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This is Meridian Senior ian Forbes,
and you're listening to Walcom Preps Baseball Preview
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podcast with Tyler and Ryland. Go
Trojan. Greetings, and welcome into the
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watcom Preps podcast. This is episode
at two hundred and forty four, a
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baseball preview. I'm Rodland Spencer along
with me as always is Tyler Anderson love
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watcom Preps. Tyler, how are
we doing? Doing great? Doing great?
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I was sick there for a little
while, but I'm starting to get
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past it. And it was just
perfect timing to kind of beat under the
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weather kind of in between seasons.
So I didn't I didn't miss any games
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or anything like that. And uh, but I'm feeling good. I'm excited
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for the spring. And we've both
talked about it, how it's kind of
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that kind of that new change.
The weather's changing. Everything's kind of getting
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better and it's a it's a good
time of year. Well it's supposed to
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be changing. I was out there
today, it's a baseball practice and it
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was raining sideways at one point,
and Tether, you know they got like
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all weather baseballs now, yeah,
I didn't know about that. Yeah,
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So I mean, look, I
don't know the physics on it, you
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know what I mean, I don't
know what it actually is. But we're
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out there today. I'm out there
helping out with some baseball stuff for BOFEL,
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and I'm like, hey, how
do you guys, like, like,
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what's up with the I mean,
how are we out here? It's
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pouring down rain, Like, aren't
the baseball is gonna get soggy? And
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and he goes, no, no, no, he says, the ones
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with the blue seams don't get don't
get watered down. I was like,
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you know what, I don't care, like's let's go ahead. What do
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you guys need out of me?
Yeah? I mean it's wild, like
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it's it's pretty cool, but you
know. And then on Saturday we had
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our first game and at one point
we were in a hail delay. And
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when I say it was it was
sideways, like it was legitimately sideways.
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It was. It was crazy and
power went out of the field at one
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point, and I mean it was
it was just mayhem, absolute mayhem.
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But there are brighter days on the
horizon. Tyler. Now that now that
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we all lost an hour of sleep, you know, but we're into it.
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Spring is here, Spring sports at
least because technically it's still winter right
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for another week and a half or
so. Yeah. Yeah, I don't
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know if Punk Satani Phil saw her, didn't see you, or what it
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even means if he did or didn't, but I can tell you this much.
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He's wrong, Tyler, a guy
who's not wrong though, Ian Forbes,
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we need to give a thank you
to him. Meridian Catcher senior catcher
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too. By the way, he
did the intro and we got to thank
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him for that. So I have
a feeling we will mention his name if
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he's the one doing the intro,
So we will talk about him in a
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little bit, and we'll talk about
Meridian. We're gonna talk about all ten
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teams of Wakame County. Lots of
stuff to talk about. But first Kurt
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Mayberry Farm. Tyler, you had
just told me a little bit ago.
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You said Ryland they re upped,
and I said, beautiful, because I
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love talking about berries, strawberries,
blueberries, and raspberries. It's Kurt Mayberry
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Farm, fourth generation, family owned
and operated berry farm, committed to growing
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the highest quality berries. You can
find them online. That's Kurt with A
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C, M, A B E
R R Y Farm dot Com. Yeah,
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they're awesome. They're also committed to
Walkham Preps. I tell you what,
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it's really cool. They you know, they're all about local high school
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sports, local youth sports, and
I you know, I hear them all
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the time on the radio during the
high school broadcast. Yeah, you know,
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just all sorts of different things.
So they're really putting it out there.
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They're really backing. And when I
went to go visit them this last
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time, they had they had some
products that they handed out and they even
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gave me a big eight pound bucket
for you ryland of chopped up strawberries with
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that are already like sugared and everything
frozen and ready to go. Whoa,
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whoa, whoa? Did you say
eight pounds? Yeah? What the heck
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am I gonna do with eight pounds? Other just stack my face in it?
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You want to thought out first?
Yeah? Well yeah, yeah,
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I mean I don't have tiger teeth
like I. I mean, eight pounds,
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Tyler, that will make a lot
of what do you strawberry shortcake?
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Huh yeah, it could be all
sorts of things. It was funny because
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he was kind of joking and he
goes, well, no, now you
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just gotta have Mitch get you some
ice cream from Edeline Dairy And yeah,
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I put a little little vanilla ice
cream with some strawberries on top. You
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know what I'm saying? Who WOA
is Italy? Are they sponsoring anything in
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the in the spring? Here?
They they will be. I'm pretty confident
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to say they will be. I
have. I was having trouble getting a
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hold of them. They were out
on the farm all week during my sponsorship
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week. Basically they go out and
get sponsors. But I did run into
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him at a baseball game and and
and he's like, is there anything left?
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You know? And I you know, and I said absolutely, and
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well and he goes, okay,
we'll talk. So they just might be
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a week late. But I'm pretty
confident they'll be fine. Now, Tyler,
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what I need to know is what
is the ratio? Like, if
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if I've got eight pounds of strawberries, how much ice cream do I need
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to mix some in? I guess
I don't need all of it to be
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eight pounds of Like can you imagine
that eight pounds of strawberries going at how
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much ice cream? Like you need
a whole cow'sworth? Like I don't even
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know what that amounts to. Yeah, that's gonna be a lot. But
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that's cool. I mean you could
put you can make smoothies, You can
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do all sorts of different things.
So I don't know those are I've always
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been told the smoothies are supposed to
be that kind of healthy. And obviously
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I'm not that guy. But I
mean, is there like, okay,
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is there like a straw Like do
people make strawberry pies? I mean,
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I know strawberry rubarb, but I'm
not I'm not big on rhubarb. Yeah,
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but like, can you just make
a strawberry pie? I mean I
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guess you could like grind it up
and like maybe put some cream in it
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or something, right, strawberries and
cream? Yeah, yeah, I would
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imagine. Did you ever have you
ever had those those remember those cream savers
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that were strawberry and cream or whatever
it was. Yeah, the little like
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worthers type, those suckers were so
good. Yeah, yeah, those were.
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Anyway, Tyler, We've got an
official baseball sponsor, though, I
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mean I guess I guess it's not
like just a baseball like I mean sponsoring.
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What the scoreboards as of right now
is what else are they sponsored?
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And they're gonna sponsor the Weekly stat
Leaders as well. That's right, Yeah,
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you told me that. So j
e KK sports cards, Tyler And
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you said that, you said the
guy's name is John, Yes, and
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so what's John's story? Who's John
over here at j e KK. Well,
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it's a really cool deal. I
mean, local guy had a couple
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of sons that played at Ferndale and
you know, the whole sports card game
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is you know, it was huge
when we were kids, right, I
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mean it was a big deal,
and then it kind of you know,
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oh, it was just kind of
there for a while, and now it's
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it's even gotten bigger than it ever
was. But it's a whole different kind
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of game of with rare things and
little patches of jersey and autographs and it's
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done or one of mine. Like
memorabilia and cards. Yeah, they used
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to be two separate things now and
it's not like all cards have memorabilia in
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them, but it's now it's like
almost become like one big hobby, is
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kind of what I'm saying. Yeah, and I would say, you know,
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when we were kids, even though
we knew that you know, they
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were you know, they could be
worth something, you still I mean,
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at least I did. You'd line
like I'd have all my maritors and I'd
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line them up like, yeah,
well I put Greg Bridley in left field
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and Ken Griffin center field, and
ja, you know, I'd put him
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out and I you know, I
would do all that kind of stuff all
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the time, and I'd handle them
all the time. I think nowadays it's
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like you put them in a sleeve, you put them in something and you
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lock it away kind of type things. So, uh, but yeah,
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it's just a really really cool deal. I had heard that he was interested
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in sponsoring and and so I just
thought, you know, when I knew
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that who it was, I was
like, oh, once I know that
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is I know who it is.
That I know that they know what Walker
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Preps is. Yeah, and I
feel a lot more comfortable. I just
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got and it's right here in Ferndale. It's a few miles away. I
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got my car, just drove out
there and walked in and we just started
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talking and he was all about it. He was interested. He's like,
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just tell me what I gotta do. You know, I'll send my logo
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to you whatever I gotta do.
And he was It was just great.
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You could tell it was a top
notch partnership right away and just a really
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you know, awesome guy and and
just hit it off right away. And
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I was fun just looking around.
There was like Joe Namath signed you know,
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Jet's helmet. I just I just
love that kind of stuff, stuff
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you just don't see every day.
And and I love looking at like the
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rookie cards from like the seventies and
eighties, you know, like seeing the
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Ricky Henderson rookie or the cow RIPCN
rookie or the Dawn Maddingly rookie and those
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kinds of things. They weren't like
flashy back then like they are now.
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It's it's more like, uh,
yes, you know what I mean,
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Like it was a little more business
like back then. It's it's cool to
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see. And I was looking at
their website j e kkcards dot Com.
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The first thing I noticed is I
was like, I was like, wow,
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a box of cards is way more
expensive. But then I started thinking
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about it and I'm like, yeah, but you know what, the quality
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and it's just like everything is so
much better than it was. All something
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that's worth exactly. I was like
I was, I was like, it
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was it was instant like why,
Like, wow, Wow, that's kind
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of crazy. And then I'm like, actually, it makes so much sense
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as to why it's a totally different
game and it's I mean, it's it's
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totally different than it was. Like
I could see myself getting back into sports
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cards, like I could. Yeah, I probably won't because I know that
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I would just blow all my money
on it. But yeah, it's so
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much cooler now. J e KK
Sports Cards. You can find them two
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zero six or two zero one six
Main Street twenty sixteen. That's actually kind
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of funny. Two zero one six
Main Street and Ferndale phone number three six
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zero three oh three, seventeen eighty
nine. Website j e kkcards dot com.
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Tyler. Yes, the logo actually
looks a lot like the water.
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It almost looks like a part of
the Wakam preps logo. Uh but yeah,
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the colors and stuff. Yeah,
I gotta say it looks really good
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on that scoreboard. Yeah it does. It does. I think it's gonna
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be a good partnership. And yeah, it's so well there is there So
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I have to ask you, because
I'm sure you collected cards as a kid.
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Yeah, was there like a single
card that was like the one you
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always wanted to have, or the
one that you got that you just that's
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the one that you'll never trade.
Or was there like a certain set like
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eighty nine Donra Space or like was
there something You're like, I loved those
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packs as a kid. Well,
I was always a I was always a
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Tops guy, like I always I
always like Tops more or for whatever reason,
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I don't really know, Like if
if if I had an equivalent card
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and it was like, oh,
I'll trade this donn Us for that Top,
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so I'm like no, I'm good, Like yeah, like even if
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even if my card maybe was lesser, you know what i mean, Like,
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nah, I'm good. You know, I could be trading to Henry
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Kotto for a Caylor Ripken and I'm
like, no, I'll keep to Henry
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Kotto. I had to throw Henry
Cotto out there for whatever reason, Yes
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he did. But there was one
card and I still have it. And
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then it's I mean, you know
how it is, Tyler. You move
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around a lot, and then you
know, you get all your cards and
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all your stuff into just boxes.
I'll come across it one day and I'll
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take a picture of it, and
I'll send it to you. Or I'll
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post it and take in it or
something. But I do I have a
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Johnny Bench rookie card that is not
like that is like my pride and joy
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like it. There's no way I'm
ever getting rid of that one. Like
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that's that to me. You know
my grandfather gave it to me when I
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was a kid. Yeah, and
was because he talked about Johnny Bench is
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this And you know, obviously I
never got to see Johnny Bench play,
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but you know it was to me. That's like my that's that's my one
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big thing. Now that being said, I was always the obscure guy,
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you know what I mean, Like, yeah, I loved I loved guys
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that kind of like nobody else really
loved, like Tyler. If I said
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to you, who's my favorite baseball
player of all time? Do you remember
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who it is? No? I
do love Pete and Kavillia, though my
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favorite baby Chuck Carr. Oh,
Chuck Carr. Yes, I knew that.
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Yeah, Chuck Car. Why no
idea? I mean, honestly,
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I think it's just because he used
to like run through walls, you know
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what I mean, Like that guy
would if that if the ball was in
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the air, he was catching it
like he just was. And I don't
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know why I loved him. That
was just like my favorite player as a
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kid. Now granted Edgar Martinez,
like Ken Griffy Junior. Yeah yeah,
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yeah yeah, Like I love all
of those guys. Why did you trade
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j Bune? I love Jay Buner, you know what I mean. I
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love those guys. I love the
Mariners. But Chuck Carr was like my
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guy. And if I when I
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chance to get a Chuck car Card, I was getting it. The other
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one that I loved was Gary Carter. Oh yeah, and it's for one
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reason only, Tyler. Did you
ever see like pictures of that guy where
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he wasn't wearing a batting helmet or
you know, like the catcher's helmet,
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right, and it was always turned
around forward right like yes, a huge
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smile on his face. Yeah,
always, And so like I don't know
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what it was, but like I
always like somebody, if they wanted to
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sucker me in, they could just
throw a Gary Carter out there, and
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I was probably going for it,
you know what I mean, Like I
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just was it was just you know, like, what's that a griffy rookie
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card. You got a Gary Carter, like you know what I mean,
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Like I mean, I probably wouldn't
have fallen for that one, but you
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know what I mean, like Gary
Carter those cards like I don't know,
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it just was you know what I
mean? What about you do you have
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like a this is my card,
I'm never giving it up or oh you
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got one of those, let me
have it like that's that's uh. Well
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the card I always wanted to try
to get was that eighty nine upper deck
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Kangarford Junior Rookie. Yeah, the
first ever upper deck card, you know,
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number one, first upper deck class. And never had that one,
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which was okay. I had friends
that had it stuff like that. Cal
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Ripken was my guy. I collected
a ton of cal Ripken cards and I
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had his eighty eight Fleer autographed,
which was really cool. Wow. And
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but uh but the card that I
never got rid of and still have today
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is the Jerry Rice rookie card.
Oh and I got that in a pack
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out of my stocking Christmas in nineteen
eighty six. Until you lost your mind?
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Well yeah, I mean I it
was crazy because it was it's his
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rookie card. But it came out
like you know it would come out the
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second year because I had like his
first year seats on it. Yeah,
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and his first year wasn't great.
He had like forty nine catches, he
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had a lot of drops actually,
but his second year he blew up.
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He had like fifteen hundred yards receiving. And so when I kind of started
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realizing, and I was, you
know, I was seven years old,
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I was like, this is really
cool. This is his first ever card.
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And then you start and then like
Beckett start coming out a few years
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later. Yeah, and then you
realize that, you know, the whole
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like the complete Like at that time, the complete set was worth like ninety
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bucks, and you're like, why
is that ninety bucks? But that because
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that one card was like worth sixty
Yeah, and you're just like, oh
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wow, and I have it,
you know. So that was always a
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cool deal. And and since then, i've i've i've I loved the late
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eighties cards just because that's what I
grew up with. And I've bought complete
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sets of everything for baseball and football
of you know, fleer Don Russ Tops
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everything and uh. But when I
tried to find eighty six tops complete sets,
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I found one that was selling him
all except for Jerry Rice, Reggie
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White, and Steve Young because those
were all rookie cards and so but I
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had those three, so I was
able to buy that out of much lowers,
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you know, a mountain. Yeah, I just I love all that
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stuff, but that was the card
for me. You know, bait,
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do you know what this card goes
for nowadays? Which one? Did Jerry
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Rice one? The Jerry Rice eighty
six tops? Yeah? So PSA Mint
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nine, you know what I mean, Like like this is a this is
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about as good as it gets in
terms of quality and press, you know,
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like it's still nine thousand dollars is
what it's online for. Yeah,
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mine's definitely not a PSA nine.
No, yeah, I mean I'm sure
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it's not. I mean, how
many cards? How many cards do you
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have from like your childhood that you
think would even be like A seven?
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You know what I mean? Like
it's right, probably not very many of
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them. But like it was totally
different. We didn't we didn't think about
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stuff like that, you know what
I mean. Like actually, here's here's
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one here that's a a PSA seven
and it's one hundred and thirty dollars.
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Like the drop off is on believable. But yeah, yeah, I mean
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that's that's pretty cool. Yeah yeah, I just it's it's cool to have
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a sponsor like that because you and
I are both still kids in a way,
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you know what I mean, Like, yeah, well we don't feel
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like when we get off the couch
or out of bed, but uh,
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but we still we still think like
that, you know, like baseball cards
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and it's it's still so. I
mean, I have so many. It's
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it's nostalgia. Yeah, it just
is. And there's certain things that will
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just never go away from. Like
there's certain things that I do that are
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very kid that will never go away. And that's something I mean, it
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just is. I love cards.
I mean, when I'm looking at j
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e KK cards dot Com, I'm
like, oh, they sell single packs
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Ryland. You don't need the you
don't need one of those? What are
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you thinking right now? But here
I am considering it, you know what
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I mean. So yeah, uh, maybe we'd have to do sometime Tyler's
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come up and you know, pick
up those strawberries and just swing by and
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grab a couple of cards. Ye
see, And it's it's it's it's funny
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too because I think about it now, and like I see this stuff on
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like TikTok and like these different places
where I see people that are like going
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to these card shows and they're like
buying a ton of cards and stuff,
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and I'm like, I didn't,
Like, we used to go to card
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shows, but I never really went
and bought like individual cards, Like I
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would go and buy packs from guys
because sometimes it was easier to get more
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obscure packs by going to a card
show. You know, it'd be like,
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oh wow, this guy's got a
set of those packs or like whatever.
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And it's like, yeah, you
know, nowadays, I'm sure you
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can go online and find whatever you
want, you know what I mean,
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maybe go to j ekk Cards there
you go what I do. But yeah,
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I mean, it's a totally different
game from what you and I remember
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as a kid. But it's definitely
made of resurgence, that's for sure.
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Huge it is. It's crazy how
many of these shops I've seen pop up
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around me. And it was like
I couldn't I couldn't think of it,
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like where is the nearest one by
my house? And I hadn't seen one
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in probably ten or fifteen years.
And now there's like three of them in
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the area. You know what I
mean. It's like wow, like that,
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which is cool to me because that's
a great hobby and hey, it's
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better than being on the streets,
right right, Tyler. Lots of other
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sponsorships are still still available, though, if somebody wants to get on it
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easiest way to get a hold of
you other than social media. We've told
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that. We've told people over and
over go to walk them preps on any
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of social media's direct message Tyler to
take care of you. What other ways
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can they get a hold of you. They can email me at mister mohawk
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at hotmail dot com. That's mister
spelled out m I S T E R
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underscore mohawk m O h A w
k at hotmail dot com. Or what
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the heck? You could text me
three six zero six eight four four three
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zero six and uh, we'll get
the ball rolling. There's still things available,
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but they're going they're getting nabbed up
fast because I think anytime Fitness might
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be back on board. They showed
some interest, so yeah, we'll see.
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But it's it's bringing me a lot
of happiness because as it's showing that
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every time there's a turn of the
season, there's new people that are coming
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on board. And I think that
I think it's a screaming good deal from
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most people I've talked to you.
That people are that's why they're jumping on
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board right away. And I told
you that, Yeah, and it's and
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and if they if they just keep
doing it year after year and I can
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keep building these things, uh,
it'll it'll keep Walking Preps alive. And
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that's what everybody wants. Yeah.
And and look if if you know,
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what we talk about is the Baseball
round up, the Basketball round up,
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the the graphics, you know,
like different stuff like that. But if
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somebody just wants to be hey,
you know, we don't maybe we don't
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have the budget for that. I'm
looking right here again, We've talked about
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it before. Eagle Rock Lodge,
they reached out to you and said,
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hey, we want to get on
board. You know, what do we
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gotta do? And you said,
well, here's something, here's an idea.
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Boom there it is their logos right
here on your website. Yeah,
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I mean there is Ego Rock dot
Fish. I still don't understand how that
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works dot fish, but Ego Rock
dot Fish, I mean, these guys
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here. They just wanted to be
a sponsor and and that's what they did.
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And so that's the thing. Tyler's
got different types of packages. If
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you just say, hey, all
I've got is, you know, one
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hundred dollars for a month, what
can you do for me, We'll make
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it work. Like yeah, exactly. You know, we wanted to try
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to keep this going, and you
know, any money helps all of that.
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I mean, look, gas ain't
free. I mean, come out.
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How's Tyler's supposed to go to all
these games? Exactly? But yeah,
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anyway, watcommepreps dot com is a
website and if you would like to
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get on board, reach out to
Tyler. He'll take care of you.
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We've got ten teams to talk about
Tyler. And we're just gonna go in
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alphabetical order. And I mean,
if we're being completely honest, we're gonna
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do the best job we can.
We We we've got rosters for pretty much
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everybody. The only one we don't
have is Mount Baker. We'll get to
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that one when we get to it. We're just gonna go in alphabetical order
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here, which means we are going
to start with the Bellingham BayHawks last year,
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Bellingham went eight and fourteen. Head
coach Tom Lewis in his second year,
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meaning he's got a career record of
eight and fourteen key returners. Tyler,
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I'm seeing you got eight key returners
listed here. A couple of names
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I recognize, but yeah, eight
of them some definitely good athletes that I
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see here on this list. Yeah, it's a really good group. And
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just to think about a couple of
years ago, Bellingham was really struggling.
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I mean they would get maybe one
or two wins a year, kind of
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right around COVID, like right before
right after it just it was really starting
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to kind of rebuild itself a lot
of young guys, and last year to
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jump up to eight wins was huge. I think coach Lewis did a great,
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great job. Coach Lewis the father
of Colby Lewis that you remember from
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the squalic On football team, and
it's you know, coach Leonard is an
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assistant there. He works with the
pitchers and you know or as he went
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and was a college baseball player,
and so he knows that he knows all
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that stuff, and it's it's a
really good groove. Yeah. Uh.
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Jet Jesse Harward bat at three forty
nine. Last year, he returns at
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first base. He can also first
base. Yeah, yeah, he can,
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you know, left handed bat left
handed on the mound as well.
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So and it's weird too. You
see a big guy at six four,
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two hundred and seventy pounds in the
batter's box left handed. But I but
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he he goes the other way a
lot like he is. He's like a
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singles hitter. He he looks intimidating
up there, but he can. He
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can shoot it in the gap.
It's like he stands up there looking like
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Adam Dunn and then he hits like
Tony Gwyn. You know, I was
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gonna say, it's got like a
little bit of like, uh like Matt
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stares or something to him, the
professional hitter right right right, So uh
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yeah, a really good season last
year, five doubles, he had twelve
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RBIs and on base percentage of four
eighty one. So really good player there.
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All. Scott is unbelievably talented,
just a sophomore. Played third base
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last year, moved over to second
base this year. He's also probably their
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best pitcher coming back. Unfortunately,
I was at the game on Saturday and
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he had a just a nasty injury
covering first base on a bunt. The
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throw was a little wide, ranner, the runner ran into his arm and
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it was bad enough to where the
to where the the what am I trying
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to say? Uh, the emergency
vehicle, the ambulance, thank you had
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to come onto the field and and
uh, just just really bad news there.
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Because Alden Scott, I've said it
before, I think he's a future
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like League Player of the Year.
He's that kind of talent. Just just
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a sophomore. But this this that
this season looks like it might be done.
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Owen Rasmussen, the utility player.
I love everything about his game.
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He can catch you, play the
infield, play in the outfield, he
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pitches, he can legitimately play all
nine positions. Uh yeah, I love
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guys like that. Seems like he's
been on varsity forever. He bet at
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two sixty six last year. In
his career, I mean in his career,
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he has one hundred and sixty three
played appearances. That's that's a that's
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a that's a varsity baseball player right
there. He's just he's been doing it
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for a long time. Hi.
Nelson is one of the best defensive shortstops
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in the league. He's just a
sophomore. He's probably gonna be relied upon
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to pitch a lot more than he
than he has. Joe toof as a
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left handed hitting slugger center fielder.
One of the more aggressive swings. Like
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you see a guy that when they
swing and then all of a sudden,
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like every time I see a picture
of him swinging like like like his front
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foot, like he's on like the
outside of it, you know, like
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he's completely torqued his whole body,
and man, when he gets a hold
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of it, it can really go. So really good player there. Jake
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Trust pitcher infielder. Uh, he's
been. He's he was kind of there
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ace last year as far as just
innings. Uh, he started game one
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this year. Joe Harward Jesse,
his little brother is the catcher. You
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don't see a lot of six three
catchers, especially at the high school level.
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But he's he's a he's a pretty
good one. Just a sophomore,
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so he's got a pretty bright future. And Hunter Bryant Pearson. We saw
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him play football full back and a
special teams guy. But he's gonna be
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out there in left field. So
a lot of a lot of varsity guys
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returning. I think it's gonna be
a pretty good year. The setback of
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losing Alden Scott is huge, but
but you know, you just gotta you
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just gotta roll with it after that. And and uh, you know,
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I think because the second base was
the spot. You know, Wyatt Harris
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played it last year, didn't really
know who was gonna do it this year.
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They moved alden Scott from third to
second, put Eli good Buffalo at
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third, and now second base is
open again. I don't know if Owen
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Rasmussen will just find a spot there
as a utility guy. It's tough to
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see what they're gonna do. But
but there's a lot of talent on that
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team and we'll see how they go. Let's talk about the blame border rights
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Tyler thirteen and eight last year new
head coach Hunter Anderson. They got a
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lot of key returners. As a
matter of fact, they have the most
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of anybody we're gonna talk about today. They probably do. Yeah, they
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do. And actually the next closest
is I think eight, which is Bellingham,
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and then another team we'll talk about
here in a little bit. But
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they got ten guys coming back.
This year, Tyler and a few names
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I recognize, but a lot of
names that are new to me here.
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So who are these? Who are
these? Blame border rights? I love
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this team. You know, last
year they were scary good. They beat
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a lot of really good teams.
They just kind of did some bad things
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in the playoffs, you know,
they just some things didn't didn't go their
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way, and all of a sudden
they were out in the districts and they
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were kind of thought of as a
team that could make some noise at State
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and it just didn't happen. New
coach this year, Hunter Anderson, coming
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over from Burlington. There's been that
wave of guys from Burlington. You know
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Andy Olsen now Hunter Anderson. He's
an assistant. Yeah, he's a he's
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an assistant on the football team.
