August 11, 2019 • 17 mins
Mike Blewitt brings in Chris Promades, manager of the Barrington All-Stars team to talk about his team, the little league World Series and more. #FNTSY #FNTSYRadio #MLB #FantasyBaseball #LittleLeague #LittleLeagueWorldSeries #2019
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we're gonna have a little fun this next segment because
sometimes uh, just luckwood habit that you know somebody that's
found themselves in the middle of an awesome situation. And uh,
a long time college friend of mine, uh, former roommate,
(00:58):
we took a trip to California together, gosh, twenty years
ago as we were trying to extend our spring break
into our twenties. My friend Chris Promadus is the manager
of the Barenting Rhode Island All Stars and they have
they beat the New Hampshire team yesterday in order to
advance to the Little League World Series and find themselves
(01:19):
actually on the road to Williams Sports. So, first of all, Chris, congratulations,
but I'm really happy for you. I'm thrilled for the kids,
and thanks for join us on the show. How are
things going Hey, Mike, great to talk to you. Thanks
a lot for having me on the show. I really
appreciate it. And uh, things couldn't be going any better.
Uh this is we are literally literally on the road
(01:39):
to Williams Sport. We're in a bus. We're about an
hour and a half into the ride, and Uh, we
couldn't be anymore pumped up and excited to go. Uh
this is just a dream come true for me, the
coaches and all the players and it's just an unbelievable
experience so far. It has to be exciting to go down.
(02:00):
So we'll watch We'll watch it the little egos here
as in the ESPN. It's it's fun to watch during
the day. But you know, in the early going, how
do you keep your youngsters, I guess, from being overhyped
because even even adults, I think we'd feel the extrat
adrenaline that how do you keep them from being overhyped
and playing playing it to the capabilities? Great question. That
was actually one of the things we tried to really
focus on with the kids. We talked to them about
(02:22):
just being focused and not letting all the big lights
and the big stage get the best of us. We
wanted to make sure we kept things simple, and we
always taught to them. We said, hey, you know that
the field we're going to and Bristol, Connecticut is no
there's gonna be a lot more attention there to you guys,
But it's the same size field that you played on
your whole Little League career, forty six ft from the
(02:43):
plate to the mound and sixty ft up and down
the base path. So just keep that in mind, keep
the game simple, focus on your job and just kinda
no make sure our preparation that we've been working on
for years and years comes into play, and just honing
on all our fundamentals and just keep things simple as
simple as you can. So Barrington became the fifth Rhode
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Island team in the last six years to advanced to
Williamsport for the Little League World Series. They joined Cumberland,
Cranston West, Warwick North and Coventry. So Barrington, who Barrington,
Rhode Island. I've been to several times. A group of
friends that Chris and I had Chris grew up there
and a group of friends that we had uh at
Boston College were from Barrington. So I know the town
(03:25):
really well. I have to be honest, Uh, Chris, I
didn't see until I think it was like Tuesday somebody
sent me a text. Our friend Lou sent me a
text and said that you guys were in uh in
the regional and keating. I think I saw you play
New Hampshire game that you lost, and then I've been
following the games since. You got a little bit of
revenge beating that New Hampshire team. Correct, Yeah, it was exactly. Um, yeah,
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it was great to hear from Lou and Ali and
Scott Brading and uh a bunch of guys from BBC.
Shout out to those guys for all their support here
from you might definitely, I really really appreciate it. But yeah,
we uh, you know, had a tough, tough game against
New Hampshire, so I'll dial back. You know, our nor
season from All Star season started out the very first
game from for the past semple universitat battling back and
(04:17):
forth and we oversee, you know, if we can get
we will get by a personal weegion, we can probably
have some success going forward. And uh, we actually lost
in the first game of the district tournament to them
eleven to five, and that was a tough loss um.
So we kind of took the approach of two weeks
the fells we can uh use just as a rallying
(04:38):
point where we can kind of take it and it
can crush us. And if we lose one more game
on our seasons, their backs against the hall, and I
had to never say die attitude, never quit attitude. We
uh we battled forward and we strunk together seven straight
wins in the district tournament from that point on. That
led us to the district championship and then we went
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to the state champ eadship. We won three games in
a row um and the last game we were down
seven to two in the top of the sixth inning.
