January 29, 2025 • 67 mins
Whether it’s bats flying at you in the dugout or a bunt gone wrong, there are many dangers to navigate when working baseball. To celebrate our 200th episode, ATs share their stories of working America’s pastime.
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Hey, this is Sandy. And Randy?
And we're here on AT Corner. Being an Ath Eye trainer comes
with ups and downs and we're here to showcase it all.
Join us as we share our world insports medicine.
Welcome back to another episode of AT Corner.
For this week's episode, we are going to be celebrating episode
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200. A very special episode indeed.
That's crazy. Just think 200 episodes.
I know honestly, when I when I was writing 200, I was like,
what is this? Is this real?
I feel like this kind of snuck up on us.
And you know what? What better way to celebrate
episode 200 then sharing storiesof working a sport that provides
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endless entertainment. I feel like it's also a very
superstitious sport, so putting it as #200 I feel like just felt
right. That's true.
I didn't think of that. So also I think just to show the
difference in how much not just our podcast has grown, but just
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like us personally as cliniciansand me personally, the last time
we recorded a Baseball Stories episode was before I worked
baseball. Yeah.
And I, I, I think, I don't, I believe it was before I worked
baseball because I remember not not liking baseball, like not
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liking working, but I liked watching baseball.
But I think you were about to, like, work some baseball.
Yeah, I don't think I had reallyworked baseball previously and I
was definitely trying to avoid it.
But now, I mean, if if you wouldhave taken me back to that
episode and told me now that baseball is my second favorite
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sport to work, like right there,right underneath football, I
would have been so like, I wouldn't have believed you, you.
Would have been like Nah. Yeah, definitely not.
So the very first question I asked on our Instagram Stories
was have you ever worked baseball?
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And 93% of people said yes. Oh, that's a pretty overwhelming
majority. And it was, yeah.
And all these polls that that I took from this episode, all of
them have at least a couple 100 votes on them.
Dang. Yeah.
So that is a resounding yes. I can honestly say as it as a
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certified I have not worked baseball.
Which is crazy. I did as a student.
Especially with you playing baseball.
I don't know. Yeah.
Well, because most of the time it was either track or I worked
mostly female sports, so softball, but.
You did work all baseball, whichsoftball stories we haven't done
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yet, but I am, I am waiting. I am trying to put together
something good for that one. So.
That's in the works. Yes.
What is your favorite memory from working baseball?
Well, you worked baseball as a student.
Yeah, Oh, so many, countless ones, I think, I don't know.
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I think the one that stands out that really just describes just
baseball in general is when the the time I dropped the ice roll
bag and it rolled down the dugout.
Like did it completely unroll? It it made about halfway through
the dugout. Did anyone notice?
I think a few guys did. And of course, you're a student,
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so you're like, you're even moreflustered now because you're
like, Oh my God, that was wild. Yeah.
Because like, because we had a roll in the in the dugout of ice
bags and this is a big roll. So like obviously it's not
attached to anything. It's just the roll.
Oh, you like the? Oh, I understand.
Yeah. So like as you're trying to get,
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you have to like kind of. Toss.
It's like dropping an ace wrap but worse.
Yeah, yeah, right. And so you have to toss it to
actually get it to roll, right? Because it's not like on
something that on rolls, right? And then you just lose it.
And again, you're a student, so you're shook the whole time,
especially working at where I, my athletic training program,
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baseball is what we were known for.
So like when you're on baseball,right?
Like that's the big team there. So like you just being in the
dugout, you're shook. I remember when I was scared to
go in the dugout. This actually, I think this will
be my fourth season working baseball now.
Nice. Yeah, that's pretty good.
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I know it's crazy it. Just shows you how long ago that
last episode was. Seriously, like it was so long
ago we were babies? We were babies.
The podcast sounded a lot different than yes it did.
So my favorite memory was probably, well, actually not
probably like for sure, hands down, I don't think I can top
this ever in my career when I got to throw the first pitch.
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Oh, that is cool. That's a cool experience.
It was, it was I was terrified that I wasn't going to make it
or that I was just going to likeshake it off to the side.
But you didn't. But I didn't.
I didn't. And you got it there.
I did that was that was really. Did you throw it?
From the mound too, by the way. I can't.
Remember or was it No well, I I stood on the on the what is it
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like dirt of the mound like but but like really close to the
grass. Oh, OK.
So it's kind of like more towards the front.
Of the yeah, yeah, I, I wasn't on the top.
I couldn't remember. I wasn't on the top of the
mound. I don't think I can throw that
far. I I don't think I can throw that
far accurately. Still, by the way, I mean,
that's still because the mound is 60 feet, 6 inches.
So you were still probably, what, 55 feet?
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Yeah, it's still, it's still a long way.
Yeah, that that was really special.
And then secondly was seeing oneof my guys IA lot of these
stories that I am telling, I tell all the time 'cause they're
my favorite. One of my guys was coming back
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from a a really bad hamstring strain and he hit a double and
just like seeing him like just make it to second.
Yeah, that was so I I can literally still picture his
celebration. Oh, that's.
Cool. I'd say another good, good
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baseball core memory was becausewe practiced in the evenings.
So obviously when practice was done, it was late at night.
So no one else is in the athletic training room.
It's just us. And you know, a couple guys came
in like just for like a few of the pitchers came in for like,
they're just like arm care stuff.
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And again, no one else in the athletic trainer, it's just
baseball. So they grabbed our radios and
they started just going back andforth with Big Red, this is Big
Red, Big Red there just going back and forth on the radios.
That was fun. Baseball does know how to have
fun. Exactly.
So our first story is anonymous.Favorite memory from working
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baseball was at a home game whenI was working.
NAIA, one of my favorite kids, slid into third, popped up and
immediately yelled to me and waved me over.
I ran the few feet over from thedugout and he pulled his
dislocated index finger out of the batting glove.
It was dislocated anteriorly. I grabbed his hand, turned my
body away from him and the firsttime I tried to reduce it, it
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popped right back in. My team heard the pop of it
going back in too. He flexed his fingers and was
fine. His team mates cheered and I
felt like a badass. Our coach didn't even know what
had happened. I think he had been talking to
the UMP and was coming towards us when I was returning to the
dugout. I re evaled him when he got in
the back back into the dugout and told him to get it X-rayed
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to be sure there was no swellingor limited range of motion.
First successful finger reduction.
Nice, I have not gotten a fingerdislocation in baseball but I've
had a lot of fractures. Yes, you have a lot of weird
fractures too. Honestly, I've had a lot of
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weird, like not making sense injuries in in baseball, yeah.
I mean, that's just, that's par for the course with baseball.
Actually, yeah, that's true. Just something not by the book
or what you would expect. Oh, yeah, definitely not.
Oh, I did ask the most common injury you've seen in baseball,
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and I did tally up these, and these are just based off what
people have seen. Yeah, the most common that
people submitted were actually rotator cuff and over your
shoulder. So things like bicep tendonitis,
impingement, like stuff like that, I could see that I was
actually expecting elbow a little bit more than shoulder
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because I feel like I see more forearm flexors and
unfortunately more Ucls. Then I feel like I I eval a lot
more elbows than I eval shoulders.
Interesting. But it could just be.
Guys coming out of my elbows. Cash, bro.
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Could definitely be how they're throwing.
Probably elbows cash bro, can't feel my pinky.
We're gonna get Randy Baseball bro LL episode.
That's all. I I that's all I heard when I
was in the dugout. Oh, yeah, My elbows cashed.
I think I'm done today. I got some bad hair.
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Bad hair. No, they come and they go.
Can I get cupped? Can I get scraped all the time?
That's what I hear all the time.Yeah, I didn't get that.
I don't know how you didn't get that literally.
Because because they had like a it, it was basically the same
idea, but they didn't like come and ask for like the treatment.
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They just all had like, because a lot of it was like the
pitchers. They all had their set routine
for arm care. OK, but before they have their
set routine, they come in and ask.
They would more ask for the the baseball ID.
OK, well then there's. This person here?
No. OK.
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No, I'm telling you that. Yeah, no, I.
I out of all the teams, baseballis always the team that comes in
and asks like for something specific.
And I'm like, you know, you can come in here and say, Hey, my
shoulders hurts or it's really tight or yeah, you don't have to
and or they'll come in my favorite.
This is my favorite. I have this going on.
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I don't I don't know what treatment to do for it.
OK, cool. What?
What? What do you think I do?
Yeah, you didn't need. To.
Know not expected to. Right.
OK. So anyway, back to common
injuries. Hamstring strain actually was up
there. I know that is kind of
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interesting, but I guess it is kind of like you're going from
like stationary, relatively stationary to all of a sudden I
have to Sprint real fast, right,Right.
Because like batter's box, right?
You're kind of just standing swing and then you got to book
it out. Same thing in a fielder's
position, right? You kind of, yeah, you, you take
a step into your stance, but you're still standing still and
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then have to do something quick.So I I kind of get that.
I mean, I've definitely seen a lot of hamstring strains, but
it's just like when I'm picturing like all the things
I'm treating like I'm I'm not like that.
That definitely didn't come to mind, but like it makes sense.
Like it is one of my more common.
Yeah. It just I was not expecting it
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to be so prevalent, I guess withwith people submitting, but
elbow flexor injuries was actually after hamstring strain.
Interesting contusions from being hit by a ball, of course,
UCL and then ankle sprains. Nice.
And then some other random. Just injuries.
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OK, so this one is actually we got we got a ton of anonymous
stories from this one. So this is also anonymous.
This is from someone getting hurt while bunting.
You know what? Like that is a very dangerous
aspect. It really is.
You do. Have to actually know how to
bunt correctly and even if you do, like sometimes it's just
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it's baseball. So it's just you never know
what's going to happen. Honestly that's what kept me
from working baseball for so long is it's like someone could
just get hit by a projectile andlike.
Yes, that's traveling extremely fast.
Yeah. Like I just, I got hit by like
some dude that threw like 85 in my forearm and that hurt.
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You did. Uh huh.
So I couldn't, I couldn't imagine 90 plus in the face.
Yeah. Or anywhere else?
Yeah, so this anonymous one kid was bunting ball ricocheted off
the butt of the bat. Oh no, it bounced on home plate
and back into my athletes testicles.
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You know what I mean? Obviously the testicle part is
not great like that. Sucks but.
Yeah. Any guesses on whether or not he
was wearing a cup? I'm.
Going to say probably not, but it it could have been a lot
worse of it just ricocheting hithim just straight straight in
the face. Oh, hey, I had that.
I'll I'll tell that story a little bit later.
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He ended up in the ER as his testicle had ruptured.
Of course, naturally. He had surgery that night, but
they saved the test. There we go.
He also returned to finish the season a few weeks later.
He's now playing in a local university.
Dope. So still playing.
Still playing. Another bunting coach called me.
That kids finger was bleeding. His top hand index finger was
wrapped around the front of the barrel of the bat.
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Our pitching machine caught the seam of the ball and his finger
got squished and popped like a grape.
Oh man. And one more for good measure.
You guessed it, another bunting injury.
Same pitching machine that caught the seam of a ball.
Did it again. This time the ball went straight
from my athletes jaw. He need 9 stitches at the point
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of impact but the force fractured his temporal bone at
the TMJ. The only reason it was even
caught was because ears started bleeding and they did X-rays and
Mris. He was perfectly fine, able to
talk and everything. He had minor jaw pain for a week
but was able to play before the season.
Ended nice. It's not bad, right?
See Bunting. Dude bunting bunting scares me
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because I feel like I get so many injuries bunting 1 because
I'm also so scared of like the collisions that can happen from
bunting 2 like the like how manyfingers have I had smashed so
many. I I feel like these stories
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submitted could basically be mine.
Like I had just had a kid like the other day who did that to
his finger. It it wasn't bleeding, it was
his nail we drained 'cause it was it was it literally his
finger looked like a lollipop. That sucks.
Yeah. And then one time I was eating
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dinner and I was about to head out to football practice and
these baseball players like run in and they're like, we need a
trainer. And they just like, and they
just like ran. And I was like, OK.
And they're like, there's a lot of blood.
There's a lot of blood. So then I go and I grab a like a
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the entire box of gauze. Yeah.
And then I just run out there and I like am eating dinner like
I have chicken like stuck in my teeth and I run over and our one
of our kids took a bunt. Well, it hit a rigshade off the
bat and then straight into his eye.
Oh. That sucks.
Yeah, orbital fracture end up needing surgery.
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Bummer. Yeah, he's doing really well
now. That's.
