WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:03.799 This is I on the Ball with Steve Ramira on 2 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:07.960 Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Subscribe now to the podcast on 3 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:11.400 the iHeartRadio just search I on the Ball. 4 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:15.679 Hey, welcome back to Eye on About herel Fox Sports 5 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:20.039 fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera, your blake eager, and I 6 00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:22.359 was gonna ask you. You've been around town all your 7 00:00:22.399 --> 00:00:25.399 life except for the time you left. Uh, when did 8 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:28.480 baseball become part of your life and maybe impressionable for 9 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:29.800 other people to watch? 10 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:34.679 Ten years old day nineteen two two? For me? 11 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:36.640 Yeah, I know that you started paying attention and you 12 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:37.960 saw this guy's pretty good or whatever? 13 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:44.159 Oh, how good? Although I was playing with yeah oh 14 00:00:44.600 --> 00:00:46.439 to eight eight year old? 15 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:48.679 Yeah, there's a kid in my little league that through 16 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:51.280 absolute fuzz. And I think I got to play majors 17 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:52.560 when I was nine, maybe ten. 18 00:00:52.679 --> 00:00:56.000 So don't tell me in your in your recollection and 19 00:00:56.039 --> 00:00:59.439 your memory bank, who are the top three five best 20 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:02.560 player as you saw from Give me a time, give me. 21 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:04.519 I mean, listen, it's gonna say. 22 00:01:04.599 --> 00:01:07.799 I think my generation for two Sonans is by far 23 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:10.239 the best generation for baseball players in tu Son's history. 24 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:13.120 I mean, you can make the argument, right, you had 25 00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:15.519 the Duncans, you had Harriston, you had Kensler, you had 26 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:20.439 JJ Hardy, you had Would I'm just I'm just naming 27 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:23.560 the Jamie Vermilia you had. I mean, just naming the 28 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:25.920 big leaguers. Right then you start going down the list 29 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:27.560 of guys. Every team you played had two guys that 30 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:31.840 were pro guys. Mhm uh, I mean Pallaverdi had three 31 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:35.480 top draft guys. You know, you had Jared Fuel, you 32 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:38.640 had Will Smith, you had Jason Hannah. Like, it's it's 33 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:42.439 why every literally every school you played had a minor league. 34 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:44.760 But how so that's not Gilbert de Vera. 35 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:47.359 That's not the same now right, It's not the no, no, 36 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:49.920 no to the high school baseball Listen. And I hate 37 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:53.000 to say this because I ran an academy for pretty 38 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:56.599 much my adult life. But the development stage is now 39 00:01:56.599 --> 00:01:58.640 where you're just trying to go out and win trophies, 40 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:00.519 like they're just trying to pick him pick the best 41 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:01.319 players and go win. 42 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:04.760 There's no development so high school level. 43 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:06.400 And this isn't a knock on anybody, but there's no 44 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:08.599 there's no sense of what high school was. There's a 45 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:10.680 few out there, like there's some good high schools out there, 46 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:13.520 but as a whole you look around, it's just you're 47 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:17.240 not seeing developed competition. Why is that because you play 48 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:19.439 year round. You've got coaches telling twelve year olds they 49 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:21.319 need to pick one sport like it's absurd. 50 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:24.240 Yeah, yeah, and you're against that. I'm one against that. 51 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:27.159 I don't want to listen no offense to anybody, but 52 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:30.439 I don't want a baseball mentality on the mound. I 53 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:33.039 want a football mentality, Like, give me somebody that's not 54 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:37.400 scared to run over somebody. Right, it's plus you're telling 55 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:39.439 you're telling people like I tell you about this with 56 00:02:39.479 --> 00:02:42.000 girls softball, Like, I don't know how those girls by 57 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:43.759 the time they're sixteen, you're just like, I never want 58 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:46.080 to play the sport ever again. Right, you're spending every 59 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:48.039 single weekend of your life and it's not like you're 60 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:50.520 going to Phoenix. You're traveling over the country. Hey, I 61 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:53.039 don't know how parents afford it. And then it's not 62 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:55.840 a knock, but you don't have the development at that level. 63 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:57.240 It's just you're trying to play as much you can. 64 00:02:57.280 --> 00:02:58.879 You're trying to take as many swings as you can. 65 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:01.520 That's not really like there's too much going into the 66 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:03.280 sport at this point. There's too much information out there 67 00:03:03.319 --> 00:03:04.879 to do that. I think it happens with soccer two 68 00:03:04.919 --> 00:03:07.080 I happened. I think it happens with every sport. Right 69 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:09.960 you're getting into academy model. From a soccer standpoint, if 70 00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:12.120 you're in Europe or you're in South America, you're going 71 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:14.280 into academy when you're ten. I mean you're looking in 72 00:03:14.360 --> 00:03:15.879 Asia America too. It's the same thing. 