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Speaker 2: The world sometimes seems like it's a crazy place, Like
Speaker 2: we constantly open our eyes to more and more insanity,
Speaker 2: and we try to figure out what's the next steps
Speaker 2: that we can take to try to alleviate some of
Speaker 2: the insanity. We get wrapped up in the red versus
Speaker 2: Blue fight and we don't pay attention to little things
Speaker 2: that could maybe bring a smile to our face. Last week,
Speaker 2: I was a part of such an event when I
Speaker 2: saw the local high school in the town that I
Speaker 2: live in win the South State Championship to earn a
Speaker 2: spot to go to Pearl, Mississippi to play for the
Speaker 2: Baseball State Championship. In a minor League Stadium. It was incredible.
Speaker 2: The crowd was really just engaged in the game, and
Speaker 2: I think they helped elevate those players on the field.
Speaker 2: And the joy on those kids' eyes just seeing the
Speaker 2: excitement knowing that they've got a chance to play for
Speaker 2: a championship. It's one of those things that I was
Speaker 2: happy to witness. And of course I adopted nephew, Cambridge
Speaker 2: McDaniel is on that team, so that made it that
Speaker 2: much more special. Later today they'll play Game one in
Speaker 2: the state championship series. They're a really good team. They're
Speaker 2: probably the favorite team going into this game. But it's baseball.
Speaker 2: We never know what's going to happen in the game
Speaker 2: of baseball. But one thing's for certain, and one thing
Speaker 2: that I'm going to take with me to Pearl I'm
Speaker 2: going to take with me that the fact that I'm
Speaker 2: getting to watch these kids, some of them who are
Speaker 2: putting on their high school uniform for the last time,
Speaker 2: go out there and give it their all. They're working
Speaker 2: just two wins away. They're working towards the goal they
Speaker 2: set many years ago. This school, South Jones has not
Speaker 2: won a state championship in baseball in forty one years.
Speaker 2: As a Cubs fan, I can completely understand and relate
Speaker 2: to long droughts. Forty one years seems like nothing to
Speaker 2: US Cubs fans, but to these South Jones Braves fans,
Speaker 2: it's a big deal. Today, we'll see how Game one
Speaker 2: goes and we'll know if tomorrow night might set the
Speaker 2: stage for a championship celebration. We'll see. But as I said,
Speaker 2: this is baseball, and baseball can be one of the
Speaker 2: cruelest games on the planet. Baseball can be that sport
Speaker 2: that punishes you. It's that sport that even when you
Speaker 2: hit the ball dead solid, perfect, it still ends up
Speaker 2: in somebody's glove. You throw the best pitch you've ever thrown,
Speaker 2: and the batter just times it right and crushes it.
Speaker 2: It's part of why we love baseball so much. It
Speaker 2: is just such an interesting game, a game that teaches
Speaker 2: you failure because you're going to fill in the sport
Speaker 2: of baseball. There's no way around it. These kids last
Speaker 2: Wednesday night, sitting on their home field, they got to say.
Speaker 2: For those seniors, they get to say we won, and
Speaker 2: not to have a dogpile and watch fireworks in our
Speaker 2: final game on our home field. So no matter what
Speaker 2: happens this week in Pearl, those kids have already cemented
Speaker 2: a legacy for themselves. Several of them are going to
Speaker 2: go play at another level, and then there's going to
Speaker 2: be several more that when they take off that uniform
Speaker 2: for the final time, after the final game this week,
Speaker 2: that would be it for their baseball career. Doesn't always
Speaker 2: seem fair, It doesn't always seem right that at some
Speaker 2: point you no longer get to play the game you love.
Speaker 2: For those who are fortunate, they get to play for years,
Speaker 2: maybe even make a career out of it. But for
Speaker 2: most it's going to end sooner rather than later, whether
Speaker 2: it ends after Little League, or ends after high school
Speaker 2: or ends after college. At some point, that uniform that
Speaker 2: you so love to put on, that field that you
Speaker 2: so love to step out on and just smell the
Speaker 2: grass and play ball, you're not going to get to
Speaker 2: any longer. Maybe you'll go into coaching, maybe you'll join
Speaker 2: a beer softball league, but it's never going to be
Speaker 2: the same of what you're experiencing right now. It's never
Speaker 2: going to be the same experience to what you're experiencing
Speaker 2: right now. My advice to these young men, these amazing
Speaker 2: group of athletes there at South Jones here in Ellisville, Mississippi,
Speaker 2: is enjoy every moment. Play the game like it's the
Speaker 2: last game you'll ever play. Leave nothing, leave it, leave
Speaker 2: nothing behind, Take everything with you onto that field and
Speaker 2: play like champions. Let the other things ring sizes and
Speaker 2: discussing discussions of a championship. Let that stuff be discussed
Speaker 2: another day. You step out on that field and be
Speaker 2: the best versions of yourselves. We've already seen it, and
Speaker 2: when we've seen it, we know what you're capable of
Speaker 2: in those moments. So hopefully this week we'll see a
Speaker 2: little bit more and just two more wins. But no
Speaker 2: matter what, understand, what you guys did last Wednesday night
Speaker 2: to set off the fireworks and trigger that dog pile
Speaker 2: celebration has already submitted your life legacy and that is
Speaker 2: something you should be completely proud of for the rest
Speaker 2: of your lives. This has been Morning Coffee with the
Speaker 2: Right Side and I'm your host, Jack Fairchild's and we're
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