And uh. But what I really like
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about them is, yeah, all
these guys that are returning. I mean
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I went out and saw them today, uh, and it was just like
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watching them from last year pretty much. Kieran Marcusson is their ace. He
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went four and two last year.
He pitched fifty one in a third innings
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and he only walked eleven batters.
Wow, that at the high school level
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is just, oh man, hard
to find. You know, you see
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a lot of high school games.
The big difference between high school games and
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the pros is there's a lot more
walks, a lot more airs, and
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a lot less home runs. But
the walks is just one of those things
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where, man, it just seems
to be a ton of them in high
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school baseball. But if you've got
a guy that can throw strikes, like
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I said, eleven walks and fifty
one in a third innings, he struck
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out sixty three. His ERA was
one point zero nine. So that's that's
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a good guy to have right there
at the top of your you know,
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your rotation. Uh, And then
you know Owen Wanger is a is a
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really good hitters. Batted three ninety
four last year in the outfield, Aleejandra
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Morser Hernandez has got a lot of
pop. He had a home run last
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year, batted two eighty one.
Big six' five two dred and thirty
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pound guy at first base, Hunter
Bazzetti is a you know, just a
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it seems like he's been on the
varsity team forever, playing center field.
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He is a like a tototypical like
baseball type guy. Like you see those
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guys come out of the dugout and
you go, you could spot him like
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that's the guy, like he's he's
him, you know, and that's and
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his left handed, left handed bat
a lot of fun to watch. He
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did get taken out of the game
today. You know, he had that
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knee injury from football. I don't
know if he's fully recovered, and you
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know, on his way to first
he was safe at first, but then
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he had to get taken out of
the game, which was just crushing to
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see. I hope he'll be okay. Mason Ockery at third base was was
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dynamic last year as a leadoff guy. Fifteen RBIs and thirteen steals. Bat
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At two fifty Dion Bowman is a
really athletic shortstop. Bigger kid too.
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I did have a triple last year
a beat at two fifty six. Evan
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Yates is a junior at catcher,
another really good player. Left handed hitter,
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can kind of batten that number two
hole, which a lot of catchers
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don't do. Grady Swinbernson is a
three year starter at second base. I
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mean, you have so many guys
that are you know, just have so
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much varsity experience. He stole thirteen
bases last year and he works at j
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e KK Sports Cards, so that's
kind of a cool deal. Jesse Deming
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another outfielder playing left field and he
can swing over and play center field.
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And Diego Gutierrez is a He's just
a bulldog on the mound. He's a
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great number two. He's a guy
that you know, if you're up by
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ten or down by ten, you
can't tell by looking at his face,
479
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which I love that in the pitcher. You know, it's hard to find
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guys that, especially at the high
school level, that don't really wear their
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emotion on their sleeves so much.
And you know, if they needed a
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key out or something, they could
put him in and he's not phased by
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it at all. He's got a
really good curve ball, doesn't throw super
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hard, but he throws. He's
another guy that just throws strikes. He
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went four and o last year with
an ERA of two point one point five,
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So yeah, you're definitely talking about
another guy that another arm that they
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could use it. He just pitches, same with Kieran Marcuson. He can
488
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play a little bit third base,
but he's mostly just a pitcher as well,
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and at the one A level.
You got a couple of arms like
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that. Yeah, that's a huge
deal. Alejandro Moser Hernandez who probably he'll
491
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probably come in and pitch a little
bit too. He threw thirty one innings
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00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:52.359
last year four point twenty five e
RA, so he can definitely give you
493
00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:56.440
some stuff like that, some some
innings. But he might be kind of
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like that big dominating closer guy if
they need somebody for the last inning.
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But this is a team that I
expect to do some damage and you know,
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get into do well at districts,
and get get a state birth.
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Their first two games so far this
year, they put up fifteen runs in
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both games, so they you know, they're ready, a lot of varsity
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experience and we'll just kind of see
if it all comes together. You know.
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It's it's it's strange in high school
baseball, it's such a it seems
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like such a short season because you
know, in the majors they play so
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00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:32.960
many games, so it seems like
it goes fast, and a lot of
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times in the majors they say,
well, it takes about thirty or forty
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00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:38.960
games to get to kind of get
to where you're gonna be you know,
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you don't have that high school baseball. You've got to be good right off
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the bat. You know, if
you get in a slump, that could
507
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be the whole year. So it's
it's tricky, but but Blaine has the
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talent to do some damage in the
postseason. Yeah, it's it's funny you
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say that. I mean I thought
it was hilarious when I was looking over
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there. You know, I've always
loved high school baseball, but I've never
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00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:04.920
paid attention to it like I have
so far in the last few weeks.
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Yeah, you play a couple of
games and you're right in the league play.
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I mean it's yeah, right into
it, like they don't mess around.
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I mean I think this year BOFEL, we've got four no three,
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three non league games. Yeah,
three non league games, and then right
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in the league play. I mean
yeah, I mean imagine that. Yeah,
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yeah, that is that is pretty
quick, you know what I mean.
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Like, it's it's right into it, and it's like, hey,
519
00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:31.839
all of a sudden, you're right
into it to the point that hey,
520
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better not, you better not lose
many games here or else you're not going
521
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to be making the playoffs. I
mean, it's really quick. But yeah,
522
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you got. I mean you're trying
out some stuff in those three games.
523
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You're trying to find like can this
guy laid out a bunch? Can
524
00:33:43.559 --> 00:33:46.799
this guy pitch us out of a
you know, a something bad going on?
525
00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:51.279
I mean, you better know those
things after three games, because here
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you go. Yeah, exactly,
that's Blaine. Let's talk Ferndale Tyler nineteen
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and five. Last year they did
make the state tournament under head coach Donnie
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hennigs one hundred and thirty five and
eighty one for his career. Tyler.
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One thing I noticed here, you
didn't give me how many years do we
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know the years on this? Yeah? I could find that pretty quickly Herekay,
531
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Well, let me talk a little
bit further than key returners. You've
532
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got six names listed here, and
these are all names pretty much that I
533
00:34:20.199 --> 00:34:23.679
recognize, including Dylan Moore. Nice
of him to take time off from Major
534
00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:28.719
League Baseball to come over and play
for Ferndale. Seems like a little bit
535
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of an advantage to them. But
Bishop Bootzire guy who he's an Edilyne Derry
536
00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:37.679
guy. Right, Yeah, that's
right. Yeah, there's Hamden Ramon,
537
00:34:37.960 --> 00:34:42.199
I mean, just all around good
looking dude. Yeah, Yeah, Talon
538
00:34:42.239 --> 00:34:45.480
bung guard you know him, Yeah, of his nails. Yeah, so
539
00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:47.360
it's a lot of these guys.
You definitely know Donnie Hennigs in his twelfth
540
00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:52.320
season now as the as the head
coach. So that's counting the COVID year
541
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where there was no baseball. So
was there no baseball at all? There
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00:34:57.639 --> 00:35:00.639
was no base there was like yeah, like schools played like one game and
543
00:35:00.639 --> 00:35:04.440
then the whole season got canceled after
that. Yeah, Wakham County did not
544
00:35:04.519 --> 00:35:08.280
have any games played. So yeah, okay, so yeah, so so
545
00:35:08.360 --> 00:35:13.199
yeah, he's been the head coach
since the twenty thirteen season. Yeah,
546
00:35:13.239 --> 00:35:17.039
that's pretty cool. Yeah, And
but yeah, Camden Raymond, I mean
547
00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:23.119
he is you know, a legit, you know, League MVP candidate,
548
00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:30.000
left handed bat, left handed arm, first baseman, bat at three eighty
549
00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:34.519
five last year, hit a couple
home runs, nineteen RBIs, seven doubles.
550
00:35:34.599 --> 00:35:37.679
I mean, you know, slugged
five eighty five, is on base
551
00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:39.880
was five point fifty one. It's
just all those numbers are like yeah yea
552
00:35:40.039 --> 00:35:44.840
yeai. And then you know on
the mound he went five to oher.
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He had two saves pitched over thirty
innings, struck out twenty nine. His
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era was four point six two.
It was a little high. I think
555
00:35:52.119 --> 00:35:54.320
his walks were a little higher than
he wanted them to be. He walked
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twenty two, struck out twenty nine. But you know, if he gets
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the down a little bit, he'll
be fine. But he'll be counted on
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to do a lot of things for
this baseball team. They also have Graydon
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Radkey. He's a guy who was
I just thought was really talented. Didn't
560
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play a ton last year, but
every time I seems like every time I
561
00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:20.440
saw him, he would he was
knocking somebody in. You know. He
562
00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:23.840
had eighteen plate appearances. He had
seven Rby eyes, so and he walked
563
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five times. So really just the
twelve at bats and he had seven Urby
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00:36:28.039 --> 00:36:30.599
eyes. Talon Bunguard is the guy
that played all over the infield, could
565
00:36:30.599 --> 00:36:36.599
pitch a little bit too. And
you start looking those numbers, seventeen stolen
566
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bases and three triples, those are
huge numbers in high school baseball. You'd
567
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think it'd be some Chuck Carr like
player, you know, and talent bung
568
00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:50.480
Guard is like six and twenty pounds, Like he does not look like a
569
00:36:50.519 --> 00:36:52.639
guy that would be putting up those
kind of numbers, but he's aggressive on
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00:36:52.679 --> 00:36:59.400
the bass paths and you gotta love
that. Braylan O'Brien was stut in at
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00:36:59.480 --> 00:37:02.760
catcher lap year as a freshman on
this team that had a ton of talent,
572
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and that goes all the way to
the state. If you're catching as
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a freshman on a team that goes
to state at the three A level,
574
00:37:08.519 --> 00:37:14.320
that is really really impressive. He's
he's naturally a middle infielder, so it's
575
00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:16.079
gonna be tough to see kind of
if he's gonna stay behind the plate or
576
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if he's gonna go play in the
infield. Dylan Moore, like you said,
577
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Uh yeah, and I take some
time off of Major League baseball to
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00:37:22.119 --> 00:37:28.119
go play some high school baseball.
Batted two twenty last year, Uh six
579
00:37:28.239 --> 00:37:31.840
RBIs three steals. He could play
in the outfield. And then Bishop Bootsy
580
00:37:32.639 --> 00:37:37.559
like you said, you know what
a leader. He might get some time
581
00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:39.360
on the mound this year. There. I think they're gonna they're gonna expect
582
00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:43.960
a lot of things out of some
younger kids coming up that have not played
583
00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:46.440
at the varsity level to do some
things. But but those are the six
584
00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:52.239
main guys that have the varsity experience, and yeah, they're probably not gonna
585
00:37:52.239 --> 00:37:53.280
put up as many runs as they
did last year. I mean, they
586
00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:57.840
had so many guys that were just
you know, out of this world.
587
00:37:57.880 --> 00:38:01.079
I mean I think they hit my
goodness, I think they hit over twenty
588
00:38:01.239 --> 00:38:05.239
twenty five home runs as a team. I mean, this was just yeah,
589
00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:07.880
this was it was. It was
ridiculous. Like I was talking to
590
00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:12.239
some coaches and three of them said
the exact same thing to me. They
591
00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:16.320
said, it's like playing against like
like a like a men's slow pitch softball
592
00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:20.800
team. Yeah, like they are, They're all huge, and they all
593
00:38:20.840 --> 00:38:23.840
just crushed the ball. And like
when you look around the infield and they
594
00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:29.920
averaged like two hundred and forty pounds
around the infield, that looks like a
595
00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:34.239
men's slow pitch softball team. And
this is without Laymon Hatchet, you know.
596
00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:38.079
Uh so it's yeah, you know, they've been really too Oh my
597
00:38:38.159 --> 00:38:43.559
goodness. Yeah, it could have
been pretty crazy for State. But tell
598
00:38:43.559 --> 00:38:45.199
you this much, if they ever
had any bench clearing brawls, I wouldn't
599
00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:49.400
have wanted to be out there because
those guys, Yeah, and you know
600
00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:51.960
the two, the two, you
know, big guys that were a lot
601
00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:53.719
of a big part of that that
are back or you know, Camden Raymond
602
00:38:53.760 --> 00:38:58.960
and Tallon bung Guards. So they're
gonna be really relied upon heavily to do
603
00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:01.400
a lot of the damage both on
you know, offensively and on the mound,
604
00:39:01.480 --> 00:39:04.960
and and they're just gonna need a
lot of those other guys to fill
605
00:39:04.960 --> 00:39:07.280
in and and take care of some
stuff and they'll be all right. You
606
00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:09.960
know, Donnie's been at this a
long time and one hundred and thirty five
607
00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:15.840
wins, it's pretty good. Pretty
good, I mean pretty good. That's
608
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that's putting it lightly there. I
mean that is really really good. Like
609
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that's just, yeah, that's pretty
incredible. Let's talk Lindon Tyler twenty two
610
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and seven. Last year finished second
in state. By the way, I
611
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didn't realize they were that close to
like the trifecta last year. Yes,
612
00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:37.320
yeah, it was crazy. I
was doing so much research of if any
613
00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:40.559
team had won football, basketball,
and baseball in the state of Washington the
614
00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:45.800
same year, and yeah, it
was just crazy. But yeah, that's
615
00:39:46.159 --> 00:39:50.440
they were so close. I mean
they were so close. They lost two
616
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to one bottom of the seventh,
you know. The other day was a
617
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walk off that pill, Martin.
Yeah, the pitch was. I woke
618
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up that morning covering softball in Richland. I covered Blaine playing softball that morning.
619
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They lost, which meant it was
a semi final. So they lost,
620
00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:14.119
so they were gonna play later that
day in the third fourth place game.
621
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So then I flew home so I
could catch the state championship baseball.
622
00:40:19.199 --> 00:40:22.480
You drove home really fast? Well
I didn't. I probably didn't even drive
623
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home really fast. I just drove
home. But oh yes, I was
624
00:40:25.079 --> 00:40:28.960
always flew home though there might be
people out there going, wait, this
625
00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:31.800
guy took a flight from me,
like what it? Yeah, no,
626
00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:35.039
no, no, I was crawling
over the cascades. You can bet on
627
00:40:35.079 --> 00:40:37.719
that. But I but I got
there and I was able to cover that.
628
00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:42.639
And but I mean the pitch was. It would have bounced ahead of
629
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the plate, and he reached out. I have a great picture of it.
630
00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:47.960
He reached out, got hit it
on the tip of the bat.
631
00:40:49.519 --> 00:40:52.840
It lands on the third baseline about
twenty feet behind third base in the left
632
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field, and that scored the winning
run. And oh man, it was
633
00:40:57.400 --> 00:41:00.639
just that's how close Lyndon was.
Yeah, and you know, Tyler,
634
00:41:00.719 --> 00:41:06.199
the crazy thing is I'm just looking
at the state tournament here. They gave
635
00:41:06.280 --> 00:41:10.400
up three total runs in four games. Yeah, I mean it was two
636
00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:14.719
to one, three to nothing,
eleven to nothing, and two to one.
637
00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:19.559
Yeah. Yeah, and the last
one is a bad two to one.
638
00:41:21.039 --> 00:41:23.559
Yeah. I mean that's that's truly
incredible, it I mean, that's
639
00:41:23.639 --> 00:41:29.800
just yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, head coach Corey White. Three hundred
640
00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:35.840
and sixty nine and two hundred and
seventy four Tyler. Yeah, that is
641
00:41:35.880 --> 00:41:38.760
a lot of baseball. I mean, so do you know how many years
642
00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:45.199
Corey White has been there? Yeah, this is thirty years. Yeah.
643
00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:47.639
He took over as a young man. I mean he took over my freshman
644
00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:53.599
year in high school and he was
probably in his mid twenties. Wow.
645
00:41:54.280 --> 00:42:00.559
And and had some rough years,
and then in his fifth year they got
646
00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:04.599
a third and state they went twenty
three and seven. Then that was a
647
00:42:04.639 --> 00:42:08.119
team that those guys were a year
behind me and I remember playing them,
648
00:42:08.519 --> 00:42:12.559
you know, when we were younger, and that was a loaded team,
649
00:42:13.159 --> 00:42:15.320
and I always thought that was his
best team he'd ever had. He had
650
00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:20.800
a couple more years though, the
Josh Kraft zach Vist class, Uh,
651
00:42:20.840 --> 00:42:23.800
they had a chance for the three
peat there as well. Uh didn't didn't
652
00:42:23.800 --> 00:42:27.960
get it finished twenty two and five, then twenty two and three, then
653
00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:31.400
last year with another twenty two wins
season. But yeah, Corey White has
654
00:42:31.440 --> 00:42:37.239
seen it all, man, and
uh, it's it's it's just fun listening
655
00:42:37.719 --> 00:42:42.599
nobody flashes signs faster from the third
base box, you know what I mean,
656
00:42:42.679 --> 00:42:45.440
Like it like that guy has been
doing this for every time, Like
657
00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:49.880
touch the nose, touch the chin, touch the ear, like brushed.
658
00:42:50.039 --> 00:42:53.280
I mean, it is so crazy
fast, like he got like seven arms,
659
00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:58.280
like he's just like, man,
you can and it's wacky waving inflatable
660
00:42:58.360 --> 00:43:01.480
arm flailing two men, like it's
unbelievable. It's so cool. And it's
661
00:43:01.519 --> 00:43:06.079
just you know, all these guys, I love just talking baseball with them
662
00:43:06.119 --> 00:43:09.559
because it's you could just oh man, it's just so fun. Baseball is
663
00:43:09.559 --> 00:43:12.960
one of those sports where you could
just for me anyways, I could just
664
00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:15.480
sit there and just talk forever.
It's so much fun. But Corey has
665
00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:19.440
seen it all, you know,
Like I said, he kind of had
666
00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:22.239
some down years early, the up
years. He's been through everything, but
667
00:43:22.800 --> 00:43:28.159
he hasn't had a losing season since
twenty fifteen. That was the last time
668
00:43:28.159 --> 00:43:30.639
he actually had a season where he
had double digit losses. He only had
669
00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:36.360
eleven losses. So really really good
career for him. That being said,
670
00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:40.840
Tyler, this year's team, I
see five key returning players and I've heard
671
00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:44.840
some good things about this lame guy. So what do we got here,
672
00:43:44.920 --> 00:43:51.039
Tyler? He's pretty good. Last
year went ten to one pitch seventy one
673
00:43:51.119 --> 00:43:54.519
innings, struck out one hundred and
fourteen batters, walked only fifteen as e
674
00:43:54.639 --> 00:44:00.880
Rara was zero point five to nine. His strikeout to show seven point six.
675
00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:07.039
And that's you said, zero point
five. Yeah, that's his that
676
00:44:07.119 --> 00:44:10.639
was his era last year. That
is inane. His his career, his
677
00:44:10.719 --> 00:44:15.719
high school career is zero point seven
to three. Oh my goodness. In
678
00:44:15.760 --> 00:44:20.480
his high school career. He's eighteen
and two and he's struck out two hundred
679
00:44:20.480 --> 00:44:23.000
and twenty seven batters in one hundred
and forty four innings. So you kind
680
00:44:23.000 --> 00:44:29.480
of start out with him and you
know when he's on the mound, it's
681
00:44:29.480 --> 00:44:34.000
it's must see. The one loss
he had last year was against Jake Mason.
682
00:44:34.599 --> 00:44:38.119
Uh, that was so cool just
to be at that game to see
683
00:44:38.119 --> 00:44:45.199
that. Just a couple of major
stars pitching against each other with a great
684
00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:50.760
lineups as well. But you know, River Langstrat is a really really good
685
00:44:50.760 --> 00:44:53.639
player too that I'm excited about.
Uh. You know, last year he
686
00:44:53.719 --> 00:44:59.400
his ARA was three point twenty five. He went to and one and then
687
00:44:59.480 --> 00:45:02.199
and Kale Stapleton also he had a
one point nine to eight ERA. Last
688
00:45:02.280 --> 00:45:07.239
year he went four and oh so
struck out twenty one batters in twenty eight
689
00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:09.840
innings. Neither of these guys are
guys that are gonna blow it by you,
690
00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:14.639
but they just know how to pitch, and they're very good offensively as
691
00:45:14.679 --> 00:45:16.840
well. So I think that I
think those are gonna be kind of the
692
00:45:16.840 --> 00:45:21.079
main guys. Kele Stapleton hit two
ninety one, River lank straight I hit
693
00:45:21.119 --> 00:45:27.039
three fifteen. I really really like
this Matthew Carroll kid. He was a
694
00:45:27.079 --> 00:45:30.920
freshman last year that got limited playing
time. They just had so they were
695
00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:34.519
so senior heavy last year, but
they had to find ways to get him
696
00:45:34.519 --> 00:45:37.199
into the lineup. Sometimes he's a
he's probably he's a natural third baseman,
697
00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:40.639
but you know, he could be
moved around the infield. He hit three
698
00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:45.639
forty eight last year and limited time. What I really liked him, what
699
00:45:45.719 --> 00:45:49.119
I really liked about him is that
he had twenty four played appearances only struck
700
00:45:49.119 --> 00:45:53.199
out four times, and to do
that as a freshman really really shows me
701
00:45:53.239 --> 00:45:57.360
a lot. And then just watching
him take infield like before games, I
702
00:45:57.440 --> 00:46:01.079
was like, that kid's a freshman. That's incredible. And then and and
703
00:46:01.119 --> 00:46:05.880
Cooper Moore, who we know from
football. Yeah, uh, he's He's
704
00:46:05.880 --> 00:46:08.960
a guy that didn't play a ton
last year, but he had and one
705
00:46:08.960 --> 00:46:14.519
of the best catches I've ever seen
at second base last year. Uh.
706
00:46:14.559 --> 00:46:17.719
And he'll get a lot more a
lot more playing time, and and yeah,
707
00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:21.679
and they got a ton of kids
that I've never seen play, but
708
00:46:21.800 --> 00:46:25.360
I guarantee you will be awesome.
Every single year. There's there's guys that
709
00:46:25.519 --> 00:46:30.239
like that just show up for that
Linden program that I don't know because I
710
00:46:30.280 --> 00:46:34.440
don't follow the JP. I'm not
watching the Linden Lightning Summer League teams.
711
00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:36.639
I'm not I don't know those things. And then all of a sudden,
712
00:46:36.679 --> 00:46:39.159
I go to a high school game
and I'm like, WHOA, that guy's
713
00:46:39.159 --> 00:46:42.960
awesome. WHOA, that guy's awesome. WHOA? And I just They're just
714
00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:46.960
time and time again. So I'm
excited to see who those guys are and
715
00:46:47.159 --> 00:46:52.320
uh man, yeah, Kale Stapleton
was on that he was on that basketball
716
00:46:52.320 --> 00:46:55.199
team that just won state. So
yeah, just you know, it's just
717
00:46:55.239 --> 00:47:00.440
a great program that does things the
right way and and his lot of fun
718
00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:05.679
to watch. Yeah, that's uh, it's always fun whenever you go somewhere
719
00:47:05.719 --> 00:47:09.360
and you see somebody, like you
see a high school kid for the first
720
00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:13.880
time, you know, and you
go whoa, whoa, and then you
721
00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:17.400
look and it's like wow, freshman
or sophomore and you're just like whoa,
722
00:47:17.480 --> 00:47:22.599
Like I get to watch this dude
for the next three four years. Like
723
00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:24.320
yeah, that's always the first thing
that goes through my mind. Absolutely.
724
00:47:24.519 --> 00:47:28.679
Yeah. And I think I've told
you before how many times I've you know,
725
00:47:28.760 --> 00:47:31.480
I've I've been to a game or
something and I see a kid and
726
00:47:31.719 --> 00:47:37.360
like, wow, like this guy's
unbelievable. Senior dang, Like you're like,
727
00:47:37.719 --> 00:47:40.320
dang, I only get five more
games of this guy, you know
728
00:47:40.320 --> 00:47:44.760
what I mean, Like whatever it
is, but uh, that's awesome.
729
00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:47.320
That's awesome. Well sounds like,
uh, sounds like they're gonna find a
730
00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:51.000
way. I mean, they've got
they obviously they've got good pitching, but
731
00:47:51.559 --> 00:47:53.360
Uh, yeah, I wouldn't be
surprised if we're doing a lot of talking
732
00:47:53.360 --> 00:47:58.239
about those guys. Uh here in
the near future. Let's talk Lindon Christian
733
00:47:58.320 --> 00:48:01.840
Tyler twelve and thirteen last year and
it says state participant. How the heck
734
00:48:01.880 --> 00:48:05.559
did they become a state participant at
twelve and thirteen? Tyler? Well,
735
00:48:05.599 --> 00:48:08.840
they they went off in the districts. They won some games that they didn't
736
00:48:08.880 --> 00:48:13.360
probably a lot of people probably didn't
think they could win. They beat some
737
00:48:13.440 --> 00:48:17.880
favorite teams and they just kept it
rolling and it was awesome to see them
738
00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:24.159
get that far. It was so
cool because there was there there were some
739
00:48:24.400 --> 00:48:29.559
there were some dudes on that team
last year, but I think that it
740
00:48:29.719 --> 00:48:32.840
was not really expected and they came
on strong. At the end of the
741
00:48:32.920 --> 00:48:37.760
year. They beat Meridian at Civic
Stadium. That was a that was a
742
00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:39.519
huge game. That kind of put
Meridian out and put them in state.
743
00:48:39.599 --> 00:48:46.880
That was not expected at all,
and that was a huge win and they
744
00:48:46.920 --> 00:48:51.159
just kind of rode that into the
next week and it was a it was
745
00:48:51.159 --> 00:48:55.280
a really good year for them.
We've got Noah Rawls, the manager over
746
00:48:55.320 --> 00:48:59.320
there, twenty two and twenty four
in his career so I assume this is
747
00:48:59.320 --> 00:49:02.679
gonna be year three for him.
Yeah, he returners Tyler. I see
748
00:49:02.719 --> 00:49:07.960
six names here. It looks as
though Brody Bauman playing another sport. This
749
00:49:07.960 --> 00:49:12.079
guy plays like forty five sports.