73 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:19.080 Chinese, like Chinese ping pong players are going and playing 74 00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:22.360 at like six years old. So how would you fix it, 75 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:24.240 or at least not fix it. Fix this is not 76 00:03:24.280 --> 00:03:26.000 the right word. How would you handle it? 77 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:29.919 That's a really good question. I don't know. 78 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:32.199 I don't know if you can reverse the course we're on. 79 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:34.560 But you're looking at look at the NBA. Look at 80 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:37.080 where NBA players are coming from. Like the international game 81 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:41.039 is huge, right They're they're not just playing basketball all 82 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:44.120 year round right there, You're you're finding different athletes and 83 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:46.280 going through the system. You're looking at baseball. Baseball is 84 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:49.759 an international sport, but they're starting early, starting earlier, and 85 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:53.080 the emphasis has to be on I think the mentality 86 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:55.919 that winning doesn't really matter at a young age. 87 00:03:56.360 --> 00:03:56.879 They shouldn't. 88 00:03:56.919 --> 00:04:00.639 Who cares, Like nobody's asking nobody's asking me if I 89 00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:04.159 want a TENU championship on a resume, like nobody cares. 90 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:06.120 Just what they'll guess what. We live in a place 91 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:08.759 where that's all that matters, you know, who cares the most? 92 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:12.520 Parents, that's and the coach is always wrong, the umpire 93 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:15.599 is always wrong, you're my son's never wrong. My son 94 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:18.160 he's not playing enough. It's like, well, you've got three 95 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:19.959 big league coaches in the dog, Well he needs to 96 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:22.759 play more. It's not the spot for you, like he's 97 00:04:22.759 --> 00:04:25.480 not good enough. Yeah, no, no, no, I don't. I 98 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:27.480 don't disagree with you at all because it's true. 99 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:31.199 And the parents, right, and they talk about winning, winning, winning, 100 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:33.480 it's not about winning, it's about getting better. 101 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:35.759 And it's my age, it's my age culture, right. 102 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:38.360 I mean you look at parents all my age that 103 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:40.800 were not raised like that, that are raised now. And 104 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:43.600 we've had this conversation a couple of times that the 105 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:46.319 action has to stop with them and they have to say, listen, 106 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:48.839 I don't care if they get a trophy, like I 107 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:51.040 don't care if they get a ring, like are they 108 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:52.759 becoming better human beings? 109 00:04:53.279 --> 00:04:54.680 Should be your number one question. 110 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:57.759 Are they second questions should be are they having fun? 111 00:04:58.120 --> 00:04:59.519 Maybe you can flip flop both of them. 112 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:01.160 If both some of them are, yes, you're in a 113 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:02.480 really good situation in life. 114 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:04.920 Okay, Okay, I totally agree with you, and I wish 115 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:08.000 more people would think that way. How realistic is it 116 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:10.399 today to have parents think that way? 117 00:05:11.800 --> 00:05:13.920 I mean, you're asking the person this is what I 118 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:17.120 went through, right, I mean you're you actually coach like 119 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:20.199 it's not realistic, it's and it's not realistic. 120 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:23.720 Okay, let's say we had unrealistic in every fifteen we 121 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:24.519 have fifteen kids. 122 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:27.360 You're just a number fifteen kids, and of the parents, 123 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:30.879 how many of those believe that? I listen, there's a 124 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:33.040 handful of people that But yeah, agree, Yeah, it's not 125 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:35.759 like it's not one hundred percent across the board. But 126 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:38.399 how many times did your parents ever talk to a coach? 127 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:41.519 My dads were friends with them. So, but he's not 128 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:43.360 your playing. He didn't talk about that. 129 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:45.240 I was good. I was good, But no, that never happened. 130 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:45.839 Never happened. 131 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:48.040 Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, if I wasn't good enough, because what 132 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:52.120 I wasn't good enough? Yeah, it's wild to me yeah, no, 133 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:55.240 it ended with my time. I think with my and 134 00:05:55.319 --> 00:05:57.839 I had friends whose parents did that, you know, and 135 00:05:58.040 --> 00:05:58.839 we knew who they were. 136 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:02.399 Yeah, and you couldn't stand them. There were our friends. 137 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:03.240 It's not that was in it. 138 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:06.040 We just says, why he's just not good, and that's 139 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:09.000 a hard it's maybe it's just not the line where 140 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:11.120 they want to go, right, Like maybe they're just not athletic, 141 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:14.519 and that's okay. Yeah I'm not very smart, that's okay, right, 142 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:16.959 I try to make do with what I've got. 143 00:06:17.079 --> 00:06:20.079 Yeah, there's not enough fit in where you fit in, right, 144 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:21.920 or getting where you fit in, or well he's a 145 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:23.720 heckless Evins player, or he's a heck of a guy 146 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:24.920 to help with a whatever. 