We battled back for eight straight runs and we ended
up beating Cranston West ten to seven to win the
state championship. And then that led us to UH Bristol Bristol,
Connecticut for the regionals, and yeah, we won the first
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game against Vermont, which was grade six to four. Next trainings,
uh the next game, which was the game lost in
the Hampshire, was two to one. So you know that
that sent us back absolutely, but we came as a
rallying point and say, hey, we for our backs have
been against the wall. We can't quit. We just got
to keep pushing forward. And we used the experience that
(05:39):
we've had from our loss against Bristol to build upon
and and kind of drive us through. So we did,
and uh we came back. We beat Madison Connecticut, which
was a real tough team, and uh we beat them
for nothing, and our confidence was just building and building.
And then yesterday against Portsmouth, we knew we had some
unfinished business with our lost to them, and that too
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to one game. And Uh, our teams just made up
of a bunch of gritty, scrappy players, thirteam boys on
the roster, and we always talk about how every single
players needed to contribute to the overall success of the team,
and that without each and every single one of those kids,
we wouldn't be where we are. We're not a team
made up of one or two superstars at all. We're
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a team made up of thirteen kids who grind, battle
and fight from start to finish. They take one pitch
at a time, one at bad at a time, and
they just grind. Chris, I was going to actually say
that it's interesting that you brought that up, because as
I watched some of these out of the teams, there
obviously are some some standout players, some kids that are
frankly unusually big twelve year old and have a lot
(06:43):
of power. Your team really isn't built like that. It
seems like there's a lot of kids that are contributing.
Your son, who goes by the nickname Bumpy, is that correct.
I don't know how he got that nickname, so maybe
you can you can tell me that. Yeah. So, uh,
he had a big hit yesterday it owen Feffer had
went for for four. He pitched as well. So you
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don't have necessarily one standout, superstar athlete, just a lot
of really good baseball players, correct, that's it. I mean,
we have some kids on the team that only played
baseball two or three months out of the year. They
don't play a you. Uh, they don't play on other
travel teams. I do have some kids that do that,
But for the most part, we're just made up of
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There are five or six eleven year olds on the team.
My son just turned twelve while we were here, so
where we're young, Uh, but we're gritty and the kids
they put everything into it and talk about effort and attitude.
We talked about playing for the name on the front
of their journey's not the name on the back, and
it's all about the team. And you know, without everybody contributing,
we wouldn't be here. And that's what it's all about.
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And going forward and william Sport, we're gonna have the
same kind of attitude. We're gonna go there. We know
we're playing against the best competition not only in the
US but in the world, which is just crazy. But
you know, we're just gonna go and do our and
give it everything we've got. What do you find is
the tougher sting the manager about the team? Is it
on the field? Off the fields? The tough part about
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managing a literally World Series team? Um, the toughest part,
I'd say it's just, uh, the mental aspect of you know,
it's just emotional and an emotional We talked to the
kids about, you know, the game of baseball, which it's
just a different type of game that's compared to some
of the other sports. The success and the failures, and
the emotional roller coasters, you know, minute five minute, especially
(08:34):
with eleven and twelve year olds, you know they can
be jumping around and excitement of one minute for a
great player they made, and then the next minute they're
like coming up to bad and they're trying to coal
and can see the tearance coming down their eyes and
you know, just trying to keep that balance. It's really challenge.
And the most part, the kids have just been resilient
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and they've really really they've done a really really good
job to keeping that balance. And and that's that's been
change for us. They're great, they're respectful. You know, all
the credit goes to these guys or them it is
that they put into the team, give up the summer
and stuff like that. We're out in the practice daily
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and sometimes you know, we really the summer. We're out
there grinding, and I give them a ton of credits.
So Chris Um, you're going down there. You're on your
way there now. You play Louden. I believe loud in Virginia.
(09:38):
You're gonna be playing them on Thursday. So what what
do you know about these other teams? Do you have
any opportunity to speak to anyone scouting report and into
that kind of stuff. Are you just gonna go out
and play your game quickly? You always do? Yeah, great question.