And then I see the last name Turpstra.
750
00:49:12.400 --> 00:49:15.480
We obviously know that one. Who
are these guys over there? Who
751
00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:19.519
are who are who are these links
from Living Christian? Yeah? These are
752
00:49:20.039 --> 00:49:23.280
these are some really good top end
players that they have. I'll start with
753
00:49:23.320 --> 00:49:27.079
Brody Bauman that you mentioned. I
mean, yeah, we've talked about him
754
00:49:27.119 --> 00:49:30.039
with football, We've talked about him
with baseball, but he is a bait
755
00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:34.960
or with football and basketball, but
he is a baseball guy. Kind of
756
00:49:35.000 --> 00:49:43.559
known that since since he was a
freshman. He is he he is,
757
00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:49.239
He's He's got that kind of talent
where you go like, this guy is
758
00:49:49.239 --> 00:49:52.840
definitely gonna play college somewhere, like
this is what he's meant to do.
759
00:49:52.880 --> 00:49:59.000
And he's just big, strong kids
six' three two and twenty pounds and
760
00:49:59.079 --> 00:50:00.599
can really crush the ball. I
hit a couple of home runs last year,
761
00:50:00.960 --> 00:50:06.639
had twenty two RBIs last year.
I think that leads for any returning
762
00:50:06.679 --> 00:50:13.719
player in Walkin County. Bat in
two ninety six only struck out ten times
763
00:50:13.760 --> 00:50:16.880
in eighty five played appearances. So
when you see that kind of power with
764
00:50:16.960 --> 00:50:20.880
the low strikeout numbers, that tells
me a lot also had a couple of
765
00:50:20.920 --> 00:50:27.960
triples. Austin Angeles is a kid
that I think is another one of those
766
00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:32.000
like potential you know, league MVP
either this year next year. He's just
767
00:50:32.039 --> 00:50:36.199
a junior. Last year as a
sophomore, he hit four h three.
768
00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:45.079
He is just a pure hitter.
Slugged five hundred last year. This year,
769
00:50:45.480 --> 00:50:49.400
as we're doing this podcast, Elsie
has played two games and I think
770
00:50:49.440 --> 00:50:54.840
he's got something like seven or eight
nine hits. I mean, he had
771
00:50:54.840 --> 00:51:02.719
a grand slam tonight at Squalaicum And
and it's just he is a lot of
772
00:51:02.719 --> 00:51:07.760
fun to watch and he's and it's
weird too because he's a he's a second
773
00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:09.960
baseman, only like he's not going
over, he's not a shortstop, he's
774
00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:14.840
not gonna pitch. He's a second
baseman. You just don't see that a
775
00:51:14.880 --> 00:51:19.480
lot from like a like like a
power high school pitter, you know what
776
00:51:19.559 --> 00:51:22.719
I mean, which is kind of
kind of cool to see. Uh.
777
00:51:22.880 --> 00:51:28.320
Eli Mayberry is a kid that is
so much fun. Left handed batter was
778
00:51:28.320 --> 00:51:30.559
a freshman last year, and as
a freshman last year, he had three
779
00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:36.559
thirty three and he only struck out
five times in sixty eight played appearances.
780
00:51:36.639 --> 00:51:38.760
I love seeing those like those are
the numbers I love to see for high
781
00:51:38.760 --> 00:51:42.960
school kid. And then when I
got to see him in person, I
782
00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:45.480
found out why you can't strike him
out you get two strikes on him.
783
00:51:45.519 --> 00:51:50.400
He just fouls everything off and he
just does it like remember how each row
784
00:51:50.400 --> 00:51:52.679
would do that, Like he's like, no, that's not the pitch I
785
00:51:52.679 --> 00:51:54.360
want. Fallot off, fallot off, fallot off, fallof and it's just
786
00:51:55.320 --> 00:52:00.960
that's that's what Eli Mayberry can do. He's also very good in the field
787
00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:05.559
as far as it depends on who's
pitching. He'll either play short or he'll
788
00:52:05.559 --> 00:52:07.840
play center field, and he'll play
him both very very well, and he'll
789
00:52:07.840 --> 00:52:12.679
pitch a little bit too. So
you get all those things combined, and
790
00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:17.000
just a sophomore makes a really really
good player. Trace and Johnson, also
791
00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:22.599
a sophomore, started last year at
catcher a two eighty six hitter last year
792
00:52:22.599 --> 00:52:27.480
as a freshman catcher. I just
again, those numbers are Greatah Jonah Turpstra
793
00:52:27.920 --> 00:52:34.800
their leadoff hitter stole eight bases last
year, had twelve RBIs. But he's
794
00:52:34.920 --> 00:52:37.440
kind of there, gonna be probably
their workhorse. He pitched thirty four innings
795
00:52:37.519 --> 00:52:40.840
last year, went four and two
with a four point seven to four era.
796
00:52:42.400 --> 00:52:45.679
Again, not gonna wisit by you? Only fifteen strikeouts and thirty four
797
00:52:45.679 --> 00:52:50.280
innings, but he gets the job
done. He pitched the opening day at
798
00:52:50.320 --> 00:52:52.920
Bellingham, got the win there,
pitched four innings without even giving up a
799
00:52:53.000 --> 00:52:57.440
hit. He did walk four batters, but he didn't. He's just he's
800
00:52:57.480 --> 00:53:00.400
just really steadied, knows how to
throw strikes and he pitches the contact and
801
00:53:00.440 --> 00:53:06.920
then he's got a good defense behind
him. And and Logan brink is a
802
00:53:06.920 --> 00:53:10.039
is a an outfielder that seems like
he's been there forever. Uh, but
803
00:53:10.440 --> 00:53:14.599
boy, he came in clutch,
especially in the playoffs last year. That's
804
00:53:14.599 --> 00:53:19.199
what I remember so much. Batted
two twenty four last year, but a
805
00:53:19.239 --> 00:53:23.199
really free swinger only walked twice.
He's up there to hit and uh,
806
00:53:23.280 --> 00:53:27.559
and he's and he can get a
round on it pretty pretty well. So
807
00:53:28.159 --> 00:53:30.800
Uh, they got some young guys
that are coming up to but those are
808
00:53:30.840 --> 00:53:35.840
the six main guys that I saw
last year and this is this the one
809
00:53:35.880 --> 00:53:40.480
a's this year is loaded and uh
and they you know, they kind of
810
00:53:40.519 --> 00:53:45.360
snuck into state last year. I
don't know if it'll be so much sneaking
811
00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:47.199
this year. So I think they're
gonna have a little bit more of a
812
00:53:47.199 --> 00:53:51.440
bulls eye on their back. But
uh, these these kids are ready for
813
00:53:51.480 --> 00:53:53.599
it. They've played a couple of
games this year, scored already this year
814
00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:59.559
thirteen runs and twelve runs against a
couple of two way teams in walk Them
815
00:53:59.559 --> 00:54:02.280
County. So look for some big
things this year from the Lenks. Yeah
816
00:54:02.400 --> 00:54:07.920
sounds like I mean, it's funny
to say this about a team that went
817
00:54:07.960 --> 00:54:09.719
to the state tournament, but yeah, it was like they could have an
818
00:54:09.760 --> 00:54:13.880
improved season this year. Yeah,
I think record wise, I think you're
819
00:54:13.960 --> 00:54:19.400
right. Yeah, yeah, Well, Tyler, let's talk Meridian Trojans thirteen
820
00:54:19.599 --> 00:54:24.000
and ten last year under head coach
Steve Slesk one ninety nine and one sixty
821
00:54:24.039 --> 00:54:30.480
five in his career. Six key
returners here, and uh, I'm being
822
00:54:30.519 --> 00:54:37.599
told it's another really good pitcher in
Wakam County here with Meridian. Huh yeah,
823
00:54:37.719 --> 00:54:39.719
you know, and the cats out
of the bag. Meridian did win
824
00:54:39.760 --> 00:54:43.960
their opening game. So that is
win number two hundred for Steve Slesk.
825
00:54:44.360 --> 00:54:50.639
This is his seventeenth year. Yeah, Jonah Assi is he's the real deal.
826
00:54:51.119 --> 00:54:57.760
I saw him as a freshman pitching, and you know what, You
827
00:54:57.800 --> 00:54:59.960
see him and you're go, oh, yeah, he looks like a Frien
828
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.559
Beshman. I mean he was probably
five seven, five eight, you know,
829
00:55:04.639 --> 00:55:07.199
a little guy, left handed,
nothing crazy, but he just kept
830
00:55:07.199 --> 00:55:09.360
winning all the time, and I
was like, man, he's pretty good.
831
00:55:09.440 --> 00:55:15.599
He was bating lead off and really
selective hitter, you know, knows
832
00:55:15.639 --> 00:55:20.199
what he's doing. And then last
year is a sophomore, I swear he
833
00:55:20.239 --> 00:55:23.159
put he put like twelve miles an
hour onto his fastball and it was completely
834
00:55:23.159 --> 00:55:27.679
different. He got about six feet
tall and he just looked. He just
835
00:55:27.719 --> 00:55:30.320
looked completely Now he's batting clean up, you know, and he's he's muscling
836
00:55:30.360 --> 00:55:34.639
it to the to the gaps,
and it was like, holy cow.
837
00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:37.880
He had three twenty one last year, eight doubles, a triple, a
838
00:55:37.880 --> 00:55:43.280
home run, fourteen rby eyes twenty
one. He walked twenty one times and
839
00:55:43.320 --> 00:55:47.119
struck out three times like that,
Like do you see those types of numbers.
840
00:55:47.199 --> 00:55:51.559
You're like, okay, yeah,
he definitely knows what he's doing at
841
00:55:51.559 --> 00:55:53.840
the plate, and then you look
at his numbers on the mound and it's
842
00:55:53.880 --> 00:55:59.239
just it's ridiculous. Uh. He
pitched sixty four innings. He struck out
843
00:55:59.280 --> 00:56:05.039
one hundred and twenty eight batters.
You know, we went on max Preps,
844
00:56:05.039 --> 00:56:07.599
and I know that not every team
in the United States puts their stats
845
00:56:07.679 --> 00:56:12.880
on max Preps. Yeah, but
based on like national rankings, he's like,
846
00:56:13.159 --> 00:56:15.559
you know, he was in the
top twenty five and strikeouts last year.
847
00:56:16.000 --> 00:56:20.400
Now, I would say, what
would you think ten percent of teams
848
00:56:20.440 --> 00:56:22.719
put their stuff on max Preps,
So you know it's hard to say what
849
00:56:22.840 --> 00:56:28.079
percentages, right, Yeah, Yeah, there's different still agents maybe they do
850
00:56:28.079 --> 00:56:31.000
it more. Yeah, but hard
matters. If like I don't care what
851
00:56:31.159 --> 00:56:35.320
sport, I don't care, there's
enough teams putting it in there that if
852
00:56:35.360 --> 00:56:38.000
you were at the top or in
the top three or four, whatever,
853
00:56:38.519 --> 00:56:43.519
that's saying something because that means you're
ahead of a lot of guys. Yeah.
854
00:56:43.639 --> 00:56:45.400
Yeah, pitched sixty four and the
third innings last year, only gave
855
00:56:45.480 --> 00:56:51.280
up thirty hits. He had back
to back no hitters last year. What
856
00:56:52.519 --> 00:56:55.440
Yeah, and at to back no
hitters huh. And he was their ace.
857
00:56:55.519 --> 00:56:59.880
I mean he he'd go up against
the big teams. And that's the
858
00:57:00.159 --> 00:57:02.360
thing that you see in high school
baseball is if you're a good team,
859
00:57:02.440 --> 00:57:07.280
you're going up against the other teams. Dude. Yeah, And and what
860
00:57:07.440 --> 00:57:10.559
happened with him is, I mean
his record was five and four. You
861
00:57:10.599 --> 00:57:15.079
know, you'd expect like maybe a
nine to zero record, but he went
862
00:57:15.159 --> 00:57:17.119
up against really good teams. Maybe
they would lose two to one or one
863
00:57:17.199 --> 00:57:22.920
nothing every once in a while.
And you know, the Links got the
864
00:57:22.960 --> 00:57:25.360
best of him in that district playoff
game in Joe Martin to send them to
865
00:57:25.360 --> 00:57:29.840
the state. And that's you know, that's a guy that those those Lyndy
866
00:57:29.880 --> 00:57:32.840
Christ and Links probably faced him since
they were little, and they just they
867
00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:36.920
they got on him for one inning
and that was all that it took.
868
00:57:37.000 --> 00:57:43.159
And that's you know, that's baseball. But Jonah Aussi has agreed to go
869
00:57:43.199 --> 00:57:47.400
to University of Washington. Uh.
And you know, and he's a guy
870
00:57:47.400 --> 00:57:50.400
that, yeah, his pitching numbers
are great, but like I said,
871
00:57:50.599 --> 00:57:53.679
even at the plate, he's dangerous. So we'll see how that all goes.
872
00:57:53.719 --> 00:57:59.000
As a center fielder, they have
third basement Silas Burshower that I like
873
00:57:59.079 --> 00:58:04.920
a lot. I he seemed really
really solid defensively. And that's the thing
874
00:58:04.920 --> 00:58:09.079
about a Steve Slesk team is that
they're gonna be very fundamentally sound and extremely
875
00:58:09.079 --> 00:58:13.519
good on defense. And that is
that goes a long way to the high
876
00:58:13.519 --> 00:58:16.239
school baseball. Like I've been posting
these box scores and it's like the average
877
00:58:16.239 --> 00:58:20.000
amount of airs in a game for
one team is probably like four and a
878
00:58:20.039 --> 00:58:22.400
half. And you know, I
know it's early in the season and the
879
00:58:22.400 --> 00:58:27.119
weather's not great and all that stuff, but you know, that's the thing
880
00:58:27.159 --> 00:58:31.480
that Meridian usually got down pretty well
as their is their defense. Tyson Timmer
881
00:58:32.400 --> 00:58:37.320
really good left fielder. He's back
there again this year. Last year he
882
00:58:37.400 --> 00:58:40.840
scored seventeen runs. You know,
that was I think that was the most
883
00:58:40.840 --> 00:58:45.719
on the team. Ian Forbes who
did the intro for us, he's a
884
00:58:45.840 --> 00:58:50.440
this is his fourth year starting at
catcher. That anytime you have a four
885
00:58:50.519 --> 00:58:53.280
year starter at catcher, that is
huge, And I mean I remember him
886
00:58:53.280 --> 00:58:58.880
as a freshman and defensively it was
a struggle. I mean even I could
887
00:58:58.960 --> 00:59:01.000
just recall so many times where you
know, like on a one to zero
888
00:59:01.079 --> 00:59:05.679
count and you know, the pitch
comes in for a strikes and he drops
889
00:59:05.679 --> 00:59:07.400
it. You know, it's all
it is, is one and one.
890
00:59:07.440 --> 00:59:10.840
He did there's nothing bad. But
I can hear Coach lest Bee like catch
891
00:59:10.880 --> 00:59:14.679
the ball. Ian, you know, I could just I could hear him
892
00:59:14.719 --> 00:59:17.280
like he's getting on him, like
like it doesn't matter that you didn't drop,
893
00:59:17.360 --> 00:59:20.760
Like there's nobody on base, It
doesn't matter that you dropped it.
894
00:59:21.320 --> 00:59:23.519
You just gotta catch them all.
And then it just his defense got better
895
00:59:23.599 --> 00:59:28.000
and better and better, and he
was always hitting like second lineup like they're
896
00:59:28.000 --> 00:59:30.239
gonna Meridian also is one of those
teams where the first guy gets on next
897
00:59:30.239 --> 00:59:36.960
guy's bunting period, like they will
play small ball a beyond small ball,
898
00:59:37.079 --> 00:59:39.519
don't They don't. It doesn't matter
if the guy is an eight hundred hitter.
899
00:59:39.559 --> 00:59:43.360
He's bunting and they're gonna go to
the next thing and they're just gonna
900
00:59:43.440 --> 00:59:46.079
keep that going. Fundamentals, swing
a good pitches, all those things.
901
00:59:47.320 --> 00:59:52.119
And and Ian Forbes has kind of
turned into like more of the three hole
902
00:59:52.159 --> 00:59:57.480
hitter now more the power guy as
he's gotten bigger and stronger, and and
903
00:59:57.480 --> 01:00:00.280
and you've seen it like on the
walk and preps website where it shows those
904
01:00:00.320 --> 01:00:05.960
background pictures and you see that catcher
all excited. That's Ian Forbes right there,
905
01:00:07.360 --> 01:00:09.920
and he's He's been a fun player. He drove in twenty five last
906
01:00:10.000 --> 01:00:15.440
year. Just a really good clutch
hitter. Jacob Allminson in the infield,
907
01:00:15.480 --> 01:00:19.559
he'll probably be that number two hitter. He was a great three point shooter
908
01:00:19.599 --> 01:00:22.559
for the basketball team. He had
ten RBI's last year. Just a really
909
01:00:22.559 --> 01:00:27.000
good player that plays some second base. And Tristan Wang in the outfield,
910
01:00:27.119 --> 01:00:30.440
really tall, left handed hitter.
I like. I like him a lot.
911
01:00:30.519 --> 01:00:34.639
I think he's got I think he's
got a really really good future.
912
01:00:34.760 --> 01:00:39.480
Three seventy one on base percentage.
He just, you know, he he's
913
01:00:39.519 --> 01:00:42.840
a guy that just had some tough
luck. It seems like every time I'd
914
01:00:42.880 --> 01:00:45.840
see him, he would rope one
for an out, you know, and
915
01:00:45.960 --> 01:00:49.199
sometimes when you don't have that many. Had thirty seven played appearances last year,
916
01:00:49.239 --> 01:00:52.599
thirty seven, that's it, you
know. You you rope three or
917
01:00:52.599 --> 01:00:54.440
four of them for an out and
those turn in those turn into hits,
918
01:00:54.440 --> 01:01:00.599
and your batty average jumps seventy points. So yeah, I and Meridan.
919
01:01:00.719 --> 01:01:04.199
The one thing about Meridan, these
are the key returning guys. But they
920
01:01:04.239 --> 01:01:08.360
have a really really good freshman class
that I've heard about, so I'm really
921
01:01:08.400 --> 01:01:15.239
excited to see what what happens there. You know coach Steve Slesk, which
922
01:01:15.400 --> 01:01:17.760
has no bones about it. He
will play the best nine, and he,
923
01:01:19.039 --> 01:01:22.000
more than probably any other coach,
will keep a consistent lineup throughout the
924
01:01:22.039 --> 01:01:27.360
whole year. Uh. Yes,
he knows his nine. He will stay
925
01:01:27.440 --> 01:01:30.840
with it one through nine in the
batting order. It's almost like it's almost
926
01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:35.440
like you know, yes, it's
very much you know what's gonna happen,
927
01:01:36.960 --> 01:01:40.960
and he'll just go with it.
Sad to see that Jager Fife's not playing,
928
01:01:42.360 --> 01:01:44.480
but you know that happens every once
in a while. He could have
929
01:01:44.480 --> 01:01:46.519
been a huge benefit to that team. But man, they got so much
930
01:01:46.559 --> 01:01:51.920
good young talent coming up. I
think, uh, I think they'll be
931
01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:53.519
okay. There's a few other guys, you know Alex Short, which he
932
01:01:53.599 --> 01:01:58.719
was I wish he was playing too, and but but there's there's something about
933
01:01:58.800 --> 01:02:01.039
that about that team and and him
as a coach. He's an old school
934
01:02:01.079 --> 01:02:06.000
guy. He doesn't like me posting
stats. We've gone over this with many
935
01:02:06.800 --> 01:02:09.599
players and parents and stuff. Like
that. And uh, even when I
936
01:02:09.639 --> 01:02:14.119
talked to John at the sports cards
at j e KK sports Cards, you
937
01:02:14.159 --> 01:02:16.280
know, he was he's sponsoring the
stat leaders, and I said, yeah,
938
01:02:16.360 --> 01:02:21.079
you know, every week I'll post
the stat leaders. He goes except
939
01:02:21.119 --> 01:02:24.079
except for Steve's kids, and like
he even knew, like he he he
940
01:02:24.159 --> 01:02:27.840
knew it, you know. And
and uh, but you know I get
941
01:02:27.840 --> 01:02:31.039
it. Coach lesk is old school
and and uh doesn't want his kids thinking
942
01:02:31.039 --> 01:02:35.440
about that stuff. Just wants him
to go and play baseball. And and
943
01:02:35.639 --> 01:02:37.440
uh, you know, once the
season's over, he doesn't care. Just
944
01:02:37.480 --> 01:02:40.239
throw him out there and then you
can see what they are. And and
945
01:02:40.400 --> 01:02:45.360
uh, I think they are again
because of the pitching. I think that
946
01:02:45.519 --> 01:02:50.719
they have a good chance as well. Jonah Assi is a great number one,
947
01:02:50.840 --> 01:02:52.320
especially at the one A level,
and we'll see what kind of run
948
01:02:52.360 --> 01:03:00.880
they can make. Let's talk Mount
Baker Tyler. Yeah out there in Deming
949
01:03:00.960 --> 01:03:05.599
two and sixteen last year. New
head coach this year. And when I
950
01:03:05.639 --> 01:03:09.559
say new head coach, like recently
new head coach probably about as late as
951
01:03:09.599 --> 01:03:15.639
we've ever really seen. But David
Ferrell, I believe, is how we're
952
01:03:15.679 --> 01:03:20.119
saying his name. Yeah, sixty
four and sixty two in his career his
953
01:03:20.280 --> 01:03:22.800
first year at Bellan or excuse me, Mount Baker. He has coached at
954
01:03:22.800 --> 01:03:30.800
Bellingham from twenty eleven to two and
sixteen. Tyler five returning key players here.
955
01:03:32.840 --> 01:03:38.679
I've recognized one, oddly enough from
wrestling, Daniel Washburn. I'm pretty
956
01:03:38.679 --> 01:03:43.280
excited to hear about this young man
because it says he's also an infielder and
957
01:03:43.320 --> 01:03:45.639
a picture here. But yeah,
what can you tell me about the Mountaineers.
958
01:03:46.119 --> 01:03:49.960
Well, they've struggled the last few
years they had. They had a
959
01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:52.920
pretty good run in twenty nineteen.
They did some good things. I remember
960
01:03:52.920 --> 01:03:57.199
that because I was I was doing
I was calling a lot of games,
961
01:03:57.440 --> 01:04:00.079
you know, audibly for the Doug
Lane Network to do a big game that
962
01:04:00.119 --> 01:04:03.320
they had on my birth that was
on my fortieth birthday. I remember it
963
01:04:03.440 --> 01:04:06.760
very well. It kind of it
gave it shot them into the districts and
964
01:04:06.760 --> 01:04:10.119
then they did well there and they
just kind of ran out of gas.
965
01:04:10.159 --> 01:04:13.960
But uh, yeah, it's it's
been a struggle and the big one of
966
01:04:14.000 --> 01:04:17.039
the big things is a lot of
big time players, uh go out for
967
01:04:17.119 --> 01:04:24.119
other sports and it's been happening more
and more recently. But uh, yeah,
968
01:04:24.159 --> 01:04:27.440
and this is the one team because
because of the coaching turnover stuff,
969
01:04:27.440 --> 01:04:30.599
I haven't been able to get a
roster yet, so I don't know exactly
970
01:04:30.639 --> 01:04:34.119
who's on the team. But I
think Braven Nason is back, and he's
971
01:04:34.159 --> 01:04:38.880
a guy that you know, he's
a senior now, but I remember him
972
01:04:38.920 --> 01:04:42.039
even as he's been starting since he
was a freshman. He's played center field,
973
01:04:42.039 --> 01:04:45.599
he's played shortstop, he's pitched,
and you know, I think even
974
01:04:45.639 --> 01:04:48.360
as a freshman he was bat and
lead off there for a while. His
975
01:04:48.400 --> 01:04:51.960
sophomore year he was kind of leaned
upon heavily as a pitcher. He hurt
976
01:04:53.000 --> 01:04:56.280
his arm halfway through the year,
so the rest of the year he was
977
01:04:56.360 --> 01:05:00.199
dhing. And then his junior year
last year he just played short stuf but
978
01:05:00.239 --> 01:05:02.079
he didn't pitch. I think they
were saving it for another year. So
979
01:05:02.119 --> 01:05:04.719
I think this year he's gonna be
kind of their main pitcher. You mentioned
980
01:05:04.800 --> 01:05:11.920
Daniel Washburn, the really good wrestler
from Mount Baker. He is probably their
981
01:05:11.960 --> 01:05:15.880
next best pitcher. He'll play third
and short as well, and he's a
982
01:05:15.920 --> 01:05:19.320
guy that he had a really big
win against squal Come. I think he
983
01:05:19.360 --> 01:05:23.360
pitched a complete game beat him.
Two to one last year was a huge
984
01:05:23.400 --> 01:05:27.360
win for them, so he can
definitely eat up some innings. Camden Moa
985
01:05:27.440 --> 01:05:30.840
behind the plate, Braden Scott in
the outfields, basketball player Tyson Raitmeyer another
986
01:05:30.880 --> 01:05:33.360
basketball player, can played first base. He can pitch a little bit as
987
01:05:33.400 --> 01:05:38.280
well. It's it's gonna be a
struggle. It's such a hard league.
988
01:05:38.280 --> 01:05:42.440
You're you're going against you know,
really top end one A teams and then
989
01:05:42.440 --> 01:05:45.360
a bunch of two A and three
A teams and that's your league schedule.
990
01:05:45.840 --> 01:05:49.199
They dropped the opener against orchest Island
twelve to two. It could be a
991
01:05:49.280 --> 01:05:53.599
rough one this year. I don't
know that much about coach Ferrell. I
992
01:05:53.639 --> 01:05:56.880
know that he's been around and he's
coached different leagues and stuff like that.
993
01:05:57.039 --> 01:06:00.760
So, you know, I was
talking to somebody today actually out of the
994
01:06:00.800 --> 01:06:04.119
Blaine baseball game. We were discussing
the new the new coaching change, and
995
01:06:04.159 --> 01:06:08.719
he's like, he's like, well, he knows that guy knows baseball.
