:36:36.800 --> 00:36:39.480
Thank you so much for having me. Thanks about Yeah, enjoyed two sign

524
00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:45.559
as best you can thank you?
Yeah. Interesting interesting stuff. So let

525
00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:47.199
me let me. Read the quote
from cal Ripken. It said, baseball

526
00:36:47.239 --> 00:36:51.960
has always been away for people to
come together in making it home. Teresa

527
00:36:51.960 --> 00:36:54.280
and her father used baseball to come
together and work through some of the most

528
00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:59.400
difficult circumstances we can imagine. This
is a story about a team that becomes

529
00:36:59.400 --> 00:37:01.960
a family, and a family that
becomes a team. Is a wonderful book

530
00:37:01.960 --> 00:37:07.760
that powerfully captures how we work through
life's challenges with baseball as a background.

531
00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:10.400
That's pretty cool. Yeah, pretty
cool to have that written about you.

532
00:37:10.679 --> 00:37:15.000
There's another quote in there. You
can you can google the book. You'll

533
00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:19.639
see all this stuff. But the
director of the movie Sandlot talks about this

534
00:37:19.719 --> 00:37:22.840
as well, so article stuff,
and so she found him just by googling

535
00:37:22.920 --> 00:37:24.880
up. Yeah, so hold on, how to find Sophia from God?

536
00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:30.760
I'm trying to look at it right
now. I know we would find a

537
00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:34.599
way to twist that up. All
right, Hey, let's take our break,

538
00:37:34.639 --> 00:37:37.320
Cory to come back. We'll tell
some little League stories when we get

539
00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:39.320
back, because I think both Steve
and I have so I'm sure she saw

540
00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:43.639
a whole lot of them during that
year. But interesting stuff that she talked

541
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I'm Steve Rivera. He's jackens All,

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Scott Jason, and today you got
about ten minutes if you'd like to give

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us a quick call. He wanted
to talk about Little leag First of all,

589
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I was checking out the the customer
reviews of the book on Amazons four

590
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point six out of five. Yeah
nice, it's gotten good reviews, um

591
00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:27.239
against some of the uh, some
of the reviews from famous people like Cal

592
00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:32.760
Ripken, Adam Carolla, um bab
Mankowitz from Turner Classic Movies. He's somebody

593
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that I pay attention to because his
brother Josh is one of the Dateline reporters,

594
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um the director of sand Lot.
All these people go are put there's

595
00:41:44.559 --> 00:41:57.800
reviews from them on the uhok So
anyways, uh uh I can't tell um,

596
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I can't tell sh be here.
So it's uh basically fifteen bucks uh

597
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in paperback on on Amazon, you
can order on kindall, and it's also

598
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an audiobook. No nice, Okay, all right, cool? Pretty good?

599
00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:15.480
But yeah, you know, look
Steve, I mean you know you

600
00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:19.119
played Little League. I played Little
legue our kids played little league. Um,

601
00:42:19.320 --> 00:42:22.119
no, Mike played. Mike just
played soccer. They just played still

602
00:42:22.159 --> 00:42:25.280
around the same thing. As far
as when you're talking about the parents in

603
00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:28.880
the whole bit, Um, you
know, my son played little league baseball.

604
00:42:29.199 --> 00:42:32.039
One of my daughters played softball all
the way through through well into college.

605
00:42:32.559 --> 00:42:36.360
My daughter played soft a couple of
years, but then she did you

606
00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:40.039
know, mostly soccer after that and
then volleyball. But we all ran into

607
00:42:40.079 --> 00:42:44.800
those parents and and uh, the
story, you know, you go through

608
00:42:44.840 --> 00:42:46.639
that much of it, you have
to have story. Oh yeah, yeah,

609
00:42:46.679 --> 00:42:50.880
yeah, you're gonna say what I
have one? Go ahead. So

610
00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:54.440
my kids, Uh, Cameron,
everyone's Cameron, who's a Goldian And it

611
00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:58.159
had to be about twelve years old. He had to be twelve years old.

612
00:42:58.320 --> 00:43:01.119
And there's a lot of Hispanic parents. And these are the elite kids

613
00:43:01.159 --> 00:43:06.199
of the of the AAU circuit.
Uh. And all they did was talk

614
00:43:06.239 --> 00:43:08.880
to each other in Spanish, and
but they knew English too, and Dave

615
00:43:08.960 --> 00:43:13.880
Cosroo was a coaching you know,
Dave Cosros head coach. So they would

616
00:43:13.920 --> 00:43:15.840
go back and forth, you know, not saying kind things of a lot

617
00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:19.960
of things in Spanish. And I
was you know, sitting standing there kind

618
00:43:19.960 --> 00:43:22.159
of and they were off to the
side, p P P p P.