One of my coaches um has a friend from Virginia
and it's some plays in that same little So we
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already started our scouting last night of these guys. So
we already started that. We're doing of our homework and uh,
we're gonna come prepare to play. We know that obviously
they're a great group of baseball players. Funding well, I'm
sure they're well coached. We're just gonna give it our best.
We're gonna go out. But yeah, we start doing our homework.
We didn't, uh, we didn't rest too long after the
victory yesterday. We want to kind of see what we're
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gonna be up against it. If there were any any
notes that we could jump on, we want to do
that right away. So yeah, good question. Joe gleen Or
our co worker here, I wanted me to ask you.
He's also a little league manager, obviously not one of
the league real series, But do you want me to
ask you? What position do you think is the most
important part a little league team? What positions do you
think is the most important part to win? You know,
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I think, uh, pitching and defense to me are are
so key. Of course you need that that to produce
some runs. But you know, our our starting pitching has
been phenomenal. The last two games. We we had our
starting pitches teams Alison Owen just you know, smaller guys
on the team. Um, but they play with the heart
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of a line and they just went out there and
battled and pitched their tails off. They were absolutely lights
out any team. That's exactly what we need and that's
what they delivered. And I couldn't be any happier with that.
Those guys demestrated and you know, whatever things are kind
of getting a little stressful maybe out there for them,
just trying to talk to them calm down and let
them know that they had the best defense, you know,
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in our opinion in Little League behind them, and that
they make the place and and I just rested hurt
and they they battled and like I said, these guys again.
We're with Chris Paro. Modissey's the manager of the Barrington
Rhode Island All Stars who are advanced who have advanced
to Williamsport by way of the New England Regional, the
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fifth Rhode Island team to do that in the last
six years. So how long have you been coaching this
group of kids. Obviously you've probably been coaching your son
along the way. But how long how have these kids
been playing together? Not just this summer, but over the years.
So I've had this core group of kids, been coaching
them since they were about seven and eight years old. Um. Yeah,
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the the core group has been together for that long.
And I think literally that that pretty much fun championship
along the way every teach and every year. Uh. There's
a talented group of kids who love the team, um,
and they just play it the right way. So yeah,
we've had um a good time together. And that's our thing.
We just love playing baseball together. And we don't talk
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about the wins and losses. We talked about just playing
baseball as much as we tim with one another and
extending our summers and hanging out and try to make
it like a family atmosphere. And that's why we put
yourself spreading out together. You know. Uh, that's good too hard.
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I'm the guy you probably hate. I I referee hockey
games all right and every day, and then I do
uh referee every now and I do referee kids because
I used to umpire. But I quit umparting. There's the
question for you. I quit umparting, not because of the kids,
love the kids. I could up part because I got
tired of dealing with the parents, all right, and uh,
how do you how do you deal with them? Well,
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we're all parents here, but how do you deal with them? Good?
Good question, But just dial back to that Hopey reference
one of my one of my coaches, one of the
best guys across the coaching players, and we used that.
We used the Hockey Mens album to help us with
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the baseball UM, so king no doubt about it. But yeah,
as far as the parents, that's definitely challenging. But you know,
they get interesting for us. They're they're a good group
of people. Really. Uma. My barents has just made up
of hard working people who look for the best for
their kids. We really focus on a good time, great teachers,
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and you know, focus on education. So they just want
the best for their kids, and we can truly understand that.
Um and we just you know, yeah, just like any
other parents, they always want the best for their kids.
And sometimes that's tough to to kind of communicate to them.
In the game of baseball, especially with Little League rules,
not every kid gets out there to play as much
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as necessarily another kid. But we stressed to them Hey,
in baseball, that one play in the outfield that could
make or break a game. And just because your child
isn't playing all six innings all eighteen outs, it doesn't
mean that they're part on the team, isn't. And that's
what the kids what they want. You're not a mountain necessary,
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but that one at that at one particular play in
the field could make or break the game for us.
And that's how important each kid to the overall successful.
Good stuff. So again, this is Chris Promus. He's a manager.