996
01:06:08.719 --> 01:06:11.760
That's a good hire for them.
So so we'll see if that things can
997
01:06:11.760 --> 01:06:16.039
get turned around for the Mountaineers.
You know, it's uh, it used
998
01:06:16.079 --> 01:06:19.800
to be a big time baseball you
know, a place back in the seventies
999
01:06:19.800 --> 01:06:23.920
and the eighties and nineties, but
it's been a while since they've had you
1000
01:06:23.920 --> 01:06:29.280
know, a strong uh you know, core group go through there for a
1001
01:06:29.280 --> 01:06:33.719
while. So obviously, being a
mountaineer, I'm always rooting for them.
1002
01:06:33.760 --> 01:06:40.039
But it's gonna be tough. There's
just really good competition right now. Let's
1003
01:06:40.079 --> 01:06:44.719
move on to nook Sack Valley four
and sixteen. Last season, our guy
1004
01:06:44.920 --> 01:06:48.440
Joel the Wispolaire out there coaching.
He returners eight Tyler. That's a that's
1005
01:06:48.519 --> 01:06:54.199
always a good number to return.
A couple of names I recognize here.
1006
01:06:54.280 --> 01:06:58.119
So what are we looking at this
year for the Pioneers. I think there's
1007
01:06:58.119 --> 01:07:00.960
gonna be a huge improvement for them
there. You know it was, and
1008
01:07:01.280 --> 01:07:04.320
you know, coach Juist Blair and
I have joked about this where you know,
1009
01:07:04.360 --> 01:07:09.519
it's always been well, they're you
know, they're young, and he's
1010
01:07:09.519 --> 01:07:12.039
like, we're not. We can't
say that anymore. We can't say we're
1011
01:07:12.039 --> 01:07:15.639
young anymore. Now we've got a
lot of experience. They don't have a
1012
01:07:15.639 --> 01:07:18.239
ton of experience with wins, but
they have a lot of varsity experience and
1013
01:07:18.760 --> 01:07:23.480
if they can stay healthy and they
can throw strikes, they will do some
1014
01:07:23.599 --> 01:07:29.880
damage. You know, right off
the bat playing against Mariner, you know
1015
01:07:29.920 --> 01:07:31.719
they won fifteen to one. You
know, they they show they could put
1016
01:07:31.760 --> 01:07:35.599
up runs. Then they played a
doubleheader against Sila, who's a really strong
1017
01:07:35.639 --> 01:07:41.599
two AA team, and and you
know they lost six to one and eleven
1018
01:07:41.639 --> 01:07:44.800
to one. But man, they're
playing some good competition there. I think
1019
01:07:44.840 --> 01:07:48.519
that I think they have enough pitching. Casey Newton is has got a really
1020
01:07:48.559 --> 01:07:56.360
live arm, and his big thing
has just been throwing strikes. You know,
1021
01:07:56.440 --> 01:08:00.519
he can he can throw hard,
but Canny throws strike. I mean,
1022
01:08:00.519 --> 01:08:03.719
he has over one hundred walks and
one hundred strikeouts in his career and
1023
01:08:03.800 --> 01:08:06.320
so that just I mean, it
tells you he's been playing a lot of
1024
01:08:06.400 --> 01:08:10.880
varsity baseball. You know, he's
thrown seventy eight innings in his career,
1025
01:08:12.159 --> 01:08:15.000
but there's been a lot of walks
and a lot of strikeouts. Well,
1026
01:08:15.039 --> 01:08:17.520
that game begets Mariner. He pitched
five innings and only gave up one hit,
1027
01:08:17.560 --> 01:08:21.199
struck out thirteen, and he only
walked three. So that told me
1028
01:08:21.239 --> 01:08:25.600
a lot. That told me,
Okay, he's definitely got that down.
1029
01:08:25.600 --> 01:08:30.039
Now he's hitting great as well.
He's a really good left handed hitter playing
1030
01:08:30.079 --> 01:08:32.439
center field. Colby Martin is a
guy that's got some big time pop.
1031
01:08:32.640 --> 01:08:36.720
Hit a home run last year.
You're a big strong third baseman. Hit
1032
01:08:36.760 --> 01:08:41.560
two ninety one last year, knocked
in fifteen. Really excited about what he
1033
01:08:41.600 --> 01:08:44.399
can do. He's been starting at
third since he was a freshman. Now
1034
01:08:44.399 --> 01:08:48.600
he's a junior. Eddie Sertaz,
He's he's kind of got got that Julio
1035
01:08:48.720 --> 01:08:56.560
Rodriguez feel like he gives off this
vibe and and I just I love that
1036
01:08:56.640 --> 01:09:00.680
about him, and he is he
is fun to watch. He's dynamic.
1037
01:09:01.000 --> 01:09:05.479
Another good outfielder and a good pitcher, Bradley. Bradley Blake will step into
1038
01:09:05.479 --> 01:09:10.199
that second base role. He's mainly
just been a pitcher in his in his
1039
01:09:10.279 --> 01:09:14.039
high school career, but now he's
gonna play more in the field. A
1040
01:09:14.079 --> 01:09:16.199
good guy out of the bullpen can
throw strikes, which is what they want.
1041
01:09:16.319 --> 01:09:20.159
Damian Perez, Hey, we've loved
him at linebacker. He's been their
1042
01:09:20.199 --> 01:09:24.359
catcher now for a while. He
had two fifty nine last year he had
1043
01:09:24.359 --> 01:09:29.159
eleven RBI. Eyes you know he's
he's steady back there. I mean he's
1044
01:09:29.199 --> 01:09:31.800
a guy that you know, you
want a guy that can just catch game
1045
01:09:31.840 --> 01:09:34.680
after game after game after game and
not get tired. He's your guy.
1046
01:09:35.600 --> 01:09:41.079
I love him as a backstop.
Cole Baumban really you know, good,
1047
01:09:41.439 --> 01:09:45.479
good size, about six foot five, could play some first base. He
1048
01:09:45.520 --> 01:09:48.439
can pitch a little bit too.
Knocked in five batters last year. Healks
1049
01:09:48.479 --> 01:09:54.399
and he walked nine times three twenty
three on base percentage. He's started out
1050
01:09:54.399 --> 01:09:57.039
the year pretty strong. Like I
said, they've already played three games this
1051
01:09:57.159 --> 01:10:03.239
year, and he can pitch as
well. Matthew Blake is a really really
1052
01:10:03.279 --> 01:10:09.760
good fast guy, leadoff guy,
outfielder, and I'm excited to see what
1053
01:10:09.840 --> 01:10:13.199
he does. He had he had
twelve hits last year. I think he
1054
01:10:13.199 --> 01:10:19.079
can improve upon that. Jesse Tressel
as an infielder, really good fielding shortstop,
1055
01:10:19.199 --> 01:10:24.560
seven stolen bases last year. Evan
Brown, the younger brother Joey Brown,
1056
01:10:25.399 --> 01:10:29.800
just a sophomore, got a really
live fastball. You're talking mid upper
1057
01:10:29.840 --> 01:10:33.520
eighties, you know, can really
deal on the mound through through twenty three
1058
01:10:33.560 --> 01:10:38.560
innings last year. Struck out twenty
one. But it was just the walks.
1059
01:10:38.640 --> 01:10:41.159
Like I said, there's there was
a lot of walks. Actually,
1060
01:10:41.159 --> 01:10:44.960
I think even as a whole the
team walked more than they struck out.
1061
01:10:45.079 --> 01:10:49.439
So that's something that they're gonna really
want to put, you know, lower
1062
01:10:49.479 --> 01:10:53.760
that a little bit and just play
solid defense because the hitting will be there.
1063
01:10:53.880 --> 01:10:56.199
They got a lot of guys that
can really put the bat on the
1064
01:10:56.199 --> 01:10:59.880
ball, Newton Martin Surta, these
guys, you know, Perez Bouman.
1065
01:11:00.479 --> 01:11:03.479
These guys can really knock the ball
around, run around the bases, and
1066
01:11:03.800 --> 01:11:08.800
it's you know, it's been a
while since Knooksacks had a winner over there
1067
01:11:10.319 --> 01:11:14.760
as a as a baseball program.
I really like Joel as a coach.
1068
01:11:14.840 --> 01:11:16.840
I mean, I've you know,
heck, we played Little League All Stars
1069
01:11:16.840 --> 01:11:19.640
together in third and fourth grade.
You know, it's one of those things
1070
01:11:19.680 --> 01:11:21.840
you and you did. I'm sure
you did this too, where you played
1071
01:11:21.840 --> 01:11:26.520
little league and you're playing third base
or whatever you're you know, like me,
1072
01:11:26.600 --> 01:11:28.520
I was a third baseball all the
time. Then you make the All
1073
01:11:28.520 --> 01:11:30.399
Star team. Well they're all third
basement or they're all short stops. And
1074
01:11:30.479 --> 01:11:33.000
so all of a sudden, I
find myself playing center field and I'm looking
1075
01:11:33.000 --> 01:11:36.039
at I'm like, well, who's
playing third base. I'm like, I'm
1076
01:11:36.039 --> 01:11:39.680
a fourth grader. I'm like,
who's that third grader playing third base.
1077
01:11:40.119 --> 01:11:42.600
No, he must be really good. Yeah that was That was Joel DUIs
1078
01:11:42.680 --> 01:11:46.119
Flair. So, but the last
time they had more wins than the last
1079
01:11:46.159 --> 01:11:50.520
time Nooksack had more wins than losses
had a above five hundred team was two
1080
01:11:50.560 --> 01:11:55.760
thousand and seven. So it's been
a while, but this could be one
1081
01:11:55.760 --> 01:11:58.680
of those years where they started to
turn around get closer to that five hundred
1082
01:11:58.680 --> 01:12:01.239
mark. Said, they've been talking
that, oh, they're they're you know,
1083
01:12:01.279 --> 01:12:03.880
they're young, they're young. Well, they can't really say that anymore.
1084
01:12:04.039 --> 01:12:06.479
Yeah, there are some young players, but for the most part,
1085
01:12:06.640 --> 01:12:11.399
there's a lot of varsity experience on
this team. Yeah, I mean I
1086
01:12:11.399 --> 01:12:15.880
think that, you know, eventually
you get to a point where, hey,
1087
01:12:16.920 --> 01:12:20.319
either you're young or maybe you're just
not very good. So now it's
1088
01:12:20.399 --> 01:12:24.119
kind of like, hey, let's
go boys. Now we gotta win some
1089
01:12:24.159 --> 01:12:29.279
games here, and we return eight
good players, so yeah, now it's
1090
01:12:29.319 --> 01:12:31.239
time to it's time to do what
we all know what we can do.
1091
01:12:31.279 --> 01:12:34.159
So let's go out and do it. And by the way, I mean,
1092
01:12:34.920 --> 01:12:39.439
could you get a better at least
first game of the year. I
1093
01:12:39.479 --> 01:12:43.640
mean, my goodness, I saw
that scoreboard and I went what like,
1094
01:12:45.399 --> 01:12:49.479
I mean, that's a thrashing.
Let's talk Seaholme Tyler, the Mariners six
1095
01:12:49.560 --> 01:12:56.520
and sixteen last year head coach Dane
Siegfried seventeen to forty two for the career,
1096
01:12:58.119 --> 01:13:01.960
five key returners here and Hudson ef
a name that I feel like we
1097
01:13:01.960 --> 01:13:05.640
we have talked about a lot on
this podcast in the last year or so.
1098
01:13:06.239 --> 01:13:10.039
Uh, what do we got here
out of the Mariners this season?
1099
01:13:11.039 --> 01:13:14.159
Yeah, I'm really intrigued to see
what this what's gonna happen. I mean,
1100
01:13:14.199 --> 01:13:17.520
Seahome has probably the richest baseball tradition
as far as all the Walkham County
1101
01:13:17.560 --> 01:13:21.399
schools. They've won three state titles. I think that's one even I know,
1102
01:13:21.720 --> 01:13:26.520
like, yeah, I know that
one. That's that's almost the extent
1103
01:13:26.720 --> 01:13:30.479
of my baseball knowledge as far as
Walkham County goes. Yeah, I mean
1104
01:13:30.520 --> 01:13:34.359
Gary Hatch was the coach forever and
he's one of those guys where you know,
1105
01:13:34.399 --> 01:13:39.159
you google Gary Hatch and you start
seeing things like USA Baseball and stuff
1106
01:13:39.199 --> 01:13:43.760
like that, Like he's he's way
up there and he's still around assistant.
1107
01:13:43.800 --> 01:13:45.159
I mean, it's still cool just
to share a dugout with him and he'll
1108
01:13:45.159 --> 01:13:47.960
walk by and he'll we'll talk for
a little bit. He has he doesn't
1109
01:13:48.000 --> 01:13:54.399
know who I am, but he's
just so it's it's it's baseball Royalty,
1110
01:13:54.560 --> 01:13:58.680
really and and it's just so fun
to I love going to get It's probably
1111
01:13:58.680 --> 01:14:00.680
my favorite place to go to go
to a cover of baseball game and see
1112
01:14:00.720 --> 01:14:05.520
home it's and it's just I know, there's so much history there. But
1113
01:14:05.600 --> 01:14:09.960
at the same time, there's like
a little there's like a little media spot
1114
01:14:10.279 --> 01:14:14.560
right next to the dugout and it's
just told before. Yeah, I love
1115
01:14:14.560 --> 01:14:16.359
it. And I can get great
pictures, I can do video, I
1116
01:14:16.359 --> 01:14:19.560
could do whatever. And they they
they and they treat me great. And
1117
01:14:19.600 --> 01:14:24.319
it's just a fun place to go. And and uh, it's been a
1118
01:14:24.319 --> 01:14:27.239
struggle the last few years. I
mean, they had a big time run
1119
01:14:27.279 --> 01:14:30.119
at State when they had uh,
Jacob Kaepernick and those and those guys.
1120
01:14:30.920 --> 01:14:36.319
But it's been a while and you
know, coach Sigfrey took over after COVID
1121
01:14:38.279 --> 01:14:41.880
and there just hasn't been that year. Last year they had to play that
1122
01:14:41.960 --> 01:14:45.840
playing game to get the districts.
They won that game, I believe,
1123
01:14:45.960 --> 01:14:48.319
I want to say it was against
Lakewood, and I remember I did a
1124
01:14:48.359 --> 01:14:51.760
live broadcast of that game, and
that was just kind of an on the
1125
01:14:51.760 --> 01:14:59.600
whim thing, just a Facebook live
and and it was. It was one
1126
01:14:59.600 --> 01:15:03.680
of those things because I that was
my last day totally chocolate and and that
1127
01:15:03.920 --> 01:15:06.159
night I just thought, you know
what, if I'm gonna go all in
1128
01:15:06.239 --> 01:15:10.720
on walk the preps, I might
as well just call the game tonight right
1129
01:15:10.760 --> 01:15:14.600
now. Yeah, And I brought
my brought my tripod and I literally,
1130
01:15:14.760 --> 01:15:19.279
I'm dead serious. I ductap my
phone to the tripod and and did a
1131
01:15:19.399 --> 01:15:23.920
and I brought my headset and I
just plugged it in and and just did
1132
01:15:23.960 --> 01:15:28.319
a live broadcast just from the dugout. And it was. It was fun.
1133
01:15:28.359 --> 01:15:31.079
It was a great it was a
great game Sea Home one. And
1134
01:15:31.680 --> 01:15:35.199
the one thing though, they only
have seventeen guys in their entire program.
1135
01:15:35.800 --> 01:15:39.920
And that's just a shame to see
because when you think about old Sea Home
1136
01:15:40.000 --> 01:15:43.680
Baseball, and it's like, man, you'd have tons of kid dozens of
1137
01:15:43.760 --> 01:15:46.119
kids turning out and there were cuts
and everything and and uh, but there
1138
01:15:46.199 --> 01:15:54.720
is some high end talent here.
Ryder McGrath is extremely talented shortstop picture you
1139
01:15:54.720 --> 01:16:00.359
know about six three, six four, really really fun player to watch and
1140
01:16:00.359 --> 01:16:04.800
and can just drive the baseball and
really excited to see what he does.
1141
01:16:04.840 --> 01:16:10.640
He had three doubles last year.
I think he's he's one of those guys
1142
01:16:10.640 --> 01:16:16.159
that's gonna improve so much every single
year. Hudson Nef Yeah, Yeah,
1143
01:16:16.319 --> 01:16:20.239
he's he's good. He's he's a
lot of fun to watch. Hit two
1144
01:16:20.319 --> 01:16:26.560
thirty five last year. But man, that's gonna he's gonna be a good
1145
01:16:26.640 --> 01:16:30.439
leadoff guy center field. Was a
middle infielder, you know, growing up,
1146
01:16:30.479 --> 01:16:33.760
but get to the high school level
sometimes and you need that stud out
1147
01:16:33.760 --> 01:16:39.600
there in center field and he's gonna
lock that down. Jackson Evans is gonna
1148
01:16:39.760 --> 01:16:42.520
he's gonna return. He was the
backup catcher last year. He's gonna take
1149
01:16:42.520 --> 01:16:46.359
over the catcher this year. Gunner
Tweet is another sophomore. This sophomore class
1150
01:16:46.359 --> 01:16:50.479
that has is pretty durned good.
Uh, he's gonna be a guy that
1151
01:16:50.479 --> 01:16:55.119
can play some short or second.
You know, he'll play second when Ryter
1152
01:16:55.279 --> 01:16:58.399
McGrath's at short with McGrath is pitching, he'll go over and play short.
1153
01:16:59.600 --> 01:17:02.560
I mean, just the tweight name
at Sea Home. There's been a lot
1154
01:17:02.600 --> 01:17:06.680
of great ones, Grady Murray,
all these guys there's been some really good
1155
01:17:06.720 --> 01:17:12.119
tweight players. Gunner Tweight's just the
next one. Uh. And then third
1156
01:17:12.119 --> 01:17:16.640
baseman pitcher Keegan Glennon, another sophomore. Uh, he pitched really well in
1157
01:17:16.680 --> 01:17:21.720
that game where they tied forks due
to darkness. He pitched five innings and
1158
01:17:21.800 --> 01:17:25.920
gave up just three hits and struck
out ten, didn't walk anybody. And
1159
01:17:25.920 --> 01:17:29.720
that really stood out to me because
I think he only pitched a couple of
1160
01:17:29.720 --> 01:17:31.720
innings last year. I think only
pitched five innings last year total. And
1161
01:17:31.760 --> 01:17:33.960
he goes out there and does that. You know, last year he was
1162
01:17:34.039 --> 01:17:38.880
dhing a lot, showed a lot
of pop. This year he's taken over
1163
01:17:38.920 --> 01:17:42.760
at third base. Uh, So
I'm really excited to kind of see what
1164
01:17:42.840 --> 01:17:46.439
he does. And then it's a
lot of young guys after that, and
1165
01:17:46.520 --> 01:17:50.399
it's gonna be how quickly can they
develop, how quickly can they buy in?
1166
01:17:50.680 --> 01:17:54.279
And right now they're going through what
kind of what Knuksac was. You
1167
01:17:54.279 --> 01:17:57.359
know, they're they're really young,
They're really I'm just gonna keep saying that,
1168
01:17:57.399 --> 01:18:00.560
but I think that the future is
to look bright because of the varsity
1169
01:18:00.600 --> 01:18:06.399
experience that they're building right now that
is good to hear we got one more
1170
01:18:06.399 --> 01:18:11.760
here. Tyler Squalum the Storm eight
and thirteen last year, Kevin Fry,
1171
01:18:11.920 --> 01:18:16.000
the manager fifty seven seventy four for
the career, five key returners again,
1172
01:18:17.039 --> 01:18:21.119
and a couple of names I recognize, including one that you already mentioned earlier
1173
01:18:21.119 --> 01:18:26.079
in this podcast. Yeah, but
for a completely different reason. But yeah,
1174
01:18:26.119 --> 01:18:29.359
what can you tell me about the
Storm? Yeah? I mean k
1175
01:18:29.520 --> 01:18:31.640
Fry is awesome. I mean he
is like a baseball guy. I mean,
1176
01:18:31.680 --> 01:18:34.800
if you want to just sit and
talk baseball, he is so much
1177
01:18:34.880 --> 01:18:42.000
fun and always always smiling and and
makes me feel like a million bucks every
1178
01:18:42.000 --> 01:18:46.560
time I go see Squalicum Storm baseball. Love their field. Love You could
1179
01:18:46.640 --> 01:18:50.800
sit there in the driveway right above
right field and the sun's coming down right
1180
01:18:50.880 --> 01:18:56.800
behind the trees. You look past
that area and it's just it's like it's
1181
01:18:56.880 --> 01:19:00.600
like heaven. Man, it's just
watching baseball at that place is fantastic.
1182
01:19:00.199 --> 01:19:05.640
Uh. And you know, they've
always put together a really good competitive team
1183
01:19:06.159 --> 01:19:11.840
and they've they but lately just been
kind of hovering around five hundred, where
1184
01:19:12.359 --> 01:19:16.119
they'll have really good players and then
guys will transfer, guys will get injured.
1185
01:19:16.159 --> 01:19:20.199
It's just they just had some some
really tough luck. Did you return
1186
01:19:20.279 --> 01:19:24.960
some big time guys. Brady Scammell
is a speed demon out in center field.
1187
01:19:25.039 --> 01:19:28.159
He played center field on the football
team, playing free safety. Uh,
1188
01:19:28.720 --> 01:19:31.359
really excited to see what he does. You know, he stole nine
1189
01:19:31.399 --> 01:19:35.039
bases last year. He had two
seventy nine last year. A guy that
1190
01:19:35.399 --> 01:19:39.279
you know doesn't get out easily.
I mean he's only struck out eight times
1191
01:19:39.319 --> 01:19:43.760
and fifty played appearances. He can
get on base three to eighty on base,
1192
01:19:44.039 --> 01:19:46.199
so that that's really good. Ben
Hebert has been a star since he
1193
01:19:46.279 --> 01:19:50.000
was a freshman. He'll be kind
of that shortstop, probably the you know,
1194
01:19:50.039 --> 01:19:54.840
one of the main pitchers as well. His numbers were a little bit
1195
01:19:54.880 --> 01:19:59.119
down last year as opposed to his
freshman year, but but again he gets
1196
01:19:59.159 --> 01:20:01.640
on base as well, four for
a four to fourteen on base percentage,
1197
01:20:01.680 --> 01:20:05.600
stole six bases. Expect some big
things out of him. Dylan Johnson at
1198
01:20:05.640 --> 01:20:10.319
first base, I think he'll be
He'll be another guy that'll kind of be
1199
01:20:10.359 --> 01:20:13.960
in the middle of the lineup.
He hit three doubles last year. Colby
1200
01:20:14.039 --> 01:20:16.880
Lewis, Yeah, we talked about
him as Chad as the belling Yam coach
1201
01:20:17.279 --> 01:20:20.960
and you're talking about a guy that's
gonna, you know, go play offensive
1202
01:20:21.000 --> 01:20:27.439
line freaking college in college, going
over there, stand at third base playing,
1203
01:20:27.840 --> 01:20:30.600
he's pretty intimidating. He knocked in
ten runs last year. He's got
1204
01:20:30.640 --> 01:20:33.399
a big time bat in the middle
of the lineup as well. And then
1205
01:20:33.520 --> 01:20:40.079
Josh Kreda as a really good pitcher, and he's been a but he's been
1206
01:20:40.119 --> 01:20:45.239
really dynamic coming into games, like
as a relief pitcher. He usually when
1207
01:20:45.239 --> 01:20:47.720
you have a really good high school
pitcher, he's a starter period. Yeah,
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And and he's been one of those
guys that's really good coming in relief
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and and pitching three or four innings
in relief. And I would imagine he's
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gonna start a little bit here and
there, but he's kind of found that
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that thing that he does, you
know, really well, and that's been
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coming in relief. But uh,
but last year he even he hit two
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fifty five. He's pretty good.
He's pretty good hitter. Uh, only
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struck out nine times and fifty three
plate appearances. Again, I love I
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love those kinds of stats. Uh, you know, I mean, yeah,
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I I definitely don't want, you
know, you to just watch pitches
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go by and you gotta be swinging. But he's swinging and he's making contacts.
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So those are kind of the fain
the main five guys. I do
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think they have some good young players. I know they got a young catcher
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coming up. Uh you know,
they have another Johnson kid that can play
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some short stop it and can pitch. So uh, you know, coach
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Frile have it have it going pretty
good. I know they they lost a
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tough one at home against Lendy Christian
just a few hours ago as we're recording
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this, But uh, yeah,
it's it's it's gonna be interesting. I
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mean, all all these teams,
they have some definite pluses to them,
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and uh, it's gonna be interesting
to see who makes districts and then who
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can go onto state. It's which
is great because one A and to A
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State are back at Joe Martin Stadium
this year, So fingers across for some
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of these teams. Are we done? I think? So nothing else to
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talk about here, Tyler, lots
of baseball coverage coming up this year.
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We are both excited for We're both
baseball guys, you know what I mean.
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Like even though Watkom Preps really got
started with football and and you know,
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football is is maybe the passion that
we have now in life, you
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know a little bit. Baseball has
always kind of been the number one though.
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I mean, we both love the
stats side of it, and there's
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so many crazy stats in baseball compared
to other sports. But it's gonna be
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fun. I'm excited for the spring
season here. And before we get out
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of here, though, I want
to make sure to give another thanks to
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j e KK Sports Cards in the
website j e k Kcards dot Com is
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where you can find them. And
again twenty sixteen Main Street and Ferndale three
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six zero three zero three, seventeen
eighty nine. And also Kurt Mayberry Farm,
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who's back there, back again and
we got enough strawberries to feed him.
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Me uh and uh so we got
that Kurtayburryfarm dot com. Kurt with
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a C M A B E r
R y Farm dot com. Tyler,
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Yes, let's get out of here. Sounds good. It's almost midnight,
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we're still recording. He's Tyler Anderson
walkomprepswalkompreps dot com. I'm Ryland Spencer.