Good. Nice.
It was, yeah. As soon as I found out who it
was too, I was like, no, not that you want it to happen to
anyone, but yeah, yeah, bunting is.
It's not for the faint of heart.No, honestly, I think I don't
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know who you have to be to standin front of a pitcher who's
throwing. Out ass.
A little tiny hardball that fast.
Yeah. I mean, yeah, it's also worse.
Like if the person definitely can't control it because then
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you really don't know where it'sgoing to go.
Yeah, honestly, Oh my goodness. You know, the longest innings
are the ones where, like, the pitcher just doesn't have
control and they just keep hitting batter after batter and
you're like, OK, like. Gosh, I don't think he's got.
It like hitting him in the like forearm, hitting him in like the
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back, you know, But then like when, when is this going to hit
someone in the face? Yeah, when is this going to
break someone's finger? Yeah, hey, but he's setting the
tone. I I had a kid take a pitch
straight to the kneecap and his and his kneecap was completely
fine. Yeah.
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I was like, I don't know how youdid not shatter your Patella.
Yeah, I do not know. Yeah.
That hurts. Mm hmm, Allison S said.
I was a college baseball AT for the last four years.
The craziest thing I ever saw was a broken jaw.
Pitchers were practicing throwing home to get the out and
a ball went wide and hit one of the catchers standing in the
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background. Immediately put towels and paper
towels on it to try to get to stop bleeding.
Didn't know how broken it was atthe time.
Just try to control the bleeding.
Called the parents and had his roommate drive him to the ERI
Went up there that night and thenext morning to talk to the
parents again too. He had surgery the next day.
End up being broken in two. Places.
That's a bummer. Broken jaw we actually got
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several stories about. That's interesting.
I mean, I get it 'cause like projectile sport, but like,
that's interesting. That's yeah, yeah.
I was very surprised too. That's really interesting.
I don't know that I've like personally heard of anyone
dealing with a broken jaw from baseball.
So like the fact that we got so many was just like surprising.
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Like surprising, not in the factthat it can happen, but it's
just surprising that like, I haven't heard of people around
me, I guess. Yeah, for sure.
That reminds me when we were students, one of one of the one
of my friends in my cohort, he had terrible luck out of
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baseball and softball and literally it's just rotten luck
just not paying attention at thewrong moment.
Like he was standing like we would for softball, like we'd
cover like these large tournaments.
So we'd our medical staff would be out there even if our school
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wasn't playing right be the hostmedical and he just wasn't
paying attention And a foul ballhit him.
I can't remember where. I think I hit him in the face
actually. And then for baseball
specifically, he was walking to do water for umpires I believe,
and walked behind somebody that was in the on deck circle and
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the dude swung his bat, clocked him in the head.
He actually needed stitches. He had he had to leave the game
to go get stitches. Wow.
So when you're at that training,students get hurt.
Actually, that's you. Want to read this next story?
So Bailey P says had our starting catcher turn into the
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guy on deck. He caught the bat right between
the eyes and had to get 7 stitches.
Dumbest injury just because the kid wasn't paying attention.
I cleaned and steri stripped him.
It was at a place that had an onsite PA so I just sent him there
and monitored him for concussionsymptoms after he didn't end up
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having symptoms thankfully. He got his stitches out a few
days later and was good to play.Dude I think it was actually
about that many stitches. Well, it was cool as we actually
got to take the stitches out of them.
Oh, that's pretty cool. Yeah, we were actually going to
a conference. Oh, that is.
And it was about the time where he could have got him out.
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And we were in the hotel room. He's like, let's take him on
stitches. All right, let's do it.
That's pretty funny. Yeah, that I don't know why this
reminds me, maybe because we're talking about Jaws, but one of
my least favorite memories working baseball was when my.
Oh, This is why 'cause it's our starting catcher.
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Our starting catcher got hit in the jaw while obviously while
he's catching. And it was during a playoff game
and I had just gotten a new job and like he, I, I went out there
'cause it took a little while for like, he kept kind of
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playing with his jaw and like just, he just kind of, he was
taking his time to get back. And I just, so I went out there
and I was talking to him and he just kept like kept closing his
eyes. And I was like, you know, are
you having any headache or like anything like residual?
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And there were just enough things that I was like, I need
to evaluate him for a concussionlike, and so then I, I was
asking symptoms and then finallyI, I was like, I don't feel
comfortable like walking away from this without getting like
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more of an eval. But I was like, well, what am I
supposed to do 'cause it like I you can't really take someone
out, Yeah. Baseball's Baseball's tough that
way. Right.
And he was like, I was like standing at home playing, right?
And this is a playoff game. And so I was like, And so like,
the the UMP is there, the coach is there, and the UMP's like, do
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you like, I don't know if the UMP asked me no, 'cause no, I
said I need to evaluate him for a concussion.
Yeah, and said, you have 10 minutes.
So they stopped the game for 10 minutes, a playoff game at a new
job. I was very, I hated every single
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minute of those 10 minutes because, well, first I was also
really hoping. I was like, like, please don't
make this a difficult decision. Like I do not want to have to
decide if I'm going to take thiskid out or not.
And you end up being completely fine.
Yeah, I remember that. That was crazy.
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Yeah, I was. And I think I.
Wondered what happened. Yeah.
'Cause I think you had just gotten there.
I just got there and like the game was like stopped and I'm
like, what's going? On No, it was definitely me.
It was. It was not.
It's something that I would not like to do ever again.
That's unique, though. I know it.
It really was, it was not cool. And I was like, this is how
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people are going to like, this is my first impression with all
these people. And they just think that I'm
going to like, take stop all these games.
You know, at my job, my first basketball game involved a
raccoon, so. Oh, that was your first time?
That was loaded my first basketball game.
Raccoon just ran on the court soit's OK.
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I didn't realize always your first game.
That's hilarious. So I'm with you.
I mean, if anything, it just gave the team some a breather, a
10 minute. Breather, you did.
You did your team a service. I did a team my service by
making sure their starting catcher didn't have a
concussion. Yes, their only catcher I
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believe. Only catcher you want to read
this anonymous one. Yes, I was rehabbing UCL
reconstruction with nerve retatch reattachment for a JUCO
kid. One month into it he started
throwing and was progressing just fine.
He then started having radicularpain.
Oh no. I know, not good.
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When I tested him I couldn't recreate symptoms nor find
positive findings besides havinga dead arm after throwing.
Oh no. I immediately knew something was
off so I suggested he go talk tohis surgeon.
After toxin imaging he tore where his ulnar nerve was
reattached. That sucks.
He had to get surgery again and re reattach his ulnar nerve.
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It took him about two years to get back into baseball
activities and was able to pitchat a high level at AD One
School. That's crazy that he was able to
go back to that. That's awesome.
That's dope. That's hard after a set back
like that. Seriously, two years?
We were just last night we were reading an article about two
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years if it'd be better for was it 2 years to get back after an
ACL team to. Return to sport.
Yeah, to return to sport insteadof like the one year time frame,
Yeah. Nine months to one year.
Yeah. That's a hot take.
It it was. It was.
I I get where it was going. Yes, tangent, tangent.
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But I feel like that's going to be, yeah, that's a hard sell.
If you're interested in this research article, we have the
citation, we can give it to you.Yes.
Anyway, this anonymous 1. I had to call 911 during
preseason practice and athlete'sfoot got caught rounding for
space and they dislocated their knee and Patella.
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Oh man. Wait, wait, what?
What did this knee look like? Like I'm trying to.
He OK listen he was going into shock end up tearing ACL both
menisci spraying the MCLLCL in alittle damage to the PCL.
OK, but I figured. But get this now the athlete is
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fully recovered. He made it to cross country
States and now PR in track and field and committed to AD one
school for track and field afterdislocating their knee.
Like not just their Patella and their Patella.
Yeah, but probably a safer move to do go track you probably,
probably less. Hurt.
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I mean, it's a. It's a predictable turn.
You only turn left, Yeah, exceptin baseball you also only turn
left. Or you do.
Just. But it's it's a sharp, yeah,
it's a sharper turn and it's on dirt.
Honestly, or turf. I don't know how more athletes
do not get hurt on the freaking bags.
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Yeah, the bags are are dangerous.
Like like when I first started working baseball, it concerned
me every single time someone stepped on a bag.
Like every single time. Speaking of bases, one of my
athletes actually, I just got permission from him today to
share this because I thought it was so fascinating.
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This, this injury. He was, I think it, I think it
was first base he had, he had made it successfully, but he and
he stepped on the base. Oh, nobody tripped.
He tripped over the base and thelanding foot landed like right
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after and he felt like he just like like jammed his foot.
Oh, OK. And he came in and obviously
like really scary for him. He, he walked in, he was able to
walk, he walked in and a couple of us were kind of taking a look
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at him and I just did some palpations and palpating.
Literally no pain. Like cannot get any recreation
of pain at all until. And I, I did this only because
he was having pain with plantar flexion.
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So I took my, my left hand and Ijust like put it along the
lateral side of his foot and I just palpated the lateral side.
And then while I was palpating the lateral side, I then
palpated the medial side and that lit him up.
Oh, nice. And so then I was like, hmm, OK.
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And then I then I palpated the medial side and I took my
lateral hand away and he was having no pain.
So if I had both, if I was palpating both or like if I kind
of like shifted his posterior like ankle like area, if I
shifted that like medial or laterally, then he would have
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pain. So I said, and of course this is
coming from someone who's workedwith performing arts for years.
I said, hmm, this plantar flexion irritated from so like a
sudden trauma and he has a previous injury to this ankle
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and I can get in and he's havingpain with like that, that
palpation pattern. I wonder if he has an OS
trigonum. Oh yeah.
And then so I asked to see his X-ray from before.
He didn't have an X-ray from before, but then he we end up
referring him and lo and behold,I.
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Was just hit, lo and behold. I was trying to get him.
He end up getting a an injectionand that helped a ton.
Oh, nice. Yeah.
And now we're just taping him, keeping him from that plantar
flexion. Sweet.
As much as possible. Yeah.
Nice. Yeah.
But I thought that was like a really odd presentation.
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Yeah, that's interesting, especially in baseball.
Like yeah, I've seen him in dance before, but pretty cool,
huh? Yeah, that's pretty dope.
Have you ever had to call 911 ata baseball game?
I was actually really surprised by the pole answer of this.
I know looking at it. Only 23% of people said yes,
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which actually I. Mean maybe a good thing.
I am also part of that 23% knockon wood.
Yeah, seriously. Knock on wood.
Yeah, 77% of people said no. That's good.
But I feel like if you, I feel like baseball is like one of
those, one of those sports that's like, it's fine, it's
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fine, it's fine. And then it's not.
It's really bad, Really. Quick.
Yeah. Like really bad.
Like collisions? Hell yeah, this anonymous one
says a collision at first base resulted in a tibial plateau
fracture. No deformity is just a ton of.
Pain, I bet. Like collision at first,
collision in the outfield. Oh yeah, outfield.
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Yeah, collision at home. Guys not talking.
Collision at second, honestly collision anywhere, Anthony H
said. I had to call 911 for dislocated
ankle from the runner sliding into second base.
They're fully. Thankfully there was no blood.
I end up cutting the shoe and sock off.
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I did splint it but EMS told us to keep him on the field instead
of putting him on the cart and take him off the field.
I think seeing one as a student helped me know exactly what I
need to do. Nice.
So Anthony's actually our one ofour part times and like he he
works full time somewhere else, but it was a day that none of us
could work. And I remember like being at
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shabu, like I was eating shabu. And I remember getting getting a
text about this and I was like, what?
There's a dislocated ankle? Like what crazy of.
Course it happens to the part time.
Right of. Course it does.
Yeah, but he's he's been workingwith us for a long time.
And also, like of all people, hehas had an ankle dislocation in
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baseball before. Oh, that's unlucky.
Right. That's super unlucky.
Seriously, I was like, wow. That's unlucky.
I'm telling you, the like the bases being raised is just so
scary to me. Yeah, I mean, I get that, like
visibility. I get it.
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See bags just taking casualties.Yeah, they really do.
You want to read this next from Kelly C.
Yes, Kelly C says runner going from third base to home.
Decided to slide head 1st instead of getting down low
enough. Went pretty high and head first
into the catcher. I had to hold C spine and call
911. I was working for DM at the high
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school and had communicated withthe athletic director beforehand
about an EAP and such, but he was not there that day.