147 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:27.519 I'm an only child, so obviously you can take that 148 00:06:27.560 --> 00:06:29.600 how you want. But my parents did a really good 149 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:32.480 job at a very young age of making sure that 150 00:06:32.839 --> 00:06:35.160 to choose a path that I was that I cared about. 151 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:39.160 But I like I thoroughly. I enjoyed going to work, right, 152 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:41.560 and that's that's not always the case. You don't always 153 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:44.079 get that option, true, right, So outside of that, there 154 00:06:44.079 --> 00:06:46.959 should be some kind of self sustainability where it's work 155 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:49.160 life balance, whatever you want to call it. Yeah, I 156 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:51.480 think you're putting so much pressure on these young kids 157 00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:54.879 to perform at a level that's unrealistic to the most 158 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:58.360 quest degree that you're you've got You've got eleven year 159 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:01.040 olds that are and listen, they came to me taking 160 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:03.560 pitching lessons, taking any of the lessons, taking catching lessons. 161 00:07:03.720 --> 00:07:06.319 Then they're going to a personal trainer, and then they're 162 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:08.240 going to like, let's like. 163 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:11.600 Yeah, maybe step back a little Todd marinovi Che, Yeah. 164 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:13.199 Give him a bucket of rice, get your hand in there, 165 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:15.040 see how much you can develop those forums, and then 166 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:15.519 go from there. 167 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:16.399 That's funny. 168 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:20.240 No coach Nopus said this last time he was on 169 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:22.279 you were on here, But I think this is when 170 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:24.720 he was personally on, said one of the parents or 171 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:26.360 one of the kids talks about you know, because he 172 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:28.800 teaches with his sons. Right, one of the kids came 173 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:30.800 up and said something to me. I got a calls. 174 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:32.360 I'll bring up the story. It was when I was 175 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:36.079 on Okay, Hello, you're on the air nine of the ball. 176 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:38.000 Who's this Hello, You're on the air. 177 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:44.360 Hello, Hello, Jim, turn off that radio you call him 178 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:49.000 from the past. Hello, Hey, what happened. You turn off 179 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:50.399 the radio so you can get us in real time? 180 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:52.160 What's off? 181 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:53.720 And I couldn't even hear you? 182 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:57.839 Guys, Hey, it's yes, Well your thoughts? What's up? 183 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:01.399 Well, we're talking about I spend a little time at 184 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:03.399 I coached for eight or nine years in the Little 185 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:08.600 leagues and juniors and pony leagues. And Blake, is that 186 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:09.759 your guests name? 187 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:11.000 Yes, yes, I hope. 188 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:17.160 So I agree with what you said that and what 189 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:23.800 Steve said, primarily that you know, you've got to sell 190 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:28.480 the team and the parents on the idea that. 191 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:31.240 This is done. 192 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:36.639 Best with twelve people who man who play a role, 193 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:41.720 not necessarily a position, but they play a role which 194 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:46.240 we map out them as their performance changes or grows 195 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:50.639 during the year. And sometimes your role is, you know, 196 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:51.840 have your butt on the bench. 197 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:54.840 Yeah, Jim, let me ask you real quick, how long 198 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:56.720 did you coach? And who was your last year? 199 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:04.039 Oh? Man, twenty ten was probably the last year I 200 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:06.879 did it. And I coached for ten years. 201 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:09.440 Oh okay, so not a long time. But sometimes so 202 00:09:10.039 --> 00:09:13.600 when did it start to change? Maybe it's probably started 203 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:15.960 to change before you, but did you see it change 204 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:16.320 on you? 205 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:19.279 I'll tell you what I what I noticed, Steve is 206 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:23.240 you know, and one of the reasons I got involved 207 00:09:23.320 --> 00:09:29.159 is kids had a hard time having success hitting the ball. 208 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:35.600 Just a really difficult process to master, and nobody really 209 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:39.720 masters it, but to gain some consistency, I should say. 210 00:09:40.519 --> 00:09:48.279 And and so we tried to give kids and I 211 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:51.879 think we did that. Jay would attest to that, we 212 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:56.279 give them the fundamentals, and our two or three approaches 213 00:09:56.279 --> 00:09:58.200 of that, Blake's probably hurt all of them. 214 00:09:58.559 --> 00:09:58.759 You know. 215 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:02.519 We focused on rotation, a little bit of batley lag 216 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:05.679 and looking for a fastball out over the outside part 217 00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:11.000 of the play if you want to hit the ball consistency. 