The Barrington Rhode Island All Stars are on their way
to Williamsport right now, actively on their way to Williams Sports.
So Chris, I just wanted to say thanks for coming
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on on behalf of me and all of our friends
from BC were extremely happy for you, Proud of you,
happy for Marybeth, happy for Chris Junr. So thanks for
coming and go down there and kick some masks. Tach
how much man, it was great to talk to you.
Thanks so much. All the best to our boys from
Boston College. And I gotta get you back to Barrington
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so we can hang out by It's great talking to you.
Thank you so much for having me we'll do good luck.
So yeah, yeah, yeah, So that was Chris per Modus.
He's Barrington Rhode Island All Stars manager. Pretty cool experience,
George obviously for him to be able to get on
a bus with the kids and go to Williams Sport.
It's something that when you're a little kid and you
see this on TV, you dream about and they're actually
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gonna get a chance just to do it. Did we
have this we were kids, Mike, Yeah, it was. It
was a little series of kids. I'm I'm a serious question.
I don't want was there was no ESPN? Well yes,
but in fact I asked my my brother in law
this yesterday because my nephew is a really good baseball
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player and he's eleven years old. He he would be
the age next year to potentially go to Williamsport. But
it's a little tricky. You have to have a specific
little League team like I played c y O had
nothing to do with the Little League like official Little League.
So your town may not have had an official Little
League team, right. There may have been a little league
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that they supported, but it might not have been part
of the Little League UH or Association of America whatever.
I have no idea was not. I played for my
Catholic school against other Catholic school, so I didn't play
for a team that would have had an opportunity to
even compete in that tournament. So I think you have
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to have a town that really supports it, that can
put together an all star team. What's unique about his
Rhode Island team is, like he said, some of those
kids are only playing two three months a year. The
California teams, North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, they're playing twelve months
a year. Those kids are playing. They put together a
really powerhouse team. So that's it's cool about it. And
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I hope they beat Virginia and they keep this going.
So that was a lot of fun for me and
hopefully for them. We'll come right back
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for joining us on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, and
we're gonna have a little fun this next segment because
sometimes uh, just luckwood habit that you know somebody that's
found themselves in the middle of an awesome situation. And uh,
a long time college friend of mine, uh, former roommate,
(00:58):
we took a trip to California together, gosh, twenty years
ago as we were trying to extend our spring break
into our twenties. My friend Chris Promadus is the manager
of the Barenting Rhode Island All Stars and they have
they beat the New Hampshire team yesterday in order to
advance to the Little League World Series and find themselves
(01:19):
actually on the road to Williams Sports. So, first of all, Chris, congratulations,
but I'm really happy for you. I'm thrilled for the kids,
and thanks for join us on the show. How are
things going Hey, Mike, great to talk to you. Thanks
a lot for having me on the show. I really
appreciate it. And uh, things couldn't be going any better.
Uh this is we are literally literally on the road
(01:39):
to Williams Sport. We're in a bus. We're about an
hour and a half into the ride, and Uh, we
couldn't be anymore pumped up and excited to go. Uh
this is just a dream come true for me, the
coaches and all the players and it's just an unbelievable
experience so far. It has to be exciting to go down.
(02:00):
So we'll watch We'll watch it the little egos here
as in the ESPN. It's it's fun to watch during
the day. But you know, in the early going, how
do you keep your youngsters, I guess, from being overhyped
because even even adults, I think we'd feel the extrat
adrenaline that how do you keep them from being overhyped
and playing playing it to the capabilities? Great question. That
was actually one of the things we tried to really
focus on with the kids. We talked to them about
(02:22):
just being focused and not letting all the big lights
and the big stage get the best of us. We
wanted to make sure we kept things simple, and we
always taught to them. We said, hey, you know that
the field we're going to and Bristol, Connecticut is no
there's gonna be a lot more attention there to you guys,
But it's the same size field that you played on
your whole Little League career, forty six ft from the
(02:43):
plate to the mound and sixty ft up and down
the base path. So just keep that in mind, keep
the game simple, focus on your job and just kinda
no make sure our preparation that we've been working on
for years and years comes into play, and just honing
on all our fundamentals and just keep things simple as
simple as you can. So Barrington became the fifth Rhode
(03:03):
Island team in the last six years to advanced to
Williamsport for the Little League World Series. They joined Cumberland,
Cranston West, Warwick North and Coventry. So Barrington, who Barrington,
Rhode Island. I've been to several times. A group of
friends that Chris and I had Chris grew up there
and a group of friends that we had uh at
Boston College were from Barrington. So I know the town
(03:25):
really well. I have to be honest, Uh, Chris, I
didn't see until I think it was like Tuesday somebody
sent me a text. Our friend Lou sent me a
text and said that you guys were in uh in
the regional and keating. I think I saw you play
New Hampshire game that you lost, and then I've been
following the games since. You got a little bit of
revenge beating that New Hampshire team. Correct, Yeah, it was exactly. Um, yeah,
(03:51):
it was great to hear from Lou and Ali and
Scott Brading and uh a bunch of guys from BBC.