Of course not. Yeah, that's how Eaps usually
work. There were gates that were
locked, and the ambulance ended up having to drive all around
the school and break down a gatein order to come get the
patient. It was eventful, to say the
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least. That's crazy EMS breaking down a
gate. Dude.
That's pretty funny. Per diem sometimes is so tough.
It's wild. Even like if you, even if you
like Kelly, like try to get the EAP like, yeah, but there
there's another collision for you, yeah.
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Head first. This is something actually we
don't talk about enough. I feel like knowing catcher's
gear and knowing how to like, it's really easy to remove.
Yeah, but how like have you practiced?
But also like. Like sea spinning or?
The face mask could be different, like the old school
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style, sure that that might be somewhat easier to manage.
But like the hockey goalie style, like how do you take that
off? Yeah.
So knowing that, yeah, I need togo look at ours.
Yeah. What is your criteria to take an
athlete out of a game or the opposite, keep them in the game
during baseball I feel like I. Say, are they functional?
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Honestly. So I actually didn't know this
until recently. My first couple games, when I
first started working baseball, I don't think I really paid
attention to this. But now, like now that I've been
working it for a couple years, like I understand it a little
bit more. Like when you take someone out
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like there's no subbing like they're done like.
Can't. Can't reenter.
Yeah. So I think that that's why it
makes a little bit more sense, like when people are talking
about like on field evals for like a baseball athlete, it's
kind of like, well, you're gonnado everything you can cause it's
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not like they're gonna come backin.
Yeah, and. Like you do functional, like
it's one of the sports that you'll actually do.
Like functional on the field. Yeah, you can actually ask.
Hey, let's see a couple throws. Yeah.
Especially like if you have to go out for your pitcher.
Yeah. Or your catcher.
Yeah. Like when I had my catcher, I
was like, hey, like, I want to catch a few.
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Yeah. And I just stood there and just
a watch. We all watch.
It's like, yeah. Yeah, it looks.
Great. OK, OK.
Sounds good. Yeah, you can.
Walk back, you look great. We had a couple different
responses for this one. I kind of put some together, all
anonymous. One person said it varies off of
position injury, but I'm lookingfor normal game type movements
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with little to no pain. So like some examples
outfielders can they make their cuts and cuts are like so an
outfielder is not necessarily going to throw like all the way
from the outfield to like home for example.
So like. Cannon if you do.
So their cut would be like, likeone of the infielders.
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Yeah. So like throwing to someone and
then that person throwing home. Yeah.
So like, can they make their cuts batters?
Can they grip a bat or fully swing?
Can they handle the reverberation from a bat when
hitting? Can they run and step on bases?
Can they slide with no issues? Nice.
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There are some things that you can like get around, like if
it's like a hand or something like the oven Mitt that they
could wear with when sliding. Yeah, or the thumb, little thumb
piece, the. Little.
Yeah. What is it?
A pro hitter? Sure.
The little pro hitter you can put.
I haven't. I don't have any more of those,
so I need to. Didn't you make?
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One I did make one, those just go around your thumb and they
help with with reverberation forthe bat.
I actually learned that from oneof my students when I was first
working baseball. So helpful.
When I when I was first working baseball, I had a student who is
actually now working in minor leagues.
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Oh, nice. Yeah.
So he really taught me a lot anda lot of like lingo.
So I I I owe it a lot to him. Thank you, Jonas, actually.
So this is like knowing the different positions, I think
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with any sport. But like with baseball, like
anyone who's unless you're ADH, like anyone who is like in the
lineup is gonna have like a field position.
Yeah, right. Anyone in a field position is
gonna bat except for a pitcher. Yeah.
So like just, you know, knowing those, knowing that like their
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responsibilities. And then like, for example, like
I had a kid who like was having trouble with his shoulder and
like knowing like is like, do you bat right?
Do you bat left? And then like which hand is your
top hand or your bottom hand? And then you can kind of like
see like, OK, this shoulder is like their front shoulder.
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So like, for example, he wasn't able to lift his arm above 90
like AB duction. And so then what I end up doing
after I did like some manual therapy and like some some work,
I end up and like once I was able to like restore his range
of motion, I just ace wrapped him and that helped a ton.
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Had him go like, Hey, I need to take a couple swings and then
like just like on like just likedry hacks or like what they call
them when you're just like in the air like and then.
Like hitting like no contact andthen you want to like make
contact with a ball and then youcan like go from there and like
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maybe they can take BP or stuff like.
That yeah. Oh don't worry, before game
there's plenty of BP. Oh, there's plenty.
There's plenty of BP, all the abbreviations they have BPPFPS.
PFPS. I had a pitcher today who was
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like, he said something about not taking.
He was like, oh, but PFPS, but Idon't do that.
And I was like, aren't you a pitcher?
Hey, by the way, that costs the Yankees the World Series, so
just saying PFPS are important. So actually Speaking of what you
were talking about earlier with your classmate getting hit, I
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did ask if people have ever beenhit with a baseball while
working. That sucks. 29% of people said
yeah. So like one in three people that
sucks, get hit. Have you been hit?
Not working. I've not been hit by a ball but
while working. Just while playing.
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Just while playing. Once or multiple?
Multiple times, but the one thatstands out was the kid that 385
dropped. My forearm.
Was your forearm OK? It actually wasn't too bad, but
it it did hurt. It did hurt.
You know what I don't understand?
I made it second base and it wasstill hurting.
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Ouch. Yeah.
Did it leave like a nice bruise?Do you bruise?
It didn't bruise, but it was swollen.
Really it? Didn't discolor.
I was surprised. It hurt.
I've. Never heard this story.
Yeah. Do you know that when we're on
the podcast, I feel like I thereare so many stories you tell
that I've never heard? Yeah, we just played.
I played baseball with some guysone time and yeah, it hurt this
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dude, the other dude on the pitcher on the other team, like
pitched at like AD 2 school. Oh hey, you made it to 2nd.
I got on base, I did my job. Wait, how did he hit you?
And you? Well, I got hit, so I got first.
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And then I. Think the next batter.
I think he next batter hit a single and then got me to 2nd.
Got it. I understand.
I thought you were just saying like, you hit.
And I was like, wait, that makesno sense.
OK, So that's another thing. When I actually just was talking
to my first baseball coach aboutthis the other day because he
didn't believe that I had never worked baseball before working
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with him. And I was like, no, like I
literally knew nothing before before working baseball with
you. But also, if someone gets hit by
a pitch, obviously they take the, they take first base, they
like walk to first base. So I one time ran out for
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someone who got hit and I said he was fine.
And so then I was like, oh, yeah, he can finish his at bat.
I'll just check in with him whenhe gets back to the dugout.
And, and my coach was like, oh, no, he's he's, he got hit.
So like he's going to 1st. I don't know how he didn't think
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that I was like, like baseball illiterate.
Like that is, that is like, I feel like one of the first
things. Oh, maybe you thought he fouled
it off. OK, maybe he gave me the benefit
of the doubt. Yeah.
Or like, oh, maybe you missed itand you thought he swung and it
hit him and that would just be really, that'd be a really
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crappy strike. You know what I had in the very
first, a lot in the very first year I worked was people getting
hit in the tricep. That's a bummer.
And then they couldn't throw. Yeah, that.
Sucks like like distal triceps. Yeah, that sucks.
And all it takes, all they need to do is wear the little elbow
protector, but they wouldn't wear it.
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I'm I'm surprised he didn't. I have.
All the kids nowadays are all about it 'cause it's all the
drip. Well, now, like four years ago,
it wasn't. That's true.
I had to like beg them and I andI literally asked them.
I was like, I do not understand because when you get hit in the
elbow, I just, there's not much I could do for you.
Like once your elbow soles up and you can't throw, there's
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just not much I could do. For you, Yeah, yeah.
You want to read this one from Andrew H.
Yes, in the dugout, on the stepsof a sunken dugout.
Kid had a late swing, the ball took two hops and hit me in the
shin. Oh my goodness.
I saw it coming, but it was on me before I could move.
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That's the worst. I picked up my foot to get out
of the way just as it hit me. I had a knot for six weeks
after, even with treatment. Oh my gosh.
See, Like, I feel like that's why like where I stand is like,
or, yeah, anywhere I'm going to stand is an area where I just
have to make one quick movement and I'm out of danger.
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Like softball. I always like I was at the end
of the dugout, but like, I was literally at the part of the
fence where if a ball comes at me, I just have to like, turn
and the fence got me. Oh.
That's nice. Yeah, yeah.
When I was first working baseball, I used to, I like we
had a really nice setup where I was behind a chain link fence,
but I was like right by right byhome and there was a really easy
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access to the field. So like I could be at home plate
like within a couple seconds. Whereas now I set up all the way
past first base. Yeah.
And so if someone gets hit at home, I'm like do I go?
Do I not go? Do I go?
Do they need me? OK, I better start making my way
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over there 'cause it's gonna take me a lot longer than I
wouldn't used to. Yeah.
And I've, I do have a little bitof a blockage, but not as much
as there. There was one time I was like
sitting cause so I either stand at our little like, because the
dugout fence like goes all the way, like past the dugout.
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Yeah. And I was either I either stand
there or there's like little risers like right behind it.
And I, I sit on those risers. So one time I was sitting on the
risers and a line drive came literally straight at me and I'm
sitting and so like I like, I can't really like get out of the
way very quickly. So then I just literally like
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lay back. Like I'm laying flat on this
riser and one of my guys like books it out of the out of the
dugout and he's like, Sandra, are you OK?
Oh my gosh, that's funny. And I, like, sat up and I was
like, yeah, like it didn't hit me, but it came like real close.
Like I had to lay down. And he was like, why is your
face all red? And I was like, did you not see
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that? I just had to like.
Matrixes. Exactly.
That is true at least where you're at.
Like you're further down the line.
Yeah, at least I have a couple seconds.
Yeah, you have some reaction time because you're right and
you're where you're set up. It is hard to like be in a
position where you can make a quick movement and then you're
safe. Right, you're right.
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You don't have, you almost have to go down 'cause that's where
the net. Right, you're right.
You don't. Yeah, almost have to be like.
I if I remember correctly, I feel like in our first baseball,
I think it was in the baseball episode, someone was behind the
net and they thought like, oh the net will save me.
But the net like ripped. That's unlucky.
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Yeah, and so it still hit him. Yeah, Bryce A says.
I set up in the dugout, large rolling toolbox kit outside of
the gate. Once was in the back corner of
the dugout when a foul went intothe dugout.
I dodge it initially and then itricocheted twice and hit me in
the jaw. No fracture or other issues.
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A second time was at an away game and I was sitting in the
host a TS golf cart with him as he was an early mentor for me.
My big hitter came up to bat andsmoked it.
It curved foul on the 3rd baseline and sunk right into my
thigh on the golf cart because Icouldn't get out fast enough.
Oh no, the jaw was definitely a shock.
The thigh was just laughed off. My boys made the hitter do push
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ups for hitting me. Yes.
Absolutely, that's the only appropriate response.
Do you want to read this one from Aaron?
Yes, Aaron says they turned the game into a Home Run Derby
because of a rain out situation.There was a high fly ball that
came over the dugout, which is uncovered and dropped right on
my foot. What were the odds?
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I didn't move because usually when you move, you move into it.
So I just stayed where I was so I could track it.
It didn't hit too hard. Yeah, that's true.
You don't want to try and move too much, but if you're going to
move like I feel like you can move, but like you have to just,
you just have to go. You have to commit to your
direction and just book it. Right, right.
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I feel like there are sometimes that I track the ball really
well, but the times that I that I can't track the ball.
Actually, when I first started working baseball, I feel like I
couldn't really track the ball. But there are times that, like,
I'm either not paying attention or like, I can't track the ball.
And I feel like that's when I'm like, ah, shoot, I gotta, like,
move out of the way real quicklybecause for something that's
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like, way further, yeah, then I need to move for, but because,
like, I'm not paying attention and don't know exactly where it
is. Yeah.
Courtney G, This one's a little scary.
Never been hit by a ball, but I did almost get hit with a
baseball bat. Yeah, that would be scary.
Needless to say, I'm no longer scared of balls.
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I was working semi professional baseball, standing next to the
manager inside by the rope, so there wasn't much protection.
Our batter was two and three, sonormally a swing no matter what.
He was pretty mad. So he put all that anger into
his swing. That bat flew and went straight
towards the dugout I was in. He apologized the next day.
Sorry court didn't mean to almost kill you.
Oh my gosh, that's funny. That's terrifying.
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Yeah. Yeah, that's terrifying.