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Do you've listening to the episode two
hundred and forty four Baseball preview. Oh,
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I guess we should mention we're gonna
have a softball preview coming up here
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in a couple of days as well, so be on the lookout for that.
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But yeah, baseball preview here Walko
Preps Podcast. We will talk to
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you in a couple of days.
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This is Meridian Senior ian Forbes,
and you're listening to Walcom Preps Baseball Preview
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podcast with Tyler and Ryland. Go
Trojan. Greetings, and welcome into the
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watcom Preps podcast. This is episode
at two hundred and forty four, a
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baseball preview. I'm Rodland Spencer along
with me as always is Tyler Anderson love
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watcom Preps. Tyler, how are
we doing? Doing great? Doing great?
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I was sick there for a little
while, but I'm starting to get
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past it. And it was just
perfect timing to kind of beat under the
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weather kind of in between seasons.
So I didn't I didn't miss any games
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or anything like that. And uh, but I'm feeling good. I'm excited
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for the spring. And we've both
talked about it, how it's kind of
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that kind of that new change.
The weather's changing. Everything's kind of getting
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better and it's a it's a good
time of year. Well it's supposed to
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be changing. I was out there
today, it's a baseball practice and it
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was raining sideways at one point,
and Tether, you know they got like
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all weather baseballs now, yeah,
I didn't know about that. Yeah,
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So I mean, look, I
don't know the physics on it, you
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know what I mean, I don't
know what it actually is. But we're
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out there today. I'm out there
helping out with some baseball stuff for BOFEL,
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and I'm like, hey, how
do you guys, like, like,
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what's up with the I mean,
how are we out here? It's
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pouring down rain, Like, aren't
the baseball is gonna get soggy? And
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and he goes, no, no, no, he says, the ones
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with the blue seams don't get don't
get watered down. I was like,
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you know what, I don't care, like's let's go ahead. What do
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you guys need out of me?
Yeah? I mean it's wild, like
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it's it's pretty cool, but you
know. And then on Saturday we had
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our first game and at one point
we were in a hail delay. And
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when I say it was it was
sideways, like it was legitimately sideways.
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It was. It was crazy and
power went out of the field at one
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point, and I mean it was
it was just mayhem, absolute mayhem.
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But there are brighter days on the
horizon. Tyler. Now that now that
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we all lost an hour of sleep, you know, but we're into it.
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Spring is here, Spring sports at
least because technically it's still winter right
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for another week and a half or
so. Yeah. Yeah, I don't
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know if Punk Satani Phil saw her, didn't see you, or what it
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even means if he did or didn't, but I can tell you this much.
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He's wrong, Tyler, a guy
who's not wrong though, Ian Forbes,
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we need to give a thank you
to him. Meridian Catcher senior catcher
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too. By the way, he
did the intro and we got to thank
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him for that. So I have
a feeling we will mention his name if
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he's the one doing the intro,
So we will talk about him in a
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little bit, and we'll talk about
Meridian. We're gonna talk about all ten
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teams of Wakame County. Lots of
stuff to talk about. But first Kurt
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Mayberry Farm. Tyler, you had
just told me a little bit ago.
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You said Ryland they re upped,
and I said, beautiful, because I
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love talking about berries, strawberries,
blueberries, and raspberries. It's Kurt Mayberry
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Farm, fourth generation, family owned
and operated berry farm, committed to growing
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the highest quality berries. You can
find them online. That's Kurt with A
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C, M, A B E
R R Y Farm dot Com. Yeah,
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they're awesome. They're also committed to
Walkham Preps. I tell you what,
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it's really cool. They you know, they're all about local high school
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sports, local youth sports, and
I you know, I hear them all
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the time on the radio during the
high school broadcast. Yeah, you know,
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just all sorts of different things.
So they're really putting it out there.
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They're really backing. And when I
went to go visit them this last
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time, they had they had some
products that they handed out and they even
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gave me a big eight pound bucket
for you ryland of chopped up strawberries with
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that are already like sugared and everything
frozen and ready to go. Whoa,
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whoa, whoa? Did you say
eight pounds? Yeah? What the heck
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am I gonna do with eight pounds? Other just stack my face in it?
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You want to thought out first?
Yeah? Well yeah, yeah,
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I mean I don't have tiger teeth
like I. I mean, eight pounds,
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Tyler, that will make a lot
of what do you strawberry shortcake?
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Huh yeah, it could be all
sorts of things. It was funny because
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he was kind of joking and he
goes, well, no, now you
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just gotta have Mitch get you some
ice cream from Edeline Dairy And yeah,
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I put a little little vanilla ice
cream with some strawberries on top. You
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know what I'm saying? Who WOA
is Italy? Are they sponsoring anything in
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the in the spring? Here?
They they will be. I'm pretty confident
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to say they will be. I
have. I was having trouble getting a
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hold of them. They were out
on the farm all week during my sponsorship
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week. Basically they go out and
get sponsors. But I did run into
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him at a baseball game and and
and he's like, is there anything left?
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You know? And I you know, and I said absolutely, and
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well and he goes, okay,
we'll talk. So they just might be
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a week late. But I'm pretty
confident they'll be fine. Now, Tyler,
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what I need to know is what
is the ratio? Like, if
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if I've got eight pounds of strawberries, how much ice cream do I need
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to mix some in? I guess
I don't need all of it to be
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eight pounds of Like can you imagine
that eight pounds of strawberries going at how
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much ice cream? Like you need
a whole cow'sworth? Like I don't even
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know what that amounts to. Yeah, that's gonna be a lot. But
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that's cool. I mean you could
put you can make smoothies, You can
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do all sorts of different things.
So I don't know those are I've always
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been told the smoothies are supposed to
be that kind of healthy. And obviously
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I'm not that guy. But I
mean, is there like, okay,
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is there like a straw Like do
people make strawberry pies? I mean,
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I know strawberry rubarb, but I'm
not I'm not big on rhubarb. Yeah,
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but like, can you just make
a strawberry pie? I mean I
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guess you could like grind it up
and like maybe put some cream in it
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or something, right, strawberries and
cream? Yeah, yeah, I would
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imagine. Did you ever have you
ever had those those remember those cream savers
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that were strawberry and cream or whatever
it was. Yeah, the little like
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worthers type, those suckers were so
good. Yeah, yeah, those were.
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Anyway, Tyler, We've got an
official baseball sponsor, though, I
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mean I guess I guess it's not
like just a baseball like I mean sponsoring.
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What the scoreboards as of right now
is what else are they sponsored?
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And they're gonna sponsor the Weekly stat
Leaders as well. That's right, Yeah,
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you told me that. So j
e KK sports cards, Tyler And
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you said that, you said the
guy's name is John, Yes, and
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so what's John's story? Who's John
over here at j e KK. Well,
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it's a really cool deal. I
mean, local guy had a couple
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of sons that played at Ferndale and
you know, the whole sports card game
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is you know, it was huge
when we were kids, right, I
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mean it was a big deal,
and then it kind of you know,
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oh, it was just kind of
there for a while, and now it's
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it's even gotten bigger than it ever
was. But it's a whole different kind
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of game of with rare things and
little patches of jersey and autographs and it's
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done or one of mine. Like
memorabilia and cards. Yeah, they used
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to be two separate things now and
it's not like all cards have memorabilia in
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them, but it's now it's like
almost become like one big hobby, is
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kind of what I'm saying. Yeah, and I would say, you know,
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when we were kids, even though
we knew that you know, they
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were you know, they could be
worth something, you still I mean,
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at least I did. You'd line
like I'd have all my maritors and I'd
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line them up like, yeah,
well I put Greg Bridley in left field
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and Ken Griffin center field, and
ja, you know, I'd put him
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out and I you know, I
would do all that kind of stuff all
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the time, and I'd handle them
all the time. I think nowadays it's
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like you put them in a sleeve, you put them in something and you
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lock it away kind of type things. So, uh, but yeah,
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it's just a really really cool deal. I had heard that he was interested
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in sponsoring and and so I just
thought, you know, when I knew
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that who it was, I was
like, oh, once I know that
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is I know who it is.
That I know that they know what Walker
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Preps is. Yeah, and I
feel a lot more comfortable. I just
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got and it's right here in Ferndale. It's a few miles away. I
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got my car, just drove out
there and walked in and we just started
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talking and he was all about it. He was interested. He's like,
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just tell me what I gotta do. You know, I'll send my logo
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to you whatever I gotta do.
And he was It was just great.
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You could tell it was a top
notch partnership right away and just a really
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you know, awesome guy and and
just hit it off right away. And
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I was fun just looking around.
There was like Joe Namath signed you know,
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Jet's helmet. I just I just
love that kind of stuff, stuff
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you just don't see every day.
And and I love looking at like the
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rookie cards from like the seventies and
eighties, you know, like seeing the
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Ricky Henderson rookie or the cow RIPCN
rookie or the Dawn Maddingly rookie and those
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kinds of things. They weren't like
flashy back then like they are now.
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It's it's more like, uh,
yes, you know what I mean,
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Like it was a little more business
like back then. It's it's cool to
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see. And I was looking at
their website j e kkcards dot Com.
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The first thing I noticed is I
was like, I was like, wow,
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a box of cards is way more
expensive. But then I started thinking
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about it and I'm like, yeah, but you know what, the quality
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and it's just like everything is so
much better than it was. All something
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that's worth exactly. I was like
I was, I was like, it
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was it was instant like why,
Like, wow, Wow, that's kind
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of crazy. And then I'm like, actually, it makes so much sense
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as to why it's a totally different
game and it's I mean, it's it's
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totally different than it was. Like
I could see myself getting back into sports
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cards, like I could. Yeah, I probably won't because I know that
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I would just blow all my money
on it. But yeah, it's so
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much cooler now. J e KK
Sports Cards. You can find them two
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zero six or two zero one six
Main Street twenty sixteen. That's actually kind
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of funny. Two zero one six
Main Street and Ferndale phone number three six
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zero three oh three, seventeen eighty
nine. Website j e kkcards dot com.
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Tyler. Yes, the logo actually
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It almost looks like a part of
the Wakam preps logo. Uh but yeah,
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the colors and stuff. Yeah,
I gotta say it looks really good
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on that scoreboard. Yeah it does. It does. I think it's gonna
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be a good partnership. And yeah, it's so well there is there So
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I have to ask you, because
I'm sure you collected cards as a kid.
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Yeah, was there like a single
card that was like the one you
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always wanted to have, or the
one that you got that you just that's
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the one that you'll never trade.
Or was there like a certain set like
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eighty nine Donra Space or like was
there something You're like, I loved those
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packs as a kid. Well,
I was always a I was always a
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Tops guy, like I always I
always like Tops more or for whatever reason,
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I don't really know, Like if
if if I had an equivalent card
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and it was like, oh,
I'll trade this donn Us for that Top,
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so I'm like no, I'm good, Like yeah, like even if
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even if my card maybe was lesser, you know what i mean, Like,
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nah, I'm good. You know, I could be trading to Henry
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Kotto for a Caylor Ripken and I'm
like, no, I'll keep to Henry
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Kotto. I had to throw Henry
Cotto out there for whatever reason, Yes
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he did. But there was one
card and I still have it. And
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then it's I mean, you know
how it is, Tyler. You move
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around a lot, and then you
know, you get all your cards and
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all your stuff into just boxes.
I'll come across it one day and I'll
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take a picture of it, and
I'll send it to you. Or I'll
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post it and take in it or
something. But I do I have a
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Johnny Bench rookie card that is not
like that is like my pride and joy
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like it. There's no way I'm
ever getting rid of that one. Like
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that's that to me. You know
my grandfather gave it to me when I
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was a kid. Yeah, and
was because he talked about Johnny Bench is
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this And you know, obviously I
never got to see Johnny Bench play,
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but you know it was to me. That's like my that's that's my one
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big thing. Now that being said, I was always the obscure guy,
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you know what I mean, Like, yeah, I loved I loved guys
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that kind of like nobody else really
loved, like Tyler. If I said
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to you, who's my favorite baseball
player of all time? Do you remember
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who it is? No? I
do love Pete and Kavillia, though my
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favorite baby Chuck Carr. Oh,
Chuck Carr. Yes, I knew that.
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Yeah, Chuck Car. Why no
idea? I mean, honestly,
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I think it's just because he used
to like run through walls, you know
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what I mean, Like that guy
would if that if the ball was in
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the air, he was catching it
like he just was. And I don't
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know why I loved him. That
was just like my favorite player as a
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kid. Now granted Edgar Martinez,
like Ken Griffy Junior. Yeah yeah,
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yeah yeah, Like I love all
of those guys. Why did you trade
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j Bune? I love Jay Buner, you know what I mean. I
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love those guys. I love the
Mariners. But Chuck Carr was like my
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guy. And if I when I
was a kid, if I had a
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chance to get a Chuck car Card, I was getting it. The other
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one that I loved was Gary Carter. Oh yeah, and it's for one
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reason only, Tyler. Did you
ever see like pictures of that guy where
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he wasn't wearing a batting helmet or
you know, like the catcher's helmet,
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right, and it was always turned
around forward right like yes, a huge
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smile on his face. Yeah,
always, And so like I don't know
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what it was, but like I
always like somebody, if they wanted to
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sucker me in, they could just
throw a Gary Carter out there, and
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I was probably going for it,
you know what I mean, Like I
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just was it was just you know, like, what's that a griffy rookie
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card. You got a Gary Carter, like you know what I mean,
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Like I mean, I probably wouldn't
have fallen for that one, but you
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know what I mean, like Gary
Carter those cards like I don't know,
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it just was you know what I
mean? What about you do you have
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like a this is my card,
I'm never giving it up or oh you
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got one of those, let me
have it like that's that's uh. Well
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the card I always wanted to try
to get was that eighty nine upper deck
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Kangarford Junior Rookie. Yeah, the
first ever upper deck card, you know,
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number one, first upper deck class. And never had that one,
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which was okay. I had friends
that had it stuff like that. Cal
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Ripken was my guy. I collected
a ton of cal Ripken cards and I
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had his eighty eight Fleer autographed,
which was really cool. Wow. And
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but uh but the card that I
never got rid of and still have today
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is the Jerry Rice rookie card.
Oh and I got that in a pack
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out of my stocking Christmas in nineteen
eighty six. Until you lost your mind?
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Well yeah, I mean I it
was crazy because it was it's his
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rookie card. But it came out
like you know it would come out the
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second year because I had like his
first year seats on it. Yeah,
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and his first year wasn't great.
He had like forty nine catches, he
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had a lot of drops actually,
but his second year he blew up.
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He had like fifteen hundred yards receiving. And so when I kind of started
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realizing, and I was, you
know, I was seven years old,
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I was like, this is really
cool. This is his first ever card.
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Beckett start coming out a few years
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later. Yeah, and then you
realize that, you know, the whole
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like the complete Like at that time, the complete set was worth like ninety
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bucks, and you're like, why
is that ninety bucks? But that because
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that one card was like worth sixty
Yeah, and you're just like, oh
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wow, and I have it,
you know. So that was always a
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cool deal. And and since then, i've i've i've I loved the late
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eighties cards just because that's what I
grew up with. And I've bought complete
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sets of everything for baseball and football
of you know, fleer Don Russ Tops
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everything and uh. But when I
tried to find eighty six tops complete sets,
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I found one that was selling him
all except for Jerry Rice, Reggie
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White, and Steve Young because those
were all rookie cards and so but I
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had those three, so I was
able to buy that out of much lowers,
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you know, a mountain. Yeah, I just I love all that
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stuff, but that was the card
for me. You know, bait,
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do you know what this card goes
for nowadays? Which one? Did Jerry
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Rice one? The Jerry Rice eighty
six tops? Yeah? So PSA Mint
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nine, you know what I mean, Like like this is a this is
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about as good as it gets in
terms of quality and press, you know,
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like it's still nine thousand dollars is
what it's online for. Yeah,
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mine's definitely not a PSA nine.
No, yeah, I mean I'm sure
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it's not. I mean, how
many cards? How many cards do you
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have from like your childhood that you
think would even be like A seven?
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You know what I mean? Like
it's right, probably not very many of
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them. But like it was totally
different. We didn't we didn't think about
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stuff like that, you know what
I mean. Like actually, here's here's
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one here that's a a PSA seven
and it's one hundred and thirty dollars.
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Like the drop off is on believable. But yeah, yeah, I mean
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that's that's pretty cool. Yeah yeah, I just it's it's cool to have
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a sponsor like that because you and
I are both still kids in a way,
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you know what I mean, Like, yeah, well we don't feel
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like when we get off the couch
or out of bed, but uh,
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but we still we still think like
that, you know, like baseball cards
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and it's it's still so. I
mean, I have so many. It's
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it's nostalgia. Yeah, it just
is. And there's certain things that will
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just never go away from. Like
there's certain things that I do that are
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very kid that will never go away. And that's something I mean, it
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just is. I love cards.
I mean, when I'm looking at j
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e KK cards dot Com, I'm
like, oh, they sell single packs
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Ryland. You don't need the you
don't need one of those? What are
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you thinking right now? But here
I am considering it, you know what
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I mean. So yeah, uh, maybe we'd have to do sometime Tyler's
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come up and you know, pick
up those strawberries and just swing by and
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grab a couple of cards. Ye
see, And it's it's it's it's funny
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too because I think about it now, and like I see this stuff on
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like TikTok and like these different places
where I see people that are like going
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to these card shows and they're like
buying a ton of cards and stuff,
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and I'm like, I didn't,
Like, we used to go to card
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shows, but I never really went
and bought like individual cards, Like I
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would go and buy packs from guys
because sometimes it was easier to get more
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obscure packs by going to a card
show. You know, it'd be like,
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oh wow, this guy's got a
set of those packs or like whatever.
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And it's like, yeah, you
know, nowadays, I'm sure you
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can go online and find whatever you
want, you know what I mean,
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maybe go to j ekk Cards there
you go what I do. But yeah,
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I mean, it's a totally different
game from what you and I remember
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as a kid. But it's definitely
made of resurgence, that's for sure.
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Huge it is. It's crazy how
many of these shops I've seen pop up
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around me. And it was like
I couldn't I couldn't think of it,
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like where is the nearest one by
my house? And I hadn't seen one
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in probably ten or fifteen years.
And now there's like three of them in
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the area. You know what I
mean. It's like wow, like that,
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which is cool to me because that's
a great hobby and hey, it's
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better than being on the streets,
right right, Tyler. Lots of other
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sponsorships are still still available, though, if somebody wants to get on it
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easiest way to get a hold of
you other than social media. We've told
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that. We've told people over and
over go to walk them preps on any
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of social media's direct message Tyler to
take care of you. What other ways
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can they get a hold of you. They can email me at mister mohawk
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at hotmail dot com. That's mister
spelled out m I S T E R
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underscore mohawk m O h A w
k at hotmail dot com. Or what
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the heck? You could text me
three six zero six eight four four three
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zero six and uh, we'll get
the ball rolling. There's still things available,
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but they're going they're getting nabbed up
fast because I think anytime Fitness might
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be back on board. They showed
some interest, so yeah, we'll see.
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But it's it's bringing me a lot
of happiness because as it's showing that
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every time there's a turn of the
season, there's new people that are coming
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on board. And I think that
I think it's a screaming good deal from
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most people I've talked to you.
That people are that's why they're jumping on
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board right away. And I told
you that, Yeah, and it's and
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and if they if they just keep
doing it year after year and I can
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keep building these things, uh,
it'll it'll keep Walking Preps alive. And
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that's what everybody wants. Yeah.
And and look if if you know,
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what we talk about is the Baseball
round up, the Basketball round up,
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the the graphics, you know,
like different stuff like that. But if
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somebody just wants to be hey,
you know, we don't maybe we don't
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have the budget for that. I'm
looking right here again, We've talked about
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it before. Eagle Rock Lodge,
they reached out to you and said,
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hey, we want to get on
board. You know, what do we
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gotta do? And you said,
well, here's something, here's an idea.
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Boom there it is their logos right
here on your website. Yeah,
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I mean there is Ego Rock dot
Fish. I still don't understand how that
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works dot fish, but Ego Rock
dot Fish, I mean, these guys
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here. They just wanted to be
a sponsor and and that's what they did.
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And so that's the thing. Tyler's
got different types of packages. If
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you just say, hey, all
I've got is, you know, one
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hundred dollars for a month, what
can you do for me, We'll make
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it work. Like yeah, exactly. You know, we wanted to try
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to keep this going, and you
know, any money helps all of that.
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I mean, look, gas ain't
free. I mean, come out.
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How's Tyler's supposed to go to all
these games? Exactly? But yeah,
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anyway, watcommepreps dot com is a
website and if you would like to
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get on board, reach out to
Tyler. He'll take care of you.
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We've got ten teams to talk about
Tyler. And we're just gonna go in
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alphabetical order. And I mean,
if we're being completely honest, we're gonna
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do the best job we can.
We We we've got rosters for pretty much
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everybody. The only one we don't
have is Mount Baker. We'll get to
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that one when we get to it. We're just gonna go in alphabetical order
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here, which means we are going
to start with the Bellingham BayHawks last year,
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Bellingham went eight and fourteen. Head
coach Tom Lewis in his second year,
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meaning he's got a career record of
eight and fourteen key returners. Tyler,
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I'm seeing you got eight key returners
listed here. A couple of names
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I recognize, but yeah, eight
of them some definitely good athletes that I
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see here on this list. Yeah, it's a really good group. And
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just to think about a couple of
years ago, Bellingham was really struggling.
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I mean they would get maybe one
or two wins a year, kind of
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right around COVID, like right before
right after it just it was really starting
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to kind of rebuild itself a lot
of young guys, and last year to
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jump up to eight wins was huge. I think coach Lewis did a great,
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great job. Coach Lewis the father
of Colby Lewis that you remember from
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the squalic On football team, and
it's you know, coach Leonard is an
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assistant there. He works with the
pitchers and you know or as he went
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and was a college baseball player,
and so he knows that he knows all
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that stuff, and it's it's a
really good groove. Yeah. Uh.
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Jet Jesse Harward bat at three forty
nine. Last year, he returns at
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first base. He can also first
base. Yeah, yeah, he can,
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you know, left handed bat left
handed on the mound as well.
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So and it's weird too. You
see a big guy at six four,
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two hundred and seventy pounds in the
batter's box left handed. But I but
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he he goes the other way a
lot like he is. He's like a
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singles hitter. He he looks intimidating
up there, but he can. He
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can shoot it in the gap.
It's like he stands up there looking like
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Adam Dunn and then he hits like
Tony Gwyn. You know, I was
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gonna say, it's got like a
little bit of like, uh like Matt
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stares or something to him, the
professional hitter right right right, So uh
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yeah, a really good season last
year, five doubles, he had twelve
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RBIs and on base percentage of four
eighty one. So really good player there.
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All. Scott is unbelievably talented,
just a sophomore. Played third base
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last year, moved over to second
base this year. He's also probably their
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best pitcher coming back. Unfortunately,
I was at the game on Saturday and
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he had a just a nasty injury
covering first base on a bunt. The
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throw was a little wide, ranner, the runner ran into his arm and
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it was bad enough to where the
to where the the what am I trying
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to say? Uh, the emergency
vehicle, the ambulance, thank you had
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to come onto the field and and
uh, just just really bad news there.
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Because Alden Scott, I've said it
before, I think he's a future
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like League Player of the Year.
He's that kind of talent. Just just
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a sophomore. But this this that
this season looks like it might be done.
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Owen Rasmussen, the utility player.
I love everything about his game.
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He can catch you, play the
infield, play in the outfield, he
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pitches, he can legitimately play all
nine positions. Uh yeah, I love
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guys like that. Seems like he's
been on varsity forever. He bet at
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two sixty six last year. In
his career, I mean in his career,
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he has one hundred and sixty three
played appearances. That's that's a that's
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a that's a varsity baseball player right
there. He's just he's been doing it
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for a long time. Hi.
Nelson is one of the best defensive shortstops
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in the league. He's just a
sophomore. He's probably gonna be relied upon
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to pitch a lot more than he
than he has. Joe toof as a
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left handed hitting slugger center fielder.
One of the more aggressive swings. Like
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you see a guy that when they
swing and then all of a sudden,
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like every time I see a picture
of him swinging like like like his front
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foot, like he's on like the
outside of it, you know, like
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he's completely torqued his whole body,
and man, when he gets a hold
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of it, it can really go. So really good player there. Jake
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Trust pitcher infielder. Uh, he's
been. He's he was kind of there
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ace last year as far as just
innings. Uh, he started game one
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this year. Joe Harward Jesse,
his little brother is the catcher. You
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don't see a lot of six three
catchers, especially at the high school level.
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But he's he's a he's a pretty
good one. Just a sophomore,
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so he's got a pretty bright future. And Hunter Bryant Pearson. We saw
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him play football full back and a
special teams guy. But he's gonna be
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out there in left field. So
a lot of a lot of varsity guys
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returning. I think it's gonna be
a pretty good year. The setback of
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losing Alden Scott is huge, but
but you know, you just gotta you
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just gotta roll with it after that. And and uh, you know,
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I think because the second base was
the spot. You know, Wyatt Harris
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played it last year, didn't really
know who was gonna do it this year.
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They moved alden Scott from third to
second, put Eli good Buffalo at
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third, and now second base is
open again. I don't know if Owen
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Rasmussen will just find a spot there
as a utility guy. It's tough to
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see what they're gonna do. But
but there's a lot of talent on that
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team and we'll see how they go. Let's talk about the blame border rights
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Tyler thirteen and eight last year new
head coach Hunter Anderson. They got a
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lot of key returners. As a
matter of fact, they have the most
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of anybody we're gonna talk about today. They probably do. Yeah, they
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do. And actually the next closest
is I think eight, which is Bellingham,
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and then another team we'll talk about
here in a little bit. But
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they got ten guys coming back.
This year, Tyler and a few names
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I recognize, but a lot of
names that are new to me here.
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So who are these? Who are
these? Blame border rights? I love
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this team. You know, last
year they were scary good. They beat
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a lot of really good teams.