619
00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:23.239
People. I can't say what they're
saying, but you know what they're saying.

620
00:43:23.440 --> 00:43:27.320
And come on, guys, enough
enough of this. You know BS.

621
00:43:27.440 --> 00:43:29.599
And I'm not saying BS. I'm
not this BS. You know.

622
00:43:29.679 --> 00:43:32.440
Back and then they turned to me, says you understand Spanish, I says,

623
00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:36.599
well, I am Hispanic. I
may not look it, but I

624
00:43:36.719 --> 00:43:37.800
know what you guys are saying.
And come on, let them. Let

625
00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:40.519
the kids play. Yeah, they're
good little lit them alone. Don't tell

626
00:43:40.559 --> 00:43:45.239
them how to coach. And after
that they didn't have the conversations about with

627
00:43:45.360 --> 00:43:47.599
me. Yeah. Well, you
know, it's funny because Teresa was talking

628
00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:52.480
about the story of her son who
hit three kids. They came and got

629
00:43:52.599 --> 00:43:57.239
him. So my daughter was alone. Was a picture from middle school on

630
00:43:57.400 --> 00:44:00.960
actually even before that, but she's
a picture of school. She's in the

631
00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:05.800
eighth grade. She's our only pitcher, right, she has to throw.

632
00:44:06.199 --> 00:44:08.360
We don't have anybody else. So
we're in a game and she's hit three

633
00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:15.840
girls, all right, and she
hits the fourth girls school middle school.

634
00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:19.519
She's in the eighth grade, so
she hits she hits this girl. The

635
00:44:19.599 --> 00:44:22.840
girl starts crying. It's a second
time she's hit her. Okay, So

636
00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:25.599
the girl is crying. Them comes
to me and says, if she hits

637
00:44:25.639 --> 00:44:29.639
one more, we're gonna have to
take her out of the game. But

638
00:44:29.800 --> 00:44:32.760
she hits the girl and the ball
bounces away, and my daughter, being

639
00:44:35.199 --> 00:44:38.599
let's just say, very determined,
okay, she didn't go give her a

640
00:44:38.679 --> 00:44:42.360
hug or anything like that. She
was like, give me the ball so

641
00:44:42.480 --> 00:44:46.280
I can throw my next She felt
no sorrow for the girl who she had

642
00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:51.079
just hit the second time was slug
was had crumbled to the ground at home

643
00:44:51.159 --> 00:44:52.639
plate, and she just wanted the
ball back so she could throw the next

644
00:44:52.679 --> 00:44:58.199
pitch. And that told me this
kid is going to be a handful.

645
00:44:58.320 --> 00:45:00.239
By by that, I mean very
determined kid. Sure she didn't let it

646
00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:02.920
bother. We didn't she hit another
person. No, she didn't hit anymore.

647
00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:06.880
Okay, And she didn't hit anymore. She finished the game. But

648
00:45:07.239 --> 00:45:09.119
when she hit that girl, she
told me one more and she's out.

649
00:45:09.800 --> 00:45:14.480
But instead of getting worried about it, instead of you know whatever, she

650
00:45:14.639 --> 00:45:15.719
was just like, give me the
ball, Yeah, throw me the ball.

651
00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:19.880
I'm ready to throw my It was
well the story I remember you telling

652
00:45:20.280 --> 00:45:22.079
telling us it was the dad,
Dad, the dad who said, what

653
00:45:22.199 --> 00:45:25.760
are you doing putting my kid to
pitch? That's of all the little league

654
00:45:25.800 --> 00:45:29.000
stories, I've told that story on
here before. That's why didn't tell it

655
00:45:29.000 --> 00:45:30.440
again. Just not, but of
all the stories that I of all the

656
00:45:30.519 --> 00:45:35.000
things I experienced as a as a
coach all the way through high school,

657
00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:38.920
that one where um, it was
the last game of the season. This

658
00:45:39.159 --> 00:45:43.239
was that, this was minors.
Okay, so well it was work.

659
00:45:43.400 --> 00:45:45.679
This was the first year work,
ten years old where the kids were pitching.

660
00:45:46.239 --> 00:45:49.599
And this kid through towards the end
of the season, and he was

661
00:45:49.599 --> 00:45:52.760
a kid that didn't do much in
Sandwich. He was that kid who wasn't

662
00:45:52.760 --> 00:45:54.800
a good ball player. I think
he was out there because his dad was

663
00:45:54.800 --> 00:45:58.400
like, I'm gonna make my son
play little league, um, you know,

664
00:45:58.440 --> 00:46:00.239
to whatever, to be a man
or whatever her and but he was

665
00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:02.440
out there all year long. Had
come to the practice, so didn't say

666
00:46:02.440 --> 00:46:07.760
a lot, participated what wasn't very
good, but I was always trying.