Shout out to those guys for all their support here
from you might definitely, I really really appreciate it. But yeah,
we uh, you know, had a tough, tough game against
New Hampshire, so I'll dial back. You know, our nor
season from All Star season started out the very first
game from for the past semple universitat battling back and
(04:17):
forth and we oversee, you know, if we can get
we will get by a personal weegion, we can probably
have some success going forward. And uh, we actually lost
in the first game of the district tournament to them
eleven to five, and that was a tough loss um.
So we kind of took the approach of two weeks
the fells we can uh use just as a rallying
(04:38):
point where we can kind of take it and it
can crush us. And if we lose one more game
on our seasons, their backs against the hall, and I
had to never say die attitude, never quit attitude. We
uh we battled forward and we strunk together seven straight
wins in the district tournament from that point on. That
led us to the district championship and then we went
(04:59):
to the state champ eadship. We won three games in
a row um and the last game we were down
seven to two in the top of the sixth inning.
We battled back for eight straight runs and we ended
up beating Cranston West ten to seven to win the
state championship. And then that led us to UH Bristol Bristol,
Connecticut for the regionals, and yeah, we won the first
(05:19):
game against Vermont, which was grade six to four. Next trainings,
uh the next game, which was the game lost in
the Hampshire, was two to one. So you know that
that sent us back absolutely, but we came as a
rallying point and say, hey, we for our backs have
been against the wall. We can't quit. We just got
to keep pushing forward. And we used the experience that
(05:39):
we've had from our loss against Bristol to build upon
and and kind of drive us through. So we did,
and uh we came back. We beat Madison Connecticut, which
was a real tough team, and uh we beat them
for nothing, and our confidence was just building and building.
And then yesterday against Portsmouth, we knew we had some
unfinished business with our lost to them, and that too
(06:01):
to one game. And Uh, our teams just made up
of a bunch of gritty, scrappy players, thirteam boys on
the roster, and we always talk about how every single
players needed to contribute to the overall success of the team,
and that without each and every single one of those kids,
we wouldn't be where we are. We're not a team
made up of one or two superstars at all. We're
(06:21):
a team made up of thirteen kids who grind, battle
and fight from start to finish. They take one pitch
at a time, one at bad at a time, and
they just grind. Chris, I was going to actually say
that it's interesting that you brought that up, because as
I watched some of these out of the teams, there
obviously are some some standout players, some kids that are
frankly unusually big twelve year old and have a lot
(06:43):
of power. Your team really isn't built like that. It
seems like there's a lot of kids that are contributing.
Your son, who goes by the nickname Bumpy, is that correct.
I don't know how he got that nickname, so maybe
you can you can tell me that. Yeah. So, uh,
he had a big hit yesterday it owen Feffer had
went for for four. He pitched as well. So you
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don't have necessarily one standout, superstar athlete, just a lot
of really good baseball players, correct, that's it. I mean,
we have some kids on the team that only played
baseball two or three months out of the year. They
don't play a you. Uh, they don't play on other
travel teams. I do have some kids that do that,
But for the most part, we're just made up of
(07:25):
There are five or six eleven year olds on the team.