They just kind of did some bad things
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in the playoffs, you know,
they just some things didn't didn't go their
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way, and all of a sudden
they were out in the districts and they
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were kind of thought of as a
team that could make some noise at State
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and it just didn't happen. New
coach this year, Hunter Anderson, coming
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over from Burlington. There's been that
wave of guys from Burlington. You know
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Andy Olsen now Hunter Anderson. He's
an assistant. Yeah, he's a he's
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an assistant on the football team.
And uh. But what I really like
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about them is, yeah, all
these guys that are returning. I mean
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I went out and saw them today, uh, and it was just like
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watching them from last year pretty much. Kieran Marcusson is their ace. He
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went four and two last year.
He pitched fifty one in a third innings
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and he only walked eleven batters.
Wow, that at the high school level
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is just, oh man, hard
to find. You know, you see
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a lot of high school games.
The big difference between high school games and
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the pros is there's a lot more
walks, a lot more airs, and
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a lot less home runs. But
the walks is just one of those things
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where, man, it just seems
to be a ton of them in high
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school baseball. But if you've got
a guy that can throw strikes, like
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I said, eleven walks and fifty
one in a third innings, he struck
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out sixty three. His ERA was
one point zero nine. So that's that's
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a good guy to have right there
at the top of your you know,
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your rotation. Uh, And then
you know Owen Wanger is a is a
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really good hitters. Batted three ninety
four last year in the outfield, Aleejandra
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Morser Hernandez has got a lot of
pop. He had a home run last
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year, batted two eighty one.
Big six' five two dred and thirty
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pound guy at first base, Hunter
Bazzetti is a you know, just a
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it seems like he's been on the
varsity team forever, playing center field.
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He is a like a tototypical like
baseball type guy. Like you see those
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guys come out of the dugout and
you go, you could spot him like
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that's the guy, like he's he's
him, you know, and that's and
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his left handed, left handed bat
a lot of fun to watch. He
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did get taken out of the game
today. You know, he had that
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knee injury from football. I don't
know if he's fully recovered, and you
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know, on his way to first
he was safe at first, but then
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he had to get taken out of
the game, which was just crushing to
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see. I hope he'll be okay. Mason Ockery at third base was was
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dynamic last year as a leadoff guy. Fifteen RBIs and thirteen steals. Bat
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At two fifty Dion Bowman is a
really athletic shortstop. Bigger kid too.
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I did have a triple last year
a beat at two fifty six. Evan
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Yates is a junior at catcher,
another really good player. Left handed hitter,
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can kind of batten that number two
hole, which a lot of catchers
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don't do. Grady Swinbernson is a
three year starter at second base. I
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mean, you have so many guys
that are you know, just have so
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much varsity experience. He stole thirteen
bases last year and he works at j
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e KK Sports Cards, so that's
kind of a cool deal. Jesse Deming
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another outfielder playing left field and he
can swing over and play center field.
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And Diego Gutierrez is a He's just
a bulldog on the mound. He's a
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great number two. He's a guy
that you know, if you're up by
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ten or down by ten, you
can't tell by looking at his face,
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which I love that in the pitcher. You know, it's hard to find
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guys that, especially at the high
school level, that don't really wear their
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emotion on their sleeves so much.
And you know, if they needed a
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key out or something, they could
put him in and he's not phased by
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it at all. He's got a
really good curve ball, doesn't throw super
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hard, but he throws. He's
another guy that just throws strikes. He
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went four and o last year with
an ERA of two point one point five,
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So yeah, you're definitely talking about
another guy that another arm that they
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could use it. He just pitches, same with Kieran Marcuson. He can
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play a little bit third base,
but he's mostly just a pitcher as well,
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and at the one A level.
You got a couple of arms like
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that. Yeah, that's a huge
deal. Alejandro Moser Hernandez who probably he'll
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probably come in and pitch a little
bit too. He threw thirty one innings
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last year four point twenty five e
RA, so he can definitely give you
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some stuff like that, some some
innings. But he might be kind of
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like that big dominating closer guy if
they need somebody for the last inning.
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But this is a team that I
expect to do some damage and you know,
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get into do well at districts,
and get get a state birth.
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Their first two games so far this
year, they put up fifteen runs in
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both games, so they you know, they're ready, a lot of varsity
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experience and we'll just kind of see
if it all comes together. You know.
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It's it's it's strange in high school
baseball, it's such a it seems
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like such a short season because you
know, in the majors they play so
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many games, so it seems like
it goes fast, and a lot of
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times in the majors they say,
well, it takes about thirty or forty
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games to get to kind of get
to where you're gonna be you know,
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you don't have that high school baseball. You've got to be good right off
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the bat. You know, if
you get in a slump, that could
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be the whole year. So it's
it's tricky, but but Blaine has the
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talent to do some damage in the
postseason. Yeah, it's it's funny you
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say that. I mean I thought
it was hilarious when I was looking over
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there. You know, I've always
loved high school baseball, but I've never
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paid attention to it like I have
so far in the last few weeks.
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Yeah, you play a couple of
games and you're right in the league play.
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I mean it's yeah, right into
it, like they don't mess around.
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I mean I think this year BOFEL, we've got four no three,
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three non league games. Yeah,
three non league games, and then right
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in the league play. I mean
yeah, I mean imagine that. Yeah,
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yeah, that is that is pretty
quick, you know what I mean.
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Like, it's it's right into it, and it's like, hey,
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all of a sudden, you're right
into it to the point that hey,
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better not, you better not lose
many games here or else you're not going
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to be making the playoffs. I
mean, it's really quick. But yeah,
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you got. I mean you're trying
out some stuff in those three games.
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You're trying to find like can this
guy laid out a bunch? Can
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this guy pitch us out of a
you know, a something bad going on?
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I mean, you better know those
things after three games, because here
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you go. Yeah, exactly,
that's Blaine. Let's talk Ferndale Tyler nineteen
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and five. Last year they did
make the state tournament under head coach Donnie
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hennigs one hundred and thirty five and
eighty one for his career. Tyler.
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One thing I noticed here, you
didn't give me how many years do we
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know the years on this? Yeah? I could find that pretty quickly Herekay,
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Well, let me talk a little
bit further than key returners. You've
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got six names listed here, and
these are all names pretty much that I
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recognize, including Dylan Moore. Nice
of him to take time off from Major
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League Baseball to come over and play
for Ferndale. Seems like a little bit
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of an advantage to them. But
Bishop Bootzire guy who he's an Edilyne Derry
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guy. Right, Yeah, that's
right. Yeah, there's Hamden Ramon,
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I mean, just all around good
looking dude. Yeah, Yeah, Talon
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bung guard you know him, Yeah, of his nails. Yeah, so
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it's a lot of these guys.
You definitely know Donnie Hennigs in his twelfth
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season now as the as the head
coach. So that's counting the COVID year
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where there was no baseball. So
was there no baseball at all? There
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was no base there was like yeah, like schools played like one game and
543
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then the whole season got canceled after
that. Yeah, Wakham County did not
544
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have any games played. So yeah, okay, so yeah, so so
545
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yeah, he's been the head coach
since the twenty thirteen season. Yeah,
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that's pretty cool. Yeah, And
but yeah, Camden Raymond, I mean
547
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he is you know, a legit, you know, League MVP candidate,
548
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left handed bat, left handed arm, first baseman, bat at three eighty
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five last year, hit a couple
home runs, nineteen RBIs, seven doubles.
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I mean, you know, slugged
five eighty five, is on base
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was five point fifty one. It's
just all those numbers are like yeah yea
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yeai. And then you know on
the mound he went five to oher.
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He had two saves pitched over thirty
innings, struck out twenty nine. His
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era was four point six two.
It was a little high. I think
555
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his walks were a little higher than
he wanted them to be. He walked
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twenty two, struck out twenty nine. But you know, if he gets
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the down a little bit, he'll
be fine. But he'll be counted on
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to do a lot of things for
this baseball team. They also have Graydon
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Radkey. He's a guy who was
I just thought was really talented. Didn't
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play a ton last year, but
every time I seems like every time I
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saw him, he would he was
knocking somebody in. You know. He
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had eighteen plate appearances. He had
seven Rby eyes, so and he walked
563
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five times. So really just the
twelve at bats and he had seven Urby
564
00:36:28.039 --> 00:36:30.599
eyes. Talon Bunguard is the guy
that played all over the infield, could
565
00:36:30.599 --> 00:36:36.599
pitch a little bit too. And
you start looking those numbers, seventeen stolen
566
00:36:36.639 --> 00:36:40.119
bases and three triples, those are
huge numbers in high school baseball. You'd
567
00:36:40.119 --> 00:36:45.119
think it'd be some Chuck Carr like
player, you know, and talent bung
568
00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:50.480
Guard is like six and twenty pounds, Like he does not look like a
569
00:36:50.519 --> 00:36:52.639
guy that would be putting up those
kind of numbers, but he's aggressive on
570
00:36:52.679 --> 00:36:59.400
the bass paths and you gotta love
that. Braylan O'Brien was stut in at
571
00:36:59.480 --> 00:37:02.760
catcher lap year as a freshman on
this team that had a ton of talent,
572
00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:05.960
and that goes all the way to
the state. If you're catching as
573
00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:07.440
a freshman on a team that goes
to state at the three A level,
574
00:37:08.519 --> 00:37:14.320
that is really really impressive. He's
he's naturally a middle infielder, so it's
575
00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:16.079
gonna be tough to see kind of
if he's gonna stay behind the plate or
576
00:37:16.119 --> 00:37:19.679
if he's gonna go play in the
infield. Dylan Moore, like you said,
577
00:37:20.119 --> 00:37:22.079
Uh yeah, and I take some
time off of Major League baseball to
578
00:37:22.119 --> 00:37:28.119
go play some high school baseball.
Batted two twenty last year, Uh six
579
00:37:28.239 --> 00:37:31.840
RBIs three steals. He could play
in the outfield. And then Bishop Bootsy
580
00:37:32.639 --> 00:37:37.559
like you said, you know what
a leader. He might get some time
581
00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:39.360
on the mound this year. There. I think they're gonna they're gonna expect
582
00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:43.960
a lot of things out of some
younger kids coming up that have not played
583
00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:46.440
at the varsity level to do some
things. But but those are the six
584
00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:52.239
main guys that have the varsity experience, and yeah, they're probably not gonna
585
00:37:52.239 --> 00:37:53.280
put up as many runs as they
did last year. I mean, they
586
00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:57.840
had so many guys that were just
you know, out of this world.
587
00:37:57.880 --> 00:38:01.079
I mean I think they hit my
goodness, I think they hit over twenty
588
00:38:01.239 --> 00:38:05.239
twenty five home runs as a team. I mean, this was just yeah,
589
00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:07.880
this was it was. It was
ridiculous. Like I was talking to
590
00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:12.239
some coaches and three of them said
the exact same thing to me. They
591
00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:16.320
said, it's like playing against like
like a like a men's slow pitch softball
592
00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:20.800
team. Yeah, like they are, They're all huge, and they all
593
00:38:20.840 --> 00:38:23.840
just crushed the ball. And like
when you look around the infield and they
594
00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:29.920
averaged like two hundred and forty pounds
around the infield, that looks like a
595
00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:34.239
men's slow pitch softball team. And
this is without Laymon Hatchet, you know.
596
00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:38.079
Uh so it's yeah, you know, they've been really too Oh my
597
00:38:38.159 --> 00:38:43.559
goodness. Yeah, it could have
been pretty crazy for State. But tell
598
00:38:43.559 --> 00:38:45.199
you this much, if they ever
had any bench clearing brawls, I wouldn't
599
00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:49.400
have wanted to be out there because
those guys, Yeah, and you know
600
00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:51.960
the two, the two, you
know, big guys that were a lot
601
00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:53.719
of a big part of that that
are back or you know, Camden Raymond
602
00:38:53.760 --> 00:38:58.960
and Tallon bung Guards. So they're
gonna be really relied upon heavily to do
603
00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:01.400
a lot of the damage both on
you know, offensively and on the mound,
604
00:39:01.480 --> 00:39:04.960
and and they're just gonna need a
lot of those other guys to fill
605
00:39:04.960 --> 00:39:07.280
in and and take care of some
stuff and they'll be all right. You
606
00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:09.960
know, Donnie's been at this a
long time and one hundred and thirty five
607
00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:15.840
wins, it's pretty good. Pretty
good, I mean pretty good. That's
608
00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:19.360
that's putting it lightly there. I
mean that is really really good. Like
609
00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:27.000
that's just, yeah, that's pretty
incredible. Let's talk Lindon Tyler twenty two
610
00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:30.239
and seven. Last year finished second
in state. By the way, I
611
00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:34.159
didn't realize they were that close to
like the trifecta last year. Yes,
612
00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:37.320
yeah, it was crazy. I
was doing so much research of if any
613
00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:40.559
team had won football, basketball,
and baseball in the state of Washington the
614
00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:45.800
same year, and yeah, it
was just crazy. But yeah, that's
615
00:39:46.159 --> 00:39:50.440
they were so close. I mean
they were so close. They lost two
616
00:39:50.480 --> 00:39:54.199
to one bottom of the seventh,
you know. The other day was a
617
00:39:54.239 --> 00:39:59.840
walk off that pill, Martin.
Yeah, the pitch was. I woke
618
00:39:59.920 --> 00:40:07.480
up that morning covering softball in Richland. I covered Blaine playing softball that morning.
619
00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:10.400
They lost, which meant it was
a semi final. So they lost,
620
00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:14.119
so they were gonna play later that
day in the third fourth place game.
621
00:40:14.440 --> 00:40:19.039
So then I flew home so I
could catch the state championship baseball.
622
00:40:19.199 --> 00:40:22.480
You drove home really fast? Well
I didn't. I probably didn't even drive
623
00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:25.039
home really fast. I just drove
home. But oh yes, I was
624
00:40:25.079 --> 00:40:28.960
always flew home though there might be
people out there going, wait, this
625
00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:31.800
guy took a flight from me,
like what it? Yeah, no,
626
00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:35.039
no, no, I was crawling
over the cascades. You can bet on
627
00:40:35.079 --> 00:40:37.719
that. But I but I got
there and I was able to cover that.
628
00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:42.639
And but I mean the pitch was. It would have bounced ahead of
629
00:40:42.639 --> 00:40:45.199
the plate, and he reached out. I have a great picture of it.
630
00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:47.960
He reached out, got hit it
on the tip of the bat.
631
00:40:49.519 --> 00:40:52.840
It lands on the third baseline about
twenty feet behind third base in the left
632
00:40:52.840 --> 00:40:57.280
field, and that scored the winning
run. And oh man, it was
633
00:40:57.400 --> 00:41:00.639
just that's how close Lyndon was.
Yeah, and you know, Tyler,
634
00:41:00.719 --> 00:41:06.199
the crazy thing is I'm just looking
at the state tournament here. They gave
635
00:41:06.280 --> 00:41:10.400
up three total runs in four games. Yeah, I mean it was two
636
00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:14.719
to one, three to nothing,
eleven to nothing, and two to one.
637
00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:19.559
Yeah. Yeah, and the last
one is a bad two to one.
638
00:41:21.039 --> 00:41:23.559
Yeah. I mean that's that's truly
incredible, it I mean, that's
639
00:41:23.639 --> 00:41:29.800
just yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, head coach Corey White. Three hundred
640
00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:35.840
and sixty nine and two hundred and
seventy four Tyler. Yeah, that is
641
00:41:35.880 --> 00:41:38.760
a lot of baseball. I mean, so do you know how many years
642
00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:45.199
Corey White has been there? Yeah, this is thirty years. Yeah.
643
00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:47.639
He took over as a young man. I mean he took over my freshman
644
00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:53.599
year in high school and he was
probably in his mid twenties. Wow.
645
00:41:54.280 --> 00:42:00.559
And and had some rough years,
and then in his fifth year they got
646
00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:04.599
a third and state they went twenty
three and seven. Then that was a
647
00:42:04.639 --> 00:42:08.119
team that those guys were a year
behind me and I remember playing them,
648
00:42:08.519 --> 00:42:12.559
you know, when we were younger, and that was a loaded team,
649
00:42:13.159 --> 00:42:15.320
and I always thought that was his
best team he'd ever had. He had
650
00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:20.800
a couple more years though, the
Josh Kraft zach Vist class, Uh,
651
00:42:20.840 --> 00:42:23.800
they had a chance for the three
peat there as well. Uh didn't didn't
652
00:42:23.800 --> 00:42:27.960
get it finished twenty two and five, then twenty two and three, then
653
00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:31.400
last year with another twenty two wins
season. But yeah, Corey White has
654
00:42:31.440 --> 00:42:37.239
seen it all, man, and
uh, it's it's it's just fun listening
655
00:42:37.719 --> 00:42:42.599
nobody flashes signs faster from the third
base box, you know what I mean,
656
00:42:42.679 --> 00:42:45.440
Like it like that guy has been
doing this for every time, Like
657
00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:49.880
touch the nose, touch the chin, touch the ear, like brushed.
658
00:42:50.039 --> 00:42:53.280
I mean, it is so crazy
fast, like he got like seven arms,
659
00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:58.280
like he's just like, man,
you can and it's wacky waving inflatable
660
00:42:58.360 --> 00:43:01.480
arm flailing two men, like it's
unbelievable. It's so cool. And it's
661
00:43:01.519 --> 00:43:06.079
just you know, all these guys, I love just talking baseball with them
662
00:43:06.119 --> 00:43:09.559
because it's you could just oh man, it's just so fun. Baseball is
663
00:43:09.559 --> 00:43:12.960
one of those sports where you could
just for me anyways, I could just
664
00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:15.480
sit there and just talk forever.
It's so much fun. But Corey has
665
00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:19.440
seen it all, you know,
Like I said, he kind of had
666
00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:22.239
some down years early, the up
years. He's been through everything, but
667
00:43:22.800 --> 00:43:28.159
he hasn't had a losing season since
twenty fifteen. That was the last time
668
00:43:28.159 --> 00:43:30.639
he actually had a season where he
had double digit losses. He only had
669
00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:36.360
eleven losses. So really really good
career for him. That being said,
670
00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:40.840
Tyler, this year's team, I
see five key returning players and I've heard
671
00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:44.840
some good things about this lame guy. So what do we got here,
672
00:43:44.920 --> 00:43:51.039
Tyler? He's pretty good. Last
year went ten to one pitch seventy one
673
00:43:51.119 --> 00:43:54.519
innings, struck out one hundred and
fourteen batters, walked only fifteen as e
674
00:43:54.639 --> 00:44:00.880
Rara was zero point five to nine. His strikeout to show seven point six.
675
00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:07.039
And that's you said, zero point
five. Yeah, that's his that
676
00:44:07.119 --> 00:44:10.639
was his era last year. That
is inane. His his career, his
677
00:44:10.719 --> 00:44:15.719
high school career is zero point seven
to three. Oh my goodness. In
678
00:44:15.760 --> 00:44:20.480
his high school career. He's eighteen
and two and he's struck out two hundred
679
00:44:20.480 --> 00:44:23.000
and twenty seven batters in one hundred
and forty four innings. So you kind
680
00:44:23.000 --> 00:44:29.480
of start out with him and you
know when he's on the mound, it's
681
00:44:29.480 --> 00:44:34.000
it's must see. The one loss
he had last year was against Jake Mason.
682
00:44:34.599 --> 00:44:38.119
Uh, that was so cool just
to be at that game to see
683
00:44:38.119 --> 00:44:45.199
that. Just a couple of major
stars pitching against each other with a great
684
00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:50.760
lineups as well. But you know, River Langstrat is a really really good
685
00:44:50.760 --> 00:44:53.639
player too that I'm excited about.
Uh. You know, last year he
686
00:44:53.719 --> 00:44:59.400
his ARA was three point twenty five. He went to and one and then
687
00:44:59.480 --> 00:45:02.199
and Kale Stapleton also he had a
one point nine to eight ERA. Last
688
00:45:02.280 --> 00:45:07.239
year he went four and oh so
struck out twenty one batters in twenty eight
689
00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:09.840
innings. Neither of these guys are
guys that are gonna blow it by you,
690
00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:14.639
but they just know how to pitch, and they're very good offensively as
691
00:45:14.679 --> 00:45:16.840
well. So I think that I
think those are gonna be kind of the
692
00:45:16.840 --> 00:45:21.079
main guys. Kele Stapleton hit two
ninety one, River lank straight I hit
693
00:45:21.119 --> 00:45:27.039
three fifteen. I really really like
this Matthew Carroll kid. He was a
694
00:45:27.079 --> 00:45:30.920
freshman last year that got limited playing
time. They just had so they were
695
00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:34.519
so senior heavy last year, but
they had to find ways to get him
696
00:45:34.519 --> 00:45:37.199
into the lineup. Sometimes he's a
he's probably he's a natural third baseman,
697
00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:40.639
but you know, he could be
moved around the infield. He hit three
698
00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:45.639
forty eight last year and limited time. What I really liked him, what
699
00:45:45.719 --> 00:45:49.119
I really liked about him is that
he had twenty four played appearances only struck
700
00:45:49.119 --> 00:45:53.199
out four times, and to do
that as a freshman really really shows me
701
00:45:53.239 --> 00:45:57.360
a lot. And then just watching
him take infield like before games, I
702
00:45:57.440 --> 00:46:01.079
was like, that kid's a freshman. That's incredible. And then and and
703
00:46:01.119 --> 00:46:05.880
Cooper Moore, who we know from
football. Yeah, uh, he's He's
704
00:46:05.880 --> 00:46:08.960
a guy that didn't play a ton
last year, but he had and one
705
00:46:08.960 --> 00:46:14.519
of the best catches I've ever seen
at second base last year. Uh.
706
00:46:14.559 --> 00:46:17.719
And he'll get a lot more a
lot more playing time, and and yeah,
707
00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:21.679
and they got a ton of kids
that I've never seen play, but
708
00:46:21.800 --> 00:46:25.360
I guarantee you will be awesome.
Every single year. There's there's guys that
709
00:46:25.519 --> 00:46:30.239
like that just show up for that
Linden program that I don't know because I
710
00:46:30.280 --> 00:46:34.440
don't follow the JP. I'm not
watching the Linden Lightning Summer League teams.
711
00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:36.639
I'm not I don't know those things. And then all of a sudden,
712
00:46:36.679 --> 00:46:39.159
I go to a high school game
and I'm like, WHOA, that guy's
713
00:46:39.159 --> 00:46:42.960
awesome. WHOA, that guy's awesome. WHOA? And I just They're just
714
00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:46.960
time and time again. So I'm
excited to see who those guys are and
715
00:46:47.159 --> 00:46:52.320
uh man, yeah, Kale Stapleton
was on that he was on that basketball
716
00:46:52.320 --> 00:46:55.199
team that just won state. So
yeah, just you know, it's just
717
00:46:55.239 --> 00:47:00.440
a great program that does things the
right way and and his lot of fun
718
00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:05.679
to watch. Yeah, that's uh, it's always fun whenever you go somewhere
719
00:47:05.719 --> 00:47:09.360
and you see somebody, like you
see a high school kid for the first
720
00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:13.880
time, you know, and you
go whoa, whoa, and then you
721
00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:17.400
look and it's like wow, freshman
or sophomore and you're just like whoa,
722
00:47:17.480 --> 00:47:22.599
Like I get to watch this dude
for the next three four years. Like
723
00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:24.320
yeah, that's always the first thing
that goes through my mind. Absolutely.
724
00:47:24.519 --> 00:47:28.679
Yeah. And I think I've told
you before how many times I've you know,
725
00:47:28.760 --> 00:47:31.480
I've I've been to a game or
something and I see a kid and
726
00:47:31.719 --> 00:47:37.360
like, wow, like this guy's
unbelievable. Senior dang, Like you're like,
727
00:47:37.719 --> 00:47:40.320
dang, I only get five more
games of this guy, you know
728
00:47:40.320 --> 00:47:44.760
what I mean, Like whatever it
is, but uh, that's awesome.
729
00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:47.320
That's awesome. Well sounds like,
uh, sounds like they're gonna find a
730
00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:51.000
way. I mean, they've got
they obviously they've got good pitching, but
731
00:47:51.559 --> 00:47:53.360
Uh, yeah, I wouldn't be
surprised if we're doing a lot of talking
732
00:47:53.360 --> 00:47:58.239
about those guys. Uh here in
the near future. Let's talk Lindon Christian
733
00:47:58.320 --> 00:48:01.840
Tyler twelve and thirteen last year and
it says state participant. How the heck
734
00:48:01.880 --> 00:48:05.559
did they become a state participant at
twelve and thirteen? Tyler? Well,
735
00:48:05.599 --> 00:48:08.840
they they went off in the districts. They won some games that they didn't
736
00:48:08.880 --> 00:48:13.360
probably a lot of people probably didn't
think they could win. They beat some
737
00:48:13.440 --> 00:48:17.880
favorite teams and they just kept it
rolling and it was awesome to see them
738
00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:24.159
get that far. It was so
cool because there was there there were some
739
00:48:24.400 --> 00:48:29.559
there were some dudes on that team
last year, but I think that it
740
00:48:29.719 --> 00:48:32.840
was not really expected and they came
on strong. At the end of the
741
00:48:32.920 --> 00:48:37.760
year. They beat Meridian at Civic
Stadium. That was a that was a
742
00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:39.519
huge game. That kind of put
Meridian out and put them in state.
743
00:48:39.599 --> 00:48:46.880
That was not expected at all,
and that was a huge win and they
744
00:48:46.920 --> 00:48:51.159
just kind of rode that into the
next week and it was a it was
745
00:48:51.159 --> 00:48:55.280
a really good year for them.
We've got Noah Rawls, the manager over
746
00:48:55.320 --> 00:48:59.320
there, twenty two and twenty four
in his career so I assume this is
747
00:48:59.320 --> 00:49:02.679
gonna be year three for him.
Yeah, he returners Tyler. I see
748
00:49:02.719 --> 00:49:07.960
six names here. It looks as
though Brody Bauman playing another sport. This
749
00:49:07.960 --> 00:49:12.079
guy plays like forty five sports.
And then I see the last name Turpstra.