Or when the bat breaks. That's really scary.
And it's loud. Yeah, it is.
But like, yeah, 'cause like at that level are they using wood
bats? So they stick it, splinter and
all that. That's terrible.
But if a bat breaks at our level, that's a big problem
because they're not supposed to break.
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What do you mean? Like our bats are not wooden
bats, so they're not really. They shouldn't be breaking.
So when they do, it's really bad.
Yeah. And that does happen every now
and then. I did have an athlete and I
don't know if I'm going to be able to find the picture, but I
don't know if the ball like wentinto the bat or if the ball
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split on the bat or like how, but like he was hitting.
It was actually one of my catchers.
He. Was.
You know, but they did post a picture and it went viral.
Yeah, that's what I thought. He went to hit it and it just
stayed on the bat. I'll have to find the picture.
Like it's it's viral. So I have to I have to find.
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It it did go viral 'cause I remember seeing it and I saw the
school and I said. Hey, hold on.
Yeah, wait a minute, Do you knowabout this?
Yeah, I literally went like backto work the next day and I was
like, dude, what is this? Is this you?
And he's like, yeah, no, that's real.
Everyone was saying it wasn't real.
He's like, no, it happened yesterday.
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It's like, Dang, I wasn't there.That is one thing.
Like, I really enjoy going out to baseball practice when I can.
Yeah. And I feel like it helps you
build so much more rapport. Depending on the level there's
some a TS like go out there and shag balls with the team during
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practice. I'm not on that level yet, but
that's pretty cool. You want to read this next time
from Steven? Yes, Steven says.
Broke my finger with my finger. I was watching the game, ball
came flying toward me. I was actually protecting my
monster that was in my pocket. I just didn't want it to explode
in my hand. I also needed the caffeine lol.
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Still have the ball though. I kept working and had our doc
take a quick look at it the following day, splinted it and
kept on going. Sounds like an AT.
Yeah, just. Kept on going.
So I do have two more kind of sections. 1 is what is a must
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have in your kit. I think what I want to do with
these is I'm going to put them in our Facebook group.
If you're interested in looking at them, our Facebook group is
facebook.com/group/AT Corner Podcast.
So we'll put in the baseball must haves in your kit.
And then if you have any more must haves, please let us know,
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put them in our Facebook group. And then just lastly, just some
general tips and tricks. Yeah, like I feel like baseball
is not really like even like baseball and softball like are
completely different animals to work.
Yes, they are not the same. Both are very fun.
Yes. I feel like fall and spring are
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just completely different. The only thing that's the same
between them is just the length of the game just can vary.
Like buckle up for all day. I've had a 5 hour game.
See, that's terrible. That sounds terrible.
It was a it was very, very like I was just ready.
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I think everyone was ready. Probably, no.
Yeah, no one must be there at that point, because that's not
even counting everything that happened before the actual game.
Yeah, because they because they get their stuff.
Yeah, it's an all day thing. It is 100% an all day thing.
Tips and trick. Number one that everyone.
This is like the number one answer.
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Bring snacks. Yeah, most importantly, bring
seeds you. Want to read this first
anonymous one? Yes, always keep an eye on the
ball. Pitchers love to have a towel
between innings. Educate on self manual work.
You're out there to cover the game, not to massage arms.
Honestly most of the time like the ball is where the action is
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going to be unless someone is stealing.
Yeah, but that is a good point. Just keep an eye on the ball.
Yes, Also yeah, like always. Just, I don't know, keep your
head on a swivel, like especially in between innings.
You think you're safe in betweeninnings, but remember, like,
like infields tossing the ball around.
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You never know when you get thatstray one, you're not paying
attention. Whoa, hey, hey.
Oh, this is this would have beena good question to ask.
How often? Oh yeah, that is scary.
Like overthrows. How often do you water the UMPS?
Depends. Yeah, I depends.
Yeah, depends on how hot. My goal, my goal, and sometimes
I'm really good at this goal andsometimes I am so bad at this
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goal is about every two innings.I feel like if it's hot.
I definitely do more if it's. Yeah, I feel like if it's hot,
I'll do every inning and then I feel like when it's not hot,
I'll probably do every two except softball.
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I do it a little bit faster. It in softball I actually don't
want to UMPS because the UMPS usually bring their own water.
Yeah, most of the time I've I'vehad that.
I'm not sure why. Like softball specifically.
Yeah. Like baseball does not.
Maybe shorter shorter field so. Like.
Maybe you can have it close by, you don't have to move as far.
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Whereas like, I don't know, that's the only, I don't even
think that's a good reason. I just feel like that's the only
reason I could think of. Yeah.
But yeah, I think softball, I doit faster than I do baseball
because it's a shorter game. I usually ask them, I'm like
I'll I'll go out there after inning 2, like the end of inning
2 and then I will say, hey, I'llbe back in two unless you want
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it sooner. And usually they're pretty good
with that. That's.
Nice. Yeah, and or they'll like and I
get their names, so then I can and usually.
Well, here's the thing. When I was working in my last
conference, like I knew all the UMPS 'cause they like they all
would work like the same UMPS would work the same games.
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And so I got to know them and they all knew who I was.
And so it was really easy 'causewe were on a first name basis.
And actually I just worked a game that one of my one of the
old UMPS was there and he was like, hey, I remember you.
So that was like kind of cool, like full circle moment.
But I feel like the it's like it's like so variable.
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Yeah. Because also there are some moms
who are like, oh, I don't want to drink that much because I'm
going to have to pee in the middle of the game.
Yeah. And you don't never know how
long these games are going to be.
Well, you're an adult, buddy. You can say no, right?
Or you can take smaller sips, right?
That is 1. Thing you you do have control of
this situation. Yes, Yep, usually.
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And like my last conference onlyhad two UMPS but my my new
conference has three UMPS for games.
Whoa, I know such a difference. It it honestly, it makes a big
difference. I mean, playoffs are always
three, yeah. But like I'll usually go to like
the home UMP and the home UMP like I usually never cross home
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plate, especially 'cause that's like when pitchers and catchers
like that's when they're like doing their warm up throws or
whatever. So like I'll stand on one side
of the the plate and like just motion to the UMP.
And usually the I make the UMP like cross behind.
Nice. Like I don't usually like to
like walk behind even like if they're not, I don't know, I
just don't like it. Nice.
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And then for the the two, like I'll go like along first base
and get that UMP. And then usually that UMP can
like yell over to the other blueand just like see if they want
it. So you don't have to like, run
around the entire field during an inning.
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We had to Oh really? Oh yeah, 'cause like, yeah, the
the not all the time with the UMPS meet the ones that are in
the field. Usually we signal to them and
then. Yeah, Nope.
We had to. One would do the home plate and
one would have to hit one, go all the way around, hit the
other one, then bring it back. Yeah.
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I don't know if that was just, Idon't want to say hazing, but I
don't know if it was just yeah, welcome.
That's funny. Just keeping you, keeping you
busy. Keeping you fit, you gotta be
able to. You gotta go fast.
OK, how about this one? With every fly ball, Always
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track the players fielding the ball.
Do not track the ball in the air.
That's a good idea. That's a really good idea.
Good idea actually. I do this when I when I lose
track of the ball, I immediatelylook at the people because.
Yeah, that's what I do. Because then everyone is,
everyone else is tracking them all and I can see if it's coming
for me. So like because I've like
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somewhat know how to track a ball in the air, or I could look
up and at least know OK, like I'm safe.
If it's one that's kind of like oh iffy, then I'll look to see
if they're running towards me and I'm.
Like I know when they're runningtowards you, that's.
Like I better get out of here. What I'm scared of sometimes is
like if I'm under the easy up and like what if it like goes to
the easy up? Yeah, that would be unfortunate.
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We had a kid who was in the cagebehind a screen and someone hit
a ball and it bounced to the topof the cage, hit the top of the
cage and came down and hit the kid in the head.
And I was like, really like, howhow did you get in that
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situation? OK, best for last.
I save this these these superb tips from Aaron G just like as a
generic like baseball overview just extravaganza.
Yeah, so she says definitely getready for some absolute nonsense
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superstitions and ridiculous antics in the dugout.
If you don't want to be a part of any shenanigans, then set up
outside the dugout if possible. I placed myself near an exit
from the dugout and how and hover barely outside of the
dugout while a player's down. If they aren't up in about 5
seconds I will start making my way to the pitch to the player
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and if they are still down then I pick it up to into a jog.
If it's someone who got hit by apitch I will do the same but
start walking out after 2 seconds.
Oh nice. To add on to this, if someone
gets hit with a pitch and it's not something that like I'm
necessarily concerned about, if the coach walks out, I will walk
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out. Yeah, yeah.
Most the time that doesn't happen, but like I also like
give that a like I have a littlebit of.
Space. Yeah, Aaron continues.
Always make sure you have a Direct Line of sight to home
plate as there are three people that could all be injured at
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once depending on the pitch or how a foul ball flies off the
bat. Yeah, true.
Always pay attention to the sealthe steel to second base, third
base 2, but doesn't happen as often as most will dive into the
base. So this is usually when the
shoulder dislocations in my experience happen.
Oh, Donnie. High ankle sprains happened
mostly at first first base due to running through the bag.
They hit the front of the bag with their foot and it just
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jolts their tails up enough to cause a sprain.
Nice. Yeah.
One time I had someone run to 1st and they pulled their
hamstring and it was like right at an inning change.
And the I, I saw them make it to1st and then like everyone kind
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of got out of their dugouts and like, there's a whole hubbub.
And then someone's like, oh, Sandra, like they need you.
And I like look over and the kids on the floor.
And I was like, oh, like I stopped watching.
Like after he made it to 1st andsaw that like he didn't make it
like it wasn't safe. Like he was out.
So then I was like, oh, OK, we're going to like, yeah,
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exactly. And I like, then there's people
in front of him and I'm not seeing that he's on the floor
and yeah, pulled his hamstring. Yeah, yeah.
I I really don't like when I can't see what's happening at
home plate. Yeah, that's scary 'cause
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there's a lot that. There's a lot and you miss like
one second and you miss the entire thing A.
Lot. Yeah, but you know what?
I actually thought of my favorite memory now.
Oh, tell me. Work in a baseball camp.
This is my first year certified.So you have worked baseball
since you were certified? It was a baseball camp, so it
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was the last day. And you know, again, the school
is known for baseball, right? So there's kids there, There's
student athletes there that are going to be in the majors at
some point. So all the kids would like have
all like the camp counselors, the student athletes sign like
their hat and stuff because again, coaches aren't running
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these camps, student athletes. And one of the kids, no joke,
comes up to me and asks me to sign his hat.
I'm like, oh. That's so sweet.
Yeah, it was really adorable. I was like, you got it, buddy.
So this kid somewhere has my signature with ATC on it.
He probably has no idea what that is.
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That's really funny. Yeah, that is so cute.
Yeah, you got it buddy. I'll sign your hat.
Made my day. OK, that's a good memory.
Yeah, that's a good one to end on.
Yeah. Do you have any more tips and
tricks Baseball? I don't know if I have anything
for baseball. I mean, I feel like, yeah, we've
kind of said everything, yeah. Happy 200.
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Happy 200. This is a good one for 200.
Yeah, I agree. Happy 200.
Well, if you guys have made it this far along the way or if you
are new, we do several differenttypes of episodes.
This was a story episode. We also have CU episodes that
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Randy takes research articles and like a ton of them and we
kind of discuss them in a in a like more conversational based
format. We have some interviews and then
just some education experience episodes.
So if you're interested in submitting stories for an
upcoming episode, make sure you check out our Instagram at AT
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Corner Podcast. If you are interested in CU
topics, make sure you either head to our website or on our
Instagram. We also talked about how to get
them thanks to our partner AT Chat and Clinically Pressed.
If you guys are interested in a topic that you'd like us to
cover, let us know. Actually something that I've
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been meaning to look into because I haven't been able to
find an AT who can who can talk about it.
Tennis Stories. I cannot find an AT.
Someone asked about tennis stories a while ago and I've
been looking for an AT. So if you know someone who would
like to speak about tennis stories or how to work tennis or
kind of knows the insurance and.Outs locked in on.
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Tennis, like please connect us, please connect us.
Super interested in that. So yes.
And again, softballs in the works.
We have some other things up oursleeves.
We're super excited to keep going after 200 and I think
that's all I have. Thank you for helping us
showcase athletic training behind the tape.
Bye.
Hey, this is Sandy. And Randy?