My son just turned twelve while we were here, so
where we're young, Uh, but we're gritty and the kids
they put everything into it and talk about effort and attitude.
We talked about playing for the name on the front
of their journey's not the name on the back, and
it's all about the team. And you know, without everybody contributing,
we wouldn't be here. And that's what it's all about.
(07:47):
And going forward and william Sport, we're gonna have the
same kind of attitude. We're gonna go there. We know
we're playing against the best competition not only in the
US but in the world, which is just crazy. But
you know, we're just gonna go and do our and
give it everything we've got. What do you find is
the tougher sting the manager about the team? Is it
on the field? Off the fields? The tough part about
(08:09):
managing a literally World Series team? Um, the toughest part,
I'd say it's just, uh, the mental aspect of you know,
it's just emotional and an emotional We talked to the
kids about, you know, the game of baseball, which it's
just a different type of game that's compared to some
of the other sports. The success and the failures, and
the emotional roller coasters, you know, minute five minute, especially
(08:34):
with eleven and twelve year olds, you know they can
be jumping around and excitement of one minute for a
great player they made, and then the next minute they're
like coming up to bad and they're trying to coal
and can see the tearance coming down their eyes and
you know, just trying to keep that balance. It's really challenge.
And the most part, the kids have just been resilient
(08:54):
and they've really really they've done a really really good
job to keeping that balance. And and that's that's been
change for us. They're great, they're respectful. You know, all
the credit goes to these guys or them it is
that they put into the team, give up the summer
and stuff like that. We're out in the practice daily
(09:17):
and sometimes you know, we really the summer. We're out
there grinding, and I give them a ton of credits.
So Chris Um, you're going down there. You're on your
way there now. You play Louden. I believe loud in Virginia.
(09:38):
You're gonna be playing them on Thursday. So what what
do you know about these other teams? Do you have
any opportunity to speak to anyone scouting report and into
that kind of stuff. Are you just gonna go out
and play your game quickly? You always do? Yeah, great question.
One of my coaches um has a friend from Virginia
and it's some plays in that same little So we
(10:00):
already started our scouting last night of these guys. So
we already started that. We're doing of our homework and uh,
we're gonna come prepare to play. We know that obviously
they're a great group of baseball players. Funding well, I'm
sure they're well coached. We're just gonna give it our best.
We're gonna go out. But yeah, we start doing our homework.
We didn't, uh, we didn't rest too long after the
victory yesterday. We want to kind of see what we're
(10:22):
gonna be up against it. If there were any any
notes that we could jump on, we want to do
that right away. So yeah, good question. Joe gleen Or
our co worker here, I wanted me to ask you.
He's also a little league manager, obviously not one of
the league real series, But do you want me to
ask you? What position do you think is the most
important part a little league team? What positions do you
think is the most important part to win? You know,
(10:44):
I think, uh, pitching and defense to me are are
so key. Of course you need that that to produce
some runs. But you know, our our starting pitching has
been phenomenal. The last two games. We we had our
starting pitches teams Alison Owen just you know, smaller guys
on the team. Um, but they play with the heart
(11:07):
of a line and they just went out there and
battled and pitched their tails off. They were absolutely lights
out any team. That's exactly what we need and that's
what they delivered. And I couldn't be any happier with that.
Those guys demestrated and you know, whatever things are kind
of getting a little stressful maybe out there for them,
just trying to talk to them calm down and let
them know that they had the best defense, you know,
(11:29):
in our opinion in Little League behind them, and that
they make the place and and I just rested hurt
and they they battled and like I said, these guys again.
We're with Chris Paro. Modissey's the manager of the Barrington
Rhode Island All Stars who are advanced who have advanced
to Williamsport by way of the New England Regional, the
(11:50):
fifth Rhode Island team to do that in the last
six years. So how long have you been coaching this
group of kids. Obviously you've probably been coaching your son
along the way. But how long how have these kids
been playing together? Not just this summer, but over the years.
So I've had this core group of kids, been coaching
them since they were about seven and eight years old. Um. Yeah,
(12:14):
the the core group has been together for that long.