750
00:49:12.400 --> 00:49:15.480
We obviously know that one. Who
are these guys over there? Who
751
00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:19.519
are who are who are these links
from Living Christian? Yeah? These are
752
00:49:20.039 --> 00:49:23.280
these are some really good top end
players that they have. I'll start with
753
00:49:23.320 --> 00:49:27.079
Brody Bauman that you mentioned. I
mean, yeah, we've talked about him
754
00:49:27.119 --> 00:49:30.039
with football, We've talked about him
with baseball, but he is a bait
755
00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:34.960
or with football and basketball, but
he is a baseball guy. Kind of
756
00:49:35.000 --> 00:49:43.559
known that since since he was a
freshman. He is he he is,
757
00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:49.239
He's He's got that kind of talent
where you go like, this guy is
758
00:49:49.239 --> 00:49:52.840
definitely gonna play college somewhere, like
this is what he's meant to do.
759
00:49:52.880 --> 00:49:59.000
And he's just big, strong kids
six' three two and twenty pounds and
760
00:49:59.079 --> 00:50:00.599
can really crush the ball. I
hit a couple of home runs last year,
761
00:50:00.960 --> 00:50:06.639
had twenty two RBIs last year.
I think that leads for any returning
762
00:50:06.679 --> 00:50:13.719
player in Walkin County. Bat in
two ninety six only struck out ten times
763
00:50:13.760 --> 00:50:16.880
in eighty five played appearances. So
when you see that kind of power with
764
00:50:16.960 --> 00:50:20.880
the low strikeout numbers, that tells
me a lot also had a couple of
765
00:50:20.920 --> 00:50:27.960
triples. Austin Angeles is a kid
that I think is another one of those
766
00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:32.000
like potential you know, league MVP
either this year next year. He's just
767
00:50:32.039 --> 00:50:36.199
a junior. Last year as a
sophomore, he hit four h three.
768
00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:45.079
He is just a pure hitter.
Slugged five hundred last year. This year,
769
00:50:45.480 --> 00:50:49.400
as we're doing this podcast, Elsie
has played two games and I think
770
00:50:49.440 --> 00:50:54.840
he's got something like seven or eight
nine hits. I mean, he had
771
00:50:54.840 --> 00:51:02.719
a grand slam tonight at Squalaicum And
and it's just he is a lot of
772
00:51:02.719 --> 00:51:07.760
fun to watch and he's and it's
weird too because he's a he's a second
773
00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:09.960
baseman, only like he's not going
over, he's not a shortstop, he's
774
00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:14.840
not gonna pitch. He's a second
baseman. You just don't see that a
775
00:51:14.880 --> 00:51:19.480
lot from like a like like a
power high school pitter, you know what
776
00:51:19.559 --> 00:51:22.719
I mean, which is kind of
kind of cool to see. Uh.
777
00:51:22.880 --> 00:51:28.320
Eli Mayberry is a kid that is
so much fun. Left handed batter was
778
00:51:28.320 --> 00:51:30.559
a freshman last year, and as
a freshman last year, he had three
779
00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:36.559
thirty three and he only struck out
five times in sixty eight played appearances.
780
00:51:36.639 --> 00:51:38.760
I love seeing those like those are
the numbers I love to see for high
781
00:51:38.760 --> 00:51:42.960
school kid. And then when I
got to see him in person, I
782
00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:45.480
found out why you can't strike him
out you get two strikes on him.
783
00:51:45.519 --> 00:51:50.400
He just fouls everything off and he
just does it like remember how each row
784
00:51:50.400 --> 00:51:52.679
would do that, Like he's like, no, that's not the pitch I
785
00:51:52.679 --> 00:51:54.360
want. Fallot off, fallot off, fallot off, fallof and it's just
786
00:51:55.320 --> 00:52:00.960
that's that's what Eli Mayberry can do. He's also very good in the field
787
00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:05.559
as far as it depends on who's
pitching. He'll either play short or he'll
788
00:52:05.559 --> 00:52:07.840
play center field, and he'll play
him both very very well, and he'll
789
00:52:07.840 --> 00:52:12.679
pitch a little bit too. So
you get all those things combined, and
790
00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:17.000
just a sophomore makes a really really
good player. Trace and Johnson, also
791
00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:22.599
a sophomore, started last year at
catcher a two eighty six hitter last year
792
00:52:22.599 --> 00:52:27.480
as a freshman catcher. I just
again, those numbers are Greatah Jonah Turpstra
793
00:52:27.920 --> 00:52:34.800
their leadoff hitter stole eight bases last
year, had twelve RBIs. But he's
794
00:52:34.920 --> 00:52:37.440
kind of there, gonna be probably
their workhorse. He pitched thirty four innings
795
00:52:37.519 --> 00:52:40.840
last year, went four and two
with a four point seven to four era.
796
00:52:42.400 --> 00:52:45.679
Again, not gonna wisit by you? Only fifteen strikeouts and thirty four
797
00:52:45.679 --> 00:52:50.280
innings, but he gets the job
done. He pitched the opening day at
798
00:52:50.320 --> 00:52:52.920
Bellingham, got the win there,
pitched four innings without even giving up a
799
00:52:53.000 --> 00:52:57.440
hit. He did walk four batters, but he didn't. He's just he's
800
00:52:57.480 --> 00:53:00.400
just really steadied, knows how to
throw strikes and he pitches the contact and
801
00:53:00.440 --> 00:53:06.920
then he's got a good defense behind
him. And and Logan brink is a
802
00:53:06.920 --> 00:53:10.039
is a an outfielder that seems like
he's been there forever. Uh, but
803
00:53:10.440 --> 00:53:14.599
boy, he came in clutch,
especially in the playoffs last year. That's
804
00:53:14.599 --> 00:53:19.199
what I remember so much. Batted
two twenty four last year, but a
805
00:53:19.239 --> 00:53:23.199
really free swinger only walked twice.
He's up there to hit and uh,
806
00:53:23.280 --> 00:53:27.559
and he's and he can get a
round on it pretty pretty well. So
807
00:53:28.159 --> 00:53:30.800
Uh, they got some young guys
that are coming up to but those are
808
00:53:30.840 --> 00:53:35.840
the six main guys that I saw
last year and this is this the one
809
00:53:35.880 --> 00:53:40.480
a's this year is loaded and uh
and they you know, they kind of
810
00:53:40.519 --> 00:53:45.360
snuck into state last year. I
don't know if it'll be so much sneaking
811
00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:47.199
this year. So I think they're
gonna have a little bit more of a
812
00:53:47.199 --> 00:53:51.440
bulls eye on their back. But
uh, these these kids are ready for
813
00:53:51.480 --> 00:53:53.599
it. They've played a couple of
games this year, scored already this year
814
00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:59.559
thirteen runs and twelve runs against a
couple of two way teams in walk Them
815
00:53:59.559 --> 00:54:02.280
County. So look for some big
things this year from the Lenks. Yeah
816
00:54:02.400 --> 00:54:07.920
sounds like I mean, it's funny
to say this about a team that went
817
00:54:07.960 --> 00:54:09.719
to the state tournament, but yeah, it was like they could have an
818
00:54:09.760 --> 00:54:13.880
improved season this year. Yeah,
I think record wise, I think you're
819
00:54:13.960 --> 00:54:19.400
right. Yeah, yeah, Well, Tyler, let's talk Meridian Trojans thirteen
820
00:54:19.599 --> 00:54:24.000
and ten last year under head coach
Steve Slesk one ninety nine and one sixty
821
00:54:24.039 --> 00:54:30.480
five in his career. Six key
returners here, and uh, I'm being
822
00:54:30.519 --> 00:54:37.599
told it's another really good pitcher in
Wakam County here with Meridian. Huh yeah,
823
00:54:37.719 --> 00:54:39.719
you know, and the cats out
of the bag. Meridian did win
824
00:54:39.760 --> 00:54:43.960
their opening game. So that is
win number two hundred for Steve Slesk.
825
00:54:44.360 --> 00:54:50.639
This is his seventeenth year. Yeah, Jonah Assi is he's the real deal.
826
00:54:51.119 --> 00:54:57.760
I saw him as a freshman pitching, and you know what, You
827
00:54:57.800 --> 00:54:59.960
see him and you're go, oh, yeah, he looks like a Frien
828
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.559
Beshman. I mean he was probably
five seven, five eight, you know,
829
00:55:04.639 --> 00:55:07.199
a little guy, left handed,
nothing crazy, but he just kept
830
00:55:07.199 --> 00:55:09.360
winning all the time, and I
was like, man, he's pretty good.
831
00:55:09.440 --> 00:55:15.599
He was bating lead off and really
selective hitter, you know, knows
832
00:55:15.639 --> 00:55:20.199
what he's doing. And then last
year is a sophomore, I swear he
833
00:55:20.239 --> 00:55:23.159
put he put like twelve miles an
hour onto his fastball and it was completely
834
00:55:23.159 --> 00:55:27.679
different. He got about six feet
tall and he just looked. He just
835
00:55:27.719 --> 00:55:30.320
looked completely Now he's batting clean up, you know, and he's he's muscling
836
00:55:30.360 --> 00:55:34.639
it to the to the gaps,
and it was like, holy cow.
837
00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:37.880
He had three twenty one last year, eight doubles, a triple, a
838
00:55:37.880 --> 00:55:43.280
home run, fourteen rby eyes twenty
one. He walked twenty one times and
839
00:55:43.320 --> 00:55:47.119
struck out three times like that,
Like do you see those types of numbers.
840
00:55:47.199 --> 00:55:51.559
You're like, okay, yeah,
he definitely knows what he's doing at
841
00:55:51.559 --> 00:55:53.840
the plate, and then you look
at his numbers on the mound and it's
842
00:55:53.880 --> 00:55:59.239
just it's ridiculous. Uh. He
pitched sixty four innings. He struck out
843
00:55:59.280 --> 00:56:05.039
one hundred and twenty eight batters.
You know, we went on max Preps,
844
00:56:05.039 --> 00:56:07.599
and I know that not every team
in the United States puts their stats
845
00:56:07.679 --> 00:56:12.880
on max Preps. Yeah, but
based on like national rankings, he's like,
846
00:56:13.159 --> 00:56:15.559
you know, he was in the
top twenty five and strikeouts last year.
847
00:56:16.000 --> 00:56:20.400
Now, I would say, what
would you think ten percent of teams
848
00:56:20.440 --> 00:56:22.719
put their stuff on max Preps,
So you know it's hard to say what
849
00:56:22.840 --> 00:56:28.079
percentages, right, Yeah, Yeah, there's different still agents maybe they do
850
00:56:28.079 --> 00:56:31.000
it more. Yeah, but hard
matters. If like I don't care what
851
00:56:31.159 --> 00:56:35.320
sport, I don't care, there's
enough teams putting it in there that if
852
00:56:35.360 --> 00:56:38.000
you were at the top or in
the top three or four, whatever,
853
00:56:38.519 --> 00:56:43.519
that's saying something because that means you're
ahead of a lot of guys. Yeah.
854
00:56:43.639 --> 00:56:45.400
Yeah, pitched sixty four and the
third innings last year, only gave
855
00:56:45.480 --> 00:56:51.280
up thirty hits. He had back
to back no hitters last year. What
856
00:56:52.519 --> 00:56:55.440
Yeah, and at to back no
hitters huh. And he was their ace.
857
00:56:55.519 --> 00:56:59.880
I mean he he'd go up against
the big teams. And that's the
858
00:57:00.159 --> 00:57:02.360
thing that you see in high school
baseball is if you're a good team,
859
00:57:02.440 --> 00:57:07.280
you're going up against the other teams. Dude. Yeah, And and what
860
00:57:07.440 --> 00:57:10.559
happened with him is, I mean
his record was five and four. You
861
00:57:10.599 --> 00:57:15.079
know, you'd expect like maybe a
nine to zero record, but he went
862
00:57:15.159 --> 00:57:17.119
up against really good teams. Maybe
they would lose two to one or one
863
00:57:17.199 --> 00:57:22.920
nothing every once in a while.
And you know, the Links got the
864
00:57:22.960 --> 00:57:25.360
best of him in that district playoff
game in Joe Martin to send them to
865
00:57:25.360 --> 00:57:29.840
the state. And that's you know, that's a guy that those those Lyndy
866
00:57:29.880 --> 00:57:32.840
Christ and Links probably faced him since
they were little, and they just they
867
00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:36.920
they got on him for one inning
and that was all that it took.
868
00:57:37.000 --> 00:57:43.159
And that's you know, that's baseball. But Jonah Aussi has agreed to go
869
00:57:43.199 --> 00:57:47.400
to University of Washington. Uh.
And you know, and he's a guy
870
00:57:47.400 --> 00:57:50.400
that, yeah, his pitching numbers
are great, but like I said,
871
00:57:50.599 --> 00:57:53.679
even at the plate, he's dangerous. So we'll see how that all goes.
872
00:57:53.719 --> 00:57:59.000
As a center fielder, they have
third basement Silas Burshower that I like
873
00:57:59.079 --> 00:58:04.920
a lot. I he seemed really
really solid defensively. And that's the thing
874
00:58:04.920 --> 00:58:09.079
about a Steve Slesk team is that
they're gonna be very fundamentally sound and extremely
875
00:58:09.079 --> 00:58:13.519
good on defense. And that is
that goes a long way to the high
876
00:58:13.519 --> 00:58:16.239
school baseball. Like I've been posting
these box scores and it's like the average
877
00:58:16.239 --> 00:58:20.000
amount of airs in a game for
one team is probably like four and a
878
00:58:20.039 --> 00:58:22.400
half. And you know, I
know it's early in the season and the
879
00:58:22.400 --> 00:58:27.119
weather's not great and all that stuff, but you know, that's the thing
880
00:58:27.159 --> 00:58:31.480
that Meridian usually got down pretty well
as their is their defense. Tyson Timmer
881
00:58:32.400 --> 00:58:37.320
really good left fielder. He's back
there again this year. Last year he
882
00:58:37.400 --> 00:58:40.840
scored seventeen runs. You know,
that was I think that was the most
883
00:58:40.840 --> 00:58:45.719
on the team. Ian Forbes who
did the intro for us, he's a
884
00:58:45.840 --> 00:58:50.440
this is his fourth year starting at
catcher. That anytime you have a four
885
00:58:50.519 --> 00:58:53.280
year starter at catcher, that is
huge, And I mean I remember him
886
00:58:53.280 --> 00:58:58.880
as a freshman and defensively it was
a struggle. I mean even I could
887
00:58:58.960 --> 00:59:01.000
just recall so many times where you
know, like on a one to zero
888
00:59:01.079 --> 00:59:05.679
count and you know, the pitch
comes in for a strikes and he drops
889
00:59:05.679 --> 00:59:07.400
it. You know, it's all
it is, is one and one.
890
00:59:07.440 --> 00:59:10.840
He did there's nothing bad. But
I can hear Coach lest Bee like catch
891
00:59:10.880 --> 00:59:14.679
the ball. Ian, you know, I could just I could hear him
892
00:59:14.719 --> 00:59:17.280
like he's getting on him, like
like it doesn't matter that you didn't drop,
893
00:59:17.360 --> 00:59:20.760
Like there's nobody on base, It
doesn't matter that you dropped it.
894
00:59:21.320 --> 00:59:23.519
You just gotta catch them all.
And then it just his defense got better
895
00:59:23.599 --> 00:59:28.000
and better and better, and he
was always hitting like second lineup like they're
896
00:59:28.000 --> 00:59:30.239
gonna Meridian also is one of those
teams where the first guy gets on next
897
00:59:30.239 --> 00:59:36.960
guy's bunting period, like they will
play small ball a beyond small ball,
898
00:59:37.079 --> 00:59:39.519
don't They don't. It doesn't matter
if the guy is an eight hundred hitter.
899
00:59:39.559 --> 00:59:43.360
He's bunting and they're gonna go to
the next thing and they're just gonna
900
00:59:43.440 --> 00:59:46.079
keep that going. Fundamentals, swing
a good pitches, all those things.
901
00:59:47.320 --> 00:59:52.119
And and Ian Forbes has kind of
turned into like more of the three hole
902
00:59:52.159 --> 00:59:57.480
hitter now more the power guy as
he's gotten bigger and stronger, and and
903
00:59:57.480 --> 01:00:00.280
and you've seen it like on the
walk and preps website where it shows those
904
01:00:00.320 --> 01:00:05.960
background pictures and you see that catcher
all excited. That's Ian Forbes right there,
905
01:00:07.360 --> 01:00:09.920
and he's He's been a fun player. He drove in twenty five last
906
01:00:10.000 --> 01:00:15.440
year. Just a really good clutch
hitter. Jacob Allminson in the infield,
907
01:00:15.480 --> 01:00:19.559
he'll probably be that number two hitter. He was a great three point shooter
908
01:00:19.599 --> 01:00:22.559
for the basketball team. He had
ten RBI's last year. Just a really
909
01:00:22.559 --> 01:00:27.000
good player that plays some second base. And Tristan Wang in the outfield,
910
01:00:27.119 --> 01:00:30.440
really tall, left handed hitter.
I like. I like him a lot.
911
01:00:30.519 --> 01:00:34.639
I think he's got I think he's
got a really really good future.
912
01:00:34.760 --> 01:00:39.480
Three seventy one on base percentage.
He just, you know, he he's
913
01:00:39.519 --> 01:00:42.840
a guy that just had some tough
luck. It seems like every time I'd
914
01:00:42.880 --> 01:00:45.840
see him, he would rope one
for an out, you know, and
915
01:00:45.960 --> 01:00:49.199
sometimes when you don't have that many. Had thirty seven played appearances last year,
916
01:00:49.239 --> 01:00:52.599
thirty seven, that's it, you
know. You you rope three or
917
01:00:52.599 --> 01:00:54.440
four of them for an out and
those turn in those turn into hits,
918
01:00:54.440 --> 01:01:00.599
and your batty average jumps seventy points. So yeah, I and Meridan.
919
01:01:00.719 --> 01:01:04.199
The one thing about Meridan, these
are the key returning guys. But they
920
01:01:04.239 --> 01:01:08.360
have a really really good freshman class
that I've heard about, so I'm really
921
01:01:08.400 --> 01:01:15.239
excited to see what what happens there. You know coach Steve Slesk, which
922
01:01:15.400 --> 01:01:17.760
has no bones about it. He
will play the best nine, and he,
923
01:01:19.039 --> 01:01:22.000
more than probably any other coach,
will keep a consistent lineup throughout the
924
01:01:22.039 --> 01:01:27.360
whole year. Uh. Yes,
he knows his nine. He will stay
925
01:01:27.440 --> 01:01:30.840
with it one through nine in the
batting order. It's almost like it's almost
926
01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:35.440
like you know, yes, it's
very much you know what's gonna happen,
927
01:01:36.960 --> 01:01:40.960
and he'll just go with it.
Sad to see that Jager Fife's not playing,
928
01:01:42.360 --> 01:01:44.480
but you know that happens every once
in a while. He could have
929
01:01:44.480 --> 01:01:46.519
been a huge benefit to that team. But man, they got so much
930
01:01:46.559 --> 01:01:51.920
good young talent coming up. I
think, uh, I think they'll be
931
01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:53.519
okay. There's a few other guys, you know Alex Short, which he
932
01:01:53.599 --> 01:01:58.719
was I wish he was playing too, and but but there's there's something about
933
01:01:58.800 --> 01:02:01.039
that about that team and and him
as a coach. He's an old school
934
01:02:01.079 --> 01:02:06.000
guy. He doesn't like me posting
stats. We've gone over this with many
935
01:02:06.800 --> 01:02:09.599
players and parents and stuff. Like
that. And uh, even when I
936
01:02:09.639 --> 01:02:14.119
talked to John at the sports cards
at j e KK sports Cards, you
937
01:02:14.159 --> 01:02:16.280
know, he was he's sponsoring the
stat leaders, and I said, yeah,
938
01:02:16.360 --> 01:02:21.079
you know, every week I'll post
the stat leaders. He goes except
939
01:02:21.119 --> 01:02:24.079
except for Steve's kids, and like
he even knew, like he he he
940
01:02:24.159 --> 01:02:27.840
knew it, you know. And
and uh, but you know I get
941
01:02:27.840 --> 01:02:31.039
it. Coach lesk is old school
and and uh doesn't want his kids thinking
942
01:02:31.039 --> 01:02:35.440
about that stuff. Just wants him
to go and play baseball. And and
943
01:02:35.639 --> 01:02:37.440
uh, you know, once the
season's over, he doesn't care. Just
944
01:02:37.480 --> 01:02:40.239
throw him out there and then you
can see what they are. And and
945
01:02:40.400 --> 01:02:45.360
uh, I think they are again
because of the pitching. I think that
946
01:02:45.519 --> 01:02:50.719
they have a good chance as well. Jonah Assi is a great number one,
947
01:02:50.840 --> 01:02:52.320
especially at the one A level,
and we'll see what kind of run
948
01:02:52.360 --> 01:03:00.880
they can make. Let's talk Mount
Baker Tyler. Yeah out there in Deming
949
01:03:00.960 --> 01:03:05.599
two and sixteen last year. New
head coach this year. And when I
950
01:03:05.639 --> 01:03:09.559
say new head coach, like recently
new head coach probably about as late as
951
01:03:09.599 --> 01:03:15.639
we've ever really seen. But David
Ferrell, I believe, is how we're
952
01:03:15.679 --> 01:03:20.119
saying his name. Yeah, sixty
four and sixty two in his career his
953
01:03:20.280 --> 01:03:22.800
first year at Bellan or excuse me, Mount Baker. He has coached at
954
01:03:22.800 --> 01:03:30.800
Bellingham from twenty eleven to two and
sixteen. Tyler five returning key players here.
955
01:03:32.840 --> 01:03:38.679
I've recognized one, oddly enough from
wrestling, Daniel Washburn. I'm pretty
956
01:03:38.679 --> 01:03:43.280
excited to hear about this young man
because it says he's also an infielder and
957
01:03:43.320 --> 01:03:45.639
a picture here. But yeah,
what can you tell me about the Mountaineers.
958
01:03:46.119 --> 01:03:49.960
Well, they've struggled the last few
years they had. They had a
959
01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:52.920
pretty good run in twenty nineteen.
They did some good things. I remember
960
01:03:52.920 --> 01:03:57.199
that because I was I was doing
I was calling a lot of games,
961
01:03:57.440 --> 01:04:00.079
you know, audibly for the Doug
Lane Network to do a big game that
962
01:04:00.119 --> 01:04:03.320
they had on my birth that was
on my fortieth birthday. I remember it
963
01:04:03.440 --> 01:04:06.760
very well. It kind of it
gave it shot them into the districts and
964
01:04:06.760 --> 01:04:10.119
then they did well there and they
just kind of ran out of gas.
965
01:04:10.159 --> 01:04:13.960
But uh, yeah, it's it's
been a struggle and the big one of
966
01:04:14.000 --> 01:04:17.039
the big things is a lot of
big time players, uh go out for
967
01:04:17.119 --> 01:04:24.119
other sports and it's been happening more
and more recently. But uh, yeah,
968
01:04:24.159 --> 01:04:27.440
and this is the one team because
because of the coaching turnover stuff,
969
01:04:27.440 --> 01:04:30.599
I haven't been able to get a
roster yet, so I don't know exactly
970
01:04:30.639 --> 01:04:34.119
who's on the team. But I
think Braven Nason is back, and he's
971
01:04:34.159 --> 01:04:38.880
a guy that you know, he's
a senior now, but I remember him
972
01:04:38.920 --> 01:04:42.039
even as he's been starting since he
was a freshman. He's played center field,
973
01:04:42.039 --> 01:04:45.599
he's played shortstop, he's pitched,
and you know, I think even
974
01:04:45.639 --> 01:04:48.360
as a freshman he was bat and
lead off there for a while. His
975
01:04:48.400 --> 01:04:51.960
sophomore year he was kind of leaned
upon heavily as a pitcher. He hurt
976
01:04:53.000 --> 01:04:56.280
his arm halfway through the year,
so the rest of the year he was
977
01:04:56.360 --> 01:05:00.199
dhing. And then his junior year
last year he just played short stuf but
978
01:05:00.239 --> 01:05:02.079
he didn't pitch. I think they
were saving it for another year. So
979
01:05:02.119 --> 01:05:04.719
I think this year he's gonna be
kind of their main pitcher. You mentioned
980
01:05:04.800 --> 01:05:11.920
Daniel Washburn, the really good wrestler
from Mount Baker. He is probably their
981
01:05:11.960 --> 01:05:15.880
next best pitcher. He'll play third
and short as well, and he's a
982
01:05:15.920 --> 01:05:19.320
guy that he had a really big
win against squal Come. I think he
983
01:05:19.360 --> 01:05:23.360
pitched a complete game beat him.
Two to one last year was a huge
984
01:05:23.400 --> 01:05:27.360
win for them, so he can
definitely eat up some innings. Camden Moa
985
01:05:27.440 --> 01:05:30.840
behind the plate, Braden Scott in
the outfields, basketball player Tyson Raitmeyer another
986
01:05:30.880 --> 01:05:33.360
basketball player, can played first base. He can pitch a little bit as
987
01:05:33.400 --> 01:05:38.280
well. It's it's gonna be a
struggle. It's such a hard league.
988
01:05:38.280 --> 01:05:42.440
You're you're going against you know,
really top end one A teams and then
989
01:05:42.440 --> 01:05:45.360
a bunch of two A and three
A teams and that's your league schedule.
990
01:05:45.840 --> 01:05:49.199
They dropped the opener against orchest Island
twelve to two. It could be a
991
01:05:49.280 --> 01:05:53.599
rough one this year. I don't
know that much about coach Ferrell. I
992
01:05:53.639 --> 01:05:56.880
know that he's been around and he's
coached different leagues and stuff like that.
993
01:05:57.039 --> 01:06:00.760
So, you know, I was
talking to somebody today actually out of the
994
01:06:00.800 --> 01:06:04.119
Blaine baseball game. We were discussing
the new the new coaching change, and
995
01:06:04.159 --> 01:06:08.719
he's like, he's like, well, he knows that guy knows baseball.