And we're here on AT Corner. Being an Ath Eye trainer comes
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Join us as we share our world insports medicine.
Welcome back to another episode of AT Corner.
For this week's episode, we are going to be celebrating episode
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200. A very special episode indeed.
That's crazy. Just think 200 episodes.
I know honestly, when I when I was writing 200, I was like,
what is this? Is this real?
I feel like this kind of snuck up on us.
And you know what? What better way to celebrate
episode 200 then sharing storiesof working a sport that provides
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endless entertainment. I feel like it's also a very
superstitious sport, so putting it as #200 I feel like just felt
right. That's true.
I didn't think of that. So also I think just to show the
difference in how much not just our podcast has grown, but just
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like us personally as cliniciansand me personally, the last time
we recorded a Baseball Stories episode was before I worked
baseball. Yeah.
And I, I, I think, I don't, I believe it was before I worked
baseball because I remember not not liking baseball, like not
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liking working, but I liked watching baseball.
But I think you were about to, like, work some baseball.
Yeah, I don't think I had reallyworked baseball previously and I
was definitely trying to avoid it.
But now, I mean, if if you wouldhave taken me back to that
episode and told me now that baseball is my second favorite
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sport to work, like right there,right underneath football, I
would have been so like, I wouldn't have believed you, you.
Would have been like Nah. Yeah, definitely not.
So the very first question I asked on our Instagram Stories
was have you ever worked baseball?
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And 93% of people said yes. Oh, that's a pretty overwhelming
majority. And it was, yeah.
And all these polls that that I took from this episode, all of
them have at least a couple 100 votes on them.
Dang. Yeah.
So that is a resounding yes. I can honestly say as it as a
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certified I have not worked baseball.
Which is crazy. I did as a student.
Especially with you playing baseball.
I don't know. Yeah.
Well, because most of the time it was either track or I worked
mostly female sports, so softball, but.
You did work all baseball, whichsoftball stories we haven't done
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yet, but I am, I am waiting. I am trying to put together
something good for that one. So.
That's in the works. Yes.
What is your favorite memory from working baseball?
Well, you worked baseball as a student.
Yeah, Oh, so many, countless ones, I think, I don't know.
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I think the one that stands out that really just describes just
baseball in general is when the the time I dropped the ice roll
bag and it rolled down the dugout.
Like did it completely unroll? It it made about halfway through
the dugout. Did anyone notice?
I think a few guys did. And of course, you're a student,
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so you're like, you're even moreflustered now because you're
like, Oh my God, that was wild. Yeah.
Because like, because we had a roll in the in the dugout of ice
bags and this is a big roll. So like obviously it's not
attached to anything. It's just the roll.
Oh, you like the? Oh, I understand.
Yeah. So like as you're trying to get,
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you have to like kind of. Toss.
It's like dropping an ace wrap but worse.
Yeah, yeah, right. And so you have to toss it to
actually get it to roll, right? Because it's not like on
something that on rolls, right? And then you just lose it.
And again, you're a student, so you're shook the whole time,
especially working at where I, my athletic training program,
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baseball is what we were known for.
So like when you're on baseball,right?
Like that's the big team there. So like you just being in the
dugout, you're shook. I remember when I was scared to
go in the dugout. This actually, I think this will
be my fourth season working baseball now.
Nice. Yeah, that's pretty good.
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I know it's crazy it. Just shows you how long ago that
last episode was. Seriously, like it was so long
ago we were babies? We were babies.
The podcast sounded a lot different than yes it did.
So my favorite memory was probably, well, actually not
probably like for sure, hands down, I don't think I can top
this ever in my career when I got to throw the first pitch.
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Oh, that is cool. That's a cool experience.
It was, it was I was terrified that I wasn't going to make it
or that I was just going to likeshake it off to the side.
But you didn't. But I didn't.
I didn't. And you got it there.
I did that was that was really. Did you throw it?
From the mound too, by the way. I can't.
Remember or was it No well, I I stood on the on the what is it
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like dirt of the mound like but but like really close to the
grass. Oh, OK.
So it's kind of like more towards the front.
Of the yeah, yeah, I, I wasn't on the top.
I couldn't remember. I wasn't on the top of the
mound. I don't think I can throw that
far. I I don't think I can throw that
far accurately. Still, by the way, I mean,
that's still because the mound is 60 feet, 6 inches.
So you were still probably, what, 55 feet?
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Yeah, it's still, it's still a long way.
Yeah, that that was really special.
And then secondly was seeing oneof my guys IA lot of these
stories that I am telling, I tell all the time 'cause they're
my favorite. One of my guys was coming back
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from a a really bad hamstring strain and he hit a double and
just like seeing him like just make it to second.
Yeah, that was so I I can literally still picture his
celebration. Oh, that's.
Cool. I'd say another good, good
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baseball core memory was becausewe practiced in the evenings.
So obviously when practice was done, it was late at night.
So no one else is in the athletic training room.
It's just us. And you know, a couple guys came
in like just for like a few of the pitchers came in for like,
they're just like arm care stuff.
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And again, no one else in the athletic trainer, it's just
baseball. So they grabbed our radios and
they started just going back andforth with Big Red, this is Big
Red, Big Red there just going back and forth on the radios.
That was fun. Baseball does know how to have
fun. Exactly.
So our first story is anonymous.Favorite memory from working
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baseball was at a home game whenI was working.
NAIA, one of my favorite kids, slid into third, popped up and
immediately yelled to me and waved me over.
I ran the few feet over from thedugout and he pulled his
dislocated index finger out of the batting glove.
It was dislocated anteriorly. I grabbed his hand, turned my
body away from him and the firsttime I tried to reduce it, it
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popped right back in. My team heard the pop of it
going back in too. He flexed his fingers and was
fine. His team mates cheered and I
felt like a badass. Our coach didn't even know what
had happened. I think he had been talking to
the UMP and was coming towards us when I was returning to the
dugout. I re evaled him when he got in
the back back into the dugout and told him to get it X-rayed
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to be sure there was no swellingor limited range of motion.
First successful finger reduction.
Nice, I have not gotten a fingerdislocation in baseball but I've
had a lot of fractures. Yes, you have a lot of weird
fractures too. Honestly, I've had a lot of
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weird, like not making sense injuries in in baseball, yeah.
I mean, that's just, that's par for the course with baseball.
Actually, yeah, that's true. Just something not by the book
or what you would expect. Oh, yeah, definitely not.
Oh, I did ask the most common injury you've seen in baseball,
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and I did tally up these, and these are just based off what
people have seen. Yeah, the most common that
people submitted were actually rotator cuff and over your
shoulder. So things like bicep tendonitis,
impingement, like stuff like that, I could see that I was
actually expecting elbow a little bit more than shoulder
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because I feel like I see more forearm flexors and
unfortunately more Ucls. Then I feel like I I eval a lot
more elbows than I eval shoulders.
Interesting. But it could just be.
Guys coming out of my elbows. Cash, bro.
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Could definitely be how they're throwing.
Probably elbows cash bro, can't feel my pinky.
We're gonna get Randy Baseball bro LL episode.
That's all. I I that's all I heard when I
was in the dugout. Oh, yeah, My elbows cashed.
I think I'm done today. I got some bad hair.
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Bad hair. No, they come and they go.
Can I get cupped? Can I get scraped all the time?
That's what I hear all the time.Yeah, I didn't get that.
I don't know how you didn't get that literally.
Because because they had like a it, it was basically the same
idea, but they didn't like come and ask for like the treatment.
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They just all had like, because a lot of it was like the
pitchers. They all had their set routine
for arm care. OK, but before they have their
set routine, they come in and ask.
They would more ask for the the baseball ID.
OK, well then there's. This person here?
No. OK.
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No, I'm telling you that. Yeah, no, I.
I out of all the teams, baseballis always the team that comes in
and asks like for something specific.
And I'm like, you know, you can come in here and say, Hey, my
shoulders hurts or it's really tight or yeah, you don't have to
and or they'll come in my favorite.
This is my favorite. I have this going on.
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I don't I don't know what treatment to do for it.
OK, cool. What?
What? What do you think I do?
Yeah, you didn't need. To.
Know not expected to. Right.
OK. So anyway, back to common
injuries. Hamstring strain actually was up
there. I know that is kind of
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interesting, but I guess it is kind of like you're going from
like stationary, relatively stationary to all of a sudden I
have to Sprint real fast, right,Right.
Because like batter's box, right?
You're kind of just standing swing and then you got to book
it out. Same thing in a fielder's
position, right? You kind of, yeah, you, you take
a step into your stance, but you're still standing still and
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then have to do something quick.So I I kind of get that.
I mean, I've definitely seen a lot of hamstring strains, but
it's just like when I'm picturing like all the things
I'm treating like I'm I'm not like that.
That definitely didn't come to mind, but like it makes sense.
Like it is one of my more common.
Yeah. It just I was not expecting it
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to be so prevalent, I guess withwith people submitting, but
elbow flexor injuries was actually after hamstring strain.
Interesting contusions from being hit by a ball, of course,
UCL and then ankle sprains. Nice.
And then some other random. Just injuries.
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OK, so this one is actually we got we got a ton of anonymous
stories from this one. So this is also anonymous.
This is from someone getting hurt while bunting.
You know what? Like that is a very dangerous
aspect. It really is.
You do. Have to actually know how to
bunt correctly and even if you do, like sometimes it's just
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it's baseball. So it's just you never know
what's going to happen. Honestly that's what kept me
from working baseball for so long is it's like someone could
just get hit by a projectile andlike.
Yes, that's traveling extremely fast.
Yeah. Like I just, I got hit by like
some dude that threw like 85 in my forearm and that hurt.
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You did. Uh huh.
So I couldn't, I couldn't imagine 90 plus in the face.
Yeah. Or anywhere else?
Yeah, so this anonymous one kid was bunting ball ricocheted off
the butt of the bat. Oh no, it bounced on home plate
and back into my athletes testicles.
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You know what I mean? Obviously the testicle part is
not great like that. Sucks but.
Yeah. Any guesses on whether or not he
was wearing a cup? I'm.
Going to say probably not, but it it could have been a lot
worse of it just ricocheting hithim just straight straight in
the face. Oh, hey, I had that.
I'll I'll tell that story a little bit later.
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He ended up in the ER as his testicle had ruptured.
Of course, naturally. He had surgery that night, but
they saved the test. There we go.
He also returned to finish the season a few weeks later.
He's now playing in a local university.
Dope. So still playing.
Still playing. Another bunting coach called me.
That kids finger was bleeding. His top hand index finger was
wrapped around the front of the barrel of the bat.
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Our pitching machine caught the seam of the ball and his finger
got squished and popped like a grape.
Oh man. And one more for good measure.
You guessed it, another bunting injury.
Same pitching machine that caught the seam of a ball.
Did it again. This time the ball went straight
from my athletes jaw. He need 9 stitches at the point
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of impact but the force fractured his temporal bone at
the TMJ. The only reason it was even
caught was because ears started bleeding and they did X-rays and
Mris. He was perfectly fine, able to
talk and everything. He had minor jaw pain for a week
but was able to play before the season.
Ended nice. It's not bad, right?
See Bunting. Dude bunting bunting scares me
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because I feel like I get so many injuries bunting 1 because
I'm also so scared of like the collisions that can happen from
bunting 2 like the like how manyfingers have I had smashed so
many. I I feel like these stories
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submitted could basically be mine.
Like I had just had a kid like the other day who did that to
his finger. It it wasn't bleeding, it was
his nail we drained 'cause it was it was it literally his
finger looked like a lollipop. That sucks.
Yeah. And then one time I was eating
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dinner and I was about to head out to football practice and
these baseball players like run in and they're like, we need a
trainer. And they just like, and they
just like ran. And I was like, OK.
And they're like, there's a lot of blood.
There's a lot of blood. So then I go and I grab a like a
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the entire box of gauze. Yeah.
And then I just run out there and I like am eating dinner like
I have chicken like stuck in my teeth and I run over and our one
of our kids took a bunt. Well, it hit a rigshade off the
bat and then straight into his eye.
Oh. That sucks.
Yeah, orbital fracture end up needing surgery.
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Bummer. Yeah, he's doing really well
now. That's.
Good. Nice.
It was, yeah. As soon as I found out who it
was too, I was like, no, not that you want it to happen to
anyone, but yeah, yeah, bunting is.
It's not for the faint of heart.No, honestly, I think I don't
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know who you have to be to standin front of a pitcher who's
throwing. Out ass.