667
00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:10.599
And so towards the end of the
season we let him pitch a little in

668
00:46:10.760 --> 00:46:15.000
you know, in batting practice and
stuff. So then he said he wanted

669
00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:15.920
to pitch in the game. So
he said we would let him pitch in

670
00:46:15.960 --> 00:46:20.079
the last game. So we go
to the last Indian of the last game

671
00:46:20.480 --> 00:46:23.039
and we bring him in and his
dad comes sprinting out of the bleachers like,

672
00:46:23.119 --> 00:46:25.119
what the hell are you doing.
You're gonna embarrass my kid. He

673
00:46:25.199 --> 00:46:28.800
doesn't know how to pitch, he
can't throw, YadA, YadA, YadA,

674
00:46:29.079 --> 00:46:30.639
And we just told the dad to
go sit the hell down, go

675
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:35.000
sit down, and and the kids
struck out the side. He struck out

676
00:46:35.039 --> 00:46:39.199
three in a row, and we
never saw the daddy the game ended.

677
00:46:39.239 --> 00:46:43.519
Didn't see the dad because I wanted
to throw him the finger or something.

678
00:46:43.559 --> 00:46:46.519
I was so mad at him,
but you know the kids. I hope

679
00:46:46.559 --> 00:46:51.679
the kid went up and said him
there that that that was for you,

680
00:46:51.840 --> 00:46:53.679
you big, but give me where's
my ice cream? But I wanted to

681
00:46:53.760 --> 00:46:58.760
do that. I mean I literally, well not I we because we were

682
00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:01.800
three coaches. We looked for the
dad. We were looking for him to

683
00:47:01.920 --> 00:47:04.880
be able to go up and say
something. But don't you know, don't

684
00:47:04.920 --> 00:47:07.559
do that to your kid. Jason, you have one, did you play?

685
00:47:07.639 --> 00:47:08.920
You probably play. I didn't play. If I don't have any good

686
00:47:09.000 --> 00:47:13.239
stories, I feel none that I
could think of right now. No,

687
00:47:13.480 --> 00:47:16.599
probably, But I did play UM
football when I was younger that I played

688
00:47:16.719 --> 00:47:22.960
volleyball UM and the basketball too.
But I mean, you know, nothing

689
00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:29.480
that comes to the parents. Coaches
or refs were the worst of your experience?

690
00:47:29.639 --> 00:47:35.480
UM, probably coaches really, My
coaches really you know, like amped

691
00:47:35.599 --> 00:47:38.119
up all the time, like for
everything. So yeah, I think you

692
00:47:38.159 --> 00:47:43.079
know they probably were, you know, the worst or the most memorable these

693
00:47:43.119 --> 00:47:45.920
for me. So yeah, I
remember I was umpiring the game and I

694
00:47:46.400 --> 00:47:49.920
was there to watch my son's game. All right, he was I think

695
00:47:49.960 --> 00:47:52.199
he would have been ten or eleven
years old. He was in he was

696
00:47:52.239 --> 00:47:55.079
in majors, and I just just
went to watch this game. Well,

697
00:47:55.079 --> 00:47:58.559
they didn't have they didn't have a
home play umpire, and I've done.

698
00:47:58.760 --> 00:48:00.400
I was an umpiring league, so
they asked me to hump the game.

699
00:48:01.079 --> 00:48:06.719
And um, so you know,
at one point there was a pitch that

700
00:48:07.079 --> 00:48:08.480
I called a strike, was on
the outside corner. I called a strike.

701
00:48:09.119 --> 00:48:12.760
And I was good friends with all
the coaches, right because you know,

702
00:48:12.800 --> 00:48:15.159
I just knew him all. And
the coach yells from the dug out

703
00:48:15.159 --> 00:48:19.760
the opposed the coachails from the dugout, you're really like, come on call

704
00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:24.559
it straight. I ripped off my
mask and I went over there and I

705
00:48:24.679 --> 00:48:27.880
and I just got up in the
guy's face. I said, you know,

706
00:48:28.280 --> 00:48:31.039
you asked me to umpire this game. I said, if you think

707
00:48:31.079 --> 00:48:36.320
I'm not calling this straight, then
you got a problem. Said yeah.