And I think literally that that pretty much fun championship
along the way every teach and every year. Uh. There's
a talented group of kids who love the team, um,
and they just play it the right way. So yeah,
we've had um a good time together. And that's our thing.
We just love playing baseball together. And we don't talk
(12:35):
about the wins and losses. We talked about just playing
baseball as much as we tim with one another and
extending our summers and hanging out and try to make
it like a family atmosphere. And that's why we put
yourself spreading out together. You know. Uh, that's good too hard.
(12:59):
I'm the guy you probably hate. I I referee hockey
games all right and every day, and then I do
uh referee every now and I do referee kids because
I used to umpire. But I quit umparting. There's the
question for you. I quit umparting, not because of the kids,
love the kids. I could up part because I got
tired of dealing with the parents, all right, and uh,
how do you how do you deal with them? Well,
(13:19):
we're all parents here, but how do you deal with them? Good?
Good question, But just dial back to that Hopey reference
one of my one of my coaches, one of the
best guys across the coaching players, and we used that.
We used the Hockey Mens album to help us with
(13:40):
the baseball UM, so king no doubt about it. But yeah,
as far as the parents, that's definitely challenging. But you know,
they get interesting for us. They're they're a good group
of people. Really. Uma. My barents has just made up
of hard working people who look for the best for
their kids. We really focus on a good time, great teachers,
(14:05):
and you know, focus on education. So they just want
the best for their kids, and we can truly understand that.
Um and we just you know, yeah, just like any
other parents, they always want the best for their kids.
And sometimes that's tough to to kind of communicate to them.
In the game of baseball, especially with Little League rules,
not every kid gets out there to play as much
(14:25):
as necessarily another kid. But we stressed to them Hey,
in baseball, that one play in the outfield that could
make or break a game. And just because your child
isn't playing all six innings all eighteen outs, it doesn't
mean that they're part on the team, isn't. And that's
what the kids what they want. You're not a mountain necessary,
(14:50):
but that one at that at one particular play in
the field could make or break the game for us.
And that's how important each kid to the overall successful.
Good stuff. So again, this is Chris Promus. He's a manager.
The Barrington Rhode Island All Stars are on their way
to Williamsport right now, actively on their way to Williams Sports.
So Chris, I just wanted to say thanks for coming
(15:12):
on on behalf of me and all of our friends
from BC were extremely happy for you, Proud of you,
happy for Marybeth, happy for Chris Junr. So thanks for
coming and go down there and kick some masks. Tach
how much man, it was great to talk to you.
Thanks so much. All the best to our boys from
Boston College. And I gotta get you back to Barrington
(15:34):
so we can hang out by It's great talking to you.
Thank you so much for having me we'll do good luck.
So yeah, yeah, yeah, So that was Chris per Modus.
He's Barrington Rhode Island All Stars manager. Pretty cool experience,
George obviously for him to be able to get on
a bus with the kids and go to Williams Sport.
It's something that when you're a little kid and you
see this on TV, you dream about and they're actually
(15:55):
gonna get a chance just to do it. Did we
have this we were kids, Mike, Yeah, it was. It
was a little series of kids. I'm I'm a serious question.
I don't want was there was no ESPN? Well yes,
but in fact I asked my my brother in law
this yesterday because my nephew is a really good baseball
(16:16):
player and he's eleven years old. He he would be
the age next year to potentially go to Williamsport. But
it's a little tricky. You have to have a specific
little League team like I played c y O had
nothing to do with the Little League like official Little League.
So your town may not have had an official Little
League team, right. There may have been a little league
(16:36):
that they supported, but it might not have been part
of the Little League UH or Association of America whatever.
I have no idea was not. I played for my
Catholic school against other Catholic school, so I didn't play
for a team that would have had an opportunity to
even compete in that tournament. So I think you have
(16:58):
to have a town that really supports it, that can
put together an all star team. What's unique about his
Rhode Island team is, like he said, some of those
kids are only playing two three months a year. The
California teams, North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, they're playing twelve months
a year. Those kids are playing. They put together a
really powerhouse team. So that's it's cool about it. And
(17:20):
I hope they beat Virginia and they keep this going.
So that was a lot of fun for me and
hopefully for them. We'll come right back
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