A little tiny hardball that fast.
Yeah. I mean, yeah, it's also worse.
Like if the person definitely can't control it because then
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you really don't know where it'sgoing to go.
Yeah, honestly, Oh my goodness. You know, the longest innings
are the ones where, like, the pitcher just doesn't have
control and they just keep hitting batter after batter and
you're like, OK, like. Gosh, I don't think he's got.
It like hitting him in the like forearm, hitting him in like the
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back, you know, But then like when, when is this going to hit
someone in the face? Yeah, when is this going to
break someone's finger? Yeah, hey, but he's setting the
tone. I I had a kid take a pitch
straight to the kneecap and his and his kneecap was completely
fine. Yeah.
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I was like, I don't know how youdid not shatter your Patella.
Yeah, I do not know. Yeah.
That hurts. Mm hmm, Allison S said.
I was a college baseball AT for the last four years.
The craziest thing I ever saw was a broken jaw.
Pitchers were practicing throwing home to get the out and
a ball went wide and hit one of the catchers standing in the
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background. Immediately put towels and paper
towels on it to try to get to stop bleeding.
Didn't know how broken it was atthe time.
Just try to control the bleeding.
Called the parents and had his roommate drive him to the ERI
Went up there that night and thenext morning to talk to the
parents again too. He had surgery the next day.
End up being broken in two. Places.
That's a bummer. Broken jaw we actually got
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several stories about. That's interesting.
I mean, I get it 'cause like projectile sport, but like,
that's interesting. That's yeah, yeah.
I was very surprised too. That's really interesting.
I don't know that I've like personally heard of anyone
dealing with a broken jaw from baseball.
So like the fact that we got so many was just like surprising.
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Like surprising, not in the factthat it can happen, but it's
just surprising that like, I haven't heard of people around
me, I guess. Yeah, for sure.
That reminds me when we were students, one of one of the one
of my friends in my cohort, he had terrible luck out of
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baseball and softball and literally it's just rotten luck
just not paying attention at thewrong moment.
Like he was standing like we would for softball, like we'd
cover like these large tournaments.
So we'd our medical staff would be out there even if our school
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wasn't playing right be the hostmedical and he just wasn't
paying attention And a foul ballhit him.
I can't remember where. I think I hit him in the face
actually. And then for baseball
specifically, he was walking to do water for umpires I believe,
and walked behind somebody that was in the on deck circle and
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the dude swung his bat, clocked him in the head.
He actually needed stitches. He had he had to leave the game
to go get stitches. Wow.
So when you're at that training,students get hurt.
Actually, that's you. Want to read this next story?
So Bailey P says had our starting catcher turn into the
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guy on deck. He caught the bat right between
the eyes and had to get 7 stitches.
Dumbest injury just because the kid wasn't paying attention.
I cleaned and steri stripped him.
It was at a place that had an onsite PA so I just sent him there
and monitored him for concussionsymptoms after he didn't end up
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having symptoms thankfully. He got his stitches out a few
days later and was good to play.Dude I think it was actually
about that many stitches. Well, it was cool as we actually
got to take the stitches out of them.
Oh, that's pretty cool. Yeah, we were actually going to
a conference. Oh, that is.
And it was about the time where he could have got him out.
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And we were in the hotel room. He's like, let's take him on
stitches. All right, let's do it.
That's pretty funny. Yeah, that I don't know why this
reminds me, maybe because we're talking about Jaws, but one of
my least favorite memories working baseball was when my.
Oh, This is why 'cause it's our starting catcher.
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Our starting catcher got hit in the jaw while obviously while
he's catching. And it was during a playoff game
and I had just gotten a new job and like he, I, I went out there
'cause it took a little while for like, he kept kind of
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playing with his jaw and like just, he just kind of, he was
taking his time to get back. And I just, so I went out there
and I was talking to him and he just kept like kept closing his
eyes. And I was like, you know, are
you having any headache or like anything like residual?
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And there were just enough things that I was like, I need
to evaluate him for a concussionlike, and so then I, I was
asking symptoms and then finallyI, I was like, I don't feel
comfortable like walking away from this without getting like
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more of an eval. But I was like, well, what am I
supposed to do 'cause it like I you can't really take someone
out, Yeah. Baseball's Baseball's tough that
way. Right.
And he was like, I was like standing at home playing, right?
And this is a playoff game. And so I was like, And so like,
the the UMP is there, the coach is there, and the UMP's like, do
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you like, I don't know if the UMP asked me no, 'cause no, I
said I need to evaluate him for a concussion.
Yeah, and said, you have 10 minutes.
So they stopped the game for 10 minutes, a playoff game at a new
job. I was very, I hated every single
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minute of those 10 minutes because, well, first I was also
really hoping. I was like, like, please don't
make this a difficult decision. Like I do not want to have to
decide if I'm going to take thiskid out or not.
And you end up being completely fine.
Yeah, I remember that. That was crazy.
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Yeah, I was. And I think I.
Wondered what happened. Yeah.
'Cause I think you had just gotten there.
I just got there and like the game was like stopped and I'm
like, what's going? On No, it was definitely me.
It was. It was not.
It's something that I would not like to do ever again.
That's unique, though. I know it.
It really was, it was not cool. And I was like, this is how
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people are going to like, this is my first impression with all
these people. And they just think that I'm
going to like, take stop all these games.
You know, at my job, my first basketball game involved a
raccoon, so. Oh, that was your first time?
That was loaded my first basketball game.
Raccoon just ran on the court soit's OK.
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I didn't realize always your first game.
That's hilarious. So I'm with you.
I mean, if anything, it just gave the team some a breather, a
10 minute. Breather, you did.
You did your team a service. I did a team my service by
making sure their starting catcher didn't have a
concussion. Yes, their only catcher I
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believe. Only catcher you want to read
this anonymous one. Yes, I was rehabbing UCL
reconstruction with nerve retatch reattachment for a JUCO
kid. One month into it he started
throwing and was progressing just fine.
He then started having radicularpain.
Oh no. I know, not good.
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When I tested him I couldn't recreate symptoms nor find
positive findings besides havinga dead arm after throwing.
Oh no. I immediately knew something was
off so I suggested he go talk tohis surgeon.
After toxin imaging he tore where his ulnar nerve was
reattached. That sucks.
He had to get surgery again and re reattach his ulnar nerve.
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It took him about two years to get back into baseball
activities and was able to pitchat a high level at AD One
School. That's crazy that he was able to
go back to that. That's awesome.
That's dope. That's hard after a set back
like that. Seriously, two years?
We were just last night we were reading an article about two
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years if it'd be better for was it 2 years to get back after an
ACL team to. Return to sport.
Yeah, to return to sport insteadof like the one year time frame,
Yeah. Nine months to one year.
Yeah. That's a hot take.
It it was. It was.
I I get where it was going. Yes, tangent, tangent.
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But I feel like that's going to be, yeah, that's a hard sell.
If you're interested in this research article, we have the
citation, we can give it to you.Yes.
Anyway, this anonymous 1. I had to call 911 during
preseason practice and athlete'sfoot got caught rounding for
space and they dislocated their knee and Patella.
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Oh man. Wait, wait, what?
What did this knee look like? Like I'm trying to.
He OK listen he was going into shock end up tearing ACL both
menisci spraying the MCLLCL in alittle damage to the PCL.
OK, but I figured. But get this now the athlete is
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fully recovered. He made it to cross country
States and now PR in track and field and committed to AD one
school for track and field afterdislocating their knee.
Like not just their Patella and their Patella.
Yeah, but probably a safer move to do go track you probably,
probably less. Hurt.
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I mean, it's a. It's a predictable turn.
You only turn left, Yeah, exceptin baseball you also only turn
left. Or you do.
Just. But it's it's a sharp, yeah,
it's a sharper turn and it's on dirt.
Honestly, or turf. I don't know how more athletes
do not get hurt on the freaking bags.
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Yeah, the bags are are dangerous.
Like like when I first started working baseball, it concerned
me every single time someone stepped on a bag.
Like every single time. Speaking of bases, one of my
athletes actually, I just got permission from him today to
share this because I thought it was so fascinating.
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This, this injury. He was, I think it, I think it
was first base he had, he had made it successfully, but he and
he stepped on the base. Oh, nobody tripped.
He tripped over the base and thelanding foot landed like right
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after and he felt like he just like like jammed his foot.
Oh, OK. And he came in and obviously
like really scary for him. He, he walked in, he was able to
walk, he walked in and a couple of us were kind of taking a look
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at him and I just did some palpations and palpating.
Literally no pain. Like cannot get any recreation
of pain at all until. And I, I did this only because
he was having pain with plantar flexion.
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So I took my, my left hand and Ijust like put it along the
lateral side of his foot and I just palpated the lateral side.
And then while I was palpating the lateral side, I then
palpated the medial side and that lit him up.
Oh, nice. And so then I was like, hmm, OK.
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And then I then I palpated the medial side and I took my
lateral hand away and he was having no pain.
So if I had both, if I was palpating both or like if I kind
of like shifted his posterior like ankle like area, if I
shifted that like medial or laterally, then he would have
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pain. So I said, and of course this is
coming from someone who's workedwith performing arts for years.
I said, hmm, this plantar flexion irritated from so like a
sudden trauma and he has a previous injury to this ankle
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and I can get in and he's havingpain with like that, that
palpation pattern. I wonder if he has an OS
trigonum. Oh yeah.
And then so I asked to see his X-ray from before.
He didn't have an X-ray from before, but then he we end up
referring him and lo and behold,I.
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Was just hit, lo and behold. I was trying to get him.
He end up getting a an injectionand that helped a ton.
Oh, nice. Yeah.
And now we're just taping him, keeping him from that plantar
flexion. Sweet.
As much as possible. Yeah.
Nice. Yeah.
But I thought that was like a really odd presentation.
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Yeah, that's interesting, especially in baseball.
Like yeah, I've seen him in dance before, but pretty cool,
huh? Yeah, that's pretty dope.
Have you ever had to call 911 ata baseball game?
I was actually really surprised by the pole answer of this.
I know looking at it. Only 23% of people said yes,
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which actually I. Mean maybe a good thing.
I am also part of that 23% knockon wood.
Yeah, seriously. Knock on wood.
Yeah, 77% of people said no. That's good.
But I feel like if you, I feel like baseball is like one of
those, one of those sports that's like, it's fine, it's
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fine, it's fine. And then it's not.
It's really bad, Really. Quick.
Yeah. Like really bad.
Like collisions? Hell yeah, this anonymous one
says a collision at first base resulted in a tibial plateau
fracture. No deformity is just a ton of.
Pain, I bet. Like collision at first,
collision in the outfield. Oh yeah, outfield.
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Yeah, collision at home. Guys not talking.
Collision at second, honestly collision anywhere, Anthony H
said. I had to call 911 for dislocated
ankle from the runner sliding into second base.
They're fully. Thankfully there was no blood.
I end up cutting the shoe and sock off.
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I did splint it but EMS told us to keep him on the field instead
of putting him on the cart and take him off the field.
I think seeing one as a student helped me know exactly what I
need to do. Nice.
So Anthony's actually our one ofour part times and like he he
works full time somewhere else, but it was a day that none of us
could work. And I remember like being at
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shabu, like I was eating shabu. And I remember getting getting a
text about this and I was like, what?
There's a dislocated ankle? Like what crazy of.
Course it happens to the part time.
Right of. Course it does.
Yeah, but he's he's been workingwith us for a long time.
And also, like of all people, hehas had an ankle dislocation in
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baseball before. Oh, that's unlucky.
Right. That's super unlucky.
Seriously, I was like, wow. That's unlucky.
I'm telling you, the like the bases being raised is just so
scary to me. Yeah, I mean, I get that, like
visibility. I get it.
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See bags just taking casualties.Yeah, they really do.
You want to read this next from Kelly C.
Yes, Kelly C says runner going from third base to home.
Decided to slide head 1st instead of getting down low
enough. Went pretty high and head first
into the catcher. I had to hold C spine and call
911. I was working for DM at the high
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school and had communicated withthe athletic director beforehand
about an EAP and such, but he was not there that day.
Of course not. Yeah, that's how Eaps usually
work. There were gates that were
locked, and the ambulance ended up having to drive all around
the school and break down a gatein order to come get the
patient. It was eventful, to say the
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least. That's crazy EMS breaking down a
gate. Dude.
That's pretty funny. Per diem sometimes is so tough.