708
00:48:36.400 --> 00:48:38.599
I said, you know, I'll
I'll leave or you're gonna leave one of

709
00:48:38.639 --> 00:48:42.480
the two. I said, but
don't. Don't you say one more thing

710
00:48:42.599 --> 00:48:44.719
like that to me. And the
thing was he was a good friend of

711
00:48:44.719 --> 00:48:45.840
mine. He was he was a
journalism professor at the U of A,

712
00:48:46.440 --> 00:48:51.079
and um and uh, you know, and his kid was on the other

713
00:48:51.119 --> 00:48:52.239
team, and you know, he
and I know. It was a It

714
00:48:52.440 --> 00:48:59.199
was a kind of a quick reaction
kind of thing. Probably forgot who was

715
00:48:59.280 --> 00:49:01.480
umpiring, probably got the off the
circumstances of it and just said, come

716
00:49:01.519 --> 00:49:05.039
on, call it straight. It
was just a commented he was arguing to

717
00:49:05.119 --> 00:49:07.440
strike. But man, that was
the closest I came to having a thing

718
00:49:08.159 --> 00:49:13.000
as an umpire in the league.
Yeah. I don't know how I would

719
00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:15.679
have handled. I would just since
he here's my mask, here my shoting

720
00:49:15.719 --> 00:49:19.000
guards or whatever. You were protective
and says here you here, I'm done.

721
00:49:19.119 --> 00:49:22.800
You have your little game. Oh
and then all Stars were the worst.

722
00:49:22.840 --> 00:49:25.920
I umpired, umpire Majors, All
Stars the district tournament one year.

723
00:49:27.360 --> 00:49:30.800
Oh my god, that's that's what
she Yeah, you want to talk about

724
00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:36.400
a whole new level of parents because
those are parents and now the best players

725
00:49:36.480 --> 00:49:38.760
in the league. That was Twitter
before Twitter was twitter. Oh my god,

726
00:49:39.280 --> 00:49:44.239
Oh my god. That that was
that. That was so tell me,

727
00:49:44.280 --> 00:49:46.119
tell me, we gotta gotta been
enough. What was she talking about?

728
00:49:46.159 --> 00:49:50.960
The scouting thing? You're not allowed
to scout, but but she there's

729
00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:52.159
something. There's a scout. She
said that. She said that there were

730
00:49:52.719 --> 00:49:57.519
that there were Oh, the Game
Change nap. It's a nap. That's

731
00:49:57.920 --> 00:50:01.480
that was first. It was first
developed when I was coaching uh high school

732
00:50:01.559 --> 00:50:06.119
baseball. Stall. It's a it's
an app to track to do your stats.

733
00:50:06.639 --> 00:50:08.920
You keep scoring this app okay,
and so all you all you gotta

734
00:50:08.920 --> 00:50:12.599
those keeps. But it doesn't show
video of the kids. It does now

735
00:50:12.880 --> 00:50:15.320
there there's there's there's ways to shoot
video and put them on Game Change.

736
00:50:15.559 --> 00:50:19.320
So there's no scouting, but you
can use that. You can go on

737
00:50:19.400 --> 00:50:22.039
there and see you see how you
can record your games on there. You

738
00:50:22.079 --> 00:50:25.119
can record games and put them on
there, and people can go see those

739
00:50:25.159 --> 00:50:30.360
games for recruiting. It's a whole
new level of thing that that app had

740
00:50:30.400 --> 00:50:32.280
just come out. We were just
starting to use it, uh towards the

741
00:50:32.360 --> 00:50:39.840
tail end when I was coaching idea. But uh, will you just kept

742
00:50:39.880 --> 00:50:43.400
scoring the game and then accumulating all
your sets. That's how you send them

743
00:50:43.400 --> 00:50:46.280
to you to max perhaps so that
then they've got they've got all the stats.

744
00:50:46.440 --> 00:50:50.679
Crazy night. I religiously kept that
because we would put our stats because

745
00:50:50.679 --> 00:50:55.159
the parents and kids and as little
john that thing has gone very far.

746
00:50:55.360 --> 00:51:00.519
Little Johnny Yet three twenty two.
You can't spell cat, but he's batting

747
00:51:00.519 --> 00:51:01.800
three twenty two. And I got
to give a shout out to the to

748
00:51:01.960 --> 00:51:07.320
the parent I know who's keeping his
kid's stats, batting stats and t ball.

749
00:51:07.639 --> 00:51:08.840
He was saying, he's batting like
nine hundred. Said, if he's

750
00:51:08.880 --> 00:51:13.920
not batting the thousand, then he
sucks. Okay, if in T ball

751
00:51:14.000 --> 00:51:16.280
everybody gets a hit on every yet
bat, as long as we're not picking

752
00:51:16.360 --> 00:51:22.079
daisies, let's take our break.
We'll take We're gonna come back. Breaking

753
00:51:22.159 --> 00:51:24.039
news right breaking us with Jason.
We'll be right back