996
01:06:08.719 --> 01:06:11.760
That's a good hire for them.
So so we'll see if that things can
997
01:06:11.760 --> 01:06:16.039
get turned around for the Mountaineers.
You know, it's uh, it used
998
01:06:16.079 --> 01:06:19.800
to be a big time baseball you
know, a place back in the seventies
999
01:06:19.800 --> 01:06:23.920
and the eighties and nineties, but
it's been a while since they've had you
1000
01:06:23.920 --> 01:06:29.280
know, a strong uh you know, core group go through there for a
1001
01:06:29.280 --> 01:06:33.719
while. So obviously, being a
mountaineer, I'm always rooting for them.
1002
01:06:33.760 --> 01:06:40.039
But it's gonna be tough. There's
just really good competition right now. Let's
1003
01:06:40.079 --> 01:06:44.719
move on to nook Sack Valley four
and sixteen. Last season, our guy
1004
01:06:44.920 --> 01:06:48.440
Joel the Wispolaire out there coaching.
He returners eight Tyler. That's a that's
1005
01:06:48.519 --> 01:06:54.199
always a good number to return.
A couple of names I recognize here.
1006
01:06:54.280 --> 01:06:58.119
So what are we looking at this
year for the Pioneers. I think there's
1007
01:06:58.119 --> 01:07:00.960
gonna be a huge improvement for them
there. You know it was, and
1008
01:07:01.280 --> 01:07:04.320
you know, coach Juist Blair and
I have joked about this where you know,
1009
01:07:04.360 --> 01:07:09.519
it's always been well, they're you
know, they're young, and he's
1010
01:07:09.519 --> 01:07:12.039
like, we're not. We can't
say that anymore. We can't say we're
1011
01:07:12.039 --> 01:07:15.639
young anymore. Now we've got a
lot of experience. They don't have a
1012
01:07:15.639 --> 01:07:18.239
ton of experience with wins, but
they have a lot of varsity experience and
1013
01:07:18.760 --> 01:07:23.480
if they can stay healthy and they
can throw strikes, they will do some
1014
01:07:23.599 --> 01:07:29.880
damage. You know, right off
the bat playing against Mariner, you know
1015
01:07:29.920 --> 01:07:31.719
they won fifteen to one. You
know, they they show they could put
1016
01:07:31.760 --> 01:07:35.599
up runs. Then they played a
doubleheader against Sila, who's a really strong
1017
01:07:35.639 --> 01:07:41.599
two AA team, and and you
know they lost six to one and eleven
1018
01:07:41.639 --> 01:07:44.800
to one. But man, they're
playing some good competition there. I think
1019
01:07:44.840 --> 01:07:48.519
that I think they have enough pitching. Casey Newton is has got a really
1020
01:07:48.559 --> 01:07:56.360
live arm, and his big thing
has just been throwing strikes. You know,
1021
01:07:56.440 --> 01:08:00.519
he can he can throw hard,
but Canny throws strike. I mean,
1022
01:08:00.519 --> 01:08:03.719
he has over one hundred walks and
one hundred strikeouts in his career and
1023
01:08:03.800 --> 01:08:06.320
so that just I mean, it
tells you he's been playing a lot of
1024
01:08:06.400 --> 01:08:10.880
varsity baseball. You know, he's
thrown seventy eight innings in his career,
1025
01:08:12.159 --> 01:08:15.000
but there's been a lot of walks
and a lot of strikeouts. Well,
1026
01:08:15.039 --> 01:08:17.520
that game begets Mariner. He pitched
five innings and only gave up one hit,
1027
01:08:17.560 --> 01:08:21.199
struck out thirteen, and he only
walked three. So that told me
1028
01:08:21.239 --> 01:08:25.600
a lot. That told me,
Okay, he's definitely got that down.
1029
01:08:25.600 --> 01:08:30.039
Now he's hitting great as well.
He's a really good left handed hitter playing
1030
01:08:30.079 --> 01:08:32.439
center field. Colby Martin is a
guy that's got some big time pop.
1031
01:08:32.640 --> 01:08:36.720
Hit a home run last year.
You're a big strong third baseman. Hit
1032
01:08:36.760 --> 01:08:41.560
two ninety one last year, knocked
in fifteen. Really excited about what he
1033
01:08:41.600 --> 01:08:44.399
can do. He's been starting at
third since he was a freshman. Now
1034
01:08:44.399 --> 01:08:48.600
he's a junior. Eddie Sertaz,
He's he's kind of got got that Julio
1035
01:08:48.720 --> 01:08:56.560
Rodriguez feel like he gives off this
vibe and and I just I love that
1036
01:08:56.640 --> 01:09:00.680
about him, and he is he
is fun to watch. He's dynamic.
1037
01:09:01.000 --> 01:09:05.479
Another good outfielder and a good pitcher, Bradley. Bradley Blake will step into
1038
01:09:05.479 --> 01:09:10.199
that second base role. He's mainly
just been a pitcher in his in his
1039
01:09:10.279 --> 01:09:14.039
high school career, but now he's
gonna play more in the field. A
1040
01:09:14.079 --> 01:09:16.199
good guy out of the bullpen can
throw strikes, which is what they want.
1041
01:09:16.319 --> 01:09:20.159
Damian Perez, Hey, we've loved
him at linebacker. He's been their
1042
01:09:20.199 --> 01:09:24.359
catcher now for a while. He
had two fifty nine last year he had
1043
01:09:24.359 --> 01:09:29.159
eleven RBI. Eyes you know he's
he's steady back there. I mean he's
1044
01:09:29.199 --> 01:09:31.800
a guy that you know, you
want a guy that can just catch game
1045
01:09:31.840 --> 01:09:34.680
after game after game after game and
not get tired. He's your guy.
1046
01:09:35.600 --> 01:09:41.079
I love him as a backstop.
Cole Baumban really you know, good,
1047
01:09:41.439 --> 01:09:45.479
good size, about six foot five, could play some first base. He
1048
01:09:45.520 --> 01:09:48.439
can pitch a little bit too.
Knocked in five batters last year. Healks
1049
01:09:48.479 --> 01:09:54.399
and he walked nine times three twenty
three on base percentage. He's started out
1050
01:09:54.399 --> 01:09:57.039
the year pretty strong. Like I
said, they've already played three games this
1051
01:09:57.159 --> 01:10:03.239
year, and he can pitch as
well. Matthew Blake is a really really
1052
01:10:03.279 --> 01:10:09.760
good fast guy, leadoff guy,
outfielder, and I'm excited to see what
1053
01:10:09.840 --> 01:10:13.199
he does. He had he had
twelve hits last year. I think he
1054
01:10:13.199 --> 01:10:19.079
can improve upon that. Jesse Tressel
as an infielder, really good fielding shortstop,
1055
01:10:19.199 --> 01:10:24.560
seven stolen bases last year. Evan
Brown, the younger brother Joey Brown,
1056
01:10:25.399 --> 01:10:29.800
just a sophomore, got a really
live fastball. You're talking mid upper
1057
01:10:29.840 --> 01:10:33.520
eighties, you know, can really
deal on the mound through through twenty three
1058
01:10:33.560 --> 01:10:38.560
innings last year. Struck out twenty
one. But it was just the walks.
1059
01:10:38.640 --> 01:10:41.159
Like I said, there's there was
a lot of walks. Actually,
1060
01:10:41.159 --> 01:10:44.960
I think even as a whole the
team walked more than they struck out.
1061
01:10:45.079 --> 01:10:49.439
So that's something that they're gonna really
want to put, you know, lower
1062
01:10:49.479 --> 01:10:53.760
that a little bit and just play
solid defense because the hitting will be there.
1063
01:10:53.880 --> 01:10:56.199
They got a lot of guys that
can really put the bat on the
1064
01:10:56.199 --> 01:10:59.880
ball, Newton Martin Surta, these
guys, you know, Perez Bouman.
1065
01:11:00.479 --> 01:11:03.479
These guys can really knock the ball
around, run around the bases, and
1066
01:11:03.800 --> 01:11:08.800
it's you know, it's been a
while since Knooksacks had a winner over there
1067
01:11:10.319 --> 01:11:14.760
as a as a baseball program.
I really like Joel as a coach.
1068
01:11:14.840 --> 01:11:16.840
I mean, I've you know,
heck, we played Little League All Stars
1069
01:11:16.840 --> 01:11:19.640
together in third and fourth grade.
You know, it's one of those things
1070
01:11:19.680 --> 01:11:21.840
you and you did. I'm sure
you did this too, where you played
1071
01:11:21.840 --> 01:11:26.520
little league and you're playing third base
or whatever you're you know, like me,
1072
01:11:26.600 --> 01:11:28.520
I was a third baseball all the
time. Then you make the All
1073
01:11:28.520 --> 01:11:30.399
Star team. Well they're all third
basement or they're all short stops. And
1074
01:11:30.479 --> 01:11:33.000
so all of a sudden, I
find myself playing center field and I'm looking
1075
01:11:33.000 --> 01:11:36.039
at I'm like, well, who's
playing third base. I'm like, I'm
1076
01:11:36.039 --> 01:11:39.680
a fourth grader. I'm like,
who's that third grader playing third base.
1077
01:11:40.119 --> 01:11:42.600
No, he must be really good. Yeah that was That was Joel DUIs
1078
01:11:42.680 --> 01:11:46.119
Flair. So, but the last
time they had more wins than the last
1079
01:11:46.159 --> 01:11:50.520
time Nooksack had more wins than losses
had a above five hundred team was two
1080
01:11:50.560 --> 01:11:55.760
thousand and seven. So it's been
a while, but this could be one
1081
01:11:55.760 --> 01:11:58.680
of those years where they started to
turn around get closer to that five hundred
1082
01:11:58.680 --> 01:12:01.239
mark. Said, they've been talking
that, oh, they're they're you know,
1083
01:12:01.279 --> 01:12:03.880
they're young, they're young. Well, they can't really say that anymore.
1084
01:12:04.039 --> 01:12:06.479
Yeah, there are some young players, but for the most part,
1085
01:12:06.640 --> 01:12:11.399
there's a lot of varsity experience on
this team. Yeah, I mean I
1086
01:12:11.399 --> 01:12:15.880
think that, you know, eventually
you get to a point where, hey,
1087
01:12:16.920 --> 01:12:20.319
either you're young or maybe you're just
not very good. So now it's
1088
01:12:20.399 --> 01:12:24.119
kind of like, hey, let's
go boys. Now we gotta win some
1089
01:12:24.159 --> 01:12:29.279
games here, and we return eight
good players, so yeah, now it's
1090
01:12:29.319 --> 01:12:31.239
time to it's time to do what
we all know what we can do.
1091
01:12:31.279 --> 01:12:34.159
So let's go out and do it. And by the way, I mean,
1092
01:12:34.920 --> 01:12:39.439
could you get a better at least
first game of the year. I
1093
01:12:39.479 --> 01:12:43.640
mean, my goodness, I saw
that scoreboard and I went what like,
1094
01:12:45.399 --> 01:12:49.479
I mean, that's a thrashing.
Let's talk Seaholme Tyler, the Mariners six
1095
01:12:49.560 --> 01:12:56.520
and sixteen last year head coach Dane
Siegfried seventeen to forty two for the career,
1096
01:12:58.119 --> 01:13:01.960
five key returners here and Hudson ef
a name that I feel like we
1097
01:13:01.960 --> 01:13:05.640
we have talked about a lot on
this podcast in the last year or so.
1098
01:13:06.239 --> 01:13:10.039
Uh, what do we got here
out of the Mariners this season?
1099
01:13:11.039 --> 01:13:14.159
Yeah, I'm really intrigued to see
what this what's gonna happen. I mean,
1100
01:13:14.199 --> 01:13:17.520
Seahome has probably the richest baseball tradition
as far as all the Walkham County
1101
01:13:17.560 --> 01:13:21.399
schools. They've won three state titles. I think that's one even I know,
1102
01:13:21.720 --> 01:13:26.520
like, yeah, I know that
one. That's that's almost the extent
1103
01:13:26.720 --> 01:13:30.479
of my baseball knowledge as far as
Walkham County goes. Yeah, I mean
1104
01:13:30.520 --> 01:13:34.359
Gary Hatch was the coach forever and
he's one of those guys where you know,
1105
01:13:34.399 --> 01:13:39.159
you google Gary Hatch and you start
seeing things like USA Baseball and stuff
1106
01:13:39.199 --> 01:13:43.760
like that, Like he's he's way
up there and he's still around assistant.
1107
01:13:43.800 --> 01:13:45.159
I mean, it's still cool just
to share a dugout with him and he'll
1108
01:13:45.159 --> 01:13:47.960
walk by and he'll we'll talk for
a little bit. He has he doesn't
1109
01:13:48.000 --> 01:13:54.399
know who I am, but he's
just so it's it's it's baseball Royalty,
1110
01:13:54.560 --> 01:13:58.680
really and and it's just so fun
to I love going to get It's probably
1111
01:13:58.680 --> 01:14:00.680
my favorite place to go to go
to a cover of baseball game and see
1112
01:14:00.720 --> 01:14:05.520
home it's and it's just I know, there's so much history there. But
1113
01:14:05.600 --> 01:14:09.960
at the same time, there's like
a little there's like a little media spot
1114
01:14:10.279 --> 01:14:14.560
right next to the dugout and it's
just told before. Yeah, I love
1115
01:14:14.560 --> 01:14:16.359
it. And I can get great
pictures, I can do video, I
1116
01:14:16.359 --> 01:14:19.560
could do whatever. And they they
they and they treat me great. And
1117
01:14:19.600 --> 01:14:24.319
it's just a fun place to go. And and uh, it's been a
1118
01:14:24.319 --> 01:14:27.239
struggle the last few years. I
mean, they had a big time run
1119
01:14:27.279 --> 01:14:30.119
at State when they had uh,
Jacob Kaepernick and those and those guys.
1120
01:14:30.920 --> 01:14:36.319
But it's been a while and you
know, coach Sigfrey took over after COVID
1121
01:14:38.279 --> 01:14:41.880
and there just hasn't been that year. Last year they had to play that
1122
01:14:41.960 --> 01:14:45.840
playing game to get the districts.
They won that game, I believe,
1123
01:14:45.960 --> 01:14:48.319
I want to say it was against
Lakewood, and I remember I did a
1124
01:14:48.359 --> 01:14:51.760
live broadcast of that game, and
that was just kind of an on the
1125
01:14:51.760 --> 01:14:59.600
whim thing, just a Facebook live
and and it was. It was one
1126
01:14:59.600 --> 01:15:03.680
of those things because I that was
my last day totally chocolate and and that
1127
01:15:03.920 --> 01:15:06.159
night I just thought, you know
what, if I'm gonna go all in
1128
01:15:06.239 --> 01:15:10.720
on walk the preps, I might
as well just call the game tonight right
1129
01:15:10.760 --> 01:15:14.600
now. Yeah, And I brought
my brought my tripod and I literally,
1130
01:15:14.760 --> 01:15:19.279
I'm dead serious. I ductap my
phone to the tripod and and did a
1131
01:15:19.399 --> 01:15:23.920
and I brought my headset and I
just plugged it in and and just did
1132
01:15:23.960 --> 01:15:28.319
a live broadcast just from the dugout. And it was. It was fun.
1133
01:15:28.359 --> 01:15:31.079
It was a great it was a
great game Sea Home one. And
1134
01:15:31.680 --> 01:15:35.199
the one thing though, they only
have seventeen guys in their entire program.
1135
01:15:35.800 --> 01:15:39.920
And that's just a shame to see
because when you think about old Sea Home
1136
01:15:40.000 --> 01:15:43.680
Baseball, and it's like, man, you'd have tons of kid dozens of
1137
01:15:43.760 --> 01:15:46.119
kids turning out and there were cuts
and everything and and uh, but there
1138
01:15:46.199 --> 01:15:54.720
is some high end talent here.
Ryder McGrath is extremely talented shortstop picture you
1139
01:15:54.720 --> 01:16:00.359
know about six three, six four, really really fun player to watch and
1140
01:16:00.359 --> 01:16:04.800
and can just drive the baseball and
really excited to see what he does.
1141
01:16:04.840 --> 01:16:10.640
He had three doubles last year.
I think he's he's one of those guys
1142
01:16:10.640 --> 01:16:16.159
that's gonna improve so much every single
year. Hudson Nef Yeah, Yeah,
1143
01:16:16.319 --> 01:16:20.239
he's he's good. He's he's a
lot of fun to watch. Hit two
1144
01:16:20.319 --> 01:16:26.560
thirty five last year. But man, that's gonna he's gonna be a good
1145
01:16:26.640 --> 01:16:30.439
leadoff guy center field. Was a
middle infielder, you know, growing up,
1146
01:16:30.479 --> 01:16:33.760
but get to the high school level
sometimes and you need that stud out
1147
01:16:33.760 --> 01:16:39.600
there in center field and he's gonna
lock that down. Jackson Evans is gonna
1148
01:16:39.760 --> 01:16:42.520
he's gonna return. He was the
backup catcher last year. He's gonna take
1149
01:16:42.520 --> 01:16:46.359
over the catcher this year. Gunner
Tweet is another sophomore. This sophomore class
1150
01:16:46.359 --> 01:16:50.479
that has is pretty durned good.
Uh, he's gonna be a guy that
1151
01:16:50.479 --> 01:16:55.119
can play some short or second.
You know, he'll play second when Ryter
1152
01:16:55.279 --> 01:16:58.399
McGrath's at short with McGrath is pitching, he'll go over and play short.
1153
01:16:59.600 --> 01:17:02.560
I mean, just the tweight name
at Sea Home. There's been a lot
1154
01:17:02.600 --> 01:17:06.680
of great ones, Grady Murray,
all these guys there's been some really good
1155
01:17:06.720 --> 01:17:12.119
tweight players. Gunner Tweight's just the
next one. Uh. And then third
1156
01:17:12.119 --> 01:17:16.640
baseman pitcher Keegan Glennon, another sophomore. Uh, he pitched really well in
1157
01:17:16.680 --> 01:17:21.720
that game where they tied forks due
to darkness. He pitched five innings and
1158
01:17:21.800 --> 01:17:25.920
gave up just three hits and struck
out ten, didn't walk anybody. And
1159
01:17:25.920 --> 01:17:29.720
that really stood out to me because
I think he only pitched a couple of
1160
01:17:29.720 --> 01:17:31.720
innings last year. I think only
pitched five innings last year total. And
1161
01:17:31.760 --> 01:17:33.960
he goes out there and does that. You know, last year he was
1162
01:17:34.039 --> 01:17:38.880
dhing a lot, showed a lot
of pop. This year he's taken over
1163
01:17:38.920 --> 01:17:42.760
at third base. Uh, So
I'm really excited to kind of see what
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he does. And then it's a
lot of young guys after that, and
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it's gonna be how quickly can they
develop, how quickly can they buy in?
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And right now they're going through what
kind of what Knuksac was. You
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know, they're they're really young,
They're really I'm just gonna keep saying that,
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but I think that the future is
to look bright because of the varsity
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experience that they're building right now that
is good to hear we got one more
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here. Tyler Squalum the Storm eight
and thirteen last year, Kevin Fry,
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the manager fifty seven seventy four for
the career, five key returners again,
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and a couple of names I recognize, including one that you already mentioned earlier
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01:18:21.119 --> 01:18:26.079
in this podcast. Yeah, but
for a completely different reason. But yeah,
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what can you tell me about the
Storm? Yeah? I mean k
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Fry is awesome. I mean he
is like a baseball guy. I mean,
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if you want to just sit and
talk baseball, he is so much
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01:18:34.880 --> 01:18:42.000
fun and always always smiling and and
makes me feel like a million bucks every
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time I go see Squalicum Storm baseball. Love their field. Love You could
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sit there in the driveway right above
right field and the sun's coming down right
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behind the trees. You look past
that area and it's just it's like it's
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like heaven. Man, it's just
watching baseball at that place is fantastic.
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Uh. And you know, they've
always put together a really good competitive team
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and they've they but lately just been
kind of hovering around five hundred, where
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they'll have really good players and then
guys will transfer, guys will get injured.
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It's just they just had some some
really tough luck. Did you return
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some big time guys. Brady Scammell
is a speed demon out in center field.
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He played center field on the football
team, playing free safety. Uh,
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really excited to see what he does. You know, he stole nine
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bases last year. He had two
seventy nine last year. A guy that
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you know doesn't get out easily.
I mean he's only struck out eight times
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and fifty played appearances. He can
get on base three to eighty on base,
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so that that's really good. Ben
Hebert has been a star since he
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was a freshman. He'll be kind
of that shortstop, probably the you know,
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one of the main pitchers as well. His numbers were a little bit
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down last year as opposed to his
freshman year, but but again he gets
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on base as well, four for
a four to fourteen on base percentage,
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stole six bases. Expect some big
things out of him. Dylan Johnson at
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first base, I think he'll be
He'll be another guy that'll kind of be
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in the middle of the lineup.
He hit three doubles last year. Colby
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01:20:14.039 --> 01:20:16.880
Lewis, Yeah, we talked about
him as Chad as the belling Yam coach
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and you're talking about a guy that's
gonna, you know, go play offensive
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01:20:21.000 --> 01:20:27.439
line freaking college in college, going
over there, stand at third base playing,
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he's pretty intimidating. He knocked in
ten runs last year. He's got
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a big time bat in the middle
of the lineup as well. And then
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01:20:33.520 --> 01:20:40.079
Josh Kreda as a really good pitcher, and he's been a but he's been
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really dynamic coming into games, like
as a relief pitcher. He usually when
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01:20:45.239 --> 01:20:47.720
you have a really good high school
pitcher, he's a starter period. Yeah,
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01:20:47.760 --> 01:20:51.479
And and he's been one of those
guys that's really good coming in relief
1209
01:20:51.520 --> 01:20:57.239
and and pitching three or four innings
in relief. And I would imagine he's
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gonna start a little bit here and
there, but he's kind of found that
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that thing that he does, you
know, really well, and that's been
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coming in relief. But uh,
but last year he even he hit two
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01:21:09.760 --> 01:21:12.520
fifty five. He's pretty good.
He's pretty good hitter. Uh, only
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struck out nine times and fifty three
plate appearances. Again, I love I
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01:21:15.079 --> 01:21:18.479
love those kinds of stats. Uh, you know, I mean, yeah,
1216
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I I definitely don't want, you
know, you to just watch pitches
1217
01:21:21.800 --> 01:21:26.640
go by and you gotta be swinging. But he's swinging and he's making contacts.
1218
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So those are kind of the fain
the main five guys. I do
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think they have some good young players. I know they got a young catcher
1220
01:21:32.279 --> 01:21:36.520
coming up. Uh you know,
they have another Johnson kid that can play
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01:21:36.520 --> 01:21:41.760
some short stop it and can pitch. So uh, you know, coach
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01:21:41.800 --> 01:21:45.399
Frile have it have it going pretty
good. I know they they lost a
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01:21:45.439 --> 01:21:48.600
tough one at home against Lendy Christian
just a few hours ago as we're recording
1224
01:21:48.640 --> 01:21:53.720
this, But uh, yeah,
it's it's it's gonna be interesting. I
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01:21:53.760 --> 01:21:56.960
mean, all all these teams,
they have some definite pluses to them,
1226
01:21:57.439 --> 01:22:00.520
and uh, it's gonna be interesting
to see who makes districts and then who
1227
01:22:00.520 --> 01:22:03.439
can go onto state. It's which
is great because one A and to A
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01:22:03.600 --> 01:22:08.520
State are back at Joe Martin Stadium
this year, So fingers across for some
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01:22:08.560 --> 01:22:15.560
of these teams. Are we done? I think? So nothing else to
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01:22:15.600 --> 01:22:19.359
talk about here, Tyler, lots
of baseball coverage coming up this year.
1231
01:22:20.119 --> 01:22:25.319
We are both excited for We're both
baseball guys, you know what I mean.
1232
01:22:25.439 --> 01:22:30.359
Like even though Watkom Preps really got
started with football and and you know,
1233
01:22:30.399 --> 01:22:36.000
football is is maybe the passion that
we have now in life, you
1234
01:22:36.039 --> 01:22:41.439
know a little bit. Baseball has
always kind of been the number one though.
1235
01:22:41.479 --> 01:22:44.119
I mean, we both love the
stats side of it, and there's
1236
01:22:44.119 --> 01:22:47.239
so many crazy stats in baseball compared
to other sports. But it's gonna be
1237
01:22:47.279 --> 01:22:51.000
fun. I'm excited for the spring
season here. And before we get out
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01:22:51.000 --> 01:22:55.439
of here, though, I want
to make sure to give another thanks to
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01:22:55.760 --> 01:23:00.640
j e KK Sports Cards in the
website j e k Kcards dot Com is
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01:23:00.640 --> 01:23:05.000
where you can find them. And
again twenty sixteen Main Street and Ferndale three
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01:23:05.039 --> 01:23:10.199
six zero three zero three, seventeen
eighty nine. And also Kurt Mayberry Farm,
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01:23:10.319 --> 01:23:14.600
who's back there, back again and
we got enough strawberries to feed him.
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01:23:14.600 --> 01:23:18.199
Me uh and uh so we got
that Kurtayburryfarm dot com. Kurt with
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01:23:18.199 --> 01:23:24.560
a C M A B E r
R y Farm dot com. Tyler,
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01:23:25.600 --> 01:23:29.000
Yes, let's get out of here. Sounds good. It's almost midnight,
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01:23:29.039 --> 01:23:33.880
we're still recording. He's Tyler Anderson
walkomprepswalkompreps dot com. I'm Ryland Spencer.
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01:23:33.880 --> 01:23:38.399
Do you've listening to the episode two
hundred and forty four Baseball preview. Oh,
1248
01:23:38.520 --> 01:23:41.800
I guess we should mention we're gonna
have a softball preview coming up here
1249
01:23:41.800 --> 01:23:44.039
in a couple of days as well, so be on the lookout for that.
1250
01:23:44.840 --> 01:23:47.000
But yeah, baseball preview here Walko
Preps Podcast. We will talk to
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you in a couple of days.