It's wild. Even like if you, even if you
like Kelly, like try to get the EAP like, yeah, but there
there's another collision for you, yeah.
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Head first. This is something actually we
don't talk about enough. I feel like knowing catcher's
gear and knowing how to like, it's really easy to remove.
Yeah, but how like have you practiced?
But also like. Like sea spinning or?
The face mask could be different, like the old school
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style, sure that that might be somewhat easier to manage.
But like the hockey goalie style, like how do you take that
off? Yeah.
So knowing that, yeah, I need togo look at ours.
Yeah. What is your criteria to take an
athlete out of a game or the opposite, keep them in the game
during baseball I feel like I. Say, are they functional?
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Honestly. So I actually didn't know this
until recently. My first couple games, when I
first started working baseball, I don't think I really paid
attention to this. But now, like now that I've been
working it for a couple years, like I understand it a little
bit more. Like when you take someone out
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like there's no subbing like they're done like.
Can't. Can't reenter.
Yeah. So I think that that's why it
makes a little bit more sense, like when people are talking
about like on field evals for like a baseball athlete, it's
kind of like, well, you're gonnado everything you can cause it's
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not like they're gonna come backin.
Yeah, and. Like you do functional, like
it's one of the sports that you'll actually do.
Like functional on the field. Yeah, you can actually ask.
Hey, let's see a couple throws. Yeah.
Especially like if you have to go out for your pitcher.
Yeah. Or your catcher.
Yeah. Like when I had my catcher, I
was like, hey, like, I want to catch a few.
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Yeah. And I just stood there and just
a watch. We all watch.
It's like, yeah. Yeah, it looks.
Great. OK, OK.
Sounds good. Yeah, you can.
Walk back, you look great. We had a couple different
responses for this one. I kind of put some together, all
anonymous. One person said it varies off of
position injury, but I'm lookingfor normal game type movements
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with little to no pain. So like some examples
outfielders can they make their cuts and cuts are like so an
outfielder is not necessarily going to throw like all the way
from the outfield to like home for example.
So like. Cannon if you do.
So their cut would be like, likeone of the infielders.
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Yeah. So like throwing to someone and
then that person throwing home. Yeah.
So like, can they make their cuts batters?
Can they grip a bat or fully swing?
Can they handle the reverberation from a bat when
hitting? Can they run and step on bases?
Can they slide with no issues? Nice.
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There are some things that you can like get around, like if
it's like a hand or something like the oven Mitt that they
could wear with when sliding. Yeah, or the thumb, little thumb
piece, the. Little.
Yeah. What is it?
A pro hitter? Sure.
The little pro hitter you can put.
I haven't. I don't have any more of those,
so I need to. Didn't you make?
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One I did make one, those just go around your thumb and they
help with with reverberation forthe bat.
I actually learned that from oneof my students when I was first
working baseball. So helpful.
When I when I was first working baseball, I had a student who is
actually now working in minor leagues.
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Oh, nice. Yeah.
So he really taught me a lot anda lot of like lingo.
So I I I owe it a lot to him. Thank you, Jonas, actually.
So this is like knowing the different positions, I think
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with any sport. But like with baseball, like
anyone who's unless you're ADH, like anyone who is like in the
lineup is gonna have like a field position.
Yeah, right. Anyone in a field position is
gonna bat except for a pitcher. Yeah.
So like just, you know, knowing those, knowing that like their
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responsibilities. And then like, for example, like
I had a kid who like was having trouble with his shoulder and
like knowing like is like, do you bat right?
Do you bat left? And then like which hand is your
top hand or your bottom hand? And then you can kind of like
see like, OK, this shoulder is like their front shoulder.
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So like, for example, he wasn't able to lift his arm above 90
like AB duction. And so then what I end up doing
after I did like some manual therapy and like some some work,
I end up and like once I was able to like restore his range
of motion, I just ace wrapped him and that helped a ton.
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Had him go like, Hey, I need to take a couple swings and then
like just like on like just likedry hacks or like what they call
them when you're just like in the air like and then.
Like hitting like no contact andthen you want to like make
contact with a ball and then youcan like go from there and like
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maybe they can take BP or stuff like.
That yeah. Oh don't worry, before game
there's plenty of BP. Oh, there's plenty.
There's plenty of BP, all the abbreviations they have BPPFPS.
PFPS. I had a pitcher today who was
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like, he said something about not taking.
He was like, oh, but PFPS, but Idon't do that.
And I was like, aren't you a pitcher?
Hey, by the way, that costs the Yankees the World Series, so
just saying PFPS are important. So actually Speaking of what you
were talking about earlier with your classmate getting hit, I
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did ask if people have ever beenhit with a baseball while
working. That sucks. 29% of people said
yeah. So like one in three people that
sucks, get hit. Have you been hit?
Not working. I've not been hit by a ball but
while working. Just while playing.
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Just while playing. Once or multiple?
Multiple times, but the one thatstands out was the kid that 385
dropped. My forearm.
Was your forearm OK? It actually wasn't too bad, but
it it did hurt. It did hurt.
You know what I don't understand?
I made it second base and it wasstill hurting.
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Ouch. Yeah.
Did it leave like a nice bruise?Do you bruise?
It didn't bruise, but it was swollen.
Really it? Didn't discolor.
I was surprised. It hurt.
I've. Never heard this story.
Yeah. Do you know that when we're on
the podcast, I feel like I thereare so many stories you tell
that I've never heard? Yeah, we just played.
I played baseball with some guysone time and yeah, it hurt this
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dude, the other dude on the pitcher on the other team, like
pitched at like AD 2 school. Oh hey, you made it to 2nd.
I got on base, I did my job. Wait, how did he hit you?
And you? Well, I got hit, so I got first.
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And then I. Think the next batter.
I think he next batter hit a single and then got me to 2nd.
Got it. I understand.
I thought you were just saying like, you hit.
And I was like, wait, that makesno sense.
OK, So that's another thing. When I actually just was talking
to my first baseball coach aboutthis the other day because he
didn't believe that I had never worked baseball before working
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with him. And I was like, no, like I
literally knew nothing before before working baseball with
you. But also, if someone gets hit by
a pitch, obviously they take the, they take first base, they
like walk to first base. So I one time ran out for
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someone who got hit and I said he was fine.
And so then I was like, oh, yeah, he can finish his at bat.
I'll just check in with him whenhe gets back to the dugout.
And, and my coach was like, oh, no, he's he's, he got hit.
So like he's going to 1st. I don't know how he didn't think
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that I was like, like baseball illiterate.
Like that is, that is like, I feel like one of the first
things. Oh, maybe you thought he fouled
it off. OK, maybe he gave me the benefit
of the doubt. Yeah.
Or like, oh, maybe you missed itand you thought he swung and it
hit him and that would just be really, that'd be a really
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crappy strike. You know what I had in the very
first, a lot in the very first year I worked was people getting
hit in the tricep. That's a bummer.
And then they couldn't throw. Yeah, that.
Sucks like like distal triceps. Yeah, that sucks.
And all it takes, all they need to do is wear the little elbow
protector, but they wouldn't wear it.
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I'm I'm surprised he didn't. I have.
All the kids nowadays are all about it 'cause it's all the
drip. Well, now, like four years ago,
it wasn't. That's true.
I had to like beg them and I andI literally asked them.
I was like, I do not understand because when you get hit in the
elbow, I just, there's not much I could do for you.
Like once your elbow soles up and you can't throw, there's
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just not much I could do. For you, Yeah, yeah.
You want to read this one from Andrew H.
Yes, in the dugout, on the stepsof a sunken dugout.
Kid had a late swing, the ball took two hops and hit me in the
shin. Oh my goodness.
I saw it coming, but it was on me before I could move.
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That's the worst. I picked up my foot to get out
of the way just as it hit me. I had a knot for six weeks
after, even with treatment. Oh my gosh.
See, Like, I feel like that's why like where I stand is like,
or, yeah, anywhere I'm going to stand is an area where I just
have to make one quick movement and I'm out of danger.
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Like softball. I always like I was at the end
of the dugout, but like, I was literally at the part of the
fence where if a ball comes at me, I just have to like, turn
and the fence got me. Oh.
That's nice. Yeah, yeah.
When I was first working baseball, I used to, I like we
had a really nice setup where I was behind a chain link fence,
but I was like right by right byhome and there was a really easy
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access to the field. So like I could be at home plate
like within a couple seconds. Whereas now I set up all the way
past first base. Yeah.
And so if someone gets hit at home, I'm like do I go?
Do I not go? Do I go?
Do they need me? OK, I better start making my way
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over there 'cause it's gonna take me a lot longer than I
wouldn't used to. Yeah.
And I've, I do have a little bitof a blockage, but not as much
as there. There was one time I was like
sitting cause so I either stand at our little like, because the
dugout fence like goes all the way, like past the dugout.
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Yeah. And I was either I either stand
there or there's like little risers like right behind it.
And I, I sit on those risers. So one time I was sitting on the
risers and a line drive came literally straight at me and I'm
sitting and so like I like, I can't really like get out of the
way very quickly. So then I just literally like
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lay back. Like I'm laying flat on this
riser and one of my guys like books it out of the out of the
dugout and he's like, Sandra, are you OK?
Oh my gosh, that's funny. And I, like, sat up and I was
like, yeah, like it didn't hit me, but it came like real close.
Like I had to lay down. And he was like, why is your
face all red? And I was like, did you not see
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that? I just had to like.
Matrixes. Exactly.
That is true at least where you're at.
Like you're further down the line.
Yeah, at least I have a couple seconds.
Yeah, you have some reaction time because you're right and
you're where you're set up. It is hard to like be in a
position where you can make a quick movement and then you're
safe. Right, you're right.
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You don't have, you almost have to go down 'cause that's where
the net. Right, you're right.
You don't. Yeah, almost have to be like.
I if I remember correctly, I feel like in our first baseball,
I think it was in the baseball episode, someone was behind the
net and they thought like, oh the net will save me.
But the net like ripped. That's unlucky.
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Yeah, and so it still hit him. Yeah, Bryce A says.
I set up in the dugout, large rolling toolbox kit outside of
the gate. Once was in the back corner of
the dugout when a foul went intothe dugout.
I dodge it initially and then itricocheted twice and hit me in
the jaw. No fracture or other issues.
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A second time was at an away game and I was sitting in the
host a TS golf cart with him as he was an early mentor for me.
My big hitter came up to bat andsmoked it.
It curved foul on the 3rd baseline and sunk right into my
thigh on the golf cart because Icouldn't get out fast enough.
Oh no, the jaw was definitely a shock.
The thigh was just laughed off. My boys made the hitter do push
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ups for hitting me. Yes.
Absolutely, that's the only appropriate response.
Do you want to read this one from Aaron?
Yes, Aaron says they turned the game into a Home Run Derby
because of a rain out situation.There was a high fly ball that
came over the dugout, which is uncovered and dropped right on
my foot. What were the odds?
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I didn't move because usually when you move, you move into it.
So I just stayed where I was so I could track it.
It didn't hit too hard. Yeah, that's true.
You don't want to try and move too much, but if you're going to
move like I feel like you can move, but like you have to just,
you just have to go. You have to commit to your
direction and just book it. Right, right.
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I feel like there are sometimes that I track the ball really
well, but the times that I that I can't track the ball.
Actually, when I first started working baseball, I feel like I
couldn't really track the ball. But there are times that, like,
I'm either not paying attention or like, I can't track the ball.
And I feel like that's when I'm like, ah, shoot, I gotta, like,
move out of the way real quicklybecause for something that's
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like, way further, yeah, then I need to move for, but because,
like, I'm not paying attention and don't know exactly where it
is. Yeah.
Courtney G, This one's a little scary.
Never been hit by a ball, but I did almost get hit with a
baseball bat. Yeah, that would be scary.
Needless to say, I'm no longer scared of balls.
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I was working semi professional baseball, standing next to the
manager inside by the rope, so there wasn't much protection.
Our batter was two and three, sonormally a swing no matter what.
He was pretty mad. So he put all that anger into
his swing. That bat flew and went straight
towards the dugout I was in. He apologized the next day.
Sorry court didn't mean to almost kill you.
Oh my gosh, that's funny. That's terrifying.
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Yeah. Yeah, that's terrifying.
Or when the bat breaks. That's really scary.
And it's loud. Yeah, it is.
But like, yeah, 'cause like at that level are they using wood
bats? So they stick it, splinter and
all that. That's terrible.
But if a bat breaks at our level, that's a big problem
because they're not supposed to break.