218 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:16.080 So kids had a hard time with, you know, learning 219 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:19.799 to hit, learning why they're not hitting with another thing. 220 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:25.480 And then soccer. I mean I wasn't a soccer guy, 221 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:28.759 so I don't want to come down on that, but 222 00:10:29.039 --> 00:10:33.679 I mean, baseball, you're swinging at a hard ball, that's 223 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:36.440 what is it, two and a half inches in diameter 224 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:41.320 something like that, and it's harder to hit it than 225 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:44.879 it is the mythic soccer. You're dealing with a ten 226 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:47.519 or eleven inch ball, and if you whiff on a 227 00:10:47.559 --> 00:10:53.320 soccer ball, you must be blind. So just the contact. 228 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:59.600 The field of success is a little different, a little 229 00:10:59.639 --> 00:11:03.000 easier to achieve, and so we started seeing the numbers 230 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:07.360 in the league start to slowly drop. Yeah, and that 231 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:10.360 was ten twelve more years ago. 232 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:13.080 Yeah right, right, Okay, Well, thanks Jim for the call. 233 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:14.000 Gotta go. 234 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:17.799 Okay, I appreciate it, right, thanks for listening. Kay, welcome. 235 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:20.279 So so Blake, So you. 236 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:21.919 Were on the call, But did you talk about I 237 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:23.320 don't know if you were here when we talked about 238 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:24.360 this though, that he was. 239 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:26.039 Teaching the kids and talking the kids. 240 00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:29.360 And maybe batting or whatever it was, and the guy says, well, you. 241 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:31.559 Need to do Lopez is telling you need to do this. 242 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:35.399 Do this, coach. Offensive players are the ones who make 243 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:35.840 the money. 244 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:38.200 No, don't get paid to hit. Yeah, don't get paid 245 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:40.519 aunt right yeah not coffee baby. 246 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:43.200 That's a unbelievable to me. 247 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:43.600 Yeah. 248 00:11:44.279 --> 00:11:46.639 Literally, you have the chance that you're talking him, one 249 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:49.080 of the greatest college coaches of all. 250 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:53.120 Time, like some ten eleven twelve year old saying this. Yeah, 251 00:11:53.240 --> 00:11:55.559 that's it is Back in. 252 00:11:55.519 --> 00:11:58.399 My day when I told when Jason Terry was playing 253 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:00.519 and he was, you know, defensive player and he didn't 254 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:03.519 make the All Star team or something coach, you know, well, 255 00:12:04.519 --> 00:12:08.159 defensive players don't drive Cadillacs. Then he kind of looked 256 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:12.200 at me. Shut up. You know, he was kind to me, 257 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:14.960 but because it's all stupid. Yeah, I mean, what does 258 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:16.320 it matter? Just win, just playing. 259 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:20.320 It's like Jack McDowell, right, the old picture for the 260 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:23.399 White Sox and everybody like he didn't have great eras, 261 00:12:23.480 --> 00:12:25.080 but they won a lot of games, right, That's all 262 00:12:25.080 --> 00:12:26.039 that matters in the today. 263 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:29.480 Yeah, no, crazy crazy about sports, especially with the kids. 264 00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:33.240 And it's gonna get worse because it's all end the result. Yeah, 265 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:38.639 I mean, we'll see. You wouldn't go back, would I 266 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:39.120 go back? 267 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:43.360 Yeah? And do which part? Coach? I I hope. 268 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:45.840 I don't want to Alma helmbta No, I mean I 269 00:12:45.879 --> 00:12:47.919 did it forever, right, Like that was a phase of 270 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:50.240 my life that I think I'm over with. I'd like 271 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:52.639 to continue on what I'm doing now. Yeah, everythink I 272 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:54.639 provide more to the community at this point. Yeah, but 273 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:56.279 you know what I'm saying, it's give him the chance, 274 00:12:56.320 --> 00:12:58.519 and it gave me some scratch and I would lose 275 00:12:58.559 --> 00:12:58.960 my mind. 276 00:12:59.240 --> 00:13:03.759 Yeah, yeah, especially at a certain teaching, certain age of kids. Yeah, 277 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:07.399 you've got it's just yeah, well I'll give you this. 278 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:10.480 Uh could you coach? What agentes or you had? My 279 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:13.960 academy was nine, you to I had up to eighteen years. Okay, 280 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:16.159 so you had you had a bride. I went to 281 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:19.240 go substitute teach here when the paper closed, just to 282 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:21.559 pass the time and earn some money. I did it 283 00:13:21.559 --> 00:13:24.919 for a friend who went and got all my grades here. 284 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:28.440 So it's it's junior high. You know me, I'm gonna 285 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:31.840 I'm gonna be helping with pe YadA YadA. I'll enjoy 286 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:34.879 the kids have fun. It was the worst experience of 287 00:13:34.919 --> 00:13:35.679 my life. 288 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:36.200 Yeah. 289 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:39.320 They were using words I've never even heard of. 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