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What do you mean? Like our bats are not wooden
bats, so they're not really. They shouldn't be breaking.
So when they do, it's really bad.
Yeah. And that does happen every now
and then. I did have an athlete and I
don't know if I'm going to be able to find the picture, but I
don't know if the ball like wentinto the bat or if the ball
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split on the bat or like how, but like he was hitting.
It was actually one of my catchers.
He. Was.
You know, but they did post a picture and it went viral.
Yeah, that's what I thought. He went to hit it and it just
stayed on the bat. I'll have to find the picture.
Like it's it's viral. So I have to I have to find.
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It it did go viral 'cause I remember seeing it and I saw the
school and I said. Hey, hold on.
Yeah, wait a minute, Do you knowabout this?
Yeah, I literally went like backto work the next day and I was
like, dude, what is this? Is this you?
And he's like, yeah, no, that's real.
Everyone was saying it wasn't real.
He's like, no, it happened yesterday.
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It's like, Dang, I wasn't there.That is one thing.
Like, I really enjoy going out to baseball practice when I can.
Yeah. And I feel like it helps you
build so much more rapport. Depending on the level there's
some a TS like go out there and shag balls with the team during
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practice. I'm not on that level yet, but
that's pretty cool. You want to read this next time
from Steven? Yes, Steven says.
Broke my finger with my finger. I was watching the game, ball
came flying toward me. I was actually protecting my
monster that was in my pocket. I just didn't want it to explode
in my hand. I also needed the caffeine lol.
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Still have the ball though. I kept working and had our doc
take a quick look at it the following day, splinted it and
kept on going. Sounds like an AT.
Yeah, just. Kept on going.
So I do have two more kind of sections. 1 is what is a must
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have in your kit. I think what I want to do with
these is I'm going to put them in our Facebook group.
If you're interested in looking at them, our Facebook group is
facebook.com/group/AT Corner Podcast.
So we'll put in the baseball must haves in your kit.
And then if you have any more must haves, please let us know,
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put them in our Facebook group. And then just lastly, just some
general tips and tricks. Yeah, like I feel like baseball
is not really like even like baseball and softball like are
completely different animals to work.
Yes, they are not the same. Both are very fun.
Yes. I feel like fall and spring are
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just completely different. The only thing that's the same
between them is just the length of the game just can vary.
Like buckle up for all day. I've had a 5 hour game.
See, that's terrible. That sounds terrible.
It was a it was very, very like I was just ready.
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I think everyone was ready. Probably, no.
Yeah, no one must be there at that point, because that's not
even counting everything that happened before the actual game.
Yeah, because they because they get their stuff.
Yeah, it's an all day thing. It is 100% an all day thing.
Tips and trick. Number one that everyone.
This is like the number one answer.
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Bring snacks. Yeah, most importantly, bring
seeds you. Want to read this first
anonymous one? Yes, always keep an eye on the
ball. Pitchers love to have a towel
between innings. Educate on self manual work.
You're out there to cover the game, not to massage arms.
Honestly most of the time like the ball is where the action is
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going to be unless someone is stealing.
Yeah, but that is a good point. Just keep an eye on the ball.
Yes, Also yeah, like always. Just, I don't know, keep your
head on a swivel, like especially in between innings.
You think you're safe in betweeninnings, but remember, like,
like infields tossing the ball around.
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You never know when you get thatstray one, you're not paying
attention. Whoa, hey, hey.
Oh, this is this would have beena good question to ask.
How often? Oh yeah, that is scary.
Like overthrows. How often do you water the UMPS?
Depends. Yeah, I depends.
Yeah, depends on how hot. My goal, my goal, and sometimes
I'm really good at this goal andsometimes I am so bad at this
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goal is about every two innings.I feel like if it's hot.
I definitely do more if it's. Yeah, I feel like if it's hot,
I'll do every inning and then I feel like when it's not hot,
I'll probably do every two except softball.
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I do it a little bit faster. It in softball I actually don't
want to UMPS because the UMPS usually bring their own water.
Yeah, most of the time I've I'vehad that.
I'm not sure why. Like softball specifically.
Yeah. Like baseball does not.
Maybe shorter shorter field so. Like.
Maybe you can have it close by, you don't have to move as far.
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Whereas like, I don't know, that's the only, I don't even
think that's a good reason. I just feel like that's the only
reason I could think of. Yeah.
But yeah, I think softball, I doit faster than I do baseball
because it's a shorter game. I usually ask them, I'm like
I'll I'll go out there after inning 2, like the end of inning
2 and then I will say, hey, I'llbe back in two unless you want
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it sooner. And usually they're pretty good
with that. That's.
Nice. Yeah, and or they'll like and I
get their names, so then I can and usually.
Well, here's the thing. When I was working in my last
conference, like I knew all the UMPS 'cause they like they all
would work like the same UMPS would work the same games.
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And so I got to know them and they all knew who I was.
And so it was really easy 'causewe were on a first name basis.
And actually I just worked a game that one of my one of the
old UMPS was there and he was like, hey, I remember you.
So that was like kind of cool, like full circle moment.
But I feel like the it's like it's like so variable.
(57:40):
Yeah. Because also there are some moms
who are like, oh, I don't want to drink that much because I'm
going to have to pee in the middle of the game.
Yeah. And you don't never know how
long these games are going to be.
Well, you're an adult, buddy. You can say no, right?
Or you can take smaller sips, right?
That is 1. Thing you you do have control of
this situation. Yes, Yep, usually.
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And like my last conference onlyhad two UMPS but my my new
conference has three UMPS for games.
Whoa, I know such a difference. It it honestly, it makes a big
difference. I mean, playoffs are always
three, yeah. But like I'll usually go to like
the home UMP and the home UMP like I usually never cross home
(58:26):
plate, especially 'cause that's like when pitchers and catchers
like that's when they're like doing their warm up throws or
whatever. So like I'll stand on one side
of the the plate and like just motion to the UMP.
And usually the I make the UMP like cross behind.
Nice. Like I don't usually like to
like walk behind even like if they're not, I don't know, I
just don't like it. Nice.
(58:47):
And then for the the two, like I'll go like along first base
and get that UMP. And then usually that UMP can
like yell over to the other blueand just like see if they want
it. So you don't have to like, run
around the entire field during an inning.
(59:10):
We had to Oh really? Oh yeah, 'cause like, yeah, the
the not all the time with the UMPS meet the ones that are in
the field. Usually we signal to them and
then. Yeah, Nope.
We had to. One would do the home plate and
one would have to hit one, go all the way around, hit the
other one, then bring it back. Yeah.
(59:33):
I don't know if that was just, Idon't want to say hazing, but I
don't know if it was just yeah, welcome.
That's funny. Just keeping you, keeping you
busy. Keeping you fit, you gotta be
able to. You gotta go fast.
OK, how about this one? With every fly ball, Always
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track the players fielding the ball.
Do not track the ball in the air.
That's a good idea. That's a really good idea.
Good idea actually. I do this when I when I lose
track of the ball, I immediatelylook at the people because.
Yeah, that's what I do. Because then everyone is,
everyone else is tracking them all and I can see if it's coming
for me. So like because I've like
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somewhat know how to track a ball in the air, or I could look
up and at least know OK, like I'm safe.
If it's one that's kind of like oh iffy, then I'll look to see
if they're running towards me and I'm.
Like I know when they're runningtowards you, that's.
Like I better get out of here. What I'm scared of sometimes is
like if I'm under the easy up and like what if it like goes to
the easy up? Yeah, that would be unfortunate.
(01:00:43):
We had a kid who was in the cagebehind a screen and someone hit
a ball and it bounced to the topof the cage, hit the top of the
cage and came down and hit the kid in the head.
And I was like, really like, howhow did you get in that
(01:01:04):
situation? OK, best for last.
I save this these these superb tips from Aaron G just like as a
generic like baseball overview just extravaganza.
Yeah, so she says definitely getready for some absolute nonsense
(01:01:25):
superstitions and ridiculous antics in the dugout.
If you don't want to be a part of any shenanigans, then set up
outside the dugout if possible. I placed myself near an exit
from the dugout and how and hover barely outside of the
dugout while a player's down. If they aren't up in about 5
seconds I will start making my way to the pitch to the player
(01:01:47):
and if they are still down then I pick it up to into a jog.
If it's someone who got hit by apitch I will do the same but
start walking out after 2 seconds.
Oh nice. To add on to this, if someone
gets hit with a pitch and it's not something that like I'm
necessarily concerned about, if the coach walks out, I will walk
(01:02:08):
out. Yeah, yeah.
Most the time that doesn't happen, but like I also like
give that a like I have a littlebit of.
Space. Yeah, Aaron continues.
Always make sure you have a Direct Line of sight to home
plate as there are three people that could all be injured at
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once depending on the pitch or how a foul ball flies off the
bat. Yeah, true.
Always pay attention to the sealthe steel to second base, third
base 2, but doesn't happen as often as most will dive into the
base. So this is usually when the
shoulder dislocations in my experience happen.
Oh, Donnie. High ankle sprains happened
mostly at first first base due to running through the bag.
They hit the front of the bag with their foot and it just
(01:02:52):
jolts their tails up enough to cause a sprain.
Nice. Yeah.
One time I had someone run to 1st and they pulled their
hamstring and it was like right at an inning change.
And the I, I saw them make it to1st and then like everyone kind
(01:03:21):
of got out of their dugouts and like, there's a whole hubbub.
And then someone's like, oh, Sandra, like they need you.
And I like look over and the kids on the floor.
And I was like, oh, like I stopped watching.
Like after he made it to 1st andsaw that like he didn't make it
like it wasn't safe. Like he was out.
So then I was like, oh, OK, we're going to like, yeah,
(01:03:42):
exactly. And I like, then there's people
in front of him and I'm not seeing that he's on the floor
and yeah, pulled his hamstring. Yeah, yeah.
I I really don't like when I can't see what's happening at
home plate. Yeah, that's scary 'cause
(01:04:02):
there's a lot that. There's a lot and you miss like
one second and you miss the entire thing A.
Lot. Yeah, but you know what?
I actually thought of my favorite memory now.
Oh, tell me. Work in a baseball camp.
This is my first year certified.So you have worked baseball
since you were certified? It was a baseball camp, so it
(01:04:26):
was the last day. And you know, again, the school
is known for baseball, right? So there's kids there, There's
student athletes there that are going to be in the majors at
some point. So all the kids would like have
all like the camp counselors, the student athletes sign like
their hat and stuff because again, coaches aren't running
(01:04:46):
these camps, student athletes. And one of the kids, no joke,
comes up to me and asks me to sign his hat.
I'm like, oh. That's so sweet.
Yeah, it was really adorable. I was like, you got it, buddy.
So this kid somewhere has my signature with ATC on it.
He probably has no idea what that is.
(01:05:07):
That's really funny. Yeah, that is so cute.
Yeah, you got it buddy. I'll sign your hat.
Made my day. OK, that's a good memory.
Yeah, that's a good one to end on.
Yeah. Do you have any more tips and
tricks Baseball? I don't know if I have anything
for baseball. I mean, I feel like, yeah, we've
kind of said everything, yeah. Happy 200.
(01:05:32):
Happy 200. This is a good one for 200.
Yeah, I agree. Happy 200.
Well, if you guys have made it this far along the way or if you
are new, we do several differenttypes of episodes.
This was a story episode. We also have CU episodes that
(01:05:52):
Randy takes research articles and like a ton of them and we
kind of discuss them in a in a like more conversational based
format. We have some interviews and then
just some education experience episodes.
So if you're interested in submitting stories for an
upcoming episode, make sure you check out our Instagram at AT
(01:06:14):
Corner Podcast. If you are interested in CU
topics, make sure you either head to our website or on our
Instagram. We also talked about how to get
them thanks to our partner AT Chat and Clinically Pressed.
If you guys are interested in a topic that you'd like us to
cover, let us know. Actually something that I've
(01:06:36):
been meaning to look into because I haven't been able to
find an AT who can who can talk about it.
Tennis Stories. I cannot find an AT.
Someone asked about tennis stories a while ago and I've
been looking for an AT. So if you know someone who would
like to speak about tennis stories or how to work tennis or
kind of knows the insurance and.Outs locked in on.
(01:06:57):
Tennis, like please connect us, please connect us.
Super interested in that. So yes.
And again, softballs in the works.
We have some other things up oursleeves.
We're super excited to keep going after 200 and I think
that's all I have. Thank you for helping us
showcase athletic training behind the tape.
Bye.
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